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The Royal British Columbia Museum in Vancouver announced last week that it would close sections of its First Peoples galleries, beginning this month. In January, the entire wing, located on the museum’s third floor, will close. The closure comes in response to calls by Indigenous activists to change how the museum discusses the colonization of British Columbia, privileging the stories of settlers over the Indigenous peoples who had long lived on the land. “Decolonization of the museum’s galleries is important and long overdue,” said Daniel Muzyka, the museum’s acting CEO, in a statement. Closing the gallery, he added, is “necessary...

Two alleged Capitol rioters claimed they are being “force fed” critical race theory in a Washington, D.C., jail where they have been detained. Ryan Nichols of Texas and Robert Morss of Pennsylvania wrote a letter to a D.C. federal judge on Tuesday alleging that they have endured “constitutional, human, and civil rights violations." Among a list of 77 grievances, the men allege that they must beg for water and medical aid, and that they are not allowed religious services or visitors.

Christopher Walken, star of the new streaming series “The Outlaws,” did what many art fans consider sacrilegious act of vandalism: He painted over an original Banksy! A spokesperson for the BBC iPlayer series confirmed the 78-year-old film icon’s act of destruction in a statement. “We can confirm that the artwork at the end of The Outlaws was an original Banksy, and that Christopher Walken painted over that artwork during the filming of this scene, ultimately destroying it,” they told BBC.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who served as head of the National Economic Council during the Obama administration, has slammed the Biden White House for being “behind the curve” on the inflation ravaging the economy. “I think we’re speeding down the road at a really rapid rate,” Summers told CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” Wednesday. “It’s kind of a downhill road. And it’s not going to be so easy to put the brakes on here. And that’s why I’m concerned.” Summers spoke on the same day that the Labor Department announced that its Consumer Price Index, which measures the cost of...

The following is a summary of some recent studies on Covid-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that have yet to be certified by peer review. Severe sleep apnoea tied to severe Covid-19 The risk of severe illness from Covid-19 is higher in people with obstructive sleep apnoea and other breathing problems that cause oxygen levels to drop during sleep, researchers say. They tracked 5,402 adults with these problems and found that roughly a third of them eventually tested posted for the coronavirus. While the chance of being infected did not increase with the...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted former President Trump's request for an "administrative" injunction, temporarily blocking the release of his White House records from the National Archives to the House Committee Investigating the January 6 Capitol attack. "The National Archives and Records Administration and the Archivist be enjoined from releasing the records requested by the House Select Committee over which appellant asserts executive privilege, pending further order of this court," the order reads.

President Biden on Thursday laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and commemorated Veterans Day with a speech hailing the “unrelenting bravery and dedication” of America’s service members, including his late son Beau and the recently deceased Colin Powell and former Sen. Max Cleland. On the 100th anniversary of the tomb’s dedication, Biden spoke of his friendships with Powell and Cleland and how his own family understood the experience of veterans through his late son’s deployments.

White people are always racist except when they disagree with black RepublicansIf you’re a white person in America, that means you’re a racist. We all know this by now. And because you’re white, and therefore a racist by birth, that means every single thing you do and say is racist. For eight years, it was racist to ever disagree with the president of the United States because his father was black. For four subsequent years, it was racist to ever agree with the president of the United States because he defeated a white woman. (It gets complicated. Just roll with...

Two of the nation's top labor arbiters will not recuse themselves from a case involving their former employer, a chief Democratic Party ally. David Prouty and Gwynne Wilcox serve on the five-member National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that dictates labor laws. Board chairman Lauren McFerran announced Friday that the pair will not recuse themselves from a lawsuit filed by the Service Employees International Union, their former employer. The SEIU is challenging a Trump-era "joint employment" rule, which holds that franchises are distinct from parent companies. Prouty directly opposed the Trump rule at the SEIU, as did Wilcox. Their...

A few days ago, the Atlantic Council interviewed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer, Albert Bourla. Watching it was another one of those “I really wish I hadn’t, but it was too late because I already have” moments.Journal Storage or JSTOR states The Atlantic Council (“Council”) “provides an essential forum for navigating the dramatic economic and political changes defining the twenty-first century by informing and galvanizing its uniquely influential network of global leaders.” And the Council of the United Kingdom states it “is an entirely volunteer based charity; we survive through the generosity of supporters, and of course our...

A nurse has recently spoken out against doctors at her hospital who are wishing for the death of unvaccinated Covid-19 patients.During the video, the nurse said that she’s appalled at how some healthcare workers in the United States are behaving.The nurse said: “A couple of years ago, if you would have told me that doctors would be verbally wishing their patients to die based on their vaccination status or choice they made, I wouldn’t have believed you.“If you would have told me that nurses would no longer be advocating for their patient’s rights and autonomy, I wouldn’t have believed you.”The...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently approved a technology that aims to surveil people by their digital activity and give them scores that define their “potential level of superspreading activity.” Vaccination will then depend on the scores gathered using the technology.The patent put forward by attorneys Gal Ehrlich and Maier Fenster of Ehrlich & Fenster proposes collecting a variety of personal information from different sources, such as mobile devices, apps, social media, web browsing records, payment records, medical records, employment records, the government, and other surveillance cameras.It was also collect highly specific personal information from these sources,...

An investigation of data found in the USA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has revealed that extremely high numbers of adverse reactions and deaths have been reported against specific lot numbers of the Covid-19 vaccines several times, and now further analysis suggests each state received very different quantities of the most harmful batches.The data used in the further analysis was pulled from the publicly accessible VAERS database which can be viewed here. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a United States programme for vaccine safety, co-managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and...

Around 10 o’clock in the morning on November 7, 1918 a stressed and exhausted Mayor Walter Stone authorized the ringing of the fire bell in the tower of City Hall to herald the end of the Great War. The mayor must have been particularly relieved and most appreciative of such excellent news. For the last six weeks, he presided over a city devastated by the Spanish Influenza and growing increasingly war weary in the face of such devastation. Factory whistles all over the city followed the ringing of the bells, alerting Syracuse’s large manufacturing population to the incredible news from...

Chinese distributor CMC Pictures said Wednesday that it will release jingoistic Chinese war film “The Battle at Lake Changjin” in North America next week. The film is currently the highest grossing title in the world and in China so far in 2021, having already earned RMB5.60 billion ($877 million) in its home market alone. It is currently the second-highest grossing film in China of all time, trailing only slightly behind “Wolf Warrior 2,” which earned RMB5.69 billion ($891 million at today’s exchange rate). The film will arrive on screens in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 19, and then Australia...

Olympic gymnast Suni Lee said she was pepper sprayed after being targeted with anti-Asian slurs while visiting her hometown St. Paul, Minnesota a few weeks ago. The 18-year-old gold medalist said she was waiting for an Uber with a group of Asian-American friends when people in a car drove by yelling slurs including "ching chong" and saying they should "go back to where they came from," according to a profile in Pop Sugar. Lee said one passenger pepper sprayed her arm before the car drove away.

In the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, it's the second tough morning in a row for the liberal media, and good news for the defense. Yesterday, we noted how Morning Joe had to acknowledge that the prosecution of Rittenhouse was "falling apart" after a prosecution witness admitted that the defendant hadn't fired until the witness pointed his gun at him. This morning, it was CNN's turn to be in the barrel. New Day co-host John Berman tried to shift focus to what he described as the "bonkers" behavior of the trial judge, Bruce Schroeder. And repeated references were made to "criticism"...

Inmates from the January 6 protests were involved in a fight between guards at a D.C. jail, after one inmate who refused to wear a mask was maced by a guard, a lawyer for one of the inmates tells National File. Amid various media reports of abuse by guards onto prisoners locked up in a Washington D.C. jail for their alleged involvement in the January 6 protests on Capitol Hill, National File now understands that on Thursday, another incident of seeming abuse occurred. Attorney Jonathon Moseley, who represents multiple January 6 detainees, told National File that one detainee who refused...

Veterans Day was first known known as Armistice Day. It was established by Congress in 1926, to honor Americans who fought in World War One, which came to a victorious end with the armistice of November 11, 1918. In a White House proclamation, President Calvin Coolidge described the conflict, then known as the Great War, as “the most destructive, sanguinary, and far-reaching war in human annals.” Yet a few years later came an even greater and more destructive war, World War Two, and soon thereafter, a smaller war in Korea. So in 1954, Congress renamed Armistice Day, by now a...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health refuses to share complete information about how it counted COVID-19 deaths for reports ordered by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The reports were ordered a year ago when the House unanimously approved a resolution in November 2020, requiring the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee (LBFC) to review the Department of Health’s reporting of COVID-19 testing and deaths. State Rep. Kate Klunk sponsored the legislation, House Resolution 1087 of 2020, noting that throughout the pandemic, there have been discrepancies in the information published by the Department of Health, including thousands of COVID-19 positive cases being removed...