Bitter cold hit B.C.’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valley vineyards for five days in January 2024. It wiped out almost the entire crop for the year—killing vines and preventing ones that survived from budding.
If web users can get news from chatbots directly, why should they visit websites? Since Google introduced its AI summaries atop search results, publishers have reported traffic has dropped sharply. And this is only the beginning.
We used to watch World War II movies of evil Gestapo agents snatching people off streets, even violating the confessional in Catholic Churches. Yet, within the past week, masked ICEmen in an unmarked vehicle picked up an “illegal” outside Horizon House on First Hill.
“The Russian war machine will only stop when it runs out of fuel,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a gathering of Western security officials...
Harris quotes her husband’s early summary: “They hide you away for four years, give you impossible shit jobs, don’t correct the record when those tasks are mischaracterized, never fight back when you are attacked, never praise your accomplishments and now, finally, they want you on that balcony, standing right beside them.”
