As they were settling in to watch a hockey game on television just before 6:00 p.m. on Saturday evening, every Albertan with a cellphone received a message via the Alberta Emergency Alert system warning that record-breaking cold weather “resulting in high power demand has placed the Alberta (electric) grid at a high risk of rotating power outages.”
On the Toronto District School Board website, it says there are 75 EarlyON Child and Family Centres located in schools across Toronto — spaces where children can play and parents can connect.
Nowhere on the @tdsb website does it mention that access to these programs can be… pic.twitter.com/254ProSo4E
— Chanel Pfahl 🇨🇦 (@ChanLPfa) January 16, 2024
h/t XC
Japanese researchers say their “shocking” systematic review of research papers on COVID-19 vaccines has discovered thousands of side effects “affecting every possible aspect of human pathology.”
The findings were laid out in a 93-minute press conference in Japan held January 11 by the Vaccine Issues Study Group, a panel of esteemed medical experts. The findings followed six months of investigations into the side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.
h/t XC
When he testified before a House of Commons committee on foreign interference in Canadian elections last year, David Morrison, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, said that in his experience no item of intelligence paints “a full or concrete or actionable picture.”
Two major retailers in California’s Bay Area are putting socks and underwear under lock and key in an effort to deter shoplifters.
A Target store in Richmond and another in Pleasant Hill are locking up their items, NBC Bay Area reported Thursday. The outlet also noted that customers are being forced to wait quite some time for employees to retrieve the merchandise from the cases.
Rachel Notley has announced she is planning to step down as leader of Alberta’s Opposition NDP.
The former premier made the announcement to caucus in Edmonton on Tuesday, sources have confirmed to CBC News.
Notley’s announcement will trigger a leadership race.
OAK BROOK, Ill. – Electric vehicles may be the way of the future, but many EV owners are having trouble dealing with Chicago’s bitterly cold temperatures.
Public charging stations have turned into car graveyards over the past couple of days.
Not confidence inspiring.
h/t Mauser
Hundreds of people gathered in Toronto’s streets this weekend to enjoy the company of like-minded people in celebrating — get this — the Houthi faction of Yemen, which declared war on civilian cargo ships in November and has since taken innocent crewmen hostage.
Oh nothing. Just a few peaceful demonstrators in @oliviachow’s Toronto cheering on Houthi terrorists and calling for the murder of Jews.
— Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@alanfryermedia) January 15, 2024
Georgia United Credit Union recently updated their User Agreement — you know, that wall of text that your financial institution flashes at you from time to time and which few people bother to read. The catch: If you rely on Georgia United Credit Union for your purchasing tool, like, say, a debit card, you may no longer use that to purchase firearms, ammunition, firearms parts, or accessories, along with a host of other items.
h/t XC
For years, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has been a highlight of Vancouver’s arts scene. I once called it a “beacon of avant-garde light in the dead of winter.”
I won’t be calling it that any more. The festival has now added to the darkness of this already tragic, oppressive season.
Last week, PuSh decided to cancel its planned performances of the Canadian play The Runner at the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. The one-person play, written by Christopher Morris, has received rave reviews, including from The Globe and Mail’s J. Kelly Nestruck in 2018.
The Health Ministry on Monday instructed members of the healthcare system not to cooperate with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, citing its perceived anti-Israel stance.
In recent weeks, senior physicians and hospital staff who treated October 7 victims and released hostages have received letters and emails from the commission, which operates under the UN Council for Human Rights. The commission requested information and interviews for its investigation of international and gender-based crimes since the beginning of the current Israel-Hamas war.
Queen’s University is in danger of going under if its financial situation is not dramatically improved through spending cuts, according to a senior administrator at the Kingston, Ont., school.
Small undergraduate classes of fewer than ten students have already been earmarked to be eliminated from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which is on track to run out of reserve money next year. Graduate classes of fewer than five students are reported to be next on the list.
Is a sense of unfairness in the Biden administration’s use of criminal prosecutions against the leading Republican candidate powering the 45th president’s astonishing surge on the hustings?
President Trump’s victory in Iowa — where he won an absolute majority in a four-person race — will certainly put a spring in his step. It might not be, history suggests, a reliable predictor of who will emerge as the party nominee. The landslide by which he trounced two strong Republicans, though, is remarkable. It goes a long way in putting paid to the notion that, as Conrad Black puts it, the 45th president is a spent political force.
On Tuesday, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow will hold the first of three telephone town halls to hear from residents about the city budget. Anyone concerned about a 16.5% tax hike should be on those calls this week making their voice heard.
‼️ CEO of Paramount Fine Foods, which owns over 40 restaurants, says Jews who support Israel are not welcome to be his clients.
The Lebanese Canadian, Mohammed Fakih posted: "We don't need your money! Please don't! Our clients are respectful families from all backgrounds. We… pic.twitter.com/DggBgMP5oi
— Awesome Jew (@Jewsarethegoat) January 15, 2024
Bonus Mia Khalifa
Jewish mother confronts disgraced porn star Mia Khalifa for her antisemitism.
Khalifa previously sparked outrage for requesting Hamas film the execution of Jewish people and “flip their phones and film…horizontal.”
The Jewish woman goes up to the adult video model saying… pic.twitter.com/nxQnDl353P
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 16, 2024
