Christie Brinkley celebrates feeling 'finally happy' at 70

CBC

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday his party is vehemently opposed to the government's forthcoming online harms legislation, a bill designed to combat hate speech, terrorist content and some violent material on the internet.Saying he won't accept "Justin Trudeau's woke authoritarian agenda," Poilievre said the prime minister and his government shouldn't be deciding what constitutes "hate speech" online and called the legislation an "attack on freedom of expression.""Justin Trude

The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says there are now more millennials than baby boomers in the country, ending the 65-year reign of the post-Second World War generation as the largest cohort in the population. The federal agency noted the change in its newly released population estimate for July 1, 2023, broken down by age and gender. The baby boomer generation became the largest in Canada in 1958 — seven years before the last baby boomer was even born. They accounted for 40 per cent of the population

Associated Press

Nearly half a century after “Hotel California” became a rock megahit, three men went on trial Wednesday in a criminal case about what became of a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to the song and other Eagles favorites. The key witness is expected to be Eagles co-founder Don Henley, who wants to recover the manuscripts. The defendants are all well-established professionals in the collectibles world, and they got the documents from a writer and 1960s counterculture figure with rock roots of his own.

Storyful

A trio of concert staff were spotted dancing and jumping along to Taylor Swift’s performance during her show in Melbourne, Victoria, on Sunday, February 18.Video captured by Chelsea Badger shows the crew members dancing to “Love Story”.Badger posted the video to TikTok with the caption “On the payroll & the dance floor”.Swift’s three shows at the Melbourne Cricket Ground were the largest of the Eras Tour and her career, with 96,000 people in attendance each night. Credit: Chelsea Badger via Storyful

CNN

The SEC’s approval of a merger between Trump Media & Technology Group and Digital World Acquisition Corp. could have even larger implications for Trump’s bank account — and, more importantly, the 2024 presidential election and the role of media and money in it — than the civil fraud ruling, writes David Zurawik.

The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his long-promised legislation to protect Canadians against online harms is coming next week. Trudeau announced the timeline at a news conference in Edmonton, saying the bill will be focused on protecting children. He says kids are vulnerable to hatred, violence and bullying online, and society needs to do a better job protecting them. He also pushed back against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who says the bill will only amount to the Liberals po