The federal government has given SNC-Lavalin a contract worth $150 million, despite the Quebec-based firm’s history of corruption, which includes bid-rigging, fraud, bribery, and illegal campaign contributions.
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Joe Biden will keep his letter from Donald Trump ‘private’ and has still to speak to his predecessor, White House says
‘The president wrote a very generous letter,’ Biden said at the time. ‘Because it was private, I won’t talk about it until I talk to him. But it was generous.’
Continental Breakfast
“We don’t want communism in the form of globalism” | Toronto protesters speak out
While Toronto police did their best to quell any form of protest or free speech at Yonge-Dundas Square this past weekend, a few blocks away, protesters were marching in solidarity with those arrested.
The marchers congregated at Queen’s Park to chant and mingle until it became apparent Toronto police were close to making more arrests.
Moderna to cut deliveries to Canada in new blow to vaccination campaign
Canada’s vaccination campaign is facing yet another hurdle in the race to inoculate people against the deadly novel coronavirus with the announcement today that Moderna will delay some shipments of its product next month.
The Massachusetts-based company was set to send some 230,400 shots to Canada next week, with 249,600 shots to follow three weeks later, but those forecasts have now been up-ended, a testament to just how uncertain the government’s vaccine projections have become.
Ottawa, Canadian airlines agree to suspend flights to sun destinations
The federal government and Canada’s major airlines announced Friday that flights to sun destinations would be suspended until May in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 and its variants.
Air Canada, WestJet, Sunwing, and Air Transat will be cancelling air service to all Caribbean destinations and Mexico from Jan. 31st until April 30th, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in a press conference Friday.
Covid mutations could prolong the pandemic another year, health officials warn
Chief Medical Advisor Dr Anthony Fauci on Thursday warned that the health crisis ‘could get worse’ now that multiple cases of COVID-19 variants have been detected in the country.
It comes as recent data had offered a glimmer of hope in the nation’s battle against the virus, with infection and hospitalization rates falling nearly everywhere in US.
The Left’s Unhinged Reaction To $15 Minimum Wage Legislation
If there’s a lesson that Democrats can learn from the first month of 2021, it’s that the left flank of their party exists to complain and trying to keep it happy is an exercise in futility. In the short time that President Joe Biden has held office, the left of his party has shown that it’s not operating in good faith.
Capitol rioter wants to testify against Donald Trump
On the eve of his arraignment, an attorney for Jacob Chansley, the so-called “QAnon Shaman,” said he’s ready to turn on former President Donald Trump.
The 33-year-old is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds for his role in the unrest.
Acting Capitol Police chief wants ‘Green Zone’ fencing around Congress to be PERMANENT and to keep ‘back-up forces’ on standby – two days after she admitted her agency bungled response to MAGA riots
Acting Chief Yogananda D Pittman made the recommendation in a statement on Thursday regarding her department’s efforts to ‘harden’ security around the Capitol to prevent another insurrection in the future.
They are becoming more afraid. Good.
Doug Ford sent his Justice Department after Rebel News
You’ve likely heard of Rebel News’ crowdfunded campaign called Fight The Fines. We provide a lawyer for individuals who receive a charge under abusive, unconstitutional lockdown rules. We send a journalist to tell the story of how the person was fined, we hire a lawyer and then we crowdfund to cover the fees.
It’s a project that’s been ongoing for nearly a year now, beginning all the way back in April, 2020.
All of a sudden, however, the Government of Ontario has taken issue with one aspect of our campaign. It’s something you’ll see if you visit our special portal at FightTheFines.com — go ahead, visit the site and see for yourself if you can guess what Premier Doug Ford’s justice department has taken umbrage with.
Security kicks shopper with cerebral palsy (and a legal mask exemption) out of Manitoba Walmart
Alex Lytwyn was in the Christmas spirit. He wanted to head out to Walmart in Dauphin, Manitoba, to buy a friend a box of chocolates as a Christmas gift. But not long after entering, he was accosted by security for not wearing a mask.
Alex suffers from fairly advanced cerebral palsy. As per the mask mandate set out by the Province of Manitoba, anyone who is unable to safely put on or remove his or her mask on their own is exempt from the mandate. Alex visibly falls into this category.
The Wrath Of CAHN
Canada is among the world’s most tolerant and peaceable countries. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network wants you to believe otherwise, however, working tirelessly to convince Canadians their country is a seething hotbed of (mostly white, right-wing) hate groups. John Klein lays bare the hypocrisy, intolerance and damage done to individuals and free speech rights when a small group of political activists model themselves on a much larger American group and appoint themselves as our country’s figurative judge, jury and executioner.
The Occupation Of Washington Is Pure Panic Porn — And You Are The Target
Just this week, we learned that thousands of Guardsmen could remain in Washington DC ‘indefinitely.’ Certainly through President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
AOC and Conservatives Agree…Which Means Robinhood and Others Could Be In Trouble
Robinhood cited “market volatility” as the reason they stopped certain stock purchases and trades. People from all kinds of political backgrounds aren’t buying it and are crying foul. Republican and Democrat lawmakers are paying close attention.
Report proposes new government body to punish offensive internet content
A new report from a government-funded think tank recommends that parliament create new laws to police the internet and punish Canadians for “harmful communications.”
Continental Breakfast
“Some Form of Gestapo” in America: Churchill’s Prescient Prediction Comes to Life
“No Socialist Government conducting entirely the life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently worded public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil.” -Winston Churchill’s “Some Form of Gestapo” Quote.
New criminal proceedings opened against Poroshenko, Biden in Ukraine, – lawyer
In Ukraine, another two criminal proceedings registered against fifth president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and new U.S. President Joe Biden as Ukrayinska Pravda reported citing Poroshenko’s lawyer Ihor Holovan.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Ted Cruz ‘Almost Had Me Murdered’
Cruz sent a tweet to Ocasio-Cortez, saying he agrees with her that the popular investing app Robinhood needs to explain its decision to block retail investors from purchasing certain stock. The New York Democrat responded by telling Cruz if he wants to help he should resign from the Senate and that he almost had her “murdered.”
FERNANDO: A ‘Debunked Conspiracy’ & A Conference Happening Now
What is true arrogance?
What is true power?
The ability to lie to someone’s face, know that you are lying, know that they know you are lying, and get away with it anyway.
Thus, after months of denouncing critics of The Great Reset as ‘conspiracy theorists,’ much of the media and political establishment expects people to simply ignore that an entire conference on The Great Reset is taking place as you read these words (and yes, the Trudeau Liberals are in attendance).
In fact, the World Economic Forum even has a full page dedicated to ‘The Great Reset Initiative.’
Yet, we are still told that this is all a conspiracy.
Canadian vaccine maker says it would be closer to rollout if it had more help from Ottawa
The federal government has provided funding to the Canadian companies working on vaccines, but struck procurement deals with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, both of which are manufactured abroad. The government has said Canada lacks the capacity to manufacture the millions of doses needed to immunize the population.
As It Happens has reached out to Procurement Minister Anita Anand for an interview.
Providence Therapeutics CEO Brad Sorenson says his company hopes to have a vaccine ready for rollout by early next year. But he says it could have happened a lot sooner had the federal government gotten on board early.
Chris Selley: Quebec judge strikes a blow for Canadians’ most basic freedom — leaving the house
Politicians around the world have mounted many terrible arguments for and against various pandemic-related countermeasures over the past 10 months. But Quebec Premier François Legault’s justification for having police round people up for the crime of sleeping rough after the province’s 8 p.m. curfew still manages to stand out.
The media seem uninterested when a couple killed after a no-knock warrant is, well, white
Before Breonna Taylor, there was Dennis Tuttle and his wife Rhogena Nicholas.
The couple was at home in Houston one evening in early 2019, when, at 5 p.m. local time, police kicked in the front door to execute a drummed-up drug raid. Tuttle and Nicholas, both nearly 60, were shot dead by the police, who stand accused of falsifying evidence and records to obtain search warrants as a part of a fraud scheme for overtime pay.