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Baker Mayfield mocks Tommy DeVito's celebration as the Bucs embarrass the Giants 30-7OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday called violent protests that took place outside a NATO meeting days prior “absolutely unacceptable” and said he expects the perpetrators to face consequences. “As a democracy, as a country that will always defend freedom of speech, it’s important for people to be able to go out and protest and express their anger, their disagreements in free and comfortable ways. But there is never any room for antisemitism, for hatred, discrimination, for violence,” said Trudeau addressing the NATO Parliamentary Assembly that has been meeting in the city, prompting applause from the room. “We expect all those responsible to be pursued and punished under the full extent of the law, and we expect the authorities to do their work.” Montreal police have already arrested three people and are expected to arrest some more following an anti-NATO and anti-Israel demonstration that began late Friday afternoon, which included torching cars and smashing building windows. The pictures that circulated heavily on social media showed “Free Palestine” chants, smoke bombs and masked protesters. The protest was organized by the groups Divest for Palestine and the Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles, although it’s unclear who was responsible for the criminal acts. A police spokesperson said the demonstrators were completely dispersed at around 7 p.m. Speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum this weekend, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Defence Minister Bill Blair condemned Friday’s demonstration. “The fact that there was violence in the streets of my hometown was completely unacceptable. What we saw was not peaceful protest. What we saw was actually violence, hate and antisemitism, and this has no place on our streets,” said Joly. “Of course, we believe in freedom of speech, we believe in the freedom to demonstrate but where we draw the line is when there’s violence.” Blair, a former police chief, said “this was nothing like lawful, peaceful protest” and said there was “anarchy” in the streets of Montreal. “I believe that lawful, peaceful protest can be coopted by anarchists who have other agendas. Those agendas were quite apparent by the activities of that mob yesterday and those behaviours were unacceptable and we condemn them — and particularly the hate and antisemitism that was on display in the strongest possible terms.” Friday’s protests followed another demonstration on Thursday which saw Mai Abdulhadi, a Second Cup franchise owner at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, allegedly giving the Nazi salute and shouting “the final solution is coming” — a phrase associated with Nazi Germany’s plan to exterminate Jews. Second Cup announced the termination of the franchisee on Saturday . Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre placed responsibility on the violence in the streets of Montreal on Trudeau and lambasted him for being at a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto with his family the same evening protesters were breaking windows and burning cars. “We are reaping what you sowed,” wrote Poilievre on X in response to Trudeau’s statement. “This is what happens when a Prime Minister spends 9 years pushing toxic woke identity politics, dividing and subdividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion, region, age, wealth, etc.” — With files from Montreal Gazette and The Canadian Press. National Post calevesque@postmedia.com Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our politics newsletter, First Reading, here .
Is ‘Glicked’ the new ‘Barbenheimer’? ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ collide in theatersTORONTO - Utah’s NHL team was forced to walk to their game against the Maple Leafs after their bus got stuck in Toronto traffic Sunday night, prompting Premier Doug Ford to call the city’s gridlock “embarrassing.” The Utah Hockey Club posted on social media a video of team members marching to Scotiabank Arena, with player Maveric Lamoureux saying the bus was “not moving at all.” Several city streets had been closed during the day for the annual Santa Claus parade. “I think that’s a first for everyone,” Lamoureux quipped in the video as the group walked along the downtown streets. “Never saw that before.” The viral incident prompted Premier Doug Ford to call the road congestion “unacceptable,” highlighting his government’s plan to address the city’s gridlock through bike lane legislation. “We’re really focused on the congestion in Toronto,” he said Monday at an unrelated press conference. “It’s the worst congested city in North America, third worst in the entire world, even to the point last night it was embarrassing that the Utah Hockey Club has to get out of the bus and start walking to the hockey arena.” Ford said people are “avoiding downtown” due to the traffic, pointing to bike lanes as part of the problem. Ontario passed a divisive bike lane bill on Monday that will require municipalities to get the province’s approval to install bike lanes when they would remove a lane for vehicles. The bill also removes sections of bike lanes in Toronto and restores them as lanes for vehicle traffic. At a press conference on Monday, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow pointed to the Santa Claus parade as the cause of Sunday’s gridlock. “All the big floats and the people flooding out from the Santa Claus parade was jamming that whole area,” Chow said. “It was just because of that reason.” Chow said while she’s glad the Leafs won the game, she’s sorry the Utah team got caught in the congestion. “Santa didn’t conspire together with the Leafs,” she said. Chow had said in September that the city’s traffic congestion measures are working, according to data that shows travel times along certain corridors have sped up. The Utah Hockey Club’s walk to the arena wasn’t the first time a Toronto visitor had to ditch their vehicle to make it to an event on time. In June, former One Direction band member Niall Horan had to walk through bumper-to-bumper traffic to get to his concert at Scotiabank Arena. “Traffic’s too bad in Toronto, so we’re walking to the venue,” he said in a social media post at the time. “In all the years playing shows, I don’t think I ever walked to a venue.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 25, 2024.
( MENAFN - The Conversation) Meaningful internet access goes beyond having easy and everyday access to broadband internet and digital devices. Equally important is whether Canadians can use their digital access for their benefit. That depends on their ability to acquire and apply the skills necessary to navigate the online world. Many adults across the country face daily challenges with accessing and finding what they need online, reflecting a three-tiered digital divide . This divide describes differences in how people get connected, how they regularly use online resources and obtain what they need. Regular and consistent access to devices and internet connections can certainly foster digital skills. But this knowledge is incomplete and unequally distributed without formal learning and opportunities for practice in supported and safe digital spaces. Government and telecommunication companies have focussed on the broadband infrastructure divide, arguing that when the whole country is connected people will figure out how to navigate online by themselves. But research shows this isn't the case . The differences between living with seamless and digital access can be illustrated through storytelling grounded in research . With a colleague, I developed composite (fictional) profiles of two adults, Eva and Sandra, based on a review of research related to digital access, statistical analysis of data from the Canadian Internet Use Survey , and interviews we conducted with teachers and adult learners. Eva has seamless internet access and easily engages with daily tasks in digital spaces at home, in transit and at her place of employment, using hardware and software supplied and managed by an IT department. She responds to emails on the bus, using her unlimited, employer-paid 5G data talk-and-text plan, and renews her licence plate online. At work, she prints, signs, scans and returns a form. By contrast, Sandra spends a big chunk of her day navigating digital hurdles to accomplish what might be considered quick and easy tasks. They include bus trips to the local library for internet access and a local supply store to print and scan a form. To save time and her phone's data plan - which she pays for out of her tight household budget - Sandra must stay at the library to accomplish other tasks requiring technology. She checks her college application and searches for a solution to her back pain. A lack of privacy, a noisy environment, extra costs and a lack of assistance are just a few of the barriers she must contend with. As a PhD student, I have researched inequities in digital access since before the pandemic when it was not a mainstream topic. During the pandemic, many of us experienced difficulties when in-person services were no longer available . If we had reliable ways to reach the“outside” world by going online , we saw how crucial this was. But even when people have access to devices and internet connections, this knowledge is incomplete and unequally distributed without formal learning and opportunities for practice in supported and safe digital spaces. Many adults go to adult education programs to learn and practice their digital skills - whether in adult literacy or settlement language training programs serving immigrants. These programs help adults develop functional literacy and language skills that help them to get further education, apprenticeship training, certification and employment. As I saw myself over a fifteen-year period working in this field prior to my doctoral research, these programs are well positioned to offer digital learning opportunities as part of adult upgrading, vocational, language and literacy skills curriculums. Programs can be tailored to meet specific community literacy needs - for example, for Indigenous or Deaf learners , and can be offered in both official languages. Digital technologies have been an integral part of many adult education programs for years . Guided and facilitated by instructors, students are expected to: participate using digital devices, to use an email address to communicate, to complete online forms, and to work collaboratively online. Some adult education programs have hired people to work as digital navigators who help adult learners or their teachers with learning or teaching online access. Yet many adult education programs must currently reapply for operational financing each year . Recently, I co-authored a paper published by the Institute of Research on Public Policy with Christine Pinsent-Johnson, a policy and research specialist. We argue that to meaningfully address digital divides, Employment and Social Development Canada should work with provincial and territorial governments to provide sustained, core funding to provincial and territorial adult education programs. (A French version of this paper is also available , which I discussed recently on Radio Canada ). These key adult education programs help Canadians acquire needed digital literacy skills for further education, apprenticeship training, certification and employment. Regular funding would stabilize operations, facilitate long-term planning and reduce administrative costs. It would do that particularly by ensuring predictable support for equipment purchases, IT infrastructure and software licensing. Additionally, we advocate for the creation of a national platform for educators to share learning materials and best practices. A similar platform for the federally funded settlement language programs could serve as a model. Beyond this platform, we call for a cross-sectoral network to co-ordinate programs aimed at enhancing digital skills and access for underserved communities. Such initiatives can connect provincial organizations with similar missions, leverage existing partnerships and forge new collaborations. They can serve as vital hubs for integrating informal and formal digital skills learning. One example is a not-for-profit organization like AlphaPlus , where I worked as a technology coach and researcher some years ago. This organization supports adult literacy programs in Ontario with professional development, and guides good practices for building digital technology capacity to support adult learners, for example, around AI . With regular funding and a mandate to co-ordinate efforts in digital skills development, such organizations could take on a much larger role supporting adult education programs. A more consistent and sustained approach is needed to support and connect similar efforts across the country to ensure equitable access to digital resources and learning opportunities across diverse Canadian communities. Such an approach will help citizens acquire the digital literacy skills and experience they need to participate meaningfully and effectively in Canadian society and the labour market. MENAFN25112024000199003603ID1108925016 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.
Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin has a broken left fibula and is expected to miss 4 to 6 weeksWASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin has a broken left fibula and is expected to miss 4 to 6 weeks.New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will address a special function to mark the beginning of the year-long celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution on Tuesday. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will also address the function at the Central Hall of the Samvidhan Sadan or the old Parliament building. “The tagline for the year-long celebrations would be ‘Hamara Samvidhan, Hamara Swabhiman’,” Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju told reporters here on Sunday. The Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution at the Central Hall on November 26, 1949. The Constitution came into force on January 26, 1950. A commemorative coin and a stamp will be released on the occasion, besides copies of the Constitution in Sanskrit and Maithili. Two books — “Making of the Constitution: A Glimpse” and “Making of the Constitution and its Glorious Journey” — will also be released, besides a booklet dedicated to the illustrations in the Constitution. People in India and abroad will also read the Preamble to the Constitution along with the president, Rijiju said. Apart from the Central Hall, special programmes would be held by governors, lieutenant governors and chief ministers in states and Union territories. Rijiju said panchayats have been asked to take out Samvidhan Swabhiman Yatras from April 14 to April 28 next year to propagate the contribution of B R Ambedkar to the making of the Constitution. “The yatras must be organised in villages with high density of SC/ST populations and main villages in every panchayat,” a statement issued by the parliamentary affairs ministry said.