Kellie Leitch Reveals Plans to Crack Down on Protestors: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today:
1. Kellie Leitch calls to ‘lock up’ pipeline protestors
“Conservative party leadership contender Kellie Leitch wants to crack down on and surveil those who interfere with natural resource development projects in Canada.
“‘There is a place for legitimate protest, but we will lock up the agitators and activists who resort to vandalism and violence when they do not get their way,’ Leitch wrote Tuesday morning on Facebook, the medium she uses for most of her campaign communications.”
2. The pessimist’s guide to 2017
“From social breakdown in the U.S. to a nuclear crisis in North Korea to the defeat of Angela Merkel in Germany, the potential for chaos is just as great. These aren’t predictions. But they show what your social-media news feed could look like if things go wrong.”
3. Mark Carney warns about popular disillusion with capitalism
“Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has warned that people will reject free and open markets unless something is done to help those left behind by the financial crisis and globalisation.”
– BBC
4. Trump’s America is a rerun
“‘The Apprentice’ showed us who Trump really is. His presidency is just syndication.”
+1: Did Donald Trump tank Boeing’s stock because he was mad about a news article? – Washington Post
5. Scientists think the speed of light has slowed, and now they’re trying to prove it
“This theory of the variable speed of light was—and still is—controversial. But according to a new paper published in November in the physics journal Physical Review D, it could be experimentally tested in the near future. If the experiments validate the theory, it means that the laws of nature weren’t always the same as what we experience today and would require a serious revision of Einstein’s theory of gravity.”
