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Global News
7 days ago
- Business
- Global News
West Kelowna food bank expands to meet growing needs
The food bank in West Kelowna, B.C., has doubled in size to meet the growing needs of the community. 'This is a huge day for us,' said Trevor Moss, the Central Okanagan Food Bank's CEO. Located at 3710 Hoskins Rd,, the new 3,700-square-foot food bank was celebrated at a grand opening on Tuesday. The new space allows for increased food storage capabilities as more people access services. 'Year over year there was a 31 per cent increase in West Kelowna in clients accessing the food bank,' Moss said. 'That's unfortunately tremendous growth,' Moss said. Moss said the West Kelowna location is seeing nearly 70 new households access services every month. 'There always used to be a safety net out there. I think that safety net has been removed and people are now just hanging onto the ropes,' Moss said. 'That's what's happening in our society. This is what's happening in our economy.' Story continues below advertisement 1:08 Canadians cut back on charity as economic pressures mount Lee Taylor is a senior on a fixed income and has come to rely on the food bank to help make ends meet. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'What do you do? You got to eat,' Taylor said. Nancy Nickel has volunteered with the organization for 36 years and has seen the demand grow first hand. 'I'm sad but I just want to be there to help them and if they need a hug, I want to be here to give it because there is a lot of sadness out there,' Nickel told Global News. The food bank in West Kelowna was one of the first food banks to open in Canada in 1982. Called Robes, Loaves and Fishes, the food bank began operating out of the Emmanuel Church on Hebert Road. Story continues below advertisement 'It was a starting point and we could help people and it grew from there,' said Nickel as she described those early days operating the food bank out of a closet-sized room. 4:22 Grocery prices set to rise The first food bank in the country opened in Edmonton in 1981. 'One of the reasons why food banks were started up was just to to meet that immediate need,' Moss said. 'I don't think anyone realized that, even to this day, that people would need us as much as they do.' The Central Okanagan Food Bank has leased the new West Kelowna location and is working towards building it's own, permanent facility in the coming years.
Globe and Mail
02-06-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
High Grade Ni/PGE Adjoining Globex's Tyrone Property
ROUYN-NORANDA, Quebec, June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GLOBEX MINING ENTERPRISES INC. (GMX – Toronto Stock Exchange, G1MN – Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich, Tradegate, Lang & Schwarz, LS Exchange, TTMzero, Düsseldorf and Quotrix Düsseldorf Stock Exch anges and GLBXF – OTCQX International in the US) is pleased to inform shareholders that Azimut Exploration Inc. has announced additional positive assays from the Perseus Nickel Zone discovered in 2024 adjoining to the southeast of Globex's Tyrone Property located in the Eeyou Istchee (James Bay) region of Quebec. The previously reported drill results on the Perseus discovery includes the following as reported by Azimut: 2.98% Ni, 0.32% Cu, 2.25 g/t PGE over 8.0 m, incl. 3.74% Ni, 0.41% Cu, 2.82 g/t PGE over 6.0 m (channel) 1.10% Ni, 0.15% Cu, 1.02 g/t PGE over 9.0 m, incl. 1.42% Ni, 0.19% Cu, 1.36 g/t PGE over 6.0 m (channel) 1.64% Ni, 0.11% Cu, 1.12 g/t PGE over 8.5 m incl. 3.55% Ni, 0.19% Cu, 2.19 g/t PGE over 2.5 m; and 0.90% Ni, 0.32 g/t PGE over 9.05 m (Hole KUK24-001) 8.42% Ni, 0.55% Cu, 7.25 g/t PGE over 1.9 m (Hole KUK24-002) 0.81% Ni, 0.52 g/t PGE over 24.2 m, incl. 1.63% Ni, 0.14% Cu, 1.61 g/t PGE over 1.25 m; and 3.46% Ni, 0.21% Cu, 2.44 g/t PGE over 0.75 m (Hole KUK24-003) 6.06% Ni, 0.38% Cu, 3.34 g/t PGE over 2.6 m incl. 19.6% Ni, 0.81% Cu, 9.43 g/t PGE over 0.75 m; and 3.18% Ni, 0.15% Cu, 1.17 g/t PGE over 1.7 m (Hole KUK24-007) In a press release dated May 29, 2025, (click here to access), Azimut announced the assay results of 'Thirty (30) selected high-grade nickel samples from the Perseus Nickel Zone, all with grades higher than 3.0% Ni ranging from 3.46% to 19.60% Ni, were analysed for the complete suite of PGE (Platinum Group Elements), including platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), and the rarest PGEs, rhodium (Rh), iridium (lr), ruthenium (Ru) and osmium (Os). These nickel samples are commonly associated with high palladium grades ranging from 1.16 g/t Pd to 12.15 g/t Pd, and high platinum grades up to 3.65 g/t Pt. These samples also returned significant grades for the rarest PGEs, with up to 1.16 g/t Rh, 0.43 g/t Ir, 2.75 g/t Ru and 0.45 g/t Os, adding significant potential value to the Perseus Zone. For indicative purposes only, the current market prices for some of the PGE's are: rhodium: US$5,325/oz.; iridium: US$4,150/oz., platinum: US$1,088/oz., palladium: US$998/oz. and ruthenium: US$615/oz. (prices as of May 27, 2025; source Johnson Matthey (https:/ Gold and tellurium contents are also anomalous, with grades up to 1.13 g/t Au and 32.1 g/t Te respectively. The additional assay data indicates greater economic potential than previously thought. The high-grade mineralization intersected in previously reported drill holes and the new high-grade nickel and Platinum Group Elements (PGE) mineralized system associated with komatiitic volcanics bears similarities to Archean Kambalda-type komatiitic nickel deposits as found in the Kambalda district of Western Australia. The high-grade mineralization is associated with a magnetic anomaly which can be followed onto Globex's Tyrone property into an area not previously extensively explored. This is highly prospective as Azimut reports that the zone 'remains open in all directions'. Other parts of the Tyrone property show numerous high-grade copper, gold and silver occurrences in trenches and grab samples of up to 47.2 g/t Au, 71 g/t Ag and 7.4% Cu. This press release was written by Jack Stoch, P. Geo., President and CEO of Globex in his capacity as a Qualified Person (Q.P.) under NI 43-101. We Seek Safe Harbour. Foreign Private Issuer 12g3 – 2(b) CUSIP Number 379900 50 9 LEI 529900XYUKGG3LF9PY95 For further information, contact: Jack Stoch, President & CEO Globex Mining Enterprises Inc. 86, 14 th Street Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec Canada J9X 2J1 Tel.: 819.797.5242 Fax: 819.797.1470 info@ Forward-Looking Statements: Except for historical information, this news release may contain certain 'forward-looking statements'. These statements may involve a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity and performance to be materially different from the expectations and projections of Globex Mining Enterprises Inc. ('Globex'). No assurance can be given that any events anticipated by the forward-looking information will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what benefits Globex will derive therefrom. A more detailed discussion of the risks is available in the 'Annual Information Form' filed by Globex on
Hindustan Times
13-05-2025
- Hindustan Times
Page to screen: The Nickel Boys
Subjugation, not education, is the cornerstone of Nickel Academy, a reform school for young offenders in America's Jim Crow South. Crushing the spirit overrides igniting the minds of Black students kept separate and unequal on campus. The default language spoken by the staff is violence. As a fresh-faced idealist shaped by Martin Luther King's sermons about loving your oppressor and breaking down racial barriers with non-violence learns, 'violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.' Colson Whitehead modelled the fictional reformatory of his 2019 novel The Nickel Boys on Dozier School, a Florida institution that closed in 2011 after operating for more than a century despite repeated allegations of beatings, rape, forced labour and murder at the hands of staff. Dozens of boys are estimated to have died on campus grounds with three times as many black victims as white. As of 2019, 82 unmarked graves had been found. The anonymity of the black youth who suffered endless abuse at Dozier led Whitehead to imagine their untold stories in The Nickel Boys, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about a life-changing friendship between two boys, Elwood and Turner, hoping to survive a school of horrors. Whitehead presents the sickening reality of everyday life in Nickel with a thoughtful restraint. Not one to lay it on thick, he is forensic with his prose whether describing a young Elwood playing games with the kitchen staff at the hotel where his nana works, his after-school job at a convenience store or the systemic cruelties at Nickel. Maintaining a plainspoken tone throughout lends a devastating weight to the story as it progresses. While walking to college for his first day of classes, Elwood unknowingly hitchhikes with a man driving a stolen car and gets sentenced to Nickel. At first glance, Nickel looks innocuous with its manicured green lawns and red-brick buildings, like the college he almost went to or any other. The grisly truth reveals itself once he is directed to the black side of the campus. Just as Whitehead keeps the violence largely off page in the novel, RaMell Ross keeps it off frame in his blistering film adaptation. It is hidden away in the edges and shadows of subjectivity. Cries of students savagely beaten at night are masked by the drones of an industrial fan. When Elwood (Ethan Herisse) sees a young boy being harassed by two bullies in the dormitory bathroom, he intervenes — a gesture that earns all four a visit to the torture chamber. There, each student is flogged with a leather strap by the white superintendent Spencer (Hamish Linklater). The camera, standing in for the darting eyes of a nervous Elwood waiting for his turn, glances at a Bible on a nearby table and his restless legs. Ross doesn't show the flogging. Instead, he cuts to fuzzy stills of Dozier boys from the archives. The distorted images of real lives folded into fiction serve to challenge the sanitising of history while condemning the violence of erasure. Where the book is written in the third person, the film is shot almost entirely from a first-person vantage. We are thrust into the film with the camera aligned with the subjective perspectives of Elwood and Turner. We are invited to inhabit their perspectives, see what they see, hear what they hear, fear what they fear, and experience the terror of their everyday life and the poetry of their resilience. It is a formal choice purposed to untether blackness from an essentialised mode of looking, to reclaim black stories from white imaginations. And it shifts the very nature of how we engage with the film, from passive spectators to active witnesses. The stakes feel immediate and enveloping as we are kept rooted in a limited subjectivity and refused the respite of blinking at the horrors. Images of violence against black bodies have been historically refracted through the depersonalising, voyeuristic lenses of white image-makers. In reimagining Whitehead's novel, Ross takes Toni Morrison's advice: 'Take away the gaze of the white male. Once you take that out, the whole world opens up.' Abandoned by his parents, Elwood grew up with his nana Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) in segregated Tallahassee. He is a diligent student, loves reading encyclopaedias and plans to go to college. When he gets a Dr King record for Christmas, it awakens a strong belief in justice and civil rights. In the film, a young Elwood is introduced to Dr King when he sees the 'How Long, Not Long' speech on a TV through a store display window – where we also catch a teasing glimpse of Elwood in the reflection. Our first view of him in the full comes when he meets Turner (Brandon Wilson) at the cafeteria table in Nickel. The point of view switches from Elwood's to Turner's with the same scene playing from both their perspectives to contrast their dispositions. Turner is the sceptical pragmatist to Elwood's naive idealist. The key to surviving Nickel is no different to surviving outside, Turner tells Elwood. 'You gotta watch how people act. What they do. And then try to figure out how to get around them, like an obstacle course.' Navigating the obstacle course together puts Turner's honed every-man-for-himself instincts to the test. When Elwood is recovering from his beatings in the infirmary, Turner eats soap powder to make himself sick and join him. Riding out the sentence is easier said than done when at the mercy of a sadist like Spencer. But the pair's bond grants them the courage to dream of an escape out of Nickel. The film centres Elwood and Turner's shared destiny without forgoing any aspects of the brutal conditions that birth their alliance. That separate is inherently unequal is evidenced by the frayed clothes black students are given, the unpaid jobs they are coerced into and the brutality they are subjected to. When a black boy misunderstands the staff's instructions to tank a rigged game against a white opponent, he is beaten to death for insubordination. Abuse is so normalised it is spoken of in euphemisms. The torture chamber is nicknamed 'the white house' by the black boys and 'the ice cream factory' by the white boys limping out with multi-coloured bruises. 'A date on Lovers' Lane' suggests rape. 'Community service' refers to a door-to-door facility provided to local businessmen who pay Nickel a tidy sum for the supplies meant for black students. This vile enterprise is made doubly so by the fact that Turner and Elwood are enlisted to help the white student Harper (Fred Hechinger) on his delivery assignments in town. Leaving school grounds allows the two to taste the brief but sweet joy of freedom. But the potential consequences if the two, as opposed to Harper, were to give in to the temptation to escape underlines the power asymmetry of segregation. The doctrine of separate but equal is further complicated at Nickel by Jamie, a student of Mexican descent who keeps getting tossed back and forth between the black and white sides of the school because the staff can't seem to agree on where he belongs. When Elwood and Turner converse, the boomeranging POVs resemble a shot/reverse shot. The fluidity of the camerawork ensures we are never taken out of the story. The camera becoming the eyes of Elwood and Turner doesn't mean it moves and blinks like the human eye. Instead of an accurate simulation of 20/20 vision, Ross opts for a more lyrical approximation that stays true to the story's emotional scope. The leads performing with a camera rigged to their bodies or performing with a camera as scene partner doesn't rob the film of its gravity. It simply puts the emphasis on the power of perspective over the strength of performance. If the novel opens with an exhumation of bodies in the present, the film opens with an evocation of memories from the past: oranges dangle from a tree in the warm breeze of sunny Florida; below a hand strokes the grass in a yard; a gentle voice beckons a young Elwood to come inside. Light, sensory details and impressionist touches give vivid shape to memories, be it condensation on a beer can from the time Elwood's parents played cards with friends or nana icing a cake. Ross adds his own poetic flourishes to enrich his POV conceit: pencils drop from the ceiling in a magical moment when a Dr King speech is played in class; sparks from a pick-up truck dragging a crucifix along the road and cameos from stray alligators heighten the hellish nightmare of Nickel. The first-person perspective flips to third when the film flashes forward from the events at Nickel to an adult Elwood (Daveed Diggs) living with his girlfriend, running a moving company and growing old in New York. It's as if he had to become a whole different person to survive. The camera stays over the shoulder of a man who has dissociated to keep the past in the past but remains haunted by the spectre of trauma. Limiting the POV to the third person allowed Whitehead to withhold the big reveal at the end. Oscillating between dual perspectives and between the past and present doesn't soften the weight of the reveal in the film. But the reveal itself shouldn't surprise alert viewers. As for the truth about Nickel, it doesn't come out until the 2010s when unmarked graves are discovered on the site where the reformatory once stood and now an office park is to be built by a real estate developer. A shocking atrocity is but a cause of annoyance for the developer. Like Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, Nickel Boys is a saga about escaping Deep South captivity, informed by real-life atrocities American history would rather sweep under the rug. That Elwood and Turner come up against horrors Cora and Cesar were subjected to a century before attests to how little had changed. The ghosts of the injustices that transpired feel present to this day: in police harassment, disproportionate incarceration, hyper-surveillance and all the promising futures derailed by a system focused on social control and maintaining the power hierarchy within the US. Reformatories were established with the belief that young offenders were deserving of mercy away from hardened adult criminals. But it was neither mercy nor a foundation for adulthood that these schools offered. Prahlad Srihari is a film and pop culture writer. He lives in Bangalore.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
EPA to expedite West Lake landfill cleanup
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to expedite the cleanup of nuclear waste left over from the Manhattan Project. Families impacted by the West Lake Landfill said they are thrilled to see the new timeline of the cleanup. 'This gives our community some hope. A lot of people really kind of lost that hope not seeing any action, always hearing delay, delay, delay,' Karen Nickel, co-founder of Just Moms STL, said. Nickel said last month's visit from new EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin was the push the community needed. 'This was one of the most powerful, heartbreaking communities that he's had to listen to, and it is devastating,' she said. The timeline said the cleanup plan will be submitted in October. Dawn Chapman said the plan includes feedback from families impacted. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now 'They've taken a lot of the stuff that we've had to say into consideration and put it in there and that means a lot,' she said. 'So, the community will have had a very strong voice in the making of the plan and how they do this.' Another key piece of the plan is the consent decree, which said the EPA's goal is to reach the agreement with the party responsible. If they can't reach an agreement, the EPA can force them. 'Really, what that comes down to is EPA will come in, the work will start, and then they'll charge time three whatever the price tag is. So, that is a boot on the neck of the Department of Energy, who made this mess,' Chapman said. Senator Josh Hawley said he is working to get another tour soon with the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 'Anytime that you can get an agency or a cabinet member to come in and look at your community and see the devastation and agree with the devastation, it is powerful for this community,' said Nickel. . Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Miami Herald
13-04-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
FIU hoping that QB Christian Langford signing is a building block
For the next few years, it will be interesting to follow the careers of two Georgia quarterbacks – FIU's Christian Langford and Miami's Luke Nickel. They faced each other last year in Georgia's Class 5A football state final. Nickel won that contest as Milton defeated Langston Hughes, 56-35. Nickel completed 21-of-22 passes for 408 yards and four touchdowns. Langford completed 15-of-19 passes for 245 yards. He also ran for 66 yards and two TDs. However, Langford's team was held scoreless in the second half. Langford – a track star -- is exceptionally fast, especially for a quarterback, running the 40 in 4.46. When he arrives at FIU this fall, he will join a QB room that includes starter Keyone Jenkins as well as backups Chayden Peery and Clayton Dees. Langford, though, is the only quarterback in that group who was signed by new FIU coach Willie Simmons. 'When Christian was still available in the January recruiting cycle, we jumped on him as soon as possible,' Simmons said. 'We were able to get him on campus (on Jan. 17, and he committed two days later). 'He just wants an opportunity to play.' Langford, a 6-2, 205-pounder, led Langston Hughes High to a 13-2 record this past season, completing 56.9 percent of his passes for 3,258 yards, 38 touchdowns and just four interceptions. He also ran for 632 yards, an 8.4 average and eight touchdowns. FIU offensive coordinator Nick Coleman and special-teams coordinator Kenneth Gilstrap – who are best friends since their playing days at Middle Tennessee State -- deserve major credit for signing Langford. Gilstrap, who is from Atlanta, has known Langford for years. And, as soon as Coleman and Gilstrap were hired, they talked about recruiting Langford, who went unsigned during the early recruiting period in December. 'We tried to keep (our interest in Langford) as quiet as we could for the next few weeks,' said Coleman of the period of time between the December and February signing days. 'Christian is a talented kid, and we were hoping that no other team was on him like we were.' Langford, as it turned out, had three other offers – UCF, Liberty and Troy. But FIU won the recruiting battle, which could turn out to be vital if Langford lives up to his potential. 'He has a world of ability,' Simmons said of Langford. 'He's an explosive athlete, and we're looking to see him compete right away.' THIS AND THAT ▪ Nova Southeastern University suffered a tough loss last week when LeAnn Freeland left the women's basketball program to become the coach at FAU. In 13 years at NSU, she led the Sharks to eight NCAA Division II tournaments, four Elite Eight appearances and one Final Four. She earned a five-year contract with FAU. ▪ St. Thomas University's first-year men's volleyball program is ranked 11th in the nation in the NAIA. The Bobcats (20-1, 13-0) won their conference regular-season title, and they will play for the postseason championship starting on April 17 in Kingsport, Tennessee.
