Canada
Flight cancellations grow as WestJet mechanics hit picket lines
WestJet has cancelled more than 200 flights after the union representing its plane mechanics announced Friday that members had hit the picket lines.
Time crunch, rules mess could plague a Liberal leadership race
Calls have intensified for Justin Trudeau to resign as head of the party he almost single-handedly pulled back from the brink after a decimating electoral defeat in 2011.
The Provinces
French-Montrealers vote in ‘historic’ election amid surge in far-right
Quebec is home to 260,000 French citizens, 200,000 of whom live in Montreal. They form the largest population of French nationals outside mainland France.
Elsewhere
Will Biden's debate fiasco open the door for Harris and Newsom?
George Skelton: As pressure mounts on President Biden to quit his reelection race after a shockingly dismal debate performance, the spotlight will turn more intensely on two Californians: Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Conspiracy Theorists Aren’t Even Bothering With Biden’s Debate Performance
Before the debate, far-right influencers and even Trump himself flooded the internet with Biden conspiracies. Now they’re just sharing real clips.
World leaders are aging. Trump and Biden are still significantly older
The next. U.S. president will be at least 16 years older than the median age of global leaders. Some interesting data points on the age of leaders
Far-right Alternative for Germany reports surge in membership
The AfD jumped to second place in nationwide polls last year amid frustration with infighting in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition, worries over sluggish growth in Europe's largest economy, and concerns over the impact of the war in Ukraine.
Media
Sask. media outlet Eagle Feather News to return after 6-month hiatus
Indigenous media outlet Eagle Feather News will sport a new logo, a new online digital platform, and a new quarterly magazine.
When they won’t even say ‘no comment’
The rising tide of nonresponses coincides with the rise of social media, which enables the subject of any news story to bypass pesky journalists by putting out his or her own messages. It also parallels the growing hostility toward the press, at least among some political figures. Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s former press secretary, Christina Pushaw, sometimes posted media requests to her social feeds before bothering to communicate with the reporter; she then all but invited her followers to deride the reporter for seeking her input. Reporters seeking comment from Twitter’s press office in the months following Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform received an automated poop emoji. At least it was a response.
‘Tough decisions’: Mass job cuts at Channel Nine ahead of Paris Olympics
The dramatic decline of Australia’s free-to-air commercial broadcasters has reached a new low point following the announcement of hundreds of job cuts at Nine Entertainment.
Science and tech
EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software
Most of the grousing seems to be about tech, a major concern given that the auto industry is haphazardly racing to cram as much software into their models as possible. JD Power has logged this problem before, and it seems to be exacerbating.
These smart binoculars can identify thousands of stars and over a million landmarks
Unistellar is crowdfunding its new Envision binoculars that use AR to overlay information about what you’re looking at.
