They do things a little differently in Canada. And they do things very differently at Marché Ferdous, a small restaurant in Montreal that has a policy of offering free food to anyone who is hungry and cannot afford to pay. “We do not ask any questions, we do not judge people,” Yahya Hashemi co-owner  of the Muslim-owned establishment, Yahya Hashemi told Global News. “They want to eat, [we] give them the food. That’s it, that’s all.” The policy had apparently gone mostly unnoticed until one man shared about it on his Facebook page. Customer Sean Jalbert went undercover to see if the restaurant owners would actually honor the policy, writing on…

Earlier this month in Yiwu, a city in eastern China that produces most of the world’s Christmas decorations, Hubei Wang was robbed outside a bank. After making a withdrawal, Wang left the branch and walked into the parking lot, according to CZTV.com. A man approached her, forcefully grabbed 10,000 yuan (around $1400) she was holding in her hands, knocked her to the ground, and ran. Wang, who was wearing high heels and a baggy black coat, stood up, grabbed her bag, and started in pursuit. A nearby surveillance camera shows her chasing the thief through an alley, where she eventually catches him as he boards his motorcycle. Wang jumps on board as the man attempts to flee, then wrestles him to the ground.…

In honor of the unofficial stoner holiday 420, Snapchat unveiled a new lens that overlays a Bob Marley themed face onto the face of a user, transforming them into a digital version of the legendary musician. However, news of the lens is trending for all the wrong reasons, because many people have accused the lens of being little more than digital blackface. The Marley lens adds a few seemingly innocuous layers, such as his signature hat and facial hair. But it goes a step further by altering the facial structure of users and “darkening” their skin tone to more closely match that of Marley’s visage. And that doesn’t even get into…

When it comes to cannabis, there are a number of powerful misconceptions. For years, it was called a gateway drug, but evidence suggests that’s far from true. The biggest gateway has always been and continues to be, alcohol. But in recent years, some advocates of legalization have also downplayed its potential physical and mental health risks, including Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD).  However, one area where just about everyone has agreed is that obviously smoking pot is terrible for teens. And with teenagers now smoking marijuana more regularly than cigarettes, it’s a public health problem that must be addressed. Well, guess what? It turns out that widely help belief might also…

The suicidal patients admitted to the hospital where David Jobes worked as a grad student had to make a promise in order to be released. They had to promise not to kill themselves before their next appointment. If they didn’t make this promise, they may not get to go home. As Jobes went on to become a practicing psychologist, he grew more uncomfortable with these “no-harm” contracts – some hospitals asked for verbal commitments, others asked patients to sign actual paper documents – that forced patients to make a promise they couldn’t necessarily keep and weren’t very effective in actually preventing suicides. “I began to realize that much of what was…

This weekend, Donald Trump appeared for an interview on the CBS news program “60 Minutes.” Several important news stories came out of that interview but the thing most people want to talk about today on social media is the strange portrait some viewers noticed hanging from inside the White House. In the painting, President Trump is seen at a card table playing poker with past Republican presidents, including Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, and George H.W. Bush and Dwight Eisenhower. And most interestingly, Trump appears to be sharing a humorous anecdote with none other than Abraham Lincoln. At first glance, it looks a bit like one of those knock-off paintings…

In a capitalist society most relationships between strangers are transactional. I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Everybody’s got a price. Ass, cash or grass nobody rides for free. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, it’s just how our material needs are met. One story that recently went viral on Reddit, under the r/HumanbeingBros subforum, shows the power of being generous for generosity’s sake. However, one reason it’s so powerful is because this type of generosity between strangers so unfortunately rare. Reddit user u/JeffTrav (we’ll call him Jeff) had just purchased a new car with his wife and decided they should give away their old one to someone who really needed…

If the thought of curling up with, say, The Warren Buffett Way isn’t appealing, but you want some decent financial advice, take heart: there are plenty of valuable lessons to be gained from fictional characters in popular novels. Here are five lessons about how finance work— from classic and contemporary works. Money doesn’t buy happiness In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the incredibly wealthy Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his mansion, yet it’s clear that he and his wealthy guests aren’t particularly happy or satisfied with their lives. Excessive wealth won’t necessarily bring you closer to happiness, says Carla Dearing, CEO of Sum180. However, she says, everyone needs enough money…

It’s tempting to confuse writer and director Joss Whedon with the fearless adventurers who populate his films and television shows—Buffy Summers, vampire slayer; Mal Reynolds, space cowboy; pretty much any of the (nearly) invincible Avengers. But no matter how much praise his “worshipful” fan base heaps upon the “geek icon,” Whedon is as human as any of us. And after the election, he was in tough shape. Several months before Hillary’s defeat, Whedon founded a super PAC called Save the Day and sunk $1 million into it to help her get elected. He also directed “about 20” star-studded campaign ads on her behalf. Though he tried to prepare himself for…

President Trump’s new executive order on immigration addresses some of the legal problems found by courts in the January 27 original order, but is still vulnerable on some of the same legal grounds. As a constitutional law professor who has recently written on this topic, I’d contend that Trump’s lawyers are not out of the woods yet. Some important changes The new executive order still has the original’s 120-day ban on the entry of refugees from all countries. Jettisoned is the indefinite ban on Syrian refugees. The new order keeps the 90-day ban on entry by persons from six majority Muslim countries—Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Yemen. But the…