Author: Blazingcatfur
New vaccine mandate may leave thousands of City of Toronto workers unemployed
Unemployed by Christmas is the future thousands of City of Toronto workers could be facing if they remain unvaccinated for much longer.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the worker shortage that unvaccinated employees would create. The wheels are now in motion.
Civil servants are rarely “fired” in Canada, expect no permanent job losses.
Pentagon’s first software chief quit because China has already won global tech war
The Pentagon’s former software chief said he quit because China has already won the tech war guaranteeing global dominance — with some US government systems mere “kindergarten level” in comparison.
Nicolas Chaillan, 37, told the Financial Times on Sunday that there is “good reason to be angry” at the US failing to rise to China’s cyber threat, even fearing that it puts his children’s future at risk.
‘Most successful invasive large mammal on the planet’ spotted in Alberta national park
One of the most destructive and rapidly spreading invasive species on the continent has been found for the first time in a Canadian national park.
Wild pigs, which tear up landscapes and eat everything from roots to bird eggs to deer, are regularly present in Elk Island National Park east of Edmonton, says Parks Canada.
New Superman revealed to be bisexual, global activist in DC comics
It’s a brand new day for the man of steel.
Continuing a recent trend of comic book characters coming out as LGBTQ, Superman is now confirmed to be bisexual and on the fight for global social issues, according to the DC team behind the character, who spoke to IGN.
Inside Melbourne’s eternal lockdown
Will the city ever recover from its pursuit of Zero Covid?
Last week Melbourne acquired the dubious honour of becoming the Lockdown Capital of the World: it has now spent 252 days in lockdown, overtaking Buenos Aires, where restrictions were in place for 245 days. By the time the current — sixth – lockdown is scheduled to end on 26 October, Melburnians will have been in lockdown for 267 days, or 45% of the time since the pandemic officially began.
America’s everything shortage: Supply chain bottlenecks lead to bare shelves while cargo ships wait to dock and truckers struggle to keep up with demand
A series of supply chain bottlenecks has created a monumental shortage of goods across America, with shelves in pharmacies, department stores, grocery stores and more sitting empty while cargo ships, freight trains and trucks struggle to distribute goods quickly enough to keep up with demand.
Dozens of cargo ships are waiting to dock in California and may be stuck for months in a traffic jam of ships the likes of which has never been seen before.
Millions of dollars of American goods are sitting in warehouses in China and Asia, awaiting shipment. Even once the goods reach American shores, mostly from China, the process is stunted by a lack of on-the-ground staff who can distribute them.
Chinese Regime’s Widespread Influence Operations in Canada Documented in French Report
Comprehensive report reveals the extent of China’s influence and propaganda operations around the world
Chinese regime influence operations in Canada are broad and pervasive, according to a comprehensive report published by a French government-affiliated think tank.
From stifling dissident voices to influencing politics, media, and education, from manipulating information to utilizing local organizations, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using every non-kinetic means in its toolbox to sway Canada and Chinese-Canadians, says the report, titled “Chinese Influence Operations: A Machiavellian Moment.”
A British Journalist Calls Biden’s Election Victory ‘Rigged’
A look at his case – and at American silence.
“The American public is slowly waking up to the fact that they are being led by an ineffectually devious, senile halfwit,” Liddle wrote. “Soon the public will wake up to something even more unpleasant and sinister: that the last presidential election was a fraud, rigged by big business, the labor unions and, more than anything, the media and the tech companies.
US to give humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Taliban say
The United States has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, but refused to give political recognition to the country’s new rulers, the Taliban said on Sunday.
The statement came at the end of the first direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of US troops at the end of August.
The US statement was less definitive, saying only that the two sides “discussed the United States’ provision of robust humanitarian assistance, directly to the Afghan people”.
ISIS second in command is captured
Iraq has captured the alleged finance chief and second in command of the Islamic State group, for whom the US had offered a $5 million bounty.
Sami Jasim al-Jaburi, the suspected former deputy to the late IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was arrested by intelligence services ‘outside the borders’ of Iraq, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi announced on Monday.
Look closely, Trudeau’s ‘mandatory’ vax policy isn’t what it seems
The Trudeau government’s mandatory vaccine policy for federal civil servants is like its supposed mandatory hotel quarantine for international travellers last spring.
By that, I mean it is tough talk that amounts to nothing. The vaccine policy exempts tens of thousands of civil servants and will do very little to protect Canadians from COVID-19.
Met police drop investigation into Prince Andrew in Virginia Giuffre case
The Metropolitan police are taking no further action after a review prompted by Virginia Giuffre, who is taking legal action against Prince Andrew.
Met officers made the decision to drop their investigation on Sunday, after reviewing several documents, including one relating to an ongoing US civil lawsuit concerning Giuffre, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old.
China suck up Trudeau urged to join allies in tougher China stance after Kovrig, Spavor release
… Some analysts saw hints of a potentially tougher approach in what appeared to be a throwaway line in a congratulatory note that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent to his new Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, this past week.
Trudeau twice used the label “Indo-Pacific” to stress the importance of co-operating with Japan on shared regional interests.
For some observers, that was a signal that Canada was moving toward a tougher posture toward future relations with China.
Justin will look out for the interests of the China class.