MONTREAL —
Speed ​​could be a factor in an accident that left one dead and two seriously injured in a work zone on Highway 440 on Wednesday evening in Laval.

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For Lorde is everywhere today; we see the flowering of her most subtle ideas. In the essay “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” included here, she describes poetry as “the skeleton architecture of our lives”: “It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” The rise of the prison abolition movement has followed the decades of activism by Lorde and fellow Black feminist writers, including the Combahee River Collective, and many others. She feels present in every call to reconceive models of care and justice — in the work of the organizer Mariame Kaba, for example (“Poetry helps me to imagine freedom”, and the scholar Akwugo Emejulu, who spoke at a recent series of conversations on abolition inspired by Lorde. (“I hope that we can be brave, that we can be courageous, that we allow ourselves to think expansively about this idea of abolition,” Emejulu has said. “I hope that we allow ourselves to have our imaginations run wild.” I hear Lorde’s words in Arundhati Roy’s essays on Covid-19: “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal.”

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In ahistoric move, the Oscars are raising the inclusion bar for best picture nominees starting with the 96th Academy Awards in 2024. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday laid out sweeping eligibility reforms to the best picture category intended to encourage diversity and equitable representation on screen and off, addressing gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and disability.

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DHAKA: An underground gas pipeline near a mosque exploded during evening prayers outside the capital of Bangladesh, leaving at least 11 Muslim worshipers dead and dozens injured with critical burns, officials said Saturday.
The blast occurred Friday night as people were finishing their prayers at Baitus Salat Jame Mosque at Narayanganj, local police chief Zayedul Alam said.
By Saturday morning, a young boy and 10 others succumbed to their injuries as doctors at a burn unit of a state-run hospital were treating at least 37 people with up to 90% of burns on their bodies, said Samanta Lal Sen, a coordinator of the unit.
Most were in critical condition, Sen said.
TV stations reported that because of the impact of the blast, at least six air conditioners also exploded inside the mosque. Firefighters were investigation the cause.

(KENOSHA, Wis. — President Donald Trump stood at the epicenter of the latest eruption over racial injustice Tuesday and came down squarely on the side of law enforcement, blaming “domestic terror” for the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and making no nod to the underlying cause of anger and protests — the shooting of yet another Black man by police.

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JERUSALEM — White House adviser Jared Kushner on Sunday trumpeted the recent agreement by Israel and the United Arab Emirates to establish diplomatic relations as a historic breakthrough and said “the stage is set” for other Arab states to follow suit, but he gave no indication that any new deals were imminent.

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45 | TV (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Good Girls, Good Omens, Sons of Anarchy, The Crown, The Borgias, La Casa de Papel, Spartacus, The Witcher, War & Peace, Annie with an E, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Arrow, Jane the Virgin, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Supergirl, Community)
08 | Reality TV (RuPaul’s Drag Race: Alaska, Katya, RuPaul)

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On Friday, the internet erupted in a small way to learn that Apple had successfully forced WordPress to monetize its free app — forcing it to sell premium plans and custom domain names seemingly just so that Apple could get its traditional 30 percent cut.

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The ongoing coronavirus pandemic forced WWE to shift its weekly programming, and even tentpole events like WrestleMania, into the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, where episodes of Raw and SmackDown have been filmed since March.

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Wasser. Feuer. Erde. Luft. Vor langer Zeit kündigte Netflix die Live-Action-Adaption zu Avatar – Der Herr der Elemente an. Doch dann erklärten die beiden Serienschöpfer ihren Ausstieg aus der Realverfilmung und alles änderte sich. Nur Michael Dante DiMartino und Bryan Konietzko, die kreativen Köpfe hinter der renommierten Animationsserie, hätten den Flop der Netflix-Adaption aufhalten können. Aber als die Welt sie am meisten brauchte, verließen sie das Projekt.

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Ward described Gabriel’s large hearing aid as a “sub-woofer”; insinuated that Gabriel’s mother had used his money to buy herself a sports car, resulting in Gabriel not receiving adequate care. Over the course of 230 live performances, jokes at Gabriel’s expense were heard by more than130,000 people, plus numerous online viewers.

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MONTREAL —
Health authorities in Quebec announced 95 new cases of COVID-19 over a 24-hour period on Wednesday, bringing the provincial total to 60,813.

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Shamima Begum, one of three east London schoolgirls who traveled to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State g…Read More

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