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Efforts to tackle false information through fact-checking or media literacy initiatives increases the public’s skepticism toward “fake news.” However, they also breed distrust in genuine, fact-based news sources, a UZH-led study using online survey experiments in the US, Poland and Hong Kong shows.
Over the course of 70 years of operation, the facility treated thousands of patients who had been deemed mentally ill. Sprawling across almost 900 acres and encompassing more than 80 buildings, the hospital had its own golf course, bowling alley, baseball field, bakery, and a massive dairy farm that supported an in-house ice cream parlor. At its peak, the facility housed 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees.
The Montreal-based housing advocate – FRAPRU (Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain) – is calling on the Quebec government to double the number of social housing units in the province within 15 years. The organization, which brings together housing committees and citizens’ associations, made the request on Sunday, following a three-day congress in Sherbrooke.
Products containing psychoactive compounds such as cannabis or mushroom extracts are increasing in availability. These “edibles” are often sold as gummy candies, chocolate, or other snack foods. They might contain undisclosed ingredients, including illicit substances, other adulterants, or potentially harmful contaminants that are not approved for use in food.
A Washington Post investigation has found that over the past two decades, hundreds of law enforcement officers in the United States have sexually abused children while officials at every level of the criminal justice system have failed to protect kids, punish abusers and prevent additional crimes. Police and sheriff’s departments have enabled predators by botching background checks, ignoring red flags and mishandling investigations. Accused cops have used their knowledge of the legal system to stall cases, get charges lowered or evade convictions. Prosecutors have given generous plea deals to officers who admitted to raping and groping minors. Judges have allowed many convicted officers to avoid prison time.
Green Councillor Guy Poultney… said: “The rate of the expansions of both universities massively outpaces the rate at which the [local] authority can reasonably be expected to build new accommodation. The universities are the housing crisis in Bristol and that needs to be borne in mind.”
EU police forces have warned of industrial-scale exploitation of African children by cocaine networks operating in western Europe in cities including Paris and Brussels as they seek to expand Europe’s £10bn cocaine market. Above: Refugee boys in the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla.
KL, father of R, sits on her bed in her old room, which has stayed just the way it was before she went to a Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities facility