Toronto Police vowing crackdown on “illegal” hockey and tobogganing
According to the Toronto Sun, the City of Toronto says paid-duty police and municipal security officers will increase patrols at the city’s 54 outdoor skating rinks in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Ottawa ‘actively looking’ into loophole that allows quarantining travellers to get sickness benefit
“The Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit was never intended to incentivize or encourage Canadians to not follow public health or international travel guidelines. We continue to strongly urge all Canadians to avoid non-essential travel,” Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said in a media statement Saturday.
Alberta Avenue Community League working to turn park into MMIWG memorial
Liz John-West, a member of the community league, said the idea came as a City of Edmonton staff member reminded them there are several unnamed parks in the community. Upon reflection, she said the group decided to pick a park and develop it into a tribute to the women and girls from the community who have been lost.
Citizens Object To 2020 Election
Just like most everything else in 2020, the U.S. Presidential election was a mess. The level of incompetence and blatant disregard for the traditional electoral process is troubling, to say the least. More distressing is how so many elected officials abandoned their sworn obligation to the Constitution and allowed this farce of a process to continue despite the obvious abnormalities that manifested in key areas of the country. Yet, despite the obstacles, it still is not over – as there are many patriotic Americans ready to fight onward.
Why China’s foreign minister says Biden’s presidency offers a ‘new window of hope’
Speaking to state media, Wang claimed that the Chinese Communist Party seeks only “an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world.” He explained that Biden’s election means “Sino-U.S. relations have come to a new crossroads and are expected to open new windows of hope. It is hoped that the new U.S. government will regain its rationality, resume dialogue, return bilateral relations to the right track, and restart cooperation.”
‘Growing body of evidence’ shows COVID-19 leaked from Chinese lab: US official
U.S. National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger is doubling down on the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese government-run lab in Wuhan.
Pottinger, a staunch critic of Beijing, allegedly made the claim in a recent Zoom meeting with British officials.
“There is a growing body of evidence that the lab is likely the most credible source of the virus,” Pottinger reportedly said, according to the Daily Mail.
