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Today on the Alberta Roundup with Rachel Emmanuel, Rachel explains why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is correct to ban electronic tabulators in provincial and municipal elections. Rachel also has some updates about changes in the healthcare sector, and the results of the Red Deer byelection. Also on the show, Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek is once again embroiled in controversy and she advocates for lifetime renting while ...

We speak with journalist and author Ari Berman about his new book, Minority Rule, which details how the United States has since its founding privileged the rights and interests of a small elite over the needs of the majority. He outlines how, for the first time in U.S. history, five of six conservative justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week about the legality of Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, which criminalizes the procedure in all circumstances unless the life of the parent is at risk. It’s the first such case to reach the high court since the conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. A key issue is whether a state ban can take precedence over the federal right ...

As a wave of student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza continues to spread from coast to coast, schools and law enforcement have responded with increasing brutality to campus encampments. One of the most violent police crackdowns took place at Emory University in Atlanta on Thursday, when local and state police swept onto the campus just hours after students had set up tents on the quad ...

Fermented foods like sauerkraut and kimchi are powerful allies to your mental health, courtesy of the neuroactive microbes and molecules they contain.1 Microbes and their metabolites, created during fermentation modulate the microbiota-gut-brain axis, which involves neural, immune, endocrine and metabolic pathways.2 Writing in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, researchers with University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland and colleagues reasoned that fermented foods “offer an affordable dietary intervention ...

Optimizing your vitamin D levels may be a simple way to relieve painful menstruation, or dysmenorrhea, according to research published in the journal Nutrients.1 Vitamin D shows promise as it reduces both inflammation and prostaglandin levels2 — elevated prostaglandin levels may lead to more intense contractions of uterine muscles, a key contributor to menstrual pain. While addressing other factors, like progesterone, is also important for menstrual ...

By The Freedom Articles War is waged by each ruling group primarily against its own subjects, to keep the ruling class powerful and in power,... At the Top, They’re ALL on the Same Side – Part 1 – Video #103 Story imported via RSS from RSS Article Source: https://www.activistpost.com/2024/04/at-the-top-theyre-all-on-the-same-side-part-1-video-103.html ...

By The Corbett Report When you call someone a “gatekeeper,” you may think you’re saying something about that person, but people who know the true... How to Defeat A Gatekeeper – “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett Story imported via RSS from RSS Article Source: https://www.activistpost.com/2024/04/how-to-defeat-a-gatekeeper-solutions-watch-with-james-corbett.html ...

By Debbie Lerman During the Covid pandemic, the US government spent billions of dollars on nearly 400 products intended to protect, diagnose, and treat hundreds... What is Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)? Story imported via RSS from RSS Article Source: https://www.activistpost.com/2024/04/what-is-emergency-use-authorization-eua.html ...

Despite claims made by Press Progress and CTV News, protesters at the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick border have no connection to podcaster Jeremy Mackenzie’s fictitious meme country Diagolon. Justin Trudeau and some media corporations made the sensational claim after Pierre Poilievre visited a carbon tax protest while in between events in Atlantic Canada. Poilievre denounced the “group” and Mackenzie after the podcaster and veteran made ...

Amnesty International has released its annual report assessing human rights in 155 countries. The report highlights Israel’s assault on Gaza with evidence of war crimes continuing to mount, as well as U.S. failures to denounce rights violations committed by Israel. It also points to Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, and the rise of authoritarianism and massive rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar. We speak to ...

At least 320 bodies have been discovered buried in a mass grave at the destroyed Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, just weeks after a similar mass grave containing up to 400 bodies was discovered amid the ruins of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Some of the bodies, which include children, medical staff and patients, appear to have been executed or buried alive. Meanwhile, Israel continues ...

Student protests calling for university divestment from Israel and the U.S. arms industry have rocked campuses from coast to coast. The nonviolent protests, which have been characterized as “antisemitic” for their criticism of Israel, have been met with an intensifying police crackdown as university administrators threaten academic discipline and arrests. On Wednesday, local and state troopers violently arrested dozens at the University of Texas at Austin ...

Op-Ed by Dr. Mathew Maavak In the rapidly advancing landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the emergence of sophisticated AI systems prompts profound questions about their... Rise of the ‘AI god’ Story imported via RSS from RSS Article Source: https://www.activistpost.com/2024/04/rise-of-the-ai-god.html ...

By Neenah Payne Klaus Schwab is the founder of the World Economic Forum. Henry Kissinger was Schwab’s mentor at Harvard and was a frequent honored... Documentary: No Farmers No Food! Story imported via RSS from RSS Article Source: https://www.activistpost.com/2024/04/documentary-no-farmers-no-food.html ...

By Breeauna Sagdal Seasoned veterinarians and livestock producers alike have been scratching their heads trying to understand the media’s response to the avian flu. Headlines... From Bird Flu to Climate Snakes Story imported via RSS from RSS Article Source: https://www.activistpost.com/2024/04/from-bird-flu-to-climate-snakes.html ...

April 25, 2024 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Global Affairs Canada The federal government recently tabled Budget 2024: Fairness for Every Generation. It is a plan to build a Canada that works better for everyone, where younger generations can get ahead, where their hard work pays off, and where they can buy a home—where everyone has a fair chance at a good middle-class life. Read the full release: https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2024/04/minister-joly-highlights-budget-investments-in-electric-vehicle-supply-chain-and-research.html ...

As more and more people sound alarms about the implications of the Liberal government’s latest budget, Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland are still saying it’s a budget that injects “fairness” into the Canadian economy. This comes as the Canadian and Ontario governments each pony up $5 billion to create 1,000 jobs creating electric vehicles and batteries for Honda. True North’s Andrew Lawton digs in with Aaron ...

The federal government recently delivered Budget 2024: Fairness for Every Generation. Read the full release: https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2024/04/minister-hussen-highlights-budget-investments-to-increase-productivity-bolster-innovation-and-grow-the-economy.html ...

We speak with Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, about high-level U.S.-Cuban migration talks held last week in Washington. He says U.S. policies that expedite permanent residency for Cubans in the United States play a major role in the movement of people between the two countries, but adds that the main driver of migration is the decadeslong U.S. embargo. “The economic conditions ...