The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board should promote the hiring of teachers who are from diverse backgrounds, says a draft policy under consideration by trustees.
The document sets out general principles to be considered when hiring, including “promoting the hiring of staff from under-represented groups and staff with demonstrated experience, including lived experience, working with Indigenous people or equity seeking groups.”
The first rollout of the first clinically approved COVID-19 vaccine just hit its first speedbump. British health regulators issued a warning today after two health-care workers developed a serious allergic reaction to the Pfizer vaccine. They are now checking histories on patients before administering the vaccine, and for the moment will not vaccinate those with a “significant history” of allergic reactions.
Spencer Smith, a sophomore at Brunswick High School, felt increasingly isolated as a result of distance learning. He had dreams of playing lineman on the Brunswick High School football team, but those hopes were dashed when it was replaced by flag football.
The extreme limit on outdoor gatherings (you can just move about with your household) is perhaps the harshest social control measure ever introduced in Alberta, even in wartime.
It will be illegal over the holidays to socialize with anyone outside the immediate household. Returning kids are only legal if the home is their permanent residence.
A group of protestors were arrested on a public sidewalk outside of University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Zuckerberg Hospital in San Francisco last month, and are now being charged with trespassing despite not stepping foot on hospital grounds until after their arrest.
The country’s ethical committee of the armed forces ministry gave approval in order for France to keep up with countries which are already working on similar projects.
Research is also being done to create pills which will keep soldiers awake for long periods and surgery to improve their hearing.
In a stunning and disgraceful decision, the Canadian Parole Board has granted Muhammad Shareef Abdelhaleem day parole, 14 years into his life sentence for being a key architect of the Toronto 18 terrorist plot.
Leaders in the Democratic Party continue to unify behind Joe Biden’s radical transgender agenda.
On Dec. 1, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York came out in support of the presumptive president-elect’s plan to allow the inclusion of men and boys who identify as female into spaces for women and girls.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California threw her support behind Biden’s plan on Friday.
The 2020 U.S. presidential election was mired by a number of issues: political violence happening in the streets across America’s biggest cities; Big Tech censoring stories critical of Democrats, like the Hunter Biden laptop scandal; a massive change in the way votes are cast by modifying mail-in voting rules.
Charts are usually boring.
But once in a while, they speak volumes, and sum up a situation in a way endless words never could.
Not your average breakfast casserole, this breakfast lasagna swaps French toast for pasta and layers in hash browns, smoked ham, cheese and eggs.
Atlantic Canada’s airports were advised Tuesday of more service cuts and station closures by Air Canada that will become effective Jan. 11, 2021.
As of that day, Air Canada will be suspending all flights until further notice in Sydney, N.S., and Saint John, N.B., and suspending four routes until further notice in Deer Lake, N.L., Charlottetown, Fredericton and Halifax.
Canada’s first coronavirus vaccine could get the green light in a matter of days.
For many businesses, a vaccine promises employers a return to some form of normal. Many will be looking to recover profits while offering a safe and healthy workplace for both staff and customers.
But can an employer require you to get vaccinated in order to return to work?
“Generally, no, an employer can’t force an employee to get vaccinated,” said Andrew Monkhouse, a Toronto-based employment lawyer.
For some provincial governments, the pandemic has effectively transformed the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) into provincial emergency first responders. Yet this new responsibility will likely only further burden the Canadian military in the future.
In a new MLI commentary titled “The Moral Hazard in using Canadian Armed Forces as Provincial First Responders,” MLI Senior Fellow Christian Leuprecht argues that leveraging the CAF’s operational capacity to assist in emergencies has created a moral hazard which comes at a cost to the armed forces, its members, and taxpayers.
Syndicated radio talk show host John Fredericks recently spoke with a younger member of Georgia’s state legislator who spilled the beans on why Georgia officials won’t call a special session and decertify the election results.
They are afraid…
Fredericks reported that a GOP member of Georgia’s legislator told him that veteran members of the Republican party are afraid they are going to be harassed and attacked by the left. The older Republicans are worried BLM and Antifa are going to burn down Atlanta and they will be blamed for it.
Over the weekend, Los Angeles held its annual gun “buyback” program for the eighth consecutive year. Mayor Garcetti always loves to talk up this event, claiming that it’s an important piece of the puzzle in terms of reducing gun violence. This year was no different and he was quick to sing the praises of the program to the local media. Of course, the underlying reality is considerably different than the sunny outlook being touted by the Mayor. And when you look at the specific issues that the LAPD is currently dealing with, along with the lack of details provided by City Hall, the entire idea seems to fall apart a bit.
The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says states must sign a data-sharing agreement with the organization and provide personal, identifying information on people who receive the COVID-19 vaccine, prompting some states to raise privacy concerns.
Shared information would include names, addresses, dates of birth, and ethnicities. Past attempts to create a national vaccine registration have not been successful due to issues of privacy. The New York Times reports that some states are signing the agreement but will not actually provide the information, while some are refusing to sign it.
“God forbid he becomes our president,” he added. “I’m a firm believer that if he gets in, he won’t be there for more than a year before something comes up and they have to remove him from office and Kamala Harris is our president.”
Either this lady is raising the softest kid on Planet Earth or she’s lying to appease the wokescolds and get some pats on the back. Could be both, I guess (lol).
Despite a second wave of COVID-19 infections that threatens to climb to 20,000 daily cases across Canada, a new poll found that about one-third of Canadians plan to visit friends and family for the holidays anyway.
