Body camera video showed police officers in Rochester, New York pepper spraying a nine-year-old girl in the back of a police car.
“Bad Optics”
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.
Alberta bureaucrats get pay raises worth $18.7 million
The CTF’s Alberta director Franco Terrazzano says it is clear we are not all in this together and is calling on Premier Jason Kenney to assure these pay raises do not increase taxes for Albertans.
Identity Politics is Behind the Failed Vaccine Rollout
The vaccine rollout in New York and other blue states has been an inept disaster. Governor Andrew Cuomo, true to form, decided to blame Orthodox Jews, ranting that the Parcare clinic in Brooklyn had dared to vaccinate a 79-year-old Rabbi ahead of “essential workers”. Meanwhile massive amounts of vaccine doses are being thrown out because they’re going bad because the essential workers they’re meant for, mostly minorities, don’t actually want them.
Senator co-signed order barring international travel during pandemic — then went to Mexico
Conservative Sen. Don Plett — who sparked controversy by travelling to Mexico on vacation over the holidays — co-signed a directive last year barring all MPs and senators from traveling outside Canada as part of interparliamentary delegations.
Fort McMurray MLA is still in Mexico, with party unable to reach him
Tany Yao, the United Conservative Party representative from Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, Alberta, is the latest Canadian politician to feel that he is above the COVID-19 travel restrictions put in place by his own party.
Joe’s not foolin’ anyone. Folks know why Biden’s inaugural parade was really cancelled.
Participants set to take part in the event were informed that the traditional parade would no longer be taking place according to a U.S. Army email obtained by Jon Nicosia of News Cycle Media. The Presidential Inauguration Committee reportedly gave “definitive guidance” on the matter on Saturday, according to the email.