Seems like somebody should start fast-tracking that after the Saturday the world has been having.

I wanted to see how Venezuelans were talking about the attack today, so I looked for news from Venezuela. I found a site called telesurenglish.net and it loaded fine at first.

But when I clicked on a link ( https://www.telesurenglish.net/us-military-intervention-in-venezuela/ ), the page gave me a “413 Payload Too Large” error – something I’ve never seen before.

To test it, I opened the same link while using a VPN, and it loaded without any problem. When I turned the VPN off, the error came back.

Can anyone else confirm whether the site only works when you’re connected through a VPN?

Edit: it does work on my cellphone provider, no VPN required. So It appear that my provider is adding stuff to my requests sent to the server? I'm not competent to figure out what tough.

https://338canada.com/alberta/

Here's an MSN scrape of the article. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-oil-sector-s-biggest-winners-and-losers-from-venezuela-regime-change/ar-AA1TvD1p

In comments today, President Donald Trump says the sanctions on Venezuelan oil remain in place, but he also said that the U.S. intends to be “very involved” in Venezuela’s oil sector, which he says requires billions of dollars fix the “badly broken” oil infrastructure.

The administration frames this as a reclamation project, suggesting companies will be ‘reimbursed’ through direct access to the crude.

Long Term Losers: Heavy Canadian Crude Producers

Venezuela’s long absence from Western markets helped entrench Canadian heavy crude as the dominant supplier to U.S. refineries configured for heavy barrels. Canada currently exports about 3.3 million barrels a day of crude to the U.S., and Canadian oil accounts for roughly a quarter of U.S. refinery throughput. Much of that volume is heavy oil sands crude flowing primarily to the U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast, where refineries were originally built to process Venezuelan and Mexican heavy grades.

Not sure how to link the exact episode about a "possible" invasion of Venezuela. If somebody knows I'll edit.

We'll see how it plays out. I'm still not sure they're actually planning to send 200,000 troops, but Trump said they're going to "run it" somehow.

With each passing decade since the mid-1980s, Canadians have been spending less and less time with their friends. Just 19 per cent said they hung out with friends on an average day in 2022, down from 48 per cent in 1986, according to Statistics Canada.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/social-trends/article-canadians-spending-less-time-friends-inventive-stay-close/

The gap between average worker wages and Canada’s top-paid CEOs widened to a record in 2024, according to a new report that pushes for higher taxes on the wealthiest.

Canada PM Mark Carney will be in France on Monday and Tuesday, where leaders of the bloc known as the Coalition of the Willing will gather to “accelerate efforts toward a negotiated peace for Ukraine, supported by strong security guarantees.”

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The group’s 35 member states, including Canada, have pledged their support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.

“Canada is working relentlessly with our allies to secure a just and lasting peace for Ukraine. We must deter and fortify – with robust security guarantees and by ensuring Ukraine can rebuild, recover, and create the foundations of true prosperity,” Carney said in a statement Friday.

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A young girl who was seriously injured in Inukjuak, Que., during a Nunavik Police Service intervention has died, according to the the Kativik Regional Government.

Quebec's police watchdog, the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), said two people were injured during a shootout with police on Dec. 20. In a news release published Tuesday, the BEI confirmed one of the people involved has since died but did not identify the deceased, citing the ongoing investigation.

“No further information can be released,” the BEI said.

According to the community's mayor, the two people injured were a man in his 30s and his six-year-old daughter.

Canada is pushing back on Chinese influence in the Taiwan Strait after Beijing ratcheted up tensions in East Asia by conducting military drills off Taiwan this week.

China’s People’s Liberation Army said Wednesday that it had “successfully completed” two days of military exercises in the waters off Taiwan, concluding a set of high-powered manoeuvres aimed at asserting its sovereignty over the island.

Global Affairs Canada says in a media statement that Canada “opposes any unilateral attempts to change the status quo across the Taiwan Strait.”

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The agency says the strait connecting the east and south China seas is “indispensable to the security and prosperity of the international community” and it’s “in the interest of all parties to maintain the peaceful and accessible nature of this waterway.”

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A home described as the first of its kind now stands in the Nak’azdli Whuten community near Fort St. James, B.C.

The home is a prototype for an Indigenous-led housing system that uses low-grade locally-sourced wood to produce prefabricated housing kits for northern communities.

The concept is to take trees from the local territory, mill them locally, and then have local workers use that lumber to build panels, which are then used to construct a house in a matter of days.

“You can build the panels through the winter months, and then in the summer you can erect the houses a lot quicker. The idea would be instead of producing two or three houses, we could maybe do 10 houses in this area with our construction crew and local contractors.”

Residents of Pimicikamak Cree Nation are celebrating and relieved now that power and electricity are being restored to the community.

Manitoba Hydro has repaired a broken line that caused a widespread outage. On Thursday, it began restoring power to homes in stages, nearly four days after the downed line left community members without heat in freezing winter temperatures and prompted a state of emergency.

On Sunday night, lights went dark and heaters went cold in the northern Manitoba First Nation, located about 530 kilometres north of Winnipeg, when a power line that crosses the Nelson River snapped.

“It was –30 with the wind chill here," Grand Elder Raymond Robinson said of the situation earlier in the week before power was restored. "When I go to these homes, when they're breathing you just see that mist coming out of people's mouths because they didn't have [any] heating system."

Growing research suggests that in addition to how much protein we consume each day, the type of protein we eat influences healthy aging too

Eat only what you need. Repurpose what you don’t. Less wasted food means fewer emissions, less cooking and more easy, tasty leftovers.  

Eliminate or reduce your beef consumption—43 per cent of food-related emissions from the average Canadian come from beef alone. We could have had our beef and eaten it too if we’d followed the agreements laid out in the Kyoto Protocol, but we’re now at a point where food emissions also need to fall to avoid the worst of climate change.

Vote with your fork. This is a first step to demand change from your political leaders. The more we talk about our own dietary changes and what matters to us, the more politicians will begin to care about policies that bring positive changes to our food systems.