Biden presidency will improve battered Canada-U.S. relationship but won’t be without obstacles, experts warn

Joe Biden’s presidency will improve a battered Canada-U.S. relationship — but the change at the top won’t be enough on its own to paper over some lingering bilateral concerns, experts say.

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The witch-hunting of lockdown sceptics

We have entered a new era of demonology. The hunt is on for heretics and witches who might be held responsible for our current predicament, for the plague of Covid. As in pre-modern times, sinful speakers and thinkers, those who dare to bristle against the political or scientific consensus, are being demonised and publicly shamed as assistants of the plague, as Covid’s willing helpers. They have ‘blood on their hands’, the lockdown fanatics cry, blissfully unaware of how similar they sound to those who in earlier times of disease would drag eccentrics to the stocks in the warped belief that those eccentrics either brought the plague or at least aided its spread.

Trump supporters next.

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Nancy Pelosi says Donald Trump could be accessory to MURDER for inciting the Capitol MAGA mob in final parting shot in final parting shot at ‘stain on our country’

‘[The] President’s words are important, they weigh a ton. And if you’re Donald Trump talking to these people, they believe it and they used his words to come here. When we talk about ‘did any of our colleagues collaborate?’ Well, that remains to be seen. We have to get the evidence of that. And if they did, they would be accessory to the crime. And the crime, in some cases, was murder,’ she told MSNBC’s on Tuesday night.

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Canada pushes back on Biden plan to cancel Keystone XL pipeline

Canada is pushing back on President-elect Joe Biden’s reported intention to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which bridges the U.S. and Canada’s main oil-producing province, Alberta.

In an effort to save the project, Canada is threatening to seek damages over the pipeline, which has been in construction for the past half-decade.

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