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08 Dec 05:28

Jazzy 'Charlie Brown Christmas' swings on after 57 years

by The Associated Press
The Mendelson family would love to find the envelope where their father, Lee, scribbled some lyrics to jazz musician Vince Guaraldi's composition "Christmas Time is Here" for an animated TV special featuring the "Peanuts" gang in 1965.
12 Aug 03:45

New study reveals why intense thinking can be as tiring as physical labour

by Rhythm Sachdeva
Metalgod2099

Only figuring that out now?

A new study has shown how prolonged intense thinking can cause mental exhaustion.
09 Aug 19:45

Estonia, Finland want Europe to end Russian tourist visas

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

Fuck Russia and Putin

The leaders of Estonia and Finland want fellow European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens, saying they should not be able to take vacations in Europe while the government of Russia carries out a war in Ukraine.
09 Aug 19:43

Pandemic fuels sports biking boom in cycling nation China

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

Fuck china

Bicycles have long been a means of transport in China and once outnumbered cars on city streets. Now cycling is increasingly also seen as a sport by an urban middle class that has benefited from China's growth into the world's second largest economy.
28 Jun 19:36

Mini satellite launches into space testing new orbit between Earth and the moon

by CNN
The miniscule satellite, called a CubeSat, is about the size of a microwave oven and weighs just 55 pounds (25 kilograms), but it will be the first to test out a unique, elliptical lunar orbit.
11 Apr 02:06

Queen chats with COVID-19 patients, nurses at U.K. hospital

by The Associated Press
Queen Elizabeth II, after her own recent bout with COVID-19, empathized with patients, doctors and nurses at a London hospital last week as she listened to their stories about life on the front lines of the pandemic.
30 Nov 12:15

Widow alleges Toronto company duped her dying husband into selling their home

by Nicole Brockbank
Metalgod2099

That is reverse mortgage that being plastered all over tv and media. A scam by big lending and banks.

Cathrene Coombes

A Kitchener, Ont., widow is suing to get her house back after two companies and their directors allegedly duped her and her dying husband into selling their house for under market value — by telling them they could live there rent free for the rest of their lives.

21 Oct 02:44

After years of war in Kandahar, Taliban leaders now seek aid from former enemies

by Susan Ormiston
Metalgod2099

F****** Afghanistan and f*** the Taliban all the way to hell

Abdul Ghafar Mohammadi

Two months after the Taliban swept into Kandahar — part of its march toward the ultimate collapse of Afghanistan — CBC News went back to the southern region where Canadians had fought and died.

09 Aug 20:16

American Airlines truly annoyed passengers. Then it made things worse

by Chris Matyszczyk
When your systems are said to be melting down, it's best not to overhype tech you think customers will like. Especially if it isn't all that, after all.
29 Jul 19:56

TechScape: Facebook’s biggest problem? Mark Zuckerberg

by Alex Hern
Metalgod2099

Sooner Facebook gets rid of Zuckerberg the better Facebook will be

What makes Facebook Facebook? I’m not talking about the technology here, or the app, but the company itself: why is Facebook so scandal-prone, so controversial, and so aggressive? That was the question I had going in to An Ugly Truth, a new book from the New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and …
29 Jul 19:52

'A recipe for disaster': Retail council warns of furniture shortages amid factory outbreaks, tariffs

by Brooklyn Neustaeter
Metalgod2099

Most of the furniture coming from those countries are crap cheaply made crap maybe start making some quality furniture out of real material that's strong that will last and not the crap that's been being sold in these furniture stores

The Retail Council of Canada is warning that disruptions to furniture factories in Vietnam due to COVID-19, coupled with steep import tariffs, may cause furniture shortages in Canada.
29 Jul 19:21

England scraps quarantine for fully vaccinated visitors from U.S., but not Canada

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

This just shows that the US and the England or the United Kingdom just don't give Canada the respected deserves.

Fully vaccinated travelers from the United States and much of Europe will be able to enter England without quarantining starting next week, the U.K. government said Wednesday, a move welcomed by Britain's ailing travel industry.
25 Jun 18:35

Hyperloop feasibility study forecasts project generating 140,000 jobs in Alberta

by Lucie Edwardson
Metalgod2099

Metalgod2099
This country can't even keep the roads in in tip top shape or trains on tracks they really expect to keep a hyperloop in safe condition and what about tornadoes that thing would get ripped down by a wind in Saskatchewan or Alberta in a heartbeat they should leave this in science fiction it's not realistic , or safe and it's pure fantasy. A derail of that hyperloop and crazy speeds would cause allot of deaths..

TransPod Hyperloop

Canadian hyperloop company TransPod has completed a feasibility study of the implementation of an ultra-high-speed transportation line between Calgary and Edmonton. The company says it expects to have private funding secured for the first portion of the line by the end of the year.

14 Jun 23:59

Maj.-Gen. Fortin files legal challenge, claims political meddling in his dismissal from vaccine rollout

by Ashley Burke
Metalgod2099

All of these men in cdn military should challenge this stupid sexual misconduct charges. What exactly is this anyway. Military is hard job, the weak should not be in the service. And no special treatment should be allowed.

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Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin is challenging the federal government's decision to publicly terminate his secondment to lead Canada's vaccine rollout, arguing the process was unfair and tainted by politics.

06 Jun 00:43

Major G7 tax agreement only first step toward global deal: Freeland

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

Hopefully countries like Ireland will get the message. Harboring rich companies that don't pay any taxes

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Canada's finance minister says a deal reached by G7 countries on establishing a minimum corporate tax and taxing the profits of major multinationals will help end "jurisdiction shopping." Canada is still planning to implement its own digital services tax, as conversation shifts to broader forums, she says.

01 May 00:16

Prosecutors seek higher sentence for Chauvin in Floyd death

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

Cops that kill people who haven't committed a violent crime should go to jail and spend the rest of their life in jail no parole. And that means all of them.

Prosecutors are asking a judge to give Derek Chauvin a more severe penalty than state guidelines call for when he is sentenced in June for George Floyd's death, arguing in court documents filed Friday that Floyd was particularly vulnerable and that Chauvin abused his authority as a police officer.
07 Mar 03:20

Trump says he'll campaign against Murkowski in Alaska next year

by CNN
Metalgod2099

Does he not have tobe citizen of the places he runs?

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he plans to campaign against GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska next year when she's up for re-election, intensifying his pledges to oppose GOP lawmakers who have bucked him.
04 Mar 00:07

Watchdog clears RCMP officers who shot at N.S. firehall during mass shootings

by Elizabeth McMillan
Metalgod2099

Bullshit, they were not returning fire, were blindly shooting at firehall.people were sheltered. Scared morons

RCMP officer at Onslow fire hall

Nova Scotia's police watchdog has cleared the two RCMP officers who shot at a fire hall in Onslow, N.S., during the hunt for an active gunman last April, saying the Mounties had reasonable grounds to believe a man outside the hall, which was being used as a shelter, was the killer. 

22 Feb 02:41

New version of Microsoft Office won't require you to pay for a subscription

by Alison DeNisco Rayome
Metalgod2099

Woopty shit

Don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365? Don't worry: Consumers and small businesses will be able to buy a one-time purchase Office 2021 package later this year.
22 Feb 02:38

Facebook news ban is “arrogant,” Australia will not be “intimidated,” PM says

by Kate Cox
Metalgod2099

Everybody in australia should disable there facebook accounts. send a fu to fb

Deploying a blunt instrument on a whole nation is going just as well as you'd guess. A long-simmering battle between tech firms and the government of …
22 Feb 02:35

It will ‘annoy a huge group of the population’: How Australians have responded to Facebook’s news ban

by Sam Shead
Metalgod2099

Other countries should the same including Canada fuck facebook

Facebook users in Australia are slowly coming to terms with the fact that they'll no longer be able to get their daily news updates on the …
09 Feb 01:37

Your Heart Won't Want to Go on Watching This Creepy Robot Impersonate Celine Dion

by Andrew Liszewski
Metalgod2099

That does not look like her at all, maybe some other female actor.

Thanks to companies like Boston Dynamics, we now have robots that can climb stairs, run parkour, and even perform backflips. But dragging robots out of the uncanny valley and making automatons indistinguishable from humans is going to be an infinitely more challenging feat if Cleo, a robot engineered with human-like

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08 Feb 18:38

MIT researchers created a system that prints functional drones and robots

by Kris Holt
Metalgod2099

Wow very cool

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created a system that can build fully functional drones, robots and other electronic devices by itself. As the name suggests, LaserFactory is built around a l...
07 Feb 09:55

Netflix’s Space Sweepers is a live-action riff on Cowboy Bebop

by Kambole Campbell
Netflix

South Korea’s first space blockbuster is an action-packed, jazzy found-family story

Continue reading…

07 Feb 05:44

Sad QAnon Followers Are at a Precarious Pivot Point

by Jen Golbeck
Metalgod2099

Stupid people don't deserve a 2nd chance.besides .nobody in usa thinks that assaulting the capital us any big issue.

Disillusioned after Biden was sworn in, conspiracy theorists could now be swayed back to reality by conservatives and family members—or toward darker …
07 Feb 05:40

Police: Man shot, killed after 'prank' robbery for video

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

Wow that's stupid, a prank robbery for y tube ,how would anyone know
I country were every one has a guns dam stupid.

Police in Tennessee are investigating after a man was shot and killed Friday night during a robbery "prank" for a YouTube video.
07 Feb 05:35

MPs call to relocate 2022 Beijing Games over China's reported abuses of Uighur minority

by Raisa Patel
Metalgod2099

And risk of them detaing kidnaping people, all countries should not go if in china let china, Russia and iran have there own olympics. Screw them all.

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Thirteen MPs from all five federal parties in Canada have signed a letter urging the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to another country over reported human rights abuses of China’s Uighur minority.

05 Feb 07:37

U.S.-Canadian man detained in Russia is sick and unable to reach embassy, brother says

by CNN
Metalgod2099

Why do people keep going to Russia?

Paul Whelan, an American and Canadian citizen who has been detained in Russia for more than two years, is sick and has struggled to reach the U.S. Embassy, his brother says.
05 Feb 07:34

Doctors fear an impending wave of cancer patients after COVID-19 delays

by The Canadian Press
Metalgod2099

That's very sad to hear that,but expected.

While the prospect of mass vaccination has raised hopes of the COVID-19 crisis soon waning, oncologists and cancer researchers say one of its grim legacies may be a lingering increase in cancer mortality rates.
05 Feb 07:33

'Black history is Canadian history': Why activists say Canadian Black history should be taught 365 days a year

by Marin Scotten
Metalgod2099

Black history in Canada is very small and should only be a foot notein history compared to the native american are main source history in Canada.

Canadian Black history should be taught and celebrated year-round, not just in February, activists and scholars say.