It seems that a lot of people are worried that Canada's Online News Act (Bill C-18), which went into effect in June, will make it more difficult for Canadians to find out what is going on in the world.
But the truth is, if Meta, Google, and other big players prevent you from reading content produced by Canadian news agencies, in almost all cases the tech firms will be doing you a huge favour.
In recent years,...
Thousands of people have been evacuated and government offices have been closed as a super typhoon bashes the eastern islands of the Philippines.
Typhoon Noru has caused gusts of up to 240 km/h on the main island Luzon, where more than half of the country's 110 million population lives.
Forecasters say the storm experienced an "explosive intensification" as it made landfall west of Luzon.
The storm could cause landslides, flash flooding, and dangerous storm surges.
More than 8,400...
On May 13, the Supreme Court of Canada acquitted Matthew Winston Brown of aggravated assault on professor Janet Hamnett while reportedly intoxicated with hallucinogen “magic mushrooms” and alcohol, striking Section 33.1 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which prevents self-induced intoxication from being used as a defence in assault cases.This section of the Criminal Code was created with the purpose of protecting individuals – particularly women and children – from violent crimes at the hands of intoxicated individuals, and...
Iran's president has promised to take revenge after a colonel in the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) was shot dead in Tehran on Sunday, the BBC reports.
Two gunmen on a motorbike opened fire at Sayad Khodai as he sat in a car outside his home, state media reported.
Col Khodai was a member of the elite Quds Force, the IRGC's shadowy overseas operations arm, they said.
President Ebrahim Raisi blamed "the hands of global arrogance" –...
France President Emmanuel Macron is firing up his campaign for re-election, directly taking on far-right rival Marine Le Pen in France's presidential run-off.
He made his first trip to a Le Pen stronghold at Denain, one of France's poorest towns in the industrial north.
Macron won the first round of the election, but opinion polls suggest the second round will be a close race on April 24.
"Make no mistake: nothing is decided," he told supporters after the...
Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, helps to "open up" depressed people's brains, even after use, enabling brain regions to talk more freely to one another.
These are the findings of a new analysis of brain scans from close to 60 people receiving treatment for depression, led by Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research. The team behind the study believes it may have untangled how psilocybin exerts its therapeutic effects on the brain.
Psilocybin is one of a number...
A BBC investigation has found that women's intimate pictures are being shared to harass, shame, and blackmail them on a massive scale, on the social media app Telegram, the BBC reports.
In the split second Sara found out a nude photo of her had been leaked and shared on Telegram, her life changed. Her Instagram and Facebook profiles had been added, and her phone number included. Suddenly she was being contacted by unknown men asking...
Children are often delighted to find that they can ask Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa to play their favourite songs or call Grandma. But does hanging out with Alexa or Siri affect the way children communicate with fellow humans? Probably not, according to a recent study led by the University of Washington that found that children are sensitive to context when it comes to these conversations. The team had a conversational agent teach 22 children...
The weirdness that is Burning Man in Nevada's Black Rock Desert was not to be in 2020 and possibly 2021, but the organizers, Burning Man Project (BMP), say they plan to create something even more immense called Fly Ranch. On 3,800 acres just north of the Burning Man site, BMP proposes build infrastructure for global sustainable solutions. Projects within Fly Ranch are to include Solar Mountain, SEE symbiotic coevolution and the Ripple bioceramic dome....
At least one financial expert feels that FOMO -- fear of missing out - is at the heart of Bitcoin's mind-boggling climb to $1 trillion in market value this week. Bitcoin has increased in value by $415 billion in 2021 alone, says Bloomberg. Market analysts note that major investments by companies such as Tesla and MicroStrategy could soon produce bubble market conditions.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bitcoin-hits-us-1-trillion-value-as-crypto-jump-tops-other-assets-1.1565700
