NACI names several more groups who should qualify for COVID-19 booster shots

The committee now recommends mRNA boosters to people who received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adults over the age of 70, front-line health-care workers with a short interval between their first two doses, and people from First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities.

The latest recommendation says the emerging evidence suggests vaccine effectiveness against asymptomatic infection and mild COVID-19 disease may decrease over time, and a booster could help restore protection.

By the new year, mandatory boosters all round.

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Legault Turns His Back on Fossil Fuel Development in Quebec

Still expects big handouts from ROC.

Quebec Premier François Legault recently declared that the province is completely done with fossil fuel extraction and is now being pressured not to compensate the impacted companies.

During his speech to open the new legislative session on Oct. 19, Legault said that going forward, Quebec needs to “count on its assets to profoundly transform our economy” by relying on electricity and renewable energy and ending fossil fuel extraction.

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The Taliban’s secretive war against ISIS

Every few days, bodies are dumped on the outskirts of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.

Some have been shot or hanged, some beheaded. Many have handwritten notes stuffed into their pockets, accusing them of being members of Afghanistan’s branch of the Islamic State.

No-one claims responsibility for the gruesome, extra-judicial killings, but the Taliban are widely assumed to be responsible. IS carried out a suicide bombing in August outside Kabul airport that killed more than 150 people, and is a fierce rival of the Taliban. The two groups are now engaged in a murky and bloody battle. Jalalabad is the frontline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence

Why are so many Americans taking the side of groups that work with terrorists?

Palestinians. Casual get together,

On Oct. 22, Israel designated six Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as terrorist groups working on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) — itself recognized as a terrorist organization in the United States. In response, a number of American organizations, media outlets and intergovernmental bodies immediately rose to defend the NGOs.

The alacrity with which they criticized the move indicates how discourse is often conducted about Israeli-Palestinian issues: condemn first, check details and ask questions later — if at all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

‘We got to take these motherf–kers out’: Rutgers professor calls white people ‘villains’

Racist as fuck.

A professor at New Jersey’s Rutgers University said she believes that white people are historically “committed to being villains” — and that her unfiltered solution to addressing white supremacy would be to “take them out.”

Brittney Cooper, a professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies, addressed the history of colonialism during a discussion last month about critical race theory with the Root Institute.

“I think that white people are committed to being villains in the aggregate,” Cooper said during the online conference.

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Trump: Truth Social to take on censorship of ‘self-righteous scolds’

Truth Social, the new social media platform that Donald Trump says he is rolling out, will combat censorship and the “self-righteous scolds and self-appointed arbiters” who the former president said decide what everyone else is allowed to “think, say, share, and do.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Censorship, Censorship on Social Media, Donald Trump, Liberal Core Beliefs, social media, Social Media Censorship

Pope urges ‘radical’ climate response

Speaking from the Vatican for BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, the Pope talked of crises including the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and economic difficulties, and urged the world to respond to them with vision and radical decisions, so as not to “waste opportunities” that the current challenges present.

“We can confront these crises by retreating into isolationism, protectionism and exploitation,” the pontiff said, “or we can see in them a real chance for change.”

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Your Afternoon Musical Interlude

Rounding off this Halloween work-week with some more earthy selections.

The first is Charlie Daniels’, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”:

 

The next two selections are renditions of an Appalachian folk song, “O, Death”, which is based on an Irish broadside ballad, “A Dialogue Between Death & the Sinner”. The first version is from Jen Titus. The second version is from the renowned Ralph Stanley. Decide your preferences accordingly:

 

The last selection is “In the Pines” as sung by Janel Drewis. This is an Appalachians folk song. This version appears at the closing credits of a video game, “The Walking Dead: A House Divided”:

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Trudeau vows to support greed of China class – will continue to lick Xi’s arse

Disinformation, extremism threatening democracies, global economies: Trudeau

… “We cannot pretend that China isn’t there, just cross our arms and ignore it,” he said. “It is too important a player in our economies right now.”

Trudeau added that countries like Canada and the Netherlands have to engage China constructively on trade, on climate change, while challenging it on human rights, the situation in Hong Kong, the Uyghurs, Taiwan and the South China Sea.

Don’t worry slaves, Justin is thinking of you.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Justin Trudeau Useful Idiot

Quebec comedian Mike Ward’s mockery of disabled singer not discriminatory: Supreme Court

MONTREAL — In a 5-4 split decision Friday morning, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Quebec comedian Mike Ward had the right to make fun of Jeremy Gabriel.

The case pitted the comedian against the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, which had succeeded in obtaining $35,000 in damages for Gabriel from the Quebec Court of Appeal.

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Ontario reports 419 new Covid cases … and Fully vaccinated Ontario man dies after COVID-19 sweeps through his hockey league

Ontario reports 419 new Covid cases … and Fully vaccinated Ontario man dies after COVID-19 sweeps through his hockey league

Ontario reports 419 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths

Ontario reported more than 400 new COVID-19 cases and no additional deaths today as the seven-day rolling average continued to drop.

Provincial health officials logged 419 new infections on Friday, up from 409 yesterday but down from 492 a week ago.

Fully vaccinated Ontario man dies after COVID-19 sweeps through his hockey league

A fully vaccinated Ontario man has died after a COVID-19 outbreak swept through his adult hockey league.

… There were 15 COVID-19 cases linked to the hockey league and all were breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people, officials in York Region said.

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