YouTube is taking another step to curb hateful and violent speech on its site. The video streaming company said it will now take down videos that lob insults at people based on race, gender expression, sexual orientation or other “protected attributes.” The Google-owned company will also prohibit veiled threats of violence, taking a step further…
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John Ilett and his colleagues were working at a fish farm off the coast of northern Vancouver Island this week when they witnessed a knock-down drag-out fight between an octopus and bald eagle and caught the battle on video. The crew was in their boat finishing up work late Monday afternoon near Quatsino, B.C., when Ilett said…
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Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the European Union’s executive Commission, laid out the details of her “European Green Deal” on Wednesday, coinciding with a U.N. summit on the climate. Calling it “Europe’s man on the moon moment,” von der Leyen presented her plan to make the EU the world’s first “climate-neutral” continent…
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.<a href=”https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@GretaThunberg</a> is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/TIMEPOY?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#TIMEPOY</a> <a href=”https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v”>https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v</a> <a href=”https://t.co/SWALBfeGl6″>pic.twitter.com/SWALBfeGl6</a> —@TIME Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address what’s being called a global climate crisis, on Wednesday was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. Thunberg, 16, was lauded by Time…
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Google says the topic that was searched the most by Canadians in 2019 was the Toronto Raptors. The team that won the 2019 NBA championship dominates Google’s lists of top trending searches in 2019, top trending Canadian news topics in 2019 and top trending Canadian moments of the decade. Kawhi Leonard, famous in part for…
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An environmental think-tank doesn’t believe the federal government will be able to turn down New Brunswick’s approach to a fuel carbon tax because it mimics what’s already been approved on P.E.I. New Brunswick is offering a decrease in provincial gas taxes to soften the impact of the federal carbon tax at the pumps. That’s similar…
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