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Image via Netflix If there’s anything in this world that doesn’t get enough credit, it’s the electrifying rivalries that bring out the absolute best in us all; whether it’s Gates and Jobs, Tesla and Edison, or Hemingway and Faulkner, some of history’s greatest struggles are what makes the world breathe. And when it comes to entertainment, we often find tantalizing opposition between the opinions of film critics and audiences, the latter of which are flying high on Netflix’s The Gray Man, an action thriller from…

US President Joe Biden nominated lawyer and Google critic Jonathan Kanter as the Justice Department's antitrust chief on Tuesday in the latest sign the White House is determined to rein in the world's biggest corporations, especially Big Tech.Progressives who advocate tougher enforcement of antitrust law pushed for the nomination of Kanter, who recently started his own law firm, Kanter Law Group LLP, which bills itself as an "antitrust advocacy boutique."The White House called Kanter "a leading advocate and expert in the…

Penny MordauntPenny Mordaunt launches Conservative leadership campaign – videoHere is the most purely bizarre campaign video, from Penny Mordaunt, culminating in the gobsmacking slogan: “Our leadership needs to become a little less about the leader and lot more about the ship.” Huh? This sentence, evidently rendered via Google Translate into something approximating English from a voice inside Mordaunt’s head, would appear to be a reference to her status as a Royal Navy reservist.But, bafflingly, there is nothing about…

Imagine you have an interview for a new job tomorrow. Some people might think about what kind of questions they will be asked so that they can prepare, or imagine the interview going well.  For others, the thought of an interview will cause them to toss and turn all night thinking of every worst case scenario possible – no matter how outlandish these may be. If you're someone who has a tendency to do the latter, you are prone to catastrophizing.Catastrophizing is a tendency to assume the worst will happen when imagining…

Urdu literary theorist Gopi Chand Narang (born in 1931), who was honoured by both India and Pakistan, died on June 15. His scholarship pegs down two hostile nations, each of which conferred its highest honour on him – he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004 and the Sitar e-Imtiaz in 2012. Professor Narang wrote more than 70 books in Urdu, English and Hindi. Academic rigour and a profound interest in new criticism, stylistics, semiotics and sociolinguistics run through his work. In a literary journey spread over more…

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Canadian Politics Canada Fast said that the party was losing credibility on economic issues with positions such as Poilievre’s proposition to fire the Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem Conservative MP Ed Fast speaks during question period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on April 8, 2022. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press/File Article content Conservative MP and Jean Charest supporter Ed Fast says he does not regret opposing leadership candidate…

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Canadian Politics Tory Ed Fast, who is co-chair of rival Jean Charest’s campaign, said the idea undermines the party's economic credentials Publishing date: May 18, 2022  •  10 minutes ago  •  3 minute read  •  Join the conversation Conservative finance critic Ed Fast Article content Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre’s idea of firing the governor of the Bank of Canada is not sitting well with one of the longstanding MPs of his party,…