Archive for December 2024

In today’s Europe, an inverted trend of coercive assimilation is emerging in northern nations grappling with high levels of immigration. As a part of what has been described as both “ethnic engineering” and among the “harshest immigration policies” in the world, Denmark is forcibly uprooting people from neighborhoods they call “ghettos” and redirecting them to alternative housing. In neighboring Sweden, politicians have expressed a desire to pursue similar plans.

Maison de Lauberivière, a Quebec City shelter, will serve as the site for the expanded PRISM program…. Mayor Bruno Marchand said the new program is a welcome step, but isn’t enough to address what has become a major problem in his city, and others across the province.

The study focused on Italian mayors. Our findings support the idea that women face double standards when it comes to political violence. They are targeted even when they make the same decisions as men. Misogyny and gender bias may cause people to judge female leaders more harshly. Using detailed measures of mayoral performance, we found that the gender gap in attacks only appears when mayors perform poorly. In these cases, women are more likely to be targeted than men for similar shortcomings. This aligns with other evidence of double standards against women in the corporate world.

These daily oral antiretrovirals, more commonly referred to as PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), such as Truvada®, are extremely effective at HIV prevention, but only if they are taken daily as directed. Truvada’s efficacy is greatly compromised when taken inconsistently. However, results from a recent Gilead-funded clinical trial (Purpose-2) led by physicians at Emory University and Grady Health System indicate that a twice-yearly injection of Lenacapavir offers a 96% reduced risk of infection overall, making the injection significantly more effective than the daily oral PrEP.

Welfare chief Chris Sun has pushed back against concerns that a new scheme mandating an hour of unpaid work weekly will stigmatise or burden welfare recipients.