Cartels are something I usually associate with crooked politicians or the mob. But did you know our northern neighbor has a maple syrup cartel? Apparently Canada is to maple syrup what Saudi Arabia is to oil in that Canada produces up to 78 percent of the world’s maple syrup. More specifically it’s Canada’s Federation of…
Chris White Some industry experts believe Tesla should hire a female executive to direct CEO Elon Musk away from Twitter and toward reliably producing the kind of vehicles the Silicon Valley expects. A woman might be exactly what Tesla needs to steer Musk clear of his erratic Twitter behavior, according to Jeff Cohn, a managing partner…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Via the BBC: “A teacher is facing disciplinary action at his school after he referred to a transgender pupil as a girl, although the student identifies as a boy. Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian pastor from Oxford, admitted he said “Well done girls” when addressing a group including the student. He…
Who doesn’t love chicken? But two Texas men took their love of the delicious fowl to extremes. A fight that erupted over the last piece of chicken left one man dead and another charged with murder. ABC13 reports: HOUSTON (KTRK) — A fight over dinner has left one man dead, and another man charged with…
By Greg Campbell A Canadian teenager cost the National Park Service thousands of dollars and risked the lives of nearly 30 rescuers when he tried to climb one of Colorado’s most daunting mountains — still covered in snow and ice — wearing sneakers and a T-shirt. Nineteen-year-old Samuel Frappier of Quebec set out for the…
Victoria Mendez was driving home from work at around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night when she saw her estranged son standing near the corner, just down the street from her house on the northern Glendale-Phoenix border. “I rolled my passenger window down and I said, ‘Hey Hakeem, what’s up? How are you doing?’” she explained. “And he popped…
