This photo has led to the suspension of three UMass Amherst students, who were also blocked from remote learning and from taking their finals this semester.
What about everyone else in the photo?
Feds declare emergency after hackers use ransomware to shut down major pipeline
What happened last Friday is the sort of thing that would be considered a major terrorist attack if the goal behind it had been political. Hackers believed to be operating in Russia shut down the largest pipeline in the United States using ransomware. The Colonial Pipeline carries gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from refineries in Houston to locations as far north as New Jersey.
Has The Mainstream Media Finally Turned Against Bill Gates?
Not long after we pointed out a report from the Daily Beast which traced the tensions in the marriage of Bill and Melinda Gates to Bill’s relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal has followed up with more reporting that confirms that Melinda Gates started consulting divorce attorneys as far back as 2019, before the pandemic thrust her husband back into the global spotlight as the world’s de facto vaccine czar.
Never mind Justin Trudeau — Conservative insiders fear Erin O’Toole’s toughest election opponent might be Doug Ford
OTTAWA–Peter Kent is pretty sure he knows why the Conservatives failed to win GTA seats in the 2019 election.
Two words: Doug Ford.
“We might have won that election but for Doug Ford’s disastrous first year,” the former cabinet minister and retiring Thornhill MP told the Star in an interview this week.
“It’s that simple. That’s what we heard at the door. We were leading in a lot of York Region ridings … up until about three weeks, four weeks before the election.
Jerusalem violence: More clashes ahead of nationalist march
There have been clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police outside the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, ahead of a planned Jewish nationalist march.
More than 300 people were injured, as crowds threw stones and officers fired stun grenades and rubber bullets.
It comes amid soaring tensions in the city, which has seen weeks of unrest.
Earlier, Israeli police decided to bar Jews from visiting the compound where the mosque is located during the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March.
Ford government prepares to extend Ontario’s stay-at-home order until June 2
Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are setting the table to extend Ontario’s pandemic “stay-at-home” order for another two weeks, until June 2.
“We need to stay the course for right now,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said Monday.
Ford declared a state of emergency on April 16, which curbed activities like golf, tennis, and basketball, in a bid to keep people from going out and spreading COVID-19.
MALCOLM: Trudeau government has a blind spot for left-wing extremism
When does the left go too far?
University of Toronto clinical psychologist and public intellectual Dr. Jordan B. Peterson makes the point that our society needs a balance between left and right wing ideas. He also warns that both sides have the capacity to go too far.
Patients died from neglect, not COVID-19, in Ontario LTC homes, military report finds: ‘All they needed was water and a wipe down’
Dozens of residents in two Ontario nursing homes hit hard by the coronavirus died not from COVID-19 but from dehydration and neglect, the Canadian military says in reports obtained by The Globe and Mail.
The documents contain new details about the deplorable conditions in two Toronto homes before the Forces stepped in last year, revealing for the first time that causes other than COVID-19 hastened the deaths of residents as outbreaks spiralled out of control and staffing collapsed.
This is Murder. (Go Incognito)
Islamism: French soldiers warn of civil war in new letter
A new open letter has been published in France warning of the threat of civil war and claiming to have more than 130,000 signatures from the public.
The message, published in a right-wing magazine, accuses the French government of granting “concessions” to Islamism.
“It is about the survival of our country,” said the text, said to be issued anonymously by soldiers and appealing for public support.
The French government condemned it, as well as a similar letter last month.
Starbucks Received ‘Insensitive’ Backlash For Going Woke. Now They May Depart Facebook Altogether.
The world’s largest coffee company, Starbucks, is reportedly looking at leaving Facebook after “insensitive” and “negative” comments on their posts backing social justice programs.
According to BuzzFeed News, Facebook employees responsible for managing Starbucks’ relationship with the social media giant are working to keep the company on board. If Starbucks did decide to move forward with severing ties with Facebook, “it would be one of the largest companies ever” to do so.
Proposed federal justice reforms could reduce number of Indigenous, Black people in system, say advocates
Advocates for justice system reform are welcoming new proposals from the federal government to address the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous individuals and other racialized groups in the criminal justice system.
In the recent federal budget, the government pledged $216.4 million over five years, and $43.3 million each year after that, to divert Black and Indigenous youth and young people of colour from the courts.
Yea this will work.
Ontario reports 2,716 new Covid cases … WTF? Black fungus?!!?
Ontario reports lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in nearly six weeks
Ontario is reporting its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in nearly six weeks but the positivity rate remains extremely high, underscoring the precarious position that Ontario remains in.
The Ministry of Health says that there were 2,716 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Sunday, along with another 19 deaths.
Mucormycosis: The ‘black fungus’ maiming Covid patients in India
On Saturday morning, Dr Akshay Nair, a Mumbai-based eye surgeon, was waiting to operate on a 25-year-old woman who had recovered from a bout of Covid-19 three weeks ago.
Inside the surgery, an ear, nose and throat specialist was already at work on the patient, a diabetic.
He had inserted a tube in her nose and was removing tissues infected with mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection. This aggressive infection affects the nose, eye and sometimes the brain.
Minister backtracks comments on Bill C-10, says social media users ‘will never’ be regulated’
OTTAWA — After suggesting that under Bill C-10, the Canadian Radio-television and telecommunications Commission (CRTC) could impose discoverability regulations on individuals who have a large-enough following online, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault now says that’s not the case.
In a new statement sent to CTV News late Sunday night, the minister says he used “unclear” language when he referred to people and online channels being subject to federal regulations as part of the government’s updates to the Broadcasting Act.
Governments across Canada withholding COVID-19 data to regulate public reaction to pandemic, says access-to-information advocate
Sean Holman, an access to information expert and journalism professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, said uproar in British Columbia Friday over revelations the provincial government was only releasing a fraction of its COVID-19 data to the public is just one example of such secrecy.
“It doesn’t surprise me,” said Holman, who stressed B.C. is particularly notorious for withholding information. “But it really emphasizes the need for governments across Canada to provide more information to the general public about what’s going on during this public health disaster.”
