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Analysis: Here’s how the Hollywood actors’ strike will impact the Canadian film industry

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

By: Ramona Pringle, Toronto Metropolitan University ListenHollywood actors went on strike on July 14, joining film and television writers who have been on the picket lines since May. It’s the first time actors and writers have picketed together since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was the president of the Screen Actors Guild.Following failed talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced the strike at a press conference on July 13.At the heart of the negotiations between the union and the guild are two key issues: residual payments in the streaming era and the ownership of an actor’s likeness if it’s reproduced by artificial intelligence. The union is calling for fairer pay splits and tighter AI regulations over these issues.This strike is a watershed moment for the entertainment industry, marking a turning point for the future of labour in the arts. But it will also have...

Englewood police involved in shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Englewood Police Department was involved in a shooting after an hourslong "tactical operation," the department tweeted on Tuesday night.The situation developed on the 4100 block of S. Cherokee Street around 3 p.m. and a reverse 911 was sent to nearby residents to shelter in place. 1 killed in Highlands Ranch shooting About an hour later, EPD tweeted "W. Oxford Avenue is now closed between S. Bannock Street and S. Delaware Street."EPD continued to warn residents to stay out of the area.At 9:12 p.m., the department tweeted that the situation had "turned into an officer-involved shooting."FOX31 has a crew heading to the scene and updates will be provided as they are received.

Mysterious sounds in ceiling likely uninvited guests terrifying renter

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

NORTHGLENN, Colo. (KDVR) -- You’re watching TV and getting ready for bed and you hear a mysterious scratching sound in the walls or the ceiling. You could be hosting some uninvited guests.Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials get plenty of calls about bears, foxes and other animals entering residential areas but the smaller ones can make themselves at home in tighter spaces.One Northglenn renter told FOX31 she became concerned when she heard strange noises in her ceiling.“It sounds like seven raccoons. I don’t know what’s up in there,” she said. Cat that lived at Coors Field for 10 years needs a new home The renter said the sounds were disturbing to her pet and eventually caused her to fear what could happen next.“Terrified, yes because like you see the indentation in the ceiling like they’re going to come through,” she said.The Problem Solvers have been called by frightened renters who have discovered glowing eyes in the dark in their attic to later discover a family of raccoons ...

1 dead after 3-vehicle crash involving dump truck in Aurora

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A driver is dead after a three-vehicle crash in Aurora on Tuesday morning.According to the Aurora Police Department, the crash happened around 7:30 a.m. involving a Kenworth dump truck and two other vehicles at 11th Avenue and Piccadilly Street. A man in a Ford F150 was driving eastbound on 11th Avenue when he tried to turn left onto Piccadilly Street, according to a release from APD.Another man was driving a dump truck southbound on Picadilly Street when the Ford truck attempted to turn northbound on that road, and the two collided, APD said. 3 killed, 2 seriously injured in Aurora rollover crash The dump truck then went into the northbound lanes, crashing into another vehicle. APD said the driver of that vehicle died at the scene.After the crash, Piccadilly Street was closed in both directions for nearly four hours.The crash is still being investigated by APD's Traffic Investigation Unit, and APD is asking anyone with information or dashboard camera footage to c...

Act now: Amendments to packaging rules will cause ‘flood of plastic’ pollution

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

Imagine you’re in charge of regulating packaging in the European Union. You’re bringing in some new rules to reduce waste and pollution. So far, so good. But then it is revealed that an amendment mandating the reuse of packaging will cause a flood of plastic. That is exactly the opposite of what you’re trying to achieve. Do you vote for it anyway?The answer is obvious. Yet this is the exact dilemma now facing the EU, as it debates proposed amendments to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).Everyone supports what the EU wants to achieve with this regulation. But recent amendments are counterproductive. They would impose mandatory re-use rules for transport packaging in too general a way. In practice, this decision would penalize recyclable materials, like cardboard, while promoting the plastics industry.Analysis from trade association FEFCO has found that, instead of being significantly cut, the amount of unnecessary plastic transport packaging being produced will doub...

Colonial past invades EU’s Latin American summit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

The ghosts of colonial history returned to haunt European and Latin American leaders at their summit in Brussels.For the guests, four hundred years of European colonial rule, economic exploitation and slavery was front of mind. For the hosts, it was Russia’s war on Ukraine in the here and now. The divergence in views was so profound that the two sides struggled to align their thinking at their first summit in eight years — especially to find words to condemn Russia’s war of aggression in their closing communiqué.That made the two-day gathering frustrating for all concerned — but especially for leaders of the EU’s newest member states from Eastern Europe, which have their own bitter memories of Soviet imperial rule and Russian aggression.“It is actually a war of colonization,” Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš said of the 16-month-old Ukraine conflict. “There is a former colonizer, Russia, and a former colony, Ukraine. And the former overlord is trying to ta...

Eloy Jiménez might return to the lineup for the Chicago White Sox in the New York Mets series

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

Chicago White Sox manager Pedro Grifol sensed that Eloy Jiménez wasn’t feeling very optimistic after leaving Sunday’s game with left groin tightness.“I was like, ‘You never know, let’s see what happens (Monday),’” Grifol said.Turns out, the designated hitter/outfielder might be back in the lineup sooner than anticipated.“It’s doing better,” Jiménez said before Tuesday’s game against the New York Mets at Citi Field. “I feel really good. This is not going to be long-term. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day, I don’t know.”Grifol didn’t want to jump the gun after Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Braves, but initially thought “it doesn’t look good for the next four to five days.”The Sox received better news Monday.“At first we were a little bit concerned,” Grifol said. “He woke up (Monday) and he felt great. Feels great today. He’s day to da...

Major League Baseball takes over Diamondbacks’ game broadcasts from Diamond Sports

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

Major League Baseball took over the Arizona Diamondbacks’ game broadcasts after a federal bankruptcy judge granted a motion Tuesday for Diamond Sports to reject its rights agreement.MLB took over production of the broadcasts beginning Tuesday night at Atlanta in a game the Diamondbacks won 16-13. There were some early glitches, which included closed captioning being locked on during the first hour.MLB took over the broadcasts of San Diego Padres games May 31 after Diamond Sports missed a rights fees payment and let the grace period expire. The league set up a local media department during the offseason to prepare for a bankruptcy filing by Diamond Sports, which took place in March.Diamond Sports, which owns 19 regional sports networks under the Bally Sports banner, determined its contract with the Diamondbacks was not profitable. It had a large rights payment due on July 1, but both sides tried to negotiate an amended agreement.Bally Sports Arizona paid the Diamondbacks on a p...

Phoenix scorches at 110 for 19th straight day, breaking big US city records in global heat wave

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — A dangerous 19th straight day of scorching heat in Phoenix set a record for U.S. cities Tuesday, confined many residents to air-conditioned safety and turned the usually vibrant metropolis into a ghost town.The city’s record streak of 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) or more stood out even amid sweltering temperatures across the globe. It reached 117 degrees (47.2 Celsius) by 3 p.m. Human-caused climate change and a newly formed El Nino are combining to shatter heat records worldwide, scientists say.No other major city – defined as the 25 most populous in the United States – has had any stretch of 110-degree (43.3-degree) days or 90-degree (32.2-degree) nights longer than Phoenix, said weather historian Christopher Burt of the Weather Company.“When you have several million people subjected to that sort of thermal abuse, there are impacts,” said NOAA Climate Analysis Group Director Russell Vose, who chairs a committee on national records. For Phoenix, it’s n...

India sets sights on home-mined minerals to boost its clean energy plans

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:44 GMT

KALIAPANI, India (AP) — In the dusty mountains of eastern India, workers at the country’s largest chromium deposit have mined for the essential ore, rain or shine, for around 60 years. The industry is fruitful in some ways — hundreds of trucks stacked with mineral-rich soil journey back and forth regularly between the mine and processing plants — but it is damaging in others. Farmers say their fields are stripped of fertile earth and livestock desperately comb through now-barren lands for feed.“We used to grow chilies and other vegetables earlier but now when it rains all the soil from the mines washes onto our fields,” bringing with it harmful effluent, said Gurucharan Mohant, a 60-year-old farmer from the nearby village of Kaliapani. “Nothing grows here anymore.”Chromium, used mostly as a coating to stop rust in steel and car parts, has been deemed necessary for India’s transition to cleaner energy. A layer of chromium makes solar panels more efficient, and the mineral...