Friday, January 20, 2023

Canada to guide peace process aimed at ending years-long fighting in Cameroon, Joly says

JOLY CLEVERLY ROM PRESSER

The federal government says Canada will guide a peace process aimed at resolving the ongoing crisis in Cameroon where years of fighting and strife have displaced nearly 800,000 people.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-cameroon-peace-process-1.6721844?cmp=rss

Elon Musk defends 2018 Tesla takeover tweet in class action trial testimony

Musk Twitter

Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive, told a jury on Friday that investors do not always react to his Twitter messages as he expects, during a trial over his 2018 interest in taking the electric carmaker private, which shareholders allege cost them millions in trading losses.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/elon-musk-tesla-trial-1.6721626?cmp=rss

Canadian killed in Ukraine remembered as 'great son' at Kyiv funeral

laying Tsekhmistrenko to rest

Family, friends and soldiers gathered in Kyiv Friday for the funeral of 28-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Grygorii Tsekhmistrenko, who was killed in action in Bakhmut while volunteering as a combat medic during the war in Ukraine.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/canadian-ukraine-killed-funeral-kyiv-1.6721356?cmp=rss

Tens of thousands of anti-abortion marchers descend on Washington

Abortion March for Life

A half century after Roe v. Wade, March for Life supporters on Friday celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court's dismantling of that constitutional right to abortion and heralded the political struggle set loose by the court's decision.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/march-for-life-abortion-washington-1.6721443?cmp=rss

Chris Hipkins set to replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand prime minister

Virua Outbreak New Zealand

New Zealand Education Minister Chris Hipkins is set to become the country's next prime minister after he was the only candidate to enter the race Saturday to replace Jacinda Ardern.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hipkins-replace-arden-nz-politics-1.6721258?cmp=rss

Movie sets changed permanently after Rust shooting, experts say as Baldwin faces charges

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Film production and firearms experts say movie sets probably changed permanently when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the remote New Mexico set of the western Rust 14 months ago.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/baldwin-charges-gun-safety-on-set-1.6720447?cmp=rss

Alphabet — Google's corporate parent — to cut 12,000 jobs

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Alphabet Inc. is eliminating about six per cent of its workforce, the company said Friday, in the latest cuts to shake the technology sector.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/alphabet-google-layoffs-1.6720322?cmp=rss

Trump fined nearly $1 million for what judge calls 'frivolous' lawsuit

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A Florida judge sanctioned former U.S. president Donald Trump and one of his attorneys Thursday, ordering them to pay nearly $1 million US for filing what he said was a bogus lawsuit against Trump's 2016 rival Hillary Clinton and others.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-trump-lawsuit-fine-1.6720343?cmp=rss