One-Third of First Nation’s Reserves Are at Risk of Unsafe Water: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Water treatment plants are failing on reserves across Canada
“Among Canada’s 600-plus reserves are numerous examples of failed water-treatment plants, water towers and other infrastructure. Some were undersized or poorly designed. Others used inappropriate technology. Still others failed prematurely because they were not properly maintained.”
2. Uber’s hires former U.S. Attorney General to lead review of sexism allegations
“Uber is moving fast to try and quell backlash from a damning blog post that alleged the company suffers from rampant sexism and failed at every turn to solve the issue. According to an internal email sent to Uber employees this afternoon, CEO Travis Kalanick says his company has brought on former US Attorney General Eric Holder to oversee “an independent review” of the issues raised by former employee Susan Fowler, whose blog post on Sunday about her work experience went viral and resulted in widespread outrage.”
+1: Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber – Susan Fowler
3. Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos resigns following outrage over his past comments about pedophilia
“Milo Yiannopoulos, the incendiary writer and commentator who helped make Breitbart News a leading organ of the “alt-right,” resigned from the news organization Tuesday after a video of him endorsing pedophilia resurfaced online over the weekend.”
4. Trump details plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants
In the documents released today, the Department of Homeland Security “is directed to begin the process of hiring 10,000 new immigration and customs agents, expanding the number of detention facilities and creating an office within Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help families of those killed by undocumented immigrants.”
5. New evidence for the strange idea that the universe is a hologram
“On the human scale a holographic universe would be indistinguishable from the reality we expect, but on a cosmic scale there could be subtle differences we might be able to detect.”
– Nautilus
