COVID-19 case counts are down dramatically from a year ago, according to federal data. Hospitalizations are higher than during the first two pandemic summers, but are hovering around their lowest point since December, 2021. And there are now fewer than 30 COVID-19 deaths reported across the country per week.
But owing to limited testing and COVID-19 deaths that are undetected or not yet reported, the real toll COVID-19 continues to take on Canadians is not yet known.
For the first time in history, overall viewership of cable TV dropped below 30 percent in July. This is terrible news for a left-wing Hollywood that has utilized the affirmative action of cable TV to prop up its divisive, terrible, and hyper-political programming for decades.
For some people, renaming Toronto’s Dundas Street is a necessary step to confront the history of a city built in part by individuals connected to the British Empire’s transatlantic slave trade.
Others say the estimated $8.6-million cost of renaming the 23-kilometre thoroughfare is a wasteful expense for a city facing a financial crisis, including a looming budget shortfall estimated at $1.5 billion.
A trio of brazen thieves was caught on video pilfering bags of merchandise from an East Los Angeles Nike store over the weekend — just one day after over $300,000 in stock was swiped from a nearby Nordstrom.
One man and two women entered the Nike Community Store on Whittier Boulevard just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday and began boldly grabbing whatever they could carry, in full view of staff and other shoppers, the video circulated on the Citizen app shows, KTLA reported.
This week, the Wall Street Journal, a strong candidate for “best newspaper in the English-speaking world,” became the latest news outlet to lift a questioning eyebrow at Canadian immigration policy. WSJ’s superb Ottawa reporter Paul Vieira gestures, for the benefit of his paper’s international audience, at facts most of our readers already know well. Inflexible, highly regulated parts of the economy like housing, medicine and transport are screaming under the burden of immigration levels with few precedents anywhere — levels the Liberal government has done nothing but increase.
People living in their vehicles in Squamish, B.C., are running out of places to park their cars overnight after the local Walmart announced it would no longer allow long-term parking.
The notice comes two years after the district council in Squamish, located about 64 kilometres north of Vancouver, passed a bylaw prohibiting people who live in their vehicles from spending the night parked on municipal streets.
The latest restriction means there are fewer and fewer places to sleep for people who can’t live in a home for any number of reasons.
I was waiting for the Fulton County, Ga., indictment of former president Donald Trump — and, it seems, a cast of thousands — with an open mind. Fani Willis in Atlanta, like Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, is first and foremost an elected Democrat and, in this era (which I hope fades away soon) it is good politics for an elected Democrat to wield the law-enforcement powers with which she has been trusted against the party’s nemesis. That, naturally, does not make for good law enforcement — quite the opposite.
Oregon’s drug legalization “hasn’t gone as planned,” according to The Atlantic, and has been “an unmitigated disaster,” according to Oregon Clackamas County Commissioner Ben West — and does this former legalization proponent have a few things to say about that.
Here we go again.
In 2016, I read Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance’s moving, insightful memoir of growing up in the struggling white working class of Appalachia. Vance was, and is, a young man who wrote with critical passion about his people and their despair. He criticized structural economic reasons for their suffering, but also criticized self-sabotaging cultural beliefs and practices.
Hundreds of US government staff in San Francisco have been told to work from home because rampant crime has made it too unsafe to go to the office.
The Department of Health and Human Services told employees at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building to “maximise the use of telework for the foreseeable future” due to “conditions” outside the building.
The office houses a variety of federal employees, plus staff working for Ms Pelosi, the former speaker of the House of Representatives.
Loads of commentators on the left of the political spectrum seem completely unhinged when it comes to former President Trump.
Remember the celebrity philosopher Sam Harris who embarrassed himself by comparing Trump to an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, thereby making just about any response supposedly justified? Did this include justifying the political opposition lying, weaponising the FBI, or anything really…? And then we have our own Troy Bramston who sees Trump as a foundational threat to democracy (somehow missing that it wasn’t Trump as President who was trying to lock up for life his main political opponent on charges two Democrat-voting law profs – Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley – mock).
Two years ago today, the fall of Kabul exposed the delusions of ‘liberal interventionism’.
Two years ago today, Taliban fighters arrived at the gates of Kabul. Afghan security forces put up no resistance. Within hours, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani and his assorted cronies fled the country. By the evening of 15 August 2021, the Taliban had effectively retaken power. The shiny new modern Afghanistan, liberated from Taliban rule, that the US and its allies had spent 20 years trying to build had crumbled upon first contact with reality.
A man who claims he was unlawfully sacked as Scotland’s first “period poverty tsar” because of his sex is to take legal action against the four public bodies that hired him.
Jason Grant, whose appointment as a period dignity officer in Tayside sparked a global backlash from women, claims his abrupt dismissal was a breach of the Equality Act.
Jomshof commented on Muslims calling for “broader dialogue” saying,
I agree that we need a ‘broader dialogue,’ a dialogue about how we democratize the Muslim world. Or why not a dialogue about Islam, this anti-democratic, violence-advocating and misogynistic religion/ideology, founded by the warlord, mass murderer, slave trader and robber Muhammad?
