Our COVID problem in Canada is very soon no longer going to be overcrowded hospital wards and crammed ICU units, it’s going to be the public-health purists. The COVID-zero zealots who will howl against reopening before cases are zero (or nearly so).
Already you can see this reluctance to reopen, this fear of a return to normal from the prime minister and Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam.
A 15-year-old girl in Washington DC pleaded guilty to the murder of an Uber Eats delivery driver, whose car she stole and crashed, killing him as he fought.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to the March 23 murder on May 5, a court spokesman told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
In return for pleading guilty to murder, other charges – armed carjacking, robbery and aggravated reckless driving – were dropped.
The policies of the Biden administration have inadvertently contributed to the lethal round of hostilities in Israel and Gaza, some Israeli analysts claimed on Wednesday.
The escalation “is a test and [US President Joe Biden] has failed,” said Prof. Eytan Gilboa, an expert on US policy in the Middle East at Bar-Ilan University.
Gaza government headquarters getting hammered by IAF fighter strikes pic.twitter.com/h9UWrD8Bkq
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) May 12, 2021
House Republicans have ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as the chamber’s No. 3 GOP leader, punishing her after she repeatedly rebuked former President Donald Trump for his false claims of election fraud and his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Canada’s spy agency urged the removal of security clearances for two scientists who were later dismissed from the country’s top infectious-disease laboratory because of national-security concerns relating to their work with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to two sources.
In January of this year, Xiangguo Qiu, who headed the Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies Section, and her biologist husband, Keding Cheng, were fired from their positions with the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg.
(Go incognito)
Public Health Agency refusing to disclose uncensored documents on Winnipeg virus lab links to Wuhan Lab and mysteriously fired Scientists
As the Public Health Agency of Canada refuses to release uncensored internal documents, a Conservative MP says he wants to know how far Canada’s collaboration with China on Level-4 pathogens went — and why two federal scientists were let go by the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg in January.
“We need these documents. We need to know what the Government of Canada was doing through the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg with respect to cooperating with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China,” Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong said during a special parliamentary committee hearing on Canada-China relations Monday night.
Our China class wanted to enhance Global relations.
Ontario reports 2,320 new COVID-19 cases and 32 more deaths
Ontario reported more than 2,300 new COVID-19 cases and 32 additional deaths on Wednesday, as the province’s positivity rate continues to decline.
Provincial health officials logged 2,320 new coronavirus infections, up from 2,073 cases reported a day ago, which marked the lowest single-day case count since late March
Covid pandemic was preventable, says WHO-commissioned report
The Covid pandemic was a preventable disaster that need not have cost millions of lives if the world had reacted more quickly, according to an independent high-level panel, which castigates global leaders and calls for major changes to bring it to an end and ensure it cannot happen again.
The report of the panel, chaired by Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia, found “weak links at every point in the chain”.
No mention of China withholding vital information and not a word about the suspected lab leak that started it all.
Experts are painting a grim picture of what Canada could face if the Line 5 pipeline gets shut down, with some saying the country could see its fuel capacity get cut in half.
The pipeline, which serves as a vital artery for North America’s energy infrastructure, is facing a looming shutdown threat from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who set a Wednesday deadline last November that owner Enbridge has said it has no plans to meet.
But not so fast Whitmer…
Michigan orders closure of pipeline in escalating dispute with Canada
… In February, a federal court ordered Michigan and Enbridge to enter mediation. Recently, Michigan has argued that the case should be heard by a state court, which could give it a more favourable judgment.
But international trade lawyer Lawrence Herman says that the United States, not Michigan, is legally bound to keep the pipeline running.
He points to the 1977 Transit Pipelines Treaty between Canada and the United States, which was ratified by the US congress.
“Regardless of what the state of Michigan may or may not want to do, the treaty is binding on the United States as a whole,”said Herman. “It’s a matter between the two governments: Canada and the United States.”
It’s possible the treaty obligations could be ignored by the Biden Admin and so far the White House’ position does not look promising for Canada:
Canada warns Michigan oil line shutdown could undermine U.S. ties
“We don’t weigh in on that … it will be decided in court,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm told reporters on Tuesday when asked about the White House’s position on Line 5.
I don’t think worry about Canada keeps the White House awake at night. Looks like the CBC has been tasked with softening the blow:
Biden is unlikely to come to Canada’s rescue in Line 5 dispute with Michigan
For those conservatives already put off by Disney’s using its forum with children to indoctrinate them into alternative sexualities, the company had a further fall from grace this past weekend.
Christopher Rufo, who is now the godfather of the fight against the racist Critical Race Theory, used internal documents from the Disney Corporation to reveal that it has gone all in on this theory, a cross between Marxism and the vilest eugenics Democrats produced in the early 20th century — only this time, the target is Whites, not Blacks. It turns out Disney had the capacity to fall still farther, because its response was to deny what the documents clearly said.
Children of that age are too young to make that kind of decision
“We are so proud of him and so proud of the choice that he has made”.
Yesterday Matthew and Klara told This Morning about Stormy, their transgender-identified child who decided that she was a boy at two-years-old.
The strategy of polite surrender isn’t working.
In 1867, Karl Marx published Das Kapital. And it was Trump’s fault.
Or as Jim Geraghty at the National Review argues that the “the most lasting legacy of the Trump presidency will be a culturally dominant progressive left.” Geraghty blames President Trump for undermining a strategy of polite surrender that is exactly the reason why the Left dominates our culture (as it has for 70 years), our politics, and now even corporations.
Do Republicans have an “obsession” with or a “fixation” on critical race theory? The Atlantic’s Adam Harris sure thinks so. He penned an article last week explaining this supposed obsession, making note of various GOP bills in state legislatures and Congress that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in public schools, or bar government contractors from training that promotes “division between, resentment of, or social justice for” groups based on race, sex, or political affiliation, as one bill passed by the Arkansas legislature put it.
WTF? Billboards aim to expose racism’s violent impact on Black people in Portland
What does environmental activist and Leftist media icon Greta Thunberg really know about the environment? What does she really know about the science behind the hotly debated issue of climate change? Any thinking person would answer that this youngster merely parrots (with passion) what she is fed. And now Greta has waded into even deeper waters: Israel and the Palestinian jihad. As expected, she again parrots the Leftist-woke echo-chamber.
The most popular podcaster in the world, Joe Rogan, is loved by Canadians. We listen to his show, The Joe Rogan Experience, in big numbers and there’s a buzz every time he talks about our country. Rogan loves us, too. He once told his millions of fans that Canada is “’one of the greatest countries the world has ever known.”
But Rogan — American, popular and controversial — creates exactly the kind of content that Justin Trudeau’s censorship agenda is designed to target.
For decades, American mainline Protestant denominations have strived to remain culturally relevant, often at the expense of biblical Christian doctrine. Many churches in these denominations may remain faithful to the gospel, but the institutions accept a terrifying degree of heterodoxy among the clergy — as even pastors deny the bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Even as the ‘bonking ban’ is lifted, some experts say you should still mask up for casual sex.
Casual sex was one of the first casualties of lockdown. When the stay-at-home order was issued, Brits were barred from visiting others. Even established couples were told to move in together or accept the consequences of staying apart.
Thankfully, the so-called bonking ban will be lifted next week, as the government permits hugging, kissing and overnight stays with others as part of its next step out of lockdown.
