April 04, 2019 / By mobanmarket
Pope Francis wrapped up a landmark Vatican summit on clerical sex abuse on Sunday pledging to bring the “wrath of God” upon clergy who abuse children, and likening paedophilia to "human sacrifice". “We must deliver justice to whoever did this and never try to cover up any case,” Pope Francis told the 190 cardinals, bishops […]
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OTTAWA — Internet advocacy groups say they’re unhappy Canada’s telecoms regulator has halved the minimum speed that projects need to meet for a $750-million fund designed to make broadband internet more accessible. The CRTC said in its policy release Thursday it changed the target so more projects would be eligible for the fund, since challenges […]
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Most celebs adhered to last night’s Met Gala 2018 theme “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” by sporting crosses, or references to the Virgin Mary and works of art displayed in the Sistine Chapel. Rihanna even held court as a bedazzled bishop. But Lena Waithe went a different — and arguably much more powerful […]
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Click:hong kong web development If this Sunday’s Oscars speeches are a little more bizarre than usual it may have something to do with what was in the nominees’ $100,000 gift bags. The legendary goodie bags, distributed to the 25 nominees in acting and directing, will include hand-made chocolate truffles infused with cannabis. California recently legalised […]
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OTTAWA — A newly released federal analysis says younger, middle-income households will feel the biggest impacts from the Bank of Canada’s gradual move towards higher interest rates. The briefing note prepared for Finance Minister Bill Morneau examines the types of households — by income, age and region — most affected by the central bank’s rate-hiking […]
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Guinea pigs are cute, but newborn guinea pigs swaddled à la Anne Geddes? It’s almost too much. Dawson Creek, B.C. photographer Denise Urness warmed the Internet’s collective heart this past week when she posted these stylized shots of newborn piggies Penelope, Luigi and Dice wrapped in blankets with flowers on their heads. She specializes in […]
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A former New York Times executive editor has been accused of plagiarism in a new book looking at how journalism has evolved over the last decade. Jill Abramson, whose book Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts was published this week, has denied claims of plagiarism but promised to "review […]
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The women behind the slowly growing number of ride-hailing apps catering to female passengers and drivers say the hurdles they’ve had to overcome to get their services on the road demonstrate exactly why they’re necessary in the first place. Women from Halifax to Vancouver Island have tried to launch female-only alternatives to services such as […]
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A group of unidentified men entered North Korea’s embassy in Madrid last Friday, bound and gagged staff, and drove off four hours later with computers, according to a report broadly confirmed on Wednesday by a foreign ministry source. Spanish police are investigating the mysterious incident, in which intruders are reported to have held staff hostage and stolen computers possibly containing sensitive […]
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TORONTO — A class-action lawsuit has been proposed in Canada against Facebook following a security breach that put the accounts of tens of millions of users at risk. The social media company announced last week that about 50 million user accounts worldwide had been accessed by hackers, with another 40 million left vulnerable during the […]
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