Messages don’t come much more mixed than the ones delivered Thursday by Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his top COVID-19 advisers.
In the morning, Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of the province’s science advisory group, presented his usual prophecy of doom. The latest COVID modelling projects sharply increasing case numbers as the deadlier, more contagious virus variants take over. Cases could go up to 6,000 a day by the end of April, maybe even 12,000 a day.
A “festival” at Bois de la Cambre in Brussels began as an April Fools’ prank on social media, and ended with police using tear gas and water cannon to disperse several thousand partygoers defying the Covid-19 lockdown.
Around 5,000 mainly young people showed up at the forest park just south of Brussels on Thursday, for an event called “La Boum” (a reference to a 1980s French teen rom-com) even though it was obviously an April 1 prank.
Tear gas and DRONES | Police crackdown on Brussels ‘freedom rally’
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When it comes to health care, Canadians only seem to care about one thing: Are we better than the United States?
As long as we “beat” the U.S., we remain smug about our performance, although this attitude can be hard to square with the tens of thousands of Canadians who get quick access to top-level care in the US each year, or the snowbirds vaccinated for COVID weeks or months ahead of their stay-at-home peers.
Here’s how the Chauvin trial is unfolding.
Watch live: Derek Chauvin trial testimony begins at 9:15 a.m.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A train partially derailed in eastern Taiwan on Friday after colliding with an unmanned vehicle that had rolled down a hill, killing 48 people. With the train still partly in a tunnel, survivors climbed out of windows and walked along the train’s roof to reach safety after the country’s deadliest railway disaster.
The crash occurred near the Toroko Gorge scenic area on the first day of a long holiday weekend when many people were hopping trains on Taiwan’s extensive rail system. The train had been carrying more than 400 people.
Ithaca, NY resident Richard Rivera sits on a committee called “Re-Imagining Public Safety,” which is responsible for suggesting reforms to the Ithaca Police Department. Mandated by New York State governor Andrew Cuomo, all 500 police agencies throughout N.Y. were tasked with holding public meetings in order to gather input about how best to operate. The participants in the Ithaca initiative chose to basically disband the police department and replace it with a hybrid group of armed and unarmed de-escalation people who would replace the traditional way of policing.
A malevolent media continues its sick slander of Israel.
Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian children for the “crime” of picking flowers and vegetables located on a Jewish outpost in the West Bank. You can read about this highly implausible event here: “Fact Check: Did Israeli Soldiers Arrest Palestinian Youths for ‘Picking Flowers’?,” by Emanuel Miller, Algemeiner, March 24, 2021…
During the 2016 election, one of the major issues the media refused to discuss was the extent to which foreign-born nationals might play a role in jihadist terror attacks on U.S. soil. This was during the height of the debate over the admission of Syrian refugees and against the backdrop of the migrant crisis and subsequent terror attacks in Europe. (Indeed, there are signs the recent mass shooting on a grocery store in Colorado may have been an Islamist terror attack – the shooter was a Syrian refugee who came here as a child and was a U.S. citizen.)
When I was training to become a Chartered Accountant (now Chartered Professional Accountant or CPA) one of the most important lessons they drilled into us was the notion of independence. When conducting an audit, the auditor signing off on the auditor’s report cannot be related to or best friends with the owner of the company being audited or be heavily invested as a shareholder.
The law of the instrument — or “Maslow’s hammer”, as it is sometimes known — has become an indispensable tool for negotiating the current world. It holds, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, that “it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail”.
The death truck: how a solution to Mexico’s morgue crisis created a new horror
On the southern outskirts of Guadalajara, early in the morning of 15 September 2018, a large container, the type normally attached to a lorry, sank into the soupy ground beside a rutted country road. The refrigerated container could store up to 18 tonnes of material, cooled to -40C. Across its white exterior, a cartoon polar bear in a blue work shirt smiled and gave a thumbs up.
A container like this was a common enough sight in the neighbourhood of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga. What attracted attention was the smell. Sitting there, slumped between cornfields on one side and dilapidated concrete houses on the other, it gave off a thick, cloying odour. Some said it reeked of rotting cabbage and fish, others mentioned putrid meat. But they all agreed: the container exuded death.
The Los Angeles specialist Hardcore Gang unit has been disbanded because it is ‘offensive to the community’ in a move branded a ‘suicide pact’ amid rising homicide rates in the city.
For over four decades the Hardcore Gang Investigation Unit has been tasked with prosecuting the city’s most serious and violent gang-related crimes.
But the County District Attorney’s Office has decided to downsize and rename the unit which has been praised by BLM activists but criticized by prosecutors.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is facing calls from the left to remove Archbishop Joseph Naumann as chairman of a key committee over his criticism of President Biden, but a who’s-who of pro-life and Catholic leaders has come to the prelate’s defense.
CatholicVote has gathered more than 43,000 signatures on a petition in support of Archbishop Naumann, who said in February that Mr. Biden “should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic” and suggested that he stop taking communion.
In an act described by a city hall insider as an aggressive example of bureaucratic overreach, the City of Windsor has been slapped with a cease-and-desist order for helping distribute free hand sanitizer to hospitals and the public at the height of the pandemic last year.
The organization promised to add more names and republish the list.
The LGBTQ media organization GLAAD has pulled from the internet its blacklist of over 200 politicians, journalists, and commentators who, it claims, use their “influence and power to spread misinformation and harm LGBTQ people.” The organization calls the blacklist the “GLAAD Accountability Project.”
The blacklist was originally published March 20, and it included figures like author J. K. Rowling, former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, and Justice Samuel Alito.
