Month: April 2022

Visual Effects Technical Director Says Shen Yun Performance Is Phenomenal

MELBOURNE, Australia—Dmitrijs Cernagovs, a technical director, was looking forward to seeing Shen Yun on April 25—and what he experienced after watching the performance at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre left a lasting impression on him. “At some point, you were feeling emotional,” Mr. Cernagovs said. “The storytelling is really nice, the narrative, and the storytelling with the…


Tories Question Trudeau After Report Shows RCMP Mulled Charging PM Over Aga Khan Island Trip

The Conservatives are challenging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following the release of RCMP documents that show the police had considered charging the prime minister over his 2016 vacation at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas. The RCMP documents from 2019, recently obtained by the Globe and Mail through an access-to-information request, say the police had looked…


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Columbia Rejects Chinese Student for Hate Speech

Strict lockdown rules are driving foreigners out of Shanghai. A survey shows many of them plan to leave—or are debating the option. A top supplier for Apple and Tesla faces widespread infections at its factory in Shanghai. Three workers reveal the situation inside. Photos capture empty shelves in Beijing, as panic buying begins. Residents there…


Elon Musk Twitter Buyout Prompts Polarized Reactions

Twitter announced on Monday that it had reached a final agreement to be acquired by Elon Musk for approximately $44 billion, prompting mixed reactions as users prepare for a new content moderation policy. The new announcement concludes a three-week saga of Musk’s total acquisition of the social media corporation, which began on April 4 when…


Ambulance Ramping Continues to Rise in Southeast Queensland

Almost half of all patients waited more than half an hour in an ambulance before being admitted to a hospital in southeast Queensland in December. Queensland Ambulance Service figures show ramping rose two percent to more than 46 percent of patients in the heavily-populated southeast between November and December 2021. There was a major COVID-19…


Capitol Report (April 25): Twitter Board Agrees to Musk’s Offer

The Twitter board met on Sunday to seriously consider Elon Musk’s bid to buy the company. On Monday, they reached an agreement. Musk’s offer has been accepted, and the company is selling to the Tesla CEO for $44 billion in cash. Individual acts of spirituality that may be interpreted as being religious have long been…


Australian Aged Care Workers Take Fight for Higher Wages to Fair work Commission

Aged care workers have taken their fight for higher wages to the Fair Work Commission as inflation continues to bite around Australia. The Health Services Union, representing staff from personal care workers to catering and cleaning, is calling for a 25 percent wage increase for staff in the sector. “It is certainly a political issue…