Ontario reports 4,156 new Covid cases … and Jab shortages continue … and the Danes take a Hard Pass on AstraZeneca

Ontario reports 4,156 new Covid cases … and Jab shortages continue … and the Danes take a Hard Pass on AstraZeneca

Ontario’s seven-day rolling average of new COVID-19 cases tops 4,000 for first time

Ontario is reporting more than 4,100 new COVID-19 cases and 28 more deaths today as the province’s seven-day rolling average topped 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.

The province logged 4,156 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, up from 3,670 a day ago.

Provincial health officials logged 4,401 cases on Monday, 4,456 on Sunday and 3,813 on Saturday.


Toronto hospitals close clinics, halt appointments due to COVID-19 vaccine shortages

Shortages of COVID-19 vaccines have forced two major Toronto health networks that serve some of the hardest-hit communities in the province to either ramp down or outright cancel appointments for shots.

The Scarborough Health Network (SHN) says it will be closing its Centennial College and Centenary hospital clinics Wednesday.

Dr. Lisa Salaman-Switzman, an emergency physician with SHN, said in a series of tweets the moves will result in the cancellation of about 10,000 appointments over the next several days.


AstraZeneca vaccine: Denmark ceases rollout completely

Denmark has ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first European country to do so fully.

The move is expected to delay the country’s vaccination programme by several weeks.

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Daunte Wright protesters leak Kimberly Potter’s home address online forcing police to guard property: Officer ‘to be charged today’ following 3rd night of national unrest

The third night of Daunte Wright protests turned violent as demonstrators clashed with police in Minneapolis while Portland’s police union building was set on fire during the riot.

At least 60 people were arrested at protests in Portland, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago overnight on Tuesday.

Curfews had been in place for Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Crystal, Columbia Heights, New Hope and Maple Grove from 10pm local time, but had done little to stem the demonstrators.

 

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In Minnesota, attacks on police are escalating in ugly ways

We learned yesterday that Daunte Wright’s death in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota occurred after Wright wildly fought off the arresting officers, only to have an officer mistake her gun for her taser. The complete absence of information about Wright’s cause of death didn’t stop the usual suspects from going to war against their own community, looting and destroying property. However, unlike last year, the escalation against the police is getting more vicious because people are being encouraged to dox police and threaten their families.

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Major News Outlets Pledge to Begin Calling ‘Climate Change’ a ‘Climate Emergency’

Major News Outlets Pledge to Begin Calling ‘Climate Change’ a ‘Climate Emergency’

A number of major news organizations worldwide, ranging from Scientific American and The Columbia Journalism Review to The Guardian and Al Jazeera, have signed a pledge to begin referring to “climate change” as a “climate emergency” in their reporting.

“Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term ‘climate emergency’ in its coverage of climate change,” the publication announced Monday in a tweet to its 3.9 million followers touting “the impact we hope it can have throughout the media landscape.”

BCF will from now on refer to “Climate Change” as “Studebaker.”

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The Transformative Magic of Wokeness

How it twists MLK’s vision of racial brotherhood into a shared contempt for white “deplorables.”

Last Wednesday, on BBC’s TV debate program Newsnight, host Emily Maitlis interviewed two American guests about the allegedly racist new Georgia voting law that led Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game, scheduled for July 13, from that state to Colorado.

Now, anyone who’s taken the trouble to learn the truth about the law, which was passed in the wake of widespread ballot fraud in the 2020 election, knows that it’s thoroughly unremarkable. Voters – all voters – are required to show ID before they can cast their ballots, just as baseball fans are required to show ID when picking up their tickets to an MLB game. But the Biden Administration and its allies have obscured this fact, painting the law as an effort to suppress the black vote. The premise of their argument is that an ID requirement is particularly hard on blacks – apparently because, unlike whites and Asians, they can’t be expected to get their act together well enough to secure proper ID.

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Why is Twitter suppressing criticism of Black Lives Matter?

A black journalist has been barred from Twitter for exposing BLM’s hypocrisy.

A journalist has been locked out of his Twitter account for criticising Black Lives Matter.

Jason Whitlock shared a link to the story that Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of BLM’s co-founders, had purchased a $1.4million compound in Topanga, LA. This is reportedly only the latest in a string of high-end buys by Khan-Cullors. Whitlock, a black journalist, tweeted that black people make up just 1.4 per cent of the town’s population, adding mockingly that ‘She’s with her people!’.
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Why ISIS love to kill – Attempts to rationalise evil let its barbaric perpetrators off the hook

I used to think there was something demonically profound about Hannah Arendt’s diagnosis of Adolf Eichmann. He was “neither perverted nor sadistic… but terribly and terrifyingly normal”; he epitomised the “banality of evil”. Eichmann, in effect, was a bespectacled gimp who you wouldn’t look twice at in the street.

Yet he had played an active role in an industrial-sized enterprise of human cruelty and malevolence. There was something deeply unnerving about this: the disproportion between the smallness of this man and the Himalayan magnitude of the Holocaust. It didn’t seem to add up.

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Nolte: Dreadful Decade of Best Picture Winners Marches on Into 2021

Even with a pandemic locking us all down, including most of our movie theaters, pretty much no one is even aware of, much less watching, this year’s Best Picture nominees. Oh, and the ratings for all the award shows celebrating these nominees have sped right past humiliating into dreadful.

Last year, a whole bunch of these award shows were hitting all-time lows. This year, the audience drop off has been 50 to 60 percent lower than those all-time lows, lol.

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Daunte Wright had a warrant for attempted aggravated robbery after ‘choking and holding a woman at gunpoint for $820 in 2019’

Daunte Wright choked a woman and threatened to shoot her if she did not hand over $820 she had stuffed in her bra, court papers obtained by DailyMail.com allege.

That is the case that led to a warrant for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by police officer Kimberly Potter in Minnesota on Sunday, leading to days of unrest.

And online speculation that he did not know there was a warrant out for his arrest is false, DailyMail.com has learned. A letter returned to the court for having a wrong address was giving notice of a court date in August and had nothing to do with the warrant.

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Gwyn Morgan: It’s time for leaders who won’t buy China’s lies

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s speech at the party’s policy convention was an opportunity to attract Canadians wanting change. Unfortunately, as John Ivison has reported, following the speech six in 10 Canadian voters remain politically homeless. Here is my version of a speech that would have resonated with many of those politically homeless:

My fellow Canadians, as I contemplate a new future for our country, I’m reminded of what the great British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said as she took over from a corrupt, deeply socialist party that had transformed the once strong and proud United Kingdom into an impotent, failing nation. She said, “We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.”

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N.S. introduces bill to mark end of slavery in British colonies with Emancipation Day

Nova Scotia has introduced legislation to recognize the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs Tony Ince tabled the bill today to officially designate Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day.

It would recognize the day in 1834 when the British parliament outlawed the owning, buying and selling of humans as property throughout its colonies.

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Mayhem in Montreal: COVID-19 Riots Shake Canada

Some Canadians have had enough of the lockdowns.

While the United States dealt with yet another night of violent rioting in response to a police shooting in Minnesota, riots were also occurring in Montreal, for a different reason.

Montreal is no stranger to turmoil and rioting, but Sunday’s culprits were anti-lockdown protesters, not Quebecois nationalists. The protests were in response to a new 8 p.m curfew in the city as a result of increased community spread of COVID-19, with dissidents chanting “Freedom for the young.” It seems the French revolutionary spirit has not completely left the Montrealers; their actions included setting fires and smashing storefronts. There were seven arrests and over 100 citations for violation of public health rules.

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Rex Murphy: Trudeau’s true face has emerged while in power, and it isn’t pretty

Rex Murphy: Trudeau’s true face has emerged while in power, and it isn’t pretty

There’s a catchy line in one of T.S. Eliot’s early poems. Actually, now that I think about it there are many catchy lines in T.S. Eliot’s early poems. Many more in fact than in his later ones.

He wrote in Prufrock “there will be time/Time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.” It’s the latter part that stays so solidly in mind that of preparing “a face to meet the faces that you meet.” There in ten short and plain words is the essence of all political campaigning. Political parties, and their leaders particularly, are the masters of this craft of preparing their faces. Today we call it image making, or more stolidly communications strategy, or media relations.

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