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TOP HEADLINES:
Liberals seek to delay assisted dying expansion
Ministers try to get biodiversity talks on track
Alberta to handle firearms prosecutions: minister
Search of Winnipeg landfill challenging: expert
Stress tests unchanged despite housing slowdown
Ex-CannTrust execs acquitted of all charges
Canada part of NASA mission to study Earth’s water
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TOP NEWS STORIES SINCE LAST ADVISORY:
Liberals seek to delay assisted dying expansion
Assisted-Dying
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — The Liberal government announced Thursday it will seek to delay the expansion of Canada’s assisted-dying regime to include people whose sole underlying conditions are mental disorders. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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Trudeau asks for questions, gets wide variety
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not have started the day thinking about whether mermaids reproduce like fish or like humans, but that’s what one person is asking him to consider. By Marie-Danielle Smith. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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Alberta to handle firearms prosecutions: minister
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, , — Alberta’s justice minister says provincial prosecutors are to take over the handling of charges under the federal Firearms Act starting in the new year. By Dean Bennett. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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Union critical of fed’s salmon licences plans
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Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada — The union representing British Columbia fishermen says a plan by the federal government to buy back commercial salmon fishing licences is underfunded, lacks transparency and doesn’t address the investments made by harvesters. Wire: Prairies/BC.
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Search of Winnipeg landfill challenging: expert
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada — In 2002, investigators started a massive search of Robert Pickton’s pig farm in British Columbia and eventually found the remains of several women. By Steve Lambert. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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Escapee sentenced to life for murder of B.C. man
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — Friends and relatives of murder victim Martin Payne say they are haunted by the actions of “two selfish, reckless” people who chose their victim because his home was near the prison where the men escaped. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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Federal workers to return to office part-time
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — Treasury Board President Mona Fortier has announced that federal public servants will have to return to in-person office work two to three days per week. By Cindy Tran. Wire: Ontario/Quebec, National. Photos: 1
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Rachel Notley pitches stability to business crowd
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada — Opposition NDP Leader Rachel Notley says she would lead a “stable, no surprises government” focused on growing the Alberta economy and providing strong public health care and education if elected next year. Wire: Prairies/BC.
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Ontario’s flu season may have peaked: Moore
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada — The flu season may have peaked in Ontario, and that should relieve some pressure on children’s hospitals in the near future, the province’s top doctor said Thursday. By Liam Casey. Wire: Ontario/Quebec. Photos: 1
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Virtual walk-ins may strain health system: OMA
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Virtual-care clinics may be adding pressure to the overwhelmed health-care system, the Ontario Medical Association said Thursday, even as some patients and doctors say they are vital alternative to an otherwise necessary visit to an emergency room. By Tyler Griffin. Wire: Ontario/Quebec. Photos: 1
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Ontario to open bivalent bookings for kids 5 to 11
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Toronto, , — The Ontario government is expanding eligibility for the COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine to children aged five to 11. Wire: Ontario/Quebec. Photos: 1
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Number of respiratory illnesses surge in Nunavut
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Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada — Nunavut health officials say there has been a surge of respiratory illnesses across the territory this year. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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$400B to axe natural gas generation: report
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada — Ontario can fully eliminate natural gas generation in its electricity system by 2050, starting with a moratorium in 2027, but it will require about $400 billion in capital spending and new, large-scale nuclear plants, a report said Thursday. By Allison Jones. Wire: Ontario/Quebec. Photos: 1
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Ontario man charged in U.S. probe of ISIS support
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An Ontario man has been charged after an FBI investigation uncovered an alleged scheme to use online campaigns disguised as humanitarian efforts to raise money for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Wire: Ontario/Quebec.
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Vancouver police issue porch pirate warning
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — Vancouver police say they’ve recovered everything from Nike runners to golf clubs in a months-long investigation into so-called porch pirates. Wire: Prairies/BC. Photos: 1
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Senate rises for the winter holiday break
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — The Senate wrapped up its fall sitting today and has adjourned for a holiday break, a day after the House of Commons did the same. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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Ontario won’t make staycation tax credit permanent
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada — Ontario’s tourism minister says the province won’t be extending the staycation tax credit for another year, despite the hard-hit industry recommending the move as a way to help it recover from the pandemic. Wire: Ontario/Quebec. Photos: 1
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It’s snow fun at COP15 in Montreal this weekend
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — If the weather outside is frightful, bring some extra socks and build a snowman. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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‘Something to Talk About’ songwriter dies at 67
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TORONTO, , — Canadian singer-songwriter Shirley Eikhard, whose flirty track “Something to Talk About” gave Bonnie Raitt her biggest hit and a Grammy Award win, has died after a battle with cancer. By David Friend. Wire: Entertainment. Photos: 1
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TOP NEWS STORIES:
Ministers try to get biodiversity talks on track
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada — A successful biodiversity framework to halt the devastation of global ecosystems and wildlife will require compromise from the world’s wealthy and developing nations both, Canada’s environment minister said Thursday. Wire: National.
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Stress tests unchanged despite housing slowdown
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Mortgage stress test levels were left unchanged Thursday as the federal banking regulator and Department of Finance favoured a cautious approach over calls to relax tests to help a slowing housing market. By Ian Bickis. Wire: Business. Photos: 1
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Ex-CannTrust execs acquitted of all charges
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada — An Ontario court has acquitted three former cannabis leaders charged with offences linked to unlicensed growing at a Niagara-area greenhouse. Wire: Business. Photos: 1
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Canada part of NASA mission to study Earth’s water
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Longueuil, Quebec, Canada — A piece of Canadian radar technology will play a key role in a satellite mission scheduled to launch Friday that aims to study almost all of the Earth’s water surfaces. By Sidhartha Banerjee. Wire: National.
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Canada losing ground on Africa trade: senators
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Ottawa, , — Senators are warning Trade Minister Mary Ng that Ottawa may be falling behind its peers in establishing deeper trade ties with Africa. By Dylan Robertson. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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Report says climate plan underfunded, unclear
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — A report says Canada’s climate adaptation strategy is underfunded and does not clearly align its goals with the country’s top climate change risks. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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Facebook intimidating Canadians: heritage minister
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez accused Facebook on Thursday of trying to intimidate Canadians with threats of pulling news content from its platform, following the adoption of Bill C-18 in the House of Commons. By Michel Saba. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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Prey-switching behind fatal coyote mauling: study
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — A new and unusual theory has emerged about the coyotes that killed a young Toronto woman on a Nova Scotia hiking trail 13 years ago. By Michael MacDonald. Wire: Atlantic, National. Photos: 1
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CP rail not liable for Lac-Mégantic crash: court
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada — A Quebec Superior Court judge says Canadian Pacific Railway is not liable in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic, Que., railway disaster that killed 47 people. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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CREA reports home sales down in November
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — The Canadian Real Estate Association says seasonally adjusted home sales were down 3.3 per cent on a month-over-month basis in November. Wire: Business. Photos: 1
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Blue Jays agree to terms with Kiermaier
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Toronto, , — The Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to terms with outfielder Kevin Kiermaier on a US$9-million, one-year contract. Wire: Sports. Photos: 1
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N.S. adds hundreds more beds to hospital project
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — The Nova Scotia government says it is adding 423 more beds and extra operating rooms to a major hospital complex redevelopment project in Halifax. Wire: Atlantic. Photos: 1
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Vaccine delay would have cost billions: study
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A study from the C.D. Howe Institute estimates Canada would have lost $156 billion in economic activity in 2021 had COVID-19 vaccines been rolled out six months later than they were. By Kelly Geraldine Malone. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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N.B. introduces new French immersion program
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada — New Brunswick has proposed a new French immersion program for the next academic year with the goal of ensuring all students graduate with at least a conversational level of the language. Wire: Atlantic. Photos: 1
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How to host a holiday dinner on a budget
Money-Monitor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada — When Canadians soon gather with loved ones for holiday meals, there will be an unwelcome guest at the dinner table: decades-high inflation. By Tara Deschamps. Wire: Business, Lifestyle. Photos: 1
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Financial intel agency eyes domestic terrorism
Terror-Financing
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — Efforts by Canada’s financial intelligence agency over the last three years uncovered activity related to homegrown terrorism, the bankrolling of international terrorist groups and attempts by Canadians to take part in extremism abroad. By Jim Bronskill. Wire: National. Photos: 1
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High ticket prices narrow Transat losses
Transat-Rslts
Montreal, Quebec, Canada — Travel company Transat A.T. Inc. closed a challenging year on a high as it set sights on a continued recovery for air travel next year with high prices and even higher demand. By Caitlin Yardley. Wire: Business. Photos: 1
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Empire selling gas stations in Western Canada
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Stellarton, Nova Scotia, Canada — Empire Co. Ltd. is selling 56 gas stations in Western Canada to a subsidiary of Shell Canada for about $100 million in cash. Wire: Business. Photos: 1
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Paralympic curler says club accessibility lacking
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Entering a curling club isn’t something Mark Ideson takes for granted. By Donna Spencer. Wire: Sports. Photos: 1
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Pickle vodka recalled over high copper levels
Vodka-Recall
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall for Taynton Bay Spirits pickle vodka due to high levels of copper. Wire: National.
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LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE STORIES:
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New Indigenous housing coalition determined to eliminate homelessness
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The National Urban, Rural, Northern Indigenous Housing Coalition is a new group formed to provide “for Indigenous by Indigenous” housing solutions to the national Indigenous housing crisis. The coalition is sending a coordinated message to the federal government that ending homelessness should be a priority. 800 words. Odette Auger/Windspeaker.com
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N.B. unions say changes to strike rules ‘unnecessary, unprovoked’
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The New Brunswick government’s proposed changes to the Public Service Relations Act came after “zero consultation” with the public sector, union leaders say. 550 words. Marlo Glass/Telegraph-Journal
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Police dog bites student during class visit
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A Winnipeg student is recovering after being bitten by a police dog during a visit to an elementary classroom. 350 words. Maggie Macintosh/Winnipeg Free Press
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Riding Mountain National Park occupation ends after three years
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A man who has been living in the Lake Audy area in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba since 2019 has been seemingly arrested by park wardens and had his belongings removed from the area. Wesley Bone took up residence in a kitchen structure within the park in December, 2019, and erected a teepee, signage and steel cattle gates at the Lake Audy entrance, located 123 kilometres north of Brandon. 800 words. PHOTO. Miranda Leybourne/Brandon Sun
Montreal Alouettes wide receiver Tyson Philpot has announced he will be out for the rest of the CFL season.
The Delta, B.C., native posted the news on his Instagram page Thursday.
“To Be Continued. Shoutout my team, the fans of the CFL and the whole city of Montreal! I can’t wait to be back healthy and write this next chapter in 2025,” the statement read.
Philpot, 24, injured his foot in a 33-23 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Aug. 10 and was placed on the six-game injured list the next week.
The six-foot-one, 195-pound receiver had 58 receptions, 779 yards and five touchdowns in nine games for the league-leading Alouettes in his third season.
Philpot scored the game-winning touchdown in Montreal’s Grey Cup win last season to punctuate a six-reception, 63-yard performance.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa sustained a concussion for the third time in his NFL career, leaving his team’s game Thursday night against Buffalo after running into defensive back Damar Hamlin and hitting the back of his head against the turf.
Tagovailoa remained down for about two minutes before getting to his feet and walking to the sideline after the play in the third quarter. He made his way to the tunnel not long afterward, looking into the stands before smiling and departing toward the locker room.
The Dolphins needed almost no time before announcing it was a concussion. The team said he had two during the 2022 season, and Tagovailoa was diagnosed with another concussion when he was a college player at Alabama.
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said Tagovailoa would get “proper procedural evaluation” and “appropriate care” on Friday.
“The furthest thing from my mind is, ‘What is the timeline?’ We just need to evaluate and just worry about my teammate, like the rest of the guys are,” McDaniel said. “We’ll get more information tomorrow and take it day by day from here.”
Some players saw Tagovailoa in the locker room after the game and said they were encouraged. Tagovailoa spoke with some players and then went home after the game, McDaniel said.
“I have a lot of love for Tua, built a great relationship with him,” said quarterback Skylar Thompson, who replaced Tagovailoa after the injury. “You care about the person more than the player and everybody in the organization would say the same thing. Just really praying for Tua and hopefully everything will come out all right.”
Tagovailoa signed a four-year, $212 million extension before this season — a deal that makes him one of the highest-paid players in the NFL — and was the NFL’s leading passer in Week 1 this season. Tagovailoa left with the Dolphins trailing 31-10, and that was the final score.
“If you know Tua outside of football, you can’t help but feel for him,” Bills quarterback Josh Allen said on Amazon following the game. “He’s a great football player but he’s an even greater human being. He’s one of the best humans on the planet. I’ve got a lot of love for him and I’m just praying for him and his family, hoping everything’s OK. But it’s tough, man. This game of football that we play, it’s got its highs and it’s got its lows — and this is one of the lows.”
Tagovailoa’s college years and first three NFL seasons were marred by injury, though he positioned himself for a big pay bump with an injury-free and productive 2023 as he led the Dolphins into the playoffs. He threw for 29 touchdowns and a league-best 4,624 yards last year.
When, or if, he can come back this season is anyone’s guess. Tagovailoa said in April 2023 that the concussions he had in the 2022 season left him contemplating his playing future. “I think I considered it for a time,” he said then, when asked if he considered stepping away from the game to protect himself.
McDaniel said it’s not his place to say if Tagovailoa should return to football. “He’ll be evaluated and we’ll have conversations and progress as appropriate,” McDaniel said.
Tagovailoa was hurt Thursday on a fourth-down keeper with about 4:30 left in the third. He went straight ahead into Hamlin and did not slide, leading with his right shoulder instead.
Hamlin was the player who suffered a cardiac arrest after making a tackle during a Monday night game in January 2023 at Cincinnati, causing the NFL to suspend a pivotal game that quickly lost significance in the aftermath of a scary scene that unfolded in front of a national television audience.
Tagovailoa wound up on his back, both his hands in the air and Bills players immediately pointed at him as if to suggest there was an injury. Dolphins center Aaron Brewer quickly did the same, waving to the sideline.
Tagovailoa appeared to be making a fist with his right hand as he lay on the ground. It was movement consistent with something that is referred to as the “fencing response,” which can be common after a traumatic brain injury.
Tagovailoa eventually got to his feet. McDaniel grabbed the side of his quarterback’s head and gave him a kiss on the cheek as Tagovailoa departed. Thompson came into the game to take Tagovailoa’s spot.
“I love Tua on and off the football field,” Bills edge Von Miller said. “I’m a huge fan of him. I can empathize and sympathize with him because I’ve been there. I wish him the best.”
Tagovailoa’s history with concussions — and how he has since worked to avoid them — is a huge part of the story of his career, and now comes to the forefront once again.
He had at least two concussions during the 2022 season. He was hurt in a Week 3 game against Buffalo and cleared concussion protocol, though he appeared disoriented on that play but returned to the game.
The NFL later changed its concussion protocol to mandate that if a player shows possible concussion symptoms — including a lack of balance or stability — he must sit out the rest of the game.
Less than a week later, in a Thursday night game at Cincinnati, Tagovailoa was concussed on a scary hit that briefly knocked him unconscious and led to him being taken off the field on a stretcher.
His second known concussion of that season came in a December game against Green Bay, and he didn’t play for the rest of the 2022 season. After that, Tagovailoa began studying ways where he may be able to fall more safely and protect himself against further injury — including studying jiu-jitsu.
“I’m not worried about anything that’s out of my hands,” McDaniel said. “I’m just worried about the human being.”
NEW YORK (AP) — When her husband turns on the television to hear news about the upcoming presidential election, that’s often a signal for Lori Johnson Malveaux to leave the room.
It can get to be too much. Often, she’ll go to a TV in another room to watch a movie on the Hallmark Channel or BET. She craves something comforting and entertaining. And in that, she has company.
While about half of Americans say they are following political news “extremely” or “very” closely, about 6 in 10 say they need to limit how much information they consume about the government and politics to avoid feeling overloaded or fatigued, according to a new survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts.
Make no mistake: Malveaux plans to vote. She always does. “I just get to the point where I don’t want to hear the rhetoric,” she said.
The 54-year-old Democrat said she’s most bothered when she hears people on the news telling her that something she saw with her own eyes — like the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — didn’t really happen.
“I feel like I’m being gaslit. That’s the way to put it,” she said.
Sometimes it feels like ‘a bombardment’
Caleb Pack, 23, a Republican from Ardmore, Oklahoma, who works in IT, tries to keep informed through the news feeds on his phone, which is stocked with a variety of sources, including CNN, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press.
Yet sometimes, Pack says, it seems like a bombardment.
“It’s good to know what’s going on, but both sides are pulling a little bit extreme,” he said. “It just feels like it’s a conversation piece everywhere, and it’s hard to escape it.”
Media fatigue isn’t a new phenomenon. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in late 2019 found roughly two in three Americans felt worn out by the amount of news there is, about the same as in a poll taken in early 2018. During the 2016 presidential campaign, about 6 in 10 people felt overloaded by campaign news.
But it can be particularly acute with news related to politics. The AP-NORC/USAFacts poll found that half of Americans feel a need to limit their consumption of information related to crime or overseas conflicts, while only about 4 in 10 are limiting news about the economy and jobs.
It’s easy to understand, with television outlets like CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC full of political talk and a wide array of political news online, sometimes complicated by disinformation.
“There’s a glut of information,” said Richard Coffin, director of research and advocacy for USAFacts, “and people are having a hard time figuring out what is true or not.”
Women are more likely to feel they need to limit media
In the AP-NORC poll, about 6 in 10 men said they follow news about elections and politics at least “very” closely, compared to about half of women. For all types of news, not just politics, women are more likely than men to report the need to limit their media consumption, the survey found.
White adults are also more likely than Black or Hispanic adults to say they need to limit media consumption on politics, the poll found.
Kaleb Aravzo, 19, a Democrat, gets a baseline of news by listening to National Public Radio in the morning at home in Logan, Utah. Too much politics, particularly when he’s on social media sites like TikTok and Instagram, can trigger anxiety and depression.
“If it pops up on my page when I’m on social media,” he said, “I’ll just scroll past it.”
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Sanders reported from Washington. David Bauder writes about media for the AP. Follow him at http://x.com/dbauder.
The AP poll of 1,019 adults was conducted July 29-August 8, 2024, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.0 percentage points.
