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🚨 Six catholiques ont été placés en garde à vue pour avoir prié devant l'église Saint Laurent à Paris afin de protester contre la représentation de la militante LGBT Barbara Butch dans l'édifice religieux. (Mathieu Sassi)

Chinese beauty influencer allegedly loses 140,000 followers after filter glitch reveals her real appearance

JUST IN: 🇨🇴 Colombian President Gustavo Petro says "Heil Hitler" in an X post.

Toronto man charged after allegedly threatening people he ‘perceived to be Palestinian’: police ctvnews.ca/toronto/articl…

Frustrated American truck driver recorded the moment a Muslim driver parked his rig at the fuel island to pray, blocking other trucks from exiting or refueling and causing a significant backup at the gas station.

Man says he has period pain.

Canadian businessman accused of aiding Russia sanctioned by EU, but not Ottawa theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

SpaceX welder to become millionaire thanks to company stock — WSJ Juan Hernandez joined SpaceX as a welder earning $28 an hour and received $10,000 worth of company stock As SpaceX heads toward its IPO, the shares he held onto are now worth nearly $1 million

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More of these types of stories should be written about SpaceX’s IPO. Thousands of folks who would traditionally not had access to ownership in a company are about to have an awesome outcome. I had the good fortune to be able to a few hundred welders and technicians. Most will make 6 and 7 figures. Capitalism is awesome 🚀

An incredible win for Canada’s teachers!

Vancouver crushed it with the Science World-to-Giant World Cup Ball conversion. Shoutout to the dude that dropped the final panel for the makeover.

SpaceX's IPO is expected to create roughly 4,000 new millionaires among employees

@wholemars teachers who payed into space x and bought shares and locked them in long term investments are making bank once the final numbers are released 💵💸

Crazy that Ontario cancelled their Starlink deal, but the teachers pension plan is making a fortune on SpaceX

What a sight! 👀 Orca pod spotted at Dodds Narrows just outside Nanaimo, BC 🇨🇦🫍

NEWS: He came from Mexico and welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour. His stock is now worth almost $1 million. Juan Hernandez joined SpaceX as a contract welder in 2015, the Wall Street Journal reports. When he went full time, the company gave him $10,000 in stock that vested over five years. He bought more from every paycheck. In 2020 he started selling small pieces of the stake, back when SpaceX was worth $36 billion. That money bought properties around Texas, where he and his wife now run a small real estate business. The shares he kept are worth around $880,000 at the IPO price. "It's put me in a comfortable position for life." These days he welds rockets for Blue Origin. The SpaceX stock comes with him.

SPACEX EMPLOYEES ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES FOREVER A former SpaceX engineer J. André Lavoie who now lives in northern Italy renovating a hotel: his stake is about to be worth $28 million at the IPO price. A 27-year-old mariner Maryellyn Musselman who joined SpaceX in 2022 and put 10% of every paycheck into equity on top of her compensation package. She hasn't decided yet if she'll sell. A welder Juan Hernandez who immigrated from Mexico, didn't even know what SpaceX was when a friend mentioned the job, started at $28 an hour as a contractor, was given a $10,000 equity stake that vested over five years. In 2020, he began selling off small chunks of his stake as SpaceX hit a $36B valuation ... His remaining shares are worth $880,000 at the IPO price. "It's put me in a comfortable position for life." Some employees received shares valued at less than $2 when they were granted. SpaceX is pricing its IPO at $135 a share. (Source WSJ)

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is sitting on a potential windfall of as much as $11.6 billion from an initial investment of about $300 million into @SpaceX in 2019. This would make it the single most successful investment the pension plan has ever made. The Teachers portfolio, which manages $279B in assets for about 346,000 members, includes working and retired teachers in Ontario. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

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