- Three young boys who disappeared Ontario last December have been recovered alive; their mother has been charged with abducting them. She has ties to Stand4Thee, a far-right organization dedicated to keeping sexual orientation and gender identity out of schools. The group was also involved with the infamous "Freedom Convoy". Putting two and two together, I have to assume that the motive was either to keep the kids out of public schools where they might be exposed to the real world, and/or to keep them from being vaccinated.
- A medical resident in Manitoba is calling for a restoration of the "return of service agreements" that were used in this province until the previous government got rid of them in 2017. These offer new medical graduates money (e.g. to pay off their student loans) on the condition that they agree to be deployed in underserved areas. Staff in the provincial health department are somewhat skeptical, saying that there is a "revolving door" effect where doctors stay only long enough to meet the terms of the agreement and leave; nonetheless, that would still seem to be preferable to not having doctors in those areas at all.
- A huge solar panel manufacturing facility has done wonders for the economy of Dalton, in northwestern Georgia. The company is a beneficiary of Joe Biden's climate legislation - but most of its employees plan to vote for Donald Trump, despite the latter's disdain for said legislation. When residents were asked about this, the only thing any of them could come up with as a reason to vote for Trump was "inflation"; I guess even in their less-evolved minds they know better than to talk to outsiders about the other reasons for voting for Trump.
- A man paralyzed in an accident was able to walk again thanks to the ReWalk Personal exoskeleton - until the device needed repairs. The manufacturer, Lifeward, refuses to do any repairs on any product of theirs over 5 years old - and is under no obligation to make it possible for anyone else to repair it either. Similar things have happened in the past with bionic eye implants.
- A Montana man conspired with others to obtain tissue from the Marco Polo Sheep from central Asia. This tissue was used to create a cloned sheep, which was then hybridized with other species to make huge hybrid sheep for "canned hunts". Unfortunately for him, his scheme fell afoul of the several laws, and he has received a 6 month jail sentence for his crimes.
- A man in Texas paid $4,000 at an auction for a Taylor Swift-inspired guitar, just so that he could destroy it and upload the video to TikTok.
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