Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health has been directed to “urgently explore” the possibility of re-issuing mask mandates, especially in schools.
During Tuesday’s monthly Board of Health (BOH) meeting, Dr. Kate Mulligan introduced the motion, which aims to “reduce the spread of respiratory viruses and protect the capacity of pediatric care services.”
Justin Trudeau to appear on ‘Canada’s Drag Race’ spinoff series
Justin Trudeau is swinging by the “werkroom” on an upcoming spinoff of “Canada’s Drag Race.”
Producers of the drag queen competition series say the Prime Minister will make a special appearance on “Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. the World.”
He’s the first world leader to visit the RuPaul-founded competition series, which has more than a dozen global spinoffs in countries including Sweden, Australia, Mexico and the United Kingdom
h/t DM
The Rouleau Commission has now heard sworn testimony that the Freedom Convoy was not foreign funded and did not constitute a threat to democracy and that the Emergencies Act was not needed or asked for by any police force. That reflects very poorly on the prime minister. The act’s invocation was the worst peacetime assault on civil liberties since Pierre Trudeau’s use of the War Measures Act during the FLQ crisis 52 years ago — when a Quebec cabinet minister was assassinated and a British trade commissioner held hostage.
There were some crucial results still to come in the 2022 midterm elections as Wednesday dawned.
But some lessons were already clear after a dramatic night.
Elections are over – What we know so far…#Midterms #Midterms2022 pic.twitter.com/ik6OtA8Qae
— Zvonimir (@zvonko1976) November 9, 2022
US midterm elections: Who won, who lost and what it means so far
Hours after the first polls closed, many key races in the US midterms have yet to be called and control of the US Senate, in particular, is still very much up for grabs.
It has been a good enough night for Republicans, but far from a great one. Their hopes of a tidal wave that would sweep them to victory in dozens of toss-up races are not materialising so far.
They have already lost one Senate seat, in Pennsylvania, and will need to flip two among the three states of Nevada, Arizona and Georgia, to take control of that chamber.
A picture shows Russian troops held in a Putin ‘punishment camp’ for brave mobilised heroes who refuse to fight in his illegal war.
The enlistees were dumped in a cellar in Donetsk region where they are ‘starved’ and ‘threatened with mass execution by firing squad’.
Independent Russian media outlet The Insider highlighted the plight of 21 refuseniks illegally held in the Donetsk People’s Republic, which Putin has annexed.
Bad timing …
#Ukraine: A concealed Russian T-72B3 tank was hit by Ukrainian indirect fire in #Kherson Oblast. pic.twitter.com/vNh8k1kz3o
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 8, 2022
Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman beat Dr. Oz in the must-win Pennsylvania Senate race in the early hours of Wednesday morning as top Republicans admitted the red wave hadn’t materialized.
In what polls suggested would be a dominant night for the GOP with President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings serving as a drag, the Democrats won crucial House seats on the East Coast and held onto the endangered Senate seat in New Hampshire.
Trump-backed Republican J.D. Vance was victorious in Ohio and Ron DeSantis won a landslide to be re-elected as Florida Governor, but the GOP victory party was put on ice because of Democratic wins in swing states.
I never cared for Oz but losing to Fetterman is just sad.
For results:RealClearPolitics, Reuters
According to a recent report, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is considering putting the entire website behind a paywall after mass layoffs at the company and a new update to the site’s Twitter Blue premium service. This would require users to pay to even read content on the site.
I usually get Andrew Sullivan’s Substack Weekly Dish emailed to me. And last week, just before the Nov 8 midterms, he was agonizing over the Biden disaster: “Will Biden and the Dems Finally Get It?
In return for centrists’ and moderates’ support, Biden effectively told us to get lost. He championed the entire far-left agenda: the biggest expansion in government since LBJ; a massive stimulus… mass migration…
Of course, if Trump runs again, Sullivan will vote against him. Because Weimar.
“San Francisco is a sanctuary city and our policy is sacred.”
Officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security want to deport the man accused of bludgeoning U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer, but District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Thursday that she will refuse to turn him over, citing San Francisco’s sanctuary city policies.
Today’s millenarians appear to be taking their cue from the Book of Revelations
A few weeks ago, I was standing in the cobbled lane that runs between Norwich Cathedral and its exquisite 14th century gatehouse when I heard a man yelling. I assumed initially that he was one of the people who had come to protest a talk that I had just given as part of Norwich’s Hostry Arts Festival, but it soon became clear that it was not trans activism that was exercising him.
The concept of “offended” is all the rage. I don’t get it. “Offended” is an attitude, not an emotion. Anger is an emotion. So is fear, joy, hurt, etc. Not “offended”. But if we are going to live in this induced-psychosis culture where morons who don’t know what words mean constantly get “offended”, let’s make it interesting. I want the code duello back. There are practical difficulties, (women can’t do swords against men, it’s very class-based, etc.) but I feel that, in the fullness of time, taking things into account and so on, we can move forward, vibrantly, in a productive way.
At least we could get some good scenes out of it.
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Billions have been wasted on this joyless and flawed VR experience.
Mark Zuckerberg currently sees himself as the chief architect of an elaborate new fantasy world. He calls this world the Metaverse. And he desperately wants the rest of us to start meeting and trading in this virtual-reality frontier town. Last year, he even changed the name of Facebook’s parent company to Meta, just to show how serious he was about the whole enterprise.
Yet while Zuckerberg is pouring billions into the Metaverse to make this vision a reality, back home at Meta HQ, Rome burns. What began as murmurs of discontent have become a full-blown revolt.
Sunny Hostin has denied calling white women who vote Republican ‘roaches’ and insisted a comment which made the comparison was ‘twisted’.
The View host said she was using a ‘metaphor, really more in a simile’ when she remarked that white women voting Republican was like ‘roaches voting for Raid’.
She attempted to clarify the controversial comment on Tuesday – five days after making the initial remark on last Thursday’s The View.
On a quiet industrial estate in Kharkiv, the mangled and charred remains of more than 1,000 Russian rockets and artillery shells are being collected.
Each chunk of metal evidences the scale of Moscow’s daily long-range attacks on Ukraine’s second-largest city and the surrounding region.
When The Telegraph visited the “graveyard” for Russian missiles, Dmytro Chubenko held one particular remnant of a strike on a civilian target aloft.
