Please continue any discussion on random news items here.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-ethics-aga-khan-1.4458220

King Justin is sorry, y'all!

6 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-ethics-aga-khan-1.4458220

King Justin is sorry, y'all!

Im sure people have friends who they have not seen in 20 years. So it's no biggie to me. Looks like every personal trip going to have to go through Ethics commish now.

 

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Frosty's Xmas Gift card to everyone.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/how-to-receive-a-25-loblaw-card-after-bread-price-fixing-arrangement/article37392332/

Awesome.  I got paid for something you posted before... class-action suit against a RAM maker or maybe it was batteries.  Maybe both.  Add this to the list!  Thanks.

2 minutes ago, Atomic said:

Awesome.  I got paid for something you posted before... class-action suit against a RAM maker or maybe it was batteries.  Maybe both.  Add this to the list!  Thanks.

ya this is pretty cool.. came across this in the news today.   I got paid on something similar a few years back for the sketchers shoes and how they were guilty of false advertising about how their "step up" shoes build up your calf muscles.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-southkorea/north-korean-soldier-defects-to-the-south-south-korean-defense-official-idUSKBN1EF036

http://winnipeg.ca/police/press/2017/12dec/2017_12_21.aspx#break

34 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

http://winnipeg.ca/police/press/2017/12dec/2017_12_21.aspx#break

Context?  Not sure what makes these releases anything extraordinary...

2 hours ago, Atomic said:

Context?  Not sure what makes these releases anything extraordinary...

A guy already wanted by police broke into the empty ex-police building.

11 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

A guy already wanted by police broke into the empty ex-police building.

That takes balls.

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The world’s largest package delivery company has just broken another record, albeit on a much smaller scale. The shipping giant has just become the company with the biggest pre-order for Tesla’s newest vehicle, the upcoming Tesla Semi. UPS announced that it had placed an order for 125 Class 8, all-electric, semi-autonomous trucks. The order manages to beat PepsiCo’s order of 100 trucks.

UPS is known for its commitment to green initiatives that have the dual benefit of helping both the environment and their bottom line. Earlier this year the company announced an initiative to replace 1,000 diesel-fueled delivery trucks in its New York City delivery fleet (more than half of the company’s fleet in the city) with electric-powered trucks by 2020. Trucks based in NYC are perfect for this kind of conversion as smaller routes afford for less range anxiety.

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/08/new-messiahs-jesus-christ-second-coming-photos/

Another vile cash grab by this city

they change the rule, update their website, does not inform the public, does not update signage on meters and directs parking officers to issue tickets. And then tries to imply this has been the role all along 

someone needs to be fired 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/humbug-sign-winnipeg-christmas-lights-1.4458582

http://www.wpxi.com/news/national/couple-charged-with-using-drone-to-deliver-illegal-drugs/669652327

 

 

NYT
 

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It would have seemed unbelievable in 1990, when there were 2,245 killings in New York City, but as of Wednesday there have been just 286 in the city this year — the lowest since reliable records have been kept.

If the trend holds just a few more days, this year’s homicide total will be under the city’s previous low of 333 in 2014, and crime will have declined for 27 straight years, to levels that police officials have said are the lowest since the 1950s. The numbers, when taken together, portray a city of 8.5 million people growing safer even as the police, under Mayor Bill de Blasio, use less deadly force, make fewer arrests and scale back controversial practices like stopping and frisking thousands of people on the streets.

 

 

Edited December 28, 20178 yr by Mark F

I assume the main reason the killings are down is because no street level thug could possibly survive financially in New York City these days.... the prices are crazy. 

The article says they are down in every large city in the USA, and up in smaller cities.

says nobody really knows what the explanation is, trying to figure it out, one factor in New York is cops use taser much more, guns much less.

NYT is free online.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2017/12/29/unesco-confirms-israels-withdrawal-over-antiisrael-bias-n2428253

Well this is going to happen...or rather has happened

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/29/europe/ringo-starr-barry-gibb-new-year-honors-intl/index.html

Protests in Iran. One day the people will bring about their revolution. 

 

I admit, until I heard her pronounce it herself I assumed it was a silent T

 

Yeah, this from Calgary but it pretty much sums the weather this past week:

 

One thing I can agree with Trump on. Although he probably doesn’t why he’s right this time. 

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ceo-income-pay-canadian-worker-1.4462496

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Shortly before 11 a.m. today, the average top-earning CEO in Canada will have already earned — in less than one work day — what the average worker makes in an entire year, says a new study.

...those corporate executives had a stellar year. Their average annual compensation hit a record $10.4 million — that's more than 200 times an average worker's salary of $49,738, says the report.