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Photo: The Canadian Press Zach Churchill is resigning as Nova Scotia Liberal leader after leading his party to a crushing defeat in the Nov. 26 provincial election. Churchill speaks to reporters following a televised leaders' debate in Halifax on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese Zach Churchill resigned as Nova Scotia Liberal leader Tuesday after leading his party to a resounding defeat in the Nov. 26 provincial election. Churchill made the announcement at the Liberal caucus office in Halifax, saying he will be immediately replaced on an interim basis by Derek Mombourquette, while the other member of the caucus, Iain Rankin, will share in the leadership responsibilities while serving as house leader in the legislature. The announcement followed Monday’s recount in the district of Yarmouth, which saw Churchill lose his seat to Progressive Conservative candidate Nick Hilton by a final tally of 16 votes. “I’m certainly sorry that I couldn’t have produced better results for our candidates and our members of the legislature, but I’m certainly encouraged as I pass the torch on that we will continue to rebuild,” said Churchill. The Liberals were reduced to just two seats, losing 12 of the 14 seats they held going into the election campaign, which was the first for Churchill as party leader. Progressive Conservative Premier Tim Houston led his party to a second consecutive majority government, winning 43 of the legislature's 55 seats, after the results of a recount Tuesday that confirmed a Tory victory in the riding of Annapolis. The New Democrats, led by Claudia Chender, were elevated to official Opposition status with nine seats, and one Independent candidate was re-elected. Churchill pointed out that his party did get 23 per cent of the popular vote even if it won less than four per cent of the total seats. “If I have one regret about the campaign and my career in politics, it is that I didn’t talk more about my personal passion for proportional representation,” he said. “I think this election gives us a very clear example of how it is important to reform our electoral system.” The 40-year-old former cabinet minister was elected Liberal leader in July 2022 and had held the riding in his hometown of Yarmouth since winning a byelection in 2010. He was re-elected in 2013, 2017 and 2021. The party said the process to replace Churchill would be announced in the coming months. Mombourquette said Churchill’s decision was a “tough moment for the team” but he added that party rebuilding work would begin immediately. “Iain and I will be out and engaging across the province with candidates who ran in the last election and with their riding associations,” Mombourquette said. “There’s a lot of work that needs to happen there ... we will also have to prepare and start looking at policy for when the house goes back into session.” The legislature reconvened briefly on Tuesday as newly elected members were sworn into office and Tory Danielle Barkhouse was re-elected Speaker. The government also got consent from the legislature to move ahead with its promise to reduce the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax by one per cent on April 1. Following the sitting, Houston told reporters that he is also supportive of the federal government’s so-called GST holiday, taking effect for two months beginning Saturday. “We recognize the affordability challenges that Nova Scotians are facing and Canadians are facing,” he said. “We have some details to work out with the federal government to really understand it, but I think the spirit of what they are trying to do, we certainly agree with, and we will work with them on that.” Houston campaigned against federal policy such as carbon pricing during the election, but after a meeting Monday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Halifax, the premier said they had “productive” discussions. “There are things we just won’t agree on — I just don’t agree on the carbon tax — but there are things I think we can work together on,” he said mentioning the province’s fisheries and the work needed to protect from flooding the Chignecto Isthmus, which connects Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
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Nebraska will be trying to preserve its perfect in-state record when it hosts South Dakota on Wednesday night in a nonconference game in Lincoln, Neb. The Cornhuskers (4-1) are 3-0 at home and also won Friday at then-No. 14 Creighton, beating their in-state rivals on the road for the second straight time. But the last time they did that, in 2022, they followed that win with a 16-point loss at Indiana to open Big Ten Conference play. "Believe me, we've addressed a lot of things," Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg said. "A lot of people are saying some really positive things. You've got to find a way to put that behind you. I've liked how our team has responded and come back to work after that great win at Creighton." Brice Williams leads the Cornhuskers with 18.2 points per game and was one of five players in double figures against Creighton. Juwan Gary topped the list with 16. South Dakota (6-2) comes to town off a 112-50 home win Monday night over Randall, the third non-Division I school it has beat. The Coyotes' last game against a D1 opponent was Friday at Southern Indiana, resulting in a 92-83 loss. This will be South Dakota's second nonconference game against a Big Ten opponent, after a 96-77 loss at Iowa on Nov. 12. In December, the Coyotes also visit Santa Clara, hovering near the top 100 in KenPom adjusted efficiency, before jumping into Big Sky play. "The schedule is very good and that should help us," third-year South Dakota coach Eric Peterson said before the season. "We have some good nonconference games that should help prepare us for the end of the season." Nebraska has held four of its opponents to 67 or fewer points, with Saint Mary's the only one to top that number in the Cornhuskers' lone loss. Opponents are shooting 38.1 percent this season. South Dakota shot below 40 percent in its two previous games before shooting 62 percent against Randall. Isaac Bruns, who scored 20 to lead South Dakota in the Randall game, paces the Coyotes with 12.9 points per game. --Field Level Media
Friends at an exclusive co-living space at the edge of touristy Waikiki in Hawaii where the 26-year-old Mangione once lived widely considered him a “great guy,” and pictures on his social media accounts show a fit, smiling, handsome young man on beaches and at parties. Now, investigators in New York and Pennsylvania are working to piece together why Mangione may have diverged from this path to make the violent and radical decision to gun down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a brazen attack on a Manhattan street. The killing sparked widespread discussions about corporate greed, unfairness in the medical insurance industry and even inspired folk-hero sentiment toward his killer. But Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro sharply refuted that perception after Mangione's arrest on Monday when a customer at a McDonald's restaurant in Pennsylvania spotted Mangione eating and noticed he resembled the shooting suspect in security-camera photos released by New York police. “In some dark corners, this killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this, he is no hero,” Shapiro said. “The real hero in this story is the person who called 911 at McDonald’s this morning.” Mangione's family and upbringing Mangione comes from a prominent Maryland family. His grandfather, Nick Mangione, who died in 2008, was a successful real estate developer. One of his best-known projects was Turf Valley Resort, a sprawling luxury retreat and conference center outside Baltimore that he purchased in 1978. The Mangione family also purchased Hayfields Country Club north of Baltimore in 1986. On Monday, Baltimore County police officers blocked off an entrance to the property, which public records link to Luigi Mangione’s parents. Reporters and photographers gathered outside the entrance. The father of 10 children, Nick Mangione prepared his five sons — including Luigi Mangione’s father, Louis Mangione — to help manage the family business, according to a 2003 Washington Post report. Nick Mangione had 37 grandchildren, including Luigi, according to the grandfather's obituary. Luigi Mangione’s grandparents donated to charities through the Mangione Family Foundation, according to a statement from Loyola University commemorating Nick Mangione’s wife’s death in 2023. They donated to various causes, including Catholic organizations, colleges and the arts. One of Luigi Mangione’s cousins is Republican Maryland state legislator Nino Mangione, a spokesman for the lawmaker’s office confirmed. “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” Mangione’s family said in a statement posted on social media by Nino Mangione. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.” Mangione's education and work history Mangione, who was valedictorian of his elite Maryland prep school, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania, a university spokesman told The Associated Press. He learned to code in high school and helped start a club at Penn for people interested in gaming and game design, according to a 2018 story in Penn Today, a campus publication. His social media posts suggest he belonged to the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. They also show him taking part in a 2019 program at Stanford University, and in photos with family and friends at the Jersey Shore and in Hawaii, San Diego, Puerto Rico, and other destinations. The Gilman School, from which Mangione graduated in 2016, is one of Baltimore’s elite prep schools. The children of some of the city’s wealthiest and most prominent residents, including Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr., have attended the school. Its alumni include sportswriter Frank Deford and former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington. In his valedictory speech, Luigi Mangione described his classmates’ “incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.” Mangione took a software programming internship after high school at Maryland-based video game studio Firaxis, where he fixed bugs on the hit strategy game Civilization 6, according to a LinkedIn profile. Firaxis' parent company, Take-Two Interactive, said it would not comment on former employees. He more recently worked at the car-buying website TrueCar, but has not worked there since 2023, the head of the Santa Monica, California-based company confirmed to the AP. Time in Hawaii and reports of back pain From January to June 2022, Mangione lived at Surfbreak, a “co-living” space at the edge of touristy Waikiki in Honolulu. Like other residents of the shared penthouse catering to remote workers, Mangione underwent a background check, said Josiah Ryan, a spokesperson for owner and founder R.J. Martin. “Luigi was just widely considered to be a great guy. There were no complaints,” Ryan said. “There was no sign that might point to these alleged crimes they’re saying he committed.” At Surfbreak, Martin learned Mangione had severe back pain from childhood that interfered with many aspects of his life, including surfing, Ryan said. “He went surfing with R.J. once but it didn’t work out because of his back,” Ryan said, but noted that Mangione and Martin often went together to a rock-climbing gym. Mangione left Surfbreak to get surgery on the mainland, Ryan said, then later returned to Honolulu and rented an apartment. An image posted to a social media account linked to Mangione showed what appeared to be an X-ray of a metal rod and multiple screws inserted into someone's lower spine. Martin stopped hearing from Mangione six months to a year ago. An X account linked to Mangione includes recent posts about the negative impact of smartphones on children; healthy eating and exercise habits; psychological theories; and a quote from Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti about the dangers of becoming “well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Police report a darker turn Mangione likely was motivated by his anger at what he called “parasitic” health insurance companies and a disdain for corporate greed, according to a law enforcement bulletin obtained by AP. He wrote that the U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world and that the profits of major corporations continue to rise while “our life expectancy” does not, according to the bulletin, based on a review of the suspect’s handwritten notes and social media posts. He appeared to view the targeted killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO as a symbolic takedown, asserting in his note that he is the “first to face it with such brutal honesty,” the bulletin said. Mangione called “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski a “political revolutionary” and may have found inspiration from the man who carried out a series of bombings while railing against modern society and technology, the document said. Associated Press reporters Lea Skene in Baltimore; Jen Kelleher in Honolulu; Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia; John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio; and Michael Kunzelman in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.Prediction: Why Nvidia stock will soar in 2025Drake has launched a second legal action against Universal Music Group, accusing the music giant of defamation and claiming it could have halted the release of Kendrick Lamar's song Not Like Us for "falsely accusing him of being a sex offender." It follows an initial petition launched Monday alleging UMG, the distributor for the record labels of both Drake and Lamar, and streamer Spotify conspired to falsely boost the popularity of Lamar's diss track amid a beef between the two hip-hop superstars . None of the allegations have been proven in court. Experts have called the petitions unprecedented and say they could have not only legal, but significant cultural implications for Drake and the world of hip-hop. Legal filings and potential fallout The first thing to understand about all of this is that no lawsuits have been filed yet. A petition, which is what both of Drake's filings are, comes prior to a lawsuit and is aimed at preserving and obtaining information from figures that might support Drake's accusations in a future lawsuit, according to Bryan Sullivan, a founding partner at the law firm Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae who specializes in risk management in the entertainment industry. Spotify has declined to comment to The Associated Press on the filings. UMG told the AP in a statement that the "suggestion that UMG would do anything to undermine any of its artists is offensive and untrue." Lamar performs onstage during The Pop Out – Ken & Friends, a show at The Kia Forum in June 2024 in Inglewood, Calif., where he performed the song Not Like Us at least five times. (Timothy Norris/Getty Images for pgLang, Amazon Music & Free Lunch) "We employ the highest ethical practices in our marketing and promotional campaigns. No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear." The newest filing claims UMG "could have refused to release the song or required the offending material to be edited and/or removed," but "chose to do the opposite." Lamar's Not Like Us , released on May 4, is a diss track against Drake, one of several that the rappers exchanged earlier this year . In it, he questions the Canadian rapper's authenticity and claims he is a sexual predator. It was seen as the breakout hit of the feud, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to calling Drake a "certified pedophile," Lamar says in the song: "Say, Drake, I hear you like 'em young, You better not ever go to Cell Block 1." Payola allegations In the first legal action, Drake's lawyers claimed that UMG "conspired with and paid currently unknown parties" to "artificially" boost the prominence of Not Like Us through bots and undisclosed "pay-to-play" schemes. The filings claim that an individual alleged on a popular podcast that UMG paid him to use bots to achieve 30 million streams on Spotify when Not Like Us was released. The song has more than 900 million streams on Spotify. "There could be intervention by bots to pump up the streams," said Catherine Moore, an adjunct professor of music at the University of Toronto who specializes in the music industry and distribution. She points to small-scale examples of this, "where someone's fans or friends just play [a song] over and over," something she refers to as "human automation." Drake is shown at an event in October 2021. The artist's lawyers claim that UMG 'conspired with and paid currently unknown parties' to 'artificially' boost the prominence of Not Like Us through bots and undisclosed 'pay-to-play' schemes. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images) The filing also claims UMG made undisclosed payments to an independent radio promoter who agreed to transfer those payments to certain radio stations as compensation to play Not Like Us . The lack of disclosure, if it did happen, is key, according to Sullivan. It's an illegal practice called payola. "It's deliberately purchasing popularity," said Moore. The allegations go beyond Spotify streams. Drake's lawyers reference online reports that fans who asked Apple's voice assistant Siri to play Drake's album Certified Lover Boy claim they were instead delivered Not Like Us . Drake accuses UMG, Spotify of using bots, pay-to-play to boost Kendrick's Not Like Us Sullivan said targeted and specific allegations, like the claims about Siri, are more likely to be granted discovery by the court, which could then move to a formal complaint. The filings could also open the door for transparency around algorithms if further legal action is pursued, according to Moore, including how a streaming service like Spotify determines what music people are recommended. "It could prove really valuable for artists." A 'form of infiltration' Beyond the legal implications, one expert believes these filings will have a significant cultural fallout. "This type of lawsuit has never occurred in the genre of hip-hop or rap," said A.R. Shaw, an author and the executive editor of Atlanta Daily World. Shaw, who has written about the legal filings , said that traditionally, rap "polices itself." Misogynoir underscores the Drake and Kendrick beef He pointed to what he describes as "watershed moments" like previous beefs, between rappers Tupac and Biggie or Jay-Z and Nas, as examples of this. "Rap beef is like a sport," he said. "They engage in verbal dialogue, and after the dialogue is over, the audience, they usually announce the winner." But for Shaw, this time is different. He says it's "almost making a mockery of the culture," as taking legal action goes against unwritten rules that others play by. WATCH | How rap beefs benefit artists: How profitable is a rap beef? 4 days ago Duration 0:48 How does beefing with Drake benefit other artists? As it turns out, a lot. After Kendrick Lamar took shots at Drake and J. Cole, we decided to take a look at the numbers behind the beef. Regardless of where the legal filings go, the damage could be done for a lot of Drake fans, he said. "I think a lot of fans right now, they're confused. I think they're probably disappointed." Shaw said Drake's actions "almost feels like a form of infiltration." "It's something that no artist would think of doing on this level.... He's proven Kendrick's right to an extent that no, he's not like us. No, he's not like hip-hop culture."
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