A poll by the Angus-Reid Institute of 5,004 Canadians from Feb. 26 to March 3 has found that opinions of China sit at record lows and that there can be no moving forward until two detained Canadians are released from prison.
Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were arrested by Chinese authorities on Dec. 10, 2018, shortly after the detention in Canada of Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant. Here are the results from the poll.
Ontario is reporting 1,074 cases of #COVID19 and over 28,500 tests completed. Locally, there are 313 new cases in Toronto, 199 in Peel and 101 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,243,132 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 16, 2021
The never ending lockdown…
Ontario now in third wave of COVID-19, province’s hospital association says
Ontario has entered a third wave of COVID-19, the province’s hospital association says.
In a tweet published on Monday, the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) said that variants of concern are steeply rising and the number of patients in intensive care is trending upwards.
“We’re now in wave three,” the OHA said, adding that “strong adherence to public health measures is urgently needed to prevent overwhelming hospitals.”
Joe Biden has authorized a study to consider making direct payments in reparations for black descendants of slaves. His vice president Kamala Harris wants never-ending reparations.
Reparations pay black people just for their existence.
With the threat of a third wave looming, and governments reluctant to relinquish power, Sheila wondered if the actions first taken by the Chinese Communist Party was all something of a psy-op — an act of 3D chess — put forward by the Chinese government to drive western economies to a standstill.
Sources state that planned increases include raising the corporate tax from 21 per cent to 28 per cent; an increase of the income tax on high-income earners — defined as those making over $400,000; an expansion of the estate tax; paring back tax preferences on pass-through businesses such as limited-liability companies; and a new tax rate on capital gains for those earning at least $1 million.
Harper made the comments during a discussion moderated by his former national security adviser Richard Fadden, the National Post reports.
While Democrats aim to eliminate voter ID laws under the 800-page election bill H.R. 1, also known as the “For the People Act,” they contrarily flirt with the idea of mandating citizens show proof of COVID-19 vaccine or testing results.
According to H.R. 1, states are to be prohibited from requiring voter identification, including things like witness signatures, and notary stamps. This would ultimately overturn laws in 36 states, as noted by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Trudeau said Health Canada regulators are constantly analyzing all the available information about vaccines and have guaranteed those approved in Canada are safe for use.
Xi “has told the country’s military and armed police force to get ‘combat ready’ to defend national sovereignty and security, amid fears that Beijing may be planning an invasion of democratic Taiwan in the next few years,” according to Radio Free Asia.
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has refused to release the coronavirus modelling that was used to justify the date of their provincial election – which has been postponed as a result of an outbreak of the virus.
When Liberal Premier Andrew Furey called the election in January, he said the decision was based on “probabilistic modelling” which suggested holding an election was safe despite a global pandemic and low vaccination rates.
When CBC requested the modelling from the Department of Health and Community Services, they were denied based on cabinet confidentiality.
School districts across the country have adopted Marxist critical race theory, but few have done so to the degree of Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in the Washington, D.C, suburbs of northern Virginia. LCPS adopted curriculum from the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and removed Dr. Seuss books from its library shelves in the name of combatting racism. LCPS recently instituted a plan to combat “systemic racism” that includes training for teachers.
Public health officials in Toronto want the province to collect socio-demographic and ethnic data from those who receive the COVID-19 vaccine in order to ensure that it is being equally distributed among various communities.
The city’s board of health will vote on a motion next week that would ask the Ford government to collect the data as part of its central vaccination tracking system.
At the end of the day, the point of the military is to protect Canada. Instead, it is mired in constant scandal and is unable to recruit enough people. How long can we treat our national defence with such disregard and disdain?
The one-year anniversary of the quasi-shutdown of the Canada-U.S. border will come and go next week, with no end in sight to disruptions that have affected lives, businesses, and communities touching the world’s so-called longest undefended frontier.
NBC host Chuck Todd stated this Sunday on “Meet the Press” that many people believe it to be “inevitable” that we will experience more pandemics in the future due to “climate change.”
Amherst, some 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Boston, is among hundreds of communities and organizations across the country seeking to provide reparations to Black people. They range from the state of California to cities like Providence, Rhode Island, religious denominations like the Episcopal Church and prominent colleges like Georgetown University in Washington.
After a rise in homicides and violent crime, Portland mayor Ted Wheeler is looking to refund the police in his city.
Wheeler requested $2 million in funding for the police force and other agencies. Members of the city council have not signaled commitment to the proposal.
Matt Taibbi is that rare breed – an honest leftist journalist. And make no mistake about his leftism, for this is a man who thinks Noam Chomsky is a great thinker. Despite that serious ideological confusion on his part, Taibbi understands something profoundly important in American politics; namely, that our media has become completely corrupt, and more closely represents the media in Soviet Russia than the media in a free country with a First Amendment. If you haven’t yet, you must read his article, “The Sovietization of the American Press.”
Taibbi, who has collected examples of Soviet newspapers over the years so he knows whereof he speaks, says that, in 2021, there is nothing to distinguish the American media from the Soviet press.
Last summer, Chicago, like many cities, was engulfed by riots and looting. For several nights, crowds, including professional anarchists, surrounded the statue of Christopher Columbus in Grant Park, the city’s central meeting place. They repeatedly tried to topple Columbus from his pedestal. The police deployed to protect the statue; violent clashes resulted. In the dead of night, without notice or consultation, Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, ordered the statue, along with another Columbus statue located in Chicago’s Little Italy, removed.
The left-wing postmodern idea of “truth” as a mere pick-and-choose official narrative is now normal.
Many politicians at one point or another live by lies—if they can get away with them.
Our supposed sentinels, the media—self-defined as independent, cynical, and skeptical journalists—are supposed to separate political fictions from truth.
