Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Meat company JBS confirms it paid $11M US ransom in cyberattack

JBS PRICE PROBE

The JBS Canada beef processing facility in Alberta has resumed production after a cyberattack that impacted the company's operations in North America and Australia.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/jbs-canada-cyberattack-1.6060121?cmp=rss

Biden says he wants to 'confront' China. Is Trudeau willing to go along?

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There has been much talk lately of a new "D-10" group of nations emerging from the G7 summit in Cornwall, England. This would include the existing G7 nations, India, Australia and South Korea in an explicitly democratic alliance to counter Chinese aggression and expansionism. Canada will face pressure to join.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/g7-trudeau-biden-johnson-china-xi-1.6059816?cmp=rss

Building collapse leaves at least 11 dead, 7 injured in Mumbai

A waterlogged road in Mumbai, India

A dilapidated three-storey building collapsed following heavy monsoon rains in the western Indian city of Mumbai, killing at least 11 people and injuring seven others, police said Thursday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-mumbai-monsoon-rains-building-collapse-1.6060085?cmp=rss

Turning waste into works of art for G7 leaders

Turning waste into works of art for G7 leaders

Artists Joe Rush and Alex Wreckage sent an artistic message to the leaders of the upcoming G7 summit. Dubbed 'Mount Recyclemore' in Hayle, England, the artists took piles of electronic waste and fashioned them into massive sculptures of the leaders' faces, one after the other.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/turning-waste-into-works-of-art-for-g7-leaders-1.6060053?cmp=rss

Groups founded by Putin-critic Alexei Navalny declared 'extremist,' outlawed by Moscow court

Russia Navalny

A Moscow court on Wednesday outlawed organizations founded by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny by labelling them extremist, the latest move in a campaign by authorities to silence dissent and bar Kremlin critics from running for parliament in September.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/navalny-opposition-group-outlawed-1.6059587?cmp=rss

El Salvador becomes the 1st country to approve Bitcoin as legal tender

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El Salvador's legislative assembly has approved legislation making the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender in the country, the first country to do so, just days after President Nayib Bukele made the proposal at a Bitcoin conference.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/el-salvador-bitcoin-law-1.6058924?cmp=rss

NASA's Juno spacecraft snaps rare close-ups of Jupiter's biggest moon

Space Jupiter Jumbo Moon

NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided the first close-ups of Jupiter's largest moon in two decades.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/juno-ganymede-1.6058765?cmp=rss

Many of the U.S. uber-rich pay next to no income tax, ProPublica reports

ProPublica Undertaxed Billionaires

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos paid no income tax in 2007 and 2011. Tesla co-founder Elon Musk's income tax bill was zero in 2018. And financier George Soros went three straight years without paying federal income tax, according to a report from the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/propublica-rich-americans-tax-1.6058757?cmp=rss

Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Wednesday

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European Union lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed a new travel certificate that will allow people to move between European countries without having to quarantine or undergo extra coronavirus tests, paving the way for the pass to start in time for summer.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-june9-2021-1.6058728?cmp=rss

Why the Pope's lack of apology over church's role in residential schools was no surprise to Vatican observers

Vatican Pope

Vatican observers were far from surprised after Pope Francis stopped short on Sunday of a formal or full apology for the Catholic Church's role in operating many residential schools in Canada.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-residential-schools-vatican-observers-1.6057873?cmp=rss

Politics, nationalism hamper global COVID-19 vaccination efforts

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Uneven distribution of vaccines worldwide is raising concerns about potential new variants, while fuelling economic problems and unrest.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/global-vaccine-supply-1.6056550?cmp=rss

Toddler who washed up on Norwegian island is identified as young Iranian boy

Migration Norway Drowned Boy

The body of a toddler that washed ashore on Norway's southwest coast on Jan. 1 has been identified. It's a missing 15-month-old Iranian boy who died months earlier in the English Channel hundreds of miles away when the smuggling boat carrying him, his parents and siblings capsized, Norwegian police said.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/toddler-who-washed-up-on-norwegian-island-is-identified-as-young-iranian-boy-1.6058709?cmp=rss