Canada is no stranger to welcoming imams with radical ideas across our borders. Many prominent imams, scholars and teachers started their careers in their country of origin and continue to spread their teachings here in Canada with the blessings of our government. Teachings that include killing of apostates, killing of gays, polygamist marriages, implementation of sharia, return of the caliphate, the denigration of the Jewish community, hate for Israel, just to name a few.
Actress Debra Messing is the latest leftist celebrity to push a blacklisting effort against current and former Trump White House officials, vowing to boycott the companies advertising on any TV show or network that gives a platform to outgoing White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
According to a recent study, there were 289,000 excess votes in battleground states. That information is yet more evidence that the brazen voter fraud that President Trump and other conservatives claimed happened actually happened. Many Americans already knew that the election results were suspicious; according to a recent Rasmussen poll, nearly 47% of voters think that the election was stolen, including many Democrats.
A top doctor on Ontario’s COVID-19 scientific advisory committee says the province could face up to 40,000 new cases each day by the end of February if a virus variant that originated in the U.K. takes hold.
Pro-police Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal Twitter account has been temporarily suspended for the next 12 hours for posts that the social media platform claims could lead to a “risk of violence,” according to a statement by her office Sunday evening.
Downtown Washington, D.C. has been turned into a veritable fortress in the wake of the storming of the Capitol building and ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration this week, as you can read about more in this War Zone piece from yesterday. Tens of thousands of U.S. military personnel, as well as law enforcement officers, are in place and on high alert. We have now gotten a demonstration of the take-absolutely-no-chances security posture in place in the city after a nearby fire triggered a brief lockdown at the Capitol, complete with loudspeakers blaring a message directing people to shelter in place or otherwise seek cover due to an “external security threat.”
Politicians from most federal and Alberta parties have thrown in their two-cents worth on the looming cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline expansion – everyone that is, except Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Trudeau has made no comment since it was reported last night that US President-elect Joe Biden would cancel the US$8 billion pipeline project the first day he’s in office on January 20.
His office said Monday morning he has no public comments planned.
How did this fly under the radar?:
What has happened to Kim Yo Jong, the North Korean leader’s influential sister?
That is a question many who watch the cloistered, nuclear-armed country are wondering after she failed to appear in absolute leader Kim Jong Un’s newly released lineup for the country’s powerful Politburo in recent days.
Some say Kim Jong Un may have demoted his sister over general policy failures. Others, however, believe he could be worried about her rapid rise and increasingly high profile as he tries to bolster his domestic authority in the face of growing economic challenges.
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In June last year, North Korea launched storm corps (11th corps) and 7th Corps in the north-central border area, and in August it warned that “personnel and beasts entering and invading buffer zones are shot without notice” through a social safety statement.
As such, the North Korean authorities used various measures to prevent the epidemic from infecting the country last year, including actual shootings while using military forces to prevent it from infecting the epidemic.
This continues into the new year. On January 2, residents were captured shooting at a bird flying from China by soldiers in Bocheon County, Yanggang. In particular, there was also a “drama” in which soldiers were killed in the shooting of soldiers who searched the border in search of food.
“Now we’re forcing the people to kill the beast,” the source said, noting that “it’s also inducing a kind of spread of fear that a cat coming from China could be buried with a coronavirus (virus).”
More and more residents are displaying their anger at the unknown ‘singing’ instructions.
“It’s not about killing a cat on the plate where people shoot and kill people,” he says, “it’s not too barbaric instruction.”
Trudeau was asked why Canadians could travel out of the country to tropical all-inclusive vacations, while children are being fined for playing hockey on an outdoor rink.
“There are rules in different part of the country that apply differently, and different jurisdictions will set up the rules they think are best based on the best advice from public health officials,” said Trudeau.
“We have strongly discouraged non-essential international travel, including by imposing mandatory quarantine to anyone returning to Canada, and now mandatory testing before they get on a plane to come back to Canada,” said the prime minister. …
On Wednesday, Bloc Quebecois leader Yves Francois Blanchet questioned newly-appointed Transport Minister Omar Alghabra’s ties with what he called “the political Islamic movement.”
Blanchet said that “questions arise” due to Alghabra’s role as the former head of the Canadian Arab Federation.
“I was absolutely floored,” said Trudeau. “Carefully coded questions, particularly this week when we just lived through last week, what happens when leaders don’t take care of the words they do, and play these dangerous words around intolerance and hate.”
“That kind of political pandering to the worst elements and to fears and anxieties has no place in Canada,” said Trudeau.
In order for the F@g to be a traitor, he would have had some allegiance to Canada in the first place. As usual, he is divisive and petty like a teen-aged high-school queen.
Japan plans to collect data from people who become infected with the novel coronavirus even after they receive vaccinations to assess how vaccines may help prevent the spread of the virus, sources close to the matter said Sunday.
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Suicide rates in Japan have jumped in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among women and children, even though they fell in the first wave when the government offered generous handouts to people, a survey found.
The July-October suicide rate rose 16% from the same period a year earlier, a stark reversal of the February-June decline of 14%, according to the study by researchers at Hong Kong University and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.
“Unlike normal economic circumstances, this pandemic disproportionately affects the psychological health of children, adolescents and females (especially housewives),” the authors wrote in the study published on Friday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.
The early decline in suicides was affected by such factors as government subsidies, reduced working hours and school closure, the study found.
But the decline reversed — with the suicide rate jumping 37% for women, about five times the increase among men — as the prolonged pandemic hurt industries where women predominate, increasing the burden on working mothers, while domestic violence increased, the report said.
The study, based on health ministry data from November 2016 to last October, found the child suicide rate spiked 49% in the second wave, corresponding to the period after a nationwide school closure.
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The death of a Montreal Inuit man is being investigated after his body was discovered in a portable toilet just 25 metres from the homeless shelter he used to frequent.
The La Porte Ouvert shelter, which translates literally to “the Open Door shelter,” normally operates 24 hours a day, but was closed due to “plumbing problems and a major COVID-19 outbreak,” reports CBC Radio-Canada.
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China’s economy exceeded its pre-pandemic growth rates in the fourth quarter, propelling it to a stronger-than-expected expansion of 2.3% for the full year and making it the only major one to avoid contraction in 2020.
Gross domestic product climbed 6.5% in the final quarter from a year earlier, fueled by industrial output, the statistics bureau said Monday. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had predicted 6.2% growth for the quarter and 2.1% for the full year.
“China has more than returned to trend growth,” said Raymond Yeung, chief economist for Greater China at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. The strong rebound means authorities can “prioritize structural reforms rather than economic reflation” in 2021, he said.
The investigative journalism group Project Veritas recently published insider footage of Twitter’s Legal, Policy, and Trust Lead discussing plans for Twitter’s expansion of moderation enforcement on a global scale. Progressive Twitter exec Vijaya Gadde described applying the company’s “global approach” to censorship to Americans including political leaders, reaffirming the company’s belief that President Donald Trump’s posts were “inciting violence and having real-world harm.”
Democrat history-spinners will want to put an asterisk on Donald Trump’s presidency because of the frightening Capitol Building attack, which we learned almost immediately was pre-planned and would have been carried out regardless of what the president said on January 6th.
No question about it.
While the Ontario government has asked the public to stay home and only leave when it is essential, it has also approved production crews to film movies in Hamilton.
A team of roughly 60 people in Ancaster is filming Loving Christmas, according to the city. It adds there are four other movies being filmed in Hamilton, but the city wouldn’t disclose any more information about them.
When 29-year-old Daniel Norwood saw the Ancaster crew working in front of the old town hall on Thursday morning, he says he had questions. He also says other locals are confused.
I can see the Cinespace parking lot from my balcony it’s always busy. This is an evil act of hypocrisy, a government letting the well connected off the hook while the little people face bankruptcy and eviction.
Americans are desperate to get vaccinated against COVID. Deaths are soaring, and new strains of the virus, including the UK strain and a newly discovered US strain reported for the first time last week, are reported to be even more contagious. Doctors are warning that as the virus becomes more infectious, even a trip to the supermarket with a mask is risky. Survival hinges on getting vaccinated.
Yet only a third of the vaccine doses shipped to the states by the federal government are actually making it into people’s arms. The public hears they may have to wait months. That is unacceptable.
