Roaming pet cats on borrowed time, as councils consider curfews to protect native animals
They’re playful and gentle companions. Clean, independent and smart. For many people, cats are the perfect pet.
But they are also known to be killing machines.
Just ask wildlife veterinarian, Maren Beeston.
Almost every day she witnesses the devastating fallout from free-ranging cats.
One of her recent patients was a majestic boobook owl.
Mark Zuckerberg urged his employees not to apologize for Facebook’s ills as staffers called lawmakers in Washington, DC, in an effort to discredit whistleblower Frances Haugen, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
In an effort to stop Democrats and Republicans from uniting in opposition to Facebook, which recently changed its name to Meta, the company’s Washington team reached out to Republicans and claimed that Haugen was a Democratic activist who wanted to boost President Biden’s party, according to the Journal.
BREAKING: Jake Tapper’s producer Rick Saleeby officially RESIGNS from his position at CNN. This comes after his devices and other personal property were seized by Fairfax County authorities over child sex crime allegations. Media deafeningly silent.
— Suburban Black Man 🇺🇸 (@goodblackdude) December 29, 2021
‘I still haven’t grieved’: Families want apology for loved ones exposed to COVID-19 in hospital who died
Lloyd Hodgins was a jokester with a good heart.
Hodgins, 82, fractured his hip in October and received surgery at Boundary Trails Health Centre between Morden and Winkler, Man.
He tested negative for COVID-19 after being transferred to hospital in Portage la Prairie. Family expected he’d rehabilitate there and be back at his MacGregor care home cracking wise with friends and staff in no time.
Then he got COVID-19; he died Nov. 8. Hodgins and three other patients who had eaten together in the dining room of the locked Portage District General Hospital rehab unit tested positive, said his daughter Val Alderson.
Several provinces considering allowing COVID positive health workers to stay on job
What could possibly go wrong?
This is how my Mum died. I did receive a follow up phone call from the palliative care Doctor at Toronto Western but nothing from the physio -rehab facility where she contracted the plague. When I picked up Mom’s belongings the rehab perversely included a bag of her soiled bed linens. I threw it into the lobby.
A former pupil at an Islamic religious school in Leicester has told how he and hundreds of other pupils were subjected to Guantanamo Bay-inspired torture and described the school as a “petri dish” for terrorists.
Adam — who did not want his full name to be used — described having to squat for long periods with his hands looped under his knees and holding his ears. This, he said, was punishment for not having learnt verses of the Quran correctly.
Police in southern China have been captured on camera parading four alleged offenders through the streets in a public shaming exercise.
The four men were accused of smuggling people across China’s borders, which are largely sealed because of Covid.
They were paraded through the streets of Jingxi city in Guangxi province in hazmat suits.
Hours before Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, the Afghan Air Force was melting down. Instead of unleashing air attacks against advancing insurgents, some airmen were fighting each other.
At the Kabul airport, some Afghan Air Force personnel guarding the airfield tried to force their way onto a military helicopter preparing to lift off, according to the Afghan Air Force pilot flying the craft and two other people familiar with the incident. The chopper’s destination was across town, but the guardsmen were convinced it was leaving the country and were determined not to be left behind, the pilot told Reuters. Another guard, trying to stop them, pointed his gun at the cockpit.
Prince Andrew’s lawyer has called for the US civil case against the royal over alleged sexual assault to be stopped because his accuser is “actually domiciled in Australia”.
Virginia Giuffre is suing the Queen’s son for allegedly assaulting her when she was a teenager. Andrew strongly denies the allegation.
His lawyer, Andrew B Brettler, said in documents filed in the southern district court of New York on Tuesday that the case should be halted until the “issue of subject matter jurisdiction is adjudicated”.
China’s Foreign Ministry says relations with Canada stand “at a crossroads” after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Beijing of engaging in “coercive diplomacy.”
Speaking to media outlets on Dec. 27, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian accused Trudeau of “misunderstanding” and “miscalculating” Canada’s approach to Beijing.
CHICAGO (AP) — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to the highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant.
The previous mark was 250,000 cases per day, set in mid-January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The fast-spreading mutant version of the virus has cast a pall over Christmas and New Year’s, forcing communities to scale back or call off their festivities just weeks after it seemed as if Americans were about to enjoy an almost normal holiday season. Thousands of flights have been canceled amid staffing shortages blamed on the virus.
I am uncertain about the circumstances behind this video, one commenter suggests the girl is from North Africa so she may be Muslim herself.
La fille est maghrébine
— Alessia (@Alessialafarge) December 29, 2021
If there has been an underreported story in 2021, it has been the Trudeau government’s horrendous mismanagement of Canada’s economy and finances.
In 2022 their ineptitude is going to lead to slower economic growth, even higher prices, fewer jobs and a tsunami of government debt and taxes.
Adulterating black coffee with white milk is an act of racism, a tongue-in-cheek Swede has proclaimed in an essay – only to find his work praised by a critical race theory (CRT) teacher at Stockholm University, he claims.
British children with learning disabilities were offered ‘do not attempt resuscitation’ orders during the pandemic — for no reason other than the child having a learning disability, families believe.
Ontario sets new record COVID-19 case count despite test scarcity with 10,436 new cases
On Wednesday, the Ministry said 1,514 cases involved unvaccinated people, 425 involved partially vaccinated people, 8,221 involved fully vaccinated people and 276 involved people with an unknown vaccination status.
726 people are hospitalized with #COVID19, and 190 people are in ICU due to COVID-19.
The seven-day rolling average of COVID-19 related patients in ICU is 174.
There are 10,436 new cases of COVID-19.
Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) December 29, 2021
Experts question, criticize new CDC guidance to shorten COVID-19 isolation
U.S. health officials’ decision to shorten the recommended COVID-19 isolation and quarantine period from 10 days to five is drawing criticism from some medical experts and could create confusion among many Americans.
To the dismay of some authorities, the new guidelines allow people to leave isolation without getting tested to see if they are still infectious.
