ASYLUM CLAIMS Waves of Canadian citizenship applications from distraught Democrats may be unlikely, but experts agree Canada could face more refugee claims. Sean Rehaag, director of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies, has noted the number of US citizens who sought asylum in Canada spiked when Trump first took office. In 2016, 129 Americans made refugee claims in Canada. That jumped to 869 in 2017 and 642 in 2018. Rehaag has written that those 1,500 were “mainly the children of people fearing deportation due to a change of their immigration status after spending years in the United States”. Given Trump’s…
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A computer game that allows users to recreate aspects of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel has been removed from the popular gaming platform Steam in the United Kingdom at the request of counterterrorism police, according to emails and the game’s creator. Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, released in 2022, lets gamers play as the fictional character “Ahmad al-Falastini,” a young Palestinian student, as he takes revenge on Israeli soldiers who tortured him and killed his family. An updated version of the game called Operation al-Aqsa Flood, the name Hamas uses for its October 7, 2023 attack,…
It did not take long for Daniel Jones to find a new home after parting ways with the New York Giants on Monday. On Wednesday, Fox Sports NFL Insider Jordan Schultz confirmed that Jones is signing with the Minnesota Vikings. The announcement comes just two days after Jones officially became a free agent on Monday.While the deal with the Vikings is a one-year, $375,000 deal through the remainder of the 2024 season, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, he will start on the Vikings practice squad. Despite losing rookie J.J. McCarthy for the season with a meniscus injury in his right knee,…
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The payload of a Near Space Labs balloon parachuting back to the groundNear Space Labs Autonomous balloons high in Earth’s atmosphere are taking incredibly detailed photos of neighbourhoods and individual homes in 28 US states, and from January 2025, they will be able to photograph the ground anywhere in the continental US. Such high-resolution aerial images can help those responding to climate-related natural disasters – but they also raise privacy concerns. “This is the first time ever that nationwide aerial imaging at this resolution – 7 centimetres – is accessible,” says Rema Matevosyan, CEO and co-founder of the company behind……
With Thanksgiving holiday travel well underway, many have reached their destinations — but for everyone else, a storm tracking from the Rockies to the Midwest and Northeast into Thursday will bring rain and snow, likely impacting flights and packed roads.Just shy of 3 million people were expected to be screened by the Transportation Security Administration on Wednesday, and a record 71.7 million were expected travel by car over Thanksgiving — over 1 million more than last year. The storm, which dropped snow over the Rockies Wednesday morning and slowed by the afternoon, is forecast to race east throughout Wednesday to…
GettyOfcom has warned social media companies they will be punished if they fail to take significant extra steps to address the problem of children pretending to be adults online.A newly released survey, conducted by the UK media regulator, indicates 22% of eight to 17 year olds lie that they are 18 or over on social media apps.This is despite the Online Safety Act (OSA) requiring platforms to beef-up age verification, a responsibility that will come into force in 2025.Ofcom told the BBC its “alarming” findings showed tech firms had lots to do to meet that new legal standard – and…
COMMENT: Are we really in a free world? Or is it just a subjective assumption. I have asked myself many times that question. Today’s interview with the Russian ambassador and his revelation that he does not have a very cordial relationship with either the Dutch media nor the government officials -such a hypocrisy they give Zelensky the voice, the screen time, and meanwhile Russia is constantly demonized. We have the useless youth on speed dial to attend any protest to victimize Hamas! How utterly stupid society has fallen?You, Mr Armstrong, are breaking all the records in my book of the…
Credit: Wikimedia Commons A Florida Republican Senator has introduced SB 56, a bill that aims to prohibit weather modification activities within the state. Introduced by Senator Ileana Garcia, this legislation targets chemical and technological methods used to manipulate weather patterns, temperature, or sunlight intensity, effectively halting a controversial practice often linked to geoengineering. What Does SB 56 Say? The bill repeals existing provisions in Florida statutes related to weather modification. It specifically prohibits the “injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of 36 a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus 37 into the atmosphere within the borders…
Kim Kardashian has clarified that she wasn’t paid for her controversial Tesla Optimus robot photoshoot.The reality TV star left fans divided last week after sharing sultry snaps of herself and a gold Tesla robot in a cybercab, with many wondering if she was paid to promote Elon Musk’s products.Kim Kardashian has already made it quite clear that she is a big fan of Tesla products, seeing as she swiftly purchased a Cybertruck upon its release and, very recently, a Tesla robot.Article continues below advertisementKim Kardashian Denies Being Paid To Take Photos With Telsa RobotIn an interview with the New York Times, Kardashian’s…