“COVID-19 has highlighted the fact that not only is Canada racking up new failures in the usual sore spots such as public health, but increasingly we can’t even seem to manage things that should be easy. We’re an energy superpower that can’t build a dam or a pipeline. A champion of reconciliation where Indigenous people are poisoned by their own drinking water. A self-proclaimed “honest broker” in world affairs that can’t get its phone calls returned by foreign leaders.”
Pact to turn refugees back to the U.S. doesn’t ‘shock’ conscience, Ottawa argues
In striking down a controversial refugee pact between Canada and the U.S., a Canadian judge made “palpable and overriding errors” that warrant a higher court’s intervention, according to a written submission by government lawyers.
“These errors permeated both the Federal Court’s factual and legal findings,” lawyers for Canada’s immigration and public safety ministers argued in their factum filed in advance of an appeal hearing on Tuesday to overturn a court order against the Safe Third Country Agreement. “These findings render the STCA inoperable.”
In July, Justice Ann Marie McDonald ruled the accord unconstitutional because the United States routinely detained asylum seekers under poor conditions.
Why Iran Considers Biden a ‘Weak’ President
It is only one month into his term in office, and US President Joe Biden is already facing criticism from Arabs over his administration’s soft policy toward Iran.
The Arabs say they are worried because Iran sees Biden as a “weak” president, and that is why the mullahs in Tehran and their proxies in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon have increased their terrorist attacks in the Middle East.
“In Tehran’s eyes, Biden is a pushover,” wrote Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Ashraq Al-Awsat.
WARMINGTON: Pearson bracing for potential ‘chaos’ as new hotel rules implemented
This holding pattern of flights coming into Pearson International Airport is not expected to be in the sky.
UK police apologize for campaign warning Brits that ‘being offensive’ is a crime
Liverpool’s Merseyside Police in the UK have apologised after stirring up controversy with a campaign that ominously warned Brits they could be charged with “being offensive.”
Superintendent Martin Earl apologised in a statement on Monday for “any confusion” the campaign caused, declaring: “We would like to clarify that ‘being offensive’ is not in itself an offense.”
Ontario reports 1,058 new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting 1,058 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 31,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 325 new cases in Toronto, 215 in Peel and 87 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 569,455 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 22, 2021
No sympathy for snowbirds: Most Canadians support travel restrictions, Ipsos poll finds
As travel restrictions have clipped the wings of many snowbirds hoping to fly south to their Florida homes for the winter, the vast majority of Canadians support the new travel rules — and very few think exceptions should be made for those with second residences south of the border.
Biden Administration Looks to FEMA to Help Combat Domestic Terrorism in Wake of Capitol Attack
The new guidance directed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was announced by FEMA to state and local officials in a briefing last week, an administration official said.
The agency, often associated with storm and emergency relief efforts, plans to increase funding for states and cities to focus on the pursuit of domestic extremist groups, doubling down on the agency’s efforts to combat domestic extremism, a FEMA source told CNN.
Canadians in Texas say they’re coping better than most in winter storm
Canadians living in Texas say the winter survival and driving skills they acquired in their home country are standing them in good stead as the state grapples with widespread power outages and infrastructure failures brought on by a massive winter storm.
Trump for Congress, 2022
On a recent podcast, I answered the question of how you make a modern-day liberal feel torn by internal conflict. You give them something that can make them feel the emotions of love, hate, and fear simultaneously. What sort of event could possibly trigger each of those potentially self-destructing responses? The answer is a Donald Trump for Congress 2022 campaign.
Trump becomes Speaker, impeaches Xiden and Harris, assumes Presidency, then runs in ’24.
School officials order windows screwed shut after teachers open them to increase ventilation
Teachers at Godson Elementary School had assumed a proper ventilation system was installed throughout the entire school — to maintain airflow and reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission — but they were shocked to learn in December that this wasn’t the case in an older wing of the building.
Cascend: “Wind power was the biggest failure this week in the Texas grid catastrophe and Natural Gas was the best option”
The state of Texas continues to dominate the headlines as millions of Lone Star State residents are without power. As U.S. President declares a state of emergency in Texas, the blame and fingerpointing have already begun. Initially, many blamed the rolling blackouts and outages on failed wind power turbines.
Then yesterday, we wrote that Texas grid failure was because Texas wind turbines did not use de-icing, carbon fiber technology, and lack of natural gas winterization, an approach practiced in other cold climate states.
The PPC And The Nonsense About Splitting The Vote
Anyone politically-engaged in Canada is familiar with this narrative; the PPC is Maxime Bernier’s vengeance-vehicle against the Conservative Party. The continued existence of the PPC destroys right-wing unity in Canada and will allow the Liberals to govern unchallenged as long as the PPC takes votes away from the CPC. It’s Reform all over again!
Executive Orders V. Guns: How The Second Amendment May Be In Peril
It is no secret that the democrats want to strip Americans of their Second Amendment right.
And though it hasn’t happened thus far, Joe Biden apparently isn’t ruling out using executive orders to crackdown on the right to bear arms.
The topic was discussed during a White House press briefing on Tuesday, in response to a statement that Biden put out last week calling to ban semi-automatic firearms, along with other gun control measures.
“The Dirty Dozen”: University of British Columbia Professor Fired After Doxxing Students Who Dropped Her Class
We often follow controversies at universities over free speech and academic freedom issues, but few are quite so bizarre as the case of Dr. Amie Wolf. Wolf was fired after a period of paid administrative leave due to her attacks on 12 students who transferred out of her Indigenous Education in Canada course. Wolf has since lashed out at the university and other professors, including a vulgar diatribe. She is vowing to challenge the action of the university which she insists is due to her refusal to “assimilate to the institution’s norms” as “an academic who identifies as female Indigenous.”
Meghan Markle to launch ‘liberal manifesto’ on Oprah: Duchess wants big ‘political career’
Their 90-minute special with Oprah Winfrey, due to air on CBS on March 7, will feature “charming footage of Archie filmed at the family home”, says a source on the channel. The probing interview, which is said to include revealing details of the final chapter of Megxit – which saw the announcement on Friday that couple quit their royal roles entirely and have been stripped of all patronages – provides an “ideal platform for her manifesto,” according to royal author Margaret Holder.