Some Canadians are facing sporadic food shortages throughout the country — and while these shortages may not be felt by everyone, that does not make them any less real to those who must contend with empty shelves. It is disappointing, then, that many progressive commentators have spent the past few days denying that these shortages exist in an ill-advised attempt to score partisan points.
How many guns are smuggled from the U.S. across the Canadian border is anyone’s guess.
So says an internal memo on Nov. 10 from Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s department, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
They should make the guns show proof of vaccination at the border.
A government report on Chinese espionage activities in Canada accuses Beijing of engaging in a “systematic campaign of intelligence-gathering, persuasion, influence, and manipulation” against the Chinese community.
In the report obtained by Global News, Canadian officials alleged the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office was tasked with “influencing or manipulating” community members, and using “coercive tactics” against dissidents and minorities.
“This involves intimidation of OC (Overseas Chinese) at every level of society,” the report said.
Ont. reports 92 net new deaths linked to COVID-19 today
Ontario has added more than 90 net new deaths to its overall COVID-19 death toll today as the number of patients in hospital with the virus dips to just over 4,000.
Provincial health officials confirmed another 92 virus-related deaths today, fatalities that occurred within the past month. This appears to be the highest number of deaths reported by the province on a single day since the start of the pandemic. On Jan. 15, 2021, 100 deaths were confirmed but that total included more than 40 historical deaths that hadn’t been included in previous tallies.
608 people are in ICU with #COVID19. 83% of patients admitted to the ICU were admitted for COVID-19 and 17% were admitted for other reasons but have tested positive for COVID-19.
There are 5,368 new cases of COVID-19.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 26, 2022
‘So many angry people’: Experts say online conversation around trucker convoy veering into dangerous territory
As a growing group of truckers and supporters make their way to Ottawa in a protest against vaccine mandates, experts say the rhetoric online concerning the convoy is getting increasingly worrisome.
The group of truckers and concerned citizens began a cross-country trip to Ottawa over the weekend, in protest of vaccine mandates in the country. The groups expect to arrive in Ottawa this Saturday.
Canada has detected BA.2 cases. What we know about this Omicron subvariant
With signs of the COVID-19 Omicron wave having peaked in parts of the world, including Canada, scientists are keeping a close eye on a subvariant that is rapidly spreading in some countries.
The BA.2 sub-lineage of Omicron, which was first detected in November last year, was designated as a variant under investigation by the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Friday.
Todd Bensman, who’s doing yeoman’s work on the international rackets enabling big migrant surges at the U.S. border, has found the United Nations at the nexus of the matter, aiding and abetting illegal immigration into the U.S., and not for the first time.
The city is operating an illegal drug-consumption site.
Locals sometimes call San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood “Hamsterdam.” The name comes from the third season of HBO’s The Wire, in which a Baltimore police commander unilaterally designates an area of his district where his officers would turn a blind eye to the selling and using of drugs. The fictional depiction of Hamsterdam is horrifying—“a village of pain,” one character calls it. For Tenderloin residents, that portrayal is a reality. And now it’s not just happening on the streets: San Francisco is operating a rogue and unlawful drug-consumption site. In January 2021, the Third Circuit ruled that such supervised consumption rooms are illegal under federal law, as per the Controlled Substances Act.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano sheds a disturbing light on the “Deep Church.”
“A non-Catholic Pope”? It sounds like a contradiction in terms. But those are the words used to describe Pope Francis by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. In fact, he rarely uses the term “Pope Francis.” He refers to him instead as “Bergoglio” and to his pontificate as the “Bergoglian papacy.”
Vigano has a following in some Catholic circles but it’s likely that the vast majority of Catholics have never heard of him. Yet the questions he raises about Pope Francis are of great consequence, not just for Catholics but for non-Catholics as well.
White House spokesman Jen Psaki began her briefing on January 20 with “happy anniversary.” Of the many people thinking to themselves, “Do we really have three more years of this?” chief among them were those who worry about America’s position in a dangerous world.
Today, Russia dominates world news at the expense of feckless Joe Biden, but the full story of the last year is one of far more comprehensive national decline on the world stage.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia have accidentally broadcast their sins to the entire world.
Like many fans of other football clubs (Liverpool here), I’ve long had a soft spot for Newcastle. David Ginola, young Gazza, Keegan’s ‘I will love it’ meltdown, the iconic striped shirt, Viz magazine, big Les Ferdinand, that wonderful lilting accent, Newkie Brown, Shearer’s amusingly utilitarian ‘one hand in the air’ goal celebration, Jimmy Nail… what’s not to love about the Toon, like?
So when Newcastle United was bought by the Public Investment Fund – essentially, the nation state of Saudi Arabia – I was, like most, disappointed to say the least.
Sitting respectfully in our ‘pews’, we put our hands together… and clap. This is not a service but a comedy night. And Amsterdam’s newest ‘church’ is really a theatre for debate and cultural centre in disguise. Incensed by the illogical nature of the current Dutch coronavirus restrictions, Yoeri Albrecht, director of De Balie, last week changed the statutes of his organisation and registered it with the chamber of commerce as a faith-based movement: overnight, The Philosophical Society; the Community of Reason was born.
President Biden‘s handling of the pandemic and the economy is costing him support even among his base, according to a survey released Tuesday by Pew Research Center.
The president’s job approval rating of 41% is down 3% overall since September, but support among Democrats and Democratic Party-leaning voters is falling even faster: Mr. Biden is down 7% among that group over the same period.
The report found that 68% of Democrats still give the president high marks, but that is down from 75% in September and 88% in July.
Germany, the laggard of NATO with a deep conflict of interest regarding Russia, is the weak link.
President Joe Biden’s press conference last week was atrocious, but one of his worst missteps amounted to telling the truth about Germany, if not by name.
Biden said there’d be divisions within NATO over a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine. This is true enough, and the chief cause would be a Germany that is staking a strong claim to being our worst European ally.
Well well well. NATO member will withdraw troops in event of war with Russia – president
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic blamed the US for escalating the crisis and said his country would stay out of a conflict
Putin is winning by not invading. What a guy.
An Afghan evacuee was convicted of having sexual contact with a toddler while they resided on a U.S. military base that was providing temporary housing for those who departed Afghanistan at the end of the war.
Mohammad Tariq, 24, was convicted on charges of abusive sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl on Monday, and he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. He will be sentenced on April 26.
A British Columbia First Nation has announced the grim discovery of 93 potential burial sites on the grounds of a former residential school.
According to the Williams Lake First Nation, a recent geophysical survey, which included ground-penetrating radar, revealed the existence of the potential graves.
Student records teacher bullying him over a mask. The teacher then punches the phone out of the student’s hands.
These people have really lost their minds and all common sense pic.twitter.com/N0QFcsJFhU— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 25, 2022
