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Ontario planning to implement provincewide lockdown, including school closures: sources
Global News has learned the Ontario government is currently planning to implement a provincewide lockdown beginning Christmas Eve.
The announcement is expected to come Monday afternoon at Queen’s Park from Premier Doug Ford.
According to sources briefed on the plans, as of Sunday afternoon, the government was expecting to implement a 28-day lockdown for most of the province, while the north would be subject to a two-week lockdown.
Warmington: Wild hockey brawl featured police stun gun, handcuffs
Pandemic hockey has different rules.
This pick up game in a quiet part of Calgary was not quiet Thursday.
“Get on the f–king ground right now. Get on the f–k ground before I TASER you. Right now!” a Calgary Police officer is seen on cellphone video screaming at a 21-year-old who, along with pals, were accused of violating social distancing rules.
‘Worth The Risk’: Survey Finds Majority Of Americans Plan To Attend Holiday Gathering
According to a November survey of 1,040 people 60.1% of those polled said they planned to attend a holiday gathering this year, with only 26.1% saying they were not planning to do so. Some 50.7% said they planned to attend Thanksgiving and 60.9% said they planned to gather for Christmas.
Ireland, Italy, Belgium and Netherlands ban flights from UK over highly infectious mutant strain of Covid
A number of European countries have banned, or are planning to ban, travel from the UK to prevent the spread of a more infectious coronavirus variant.
The Netherlands and Belgium have halted flights, with Italy to follow suit. Trains to Belgium are also suspended.
Ireland is expected to restrict flights and ferries from midnight (23:00 GMT) on Sunday. France and Germany are among others considering similar action.
The new variant has spread quickly in London and south-east England.
Pinkerton: The Covid Class War — the Liberated vs. the Locked Down
One rule for thee, and one rule for me. That sort of hypocrisy has been baked into human power relations, since, well, forever. As the Greek historian Thucydides wrote 2,500 years ago, “The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.”
Today, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are seeing power-hypocrisy once again, as politicians and plutocrats live one way, while telling everyone else to live another way.
‘I cried for days’: The businesses that shut for good in 2020
There are few – if any – who have been unaffected by the pandemic. Lives have been taken and jobs lost.
People have been effectively trapped in their homes for weeks on end, weddings have been cancelled or curtailed, church services forced online and holidays at home and abroad abandoned, sometimes at an enormous cost. Far too many people have even been denied the chance to properly mourn their loved ones.
And then there are the businesses that have been forced to shut up shop as a direct result of the crisis. Many of the businesses that are now closed for good would have started the year full of hope for a bright future.
Ontario reports 2,316 new Kung Flu Kases
More than 2,300 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Ontario today as the province set a new record for the number of tests completed in a 24-hour period.
The province logged 2,316 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus today, down from the 2,357 confirmed cases on Saturday and the record 2,432 new infections reported on Dec. 17.
WARMINGTON: No masking lockdown’s role in increased mental health, addiction issues
The mandated muzzle on our faces is a symbol of more than mask-rule compliance.
It’s a reminder to keep one’s mouth closed!
Vaccines? You can’t ask questions about that. Why are the COVID-19 numbers rising despite the hardcore lockdown measures? Don’t dare ask.
After arresting man who allegedly failed to distance at skating rink, police say enforcing COVID rules puts them in ‘untenable position’
Calgary police are being put in awkward positions in enforcing some COVID-19 restrictions among an often frustrated public, a senior officer said Friday.
Supt. Ryan Ayliffe said the arrest of a man at an outdoor skating rink Thursday after he allegedly failed to comply with a public health order’s physical distancing provision is only one example of officers facing unfamiliar dilemmas as the pandemic grinds on into its 10th month.
MORE… One in 50 Albertans have now tested positive for COVID-19; protesters clash with police at rally
Saskatoon police monitoring “freedom rally” protest after previous events resulted in fines for violating public health orders
It’s not yet clear what, if any, fines will result from a “freedom rally” in downtown Saskatoon Saturday afternoon.
More than 100 people gathered at Kiwanis Memorial Park to protest mask wearing and other restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
FUREY: ER doctor breaks down why more lockdowns aren’t the answer
As jurisdictions across the country ponder tighter restrictions, an ER doctor in the Greater Toronto Area is stepping forward to call for a more balanced approach.
“The main message I want to get across is I want people to adhere to public health measures and try to do their part, but locking people up is not the answer,” says Dr. Gil Nimni, who works as an emergency physician in York Region, in an interview with the Sun.
MANDATORY: U.S. employers can require employees to get COVID-19 vaccine, new guidelines say
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.
The U.S. Media Are Suppressing the Truth about Hydroxychloroquine
Developments overseas have been totally ignored by the American press. And yet, since Election Day, the media have hewed to the “HCQ Bad” narrative.
Since most Americans who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will have to wait until spring—and cases are climbing—it is imperative that we focus on therapies to keep people out of the hospital and that we revisit the media-engineered saga of hydroxychloroquine.
Italy’s Council of State last week took a step in the right direction when it reversed the country’s July 22 ban on the off-label use of hydroxychloroquine. They issued this reversal following an appeal from a group of doctors seeking to use the anti-malarial drug for early outpatient treatment of COVID-19.
Anti-mask protesters march through Target, Walmart singing ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’
Several videos posted online Saturday groups of mask-free Arizonans marching through several stores in protest of the COVID-related mandate
arizona walmart , no masks for them pic.twitter.com/O1UqWXdU8k
— basedengland8 (@basedengland8) December 19, 2020
Huge queues as desperate families flee London ahead of Tier 4 Lockdown misery – as PM’s critics mockingly congratulate him for causing the city’s ‘first evacuation since 1939’
Huge queues have been seen at stations and on the roads as desperate Londoners flee the capital ahead of Tier 4 misery from Sunday.
On Saturday afternoon, Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that a third of England – including London and swathes of the home counties – will be thrust into a brutal ‘Tier 4’ lockdown from midnight.
The draconian bracket will see non-essential shops shut, and travel restrictions including a ‘stay at home’ order for Christmas Day itself – even though Mr Johnson insisted just days ago that it would be ‘inhuman’ to axe five-day festive ‘bubbles’.