Budget

Globe – Federal budget 2021: Liberals target child care, COVID-19 relief in a wave of new spending, as deficit projected to hit $354-billion

NatPo – Federal budget 2021 pledges $101 billion for child care and stimulus spending to fuel pandemic recovery

Star – Liberals promise $10-a-day child care with a federal budget that looks beyond the pandemic

Global – Canada’s debt set to cross $1 trillion mark as Liberals extend COVID-19 aid in budget

CTV – Budget 2021: Government unveils $101.4B in new spending, with deficit declining

Sun – BUDGET: Liberals extend COVID-19 aid with election top of mind

CBC – Budget vows to build ‘for the long term’ as it promises child care cash, projects massive deficits

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Furious Number 10 hits back at United Nations for ‘misrepresenting’ findings of UK race report after it labelled review ‘reprehensible’ and claimed it ‘normalises white supremacy’

Furious Number 10 hits back at United Nations for ‘misrepresenting’ findings of UK race report after it labelled review ‘reprehensible’ and claimed it ‘normalises white supremacy’

Downing Street today accused the United Nations of ‘misrepresenting’ the findings of a landmark UK race report in an extraordinary bust up.

An arm of the UN accused the Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (Cred) of trying to ‘rationalise’ and ‘normalise’ white supremacy in its ‘reprehensible’ report on race relations in Britain by ‘repackaging racist tropes and stereotypes into fact’.

Five human rights experts working for the organisation claimed the controversial report presented by Cred on March 31 effectively whitewashed the history of slavery and colonialism, and ‘further distorted and falsified historic facts’.

The UN is the enemy.

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Now Do Trudeau… Growing calls for Ontario Premier Doug Ford to resign amid worsening COVID-19 3rd wave

Now Do Trudeau… Growing calls for Ontario Premier Doug Ford to resign amid worsening COVID-19 3rd wave

Amid a public health crisis the likes of which Ontario has never seen, and a firestorm of criticism regarding the Ford government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic there are growing calls for the premier to step down.

On Sunday, a Washington Post op-ed by columnist David Moscrop titled “Doug Ford must resign” quickly became the most read story on the paper’s website. In the article, Moscrop wrote, “Over a year into the pandemic, things are worse in Ontario than they have been since it began.”

Doug is no great shakes but the Trudeau government has been downright criminal.

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Amid surging cases and ‘double mutant’ variant, flights from India touch down in Canada

Flights from Delhi continue to land in Canada despite India’s daily tally of COVID-19 infections surging to a record over the weekend — and amid the emergence of a new “double mutant” variant in the country.

A federal government website that lists flights where someone has been confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19shows that from April 4 to April 16, there were 120 flights with a COVID-positive passenger or passengers.

 

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‘Cancel Rent’ Champion Ayanna Pressley Raked in Thousands as Landlord, Records Show

‘Cancel Rent’ Champion Ayanna Pressley Raked in Thousands as Landlord, Records Show

The progressive congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) has called rent cancellation legislation “literally a matter of life and death.” At the same time, she has collected cash from her own rental properties.

Pressley and her husband made as much as $15,000 in rental income in 2019 after purchasing a $658,000 Boston home, according to property records and financial disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The income appears to come over the course of four months—the unit was first listed for $2,500 a month in June 2019 and the posting was removed in August

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Chinese giant Huawei was able to eavesdrop on ANY conversation on Dutch mobile network and knew which numbers were tapped by police or intelligence agencies

Chinese communications giant Huawei was able to eavesdrop on any conversation taking place on one of the biggest mobile networks in the Netherlands.

Hauwei staff were able to monitor all of KPN’s mobile users and eavesdrop on their private conversations – and even knew which numbers were tapped by police or intelligence agencies, according to Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.

The newspaper cited a report prepared by consultancy firm Capgemini for KPN, which it said flagged that Huawei could have been accessing users’ calls in 2010 without KPN knowing.

 

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BLM protesters rally for victim, leave after learning he was white carjacker

Black Lives Matter protesters in Minnesota dropped to a knee and set off to march over a fatal police shooting — just to return when they learned it was a white carjacker who had fired at police, according to reports.

Dozens of people protesting outside Governor Tim Walz’s mansion in St. Paul Sunday were filmed by Fox 9 reporter Mitti Hicks as they knelt for a moment of silence over initial rumors about Sunday’s 3 p.m. fatal shooting.

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‘They just shot my baby,’ says father, moments after 7-year-old daughter killed at McDonald’s in Homan Square

No riots, no vigils.

A 7-year-old girl was killed and her father was seriously wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon as they were getting food at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Homan Square neighborhood.

The father, Jontae Adams, 28, and his daughter, Jaslyn, were in a silver Infiniti about 4:20 p.m. at the McDonald’s, 3200 W. Roosevelt Road, when they were shot, Chicago police said. A McDonald’s employee, who asked not to be named, said two people got out of a gray car and started shooting at the victim’s car.

… Police said the shooting was believed to be gang-related, and less than three hours later, two people were shot in their car at a Popeyes in Humboldt Park, which investigators believe is connected to the McDonald’s shooting.

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Four Police-Related Deaths and the Importance of Context

The world is focused on three police-related deaths: the killing of George Floyd by former Officer Derek Chauvin; the shooting of Daunte Wright by former Officer Kim Potter; and the shooting of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old in Chicago, by Officer Eric Stillman. There is a fourth death that has not received comparable attention: Police Officer Darian Jarrott was murdered in cold blood by a career criminal, Omar Felix Cueva, whose car the officer stopped and politely asked for identification.

These four cases taken together, demonstrate the considerable disparity among cases involving police-related deaths. Each case presents different facts, different legal considerations, different moral conclusions, and different lessons to be learned. Let us consider them each separately, as they deserve.

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Traffic jammed as Ottawa police set up checkpoints at Quebec border

Traffic was backed up on the bridges connecting Ottawa and Gatineau Monday morning as police began enforcing new pandemic travel restrictions.

The morning rush hour slowed to a crawl as vehicles waited in lineups at Ottawa police check points set up at midnight to restrict the movement of vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists from Quebec.

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Minneapolis becomes fortress ahead of verdict in George Floyd trial

Minneapolis looks like a military fortress ahead of the George Floyd murder trial verdict — with fears heightened by a drive-by shooting targeting some of the thousands of National Guard members trying to protect the city.

The Minnesota city had already dramatically increased security ahead of the trial of ex-cop Derek Chauvin — ramping it up even further following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb just 10 miles from where Floyd was killed.

Legal Insurrection has live coverage of the closing arguments.

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Ontario reports 4,447 new Covid cases … Hydroxychloroquine Heresy! Lockdowns a waste of time say docs!

Ontario reports 4,447 new Covid cases … Hydroxychloroquine Heresy! Lockdowns a waste of time say docs!

Ontario reports more than 4,400 new COVID-19 cases today as virus-related hospitalizations surpass 2,200

Ontario is reporting more than 4,400 new COVID-19 cases today as virus-related hospitalizations surpass 2,200 in the province.

Provincial health officials are reporting 4,447 new infections today, up from 4,250 on Sunday but down from the record 4,812 cases confirmed on Friday.

The rolling seven-day average of new infections is now 4,345, up from 3,767 one week ago, and 2,757 two weeks earlier.


LEVY: Three prominent docs call lockdowns a waste of time

They’ve been called “witch doctors” and “snake oil salesmen” for daring to go against the prevailing “group think” about lockdowns and to challenge the “preening camera hungry” medical experts who don’t represent the experience of clinicians and nurses on the front lines of the COVID battle.

But in a lengthy Zoom interview this past week, Paul Elias Alexander, Howard Tenenbaum and Harvey Risch — all PhDs working out of prominent universities — told me flat-out that lockdowns are a complete waste of time.

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Federal budget to commit more than $2B for child care, deficit not to exceed $400B: source

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver the Liberal government’s first budget in two years on Monday, laying out more than $2 billion for a national child-care program while keeping the federal deficit for the past year under the $400 billion mark, CBC News has learned.

A senior government source who spoke to CBC News Sunday — on the condition they not be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the subject — said unlike the way some programs have been announced in past budgets, the forthcoming child-care announcement will not be about striking expert panels, undertaking further study or be entirely subject to negotiations with the provinces.


Federal budget to include digital and luxury levies, but no wealth tax, sources say

OTTAWA — Canada’s first budget in two years, to be presented to parliament on Monday, proposes a sales tax for online platforms and e-commerce warehouses, a digital services tax for Web giants and a luxury tax on items like yachts, government sources familiar with the document said.

It will not include a wealth tax, a levy sought by the opposition New Democrats. Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s budget will need the support of at least one opposition group to pass.

A tax on lux vehicles? I predict an exodus of drug dealers. But at least some parking spots will be freed up in city housing projects.

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