Firearms and fentanyl shaped like dog treats seized by Metro Vancouver Transit Police | CBC News

Firearms and fentanyl shaped like dog treats seized by Metro Vancouver Transit Police | CBC News

Several firearms, body armour, diamonds and fentanyl shaped like dog treats were among the items seized in a recent bust, Metro Vancouver Transit Police said Tuesday. Two people have been arrested and face multiple charges in connection with a “sophisticated” drug-dealing operation in Surrey, B.C. A pink plastic mould for treats in the shape of dog…

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Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator Nomina | Newswise

Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator Nomina | Newswise

BYLINE: Jeremy Rumsey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The team developed an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without…

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Canada’s privacy commissioner to launch investigation into World Anti-Doping Agency

Canada’s privacy commissioner to launch investigation into World Anti-Doping Agency

Canada’s privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into the World Anti-Doping Agency. The move comes after Philippe Dufresne’s office received a complaint about the Montreal-based agency’s handling of biological samples collected from athletes.  In a release, the office says the investigation will examine whether the collection, use, and disclosure practices of WADA…

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Public Schedule – November 12, 2024 – United States Department of State

Public Schedule – November 12, 2024 – United States Department of State

***THE DAILY PUBLIC SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*** SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN Secretary Blinken is on travel to Belgium, Peru, and Brazil from November 12-20, 2024. DEPUTY SECRETARY KURT M. CAMPBELL 2:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Campbell attends President Biden’s meeting with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at the White House. (MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE) DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR MANAGEMENT…

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British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins the Booker Prize for fiction

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins the Booker Prize for fiction

LONDON – British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station. Harvey was awarded the 50,000-pound (US$64,000) prize for what she has called a “space pastoral” about six astronauts circling the Earth, which she began writing during COVID-19…

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