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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will seek re-election against 81 other candidates in his Ottawa-area riding — while Liberal Leader Mark Carney is running for the first time against four challengers in Nepean. A protest group called the Longest Ballot Committee has convinced dozens of candidates to register to run as Independents in the Ontario riding of Carleton, where Poilievre is the incumbent seeking re-election, in addition to the usual main party candidates.The protest group opposes the first-past-the-post voting system and is seeking to build support for electoral reform.The group has fielded long…

Olivia Dunne, one of the most-followed collegiate athletes on social media, testified against the NCAA’s $2.8 billion House settlement in the final hearing on Monday.Dunne was one of four college athletes who testified against the settlement. The LSU gymnast expressed her objections to the formula used to set name, image and likeness (NIL) value of an athlete. She insisted that her NIL estimation was too low. Olivia Dunne of the LSU Tigers looks on before a meet against the Florida Gators at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center on Feb. 23, 2024 in Gainesville, Florida. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)She described herself as…

Peter Dutton has released details of his bold energy plan that would drive down gas bills for residential customers by an estimated 7 per cent.The release of the highly-anticipated modelling from Frontier Economics comes after the Opposition Leader has faced near daily-grilling’s over the impact of the gas policy on household policy bills.A gas user with an average quarterly bill of $200 would save $14 a quarter or $56 a year under the plan, while industrial customers will pay 15 per cent less on gas.Residential electricity prices would drop by 3 per cent.Camera IconPeter Dutton at the Sky News /…

Economist Siwage Dharma Negara, who is also the coordinator of the Indonesia Studies Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, told CNA that a failure to negotiate lower tariffs with the US will dampen this ambition.  “If the 32 per cent tariff by the US on Indonesian exports is fully implemented, this will pose a significant challenge to Prabowo’s ambitious goal of achieving 8 per cent economic growth during his term,” he added. “Such setbacks make even a 5 per cent growth target more challenging to attain.” Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara, director of the Center of Economic and Law Studies in Indonesia,…

The spacecraft with two Russian and one American astronaut took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in KazakhstanA Russian rocket carrying a crew from the United States and Russia has docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:47am (05:47 GMT) on Tuesday. Space flight remains a rare avenue of cooperation between the US and Russia, with ties having broken down after Moscow unleashed its war in Ukraine in February 2022. With NASA’s Jonathan Kim and Russian astronauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky on board, the vessel docked with…

So sharp are partisan divisions these days that it can seem as if people are experiencing entirely different realities. Maybe they actually are, according to Leor Zmigrod, a neuroscientist and political psychologist at Cambridge University. In a new book, “The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking,” Dr. Zmigrod explores the emerging evidence that brain physiology and biology help explain not just why people are prone to ideology but how they perceive and share information.This conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.What is ideology?It’s a narrative about how the world works and how it should work. This potentially…

He was often provocative and absolute, only to change his mind and contradict himself with equal conviction. Laurent Bayle, who succeeded Boulez at IRCAM and Cité de la Musique, and recently published the book “Pierre Boulez, Aujourd’hui” (“Pierre Boulez Today”), said, “There is no ideologue in music like him.”Because Boulez was so powerful, his severity could be poison for any artist who didn’t adhere to his worldview. He disdained vast swaths of repertoire, to the point where he could seem stubbornly incurious, as in his lack of interest in works by Philip Glass and John Adams. Salonen recalled watching Boulez…

Rep. Donald Norcross, D-N.J., “suffered an emergency medical event likely related to his gallbladder” over the weekend while traveling, his office said in a statement on Monday.Norcross “was admitted to UNC Rex Hospital in North Carolina on Sunday and is in stable condition, where he is receiving exceptional medical treatment” while traveling over the weekend.His office says he “is currently in good spirits and wants to thank the doctors, nurses, and support staff at UNC Rex Hospital for all their work on his behalf during his stay.”The legislator will be transferred to Cooper University Healthcare in New Jersey “in the coming days…

Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Taylor Swift and Kanye West. Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis.Elton John and Madonna?In the annals of celebrity feuds, the one between these two music industry titans does not rank particularly high. In fact, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that they had a dispute decades ago that remained unresolved.Until this weekend, that is, when they made up backstage at “Saturday Night Live.” The two effusively announced the reconciliation on social media.“We Finally Buried the Hatchet!!!” Madonna wrote on Monday in a long Instagram post that was accompanied by a photograph of the two musicians with their…