Ethiopian collectors and craftspeople counter climate change scrap by scrap
Ethiopian collectors and craftspeople counter climate change scrap by scrapNewsDuration 1:46Scrap collectors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, sell everything from plastic bottles and electronics to all kinds of unwanted bric-a-brac to middlemen — who either restore them or use the raw materials to make something sellable. Those involved in the Merkato market say the system provides an economic opportunity while contributing to waste diversion and reducing climate change.
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October 17, 2024 22:15 UTC
Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder wanted in U.S. drug trafficking case
Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder wanted in U.S. drug trafficking caseNewsDuration 5:21Ryan James Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder, has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed several people, authorities said Thursday.
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October 17, 2024 21:58 UTC
2024 Victoria Book Prize Winners are Kathryn Mockler and Raina Delisle
The City of Victoria and the Victoria Book Prize Society are pleased to announce and celebrate local authors Kathryn Mockler and Raina Delisle as the 2024 recipients of the Victoria Book Prizes. The City of Victoria Butler Book Prize was awarded to Kathryn Mockler for her work of fiction Anecdotes (Book*Hug Press) and the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize was awarded to Raina Delisle for her work of non-fiction Breaking News, Why Media Matters (Orca Book Publishers). "Both winners of this year's City of Victoria book prizes demonstrate an acute awareness of the society we inhabit and the need for individual engagement,” said Lynne Van Luven, president of the Victoria Book Prize Society. Established in 2004, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize is a partnership between the City of Victoria and Brian Butler of Butler Brothers Supplies. The Victoria Book Prize Society establishes the policy and criteria for the prizes, appoints the juries and administers the competitions.
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October 17, 2024 17:04 UTC
4 more Trudeau cabinet ministers won’t seek re-election: sources
Four more federal cabinet ministers will not run for re-election, Radio-Canada has learned, meaning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will reshuffle his cabinet at a time when his leadership is increasingly fragile. The four ministers will be removed from cabinet in a reshuffle scheduled for the coming weeks, sources told Radio-Canada. The prime minister has yet to set a date for the shuffle. Since then, the prime minister has been unable to gain ground against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the polls. Fin du widget Widget.
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October 17, 2024 15:52 UTC
B.C.’s close and controversial election explained
B.C.’s close and controversial election explainedNewsDuration 5:44With B.C.’s governing NDP and the insurgent Conservatives running neck and neck ahead of the provincial election, Lyndsay Duncombe breaks down how a party with just eight seats is within striking distance of winning — and why Greens and Independents could make all the difference.
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October 17, 2024 15:50 UTC
Federal office mandate burdening Ottawa doctors as public servants seek medical notes – CBC
Federal office mandate burdening Ottawa doctors as public servants seek medical notes – CBC‘We’re getting completely bogged down with these requests and feeling completely overwhelmed’Oct 17, 2024Family doctors in Ottawa are seeing an influx of public servants looking for medical notes to support work-from-home requests, putting added strain on an already overburdened health-care system. Dr. Roozbeh Matin, who practises in Barrhaven, said he’s been noticing the trend for months, ever since the federal government announced plans to mandate public servants to work from the office more often. “This is a systemic problem that all of us physicians in the Ottawa area are noticing,” he said. “We have been basically inundated with requests from our civil servant patients requesting various sorts of accommodation.”The actual numbers might not seem so daunting: Matin gets about two to four request per week, while Dr. Alex Duong has seen a few dozen since the spring at his family medicine practice in Vanier. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-office-mandate-burdening-ottawa-doctors-as-public-servants-seek-medical-notes-1.7352351
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October 17, 2024 15:48 UTC
Canada must act now to be prepared for the next health emergency, new pandemic report warns – CBC
Canada must act now to be prepared for the next health emergency, new pandemic report warns – CBCA future pandemic could be swifter and more severe than COVID-19, experts say in independent reportOct 16, 2024Canada needs to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and take action before the next health emergency strikes, an expert panel of doctors and researchers say in a new independent report. “Most scientists feel that it’s only a matter of time before we face something similar to what we went through these past five years,” said Dr. Fahad Razak, one of the six experts who contributed to the report examining how scientific advice was developed and how research was co-ordinated. “A lot of what we saw globally when we compared [pandemic] responses suggests that the preparedness is the critical part.”The panel’s report, called “The Time to Act is Now,” says disease surveillance, hospitalization data and research findings need to be communicated much more effectively between the provinces, the territories and the federal government. “The fragmented nature of how we govern this country, with separate decisions being made in provinces and territories and what’s being done at the federal government [level], had really significant impact on how we responded to the pandemic,” said Razak, an internal medicine specialist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto who was the scientific director of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pandemic-report-canada-1.7353743
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October 17, 2024 15:32 UTC
Training, equipment among coroner recommendations after N.W.T. firefighter death
Adam Yeadon, 25, was killed while working the perimeter of a forest fire near his community of Fort Liard, N.W.T., on July 15, 2023. The coroner’s office has not released its report into the incident but on Wednesday it issued nine recommendations that had emerged from that investigation. ECC’s internal report also shows the territory was already adding more training to assess dangerous trees before Yeadon was killed. Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jay Macdonald told CBC News on Wednesday his department was considering the recommendations from the territory’s coroner service. CBC News has asked the coroner’s office for an interview about the recommendations, but did not hear back by publication time.
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October 17, 2024 15:30 UTC
Town hall on 'controversial' Etobicoke bike lane draws large attendance
Town hall on 'controversial' Etobicoke bike lane draws large attendanceNewsDuration 2:36A community debate about a bike lane along Bloor Street West got heated Wednesday night. It was installed last year, and while some community members argue it doesn't work in Etobicoke, others say it should stay in place. The CBC's Dale Manucdoc was at the meeting.
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October 17, 2024 15:16 UTC
Participants in Indigenous cultural exchange program to New Zealand feel ‘scammed’ – CBC
Participants in Indigenous cultural exchange program to New Zealand feel ‘scammed’ – CBCOct 17, 2024Working holiday targeted at Indigenous youth didn’t live up to promises, say participantsWhat many thought was a dream opportunity for Indigenous youth from Canada to participate in cultural exchange with local Māori communities in New Zealand turned into what one participant describes as a “nightmare.”It was marketed as a 12-week working holiday for Indigenous youth but left some participants feeling scammed. “They’re almost luring us into this program using Māori culture and the idea of Indigenous connection,” said Ashley Clearsky, from Waywayseecappo First Nation in Manitoba. Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/new-zealand-indigenous-exchange-1.7349126
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October 17, 2024 14:04 UTC
’They saved my life that day’: The inside story of a Canadian wounded in Ukraine
WATCH | 'Shadow' talks about surviving a Russian mortar attack in Ukraine:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. Canadian fighting in Ukraine describes surviving Russian mortar attackA former Canadian soldier, identified only as 'Shadow,' describes being seriously wounded while fighting with Ukraine in the heavily contested region of Donetsk. Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget.
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October 17, 2024 13:38 UTC
Police investigate shooting in east Windsor
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Windsor police said officers are on scene forPolice are investigating a shooting in east Windsor. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Windsor police said officers are on scene for "an active investigation" in the 1500 block of Monticello Avenue, in the Riverside area, north of Firgrove Drive. The scene of a shooting in east Windsor. The scene of a shooting in east Windsor. (Jason Viau/CBC)East Windsor shootingThe scene of a shooting in East Windsor.
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October 17, 2024 13:16 UTC
How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism – CBC
How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism – CBCOct 17, 2024Proposed wording change attempted to ‘turn down the volume on [the] truth,’ one lawyer saidA recent request to change the wording in a mandatory Indigenous intercultural course for lawyers in British Columbia led to a debate over whether the changes amounted to residential school denialism. Victoria-based criminal defence lawyer Jim Heller submitted a resolution to the B.C. Law Society to change the wording. The resolution was seconded by Burnaby lawyer Mark Berry.
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October 17, 2024 13:15 UTC
The 178 sources we used in Xtra Explains: Trans Youth
When it comes to trans youth, there is a lot of misinformation out there. That’s why we’ve launched Xtra Explains: Trans Youth, a 10-part video series breaking down some of the most misunderstood and misrepresented issues affecting their lives. The sources include peer-reviewed research, fact sheets and statements from professional medical associations, rigorous journalism and first-hand accounts. They also include the sources for some of the misinformation our video series debunks, including public statements and policies from politicians like Danielle Smith or Pierre Poilievre. Below, we’ve listed all 178 sources Xtra Explains: Trans Youth cites or refers to in order to not just demonstrate the scope of our work, so you’ll have access to even more factual information in your own fight against misinformation.
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October 17, 2024 13:11 UTC
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne dead after fall from Buenos Aires hotel
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne dead after fall from Buenos Aires hotelNewsDuration 2:01Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died at the age of 31. Police say he fell from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires early Wednesday evening.
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October 17, 2024 12:59 UTC