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Ian Vandaelle, a business journalist in Canada, has died at the age of 33. His most recent position was a reporter and editor at the Financial Post. He had been a producer at BNN Bloomberg for more than a decade. Previously, he interned at Report on Business, where he copy edited stories and videos to the Report on Business website. Vandaelle interned at the National Post and held the post of business and technology editor at The Eyeopener, a weekly student newspaper of Toronto Metropolitan University. Vandaelle graduated from Ryerson University. His partner was Stephanie Hughes, an equities reporter for...

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has been rewarded with a prestigious fellowship at Harvard University.As the Berkman Klein Center (the Center) at Harvard reports, “The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is thrilled to announce Jacinda Ardern as its first Knight Tech Governance Leadership Fellow.”Ardern herself claims she will “address online harms… and violent extremism online,” explaining that “Emerging technologies such as AI present huge opportunities to address online harms, but also challenges.” (snip)Ardern’s new appointment is not an academic sinecure. A loyal servant of divisive repression, she has been drafted into an...

Charlotte Bellis, a broadcast journalist, said she has repeatedly tried to return to New Zealand since she learned she was pregnant in September. She has submitted 59 documents to New Zealand officials in Afghanistan in an attempt to secure an emergency return home, but her bid was turned down and led her to turn to the Taliban, one of the world's most oppressive regimes, for sympathy. It's a particularly cruel twist of fate for the woman who was revered worldwide for her fearless questioning of the jihadist group's previous record on women's rights. To add insult to injury, Ms Bellis...