Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for EI benefits, Liberal party says
Jobless Canadians who refuse to get vaccinated for COVID-19 could be shut out of unemployment benefits, warns Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough.
Speaking to Canadian Press, Qualtrough said as long as there’s a public health emergency, unvaccinated workers who lose hours or their job may not be eligible for employment insurance benefits.
Trudeau calls the unvaccinated racist and misogynistic extremists
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Quebec television station people who do not get vaccinated against COVID-19 are often racist and misogynistic extremists.
But he said the people of Quebec are not the problem and questioned whether the rest of Canada needs to “tolerate” the unvaccinated.
Progressives are monsters.
h/t RE
Prison guards cleared over Epstein suicide falsification
Charges against two New York prison guards have been dropped by prosecutors. The pair had admitted to falsifying records about their movements on the night financier Jeffrey Epstein hung himself in his cell.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors signed a ‘nolle prosequi’ dropping charges against two former New York prison warders, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, who were on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in August 2019.
Poll: Majority of Democrat Voters Put No Faith in Gun Control
A Trafalgar Group poll of likely general election voters from the Democrat Party shows a majority of respondents believe “the strict gun laws in most major cities” do not in any way curb the “current retail crime surge.”
After two years of COVID, Canadians reluctant to participate in ‘normal’ activities: poll
As Canadians enter year three of COVID-19, a significant proportion appear apprehensive about returning to mass public transit and other pre-pandemic “normal” activities.
A new Leger poll for Postmedia, conducted just as Omicron was beginning its ascent and before cases began skyrocketing, sought to assess people’s comfort levels for increased contact with other humans.
Biden’s call with Putin produced predictably underwhelming results
As was reported yesterday, President Joe Biden took a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin where the two leaders discussed the situation on Russia’s border with Ukraine, among other matters. Despite the best efforts of the State Department to put some positive spin on the discussion, it doesn’t sound as if things went very well. Both sides wound up sticking to their previous positions and Putin sounded increasingly frustrated and belligerent over what he perceives as NATO’s stubborn refusal to comply with his demands.
Ocasio-Cortez Staffer Calls Israel ‘Racist European Ethnostate’
On Christmas Eve, a staffer for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Israel “a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population.”
Hussain Altamimi, who began his tenure as a legislative assistant to Ocasio-Cortez last month, posted an Instagram story in which he wrote, “Israel is a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population!” Fox News Digital took a screenshot of the post.
Related – BBC accused of ‘deep-seated’ biases against Jews
They’re out in the open about it now, good luck closing that door. Maybe more interfaith dialogue is needed!
Betty White has died at age 99
Beloved actress, comedian and American icon Betty White has died, just weeks before a milestone birthday.
Rex Murphy: A Trudeau puzzler from the CBC
On Christmas Day, the oracle of our nation, the CBC, issued one of its patented tweets for our times. It declared “50 years have passed since Justin Trudeau was born, but Canada is still a country and it still has a Trudeau in the top job.”
Error-riddled letter from Virginia teachers union about lack of COVID testing is mocked as parent spots roughly 20 blunders in just 5 paragraphs
An error-filled letter from a Virginia teachers union calling for increased protections against the coronavirus was mocked relentlessly on Twitter after an appalled parent took a correction pen to the piece and posted the revised version online.
‘Hey @VEA4Kids, are you going to send out more of these grammar worksheets over break?’ parent Ellen Gallery wrote Thursday morning, in a post that featured the heavily marked-up document sent by Arlington Education Association President Ingrid Grant.
‘My kids and I had a great time spotting errors! Did we find them all?’ the mom quipped.
Prince Andrew asked to produce puppets & prove his inability to sweat by Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers
Prince Andrew has been asked to provide documentary evidence of “his alleged inability to sweat” and the names of anyone he met at a Pizza Express in Woking by lawyers for Virginia Giuffre, who accuses him of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in New York.
The lawyers have also demanded any documents related to his “travel to or from . . . the Tramp nightclub” in London and any gifts he received from Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, “including but not limited to puppets”.
FATAH: Killing in the name of religion throughout 2021
The year 2021 is ending the way it began. People are being lynched by their fellow human beings simply because of their religion.
Randall Denley: Ontario math test ruling is where we end up when race becomes more important than competence
Race trumps knowledge when it comes to training new teachers, an Ontario court has determined. It’s a decision that defies common sense and places teachers’ rights ahead of students’ needs.
Hospitalizations are rising thanks to Omicron, but future impact is uncertain: experts
Unprecedented levels of COVID-19 across Canada are driving hospitalizations as well and once again threatening many provincial health-care systems.
Yet experts say it’s too soon to say how much hospitalizations could grow in the days and weeks to come. With testing capacity at its breaking point and data still coming in on Omicron’s severity, they say modelling this latest wave will require updating their methodology.
“We’re flying blind,” said Caroline Colijn, a mathematics professor at Simon Fraser University who has been modelling the pandemic in British Columbia.
Many people still blame Mike Harris for everything wrong in their lives according to CBC
Emails shed light on fury over Mike Harris’s 2021 Order of Ontario appointment
Emails obtained by CBC News suggest not everyone happy with ex-premier getting the honour
Government emails obtained by CBC News shed new light on public anger over former premier Mike Harris’s controversial 2021 appointment to the Order of Ontario.
Established in 1986, the province’s highest honour is reserved for those whose “excellence has left a lasting legacy” in the fields of arts, education, business, law and public service, according to the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Culture. Nominations are announced every New Year’s Day.
Harris, 76, was Conservative premier from 1995 to 2002. His agenda of sweeping change left a lasting legacy, but the nature of that legacy is still hotly debated by supporters and detractors alike, highlighting a political divide almost two decades later.
Ontario election in 6 mos. time to crank up the LPC propaganda machine at the CBC. Why do I doubt that CBC will bother with a similar article on PM Blackie if and when he is ever “awarded” once out of office.