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Opinion: Tieghan Gerard’s Half Baked Harvest is far from a food-blog success story

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

Tieghan Gerard’s Half Baked Harvest blog faced light criticism from the New York Times after a reporter visited the food influencer’s hilltop studio in Silverthorne, Colorado. The story flirted with some of the important questions being asked about Gerard’s hugely popular work, but failed to provide the answers America’s diverse culinary community needs at this juncture in history: What is food culture? What are food traditions? And what is the big deal with cultural appropriation?For some, food traditions mean eating chili over pasta, Cincinnati-style with multiple topping options, especially on cold winter days. For others, it means making tamales during the holidays to share with family and friends. Either way, those food traditions bring memories of time spent with loved ones, of lands we left behind, and regardless of how far away we might be they bring us a comforting sense of belonging.Food traditions don’t happen in a vacuum. In many instances, they are the result of regiona...

2 people charged after NWMD neighborhood shooting leaves 1 person dead, 1 hospitalized

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

A shooting in a Northwest Miami-Dade neighborhood left one person wounded and another dead on Saturday.Upon arrival, Miami-Dade Police said they found two men shot at Northwest 143rd Street and 16th Court. One of the victims was rushed to Ryder Trauma Center, where he is said to be critically injured and recovering. At least two people were detained at the scene. Investigators are figuring out what relationship they have to the shooting. “The relationship between the victims and the two people detained, has been a crucial part of the investigation and our investigators are still attempting to piece that together,” said Detective Andre Martin.Charges have been posted for the two people detained, but it remains unclear if they have been arrested.

Centerville man charged with murder in death of 6-week-old infant

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

A Centerville man has been indicted on a murder charge by a Barnstable Superior Court grand jury for his role in the 2021 death of a 6-week-old infant, officials announced Sunday.Randy Patterson-Gerber, 25, is charged in connection with the Sept. 7, 2021 death of an infant in Barnstable. The charges stem from an ongoing investigation conducted by The Unsolved Homicide Unit of the Cape & Islands District Attorney’s Office, the Barnstable Police Department, and the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office.Patterson-Gerber is slated to be arraigned Monday in Barnstable Superior Court.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Saturday’s high school roundup/scores: Hanover nips Danvers in 27-24 thriller

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

Ben Scalzi’s third touchdown pass of the game, a 34-yarder to Mehki Bryan with 9:32 left, gave top-seeded Hanover (11-0) a hard-fought 27-24 win over No. 5 Danvers in a Div. 5 state semifinal.Alex Barlow rushed for 135 yards and a pair of scores as No. 1 Duxbury (9-1) defeated No. 4 Tewksbury 19-7 in a Div. 4 state semifinal. The Dragons will face Scituate in a rematch of the 2021 Div. 4 final.Patrick Miller threw three TD passes, while Nathan Ehui ran for two scores as No. 3 Milton (8-3) defeated 10th-seeded Westfeld 37-14 in a Div. 3 state semifinal.Justin Marques ran for 247 yards and five touchdowns on 44 carries as No. 8 Fairhaven (10-1) held off fourth-seeded Hudson 40-37 in a Div. 6 semifinal. Colby Correia added 152 yards and a touchdown on six carries.Jamie McNamara ran for a pair of scores as No. 1 West Boylston (11-0) blanked No. 4 Cathedral 36-0 in a Div. 8 semifinal.Charly Gublin threw for three scores and ran for a fourth as Hamden Hall (9-0) held off Dexter Southfield...

Alouettes, Blue Bombers set to clash in first-ever meeting at Grey Cup

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

The Montreal Alouettes go into the 110th Grey Cup on a seven-game win streak, having dispatching league-leading Toronto in convincing fashion in the East final.So what will it take to topple West champion Winnipeg on Sunday at Tim Hortons Field?Be better.The mindset coming into this week was we’ve gotten to this game, but in order to win this game we better be better,” said Montreal coach Jason Maas.We have to be at our absolute best to win this game.”The Als have played with a chip on their shoulder all season, a franchise that was under league control until Quebec entrepreneur Pierre Karl Peladeau bought it in March.It has found its feet under Maas and quarterback Cody Fajardo, both let go by Saskatchewan after last season.The Als have been a team on a mission, looking to prove doubters wrong.Montreal slumped to 6-7-0 in mid-September before starting their winning run.The Alouettes, back in the championship game in the first time since a 2010 win over Saskatchewa...

Extreme weather can hit farmers hard. Those with smaller farming operations often pay the price

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Justin Ralph estimates he’s made about 200 trips delivering grain from the fields he farms with his brother and uncle this year. They’re accustomed to using their four semi-trucks to take the harvest from a total of about 800 acres each of corn, soybeans and wheat to market.What they’re not used to are the distances they’ve had to drive the past couple years, a consequence of bad weather that’s only expected to increase in their area as a result of climate change. They used to take advantage of a grain elevator in Mayfield, Kentucky — a massive facility that bought and stored millions of bushels of grain from farmers. But it was destroyed in the 2021 tornado outbreak that killed dozens of people and leveled entire parts of the town, and the company that ran it shut down. Now, instead of driving ten minutes, they sometimes travel an hour or more.“The swings in the weather events that we have … that’s kind of scary,” he said, es...

Dissent over US policy in the Israel-Hamas war stirs unusual public protests from federal employees

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal government workers from the State Department to NASA are circulating open letters demanding that President Joe Biden pursue a cease-fire in Israel’s war against Hamas. Congressional staffers are picking up microphones in front of the Capitol, speaking out to condemn what they say is the silence of lawmakers about the toll on Palestinian civilians. As the deaths soar in Gaza, Biden and Congress are facing unusually public challenges from the inside over their support for Israel’s offensive. Hundreds of staffers in the administration and on Capitol Hill are signing on to open letters, speaking to reporters and holding vigils, all in an effort to shift U.S. policy toward more urgent action to stem Palestinian casualties.“Most of our bosses on Capitol Hill are not listening to the people they represent,” one of the congressional staffers told the crowd at a protest this month. Wearing medical masks that obscured their faces, the roughly 100 congressional aides ...

Tentative deal reached, strike averted at 17 No Frills stores in Ontario

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

A tentative agreement has been reached with almost 1,300 workers at 17 No Frills grocery stores in Ontario.Details of the agreement have not been released. A ratification vote is expected to take place in the coming days.“Our bargaining committee at No Frills was determined to build on what grocery store workers had achieved this past summer with Metro,” said Lana Payne, National President of Unifor. “This tentative agreement delivers pattern wages and many other improvements for our members.”No Frills is the discount grocery banner owned by Loblaw Cos. Ltd., the largest grocery company in Canada. The 17 stores include five in Toronto, as well as locations in Whitby, Etobicoke, Niagara Falls and elsewhere. This round of bargaining is the first with a major grocery chain for Unifor since it reached a deal with Metro this summer that brought more than 3,700 workers in the Toronto area significant wage gains. Unifor had said the Metro deal would help i...

Final Ontario Liberal leadership debate set for today

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

The Ontario Liberal Party’s final leadership debate is set for this afternoon.Four candidates remain vying for the job, with two candidates recently forming an alliance in an effort to take down perceived front-runner Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie.Federal Liberal legislators Yasir Naqvi and Nate Erskine-Smith have asked their supporters to rank each other ahead of Crombie.Former MP and current provincial Liberal caucus member Ted Hsu is also running, while fellow caucus member Adil Shamji dropped out of the race to support Crombie.Party members are set to vote Nov. 25 and Nov. 26, with the ballots counted and the round-by-round results announced on Dec. 2 in downtown Toronto.The affordability crisis, increasing housing supply and taking down Premier Doug Ford have dominated the Liberal leadership race. 

Massive potash mine being built in Saskatchewan breaks new ground for women

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:15 GMT

In July of this year, mining giant BHP announced a company first.More than 14,000 kilometres away from its Melbourne, Australia headquarters, BHP said it had achieved its “gender balance” target for its local workforce in Saskatchewan.With women making up more than 43 per cent of the company’s workforce at its Jansen potash mine project as well as its Saskatoon corporate office, the province became the first BHP location in the world to reach a goal set back in 2016.That was when the Australian multinational announced its aim to achieve gender balance — defined by the company as a minimum of 40 per cent women and 40 per cent men — across its global workforce by the end of 2025.BHP had good reason to hail its Saskatchewan achievement, which was no small feat in an industry where the typical worker has long been a burly hard-hatted man. As recently as 2019 in Canada, federal government statistics showed just 14 per cent of this country’s mining sector workforce...