Ontario reports 865 new Covid cases … and an October Lockdown???

Ontario reports 865 new Covid cases … and an October Lockdown???

Ontario reports multi-month high of nearly 900 COVID-19 cases; 14 more deaths

Ontario reported 865 new COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths on Thursday, the highest count of cases seen since early June, with the greatest number of infections among unvaccinated people since the province started keeping track earlier this summer.

The Thursday tally is the highest standalone case count recorded in Ontario since June 4 when 914 cases were reported.

COVID-19 vaccination rate must rise above 85% to avoid fall lockdown

New modelling released Wednesday by Ontario’s COVID-19 science advisory table says more than 85 per cent of the eligible population needs to be vaccinated to avoid a lockdown this fall due to the highly contagious delta variant.

The table said Ontarians also need to reduce contacts to about 70 per cent of pre-pandemic levels until vaccination levels are high enough to protect the population.

And… COVID-19 vaccine mandates for workers, offices remain popular among Canadians: poll

That Mumu Virus looks comfortable, I’ll give it that.

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OLIVER: Here are the many failures behind the Liberal decline

It is premature for Erin O’Toole to measure the drapes for 24 Sussex, but he clearly has the all-important momentum. The Liberals are not yet reduced to saving the furniture, but their prospects for an easy stroll to a majority have evaporated.

How the Prime Minister so quickly came to this sorry state from a commanding lead can be attributed to a toxic amalgam of moral failure and incompetence, reinforced by an absence of authenticity and a surfeit of vanity.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Another Damn Election", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Liberal Party Of Canada

Polls…

The Star – Surging Conservatives now poised to win more seats than Liberals, poll analysis says

OTTAWA—The Conservatives began the federal election mocked for a spoof video many said called into question how serious they were about forming government. But the Star’s analysis of polling data suggests that at the midpoint of the campaign, it’s become a serious prospect they could.

The analysis from The Signal, Vox Pop Labs’ election forecast for the Star, shows Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives with the support of 36.1 per cent of voters, compared to 30 per cent for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.

Global – Liberals fall, Conservatives steady as election race remains neck-and-neck: poll

The Liberals’ support is continuing to crumble as the election campaign reaches the halfway point, a new poll suggests, with the party now falling behind the Conservatives for the first time while staying in a statistical tie.

The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found 32 per cent of voters would cast a ballot for the Conservatives, a number unchanged from last week. But the Liberals saw their potential vote share go down two points, to 31 per cent.

CBC – Conservatives hold narrow lead over Liberals

The Conservatives have a narrow lead over the Liberals, as their support has increased over the first two weeks of the campaign. However, the Liberals remain slightly favoured to win the most seats due to how the two parties’ support breaks down across the country.

CTV – Nanos shows the Cons at 34 and the scumbag Liberals at 30.

The Star poll is interesting with a reported Ontario surge, but I suspect CBC may be a little more realistic. No question the Conservative proposed universal access to sphincter relaxant has loosened things up. But the biggest story is some people are finally waking up to the fact Trudeau is an idiot and congenital liar.

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Justin Trudeau releases Liberals’ multibillion-dollar platform; includes 15% tax for high-income earners

Most of the new spending items in the platform have previously been announced by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on the campaign trail. However, the platform does include some promises that have not been previously mentioned. They include a minimum 15 per cent tax on high earners so that deductions and tax credits can’t reduce their tax obligations below that threshold.

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Biden Keeps Pushing Dubious Arguments for CDC Supremacy

The Supreme Court last week rejected the idea that Congress gave the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the power to stop landlords from evicting tenants who fail to pay their rent. Unfazed by that setback, the Biden administration this week suggested that the CDC has the power to demand that every public school in the country force students to wear face masks.

Both incidents show how readily President Joe Biden deploys dubious legal arguments to defend unprecedented power grabs in the name of fighting COVID-19. If successful, those arguments would undermine federalism, the rule of law and the separation of powers.

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Continental Breakfast

Cheesy Breakfast Potatoes With Crispy Bacon

ROYER: Trudeau is Americanizing Canadian politics

“Trudeau wants to be president of Canada without any of those checks and balances that plague the actual American president.”

Trudeau Liberals Release Election Platform: No Mention of Wireless Competition or Lower Pricing

The federal Liberal Party of Canada has released its election platform, and the 86-page document fails to mention wireless competition or lower pricing.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election platform only mentions rural Canada when it comes to wireless and internet investments.

O’Toole blames Trudeau for pushing Canada down “road to recession”

Canadians’ lives are getting harder, not easier under Justin Trudeau’s watch, according to Conservative leader Erin O’Toole.

O’Toole reacted to a new Statistics Canada report showing the Canadian economy is facing serious roadblocks on its road to economic recovery.

For Joe Biden, It’s All Downhill From Here

oe Biden’s presidency is not going well.

That’s been apparent for a long time. It’s not like the transitionary inflation that’s not transitionary, the stagnating jobs market, the border crisis, and the off-putting woke-ism are new to the scene. But perhaps ironically, given foreign policy was supposed to be Biden’s area of expertise (lol), the deadly disaster in Afghanistan has represented a turning point for the president.

Kamala Harris has officially been thrown under the bus, and for good reasons

Joe Concha has an op-ed over at The Hill this week where he seeks to answer a question that Karen Townsend asks here on a regular basis. Where’s Kamala? You still see the occasional video clip of her fending off reporters or being dispatched on some presumably important business to Central America or Asia, with the occasional, uncomfortable moment where she laughs at serious questions. But aside from that, we just don’t see much of her. Concha makes the argument that none of this is happening by accident.

When You’ve Lost The Washington Post, You Know You’ve Screwed Up, Joe

It takes a lot for the editorial board of a major liberal paper to shred you. As a Democrat, you have to have screwed up royally. For Joe Biden, his chaotic and utterly shameful Afghanistan exit was just something that not even The Washington Post could defend. We’re out now. America’s longest war in Afghanistan is over. The last planes left yesterday. After two decades of war, we replaced the Taliban with…the Taliban. The national army we helped train collapsed in less than two weeks. The government we propped up evaporated in the same timeframe. A lot of lies were sold to us and we’ll get to the bottom of those, but now Biden has to contend with the fact that he left Americans behind. He left key Afghans and their families behind. The number of folks we promised to get out has soared into the thousands. This is a “moral disaster,” and the publication did no hold back ripping the Biden administration for strategic and tactical missteps that created this catastrophe. Oh, and they’re not impressed with the Biden team’s ‘we’ve conducted the most awesome and bestest airlift ever. ’

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Apple announces first states signed up to adopt driver’s licenses and state IDs in Apple Wallet

Apple today announced that it is working with several states across the country, which will roll out the ability for their residents to seamlessly and securely add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet on their iPhone and Apple Watch. Arizona and Georgia will be the first states to introduce this new innovation to their residents, with Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah to follow. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will enable select airport security checkpoints and lanes in participating airports as the first locations customers can use their driver’s license or state ID in Wallet. Built with privacy at the forefront, Wallet provides a more secure and convenient way for customers to present their driver’s licenses and state IDs on iPhone or Apple Watch.

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Calgary doctor calls for more restrictions, says it’s “impossible to vaccinate our way out of the pandemic”

Dr. Joe Vipond made the comments during a COVID-19 livestream hosted by the group Protect Our Province Alberta while discussing the spread of the Delta variant. According to Dr. Vipond, the solution to combating the Delta variant is to institute more restrictions.

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