“Would say that there are several factors that we may want to consider with respect to the level of detail for the announcement,” said the email sent by a senior policy advisor for Trudeau.
“A detailed announcement [would] mean that the government could be held accountable to show that funds were spent exactly as announced (reducing flexibility to move money across buckets if necessary).”
In other words make it the usual bullshit.
Three people were confirmed dead and at least 150 were missing after a Himalayan glacier broke and caused major floods in northern India on Sunday.
“We have located at least three dead bodies on the river bed. Our last update puts the missing person number at 150, and there are 16 or 17 persons trapped inside a tunnel,” a police spokesperson in Uttarakhand state told AFP.
Prayers for everyone affected 🙏
ITBP, NDRF, SDRF and local admin is working it's best for relief and rescue work 🙏
TapovanDam disaster after glacier break in Chamoli pic.twitter.com/7rx3iWi9TG— Pankaj Nain IPS (@ipspankajnain) February 7, 2021
Global Warming!
Ontario is reporting 1,489 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 51,700 tests completed. Locally, there are 517 new cases in Toronto, 261 in Peel and 121 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 379,184 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 7, 2021
Large-scale reopening of Toronto won’t be anytime soon, Tory says
Mayor John Tory said Saturday he believes “it will be some time yet” before a larger scale reopening of Toronto is possible.
Meanwhile, in neighbouring Peel Region, the medical officer of health said he would like to first see the impact — over a period of two to four weeks — of the reopening of schools in Peel on Feb. 16 before the region gradually reopens further.
Both were reacting to The Canadian Press report from Friday, in which a source said the Ontario government was planning to gradually ease restrictions in the province, starting next week with regions that have been less affected by COVID-19.
Two Canadian government scientists escorted from the National Microbiology Laboratory amidst an RCMP investigation and internal review have been let go from the Public Health Agency of Canada, CBC News has learned.
“The two scientists are no longer employed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as of Jan. 20, 2021,” Eric Morrissette, chief of media relations for Health Canada and PHAC, confirmed in an email late Friday.
“We cannot disclose additional information, nor comment further, for reasons of confidentiality.”
Sources say members of the lab’s special pathogens unit were called to a meeting on Thursday and told that Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, will not be returning to work. They were not given an explanation.
In an interview with As It Happens host Carol Off on Friday, Anita Anand echoed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s earlier reassurances that Moderna and Pfizer will hold up their end of the bargain to send six million vaccine doses to Canada by the end of March, and 70 million by the end of September.
This is despite vaccine delivery delays over the last month due to manufacturing issues in Europe.
Everything is going well, just like Lil’ Potato says!
The ugly row last week between the European Union and drugs giant AstraZeneca, which resulted in the EU threatening to blockade exports of European-produced vaccines, is an early sign of the sort of vaccine nationalism that could be about to spread right across the globe.
The EU has threatened to restrict the export of vaccines to third countries, including the UK, amid widespread disquiet about the slow roll-out of vaccines on the continent.
Last week President Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the Paris Climate Accords. This was a mostly symbolic gesture, as the same alarmism being pushed prior to the agreement in 2016 is still being pushed now while nation-states like China are still ignoring it. Now Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry, under fire for boarding a private jet to Iceland to accept a climate award, is telling the United States and the world that the conditions of the Paris agreement are ‘inadequate’.
Hongkongers who recently graduated from Canadian educational institutions will soon have a new pathway to permanent residency as Ottawa launches a three-year open work permit for them, citing “deep concerns” about the national security law.
It’s been a horrible year, basically, for everyone. Obviously some more than others. I get that. And I can’t even look out of the window without seeing some idiot walking down an abandoned street wearing a muzzle. I live opposite a school. Some parents are making their tiny children wear them. “What a great childhood! I remember having cloth over half my face most of the time.”
This is Nova Scotia. We’re not exactly Covid central.
I spent most of the summer in bed (something else, I think/hope I’m fine now) and the experience seems to have rendered me a bit morbid. I am now, without exaggeration, convinced that if Justin (Totally Not Fidel Castro’s Son) said that cars should start “social distancing” because maybe they breathe or something half these people would be doing that exact thing an hour later. Because Science!
I hit a wall two days ago when I staggered out of bed a bit hungover in a bad mood and found this in the dining room.
My mother subscribes. Whether she pays or not I don’t have the calories to investigate.
I didn’t make it past page one, although I have perused this mag before. I mean, they have a regular contributor priest called Something MacDonald who has a beard and is slightly whiter than Fauxcahontas Warren (which is saying something) and is pretending to be Indian. Because it’s usually “Native Native First Nations Native” with these guys, except when it’s “Black Black Black”.
I thought Anglicanism was supposed to be a religion.
What gets me is that everyone involved, by which I mean the subjects, the writers, the editors, the publishers, the subscribers, every single person except possibly the postman is completely full of it. There’s a South African priest whose profile is headlined ‘We can name the evil that is racism’. How trailblazing. How original. Gosh, I bet they all stood up and applauded at your courage! I wonder if he can do anything else. Other than denounce Israel (can’t be bothered to look it up but I assume). And then there’s some chick who claims that she “…still remembers conversations from a church she attended years ago. The congregation constantly associated whiteness with purity and goodness, and darkness with evil. They talked about people being “washed white” from the blackness of sin.” Apparently this was “hurting me, it is damaging to my soul.”
If that’s true then she’s a mental case, and if it’s not true (which would be my guess) she’s a liar and a talentless drama-queen. Or, best case scenario, a good con artist. But I’m basically cool with her. I don’t have too many talents myself. It’s the ageing “Anglican” or “United” or whichever denomination creeps who listen to her speeches and congratulate themselves on how wonderfully un-racist and woke etc. they are who make me sick. She’s a pet to them. She’s miss “Blackity-black-black-black” who massages their ridiculous egos. Has she mentioned in the last 20 seconds that she’s black?
I hope so. Otherwise, what’s the point of her to these low IQ egomaniacs pretending to be religious leaders?
I remember P.J. O’Rourke – not, recently, a hero of mine – writing years ago that he was in the Philippines, listening to the state broadcaster, and palpably, physically felt that he couldn’t get “the hum of bullshit” out of his ear. That’s how I feel now.
I’m willing to believe that none of these people are exactly geniuses, but some of them have to be human enough to have some glimmer of self-awareness. Yet they do this anyway. Bastards.
“Whereas some of these rioters traveled to Washington, D.C., individually, a number of extremist and militia groups coordinated together to gather in Washington, expressing in advance their intent to interfere with the Electoral College certification,” prosecutors said in reference to Joe Biden‘s selection as the nation’s 46th president. “One such extremist group was the Proud Boys.”
Odd Antifa and BLM aren’t on trial.
I have been subpoenaed by the police.
It’s not what you think — this is actually a good thing. It has been a long time coming, but justice is about to be served on the Langley Predator, Jonathan Yaniv. You may recall when the violent criminal assaulted me outside of the Surrey courthouse, when I was doing my job covering his trial.
The violent assault was captured by my camera, and by a courthouse camera. The case sat in the hands of the RCMP for months, but once it was handed to Crown prosecutors in Surrey, the ball really got rolling.
My, how times have changed.
Political persecution will still be among the reasons a refugee can be accepted into the U.S., but will not be a priority group.
The orders had been set to expire at midnight. In announcing the extension, officials said B.C has made “encouraging” progress in reducing the spread of COVID-19, but the situation isn’t stable enough to allow people to start getting together again.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson spoke out on Thursday night to relentlessly mock his former colleague Shep Smith, continuing the longstanding feud they have.
Smith left Fox News at the end of 2019, and he has since taken a job hosting on CNBC, where he has vowed to “fight disinformation.” Carlson went after Smith on his show on Thursday night for a story his former coworker recently covered.
“Tonight we bring you the story of a genuine investigative journalist,” Carlson said mockingly. “A man who’s been forgotten. Cast aside like an Acosta when he should be an Edward R. Murrow. That’s an injustice we plan to rectify right now.”
The game of hide-and-seek with Iran continues as UN inspectors found traces of radioactivity at two sites they were previously denied permission to inspect. The Wall Street Journal reports that “new evidence of undeclared nuclear activities in Iran” is “raising new questions about the scope of the country’s atomic ambitions.”
While it’s a longstanding tradition for past presidents, in Trump’s case Biden is citing Trump’s “erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection” to justify the ban. Biden made the comments during a new “CBS Evening News” interview with anchor Norah O’Donnell which will air just ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday. Biden also fears trump might “slip” and reveal classified information publicly.
Radicals, liberals and socialists continue their vicious attacks on our Constitutional Rights. They have added a new playbook to help them institute a totalitarian dictatorship. Along with the Communist Manifesto and Rules for Radicals, they preach from a “marvelous” book on anti-individual rights, 1984 by George Orwell. That allows them to use censorship tactics to crack down on all dissenters, the real patriots of the American Way of Life.
Almost all governments eventually become the things they said they despised before they became the government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is no exception.
During the 2015 election campaign that brought them to power, Trudeau and the Liberals said they despised government secrecy as the default position of the previous Stephen Harper regime and they would deliver “open and transparent government.”
Canadian banks should have to disclose data related to race, gender, income and neighbourhoods to ensure more equitable access to credit and loans, say organizations representing racialized and Indigenous business owners who want Ottawa to step in.
Former Ontario Liberal Party candidate Vonny Sweetland dropped out of the nomination race for the St. Paul’s riding in Toronto after he says he was discouraged from running (despite believing he would win) because the party wanted an ‘establishment’ candidate.
If one of us had declared that a “cabal” of elites, composed of big corporates, big labor, big tech, big green, and Black Lives Matter had all conspired together to rig the 2020 election, we’d have been called nuts. We’d be tin-foil hatters, far-right loonies, and denizens of the dreaded QAnon.
But surprise, surprise, the cabal has come out of the closet in a shocking piece that ran in Time magazine…
