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You couldn’t make it up. The launch of Labour’s green revolution got off to a stuttering start in Edinburgh when the eco-friendly, hydrogen-powered bus booked to ferry journalists to Keir Starmer’s press conference failed to turn up.
No explanation was given and the vehicle was hurriedly replaced by a planet-destroying diesel, which promptly took the wrong turning after leaving the station.
Instead of heading east to Leith, the driver set off west towards Glasgow. Fortunately, Scottish Daily Mail reporter Tom Eden was able to point him in the right direction. Cue jokes about ‘another Labour U-turn’.
This wasn’t the first time a Labour leader had been left red-faced on the launchpad. Back in 1987, I was one of the Press pack covering Neil Kinnock’s General Election campaign.
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Read MoreOn Thursday, the provincial health authority said continuing masking at AHS facilities, continuing care facilities and contracted sites will not be required after Monday. That includes Alberta Precision Laboratories, Covenant Health, CapitalCare and Carewest sites. Dr. David Keegan set up a crowdfunding campaign to raise $20,000 to file a court injunction against AHS lifting its facility mask mandate on June 19. That gofundme hit its goal in less than 24 hours. On Thursday afternoon, Keegan said he’s retained senior legal counsel and the court case will “move ahead” in a tweet at 4:01 p.m.
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Read MoreThe Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a claim of discrimination by a government employee ordered to return to the office after working from home. The employee, a married mother of five, argued the order was unfair.
“Not every conflict between one’s professional obligations and one’s family responsibilities constitutes prima facie discrimination,” wrote Justice Anne Mactavish of the Appeal Court. “Parents usually have various options available to meet their parental obligations.”
Anjie Tarek-Kaminker, a federal Crown prosecutor in Toronto, had been permitted to work from home two days a week until her manager cancelled the arrangement as “no longer feasible” in 2016. “It limited her ability to conduct lengthy trials before Ontario Superior Court, something the employer says would be a normal expectation for prosecutors,” the Court noted.
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Read MoreSESAME STREET — A dark cloud was cast over Pride Month festivities on Sesame Street, as Bert and Ernie, long regarded as icons by the LGBTQ community, clarified that they are, in fact, just a couple of straight guys who live together.
“We’re just roommates,” Bert said when asked to describe his relationship with Ernie. “I don’t get why my best friend and I can’t live together without everyone thinking we’re gay. We’re just a couple of dudes who share an apartment. He does his thing. I do mine. Don’t make it weird.”
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Read MoreA drug syndicate that tried to smuggle tons of methamphetamine from Canada to Australia and New Zealand by hiding it in shipments of maple syrup and canola oil has had its ruse busted, authorities said Thursday.
Authorities from the three nations say they worked together for more than five months to unravel the elaborate scheme that was worth billions of dollars.
Authorities in New Zealand and Australia say they’ve made a dozen arrests and expect more to come, while Canadian authorities said they are still investigating the case and aren’t yet providing all the details.
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Read MoreIt feels like Covid all over again, but it’s not. Disney has just made a slew of release-date changes, many due to the impact of the WGA strike and screenplays not being ready and productions paused.
We already know that Thunderbolts and Blade are waiting the strike out before rolling cameras. Scripts aren’t fully ready in regards to the new Avengers movies. Avengers: Kang Dynasty goes from May 2, 2025, to May 1, 2026. Avengers: Secret Wars is also pushed another year from May 1, 2026, to May 7, 2027.
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Read MoreAfter winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Women Talking, Sarah Polley is on to the most epic undertaking of her filmmaking career thus far, as Deadline understands that the filmmaker is in talks to helm a live-action take on Bambi in very early development at Disney.
Multiple sources tell Deadline that the project is a musical to feature music from six-time Grammy-winning country star Kacey Musgraves. Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (Transparent) wrote the most recent draft of the script, and Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Field will produce.
The studio first signaled its intention to adapt Bambi for live-action back in early 2020, bringing Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer aboard as writers and Depth of Field to produce in January of that year. No word yet on when the project might be put in motion, given unpredictable strike conditions, for starters.
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Read MoreA biological man who believes he is a woman defended his sexual display at the White House after shaking his fake breasts topless along with other transgender activists, asserting that his actions were “legal” and adding that his critics are simply “affirming that I am a woman.”
Transgender model Rose Montoya has come under fire after attending the White House’s pride celebration event, showcasing his fake set of fake breasts along with transgender men — females who believe they are males — who were showing off their top surgery scars. Montoya, who met President Joe Biden at the event, covered his nipples as he and others shimmied for the camera.
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