Report: Joy Reid is losing her 7pm show at MSNBC

This scoop is only coming from one reporter at the moment. Jon Nicosia, formerly at IJR and Mediaite, said he had a source about a coming round of reshuffling at MSNBC in which Joy Reid would be losing her current 7pm show

More… ‘She Will Scream Racism Pretty Soon’: Twitter Reacts To Rumor MSNBC Will Fire Joy Reid

Share

Provinces could make vaccination mandatory, says federal health minister

Provinces are likely to introduce mandatory vaccination policies in the coming months to deal with the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said today.

“What we see now is that our health care system in Canada is fragile, our people are tired, and the only way that we know to get through COVID-19, this variant and any future variant, is through vaccination,” Duclos said.

Share

Peruvian statue’s giant penis thrills tourists but vandals are turned off

The newly erected statue of a grinning man with an enormous phallus has prompted delight and rage in an archaeological hotspot in northern Peru where it has been on show since the beginning of the year.

Although perhaps not anatomically correct, the crimson fibreglass structure is a faithful representation of a ceramic vessel from Peru’s pre-Columbian Mochica culture, whose people lived in the region between 150 and 700 AD.

Share

Sabrina Maddeaux: Pope Francis, millennials aren’t selfish for choosing dogs over kids — they’re broke

It strikes me as difficult, if not near impossible to take stock of the world today and think, “Gee! What a marvellous environment to bring new life into!” One only has to log on to Twitter to see a real-time feed of parents on the brink because their children are on the brink, backed up by data and reports from emergency rooms that adolescent mental health has never been worse. The kids aren’t alright.

Share

ChiCom disinformation campaign against former MP Kenny Chiu a disturbing precedent, researchers say

Two researchers at McGill University say a disinformation campaign against a Conservative Party candidate during the 2021 election race is a disturbing demonstration of how propaganda tactics could be used by hostile foreign actors to interfere with Canada’s political system.

And they suggest a countermeasure to discourage future disinformation efforts would be a public registry to track foreign influence that is similar to the very mechanism that former B.C. MP Kenny Chiu was attacked during the election campaign for proposing.

ChiCom election interference against a Conservative party member, Canada not invited to join AUKUS and Huawei still not barred from 5G network development. Isn’t that interesting.

Go incognito.

Share

New Mexico, Long Island authorities work to get Alec Baldwin’s cellphone

TAOS, N.M., Jan 6 (Reuters) – New Mexico authorities on Thursday said they were working with police in New York state to obtain material from actor Alec Baldwin’s cellphone relating to a probe into the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of Western movie “Rust.”

The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office and New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney’s Office are “actively working” with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, New York, and Baldwin’s lawyers to get any materials on the phone pertaining to their investigation, according to a press release.

Share

Federal Judge Tosses Lawsuit Challenging Biden’s Authority To Block Keystone Pipeline

A federal district court judge granted the Biden administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by more than 20 Republican attorneys general challenging the Keystone XL Pipeline’s permit revocation.

Judge Jeffrey Brown, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, ruled that he couldn’t determine the constitutionality of President Joe Biden’s action because TC Energy, the pipeline’s developer, had abandoned the project. On June 9, TC Energy announced its intention to permanently halt construction of the pipeline, saying it would focus on other projects.

Share

Ontario reports 11,899 new Covid cases says your weird aunt into crystals

Ontario reports 11,899 new Covid cases says your weird aunt into crystals

Ontario breaks record with 2,472 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, 338 in ICU

More than 2,400 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, marking a new record for hospitalizations throughout the pandemic.

The Ministry of Health says 2,472 patients are in Ontario hospitals with the virus, up from 2,279 yesterday and breathing the previous record of 2,360 hospitalizations on Apr. 20, 2021.


Ontario’s COVID-19 case counts are unreliable, so these metrics will tell us when Omicron wanes

As the Omicron variant sweeps through Ontario at a rate never before seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly everyone wants to know when we’ll be on the other side of this wave.

But now, restrictions to PCR testing criteria mean case numbers no longer present an accurate picture of the spread of the virus — and while case counts alone were never a perfect metric, they did provide the simplest window for people to understand what was happening in their region.

Share

Tucker Carlson: Biden is ‘lying’ when he says this is a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’

Recent data continues to show that the claim of a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” is a verifiable falsehood, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said.

“Millions of Americans who dutifully got the vaccine, good for them, are now finding out that they have the coronavirus. Millions — in New York state alone there have been half a million verified (cases),” Carlson said on his show January 4.

Share

Trudeau Government Endorse “Critical Race Theory” In Training Materials

The concept of Critical Race Theory emerged in the mid-1970s from of the writings of a collective of American legal scholars. It’s fundamental tenet espouses that white supremacy exists and maintains power through law.

It turns out that in 2021, Canada’s Liberal government quietly interjected CRT into federal government training materials.

Share

Canada’s Omicron lockdowns among world’s harshest

While plenty of countries are currently experiencing record-breaking COVID-19 cases due to Omicron, almost none are locking down quite as hard as Ontario and Quebec . Both Canadian provinces have closed schools and imposed blanket bans on indoor dining, gyms and bars, and Quebec has even imposed a curfew prescribing fines of up to $6,000 for anyone outside their home after 10 p.m. without explanation. Here’s a quick look at how that compares to the rest of the Omicron-plagued world.

Share

Major U.S. car brand to go full electric, will no longer offer internal combustion vehicles

Automaker Chrysler just announced plans to go completely electric by 2028, anticipating the release of its first electric vehicle by 2025.

Chrysler announced the plans along with a new AI-enabled vehicle system powered by a battery that the company says can travel 350 to 400 miles per charge, as The Associated Press reported.

Share