Should provinces reserve COVID-19 vaccine 2nd doses or administer them all right away?
Administering most of Canada’s coronavirus vaccines now, as opposed to reserving half of them to be used later as second doses for the first recipients, could prevent a significant amount of new symptomatic COVID-19 infections, according to new data from researchers at the University of Toronto.
ESKENASI: Is it offensive to say “Merry Christmas?”
Almost every year we hear about people being offended by someone saying “Merry Christmas.”
Sam Eskenasi, an Orthodox Jew, says that’s silly and that the real offence comes from people who say “Happy Holidays.”
Watch Sam’s Christmas message and find out why he doesn’t have a holiday tree and isn’t getting Chanukah presents from Santa this year.
Canada ‘actively monitoring’ new coronavirus variants
There is still no evidence that the new, more contagious variants of COVID-19 found in the United Kingdom and South Africa are in Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada has said.
In a statement on Thursday, the country’s health agency said it was conducting an analysis of Canada’s coronavirus cases and so far, the fresh strain had not been identified over 25,000 virus samples.
University Claims Words ‘Picnic,’ ‘Brown Bag’ Are Offensive
The University of Michigan has a “Words Matter Task Force.”
Seriously. Maybe that’s why out-of-state tuition costs more than $66,000 a year.
The WMTF, set up by the school’s Information and Technology Services (ITS) department, has declared that it finds more than two dozen words and phrases possibly offensive to people, including “picnic,” “brown bag” and “blacklist.”
DHS warns of violence, slyly calls BLM rioters “unidentified actors”
With the Georgia Senate runoff races just two weeks away, the Department of Homeland Security is warning of the possibility of “ideologically motivated violence” in a new report.
DHS warned that there is also a foreign influence campaign (Russia! Russia! Russia!) as voters prepare to go to the polls. The authors were then quick to assure readers that foreign actors can’t influence the election. This is according to a new internal report obtained by Yahoo News.
What’s Going On? Trump Tells White House to Ignore Memo of Packing For Departing White House
According to a new report, President Donald Trump is telling his White House staff to ignore a previous memo that was released relating to packing for leaving the White House by January 20th.
“On Tuesday, White House officials sent an email to staff members about departure procedures before a new administration begins Jan. 20,” the New York Times reported.
