Police say on Dec. 13, a man allegedly interrupted the service with offensive comments and gestures. He also filmed the incident, before posting it on social media.
‘Intentional’ attack disrupts home heating services in Colorado
At least 3,500 homes and businesses were caught in the cold after a coordinated attack on three different locations on Saturday damaged gas lines in the area, according to the Aspen Times. The FBI is assisting in the investigation.
Premier Kenney refuses to discipline Alberta MLAs, government staff over international travel
Kenney made the remarks in a New Year’s Day press conference after revelations that MLA Pat Rehn travelled to Mexico and Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard travelled to Hawaii.
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‘It’s not over’: Experts fear new surge of COVID-19 infections after holidays
Many hard-hit areas of Canada have seen rapidly increasing rates in COVID-19 infections over the past few weeks, and experts are warning that the start of 2021 could include an even higher surge of cases.
Dr. Ronald St. John, former Director General for the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), told CTV News Channel on Thursday that our current case numbers don’t even reflect the past week, when many may have gathered over the holidays in contradiction of health advice.
“I’m concerned that we haven’t begun to see a spike from Christmas,” he said. “It’s only been about five, six days since Christmas, that’s not quite enough time for transmission that occurred on Christmas Day to start to show up in any significant numbers.”
The Year of the Hypocrite
In the last episode of The Andrew Lawton Show of 2020, True North’s Andrew Lawton explains why the past year has become the year of the hypocrite in politics, with (former) Ontario finance minister Rod Phillips becoming the latest public official to think they are above the COVID-19 rules and guidelines the little people have to follow.
Trudeau Failed to Pass Basic Legislation To Target Illegal Firearms and Gangs
This has been a year unlike any other, to say the least.
Not only has the pandemic blown the cover of the hypocrisy of the elites leading our country like no other crisis before it, but we saw these same leaders double down time and again on policies that have only demonstrated themselves to be massive failures.
5 Hard Truths We’ve Come to See With 2020 Vision
Among other things, the events of the past year have taught us that fear can be coercive, and that respect for authority is plummeting.
Why The Daily Wire Is Getting Into The Entertainment Business
My mentor, Andrew Breitbart, always said politics is downstream of culture. What he meant by this is that more people are shaped by the culture that surrounds them than by politics directly: we consume movies and TV shows; we get together and discuss the latest in sports; we join in churches and at universities and at restaurants to discuss our lives. We swim in a sea of culture. In large part, we’re defined by the culture in which we swim.
San Francisco’s pandemic grants will prioritize minority, women-owned biz
Small businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco are set to receive $5,000 grants, but there’s a catch – the money is being used to meet the city’s “equality goals,” meaning that “minority-owned businesses including women-owned, immigrant-owned, people of color-owned businesses,” and those in certain “cultural districts,” are going to be prioritized over white Americans.
What AG Barr’s Departure Means for Google
Attorney General William Barr’s December 23 resignation caught many in the tech accountability movement by surprise.
Barr was a driving force behind the Justice Department’s landmark Google antitrust suit in October. His departure has understandably raised questions about the future of the department’s second antitrust investigation against Google and the general approach the Trump DoJ will take towards the company as it nears the end of its term.
Forgotten in 2020: Victims of Radical Islamic Terrorism
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won’t even say their names.
December 2 marked five years since Islamic terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik invaded a government office party in San Bernardino, California, and murdered Robert Adams, Isaac Amianos, Bennetta Betbadal, Harry Bowman, Sierra Clayborn, Juan Espinoza, Aurora Godoy, Shannon Johnson, Larry Daniel Kaufman, Damien Meins, Tin Ngyen, Nicholas Thalasinos, Yvette Velasco, and Michael Wetzel.
Was I wrong to fall for a cheating cat?
There’s a well-known saying that goes, “You don’t choose a cat, a cat chooses you.” So what should you do, asks Anisa Subedar, when a persistent pussycat in the neighbourhood decides to adopt you?
For me, it began about 18 months ago, one long, hot summer evening when two huge wanting eyes, accompanied by serenading mews appeared at the kitchen door. It didn’t recoil when I approached it. In fact it appeared quite pleased when I began speaking in ridiculously high-pitched baby speak (imagine the word “choochy-face” being used). Nor did it flinch when I softly stroked behind its grey, fluffy ears. Instead it lay on its back and allowed me to feel the softness of its white belly fur and loudly purred in gratitude. In appreciation that my affections were returned, I opened a can of tuna which it hastily scoffed and left.
Charting the decline of the American Republic
One conservative historian sees in the 1960s the beginning of the country’s divisions
“Look, Jez, what I’m trying to say is, so, for better or for worse the ’60s happened and now sex is fine. But can’t we take the best of that, the nice music, the colours, the ‘I have a dream’, etcetera, but not have to face the… squalor?”
Mark from Peep Show’s take on the 1960s is one I have some sympathy for. That most controversial of decades saw revolutionary cultural change and, depending on your worldview, it was either a period of liberation or the start of a free-for-all that undid the social fabric. It was the decade that created now, and how much you like the modern world will shape your view of it, of the civil rights marches, San Francisco hippies, love-ins and various other groovy happenings.
Multiculturalism destroys nations.
Bad Cop, No Robot – The case for legally constraining what police departments can do with robots.
Like millions of people, I watched the viral video of dancing Boston Dynamics robots that made its way around Twitter this week. But unlike many of those millions, I did not think, “Wow, the future is so cool.” I thought, “We gotta keep these away from the cops.”
I admit that some of my aversion is a gut reaction to the uncanny valley. The dog-shaped ones creep me out the most. A predator, often headless, unfazed by rain or heat, without need for food or water or rest—that’s the stuff of science fiction nightmares. I know, objectively, these robots are an incredible technological achievement, yet I can’t erase that instinctive unease.
It's pretty awesome how dancing makes robots less intimidating. Looking forward to seeing more nontrivial Machine Learning on these robots. Credit: Boston Dynamics. pic.twitter.com/wnB2i9qhdQ
— Reza Zadeh (@Reza_Zadeh) December 29, 2020
Congratulations, Rod Phillips. You just nuked the credibility of your government’s ‘stay home’ messages
While the peasants locked themselves in their homes and connected with family through windows and cellphones, Ontario’s now-former finance minister, Rod Phillips, jetted off to St. Barts. On the day he left the country – shirking recommendations against international travel that have been in place for the better part of the year – almost 2,000 people were newly diagnosed with COVID-19 in the province.
Pretty scathing. Go incognito.
Ignore the gaslighting – cancel culture is real
In 2021, let’s put a stop to the malicious vogue for shaming anyone who speaks out of turn.
By now most of us will be familiar with ‘gaslighting’, a term which describes the tactic of contradicting observable reality as a means to undermine someone’s security in their own point of view. The word comes from the 1940 movie, Gaslight, in which a husband convinces his wife that she is going insane by, among other things, dimming the lights and then denying that the house is getting darker when she complains. Social-justice activists are well-known for levelling the charge of ‘gaslighting’ at their opponents, yet it is a strategy that they have themselves perfected. Even their accusations of ‘gaslighting’ are a form of gaslighting, given that we are expected to believe that they are somehow not guilty of the very behaviour they are projecting on to others.
Tinseltown loses its sparkle: Hollywood Boulevard is reduced to a ghost town with businesses boarded up, revenues down 80 PERCENT and crime rates surging
Each day, thousands would also flock to famous museums along the boulevard, including Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Odditorium.
Meanwhile, Grauman’s Chinese Theater – which has frequently hosted glamorous film premieres and the Academy Awards – was also one of the most popular destinations along the boulevard.
But the area has been abandoned in the past 10 months, with souvenir stores shuttered and rates of homelessness and crime surging as tourists stay away and the coronavirus rages.
MALCOLM: Top Stupid Things Trudeau said in 2020
Canadians have become accustomed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s penchant for verbal gaffes and ridiculous remarks – and 2020 was no different.
These numbers reveal a worrying trend in Ontario long-term-care home deaths
The number of deaths in Ontario’s long-term-care homes is showing a worrying trend, an analysis by the Star reveals.
The data is the latest to pull back the curtain on the mounting toll COVID-19 has taken on care homes, which have been ravaged by the pandemic, exposing systemic and long-standing issues to deadly effect.
To date, 2,749 residents of the province’s long-term-care homes have died.