
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.

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.

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.

“We ask it in the name of the monotheistic God, [unintelligible], and God known by many names and by many different faiths, amen, and awoman,” Democratic Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, an ordained United Methodist pastor, said during the prayer to open the 117th Congress.

A minister who vacationed in Hawaii against the advice of her own government to stay at home to slow the spread of COVID-19 is returning to a number of voters upset over the hypocrisy.
A sign hung over the weekend in front of Tracy Allard’s constituency office reads, “Welcome Home. #AlohaAllard.”

Kenney made the remarks in a New Year’s Day press conference after revelations that MLA Pat Rehn travelled to Mexico and Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard travelled to Hawaii.

Indeed, increasing refugee admissions is a high priority for the Biden transition team, we are told.
Now there is a little waffling from the team, but those who stand to gain financially and otherwise from increased refugee admissions are trying to keep him focused (I expect that is a challenge considering his mental condition).

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was accompanied by Dr. Anthony Fauci at a press conference on Monday. And both took turns giving each other shoulder rubs.

Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, promising a “strengthened partnership” on a host of issues from coronavirus to climate, all predicated on a resumption of access to U.S. taxpayer dollars.