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ESKENASI: Is it offensive to say “Merry Christmas?”

Almost every year we hear about people being offended by someone saying “Merry Christmas.”

Sam Eskenasi, an Orthodox Jew, says that’s silly and that the real offence comes from people who say “Happy Holidays.”

Watch Sam’s Christmas message and find out why he doesn’t have a holiday tree and isn’t getting Chanukah presents from Santa this year.

Canada ‘actively monitoring’ new coronavirus variants

There is still no evidence that the new, more contagious variants of COVID-19 found in the United Kingdom and South Africa are in Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada has said.

In a statement on Thursday, the country’s health agency said it was conducting an analysis of Canada’s coronavirus cases and so far, the fresh strain had not been identified over 25,000 virus samples.

DHS warns of violence, slyly calls BLM rioters “unidentified actors”

With the Georgia Senate runoff races just two weeks away, the Department of Homeland Security is warning of the possibility of “ideologically motivated violence” in a new report.

DHS warned that there is also a foreign influence campaign (Russia! Russia! Russia!) as voters prepare to go to the polls. The authors were then quick to assure readers that foreign actors can’t influence the election. This is according to a new internal report obtained by Yahoo News.

What’s Going On? Trump Tells White House to Ignore Memo of Packing For Departing White House

According to a new report, President Donald Trump is telling his White House staff to ignore a previous memo that was released relating to packing for leaving the White House by January 20th.

“On Tuesday, White House officials sent an email to staff members about departure procedures before a new administration begins Jan. 20,” the New York Times reported.

China’s ban on Aussie coal backfires badly with blackouts and the fallout could be far reaching

China’s plan to inflict “maximum pain” on Australia could be backfiring in more ways than one.

Dozens of Chinese cities and at least four provinces are suffering through a brutal start to winter with new rules imposed on electricity use that include residents and businesses cutting how much power they use.

Skyscrapers are shutting off lights, streets are dark and factories are cutting back work hours dramatically to deal with an unprecedented electricity crisis brought on, in part, by a decision from Beijing to ban Australian coal.

Now is the Time to Eliminate SJW College Courses

As universities face budget cuts, this is the perfect time to defund inaccurate, unscientific, and biased courses and departments. Unfortunately, due to the current global pandemic and recession, universities have seen much of their expected funding dry up. In fact, many of these universities are now facing tough decisions on what departments, classes, and professors to cut. There have long been certain departments, classes, and professors in colleges and universities that exist to promote unscientific ideas backed by poor scholarship. These should have been limited before, but now that budget cuts are becoming increasingly necessary, this is the time to cut them, thus saving money while improving the quality of our higher education system.

Poll finds a majority of Canadians are optimistic about 2021

The survey, commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies and conducted by Leger, found that 70 per cent of the 1,528 Canadian adults surveyed in the online poll between Dec. 11 and 13 said they were”somewhat optimistic” about 2021.

About 15 per cent said they were “very optimistic.”

Early Access to COVID-19 Vaccine for Rural and Remote First Nations Communities

The first COVID-19 vaccines for First Nations communities will be available starting Dec. 28 – six weeks earlier than originally anticipated.

Canada seems to have an ‘open house’ sign at all our major airports despite pandemic

Is Canada doing enough at its international borders to protect the country from potentially COVID-19 positive travellers spreading the virus after they arrive? Premier Doug Ford of Ontario certainly doesn’t think so. At a freewheeling news conference Monday, Ford lashed out at the federal government for its poor management of people arriving at Canada’s major airports, especially Toronto’s Pearson. He suggested that arriving passengers were not sufficiently screened and that many, he claimed up to 25 per cent, were not observing the 14-day mandatory quarantine.

The Saga Of This Long-Busted Submarine Is An Example Of How Sad Canada’s Tiny Sub Fleet Is

The Royal Canadian Navy’s Victoria class diesel-electric submarine HMCS Corner Brook will be out of commission until at least next summer after a recent leak caused damage to the boat, which has already been undergoing maintenance for some six years. The plight of the Corner Brook in many ways reflects the at best disappointing service career of all four of the Victorias, which Canada first agreed to acquire second-hand from the United Kingdom more than two decades ago and that have spent far more time laid up than at sea.

KFC launches bucket-shaped gaming console that lets users play video games while keeping their tenders warm in a ‘chicken chamber’

KFC has killed two birds with one stone this Christmas with a deluxe gaming system that also keeps your fried chicken warm.

Built in partnership with hardware manufacturer Cooler Master, the KFConsole has a built in ‘chicken chamber’ for your extra-crispy three-piece.

Website Invites Parents to Track ‘Woke’ Curriculum in Schools

A new website is tracking woke curriculum and liberal indoctrination in schools and invites parents to submit examples from their children’s schools.

The website, titled “What Are They Learning?,” describes itself as a “crowd-sourced site created by Luke Rosiak, an investigative journalist and data analyst in the Washington, D.C. area who has written about the impact of ‘Equity’ on schools across the country.”

Protester who offered cops coffee CHARGED for not social distancing

Today, I’m bringing you another story from Hamilton, Ontario where a protester named Fraser McBurney was charged for his involvement in a recent demonstration downtown. Fraser’s terrible actions on that day seem to be offering protesters — and the officers watching the event — coffee and snacks while not remaining six feet apart. Now, police have handed him a $750 ticket under the Reopening Ontario Act.

NDP and Greens Push Trudeau to Answer Vancouver’s Call to Decriminalize Drugs

Vancouver city council passed a unanimous resolution last month to ask the federal government to decriminalize personal possession of illicit drugs within the city’s boundaries “in order to address urgent public health concerns caused by the overdose crisis and COVID-19.” But Don Davies, the NDP member of Parliament for Vancouver Kingsway, wants Ottawa to go even further in addressing rising drug overdose deaths in what he considers to be the second pandemic playing out in Canada.

Detroit Is Suing Black Lives Matter Protesters For “Civil Conspiracy”

In Detroit, the reckoning over policing that swept the nation after the cop killing of George Floyd in May has been a struggle between two deeply entrenched sides. On one is the city’s protest movement and its umbrella collective, Detroit Will Breathe, the lead plaintiff in the original suit. On the other is the Detroit Police Department and its head, Chief James Craig.

Julian Assange’s Fiancée Sits Down With Revolver to Reveal Deep State’s Plot to Erase Our First Amendment

For years, America’s oligarch class has grown fat by betraying the country they rule over. They’ve outsourced the country’s wealth and well-being to China. They’ve embroiled the country in one disastrous war after another — wars that did nothing to make America safer but did a great deal to enrich the defense contractors who supplied them. They’ve colluded with Big Tech and Big Finance to gradually chip away at the basic rights that Americans once took for granted.

Trudeau says government will ‘absolutely’ return to balanced budget

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will “absolutely” return the budget to balance following the COVID-19 pandemic, saying temporary spending measures will eventually be wound down.

In a wide-ranging year-end interview with CTV’s Evan Solomon that aired Sunday, Trudeau was adamant that current levels of pandemic relief would not become a permanent expense for taxpayers.

RCMP serve PHO violation tickets: British Columbia; “including fines amounting to $18,400”

RCMP served violation tickets to representatives from three places of worship conducting in-person gatherings contrary to the current BC Public Health Order (PHO).

On the mornings of December 6 and 13, 2020 Chilliwack RCMP responded to reports of groups of people gathering at three separate churches contrary to the existing PHO.

Actor George Takei Says ‘There’s Still Hope’ For Rubio To Have Allergic Reaction To COVID-19 Vaccine

Actor George Takei joked that “there’s still hope” that Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio could have an allergic reaction to the coronavirus vaccine.

Takei made the joke after Rubio shared a photo of himself receiving the vaccine Saturday.

AOC Claims ‘National Security Policy’ Why She Got Vaccine Before More Vulnerable People

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) explained over the weekend why she received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine before more vulnerable populations, attributing it to a national security policy that aims to “ensure the continuity of governance during national emergencies.”

Law Prohibits Pence From Accepting Electoral Votes From Fraudulently Certified States – Constitutional Lawyer

Ivan Raiklin says Vice President Pence can request states send Electoral College slates that actually reflect the will of the people.

WaPo Publishes Cartoon Depicting Republican Lawmakers As Rats Who Tried To ‘Subvert The Constitution’

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.

GUNTER: This Christmas, let’s aim for personal sacrifice over state surveillance and enforcement

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.

Refugees seeking a fresh start in Canada amid coronavirus face uncertain future

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.

Canada’s population growth ‘essentially stopped’ from July to October due to COVID-19: StatCan

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.

‘2 lost decades’: How some experts view last 20 years of Canadian climate policy

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.

Hillary Clinton Wants To Abolish Electoral College

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.

Obama attacks Senate and Electoral College systems, says the way America is structured isn’t “fair”

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.”

Biden Introduces Climate Team, Calls Climate Change An ‘Existential Threat’

“This brilliant, tested, trailblazing team will be ready on day one to confront the existential threat of climate change with a unified national response rooted in science and equity,” Biden said in a statement. “They share my belief that we have no time to waste to confront the climate crisis, protect our air and drinking water, and deliver justice to communities that have long shouldered the burdens of environmental harms.”

Get ready for $4 gas with ‘Mayor Pete’

“Pete Buttigieg’s signature transportation idea is to impose massive taxes on carbon dioxide, which would likely begin by adding 20 percent – or 40 cents per gallon – to the price of gasoline, with even higher tax hikes imposed with each new year,” warns James Taylor, president of Heartland Institute. “Buttigieg apparently misses the days of $4 gasoline, and he will do his best to make sure government brings it back to drain the budgets of American households.”

Randall Denley: Quebec’s exemption from Trudeau’s carbon tax will come at Ontario’s expense

While the Liberals say it’s essential to have a carbon tax that will rise to $170 a tonne by 2030, Quebec’s cap-and-trade plan currently equals a carbon price of just $17 a tonne.

Liberal climate plan is punitive and imperfect, and it needs the OK of the electorate

On Dec. 11, the Trudeau government announced A Healthy Environment and A Healthy Economy, its long-awaited plan for Canada to achieve the carbon emission reductions that it had committed itself to from the Paris Climate Accord.

Oblivious Biden

What kind of man must Joe Biden be to accept being illegitimately put into the Oval Office?

We’ve all seen the clips. Nearly every recent Joe Biden public appearance has been an embarrassment. The media called his garbled statements ‘gaffes,’ as if they were innocent, harmless mistakes, but many have suggested far worse age-related cognitive failures. We experienced embarrassment with him, and pitied a man clearly past his prime. What seemed most prominent about Joe Biden, other than his mental decline, was his obsession with one singular goal — to be president of the United States.

Breaking: Supreme Court: The Kraken Has Hit Scotus Docket, Has Proof Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Fake Biden Votes, Dominion System Glitches, Removal Of Trump Votes

Sidney Powell’s “Kraken” has finally made it to the docket of the Supreme Court. The suit is perhaps the strongest collective argument yet against voter fraud.

It contains the forensic audit done in Michigan that proves systemic voter fraud occurred through the Dominion Voting System tabulation. It also has proof of at least 200,000 FRAUDULANT VOTES casted in the election.

Locked down Alberta salon will reopen: Risk a COVID fine, or lose everything

Tracy Walker is a central Alberta small businesswoman who says her business has been ruined by the province’s new lockdown measures. She is a hairstylist with a small salon in the back of her home, however, her salon has been ordered closed by decree of the Alberta government for the second time in a year to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Prince Albert church going to court to fight $14,000 lockdown fine

The Full Gospel Outreach Centre in Prince Albert is going to court after the church allegedly violated Saskatchewan’s coronavirus restrictions in October.

Speaking to the Battlefords Regional News-Optimist, lawyer Sarah Miller said she questions the legality of the restrictions that were used to fine her client.

FERNANDO: We’re Not ‘All In This Together’

You’ve heard it over and over again:

“We’re all in this together.”

It’s a nice line, that is meant to convey a sense that each of us is going through this China Virus pandemic crisis as a team.

However, it has turned out to be the biggest lie of this entire crisis, with politicians wielding it to mask the true reality:

We aren’t in this together at all.

Canadian Institutional Incompetence

The public should expect that with the billions of tax dollars spent on emergency preparedness with the central coordination run through Public Safety Canada that Canadians should be well taken care of in the event of calamity.

Well, Canada, depending on the scope of the disaster, be prepared to look after yourself.

Joe Biden ‘Confident’ that Son Hunter Biden Did Nothing Wrong

Biden’s son Hunter is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania for his ties to Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas giant. The United States Attorney from the District of Delaware has also opened an investigation into Hunter Biden’s “tax affairs.”

Hemingway: Corporate Media Is Hiding The Chinese Spy Story Because They’re Compromised

Corporate media is deliberately refusing to cover California Democrat Eric Swalwell’s relationship with a Chinese spy despite his position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway said on Fox News on Tuesday.

Trudeau’s “inclusive” tree planting plan to cost $3 billion

The Government of Canada has launched their $3.16 billion plan to plant two billion trees over a ten year period, in order to fight climate change.

Tree planting will start this spring “in urban areas across Canada,” and will be performed with inclusivity in mind.

5 years after report, Truth and Reconciliation commissioners say progress is ‘moving too slow’

Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) say that five years on from the release of the commission’s final report, it is more urgent than ever that Canada implement its 94 Calls to Action.

Mitt Romney Laments Trump’s Continued ‘Substantial Influence’ On GOP: ‘I Don’t Think Trumpism Is Going Away’

While Trump has yet to formally concede even as the Electoral College officially voted for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, the soon-to-be-former president is widely expected to play a dominant role in GOP politics for years to come either as kingmaker or 2024 presidential candidate himself.

Tucker: Joe Biden’s silence on Hunter’s foreign dealings tells us everything about where America is heading

The Fox News host called out the Democrat for avoiding discussions about Hunter Biden and his questionable foreign business dealings, warning about Biden’s “new kind of democracy” on Monday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” program.

Transgender activist says all children should be put on puberty blockers until they can decide their gender

Lauren McNamara, known by followers as “Zinnia Jones,” argued earlier this month that children should be legally able to consent to the administration of puberty blockers since they already de facto consent to the “permanent and irreversible changes” that come naturally through puberty.

A New Warning That International Pandemic Responses Are Eroding Freedom

In a year of extraordinary and often terrible actions taken in response to COVID-19, yet another international civil society group warns that governments are leveraging the pandemic to tighten controls over their subjects. Ominously, it’s not the first such warning and comes as even traditionally liberal democratic countries step up surveillance of dissidents and crack down on public opposition.

Canada to contribute $485M to help developing countries cope with COVID-19

International Development Minister Karina Gould and Public Services and Procurement Minister Anita Anand announced the funding during a news conference in Ottawa today.

“The faster we can get tests, treatments and vaccines out to people, the sooner this pandemic can be contained. Canada’s support of global efforts to find successful medical solutions is a win for all,” Gould said in a prepared statement.

Canada’s teen transgender treatment boom: Life-saving services or dangerous experimentation?

As a rising number of young people seek help, some parents, mental health professionals and others are raising concerns about how they’re being treated.