The Canadian government has announced $3.5 million in funding to expand an initiative that aims to offer a new way to provide people with a safer and regulated supply of opioids to prevent overdoses.
Blackout: White House curbs press, public access as Biden struggles with public demands of job
Throughout his presidential campaign and continuing since taking the White House, Joe Biden has promised a transparent approach to press and public relations. Yet in recent weeks, his administration has closed off — at least for now — several key avenues via which the press and public have for years gained a modicum of transparency, accessibility and accountability from the White House.
h/t Mauser98
I just got a call from a federal agent
I just got a call from a federal agent asking if I am sleeping with my partner while special conditions are applied to my lifestyle, having just entered Canada. I told them that was a little too personal, and they said an officer might be by to check. Totally normal.
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) March 4, 2021
Migrants Wearing Biden T-Shirts Demand Entry in U.S.
Wearing t-shirts with Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign logo and the words “Please let us in!” the group of foreign nationals held signs that read “Biden — please let me enter.” In interviews with AFP, some of the foreign nationals said Biden ought to allow them to enter the U.S. while they await their asylum claims as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has done with others.
Analysts see Canada’s new push for permanent residents as a short-term solution
Canada’s recent move to offer permanent residency to more foreigners living and working in the country is a short-term solution to the economic problems spurred by a pandemic-related immigration slowdown, analysts say, while critics argue the strategy excludes too many vulnerable people.
Ontario is reporting another day below 1,000 new cases
#BREAKING: Ontario is reporting another day below 1,000 new cases. There are 994 new cases today with more than 65,600 tests completed. There are 298 new cases in Toronto, 171 in Peel and 64 in York. More details to come re: deaths, hospitalizations and vaccinations. #onpoli
— NEWSTALK1010 (@NEWSTALK1010) March 4, 2021
A Visit To My Sainted Irish Mother
I have been granted a visit with Mom today.
She remains in guarded condition suffering from Covid that she contracted in hospital.
A minor miracle is needed for her to recover.
I can only hope this is not the last visit, it will be my first in a month as she has been isolated.
Last Saturday I spoke with her on the phone and was elated that she sounded so energetic and so clear.
Sunday morning I got the call that they needed to transfer her from the rehab to a hospital better able to manage her suddenly deteriorating condition.
This last year has been a hard one for our family.
My niece lost her husband to cancer shortly before Christmas last year.
Her sister’s husband suffered two massive heart attacks in the last six months of 2020. Thankfully he is on the mend.
My brother is in palliative care at home dying from a bad ticker, he never smoked and rarely drank, such are the wages of abstinence.
Kathy’s loss weighs heaviest of all and the prospect of Mom’s passing is numbing.
All you can do is try to keep yourself busy and the heartache at bay.
I hope that Mom can see through the fog and know I am there.
The Left Is Now Trying to Sell the Idea that Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist
The left has a habit that it practices when it runs up against undeniable hypocrisy and it’s doing so now with cancel culture. It’s a tactic that first requires the denial of a thing existing, and then redefining the word to better fit their needs.
Why mandatory hotel quarantine is almost certainly doing nothing to curb COVID-19
Everything Should Be Better: Canada tried to copy New Zealand’s mandatory quarantine policy, but the government did it with staggering ineptitude.
Exclusive: Unreleased Federal Report Concludes ‘No Evidence’ that Free Speech Online ‘Causes Hate Crimes’
Freedom of speech on the internet did not lead to a rise in “hate crimes,” according to a report sent from the U.S. Department of Commerce to Congress in January — a report that has yet to appear on any government website.
Whistleblower laws in Canada nearly dead, says lawyers’ group
Canada’s whistleblower protection is nearly dead and lies dead last among other countries surveyed on their “track record for compliance with best practices” behind Albania, Bangladesh, Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam.
The International Bar Association said Tuesday federal whistleblower protection law is “nearly entirely dormant.”
Swalwell: CPAC’s ‘Insurrection Reunion’ Emboldened People to Take Up Arms Against Their Government
Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that speeches by former President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week emboldened those who want to take up arms against the U.S. government.
