On December 5, a British Columbian mother named Valerie Ann Foley was trying to take a TransLink SkyTrain to get home. She ended up being arrested
Ontario finance minister on holiday trip outside Canada as health officials urge people to stay home
Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips travelled outside of the country for a personal vacation recently, his office said Tuesday.
Toronto’s NEWSTALK1010 radio station reported the trip was taken after the legislative session ended earlier this month and said it appears to contravene recent pleas by Premier Doug Ford for people to stay home over the holidays.
In a statement on Tuesday, Phillips said the trip was “previously planned.”
This is classic.
It's #ChristmasEve. To my constituents in #Ajax & people across Ontario, all the best during this special time of year. Even as COVID-19 changes how we celebrate, we should reflect on what makes Christmas so special to us – including family & the act of giving. #MerryChristmas! pic.twitter.com/AX7hKWA88n
— Rod Phillips (@RodPhillips01) December 24, 2020
The “Loud Words” that Ruled the Lockdowns in 2020
Contrary to rumors, Governor Cuomo did not issue an executive order on 22 March to “lock down” New York State. Instead, as the state’s official Covid-19 site clarifies, Cuomo announced “the ‘New York State on PAUSE’ executive order.”
The acronym implies that activities just halted temporarily, as if in hitting “pause,” Cuomo were only fetching a bowl of popcorn in the midst of an action film. Just press “play” again, and voila!—the hero would open his parachute, land safely, and save the world from the virus. Everything would continue as before.
Khamenei: ‘When Islam Dominated Non-Muslim Regions, Followers of Other Religions Were Grateful’
On the day after Christmas, the Iranian Islamic regime’s Ahlul Bayt News Agency published a collection of the sayings from Shia Islam’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, about Christianity and related matters. Khamenei denounced the claim that “Islam is hostile to other nations and to other religions” and insisted: “This is not true. Islam is not antagonistic toward other religions.” Digging even deeper, he added: “When Islam dominated non-Muslim regions, the followers of other religions were grateful to Muslims for their Islamic mercy.” Khamenei and his regime are known for their deceptive practices, but this one may be the biggest lie the ruthless 81-year-old autocrat has ever told.
True toll of Wuhan infections may be nearly 10 times official number, Chinese researchers say
Nearly half a million residents in the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus first emerged may have been infected with COVID-19 — almost 10 times its official number of confirmed cases, according to a study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The study used a sample of 34,000 people in the general population in Wuhan — the original epicentre of the pandemic — and other cities in Hubei province, as well as Beijing, Shanghai, and the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Liaoning to estimate COVID-19 infection rates.
Palestinians: An International “Peace” Conference to Displace Israel
The Palestinian ruling Fatah faction has just celebrated the 56th anniversary of the launching of its first terrorist attack on January 1, 1965 by promising, in Arabic, to continue the fight to do away with Israel. On that day, Fatah terrorists attempted to bomb Israel’s National Water Carrier.
Meanwhile, Fatah’s leader, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, is trying to persuade the Arab countries and the rest of the international community to pressure Israel to return to the negotiating table with the Palestinians. He is arguing that he is just seeking to establish an independent Palestinian state next to Israel.
Spain will register people who refuse Covid vaccine, says health minister
Spain’s health minister has said the country will create a vaccination registry that will include those who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19, yielding a document that could potentially be shared with other countries in Europe.
Days after EU countries began rolling out the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Salvador Illa said that those who reject the vaccine for “whatever reason” would be documented, as is done currently for those with certain other treatments.
“What we will have is a registry, that will also be shared with our European partners … of those who have been offered it and rejected it,” Illa told the broadcaster La Sexta. “The document will not be made public and it will be done with the utmost respect for the legislation on data protection.”
Trudeau’s gift of higher heating bills and gas prices
Merry Christmas taxpayers: we get the gift of higher home heating bills and gas prices, courtesy of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The Trudeau government recently rolled out new plans to massively increase the carbon tax while layering on top a second carbon tax. This new costly present from our federal government comes shortly after Ottawa promised it wouldn’t be increasing taxes.
Manager of the Nîmes mini-market who refused veiled women in protest over Islamist attacks will never open his shop again after mounting death threats
Targeted by death threats and reprisals, the manager of a mini-market in Nîmes has not reopened his shop since October 29, when he posted a sign to prohibit entry to veiled women in reaction to the attacks from Nice. “Psychologically destroyed”, he put his business up for sale.
I thought the veil was banned in France?
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Database will name 6,500 British investors in slave trade: Academics are compiling new ‘dictionary’ that is set to expose more slavery links with modern firms
A taxpayer-funded database naming and shaming 6,500 British investors and companies with links to the slave trade is to be published, it was revealed today.
The Dictionary of British Slave Traders is a project supported by £1million in government funding using research by British historians and experts after a year where Black Lives Matter supporters have toppled statues and defaced monuments linked to the slave trade across the country.
The database – the largest of its kind in history – will include well known names such as the Duke of Chandos, Britain’s first Prime Minister Robert Walpole as well as brewery giant Greene King and insurer Lloyd’s of London.
Seattle Police on pace to lose nearly 200 officers in mass exodus this year
The Seattle Police Department is on pace to lose nearly 200 officers by the end of the year in a historic mass exodus, the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH has learned. The vast majority of those who left the department are patrol officers.
By the end of November, the official number of separations was 164. Since then, more officers have offered their resignations to take jobs at neighboring agencies. Put bluntly, the city does not have enough officers to keep the area safe.
‘Great Reset’ Begs Alternatives
One of the more controversial topics of 2020 was the “Great Reset” proposed by the World Economic Forum, which calls for a reset of economic and social foundations to “shape the recovery” from the crisis wrought by the pandemic. This would be achieved by means such as implementing wealth taxes and ambitious economic-stimulus plans.
But there are other responses that would be far more useful as the world recovers from the pandemic, economists say.
Nashville bomber was a cop-hating hippie who loved weed
The Nashville Christmas Day bomber was a cop-hating hippie with a Magnum P.I. mustache who loved weed, according to a former colleague who claims he was ‘popular with the ladies too’.
Tom Lundborg, who worked with Anthony Quinn Warner back in the 1970s, has broken his silence over his close dealings with the suspected bomber to describe how the 20-something-year-old technician already harbored a hatred for the police more than four decades ago.
From this point onward Cop Hating Hippies will be referred to as the “Far-Right” by mainstream media.
Ukraine Press Conference Explicitly Ties Hunter & Joe Biden To Corruption
A video from a press conference in Ukra ine is going viral. It is the follow-up to a video press conference that Ukraine released over a year ago, in which Members of the Ukraine Parliament demanded that President Zelensky and President Trump investigate billions of dollars of corruption in Ukraine that is tied to the U.S. The newly released video is meant to provide documentary and eyewitness information about the corruption – and the Biden family figures prominently in the story.