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2 minutes ago, Tracker said:
You mean "Fine" as in QB or as in incurring a penalty?
- Wanna-B-Fanboy and rebusrankin
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-layoffs-radio-1.6876075
QuoteBCE Inc. is cutting 1,300 positions and closing or selling nine radio stations as the company plans to significantly adapt how it delivers the news.
The eliminated positions include a six per cent cut at Bell Media.
Bell says the job cuts are in response to unfavourable public policy and regulatory conditions that it can no longer outwait.
Set to shutter are:
- Winnipeg's Funny 1290;
- Calgary's Funny 1060;
- Edmonton's TSN 1260 Radio;
- Vancouver's BNN Bloomberg Radio 1410;
- Vancouver's Funny 1040;
- London's NewsTalk 1290.
Bell Media is also selling Hamilton's AM Radio 1150 and AM 820, as well as Windsor's AM 580, to an undisclosed third party, subject to CRTC approval.
Management positions are being slashed by six per cent, according to the company. There will also be 20 per cent fewer executive roles in the company compared with 2020.
An internal company memo on Wednesday says staff affected by cuts would be informed this week.
Around 30 per cent of the positions being eliminated are current vacancies that won't be filled.
In an open letter, Bell Canada president and CEO Mirko Bibic says Bell Canada expects to lose more than $250 million in legacy phone revenues per year, while its news operations incur $40 million in annual operating losses.
Garbage pile of a company.
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It's not just Trump. It's human garbage like Gaetz, Taylor Greene, Boebert, DeSantis, and so many more.
Sanity won't return to the US political landscape any time soon - regardless of what happens with the fetid orange pustule.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-chong-1.6874498
QuoteThe head of the RCMP says his organization has opened an investigation into allegations that China attempted to target and intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family.
Commissioner Mike Duheme told the procedure and House affairs committee Tuesday morning that the investigation is one of more than 100 current RCMP probes looking into foreign interference. His comments come as the committee studies an alleged 2021 Beijing plot to amass information on Chong's family in retaliation for his efforts to recognize the persecution of Uyghurs as genocide.
Duheme and Deputy Commissioner Mark Flynn said the RCMP also offered to assist the commissioner of Canada Elections with other allegations coming from Conservative MP Erin O'Toole and NDP MP Jenny Kwan.
Duheme and Flynn said the force only learned about the Chong matter recently, when The Globe and Mail broke the story.
"I'm aware of that type of threat being present but I was not aware of the specifics," said Flynn.
"The news that individuals, parliamentarians, and the general public in Canada are subjected to threats and intimidation is not news."
"The reality is we do have distinct organizations with distinct mandates involved in the national security space to combat this threat," Flynn responded. "There is at times an appropriate withholding of specific information."
CSIS Director David Vigneault is scheduled to testify later Tuesday night.
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It's a bit of a jaunt from the Nairn-Regent area but JC Tacos on Henderson Hwy. is pretty tasty and reasonably priced, with a pretty varied and authentic menu: https://www.jcstacosandmore.com/
I don't believe it's licensed to sell liquor, though.
- bigg jay, GCn20 and rebusrankin
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-court-appearance-documents-1.6874391
QuoteFormer U.S. president Donald Trump arrived at a Miami courthouse on Tuesday to face criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.
Trump and former aide Walt Nauta were booked, a court official said, ahead of an arraignment scheduled for 3 p.m. ET when they were due to submit a plea.
Trump has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence and accuses Democratic President Joe Biden's administration of targeting him. He called Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the prosecution, a "Trump hater" on social media on Tuesday.
Smith accuses Trump of taking thousands of papers containing some of the nation's most sensitive national-security secrets when he left the White House in January 2021 and storing them in a haphazard manner at his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate, according to a grand jury indictment released last week.
The 37-count indictment includes violations of the Espionage Act, which criminalizes unauthorized possession of defence information, and conspiracy to obstruct justice, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The charges include references to 31 top secret or secret documents.
Trump has argued that he declassified the records in question and that his broad presidential powers gave him the authority to disclose or declassify materials. However, the Espionage Act itself does not explicitly require prosecutors to prove that the records themselves were classified.
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https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/michael-andlauer-to-become-new-senators-owner-1.1972615
QuoteA group led by Toronto billionaire Michael Andlauer has won the bidding war and will become the new owner of the Ottawa Senators, according to multiple reports.
Bruce Garrioch of Postmedia adds that Andlauer will play $950 million USD for the franchise.
Andlauer currently owns a minority share of the Montreal Canadiens and is a member of the NHL’s board of governors. As a result of his successful bid, he will have to sell his 10 per cent share in the Canadiens. The founder of Andlauer Healthcare Group, Andlauer is also the owner of the Ontario Hockey League’s Bulldogs franchise.
The 57-year-old put together a group of investors for his bid, but is believed to have controlling interest.
Along with taking over the Senators, Andlauer will receive preferred bidder status to build a new rink at LeBreton Flats.
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FFVXI demo for PS5 dropped yesterday. Pretty large file and your progress can be saved for when the game launches next week.
Highly recommended! And it looks beautiful.
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Now the PM will have to appoint another special rapporteur and until then, no progress will be made on any of this foreign interference nonsense.
Seems to be there are too many demagogues in Ottawa right now.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/silvio-berlusconi-former-italian-prime-minister-dead-at-86-1.6873214
QuoteSilvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy's longest-serving prime minister despite scandals over his sex-fuelled parties and allegations of corruption, has died, according to his television network Mediaset. He was 86.
Mediaset announced his death with a smiling photo of the man on its homepage and the headline: "Berlusconi is dead." Italian news agency LaPresse reported Berlusconi's death after he was hospitalized on Friday for the second time in months for treatment of chronic leukemia.
He also suffered over the years from heart ailments, prostate cancer and was hospitalized for COVID-19 in 2020.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-flood-deaths-dam-1.6869388
QuoteFive residents of a Russian-occupied city next to a breached dam have died in massive flooding triggered by the catastrophe, its Kremlin-appointed mayor said Thursday, the first official report of deaths from one of the largest environmental crises since Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than 15 months ago.
...at least 4,000 people have been evacuated from both the Russian and Ukrainian-controlled sides of the Dnipro River, which has become part of the front line between the fighting forces.
The true scale of the disaster is yet to emerge in an affected area that was home to more than 60,000 people.
Ukraine's agriculture ministry on Thursday warned that several million tonnes of crops could be lost due to flooding caused by the destruction of the dam.
Vegetables, melons, grains and oilseeds were the main products grown on the affected land, the ministry said.
"Without a source of water supply, it is impossible to grow vegetables. Grain and oilseeds will be grown using an extensive model with low yields," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said the breach would flood tens of thousands of hectares of agricultural land in southern Ukraine and could turn at least 500,000 hectares of land left without irrigation into "deserts." The flooded land would require a full agro-ecological assessment of the soil condition and, in most cases, special soil restoration methods would need to be applied, the ministry said.
War crimes.
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2 hours ago, voodoochylde said:
I've pruned a few recent messages in this thread that provided no value to the discussion whatsoever. I like to think you are all adults and can play nicely together in this sandbox .. please do that.
You're too kind.
More on Sam Cooper: https://www.readthemaple.com/a-farewell-to-sam-scooper-cooper-the-spy-agency-microphone/
QuoteCooper’s reporting was a focus of special rapporteur David Johnston’s first report into election interference, which found that a major allegation made in Cooper’s article against Dong is “false.” Cooper’s reporting also prompted some national conversation about how he is:
1) being sued, along with co-defendants, by Dong for $15 million in damages, alleging the defendants “maliciously destroyed [his] hard-earned reputation and career and [exposed] his family to a campaign of hateful messages and threats, including death threats”;
2) being sued, along with co-defendants, by former Ontario MPP Michael Chan for $10 million, alleging Cooper “engaged in an ongoing and relentless campaign against [him]”;
3) currently facing, along with Global News, a libel notice from Ontario MPP Vincent Ke, alleging their reporting exposed him to “a campaign of hateful and racist threats and attacks.”
(The claims have not been proven in court. Global News rejects Dong’s claims, and does not appear to have filed a statement of defence against Chan.)
No journalistic integrity whatsoever.
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17 hours ago, Fatty Liver said:
NEW YORK – Flights heading towards New York’s LaGuardia Airport were temporarily suspended by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday due to decreased visibility caused by smoke originating from wildfires in Canada.
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42 minutes ago, JCon said:
Why would he want to play for this organization?
He seemed pretty stoked to join it back when he was acquired in early 2021. Turns out he was being disingenuous.
He only wants to play for the Habs. This is the same **** he pulled in Columbus.
Too many entitled divas in the NHL these days.
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15 hours ago, Wideleft said:
For those who missed it, Global is backtracking on the Han Dong story and Sam Cooper's last day at Global is Friday. He's apparently leaving for a "personal journalism project".
Uh- huh.
On Monday, Global News and its parent company Corus Entertainment filed a statement of defence in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice defending their reporting and denying that it was defamatory.
The statement says that "certain allegations … were based on information from two or, in some cases, three confidential sources" that Global determined were "credible through rigorous investigation."
The document said Global's reporting was not "presented as factual findings."
Why go public with unfounded allegations, then? Rhetorical question, to be clear.
I know the answer - Global News sabotaged its own credibility and this drives home that facts don't matter in the age of clickbait, sensationalized narratives, and profit-driven media.
It's pretty reprehensible, IMO. It's undermined our democratic institutions, compromised careers and reputations, and poured more fuel on the raging fires of division in this country.
9 hours ago, Rod Black said:Great contribution to the discussion.
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https://www.tsn.ca/wrestling-legend-the-iron-sheik-dead-at-81-1.1970289
QuoteWrestling icon the Iron Sheik has died at the age of 81.
Born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, the Sheik was one of the World Wrestling Federation's most prominent heels of the 1980s, winning the WWF Championship in 1983. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.
Prior to getting into pro wrestling, Vaziri was an Olympic wrestler, representing his native Iran at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and serving as a coach for the United States wresting team at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
While Vaziri made his WWF debut in 1979, it wasn't until his return to the promotion in 1983 that he received his first major push when he feuded with then champion Bob Backlund. Vaziri would defeat Backlund with the Camel Clutch at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 26.
His reign as champion would only last weeks, as Vaziri would drop the title to Hulk Hogan in a match widely considered to be the kickoff to "Hulkamania" on Jan. 23, 1984.
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Pretty sweet deal with DoorDash/Prime!
Has anyone been to Friskee Pearl? Sadly, I went back in mid-May... Needless to say, it was very forgettable. Overpriced, underwhelming, slow service... It's basically a revamped Earls with marine-themed **** everywhere and more seafood on the menu.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/turkey-wont-back-swedish-nato-bid-unless-it-stops-anti-turkish-protests-erdogan-2023-06-14/