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OTTAWA – Members of Parliament have invited several top executives from BCE Inc. and Bell Canada to testify later this month about the company’s decision to cut about nine per cent of its workforce this year. The House of Commons heritage committee has agreed to invite BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic to address the cuts, which include impacts on newsrooms across the country. The committee also agreed to invite Bell Media president Sean Cohan and the parent company’s chief financial officer Curtis Millen, along with a handful of others. The Liberal motion to invite the executives on Feb. 29 was…

AUSTIN, TEXAS — A car crashed into a Texas hospital’s emergency room Tuesday, killing one person and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said. The car smashed into the ER at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center shortly after 5:30 p.m., Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services said in a Facebook post. At least one person is dead, Austin police Det. Carey Chaudoir told the Austin American-Statesman. There was no immediate word on whether the driver was among the injured. The crash appeared to be unintentional, authorities said. St. David’s North Austin Medical Center, which has a 24-hour emergency department, is…

Police have charged 13 men who allegedly engaged with young persons online and met them at a hotel in Niagara Falls for sexual services. The arrests were part of a Niagara Regional Police Service-led (NRPS) project that targeted individuals who used the internet to communicate with and meet minors they believed were offering sexual services for money. Detectives in NRPS’s human trafficking, internet child exploitation, child abuse, and domestic violence units in conjunction with the Ontario Provincial Police’s Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Led Joint Force Strategy and with the assistance of multiple police and law enforcement agencies, including OPP Border Enforcement…

ANAHUAC, TEXAS – A Black high school student’s monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination, a judge ruled on Thursday. Darryl George, 18, has not been in his regular Houston-area high school classes since Aug. 31 because the district, Barbers Hill, says the length of his hair violates its dress code. The district filed a lawsuit arguing George’s long hair, which he wears in tied and twisted locs on top of his head, violates its policy because it would fall below his shirt…

Fri, Feb 23 2024 11:05 AM ESTNavalny’s mother given ultimatum about his burial, spokeswoman saysFlowers are seen placed around portraits of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian Arctic prison, at a makeshift memorial in front of the former Russian consulate in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on February 23, 2024. – | Afp | Getty ImagesThe mother of deceased Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was told unless she agreed to a funeral without the public, he would be buried in the prison colony he was serving a sentence at, a spokesperson said Friday.Navalny’s mother was refusing…

The latest attacks in the central and southern regions occurred on the eve of a solemn commemoration ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the war and a day after a deadly attack in the eastern Donetsk region.The unchanging “harsh reality”Dennis Brown, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, voiced his condemnation on social media.”Today's attack on Ukraine is another blatant example of the Russian Federation's disregard for its obligations under international humanitarian law, a harsh reality that has not changed since the escalation of the war two years ago.” she said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). .Ukrainian authorities…

Traders and investors looking to central banks to solve the global economy's inflation problems are looking in the wrong place. Instead, we should look to the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. These systems could bring the world economy into a virtuous cycle of higher growth, employment, consumer and investment spending, while lowering inflation and interest rates. It's an ideal environment for both stocks and bonds.”The concept of a virtuous cycle, where improvement in one area drives improvement in other areas, is particularly salient,” said Patrick Huang, a business analytics professor and AI expert at the University of Iowa's Tippy…

The Boys are back. The satirical superhero series finally has a release date. It's not long before Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and his group return to continue their fight against Vought. Let's review it briefly. After the intense battle in the Season 3 finale of The Boys, the Supers are in a predicament. Vought's beloved Seven has never gone weak, in fact, only three of his members remain in active service: The Deep (Chace Crawford), A-Train (Jesse T. Usher), and of course Evil Homelander (Anthony Starr)). The boys aren't doing too well either. Butcher is on the brink of death…

The latest episode saw the candidates mingling as they immersed themselves in the world of a virtual escape room. Each group was tasked with creating a new game concept before pitching it to the experts, but for one candidate it was game over.By the end of the episode, Lord Sugar chooses to fire Dr. Asif Munaf. He follows in the footsteps of Paul Bowen and Oliver Medforth, who were fired a few weeks ago.In the next episode, the candidates take on the series' first shopping task, with teams trying to spend the least amount of money.More like thisWant to know…

The poster shows Anthony Starr's Homelander posing triumphantly alongside Claudia Dumit's Victoria Newman in the midst of a presidential election, which means trouble for our heroes.There's still time to wait for more super action, but we've got an epic trailer to get you through it.In the next election, they catch up with our super camp, but the vice presidential candidate, Newman, is being defeated by Homelander, and things don't look good. Meanwhile, Butcher (Karl Urban) meets a mysterious new character played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan.More like thisWe're also expecting some crossovers after the end of Generation V Season 1, which…