Ontario reports record 4,812 new Covid cases … New lockdown restrictions coming

Ontario reports record 4,812 new Covid cases … New lockdown restrictions coming

Ont. sets single-day record for new COVID-19 cases for second day in a row as number of ICU patients surpasses 700

For the second consecutive day, Ontario is reporting another single-day record for new cases of the novel coronavirus as the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care surpasses 700.

Ontario health officials logged 4,812 new infections today, topping the previous record of 4,736 set on Thursday.

The rolling seven-day average of new cases is now 4,292, up by more than 1,000 cases week-over-week.

Further COVID-19 restrictions likely for Ontario as 3rd wave worsens

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet are set to meet again Friday morning to consider further COVID-19 restrictions to combat a worsening third wave that is pushing the province’s health-care system to the breaking point.

The meeting comes ahead of a scheduled briefing from the province’s COVID-19 science advisory table that is expected include stark new forecasts for the weeks ahead.

A government source told CBC News revised modelling suggests Ontario could see up to 18,000 daily cases of COVID-19 by the end of May if current trends continue unabated, even with help from the province’s ongoing vaccination campaign.

They make furniture and sports uniforms, sell cars and build condos. All remain open as Ontario’s third wave worsens

A retail marketing firm. An Amazon warehouse. A maker of sports uniforms. A metal polishing firm. All of these workplaces remain open in Canada’s largest city – and all had more than 20 COVID-19 cases among their workers in recent weeks, according to data analysis by The Globe and Mail.

As Ontario sets new records for increases in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and people in ICUs – all driven by the spread of more infectious variants – some medical experts say further restrictions, in areas such as manufacturing and construction, are now warranted.

Basically they’re saying we screwed up, the 1st lockdown was too lenient resulting in a significant uptick in Covid infections so now we’re gonna double down and see if that helps.

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The media myth that police are hunting down black people

Contrary to the perception (almost entirely created by the media) that police are on a racist rampage gunning down black people, the truth is that almost all police interactions with black people are identical to children visiting an ice cream truck. But look at any set of data about police interactions or police shootings, slice and dice it whatever way you want, and the numbers simply don’t bear out the notion that black people should be quivering in fear of law enforcement.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", "racial justice", Anti-White Racism, MSM bias to the left, MSM Lies, MSM Shitweasels, race/ethnicity, Racism

‘A massive blow to his integrity and credibility’: Conservatives blindsided by Erin O’Toole’s carbon pricing plan

OTTAWA–There was no hint when Conservative caucus met Wednesday that Erin O’Toole was about to reverse party orthodoxy and propose a carbon levy.

Sources who spoke to the Star said Conservative MPs were blindsided by O’Toole’s announcement Thursday that his climate change plan included a consumer carbon price of $20 per tonne, rising to $50 per tonne in 2030.

It was a stunning reversal for the Conservative leader, who pledged to scrap the Liberal government’s carbon levy — which Conservatives have routinely labelled a “carbon tax” — throughout the party’s leadership contest last year.

But in speaking to Conservative MPs, and later at an Ottawa news conference, O’Toole steadfastly denied that his proposed price on carbon amounted to a “carbon tax.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Political Class, Conservative Party, Green-Scam

Fascism Hasn’t Changed. Neither Has Its Pitchman.

Obama’s presidency ushered in a new way of doing business between Democrats and corporate America. Donations weren’t enough. Oversight and congressional hearings weren’t enough. This time the big guy would personally inject himself into every transaction and just like any classic movie mobster, President Obama reminded them once government was on the inside there would be no autonomy. They would play by his rules, or else.

Is it any surprise then, to see corporate America jumping through hoops to do Democrats’ political bidding today? It shouldn’t be. We’re reliving the beginning of the same movie we first watched twelve years ago. The same guy with the same ideology is in charge again. The only difference is this time we’re all supposed to pretend it’s the feeble old senator from Delaware running the meetings.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inLeftist scumbags, Leftists - intolerance of political right, Liberal Core Beliefs, Obama, Obama's Third Term

MyPillow CEO’s free speech social network will ban posts that take the Lord’s name in vain

After a public break with Facebook and Twitter, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is getting close to the launch of a new conservative-focused social network, giving more detail on the project in a video posted online this week. Called simply “Frank,” the social network plans to open its doors to a limited set of users on April 16th.

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8 killed in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis’, shooter takes own life

8 killed in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis’, shooter takes own life

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings after a relative lull during the pandemic.

Five people were hospitalized after the Thursday night shooting, according to police. One of them had critical injuries, police spokesperson Genae Cook said. Another two people were treated and released at the scene. FedEx said people who worked for the company were among the dead.

A witness said that he was working inside the building when he heard several gunshots in rapid succession.

Police: 8 dead in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis

Twitter – Indianapolis

Worst witness interview ever…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

AI is Increasingly Being Used to Identify Emotions – Here’s What’s at Stake

Emotion recognition technology (ERT) is in fact a burgeoning multi-billion-dollar industry that aims to use AI to detect emotions from facial expressions. Yet the science behind emotion recognition systems is controversial: there are biases built into the systems.

Many companies use ERT to test customer reactions to their products, from cereal to video games. But it can also be used in situations with much higher stakes, such as in hiring, by airport security to flag faces as revealing deception or fear, in border control, in policing to identify “dangerous people” or in education to monitor students’ engagement with their homework.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inArtificial Intelligence, Face Recognition, The Future

Continental Breakfast

Sausage Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole

After a year of COVID, what has the federal government learned about how it operates?

At times, it seems scarcely a segment of the economy has been left untouched by Liberal government largesse, which by the end of January had pushed the federal net debt to $1.1 trillion. This represented more than half the country’s gross domestic product, not a record by any means, but up from less than one-third practically overnight. This does not include the rapidly deteriorating balance sheets maintained by the provinces.

NDP convention featured far-left radicals, virtue signalling and more

It’s been nearly a week since the NDP concluded their 2021 federal policy convention and the party is still reeling from a number of embarrassing and controversial policy resolutions, including a plan to abolish the Canadian Armed Forces as well as accusations of anti-Semitism.

Beware of corrupt business practices in China, Canadians are told

The Dangers Of Engaging In Corrupt Practices — a federal guide for Canadian investors — warns of Communist Party fronts, extortion, bid-rigging and “bribery required to get things done,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

Pfizer says we need a third dose of the vaccine, maybe every year, forever

People will “likely” need a third shot of the Pfizer vaccine as a booster within 12 months of being fully vaccinated, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC on Thursday.

COVID-19 vaccine boosters are expected to become a regular part of life for years to come, as variants continue to spread and become dominant strains in some countries.

That will work out very nicely for the investors like Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci.

Black Lives Matter activist Bree Newsome defends rioting and looting as ‘a legitimate, politically-informed response to state violence’

Bree Newsome, 35, made the passionate remarks in a series of tweets this week, arguing that police are not limited to non-violence, and that a violent response to injustice can be appropriate and justified.

Apply this same logic to #BLM and Antifa.

The deplatformed conspiracy theorists are being proven true… will Big Tech ‘replatform’ us?

The mainstream media and Big Tech have labeled anyone that does not go along with the mainstream narrative as “wild conspiracy theorists that are a danger to society.” To combat this imaginary enemy, they’ve resorted to cancelling us, completely deplatforming us off of their platforms. The idea is that if we don’t have a voice on their platforms, they can limit our ability to spread “harmful disinformation.” However, with the Pentagon announcing they’ve got a microchip to be administered through vaccines and it’s now proven that the COVID-19 vaccines DO have side effects, will Facebook, Twitter and YouTube allow us back on now that we are proven to be truth-tellers?

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inContinental Breakfast

Nobody ever leaves North Korea

In the sleepy south-west London suburb of New Malden, the local Waitrose butts up against Seoul Plaza, a supermarket catering to the neighbourhood’s estimated 20,000 South Koreans.

The high street boasts every Korean business you could dream of: from the Kang Nam barbecue takeaway and Hanatour travel agent, to a fully-fledged hypermarket, with its own section for K-pop merchandise. (In BBC drama Killing Eve, Eve Polastri —played by Sandra Oh, who has Korean parents — quits MI6 to lie low making dim sum in the local Han karaoke restaurant.)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNorth Korea

‘I Never Thought China Could Ever Be This Dark’

‘I Never Thought China Could Ever Be This Dark’

On a summer afternoon nearly four years ago, Maryam Muhammet thought her family’s long journey to freedom was almost complete. The Uyghur woman had arrived in Istanbul from Egypt weeks prior with her two sons, a toddler and an infant, after fleeing the Chinese region of Xinjiang. Her husband had not yet joined the family in Turkey. The couple had heard from others in their community that Egyptian immigration officials—ostensibly acting at the behest of the Chinese government—were hassling Uyghur men as they left, so they decided he would come later, on his own.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State"

The Gun-Control Melodrama Returns for Another Season

The Gun-Control Melodrama Returns for Another Season

But what’s the real purpose of the show?

A new Democrat administration and two recent mass shootings mean it’s time for another episode of the gun-control melodrama that’s been running for decades. We all know the scenario: an obviously deranged person murders several people, Dem pols and pundits start fulminating about our lax gun control laws and gun-obsessed white males, followed by a bunch of ineffective proposals and policies that will do nothing about crime, but will annoy law-abiding gun-owners, which is ultimately the real purpose of the show––demonizing a political enemy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights