To the Editor:Re “O Canada, Come Join Us,” by Ross Douthat (column, Jan. 12):Dear Mr. Douthat,We read your invitation to join the American family, and while we’re flattered, we must politely decline.Think of us Canadians as your favorite cousin who loves poutine over burgers and health care over havoc. We cherish our friendly rivalry, like beating you at hockey, but living together? Perhaps not.You suggest we abandon our quaint customs like universal health care, generous parental leave and that cute little thing we call gun control. And as much as we love visiting your beautiful bustling cities, we adore our…
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We urgently need new ways to understand and treat depressionFotografiaBasica/Getty Images Chemically ImbalancedJoanna Moncrieff (Flint Books) Joanna Moncrieff was a “precocious 14-year-old” when she experienced “a period of what might have been called depression”. She didn’t seek treatment, however. “I didn’t want to take anything that would stop me reading my philosophy books.” Luckily, she changed schools, met “a lovely boyfriend” and was happy again. “I expect my resistance was coloured by my parents’ general stoicism,” she writes in her new book, Chemically Imbalanced: The making and unmaking of the serotonin myth. Moncrieff cautions that “none of… Source link
ALTADENA, Calif. — A neighbor did what thousands were urged not to do when he stayed behind amid mandatory wildfire evacuations and saved his home and multiple others nearby with garden hoses and the help of a few fellow residents.Antonio Antonetti, 66, said it wasn’t in his fabric to run as flames approached his part of Altadena and began jumping from home to home, transported by embers, on the morning of Jan. 8.“I was raised to confront my problems, my fears,” he said in the driveway of his still-standing home. “I was not educated to fly away from fear, from pain,…
For months, Instagram has watched and waited to see what would happen to rival TikTok under a new federal law that would ban the app in the United States. On Sunday, the day that law took effect, Instagram pounced.The social media app, which is owned by Meta, announced a new app called Edits, a video-editing product that appeared to be a clone of CapCut, which is used by millions of people to stitch together short videos for TikTok. CapCut and TikTok are owned by ByteDance, the Chinese internet giant, which led to U.S. scrutiny of the apps for national security…
This article is an on-site version of our The Week Ahead newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Sunday. Explore all of our newsletters hereHello and welcome to the working week.Strap yourselves in. A new chapter begins on Monday at the Capitol building in Washington as Donald Trump takes the 35-word oath in the 60th presidential swearing-in ceremony, making him the 47th US president. This will be an event that is high on ceremony (read the full itinerary here), but will also break new ground. Trump will be the first convicted criminal and oldest commander-in-chief…
Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Jamaican black nationalist Marcus Garvey. Garvey was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. The black nationalist leader was born on August 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, and moved to the United States in 1916. Before he died in 1940, Garvey founded the first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) to promote black nationalism and Pan-Africanism. Garvey was a big proponent of the Back-to-Africa movement, encouraging black Americans to return to their ancestral homeland. The mail fraud conviction against him was based on the sale of stock…
Influencer Charli D’Amelio, one of TikTok’s most prominent stars, reached out to fans with a lighthearted message after the platform went offline in the United States on January 18.D’Amelio’s journey began in 2019 when she posted her first TikTok, a lip-sync video with a friend. Her popularity skyrocketed after she shared a duet video with another TikTok user later that year.By 2020, Charli D’Amelio became the first person to reach 100 million followers on the platform and is now worth an estimated $45 million.Article continues below advertisementCharli D’Amelio Opens Up About TikTok Ban During Her Rise As A Top InfluencerImage…
GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM: Palestinians burst into the streets to celebrate and return to the rubble of their bombed-out homes on Sunday (Jan 19) after a ceasefire deal halted fighting in Gaza, and three female hostages freed by Hamas were reunited with their mothers inside Israel. Armed Hamas fighters drove through the southern city of Khan Younis with crowds cheering and chanting. In the north of the territory, bombed into oblivion in the war’s most intense fighting, people picked their way on narrow roads through a devastated landscape of rubble and twisted metal. “I feel like at last I found some water to drink after being…
Ceasefire comes after 15 months of Israel’s devastating war on the Palestinian territory.A sense of hope is arriving in Gaza with Sunday’s ceasefire, coming after nearly 47,000 people were killed by Israeli attacks and Western weapons. Palestinians are now trying to rebuild their lives and homes, many of them destroyed by the bombing. How has the spirit of Gaza’s people remained unbroken? Presenter: Hani Mahmoud Guests: Read Nejm – International relations and political science academic from Gaza Antoine Renard – Gaza director, World Food Programme Samir Zaqout – Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, based in Gaza Source link