National Guard to remain in DC until March due to lingering threats
More than 15,000 National Guardsmen who have been occupying Washington DC are now being sent home but 7,000 will remain on duty until March because the ‘threat of right-wing extremism’ still lingers – as it’s revealed that troops were ordered out of the Capitol overnight by a single officer who didn’t have authority.
Joe Biden warns U.S. faces more than 600,000 COVID deaths
‘I’m going to close and summarize this way,’ Biden said at an event Friday in the state dining room of the White House. ‘A lot of America is hurting. The virus is surging. We’re 400,000 dead, expected to reach well over 600,000. Families are going hungry. People are at risk of being evicted. Job losses are mounting again. We need to act. No matter how you look at it we need to act.
This Is Why Nobody Believes The Media Anymore
Not the least among those factors is the fact that media occasionally gets the story wrong — sometimes because the desire to break a story first outweighs the desire to get it right and sometimes because the information being reported comes from sources that are not trustworthy.
‘Saudi Arabia First’: Canadian Leader Hints at Trade War with U.S. After Biden Cancels Keystone XL Pipeline
Just a few hours after President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday to revoke the presidential permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the premier of one Canadian province suggested the idea of a Canada-U.S. trade war if Biden doesn’t reconsider this position.
Trudeau speaks to Pfizer CEO as delays to vaccine shipments get worse
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla by phone Thursday, the same day the company informed Canada delays to its shipments of COVID-19 vaccines are going to be even worse than previously thought.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the military commander now overseeing the vaccine logistics for the Public Health Agency of Canada, said last week a factory expansion at Pfizer’s Belgium plant was going to slow production, cutting Canada’s deliveries over four weeks in half.
9 months after deadly N.S. shooting, Ottawa halts sales of decommissioned RCMP vehicles
Nine months after a gunman used a replica police vehicle during a deadly shooting rampage in Nova Scotia, the federal government is suspending the sale of all surplus RCMP vehicles.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said the moratorium takes effect immediately.
“We are suspending the sale of decommissioned RCMP vehicles on an interim basis to ensure that this process remains appropriate and robust,” Blair said in an email statement Thursday night.
