These include New Mexico, where collaboration with Native Americans is being prioritized; California, which has committed to ensuring black and Hispanic people have greater access to the vaccine; and Oregon, where health officials have said that ethnic minorities with have ‘equitable access’ to the shot.
Canada’s first robot barista kiosk emerged in Toronto’s upscale Yorkville neighbourhood in September. The Dark Horse Automat espresso bar offers specialty coffee on demand, delivered without any human contact to the caffeine-seeker.
This is one of countless innovative new ways of getting work done that were born out of the pandemic. The automat is an example of technology that can replace several shifts of work, perhaps even a barista position or two, though it requires servicing and regular maintenance. In fact, there are few facets of the way that we approach and perform our work that haven’t been impacted by the pandemic.
As COVID-19 cases skyrocketed before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, warned Americans to “be vigilant” and limit celebrations to “your immediate household.”
For many Americans that guidance has been difficult to abide, including for Birx herself.
The day after Thanksgiving, she traveled to one of her vacation properties on Fenwick Island in Delaware. She was accompanied by three generations of her family from two households. Birx, her husband Paige Reffe, a daughter, son-in-law and two young grandchildren were present.
Earlier this year, the Ontario Provincial Police conducted a criminal investigation into senior members of the RCMP on allegations of obstruction of justice – relating to the treatment of the RCMP officers involved in the arrest and death of Robert Dziekanski.
As companies race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and countries scramble to secure doses, questions about the use of pork products — banned by some religious groups — has raised concerns about the possibility of disrupted immunization campaigns.
Ivan Raiklin says Vice President Pence can request states send Electoral College slates that actually reflect the will of the people.
The cartoon, drawn by The Post’s editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes and titled “All the Republican rats,” includes well over 100 named “state attorneys general and U.S. Congress members” accused of allowing President Donald Trump to attempt to stay in office.
Thousands of people marched through Montreal Sunday protesting government restrictions put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Montreal police (SPVM) handed out 269 infractions to protesters who weren’t wearing masks, according to SPVM spokesperson Julien Levesque.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced all non-essential businesses would be required to close from Dec. 25 to Jan. 11.
I’m OK with federal and provincial politicians, plus public health officials, being persistent nags about hand-washing, mask-wearing and not getting together with more than our own households over Christmas.
Those are all good messages to repeat.
But I would draw the line at Cromwellian enforcement of COVID restrictions against Yuletide social gatherings.
Ali Mansour spent his first two weeks in Canada watching through a window as winter give way to spring and squirrels ran across the lawn.
As one of the last refugees to arrive in Canada before the border closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it still felt like freedom.
“It felt like I was in a movie,” he said via an interpreter in an interview with The Canadian Press from his home in Waterloo, Ont.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines issued earlier this week say that employers can now bar employees from the workplace if they do not get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was briefly tossed the current political football of language laws earlier this week.
And while his answer may not have been exactly what Quebec Premier François Legault wanted to hear—unlike what new Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has said—it suggested that Ottawa is considering giving French some extra legal protection within Quebec.
Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of equality.
To predict the future of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax and his looming clean fuel standard, which is another carbon tax, just look at British Columbia.
Chef Mickey’s Breakfast Pizza – recipe from Walt Disney World – quick and easy breakfast pizza – ready in 10 minutes!! Premade pizza crust topped with eggs, heavy cream, mozzarella, provolone, cheddar, and bacon. Great weekday breakfast!
With the daily number of cases staying high cross Canada, the limited amount of data released publicly suggests those workplaces are a significant source of COVID-19 spread.
A Statistics Canada report says that Canada’s population growth has “essentially stopped” due to COVID-19, with our population only going up by 2,767 from July 1 to October 1 — virtually zero per cent.
The report states that those numbers represent the “lowest quarterly growth since at least January 1, 1946,” which is the point at which comparable national data become available.
After teasing a plan for years, the Trudeau government unveiled a comprehensive climate change strategy last Friday, outlining the steps Canada needs to take to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. They include a steadily rising carbon tax, investment in hydrogen fuel and government grants for homeowners for energy retrofits.
Yet Alan MacEachern, a climate change historian and professor of history at Western University in London, Ont., says that it has taken too long for the federal government to come up with the necessary ambition to tackle climate change.
This week, President-elect Joe Biden announced a slate of nominations and selections for a variety of environmental positions within his administration. Unsurprisingly, these announcements were met with open arms by the media. But, if Biden is so proud of his upcoming environmental actions, why is he building a new environmental office within the White House? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exists for a reason – and it’s not to operate in secret from the White House.
To say that Hillary Clinton has not handled her defeat to President Donald Trump well would be the understatement of the century.
Clinton won the popular vote in 2020, but President Trump won the Electoral College which delivered him the presidency, and she has never gotten over it.
And when she cast her Electoral vote for former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris, she demanded that the Electoral College be abolished, Breitbart News reported.
In an interview with Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah, former President Barack Obama attacked the basic structures of traditional American governance, stating that the U.S. Senate and Electoral College give the Republican Party “built-in advantages around power” and that isn’t “fair.” He also declared that the Republican Party is “the minority party in this country.”
The American Medical Association has been adamantly against hydroxychloroquine as a therapeutic for COVID for the past year. Just a few days before the presidential election they reversed course, reversing their opposition. Did they suddenly realize HCQ might have benefit in certain patient groups or were they lying for the past year? How many individuals died as a result of being denied potential lifesaving treatment?
h/t Mom
With laws and health regulations changing continually, the only constant seems to be deflection by the very sources who are supposed to know and uphold the regulations.
