From the people who brought you humiliation in Afghanistan.
It wasn’t a joke. Or, at least, it wasn’t meant as a joke.
“Today on International Pronouns Day,” tweeted the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, “we share why many people list pronouns on their email and social media profiles.”
The tweet linked to an article at ShareAmerica, the State Department’s “platform for communicating American foreign policy worldwide.”
Replacing coal-fired electricity with renewable energy will cost Canadian taxpayers and hydro ratepayers up to $33.7 billion annually, with only minor reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
Canada unveils international travel vaccine passport — starting Nov. 30, you won’t be able to fly without it
OTTAWA—Fully-vaccinated Canadians travelling abroad or boarding planes and interprovincial trains will be able to flash a provincially-issued vaccine passport that sports a machine-readable black-and-white QR code and the familiar Canada wordmark and maple leaf flag over the final “a” —and starting Nov. 30, you won’t be able to fly without it.
Vaccine Passports Will Create a ‘Global Digital Infrastructure of Surveillance’: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner
Vaccine passports mandated by governments will create a highly intrusive surveillance system that not only forces Canadians to reveal their health information but can also track their whereabouts, Ontario’s former privacy commissioner says.
Low-carbon transition could cost 800K jobs if action not taken: report
The world is headed for a low-carbon transition whether Canada is ready or not — and if companies and government policies don’t get better prepared for this shift, 800,000 jobs could be on the line.
That’s the latest finding from the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices (CICC)’s report, Sink or Swim, Transforming Canada’s economy for a global low-carbon future, which was released Thursday morning.
Good Green Gulags is more like it if the latest “5 Year Plan” is followed.
Well Golly! – Climate plan urging plant-based diet shift deleted
Ontario reports 413 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths
The province reported more than 400 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths on Thursday as the seven-day rolling average continued to decrease.
Ontario logged 413 new cases today, a notable uptick from 304 on Wednesday but down from 417 a week ago.
‘No middle ground’: How children’s COVID-19 vaccination is polarizing parents
When the COVID-19 vaccines are approved and made available for young kids in Canada, Ontario mom Alyssa Beauchamp will not be rushing to get her five-year-old son jabbed.
The 22-year-old mother of three from Hamilton, Ont., who is fully vaccinated herself, is concerned about how her oldest would react to the vaccine.
“I would prefer to maybe just wait a little bit to see how other kids react before I put it in my son,” she said.
Thousands of protesters marched in New York City last weekend, rallying in Times Square to voice their opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The march was the latest in a series of such rallies that have been taking place regularly in New York City for months now, largely ignored by the corporate press.
According to a CBC News poll, nine per cent of Albertans say they have no intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Student Health Ambassadors” are prowling their school grounds, on the lookout for those filthy, science-embracing guttersnipes who dare to wander campus without a mask or walk closer to friends than social-distancing Nazis prefer (even though scientists have determined that social distancing was, in part, based on outdated science).
Newly elected mayor of Calgary, Jyoti Gondek, announced this morning in her first interview as mayor, that her top priority is to declare a ‘climate emergency’ in the city of Calgary.
Gondek said that Calgary has had ‘years’ to declare a climate emergency, and now is the time ‘to get serious and declare [a climate emergency]’.
“We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government,” Arnie Wensinger, the company’s chief legal and business officer, said in a statement shared with The Washington Post. “It is unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe to force our restaurant Associates to segregate Customers into those who may be served and those who may not, whether based on the documentation they carry, or any other reason.”
If the final tally shows Albertans want to end equalization, and the feds ignore that, the province’s next vote will be on separation.
“Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to announce an order Wednesday that would mean some 46,000 city workers need to get their first shot by Oct. 29 or potentially lose their jobs, a spokeswoman said. The new rule covers 160,500 workers, of whom about 71% are partially or fully vaccinated, according to official estimates. The city said 70% of police and 60% of fire department personnel have received at least one shot,” reports Fox News.
The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business has announced that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will address the opening of its 3-day session from October 26-28, 2021.
‘’The Prime Minister’s message will focus on Canadian efforts at home and on the African continent for the restart of African economies,’’ said Sebastian Spio-Garbrah, Chair of the Board of the Canada-Africa Chamber of Business.
The New York City’s Department of Health passed a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis in the city, setting the groundwork for an anti-racism agenda after the board pointed to the impact the pandemic has had on minorities on the nation’s history of slavery.
“DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations,” the OSHA website states. “As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination…”
