Ontario Confirms First Two Cases of Omicron Variant
Today, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Dr. Kieran Moore, Chief Medical Officer of Health issued the following statement:
“Today, the province of Ontario has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Ottawa, both of which were reported in individuals with recent travel from Nigeria. Ottawa Public Health is conducting case and contact management and the patients are in isolation.
The best defence against the Omicron variant is stopping it at our border. In addition to the measures recently announced, we continue to urge the federal government to take the necessary steps to mandate point-of-arrival testing for all travellers irrespective of where they’re coming from to further protect against the spread of this new variant.
Omicron variant patients have ‘very mild symptoms,’ doctor says
Trump trumped Trudeau on climate change
Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed the United Nations’ Paris climate accord in 2015, Canada has the worst record of any G7 country in lowering greenhouse gas emissions, according to federal environment and sustainable development commissioner Jerry DeMarco.
“Rittenhouse Should Pay for his Crimes”: ASU Students Demand the Expulsion of Kyle Rittenhouse
Students groups like MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition are organizing a rally this week to “get murderer Kyle Rittenhouse off [the] campus.” He is not on campus since he is enrolled as an online student. However, Rittenhouse has expressed interest in in-person attendance at ASU. Students and faculty are being called to the rally to “protect students from a violent, blood-thirsty murderer.”
h/t Marvin
Does the West dare give China’s Xi Jinping an Olympic-sized snub?
Jack Ma might quietly sympathise with Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star who disappeared after alleging that she was sexually assaulted by a former senior Communist Party official.
The billionaire behind Alibaba, China’s answer to Amazon, committed a cardinal sin when he criticised Beijing’s financial regulators colourfully and publicly in October last year. The planned stock market float of Alibaba’s payments business, Ant Group, was abruptly cancelled — and Ma went missing for three months. When he reappeared at a rural school in January, the previously outspoken tycoon declared: “My colleagues and I have been learning and thinking, and we have become more determined to devote ourselves to education and public welfare.”
Supreme Court set to take up all-or-nothing abortion fight
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion. The justices can either reaffirm the constitutional right to an abortion or wipe it away altogether.
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that declared a nationwide right to abortion, is facing its most serious challenge in 30 years in front of a court with a 6-3 conservative majority that has been remade by three appointees of President Donald Trump.
“There are no half measures here,” said Sherif Girgis, a Notre Dame law professor who once served as a law clerk for Justice Samuel Alito.
Who Keeps Iran Out in the Cold?
As the Biden administration prepares for the revival, in some form at least, of the controversial “nuclear deal” with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the usual suspects in Washington are peddling an old theme: Bringing Iran in from the cold!
The argument is that the Islamic Republic is behaving badly because, “excluded” from the outside world, it feels like a threatened lone wolf and thus obliged to adopt an aggressive posture.
The argument was first formulated in the 1980s by the then German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. It was then taken up by French President Jacques Chirac and passed on to a string of British foreign secretaries, most notably Jack Straw, who visited Tehran more than any other capital during his tenure.
Two Minneapolis Best Buys Robbed On Black Friday As ‘Flash Mob’ Thievery Spreads Beyond California
On Black Friday, two Best Buy stores were robbed in Minnesota.
For the past several weeks, major metropolitan areas — especially San Francisco and other California cities — have witnessed large groups of people carry out smash-and-grab robberies. Indeed, Black Friday saw a wave of group thefts across the United States.
How the media politicize weaponized-car attacks — and spin the Waukesha murders
As we learn more about the senseless SUV attack on the crowd attending a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis., some liberal media outlets are energetically attempting to spin away from the suspect Darrell Brooks and his left-wing politics on social media.
That’s funny. With Kyle Rittenhouse, they quickly dug into his social-media activity. The Washington Post warned last summer that “the 17-year-old shadowed local law enforcement, filling his social media feeds with posts declaring that ‘Blue Lives Matter’ and photos of himself posing with guns.” For Brooks, the paper lamely mentioned he wrote under the name MathBoi Fly and that “after multiple legal battles,” he “started turning the life he lived in the streets into music.”
h/t MW
BONOKOSKI: More government funding needed, just follow the smoke
Last week, the Ontario government of Premier Doug Ford announced it was investing $71.5 million to reinforce the fight against gun and gang violence and organized crime.
But more was needed.
Is this another Amish problem?
Chicago Thanksgiving Weekend: Nearly 40 Shot into Sunday Morning
Nearly 40 people were shot by Sunday in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago during the 2021 Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
At least two of the shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
Numerous colleges offer therapy for students having trouble accepting Rittenhouse verdict
Numerous so-called institutions of “higher learning” have reportedly been offering free counseling and therapy to those emotionally unwell students who were allegedly traumatized by 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse not being sent to prison for life.
As previously reported, Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges on Nov. 19th based on comprehensive evidence showing that he’d opened fire in self-defense. The evidence included clear-cut video footage of three longtime criminals chasing after him during the 2020 Kenosha riots, reportedly with the intent to cause him harm.
CSIS efforts to derail threats to 2019 election sometimes skirted law: watchdog
… The review agency’s legal assessment of the measures looked at requirements in the CSIS Act that the spy service have “reasonable grounds to believe that a particular activity constitutes a threat to the security of Canada” and that the measure be “reasonable and proportional in the circumstances.”
Most of the measures “satisfied the requirements of the CSIS Act,” the report says.
But in a “limited number of cases” the spy service’s inclusion of people “without a rational link” to the threat meant the measures “were not ‘reasonable and proportional’ as required under the CSIS Act.”
‘You are eating on stolen land’: BLM’s anti-Thanksgiving diatribe sparked furious backlash
Black Lives Matter sparked furious backlash on social media after an anti-Thanksgiving tweet that claimed that Americans were eating their holiday meals on ‘stolen land.’
On Thanksgiving Thursday the social activism group’s official Twitter slammed American’s across the country gathering to celebrate the holiday.
‘You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land,’ the group posted from its @Blklivesmatter verified Twitter account, which has 1 million followers.