The tribunal in British Columbia found in favour of restaurant waitress Jessie Nelson, who regards herself as a non-binary, gender fluid, transgender person. Nelson was fired from her job after asking the bar manager to stop using the pronouns ‘she/her’ and refer to her as ‘they/them’. What is really significant …
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Speaking on Wednesday, Merkel noted that Russia has never refused to deliver gas and has fulfilled its contractual obligations. “That’s why we should ask the question: was enough gas ordered, or is the high price at the moment maybe the reason for not ordering so much?” Merkel asked, according to …
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Pfizer announced on Thursday that it had submitted a request for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), several weeks after it began submitting trial data from five- to 11-year-olds to the US regulator. Should the FDA grant Pfizer’s request, the pharma firm’s vaccine would …
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On one side, Achille Mbembe, Dirk Moses, and some others argue that distinguishing the Holocaust from other violent crimes in human history is Eurocentric, and neglects the horror of colonialist crimes. On the other side, Saul Friedlander, Juergen Habermas, and others insist on the unique character of the Holocaust. I …
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The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 events in Washington, DC may meet Haugen as soon as Thursday, CNN reported, citing three different sources. The development would likely be a shock to no one, considering that Adam Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee who is also a …
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Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, the director of Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare, Mika Salminen, announced Helsinki’s halt on offering Moderna’s Spikevax jab to its younger male population. “A Nordic study involving Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark found that men under the age of 30 who …
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In terms of achieving its aims, conversion therapy is right up there with the burning of witches. Instill enough fear into someone, and they’ll pretty much agree to anything so long as you make the pain stop, or at least extinguish the flames tickling their feet. So to see the …
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“Social media has become a coward’s palace, where people can just go on there, not say who they are, destroy people’s lives and say the most foul and offensive things to people, and do so with impunity,” Morrison said on Thursday. Online trolls and all those who disseminate toxic content …
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According to trading data from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the price of November gas futures on the Dutch TTF index started trading at almost $1,260 per thousand cubic meters on Thursday, then briefly jumped to $1,370 at 6:13am GMT and later showed a steady decline. By 8am GMT, the price …
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Crown Prince Mohammed of Saudi Arabia, who is the director of the country’s vast sovereign wealth fund (PIF), made a $381 million bid for the north-east giants in April 2020, launching a seemingly endless series of twists and turns over the proposed takeover. In the 18 months that have since passed, …
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