“If you haven’t heard Dr. Harper testify, she does a wonderful job. She knows her stuff,” Allard, who is also the head of the county attorney’s child abuse team, said at the summit. “We just barely try to keep up understanding what she’s talking about. So we just kind of let her go.”

When someone is given absolute power they become absolutely corrupted by that power.

Dr. Harper needs to stop believing she’s incapable of making mistakes.

Canadian mining companies have a shitty track record when they operate outside of Canada. I hope Orla gets nailed to the wall.

Daddy’s gonna bring out the strap.

NBC has live updates.

The two people who died in the Cour d’Alene shooting are both firefighters, said Edward Kelly, the president of the International Association of Firefighters.

A third firefighter is in surgery, Kelly said. “Two of our brothers were killed by a sniper, and a third brother remains in surgery,” he wrote on X.

The condition of the third firefighter and the nature of his injuries were not immediately clear.

The union president said the firefighters were “ambushed in a heinous act of violence.”

“It is extremely distressing that many of the ministers haven’t read the report,” NDP caucus chair Susan Leblanc told reporters. “The report should be public, full stop.”

Taxpayers paid for the report so should have unfettered access to it.

I agree what happened is a travesty but here’s the thing that gets me most … it’s an unregulated business, so the onus is on the state to get their act together and make the rules.

I can’t think of one Republican who should stay in office. The whole party should be disavowed and disbanded.

You can blame whoever you want, but the real blame comes down to one simple thing. Religion.

Gov’ts stood against the mixing of church and state for years, so blaming religion alone neglects the whole story.

In reality it was politicians and gov’t pandering to the Moral Majority and Tea Party that set America on this particular road to hell.

One of the studies included in the new review found 1 liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters bought at the store — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics, of which 90% were identified as nanoplastics and the rest were microplastics.

Sounds like plastic bottle manufacturers aren’t rinsing their product before the get shipped and filled.

It’s more than just take-out packaging.

Ripping the plastic wrap from the meat or prepackaged fruit and veggies you purchased at the grocery store may contaminate your food with micro- and nanoplastics, according to new research.

Plastic contamination may also occur when you’re unwrapping deli meat and cheese, steeping a tea bag in hot water, or opening cartons of milk or orange juice. Glass bottles and jars with a plastic-coated metal closure may also shed microscopic bits of plastic, the study found.

Every nation in the world should embargo Israel. Give it 6 months and I bet they change their murderous tune.

Current Officers Adam Sutherland, Nathaniel Holt and Sarah Hannah, as well as former Nelson officers Jason Anstey and Robert Armstrong all say in affidavits filed in B.C. Supreme Court that they “considered that the WhatsApp group was private and would remain private.”

Dunno if that’s supposed to be an excuse or reason, but either way it’s bs.

As always, ACAB.

And don’t forget that every province refused to sign an agreement that locked the extra billions they received from Trudeau’s gov’t to only be spent on healthcare.

Honestly, any problems a province is having is their own fault.

He’s gonna get slaughtered and will say the election was rigged.

Always gotta have a backup plan to excuse stupidity.

I did a quick search on Peter Gilgan (CEO of Mattamy) to see if he’s one of Drug Fraud’s ‘close friends’ and can’t find anything.

Hopefully this works out and doesn’t turn into a Fraud fiasco.

“I’m both” is the only acceptable answer.

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Just gotta give kudos to all the media photographers who are taking pics of Trump when he’s got some seriously stupid facial expressions. If nothing else it makes me smile at the dumb chucklefuck.

Dude’s only unhappy he got caught.

The majority of Albertans aren’t separatists — with one recent poll indicating 67 per cent disagree with the statement “Alberta would be better off if it separated from Canada.”

But Smith is not worried about the majority. She is worried about the 30 per cent who agreed with the statement and especially the 18 per cent who voted for the Republican Party on Monday. This is Smith’s Conservative base, including the people Jason Kenney called the “lunatics” who helped topple him from the premier’s throne in 2022 and replace him with Smith.

Alberta has a little over 2 years to wait before they can oust this traitor.