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Residents of Gabriola Island are crossing their fingers that they’ll be able to stop rationing electricity Friday night. Global News spoke with numerous residents on the island, who say they’re frustrated after being told to cut all but essential electricity use for a week.The rationing is due to a storm last Friday that knocked down power lines and snapped the island’s fiber optic cable, according to BC Hydro.That left the island with just a single circuit, rather than the two that would normally keep the island electrified.Ted Olynyk, community relations manager for the Crown Corporation, said he understands residents’ frustrations,…

Ivanie Blondin relishes a heavy workload. The 32-year-old speedskater from Ottawa will compete in six races in three days by the time the World Cup concludes Sunday in Calgary.Blondin was a third of Canada’s women’s pursuit team that won Olympic gold in February. She claimed individual silver in the women’s mass start and also raced the 3,000 and 1,500 in Beijing.In a sport where skaters often specialize in sprints, middle distance or endurance, an all-rounder is rare.“It keeps me motivated,” Blondin said. “I think I’ve proven I can do it.”Blondin placed fourth in the women’s 3,000 metres Friday at the…

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones decided to break his silence on the investigation of the Washington Commanders franchise.Jones has rarely shied away from publicly sharing his opinion on a variety of topics related to the NFL. During his weekly appearance on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, Jones claimed the newly released report from the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee was biased.”First of all, I hope our fans see how politically biased this report is. … This report doesn’t even come out if the Republicans were in Congress,” Jones said. The billionaire blamed the Commanders’ former minority owners for the potential upcoming…

CNN  —  Defeated Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has filed suit in Arizona Superior Court challenging the certification of the state’s election. Lake, who has also amplified former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, makes numerous claims in the 70-page suit, including that printer failures at some polling places disenfranchised voters in Maricopa County, creating a “debacle” in the county. As CNN has previously reported, Maricopa officials have said that printer problems affected about 70 vote centers, preventing some ballots from being read by tabulator machines on Election Day, but that the problems were fixed and that…

Members of Twitter’s 2020 election enforcement Slack channel considered removing a tweet from former Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, including a joke about mail-in ballots, according to a new “Twitter files” thread.”Stood in the rain for hour to early vote today. When I got home I filled my stack of mail-in ballots and then voted the ballots of my deceased parents and grandparents. They vote just like me! #Trump2020,” Huckabee tweeted on Oct. 24, 2020.Substack writer Matt Taibbi revealed that in the Slack channel titled “us2020_xfn_enforcement,” employees at Twitter debated if the tweet should be removed.”Hello <here> putting this tweet…

New York stoners will soon not even have to leave their homes to get high on marijuana. State regulators unveiled new rules Friday allowing newly licensed retailers to make home deliveries of weed and THC-infused edible products — even before their shops open for business. Customers can place online/phone orders only — cash payments to delivery workers are prohibited. Deliveries can be made by bicycles, scooters or other modes of transport including cars — much like restaurants make deliveries, the Office of Cannabis Management says. Customers will be required to show ID that they’re age 21 or over upon delivery.…

How an expectant mother with visual impairment was able to ‘see’ her baby Doctors helped expectant Nebraska mother, Ashton Johnson, who has a visual impairment, get a better idea of what her unborn baby looks like with an innovative 3D printed ultrasound. CNN affiliate KETV has the story. Source: CNN

Argentina goalkeeper Emi Martinez saved penalties from Virgil van Dijk and Steven Berghuis before Lautaro Martinez scored the winning spot kick to secure them a 4-3 shootout win over the Netherlands on Friday after their World Cup quarter-final finished 2-2 after 120 minutes. In a scrappy half-hour of extra time with the scores level, Enzo Fernandez rattled the post in the closing seconds while Martinez and German Pezzella also had efforts blocked or parried away as Argentina desperately pushed for a winner. The Netherlands had rarely troubled Argentina during the match before substitute Wout Weghorst’s header in the 83rd minute…

Baby makes three? Bachelorette’s JoJo Fletcher opened up about newlywed life with husband Jordan Rodgers — and their hopes to become parents sooner rather than later. “I loved our life together before as an engaged couple,” Fletcher, 32, told Ok! Magazine in an interview published on Friday, December 9. “But there is this excitement now of talking about building a family together in the near future that is really special.” Fletcher and Rodgers, 34, who met during season 12 of The Bachelorette in 2016, tied the knot in May in California after having to reschedule their wedding twice due to complications amid the…

A cat and several kittens are recovering after being rescued from a sealed box that had been thrown in a dumpster. The Okanagan Humane Society (OHS) says a passerby in Penticton investigated after hearing some faint meowing on Nov. 25 and was shocked to find the sounds coming from inside a heavily taped box.In an interview with Global News, OHS said the box had 11 cats inside: A mother cat, eight kittens that were around three weeks old and two older kittens, possibly from an older litter. Read more: B.C. resident captures video of cute bobcat kitten Read More B.C.…