Minister St-Onge announces the appointment of Stéphanie Paquette as Regional Commissioner for Quebec at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Ms. Paquette is a lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience in the media industry. GATINEAU, QC, Nov. 14, 2023 /CNW/ - Today, the Honourable Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced the appointment of Stéphanie Paquette as Regional Commissioner for Quebec at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a five-year term, effective November 23, 2023. Ms. Paquette has nearly 30 years of experience in the media industry. Ms. Paquette has been a member of CTAM Canada's Board of Directors since November 2022. Stéphanie Paquette's appointment as the CRTC's Quebec Regional Commissioner will ensure the Commission has all the different expertise and perspectives it needs at the table.
Source:CBC News
November 15, 2023 02:32 UTC
Pioneering CBC broadcaster Lorna Jackson spoke with gravitas and warmth
Mr. Bonner wanted to meet Joey Smallwood, Newfoundland’s first premier, but he did not get a response to his request. “Lorna had a sense of gravitas, a word you never hear at CBC Radio now,” said journalist Michael Enright, who has hosted several CBC programs including As It Happens and Sunday Morning. So, I knew her mostly in the newsroom.”Though the name Lorna is not common, there was another Lorna Jackson in the Toronto area: the mayor of the suburban city of Vaughan. I think it had to do with her Icelandic background, the love of blue skies,” Mr. Bonner said. “When I reflect over the years I have spent with CBC, I feel like I have filled in on just about every show on CBC Radio One and CBC Radio Two,” Ms. Jackson said upon her retirement.
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 23:11 UTC
New Article: Scientists Create Monkey Chimera with Dual DNA and Fluorescent Features
Scientists in China have made an astonishing breakthrough in the field of genetic engineering, successfully creating a monkey chimera with two sets of DNA and unique fluorescent characteristics. The scientists employed pluripotent monkey stem cells that were capable of developing into any type of cell within a living organism. These stem cells were labeled with a green fluorescent protein, enabling the researchers to identify the tissues derived from them in the monkey chimera. Pluripotent stem cells labeled with a green fluorescent protein were injected into early monkey embryos, which were then implanted into female macaques. A: The researchers demonstrated that pluripotent monkey stem cells can differentiate in vivo into various tissues within a monkey’s body.
Source:National Post
November 14, 2023 22:51 UTC
Canadian Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver, feared to be held hostage, confirmed killed in Hamas attacks
Vivian Silver, a Canadian Israeli peace activist whose family said they believed was taken hostage from her home in southern Israel when Hamas-led militants carried out a surprise assault on Oct. 7, was killed in the initial attacks, her family confirms. The Israeli government says militants killed about 1,200 people, including civilians and soldiers, in raids and rocket attacks on Israeli communities on Oct. 7. The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza reports that more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombardments and ground assaults in the weeks since. WATCH | Vivian Silver was a well-known peace activist:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget.
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 21:10 UTC
CBC Newfoundland: This therapist can’t afford her dream job — and gave it up so she could pay rent
November 14, 2023 —Julia Smith, an assistant professor of labour studies at the University of Manitoba, says Canada is seeing a trend of workers unable to use their education — “folks going to school for degrees or diplomas or whatever it is … and then coming out and not necessarily being able to find work.”Smith says more and more people are having to give up jobs that they are passionate about to cover their life expenses. “Do I need to get a second job? Can I keep this job? Do I just cut back? Do I skip meals?” Those are the questions people are asking themselves, she says.
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 21:04 UTC
CBC Sudbury: ‘Hunting highways’: How human infrastructure changed the relationship between wolves and deer
November 14, 2023 —Researchers found that human activities change where deer are on the landscape, and wolves tend to go where the deer are. They also found that wolves leverage human infrastructure to their advantage. Sean Johnson-Bice, who led the project, says it took very intensive field work to come to these conclusions. He and his team went out and captured wolves to install GPS collars on them. “We’re basically going out there like crime scene investigators looking for evidence of a kill,” he said.
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 20:58 UTC
The creators of CBC's 'Sort Of' on wrapping the show on their terms
Bilal Baig (right) and Fab Filippo pose with the award for "Best Comedy Series" at the Comedy and TV Drama awards evening at the Canadian Screen Awards, in Toronto, on Friday, April 14, 2023. CBC’s millennial dramedy “Sort Of” may revel in life’s grey areas but its creators Baig and Filippo know one thing for certain – now is the right time to end it. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 19:26 UTC
The creators of CBC’s ‘Sort Of’ on wrapping the show on their terms
TORONTO — CBC’s millennial dramedy “Sort Of” may revel in life’s grey areas but its creators Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo know one thing for certain – now is the right time to end it. “It feels really right, where we ended it and that feels good,” Filippo says of the final eight episodes. The finale, I think, ends in such a ‘Sort Of’ kind of way, so I really love it for that.”In “Sort Of” fashion, that means messy, heartfelt and heart-wrenching. It was a surprise to many when Baig and Filippo announced in October that the next season would also be its last. We have story resolutions that make you feel good, but then we ask questions right away,” Filippo explains.
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 18:45 UTC
140 athletes set to represent Canada at Parapan Am Games in Chile
A team of 140 athletes will represent Canada, aiming to add to the 164 medals — including 46 gold — their compatriots won. There has been consistent growth over the previous six iterations, with some 1,000 Para athletes from 18 countries at the first Games in Mexico City. Sixty-six athletes are making their Parapan Am Games debut, with 55 appearing in a multi-sport Games for the first time. Fin du widget Widget. Four years ago at the Parapan Am Games in Lima, Canadian athletes won 60 medals, including 17 gold, 21 silver and 22 bronze.
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 16:31 UTC
Someone Killed The Unkillable $350,000 Rezvani Tank And Now It Sits On Copart Like Your Rusted-Out Cavalier
I’ll be honest with you: I never really understood the appeal of the Rezvani Tank. The email we got from Copart states that this Rezvani Tank is “bulletproof,” but apparently it’s not truck-proof, as the rear quarter panel that got hit shows. Now the Rezvani sits on a Copart lot in Florida; per the auction site, the truck was once worth $354,241, making its current bid a steal at $80 grand! Looking at the pictures of the 6.4-liter HEMI V8 Rezvani Tank, the damaged area doesn’t look that bad; the rear wheel is off (perhaps the studs are sheared?) Copart made a little video showing off this mean machine, so you can feel like you’re right next to an immobile, fucked-up Rezvani Tank!
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 06:20 UTC
Sarah Bernstein wins the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Sarah Bernstein wins the 2023 Scotiabank Giller PrizeNovember 13, 2023 (Toronto, Ontario) – Sarah Bernstein has been named the winner of the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel, Study for Obedience published by Knopf Canada, taking home $100,000 courtesy of Scotiabank. The remaining finalists, listed below, will each receive $10,000:The longlist, shortlist, and winner of the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize were selected by an esteemed five-member jury panel: Canadian authors Ian Williams (jury chair, winner of 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize), Sharon Bala and Brian Thomas Isaac, and American author Rebecca Makkai and Indian-British writer, Neel Mukherjee. About the PrizeFounded by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994, the Giller Prize is Canada’s leading and most influential literary prize for fiction. The Scotiabank Giller Prize now awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel, graphic novel or short story collection published in English, and $10,000 to each of the finalists. -30-For Media Enquiries Only:Daphna Rabinovitch, Scotiabank Giller PrizeDaphna@scotiabankgillerprize.caT: 416-525-3752Kelty Reid, Scotiabankkelty.reid@scotiabank.com
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 02:57 UTC
Vivian Silver, Canadian-Israeli peace-Palestinian rights activist, declared dead in Hamas massacre
Vivian Silver, 74, an Arabic-speaker, life-long hands-on advocate for peace, Palestinian rights, and women’s rights, presumed kidnapped by Hamas in the October 7 massacre, today was declared dead, on the basis of forensic examination of previously unidentified remains at Kibbutz Be'eri, where her house had been gutted and burned to the ground. At least 120 other men, women and children were killed in the community of about 1,100 people near the Israel-Gaza border. As DrLou posted on October 17, Hamas' First Targets for its 10/7 Savagery were the most pro-Palestinian Rights 'Peace' Kibbutzim. Hamas Slaughters the Israeli Peace Movement ...Vivian Silver… was, and is, Hamas’s worst nightmare, a person who believed that Jews and Arabs… could—no, had to—coexist on a small patch of land common to both tribes’ ancestors. זיכרונה לברכהMay remembrance of the names and lives of those gone before us be a light to guide us ahead.
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 01:53 UTC
What is C-58, the government’s new anti-replacement-worker legislation?
And I think on that level the labour movement is going to be celebrating today, he said. WATCH | A year of labour unrest:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. When you look at the Conservative record, especially since Harper, there's no appetite for the reforms that the labour movement has advocated for. Savage said the labour movement is probably hoping this legislation will have a cascading effect throughout the provinces, where legislation mirroring the proposed federal law could crop up.
Source:CBC News
November 14, 2023 00:11 UTC
Cameron Ortis says he leaked info as part of ultra secret mission to lure suspected criminals into using an email service run by foreign agency
OTTAWA – Former senior RCMP intelligence official Cameron Ortis painted himself as a misunderstood hero during his trial, saying his leaking of classified information to suspected criminals was part of an ultra-secret mission from an unnamed foreign agency to lure them into using an email service. He said he began his ultra secret mission upon received “very compelling” information from a counterpart at a foreign agency in 2014 that “demonstrated clearly a direct and grave threat” to Canada. Monday, Germany-based Tuta strongly denied Ortis’ claims and said it is “wholly owned” by founders Arne Möhle and Matthias Pfau. “The Tutao GbmH is not owned by any secret service, nor is it a ‘storefront’ as claimed by Cameron Ortis,” reads the statement. He said he hatched his “intelligence operation”, called OR Nudge, following two calls from a counterpart at an unnamed foreign agency in 2014.
Source:National Post
November 13, 2023 22:44 UTC