Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 4:16 pm | Mauri o te Moana In mid December, Māori from across Aotearoa gathered on Aotea Great Barrier Island
to declare a state of emergency on the health of our oceans. “Mauri o te Moana”,
a group focussed on giving voice to this issue, was established from this gathering. . More
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Alberta’s vaccination program is expanding to include more health-care workers. We must continue protecting the health system and limiting the spread of COVID-19.
Contact Gold Corp.: Contact Gold Drills 2.24 g/t Oxide Gold over 35 Metres at the Green Springs Project, Nevada
Contact Gold Corp.
(TSXV: C) (OTCQB: CGOL)
(the Company or Contact Gold ) is pleased to report results for 5 additional drill holes from the 2020 drill program at the Green Springs gold property ( Green Springs ). Contact Gold completed 5,785 metres in 10 core holes and 31 reverse circulation drill holes during the fall of 2020. Results are pending for 31 holes as of the date of this release from the Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Golf and Echo Zones.
Key Points:
Drilling infills gold mineralization in the northern part of Echo Zone and confirms that mineralization is well oxidized with the first cyanide assays from this high-grade pod located north of the area previously drilled by Contact Gold in 2019
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Social media has steadily overtaken television and print as the primary way most people get news and information.
When new technologies come on the scene, there are often serious, unintended ramifications.
Twitter s platform in particular is biased and favors the spread of redunctionistic, emotional, and uncivil discourse, and is now a breeding ground for hate and violence.
Social media companies must be held accountable for not taking action sooner against incendiary rhetoric that existed widely on their platforms leading up to the Capitol siege.
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+ January 12, 2021 IN THE name of contact tracing and of containing Covid-19, more and more business establishments and local government units are rolling out contact tracing apps. Since Covid-19 is a notifiable disease, people are obliged to register and share their personal data. But do these apps protect your personal data? How?
In November last year, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) called on the software developers of contact tracing apps to be privacy advocates and to implement privacy by design as more and more LGUs use technology to track down their constituents in the name of public health and safety (https://www.privacy.gov.ph/2020/11/developers-of-lgus-contact-tracing-apps-enjoined-to-act-as-privacy-watchers/).