3 January - Pale Moon START Page - MSM Canada

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• Canada's building code being modernized to address climate change 2 days ago  –  Canada's building codes are modernized every five years. The next update is due this year and is likely to see the first changes meant to address the country's new climate reality. 

  ( Snort. Prophets as engineers. Mwahahaaha )
• Man stabbed in New York Hanukkah attack may have brain damage, family says
• Netanyahu seeks immunity from corruption charges, buying time until after vote
• B.C. teen survives 150-metre fall from top of Oregon's Mount Hood
• No imminent 'doomsday' threat of AI, robots replacing Canadian workers but report cites concerns
• 'Unfathomable tragedy': Fire at western Germany zoo ki

• AI detects breast cancer as accurately as expert radiologists, study finds a day ago  –  A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain report.
• Ex-Nissan chair Carlos Ghosn, wanted by Interpol, denies family helped him flee to Lebanon
• Australian navy begins evacuation of beach where thousands had sought refuge from fire
• First flicks and first dates: Small Manitoba community presses play on reopened theatre
• Could drones help ease Canada's construction worker shortage?
• Liberals plan new program to allow communities to pick immigrants
• University of Regina says it won't cancel lecture by poet George Elliott Clarke over ties to convicted killer
• 'Completely unsustainable': How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment
• What the 2017 Conservative leadership race told us about what it takes to win
• Taiwan's top military officer, 7 others killed in helicopter crash
• Former NBA commissioner David Stern dies at 77

• Mounties defend social media profiling after assembling portrait of activist a day ago  –  The RCMP is defending its practice of profiling people by scouring their social media postings after a Toronto activist learned the Mounties had compiled a six-page profile of her.

  Mounties defend social media profiling after assembling portrait of activist a day ago  –  The RCMP is defending its practice of profiling people by scouring their social media postings after a Toronto activist learned the Mounties had compiled a six-page profile of her.
• U.S. military killed top Iranian general on Trump's order, Pentagon says
• Marc Crawford voices regret for past behaviour as he returns to NHL coaching
• Canada's top 100 CEOs have already earned more than average Canadian will all year
• 'Lapse in judgment' led to 2-day ordeal for skier lost on B.C. mountain
• New charges laid against Hamilton 14-year-old accused of fatally stabbing Devan Selvey
• Pending decision on Huawei 5G puts Trudeau government under pressure
• Amber alert over as 12-year-old boy from Corner Brook found safe
• Alberta confirms province's 1st case of severe vaping-associated lung illness
• Mom, 2 daughters turn themselves in to police after deadly German zoo fire linked to sky lanterns
• Democrat Julian Castro ends bid for U.S. presidential n

  This starfish cousin has no eyes, but can still see. Here's how 11 hours ago  –  The red brittle star is the second creature ever discovered that can see without having eyes. In a new study, scientists explain how it manages this. 

• Searing temperatures, strong winds complicate Australia wildfire battle

    11 hours ago  –  Australian firefighters were set for a dangerous day on Saturday as fires in New South Wales and Victoria states were expected to burn uncontrollably due to temperatures above 40 C and shifting, strong winds that will fan and spread the flames.
• U.S. bans some e-cigarette flavours to curb teen vaping, with major exceptions
• Turkish company says jets used illegally in Ghosn escape
• 'We did not take action to start a war,' Trump says of decision to kill top Iranian general
• Canadian poet George Elliott Clarke cancels Regina lecture after controversy over convicted killer's poetry
• Life changes instantly as cell service switched on in Ahousaht
• 'Yahoo!': Calgary MP's organ donor bill gets second life in new year
• 'Mistakes will be made': Federal minister acknowledges difficulty of Indigenous child welfare reform
• Mounties worried about anti-immigrant backlash after terrorism arrests: documents
• Who is Carlos Ghosn and why is he an internationally w

• 'Everybody is worried': Anxiety in Canada's largest Iranian diaspora as Qassem Soleimani's killing stuns
• 5 members of Iran-backed militia killed in Iraq airstrike
• Man dies after stopping hemodialysis to send message to Yukon government
• Canadians queue up for chance at winning record $70M Lotto Max jackpot
• Fired Dallas Stars coach Jim Montgomery in rehab for alcohol abuse
• Conservatives to pick their new leader on June 27
• As U.S. airstrike ramps up threat of war, about 500 Canadian Forces personnel are serving in Iraq
• Mom says her son left scarred by 14-year-old accused in murder of Hamilton teen
• A few chocolate bars, a cookie and tea: Ontario unveils new legal cannabis edibles
• Tesla's self-driving Autopilot system under scrutiny afte