One concern about the NHL I've always had and it's never mentioned anywhere, why the hell does Canada have the biggest TV contract for the league and not the U.S? 7 teams vs 25. Think of the non-stop U.S expansion for over 3 decades in many huge markets and yet the biggest one is in the great white north.
Canada:
Broadcaster: Rogers (Sportsnet, etc.)
Value: about $7.7 billion USD (≈ $11 billion CAD)
Length: 12 years (2026–27 through 2037–38)
Per year: roughly $640 million USD/year
U.S:
Broadcasters: ESPN/ABC (Disney) + Turner (TNT/TBS)
Value: about $4.5 billion USD total
Length: 7 years (2021–22 to 2027–28)
Per year: roughly $625 million USD combined
Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:
* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.
There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.
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"We have a vaccine that prevents shingles, a vaccine that markedly lowers the risk of dementia, and a vaccine that might even slow aging itself. Conveniently, these three vaccines are actually just one: the shingles vaccine. But fewer than half of eligible Americans have received the vaccine." https://t.co/VKyZMDHJdj
This week NordSpace's CEO, Rahul Goel, appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence (NDDN) in our nation's capital to make the case for sovereign space launch: Canadian payloads, on Canadian rockets, from Canadian soil. Specifically, how NordSpace has spent years methodically and meticulously executing on its step-by-step plan to sustainably evolve capabilities, capital, and cadence.
Rahul's message was clear. Assured access to space underpins navigation, communications, and surveillance for the Canadian Armed Forces and our allies. Unnecessary delays in achieving sustained operational capabilities chasing science experiments, buying foreign products, or developing impractical capabilities results in Canadian lives at stake, on and off the battlefield. When Canada cannot deploy or replenish a satellite at home with our own people, intellectual property, supply chains, and infrastructure, foreign nations are making national security decisions on our behalf.
Sovereign launch also represents more than 1,000 skilled jobs over the coming decade, sustained demand for Canadian aluminum and critical minerals, and intellectual property that remains in Canada which can evolve with changing requirements. We are scaling our Ontario manufacturing facility tenfold toward 235 employees, expanding our spaceport in Newfoundland and Labrador, and signing launch service agreements.
A suborbital demonstration of our Taiga rocket powered by our in-house designed and manufactured 3D printed Hadfield engines is weeks away. Our Terra Nova satellite is bound for orbit this year to use artificial intelligence at the edge to assess threats from space, both security and environmental. Our spaceport, the Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), is ready to scale to medium-lift and beyond, with design and construction ongoing as we speak.
We are grateful to the Committee for the invitation, and for taking sovereign launch seriously. Encouraging measures such as the Defence Industrial Strategy, the Launch the North challenge, and the Canadian Space Launch Act signal to industry and investors that Canada is serious.
NordSpace is not here merely to survive. We are here to win, in Canada and globally. But Canada has a choice to make, and a narrow window in which to make it. Will we be participants, or leaders in space? Will we be buyers, or builders?
As BGen Horner, Commander of 3 Canadian Space Division, said: "From the Arctic to cislunar space, Canada's strategic environment is expanding. And so must our ambition."
@NationalDefence@DavidMcGuinty@DRDC_RDDC@CanadianForces Charles Sousa @jamesbezan@SherryRomanado Philip Earle Scott Anderson @cherylgallant Lori Idlout @JeffKibbleCML@VivianeLapointe Chris Malette Tim Watchorn Christine N. Tim W.
The Reckless Ben and Bricks and Minifigs controversy is unreal.
Highlights:
-YouTuber inherits $200k worth of Legos from Father
-CEO of B&M Ammon McNeff buys retailer, steals Legos
-RB Requests Legos, CEO refuses, sells them instead
-RB Sues and WINS but CEO refuses to pay
-RB travels to Utah to serve the CEO Papers
-Cops show up, arrest RB, accuse him of "stealing legos" (and drugs)
-He is swatted at one point, nothing found (he didn't steal they did)
-RB is held against his will for multiple days
-RB by a stroke of LUCK, convinces judge to release him
-RB is unable to serve papers and FLEES to Mexico
-RB is now fighting to expose a MASSIVE Mormon Conspiracy of INSANE proportions (hundreds of millions) and fraud that you would not believe
(not to mention police corruption and a MORMON MAFIA)
-the CEO is risking a $400 million company/millions in damages just so he can steal $200k Legos
-Utah gets exposed as Mormon Israel.
This is the most insane case of blatant corruption, actual Mafia's and a genuine SOCIOPATH CEO (one for the medical books) I have ever seen, be advised folks, I 100% Stand With Ben and will likely investigate myself... absolutely historical/diabolical.
BREAKING - as of this morning, 12% of Florida's for sale homes are in active fire sale territory.
This means they have been sitting on market, the seller is actively cutting prices and increasing the frequency of those price cuts.
The pressure is mainly concentrated in Tampa and Fort Myers, where fire sales now top 30% of listings in some submarkets.
This means sellers cannot find buyers even though they want to.
RAS finally getting drugged is one of the great stories in modern biology, and almost nobody outside oncology understands why it's such a big deal.
YOU'LL LEARN SOMETHING AWESOME TODAY.
i am going to keep this as understandable (and simple) as i can.
OPEN THE THREAD.
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I offer the same props to @spittinchiclets@ryanwhitney6@BizNasty2point0 and also @KYandle93. These guys became stars because they are fun, candid, silly, interesting and humble. Today it was obvious that they’re also smart, caring and really interested in making a difference. Good on them. As I told them- they have the best platform on earth to change the way men see mental health.