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High rate of vaccination refusal at 12 Toronto alternative schools creates measles risk, officials say

idiots confuse freedom with health for children and community. Anti Vax

A dozen Toronto alternative schools have enough students who aren’t vaccinated due to their parents’ personal beliefs to put their schools at risk of having a measles outbreak, according to Toronto Public Health.

Weinstein’s reappearance showed he has no shame. I had to call him out | Zoe Stuckless

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There is still a sickening culture of silence and fear around Weinstein. This is how ‘dreammakers’ cling on to their power

• Zoe Stuckless is an actor and artist

I had one of the most surreal nights of my life a couple of weeks ago. A friend of mine invited me to attend an event for emerging actors – a space to collaborate, network and support other artists doing the work we all have chosen to devote our lives to. We were promised an evening of exciting new work, raw and vulnerable comedy performances and “endless networking”. Instead, we were met with Hollywood’s most notorious alleged serial rapist, Harvey Weinstein. More daunting than that, though, was that we were met with a room full of artists who prioritised the comfort of a suspected abuser over the safety of the community they claimed to uplift.

As a smile stretched across his face all I could think of was the faces of the abusers I’ve encountered in my own life

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How key Republicans inside Facebook are shifting its politics to the right

his politics and god is money – nothing more or less. no morals or ethics just money

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Company has been accused of pro-Republican bias, in both policy and personnel, amid fears it could be broken up if a Democrat wins in 2020

Facebook has been accused of pro-Republican bias, in both policy and personnel, amid fears at the company that it could be broken up if a Democrat wins the White House next year.

Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg faced fierce criticism this week, first for including Breitbart – once described by former chairman Steve Bannon as a “platform for the ‘alt-right’” – in its list of trusted sources for Facebook News, then for refusing to ban or factcheck political advertising.

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Johnson ‘knew about Vote Leave’s illegal overspend’, says MP

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Prime minister accused of ‘sitting on information’ after EU referendum

Boris Johnson knew of Vote Leave’s overspend during the 2016 EU referendum, but appears to have failed to tell the authorities, according to explosive new claims from a senior MP. The payment was subsequently ruled to be illegal.

Ian Lucas revealed that he has seen correspondence obtained during the parliamentary inquiry into disinformation and democracy which showed that Johnson’s most senior aide, Dominic Cummings, told the Electoral Commission that the prime minister, and his cabinet colleague Michael Gove, knew of the overspend by the pro-Brexit organisation.

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