"With the Heat, Damian Lillard joins a team that's made the Finals twice in the last 4 seasons. They're hoping he's the missing piece to go the distance." NBA 2K24 commentators apparently have Dame as a member of the Miami Heat 🤣(via @Dame_Carrying)pic.twitter.com/3MojYhKPXd— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) September 9, 2023

A miniature model called “Red Leader”, a X-wing starfighter from the 1977 film, Star War, Episode IV, A New Hope, sits on display at Heritage Auctions, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2023, in Irving, Texas. Thousands of those items, including those Jein collected and those he created, will be offered up by Heritage Auctions next month in Dallas. The collection amassed by Jein, who died last year at age 76, will be offered up by Heritage Auctions next month in Dallas. But a small preliminary model, which is about 5 inches (12 centimeters) long, is among Jein’s creations that will be offered at the auction. Chang said Jein loved his work and also had a passion to learn about a wide array of topics.

A former President of the American Republic is indicted on criminal charges in Georgia. Is this j’accuse tempest a sign of the imminent fall of the American Republic? Toward the end of the Roman Republic, the city was rife with “social war.” Rapid imperial expansion strained every aspect of the Roman system. This brings us to the courtroom drama’s already discussed, signs of a moral crisis besetting the American Republic, according to Cicero’s analysis. Will some new form of socialism play the role of Christianity in the early days of the transition from the American Republic to the Empire?

The prescience of the experts I spoke with as early as 1989 for It’s a Matter of Survival is astounding. Had we taken their warnings seriously we might have avoided the terrible consequences they accurately predicted. They didn’t hold back, especially as the global response to the crisis is not nearly enough to meet the challenge. Warnings from scientists and Indigenous Peoples aren’t new. Experts working with organizations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the International Energy Agency tell us we must curtail rampant consumerism, leave fossil fuels behind and shift quickly to renewable energy.

CHFI-FM tops the list for F18-34 with a 22.1% share, followed by boom 97.3 with 10.9%. Vancouver: 980 CKNW grabs the #1 spot for A12+ with a 14.5% share of hours tuned (up from 12.5%). Radio holds top spot for F25-54, delivering a 16.9% share (down from 18.2%). Radio also tops the list for M25-54 with an 11.1% share, followed by 100.3 The Bear and K97, both at 10.3%. 90.3 AMP Radio is popular with women, taking #1 spot for F25-54, delivering a 12.3% share.

QUAQTAQ—The site on the outskirts of this Nunavik community is imposing: bulldozers, containers and crushers stand next to piles of crushed rock, some measuring several people high. In Nunavik, gravel plays a crucial role in construction, serving as the foundation for everything from runways and roads to residential homes and office buildings. Community forges solutionTuvaaluk is among the 14 distinct landholding corporations established in Nunavik as part of the James Bay Northern Quebec Agreement. In response to the gravel shortage, the Tuvaaluk Landholding Corporation, partnered with Makivvik Corporation, the organization that represents Inuit in Nunavik, to start crushing rock in 2021 to meet Quaqtaq’s needs. “But we’re crushing rock for future development and our future is improving.”The Quaqtaq aggregate project is scheduled to continue until either 2024 or 2025.

2023 Victoria Book Prize Finalists AnnouncedThe Victoria Book Prize Society is pleased to announce the shortlists for the 2023 City of Victoria Book Prize and City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize, featuring an assortment of books for readers of all ages and interests. The $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, now in its 20th year, is awarded to a Greater Victoria author for the best book published in the categories of fiction, non-fiction or poetry. Founded in 2004, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize is a partnership between the City of Victoria and Brian Butler of Butler Brothers Supplies. The City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize recognizes and celebrates exceptional children’s and youth literature in our community. The Victoria Book Prize Society establishes policy and criteria for the prizes, administers the competition and appoints the juries.

September 7, 2023 —Dr. Dr. Ganesh Srinivasan, Pediatrics & Child Health, Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba spoke with CBC Manitoba about how new research using Ai and an app is helping parents/caregivers to understand the different types of cries babies make. Listen here

COVID-19 screening and mandatory masking requirements for entry to hospitals will end on Sunday. (Robert Short/CBC - image credit)Nova Scotia Health will remove COVID-19 screeners from the entrances to its facilities starting Sunday, according to a release from the authority. Speaking to CBC Radio's Information Morning Cape Breton on Thursday, Angela Keenan, senior director of the Emerging and Reemerging Infections Network with Nova Scotia Health, said the move follows "multi-layered" discussions at all levels of the health-care system. Angela Keenan says the Nova Scotia Health Authority had to plan for a worst-case scenario of entire departments being shut down if employees got sick. Story continuesPeople with COVID-19 symptoms will still be required to wear a mask when entering a Nova Scotia Health facility, it said.

At its high point, I saw approximately 30-35 Canadore students and representatives from an advocacy group. In 2017-18, Canadore College in North Bay, Ont., made $12.25 million in tuition revenue from domestic students and $41.3 million from international students. In 2022-23, domestic tuition revenue rose to $14.5 million and international tuition skyrocketed to $131.5 million. The quota is a maximum of two times the number of international students enrolled at the public college's home campus. North Bay-based Canadore College's private partner had 8.8 times the number of international students as the college itself; at Northern College in Timmins, Ont., the ratio was 8.6.

In one major incident (new window) in June, a Chinese navy ship overtook a U.S. navy ship, then turned hard to cut it off, forcing the Americans to take evasive action in the disputed Taiwan Strait. Enlarge image (new window) Tensions are high aboard HMCS Ottawa, as China asserts itself in the waters off Japan. But the Chinese ship remained so close to the group that it is featured in the image. As the various ships departed for their next tasks, the Chinese slipped behind the Canadian ships. Another PLA Navy ship, a Jiangkai frigate, has been, at times, following the Canadian ships just out of visual range.

That used to be sufficient to allow IRCC to finish processing their citizenship applications. But delays for processing citizenship for adopted kids are now running close to two years, well past the expiry of temporary visas. That is leaving parents scrambling to get extensions and the children ineligible for basic social programs. Hanniman said he isn’t looking forward to dealing with IRCC when it finally gets around to processing Aleksandar’s paperwork. Processing delays and red tape have become a common complaint for those dealing with Canada’s immigration bureaucracy.

FILE - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady gestures during a promotional event, June 22, 2017, in Tokyo. Brady is putting on a Delta Air Lines uniform, at least figuratively. Delta said Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, that it has agreed to bring the former star quarterback on board as a long-term strategic adviser. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)Delta Air Lines says it’s bringing former star quarterback Tom Brady on board as a “long-term strategic adviser.”Brady is a seven-time Super Bowl winner for the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brady said he and NFL teammates flew on Delta many times, “even celebrating Super Bowl wins on the plane,” and has “loved and respected” the airline for years.

Ticket fraud is proving to be salt in the wound for Taylor Swift fans who weren't able to get tickets to the international superstar's few Canadian tour dates. (George Walker IV/The Associated Press - image credit)The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) is advising Taylor Swift fans to beware of ticket resale scams after several Swifties in Ottawa recently found themselves with blank spaces in their bank accounts. In August, Taylor Swift announced six live performances in Toronto in November 2024 as part of her Eras Tour. Ticketmaster, the company responsible for the sale of all original Eras Tour tickets, offers a few methods of secured transfer. Ticketmaster, which is selling all legitimate Eras Tour tickets, offers several ways to ensure online purchases are made safely.

“It just takes strong partnerships between the communities and other parties to make these solutions possible.”The majority of internet across Canada’s Arctic is satellite-based. The idea for the project in Ulukhaktok goes back to 2019 when the community decided to partner with The Internet Society, an international non-profit that works to improve internet access and accessibility, and also has a special focus on underserved communities. Faster and cheaper optionThe Internet Society gave training on setting up a community driven network that was independent of a traditional internet provider. In the end, Ulukhaktok decided on using a hamlet Starlink connection—funded by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation— as the backhaul for their community network. “Only those who had like Starlink accounts in the Hay River could have any kind of internet access,” she said.