Just when you thought that 2021 would see the U.S. and the world return to pre-COVID-19 ‘normal,’ here comes another government bureaucrat to slam that door shut.
Author: Sarcasticat
Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs Tracy Allard will face no consequences for her Hawaiian vacation
CBC News reported on New Years’ Eve that Allard, the rookie UCP MLA for Grande Prairie, visited Hawaii on a family vacation earlier in December. She was out of the province from December 19 to December 26.
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Coronavirus closure is ‘nuclear bomb’ – German researcher
“The higher the number of people surrounding the infected person, the more the virus will spread,” explained Prof. Andrei Sommer.
Electric car driver discovers fast charge costs more than gas
Electric-powered cars are now the rage. Tesla’s market capitalization is seven times larger than that of General Motors and fourteen times larger than Ford’s, though it builds a fraction of the vehicles that those companies do. Many politicians are even considering banning gasoline-powered cars within a few years in favor of electric vehicles (EVs), all in the name of saving the planet.
Iran says ready to start enriching uranium to 20% ‘as soon as possible’
His comments followed an earlier report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran had notified the UN watchdog of its intention to enrich nuclear fuel to that mark at its facility in Fordo.
“Our fingers are on the trigger. The commander just needs to issue an order,” Salehi said.
CHAUDHRI: Rod Phillips’ tropical treachery offers lessons for employees in 2021
Most of us have now heard about the sudden resignation of finance minister Rod Phillips following his two week trip to St. Barts over the holidays as COVID-ravaged Ontario entered a province-wide lockdown.
Ontario alone has seen a dramatic rise in daily COVID-19 cases — topping 3,000 in recent days — beyond what many modeling projections have suggested. Now is not the time for members of leadership to take vacations.
Quebec shoppers and retailers frustrated and confused about what is an ‘essential product’
As Quebecers start 2021, many are scratching their heads or voicing frustrations about what they’re allowed to shop for until Jan. 11 when the province’s “circuit breaker” lockdown is set to end.
Canadians’ paycheques to shrink as CPP payroll tax increases 9.3% in 2021
Canadians could lose hundreds of dollars from their paycheques as the government plans to increase the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contribution tax in 2021.
Democrats Have Objected to Electoral Vote Certification For the Last 3 GOP Presidents
Democrats are outraged that Republicans are planning on objecting to the certification of electoral votes. It’s “conspiracy and fantasy,” says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“The effort by the sitting President of the United States to overturn the results is patently undemocratic,” the New York Democrat said. “The effort by others to amplify and burnish his ludicrous claims of fraud is equally revolting.”
“This is America. We have elections. We have results. We make arguments based on the fact and reason—not conspiracy and fantasy,” he added.
There’s only one problem with Chucky’s “argument based on fact and reason.” Democrats have been challenging the electoral vote certification for 2 decades.
Hate crime committed at Catholic church in Edmonton
Police say on Dec. 13, a man allegedly interrupted the service with offensive comments and gestures. He also filmed the incident, before posting it on social media.
‘Intentional’ attack disrupts home heating services in Colorado
At least 3,500 homes and businesses were caught in the cold after a coordinated attack on three different locations on Saturday damaged gas lines in the area, according to the Aspen Times. The FBI is assisting in the investigation.
Premier Kenney refuses to discipline Alberta MLAs, government staff over international travel
Kenney made the remarks in a New Year’s Day press conference after revelations that MLA Pat Rehn travelled to Mexico and Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard travelled to Hawaii.
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‘It’s not over’: Experts fear new surge of COVID-19 infections after holidays
Many hard-hit areas of Canada have seen rapidly increasing rates in COVID-19 infections over the past few weeks, and experts are warning that the start of 2021 could include an even higher surge of cases.
Dr. Ronald St. John, former Director General for the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), told CTV News Channel on Thursday that our current case numbers don’t even reflect the past week, when many may have gathered over the holidays in contradiction of health advice.
“I’m concerned that we haven’t begun to see a spike from Christmas,” he said. “It’s only been about five, six days since Christmas, that’s not quite enough time for transmission that occurred on Christmas Day to start to show up in any significant numbers.”
The Year of the Hypocrite
In the last episode of The Andrew Lawton Show of 2020, True North’s Andrew Lawton explains why the past year has become the year of the hypocrite in politics, with (former) Ontario finance minister Rod Phillips becoming the latest public official to think they are above the COVID-19 rules and guidelines the little people have to follow.
Trudeau Failed to Pass Basic Legislation To Target Illegal Firearms and Gangs
This has been a year unlike any other, to say the least.
Not only has the pandemic blown the cover of the hypocrisy of the elites leading our country like no other crisis before it, but we saw these same leaders double down time and again on policies that have only demonstrated themselves to be massive failures.
5 Hard Truths We’ve Come to See With 2020 Vision
Among other things, the events of the past year have taught us that fear can be coercive, and that respect for authority is plummeting.
Why The Daily Wire Is Getting Into The Entertainment Business
My mentor, Andrew Breitbart, always said politics is downstream of culture. What he meant by this is that more people are shaped by the culture that surrounds them than by politics directly: we consume movies and TV shows; we get together and discuss the latest in sports; we join in churches and at universities and at restaurants to discuss our lives. We swim in a sea of culture. In large part, we’re defined by the culture in which we swim.
San Francisco’s pandemic grants will prioritize minority, women-owned biz
Small businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco are set to receive $5,000 grants, but there’s a catch – the money is being used to meet the city’s “equality goals,” meaning that “minority-owned businesses including women-owned, immigrant-owned, people of color-owned businesses,” and those in certain “cultural districts,” are going to be prioritized over white Americans.
BREAKING NEWS: Speaker Pelosi’s house is VANDALIZED with ‘red paint, a pigs head and a spray painted message about $2,000 checks’
Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home has been vandalized with red paint, a pigs head and a spray painted message about $2,000 checks, according to TMZ.
Police sources told the outlet that cops were called out to reports of vandalism at the House Speaker’s property in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Calgary police issue 1st-degree-murder warrants for 2 teens in the death of a Calgary police officer
Murder warrants issued against 2 people in death of Calgary police officer
Al-Azan Shah Muhammad, 17, and Amir Abdulrahman, 19, both from Calgary, have been identified as suspects in the case. First-degree murder warrants have been issued against both men.
The 10 Worst Legacy Media Abuses in 2020
From the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic to the riots to the 2020 election, the left-leaning legacy media has twisted, subverted, and outright suppressed the news it is supposedly tasked with reporting. It is impossible to cover every instance of media bias against President Donald Trump, for Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., or propping up the far-Left’s increasingly stifling orthodoxy, but I have compiled what I believe to be the ten most egregious examples from 2020.
What did Canadians search on Google in 2020?
Canadians had many questions in 2020 and they turned to search engines to make sense of what they were seeing and hearing.
With the year ending, the analytics data from Google provides a unique insight to what Canadians were reading about throughout the year.
Certain events occupied Canadians’ attention for long enough to dominate the trending data and others events reached so many people, so quickly, they would own a top spot for the entire year.