A planned production of Cinderella has been canceled over concerns that the cast was too white.
“It was 98% white,” artistic director Michael Brindisi said of the cast. “That doesn’t work with what we’re saying we’re going to do.”
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‘It’s going to get worse’: Former ambassador predicts more strain in Canada-China relationship
TORONTO — The relationship between Canada and China continues to deteriorate following the trials of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, which were conducted under a shroud of secrecy in Beijing last week.
Now Paul Heinbecker, a former Canadian ambassador to Germany and representative to the United Nations, says things could get worse for Canada-China relations.
Diane Francis: Health Canada must stop endangering lives by delaying second doses of COVID vaccines
It is unconscionable for Health Canada to have ignored the advice of pharmaceutical makers and allowed inordinate delays in administering second doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
Two more studies have come my way, added to a British one I wrote about last week, that underscore the danger to lives of Canada’s reckless procurement failure compounded by the world’s only federally approved dosage rationing of four months.
China Continues to Show Its Contempt for the U.S.
Last week in Anchorage, Alaska, Chinese diplomats dressed down Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Both seem stunned by the broadsides.
Not since newly elected President John Kennedy was humiliated at the Vienna summit in June 1961 by USSR strongman Nikita Khrushchev have American diplomats been so roughly manhandled by a Communist government.
Joe Biden clears very low bar at first press conference
Things go so much more smoothly when Washington reporters actually like the person functioning as president. And so, President Joe Biden cleared the very low bar that was set for his first press conference on Thursday.
It’s not that our biggest problems have gone away. Almost 140,000 people have died from the coronavirus since Biden was elected. More than 10 million people remain unemployed. The Border Patrol has gone back to functioning as a full-time child care program for Latin America’s poor after Biden opened the border to all of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
Canada expelled eight foreigners for terrorism or spying in 2020
Eight foreigners suspected of espionage, subversion or terrorism were removed from Canada last year, according to the federal government.
The department of Public Safety would not reveal the countries that the individuals were acting on behalf of, citing privacy laws, nor the specific nature of their activities in Canada.
“However, we can tell you that in 2020, the CBSA [Canada Border Services Agency] removed eight individuals deemed inadmissible on security grounds,” Public Safety spokesman Tim Warmington said in a statement. “Removal on security grounds may include persons who are found inadmissible for espionage, subversion, terrorism and/or for membership in groups involved in such activities.”
Only 8?
Arabs: A Warning to Biden about Iran’s Mullahs
The Biden administration has decided to extend for another year the “national emergency” (Executive Order 12957), issued in 1995 in response to the threat Iran posed to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the US.
The Executive Order imposed a series of sanctions against Iran in response to its support for international terrorism, its efforts to undermine the Middle East peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, and its acquisition of nuclear weapons.
…President Biden’s decision to pursue the sanctions against Iran, however, has failed to reduce the fears of many Arabs. They say that they remain skeptical about Washington’s policy toward the threats posed by the mullahs in Tehran.
Under Obama it became evident that the goal was disengagement from the Middle East. This administration is Obama 2.0.
That Poem Is Real? Charlottesville Mayor Has a Total Meltdown on Social Media
The mayor of Charlottesville has compared the city to a rapist. Actually, it was something of a total meltdown on social media. Mayor Nikuyah Walker penned a graphic poem to Facebook, which was promptly reported. She then added more prose to her initial work, and it got plenty of attention.
This had to be said?!? Don’t off-road through cemeteries, OPP tell motorists
No respect for the dead.
Caledon OPP want people to know they shouldn’t go off-roading in a cemetery.
Netanyahu Misses Majority, Possibly Sending Israel to Polls for Fifth Time
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects of forming a government remained bleak as the last of the votes of Tuesday’s election — the fourth in two years — were counted on Thursday, leaving the chances for a fifth election open.
BONOKOSKI: Time to have Meng Wanzhou try on an orange jumpsuit
The Two Michaels — Canadian political pawns Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig — have had their sham trials in communist China and are now waiting for the Godot of their sentencings.
The time is long overdue, therefore, to play hardball with Meng Wanzhou, the Chinese hi-tech scion arrested by Canadian authorities at the behest of the United States for extradition on alleged serious fraud charges.
Brian Stelter’s CNN show hits yearly low, fails to crack million-viewer plateau for second straight week
CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with far-left host Brian Stelter had its lowest-rated show of the year on Sunday, failing to crack the one-million viewer plateau for the second-straight week.
Stelter’s program, which is billed as a media program but has morphed into a weekly partisan attack on conservative news organizations, averaged only 936,000 on March 21. The total was its smallest audience of the year.
Public Health Agency was unprepared for the pandemic and ‘underestimated’ the danger, auditor general says
Despite nearly two decades of warnings, planning and government spending, the Public Health Agency of Canada was not ready for the global pandemic and did not appreciate the threat it posed in its early stages, Canada’s auditor general says.
In a hard-hitting review released today, Auditor General Karen Hogan took the country’s primary pandemic response agency to task for failures in early warning, surveillance, risk assessments, data-sharing with the provinces and follow-up on Canadian travellers who were ordered into quarantine.
Adolf, Greta Among Least Popular Names for Children in Germany, Poll Shows
According to the findings, the majority of Germans would not choose names associated with unpopular or controversial personalities. Adolf topped the list of most unpopular names with 89 percent of respondents answering they would never pick this name, although eight percent did not oppose the idea.
