🔗 Articles: Saturday 01.Jun.2024
Breakfast of Champions!
Globe: Andrew Coyne: In one juror’s trajectory, both the strength of the jury system and the fragility of the rule of law are exposed
I find myself, amid the hurricane of coverage following the first criminal conviction of a former president in U.S. history, obsessing about Juror No. 2.
That’s the member of the jury that convicted Donald Trump who, asked in jury selection what media he read, said he relied on Truth Social, Mr. Trump’s personal social-media site. That, and X, the former Twitter.
Other jurors said they got their news from CNN, or The New York Times, or The Wall Street Journal. Only Juror No. 2 cited Truth Social, and only Juror No. 2 said he got his news exclusively from social media.
NewsNation: Boeing’s first astronaut flight called off at the last minute in latest setback
A last-minute problem nixed Saturday’s launch attempt for Boeing’s first astronaut flight, the latest in a string of delays over the years.
Two NASA astronauts were strapped in the company’s Starliner capsule when the countdown automatically was halted at 3 minutes and 50 seconds by the computer system that controls the final minutes before liftoff.
With only a split second to take off, there was no time to work the latest trouble and everything was called off. It was not immediately clear why the computers aborted the countdown.
Guardian: ‘Once in a lifetime’: UK and European space scientists urged to join Nasa mission to Uranus
European space scientists have been urged to join forces with Nasa to ensure the success of one of the most ambitious space missions planned for launch this century.
Joining a robot spaceflight to the mysterious planet Uranus would offer “the opportunity to participate in a groundbreaking, flagship-class mission”, astrophysicists have said.
The call was made in Nature, the leading science journal, in a special editorial which exhorted the European Space Agency (Esa) to form an international partnership with Nasa. Such cooperation would ensure that the Uranus mission – which would involve putting a robot spacecraft in orbit round the planet and dropping a probe into its thick, icy atmosphere – is completed in time and on budget.
CBC: As Oilers make a push for the Stanley Cup Final, playoff hockey begins to disappear from CBC
Hockey fans in Canada hoping to watch the Edmonton Oilers move toward a berth in the Stanley Cup final this weekend won’t be able to do so for free, after CBC chose to not carry Games 5 and 6 of the Western Conference final.
The games will be available only to those who subscribe to Sportsnet, either through their cable service or directly from Rogers Sports & Media through the Sportsnet+ app.
CBC scheduled a one-hour broadcast of the Canadian Screen Awards followed by a Just For Laughs special, beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, during the highly anticipated fifth matchup between the Oilers and the Dallas Stars. The teams went into the game with their series knotted 2-2.
It feels like CBC management is so disconnected from the world, making Poilievre’s desire to cut their budget easier! It’s really an own-goal.
The party, which has been climbing steadily in the polls and is now well ahead of the BC United, the current Opposition, would repeal the provincial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in favour of pivoting to an approach of “economic reconciliation” by signing business deals with individual First Nations.
As well, the party would strike a committee to review all school textbooks and literature to ensure they are “neutral,” party leader John Rustad said during a wide-ranging meeting with The Globe and Mail’s editorial board in Vancouver earlier this month.
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Mr. Rustad and Bruce Banman, of Abbotsford South, both sit as BC Conservatives in the legislature after being elected as members of BC United in 2020. Mr. Rustad was ejected from the BC United caucus in 2022 after his social-media posts cast doubt that people are directly responsible for the climate changing around the globe. Mr. Banman crossed the floor to join Mr. Rustad last September and has refused to say whether he agrees or disagrees with climate change.
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On climate change, Mr. Rustad has been vocal about ending the province’s carbon tax, which the BC Liberals created in 2008 as the first such levy in North America.
Mr. Rustad argues the science around human causes of climate change is “a theory and it’s not proven,” a position widely at odds with accepted science. But Mr. Rustad maintains there is no pressing need to legislate solutions.
“It’s not even a crisis,” he told The Globe.
What a loon!
Globe: Kelly Cryderman: Naheed Nenshi wants to reshape the NDP’s role in Alberta
Naheed Nenshi gets a lot of applause from Alberta NDP audiences these days. However, when he called United Conservative Party MLAs the ”monkeys on the other side” at a leadership debate earlier this month, there were murmurs and grumbling. Mr. Nenshi’s quip about decorum during Question Period in the legislature was too ugly to be many New Democrats’ cup of tea.
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In the Alberta NDP leadership contest that will culminate in one month, Mr. Nenshi remains the one to beat, for all the good and bad that front-runner status entails.
Globe: A Chinese spacecraft lands on moon’s far side to collect rocks in growing space rivalry with U.S.
The landing module touched down at 6:23 a.m. Beijing time in a huge crater known as the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the China National Space Administration said.
The mission is the sixth in the Chang’e moon exploration program, which is named after a Chinese moon goddess. It is the second designed to bring back samples, following the Chang’e 5, which did so from the near side in 2020.
Last Updated: 01.Jun.2024 23:46 EDT