Norwegian hotel owner houses and feeds rescue workers after landslide
Anita Aasland is spending New Year s Eve working away at her small Norwegian hotel but instead of tourists, she is serving as the home base for first responders looking for survivors of a nearby landslide.
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Posted: Dec 31, 2020 4:47 PM ET | Last Updated: December 31, 2020
Anita Aasland owns the Raumergården hotel in the Gjerdrum municipality of Norway, a few hundred metres from the landslide in the village of Ask.(Submitted by Anita Aasland )
Canada's falling behind some other countries when it comes to getting vaccines into arms, and a Toronto infectious disease doctor says there's no need for it.
Ontario lockdown doesn t do anything to help warehouse workers, says advocate
Ontario-wide lockdown measures set to kick in on Boxing Day leave the province s most vulnerable workers in the lurch, says advocate Gagandeep Kaur.
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Critics say Amazon has done too little to protect the health and safety of its workers, even as founder Jeff Bezos became the richest man in the world.(Mark Lennihan/The Associated Press)
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Ontario-wide lockdown measures set to kick in on Boxing Day leave the province s most vulnerable workers in the lurch, says advocate Gagandeep Kaur.
Trump s pardon of U.S. contractors convicted of Iraqi massacre is an injustice: lawyer
When U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned four security contractors who gunned down 12 unarmed Iraqi civilians, he stripped their families of justice and undermined the U.S. court system, says lawyer Gary Mauney.
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Blackwater guards, from left, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough. On Tuesday President Donald Trump pardoned 15 people, including these four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad.(The Associated Press and Reuters)
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This TikTok teen uses math and photos to accurately guess strangers heightsÂ
Kenyon Lee, an 18-year-old engineering technology student, has become a TikTok sensation with 2.5 million followers and as many as 20,000 requests per day from people who want him to guess their height.
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Kenyon Lee, 18, has become a TikTok sensation in recent weeks for guessing people s heights based on nothing but photos and math.(Submitted by Kenyon Lee)