A retired teacher is facing eight criminal charges in connection to sexual assaults and other offences committed against four primary school students in Nobleton more than 40 years ago. Source: CP24 Continue reading Retired York Region teacher charged in sexual assault investigation dating back 40+ years
A court filing on Tuesday shed new light on the effect of the city jail system’s staffing crisis on health care, with missed appointments leading to severe health consequences. Source: New York Times Continue reading Medical Care at Rikers Is Delayed for Thousands, Records Show
Image: Coachella Coachella is selling lifetime festival passes for the first time — but you have to buy an NFT to get one. The music festival today launched an NFT marketplace built by FTX, with three collections of NFTs going … Continue reading Coachella will sell lifetime festival passes as NFTs
Rising pressure on big business to address the threat of climate change by decarbonizing their ops has, in recent years, led to huge demand for carbon offset schemes — enabling companies to buy carbon credits to ‘offset’ emissions so they … Continue reading Can carbon credits for improving forests help save them — and us — from climate change?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday he has no interest in entering a potential Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leadership race in the event that current leader Erin O’Toole is booted out. Source: CP24 Continue reading Doug Ford says he has no interest in seeking federal Conservative leadership
Solar panels sit on the roof of Google headquarters in Mountain View. | Photo by Kimberly White/Corbis via Getty Images Tech companies drove a surge in corporate purchases of clean energy last year, according to a new analysis by BloombergNEF. … Continue reading Big Tech drove record clean energy purchases in 2021
The company could ask as soon as Tuesday for authorization of a two-dose regimen of its Covid vaccine for children under 5. Here’s the latest on the virus. Source: New York Times Continue reading Pfizer Expected to Ask F.D.A. to Authorize Vaccine for Young Children
Cruise is opening up its driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco as the GM subsidiary creeps towards commercialization with a fresh $1.35 billion investment from Softbank Bank Vision Fund. Softbank had previously committed to investing an additional … Continue reading Cruise, loaded with another $1.35B from Softbank, opens up driverless ride-hailing to the public
Street Fighter meets Drag Race, now on Kickstarter You might not assume there’s a huge overlap between drag and fighting games. One involves dressing up to express extreme caricatures of gender expectations that’s associated with LGBTQ+ culture; the other involves … Continue reading Drag Her brings drag culture to fighting games
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google search results for domestic violence-related topics now show a box with contact information for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, the tech giant and the hotline announced today. Searching terms like “domestic violence” … Continue reading Google adds National Domestic Violence Hotline to search results
