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Okanagan College (OC) has signed partnerships with key tourism organizations to strengthen its programming and create new opportunities for students. These agreements are with the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA), the Tourism Industry Association of BC (TIABC), and Tourism HR Canada (THRC). “The tourism sector across Canada is a major driver of our economy and a major employer, with one in 10 employed Canadians working in the sector,” said Joe Baker, Dean of the OC School of Business. The partnerships will align OC’s tourism and hospitality curriculum with industry standards. They will also provide opportunities for students to gain practical experience and build connections through Work Integrated Learning. Okanagan College will align its programming with Tourism HR Canada’s SMART accreditation program. Members of TOTA, TIABC, and THRC will serve on OC’s program advisory committee, offering valuable industry guidance. The collaboration also opens doors for applied research projects and grant opportunities through OC’s Department of Applied Research and its BC Beverage and Technology Access Centre (BCBTAC). “We are focused on creating programming that fits the needs of our communities, and supporting the food, beverage, and tourism industries is a perfect fit,” said Samantha Lenci, OC Provost and Vice President Academic. “We look forward to having dynamic programming available when our new Centre for Food, Wine and Tourism is complete in 2027.” Okanagan College already offers a variety of programs supporting these industries, including its Tourism Management Diploma, Culinary Arts School, and certificates in viticulture, wine sales, winery assistant, landscape horticulture, and hospitality. Future offerings will include a Hotel and Restaurant Management Diploma and an Events Management Diploma. The Centre for Food, Wine, and Tourism is currently in the site preparation stage at OC’s Kelowna campus. Construction is set to begin in 2025, with completion expected in 2027. Once finished, the facility will support education and innovation in the food, beverage, and tourism sectors.
New Orleans Saints (5-8) safety Tyrann Mathieu owned up to the hot mic moment picked up by the FOX broadcast on Sunday, in which a player was heard yelling, “Y’all f****** calling plays like I ain’t out there.” But at first, the talk going around social media was that it was New York Giants (2-11) receiver Malik Nabers who made the comment. If this is Malik Nabers then we are so cooked. pic.twitter.com/m7ClkLfmCE Mathieu cleared up any confusion after the game, in which the Saints defeated the Giants, 14-11. “That was actually me,” Mathieu responded to a fan. That was actually me. https://t.co/RstxuJRVqD Tyrann Mathieu helps Saints deliver Giants eight consecutive loss For Giants fans, this has to be a big sigh of relief. New York has enough issues as is, and this would have only added to its growing frustrations. The Giants are guaranteed to finish with a losing season for the seventh time in the last eight, and fans appear to have hit a breaking point, calling on team president John Mara to fix the on-field product. During the pregame, a plane flew over MetLife Stadium towing a banner that read, “MR. MARA ENOUGH — PLZ FIX THIS DUMPSTER FIRE.” The Giants went on to drop their eighth consecutive game in front of a sparse crowd. After the game, head coach Brian Daboll fielded a question about the plane that flew over the stadium before kickoff. “I’d say, look, we’ve won two games,” Daboll said . “I’m not happy either.” Nabers has been open at times about his frustration as the losses have piled up and like Daboll, answered a question about the plane. “I didn’t pay for the plane,” Nabers said, via SNY Giants . “I ain’t got nothing to say.” This article first appeared on 5 GOATs and was syndicated with permission.Replacing the century-old criminal laws with a new set of legislations for introducing a modern and technology-driven criminal justice system, rolling out the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act and fire-fighting to check unabated violence in Manipur kept the Union home ministry busy in 2024. Assisting the Election Commission in holding the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir without major incidents and bringing down the violence in Naxal-affected states and northeastern region are the other key highlights of the country's crucial ministry. While the population enumeration exercise Census continues to be on hold for past four years as no decision has been taken by the ministry as to when it will be carried out, the ministry created five year districts in Ladakh and renamed Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands as Sri Vijaya Puram during the year. The three new criminal laws -- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam -- replaced the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act of 1872 respectively. हमने कहा था कि हम CAA लाएँगे... We said that we would bring the CAA... pic.twitter.com/QAlQ2UMQ8S Speaking to ANI on CAA. https://t.co/YEPMstF5vq The new laws came into effect from July 1. Home Minister Amit Shah, who piloted the legislations, said the new laws would give priority to providing justice, unlike the colonial-era laws that gave primacy to penal action. "These laws are made by Indians, for Indians and by an Indian Parliament and marks the end of colonial criminal justice laws," he said. Shah said the laws were not just about changing the nomenclature but bringing about a complete overhaul. "Soul, body and spirit of the new laws are Indian," he said. The new laws brought in a modern justice system, incorporating provisions such as Zero FIR, online registration of police complaints, summonses through electronic modes such as SMS and mandatory videography of crime scenes for all heinous crimes. According to home ministry officials, the new laws have tried to address some of the current social realities and crimes and are going to provide a mechanism to effectively deal with these, keeping in view the ideals enshrined in the Constitution. The CAA, which was enacted in December 2019 for granting Indian nationality to persecuted Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who came to India on or before December 31, 2014, was rolled out in March and the first set of 14 people were granted Indian citizenship under the law in May. Shah termed the occasion of granting Indian citizenship under the CAA as a "historic day", saying the decades-long wait of those who faced religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan is over. After the enactment in 2019, the CAA got the president's assent a few days later but the rules under which the Indian citizenship were supposed to be granted were issued only on March 11 after over a delay of four years. The passing of the CAA in 2019 sparked protests in different parts of the country with agitators terming it "discriminatory". Over a hundred people had lost their lives during the anti-CAA protests or police action in various parts of the country. To allay fears of a section of Muslims and students regarding the CAA, the home ministry, a day after the CAA rules were issued, asserted that the Indian Muslims need not worry as the new legislation would not impact their citizenship and has nothing to do with the community which enjoys equal rights as their Hindu brethren. The ministry made it clear that "no Indian citizen would be asked to produce any document to prove his citizenship after this Act". Intermittent violence continues to rock Manipur, where the first bout of ethnic clash between majority Meiteis and tribal Kukis was witnessed in May 2023. Even after the death of about 260 people, injury to hundreds and displacement of thousands of people, peace continues to be elusive in the northeastern state. Though there have been efforts from the central government to bring the warring communities into negotiating table, sporadic violence continues there. Members of the ruling BJP were also not spared. Mobs set fire to the residences of several BJP legislators, one of whom is a senior minister, and a Congress MLA in various districts of Imphal Valley in November besides making a foiled attempt to storm the ancestral house of Chief Minister N Biren Singh. Seeing the fragile situation, the Centre in November reimposed the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in Manipur's six police station areas, including the violence-hit Jiribam. On December 24, the Centre appointed former union home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla as new Manipur governor, in an apparent bid to help itself find a lasting peace. However, it is to be seen how Bhalla will walk through the difficult terrain of the sensitive state. Jammu and Kashmir witnessed a relatively peaceful assembly elections, which was held after a gap of 10 years. According to a presentation given by the home ministry to a parliamentary panel, there has been over 70 per cent decline in terror-related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir since 2019, when Article 370 was scrapped and the erstwhile state was bifurcated into two Union Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The ministry said in 2019, as many as 286 terror-related incidents were reported in Jammu Kashmir and the number came down to just 40 in 2024 (till first week of November). In 2019, as many as 50 civilians were killed in terror-related incidents and the casualty figure came down to 14 so far this year. On attacks on security forces, the home ministry said a total of 96 such incidents were reported in 2019 and it went up to 111 in 2020 but since then there has been a steady decline and the number of such attacks came down to 95 in 2021, 65 in 2022 and 15 in 2023 and five so far in 2024. About casualties of security forces, the ministry said altogether 77 security personnel were killed in various incidents in 2019. In 2020, 58 personnel were killed, 29 in 2021, 26 in 2022, 11 in 2023 and seven so far in 2024. Violence perpetrated by Naxals also witnessed a decline. There has been 72 per cent less violence by Maoists while the country has seen an 86 per cent decline in deaths by Naxals in 2023 as compared to 2010. In a recent visit to Naxal-affected Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, Shah appealed to the Naxals to give up the arms and join the mainstream and said otherwise they will have to face the strong action of security forces. He said the rehabilitation of the surrendered Naxals is the responsibility of the government. Shah said the government is committed to make India Naxal-free by March 31, 2026 as a comprehensive three-pronged strategy is being adopted to free all affected areas in the country from the menace. The work for India's much-delayed decadal census and the exercise to update the National Population Register (NPR) has not started yet, thus changing the future census cycle completely. Since 1951, the country's census was conducted at a gap of every 10 years but the census work in 2021 could not be carried out due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So far no formal announcement has been made on its next schedule. Last month, the home ministry made it clear that any NGO which is involved in anti-developmental activities, religious conversion, incite protests with malicious intentions, has linkage with terrorist or radical organisations will face cancellation of its Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA) registration. According to the law, all NGOs receiving foreign contributions have to be registered under the FCRA or else is not allowed to accept foreign funding. The home minister last week started the process of rehabilitation of Bru tribal community members in Tripura following a quadripartite agreement signed on January 16, 2020. The pact was signed among the governments of India, Tripura, Mizoram and representatives of Bru organisations for the permanent rehabilitation of Bru migrants in Tripura. As many as 6,935 families with a population of 37,584 are being rehabilitated in 12 villages in Tripura. The Bru tribals were displaced from Mizoram following ethnic violence in lst 1990s and early 2000s. Continuing its thrust on comprehensive development of villages located in remote areas along the border with China, the government allocated Rs 1,050 crore for 2024-25 under the Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) that will benefit select villages in 19 districts in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh. The central government has approved the VVP as a centrally sponsored scheme on February 15, 2023, with financial outlay of Rs 4,800 crore for the financial year 2022-23 to 2025-26 for comprehensive development of the select villages in 46 blocks in 19 districts abutting the northern border. (Except for the headline, this article has not been edited by FPJ's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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A female boxer who once asked a magistrate to jail her for life after she lit her wife's home on fire and filmed it has told a court she has been bashed relentlessly in prison. Subscribe now for unlimited access . Login or signup to continue reading Amel Mouhtadi, who goes by the moniker 'Angel Amy' according to her YouTube account, read out an apology letter when she was sentenced over the September 30 blaze at Wollongong Local Court earlier this month. "I'm deeply sorry for my actions, I think about this all the time," Mouhtadi, 43, said through tears. "I went from being a victim to a perpetrator of domestic violence. I'm being sorry not because I want a lighter sentence ... I'm sorry because there is no room for domestic violence in our society. "I don't know how things got so messed up." Mouhtadi went on to reveal she had been assaulted and bashed with tins of tuna while in jail. "I've been hot-watered, I've been bashed in the cells," she said. "You might think women are easier but they get you five to one and once you're down they stomp on you ... They bash you in the head with tuna tins." Tendered court documents state Mouhtadi had not lived at the Illawarra unit she bought with her wife since July due to an apprehended violence order banning the boxer from going near or contacting her. However Mouhtadi breached the order after making threats in a phone call about 11pm on September 30 that prompted her wife to flee the home. "I'm going to come back to the house and f---ing burn it down," Mouhtadi said. CCTV captured Mouhtadi at the unit wearing hi-vis about 1am the next morning, with the offender sending a video to her wife showing her letting a small dachshund out of a dog crate. Mouhtadi sent another video of herself traipsing through the bedrooms while saying: "I've poured petrol on the bed, I've poured petrol everywhere ... I'm going to hand myself in afterwards." Footage showed her using a jerry can to tip fuel onto the furniture and the landing of a stairwell, before she ignited it. Mouhtadi fled the unit, which was closely connected to three others, and could be heard for several minutes yelling: "There's a fire, get out now!" The offender continued texting her wife, referring to her as a "f---ing dog" and threatening "I'm coming for your head". She sent a final text at 1.48am stating: "It's burnt now." Emergency crews responded to the blaze as black smoke emitted from the property. The fire was extinguished with $135,000 in damage sustained to all upstairs rooms. Mouhtadi was arrested after she handed herself in to Lake Illawarra police station. She told police she had been diagnosed with autism and borderline personality disorder, before making full admissions to her offending. "I, Amel Mouhtadi, burnt that f---ing house down," she said. Magistrate Claire Girotto labelled Mouhtadi's reaction to being abandoned as "extreme" and ordered her to seek treatment for her diagnoses. Mouhtadi said "I don't care if you slap with me with 20 years jail" but the magistrate told the offender her jurisdictional limit in the local court was two years, which is what she sentenced her to. Court reporter for the Illawarra Mercury. Court reporter for the Illawarra Mercury. More from Court and Crime Newsletters & Alerts DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. Also includes evening update. WEEKDAYS Grab a quick bite of today's latest news from around the region and the nation. WEEKLY The latest news, results & expert analysis. WEEKDAYS Catch up on the news of the day and unwind with great reading for your evening. WEEKLY Love footy? We've got all the action covered. WEEKLY Every Saturday and Tuesday, explore destinations deals, tips & travel writing to transport you around the globe. WEEKLY Get the latest property and development news here. WEEKLY Find out what's happening in local business. WEEKLY Going out or staying in? Find out what's on. WEEKDAYS Sharp. Close to the ground. Digging deep. Your weekday morning newsletter on national affairs, politics and more. TWICE WEEKLY Your essential national news digest: all the big issues on Wednesday and great reading every Saturday. WEEKLY Get news, reviews and expert insights every Thursday from CarExpert, ACM's exclusive motoring partner. TWICE WEEKLY Get real, Australia! Let the ACM network's editors and journalists bring you news and views from all over. AS IT HAPPENS Be the first to know when news breaks. DAILY Your digital replica of Today's Paper. Ready to read from 5am! DAILY Test your skills with interactive crosswords, sudoku & trivia. Fresh daily!
Chatham, New Jersey: That buzzing coming out of New Jersey? It’s unclear if it’s drones or something else, but the night-time sightings are producing tons of talk, a raft of conspiracy theories and craned necks looking skyward. Cropping up on local news and social media sites around Thanksgiving, the saga of the drones reported over New Jersey has reached incredible heights. Points of light appear in the evening sky near Lebanon Township, New Jersey. Credit: AP This week seems to have begun a new, higher-profile chapter. Politicians are demanding (but so far not getting) explanations from federal and state authorities about what’s behind them. Governor Phil Murphy wrote to President Joe Biden asking for answers. New Jersey senator Andy Kim spent Thursday night on a drone hunt in rural northern New Jersey and posted about it on X. More sightings have been reported in New York City, and Mayor Eric Adams says the city is investigating. President-elect Donald Trump posted that he believes the government knows more than it’s saying. “Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!” he posted on his social media site. But perhaps the most fantastic development is the dizzying proliferation of conspiracies, none of which has been confirmed or suggested by federal and state officials. It has become shorthand to refer to the flying machines as drones, but there are questions about whether what people are seeing are unmanned aircraft or something else. Some theorise the drones came from an Iranian mothership. Others think they are the Secret Service making sure Trump’s Bedminster property is secure. Others worry about China. The deep state. And on. In the face of uncertainty, people have done what they do in 2024: Create a social media group. The Facebook page “New Jersey Mystery Drones — let’s solve it” has nearly 44,000. People are posting their photo and video sightings and the online commenters take it from there. One video shows a white-ish light flying in a darkened sky, and one commenter concludes it’s otherworldly. “Straight up orbs,” the person says. Others weigh in to say it’s a plane or maybe a satellite. Another group called for hunting the drones literally, shooting them down like turkeys. (Do not shoot at anything in the sky, experts warn.) Trisha Bushey, 48, lives near Round Valley Reservoir, where there have been numerous sightings. She said she first posted photos online last month, wondering what the objects were, and became convinced they were drones when she saw how they moved. Now she’s glued to the Mystery Drones page, she said. “I find myself — instead of Christmas shopping or cleaning my house — checking it,” she said. She doesn’t buy what the governor said, that the drones aren’t a risk to public safety. Murphy told Biden that residents need answers. The federal Homeland Security Department and FBI also said in a joint statement they have no evidence that the sightings pose “a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.” “How can you say it’s not posing a threat if you don’t know what it is?” she said. “I think that’s why so many people are uneasy.” This photo from a New Jersey resident shows what appears to be multiple drones over the town of Bernardsville. Credit: AP Then there’s the notion that people could misunderstand what they’re seeing. William Austin is the president of Warren County Community College, which has a drone technology degree program, and is coincidentally located in one of the sighting hotspots. Austin says he has looked at videos of purported drones and that aeroplanes are being misidentified as drones. He cited an optical effect called parallax, which is the apparent shift of an object when viewed from different perspectives. Nonetheless, people continue to come up with their own theories. “It represents the United States of America in 2024,” Austin said. “We’ve lost trust in our institutions, and we need it.” Federal officials echo Austin’s view that many of the sightings are piloted aircraft such as planes and helicopters being mistaken for drones. That’s not really convincing for many, though, who are homing in on the sightings beyond just New Jersey, where others have reported seeing the objects. For Seph Divine, 34, another member of the drone-hunting group who lives in Eugene, Oregon, it feels as if it’s up to citizen sleuths to solve the mystery. He said he tries to be a voice of reason, encouraging people to fact-check their information while also asking probing questions. Loading “My main goal is I don’t want people to be caught up in the hysteria and I also want people to not just ignore it at the same time,” he said. “Whether it’s foreign military or some secret access program or something otherworldly, whatever it is, all I’m saying is it’s alarming that this is happening so suddenly and so consistently for hours at a time.” AP Start the day with the day’s most important stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter . Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Aviation Drones USA Most Viewed in World LoadingNone
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