Americans are most likely to name President Donald Trump as their most admired man as 2020 comes to a close, edging out his predecessor Barack Obama in the annual Gallup survey released Tuesday.
‘Pampered’ BBC diversity chief on £75k salary ripped for ‘lecturing’ poor, white Brits about ‘privilege’
BBC Creative Diversity Director June Sarpong claimed even low-income white people experience “benefits” because of their race.
Spiked editor Brendan O’Neill has torn into BBC Creative Diversity Director June Sarpong for lecturing poor, working-class white people on their “privilege,” saying she did this despite being “pampered” and highly-paid herself.
Report: Travel Insurers Likely To Make Vaccination A Requirement
Yet another sector of the travel industry has signalled that it could mandate vaccination against coronavirus to provide services to travellers, according to a report that notes insurers may demand to see proof of vaccination before covering those wishing to go on holiday.
Ontario reports 2,553 new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting 2,553 cases of #COVID19 today, and 1,939 cases reported yesterday. Today, there are 895 new cases in Toronto, 496 in Peel, 147 in Windsor-Essex County, 144 in Hamilton and 142 in York Region.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) December 29, 2020
When it comes to pandemics, COVID-19 might not be ‘the big one’: WHO
TORONTO — Experts say that as bad as the novel coronavirus pandemic has been, worse outbreaks may be coming.
At the final World Health Organization (WHO) press conference on COVID-19 in 2020, Dr. Mike Ryan, head of the WHO emergencies program, called the current pandemic a “wake-up call” on emergency preparedness.
“It may come as a shock to people that this pandemic has been very severe — it’s spread around the world extremely quickly, it’s effected every corner of this planet — but this is not necessarily ‘the big one,'” Ryan said.
Girl Scout cookies linked to child labour in palm oil industry
They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children.
Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in rural Tennessee, was a top cookie seller in her troop when she first heard rainforests were being destroyed to make way for ever-expanding palm oil plantations. On one of those plantations a continent away, 10-year-old Ima helped harvest the fruit that makes its way into a dizzying array of products sold by leading Western food and cosmetics brands.
COVID-19 didn’t take a holiday, and the vaccine rollout should not have been allowed to either
As of Monday morning, 52,179 doses of novel coronavirus vaccine had been administered in Canada.
Another 350,000 or so doses are sitting in freezers, unused.
In many provinces, the vaccination rollout has slowed considerably, or even stopped, for the holidays.
Come on people! It’s only Old Folks kicking the bucket!
Computer repairman at center of Hunter Biden laptop scandal sues Twitter
A Delaware computer repairman who went public with the sordid contents of Hunter Biden’s hard drive is now suing Twitter for defamation — claiming its content moderation unfairly branded him a “hacker.”
In October, the Post exclusively reported on the tranche of damaging documents on the laptop which was left at John Paul Mac Isaac’s repair store in April 2019 but never collected.
GOLDSTEIN: UN abandoned the fight for human rights in 2020
Human rights took another beating at the United Nations in 2020 — the global body formed after the Second World War, supposedly to protect them.
Despite China’s brutal suppression of democracy in Hong Kong and persecution of its Uighur Muslim minority, the 193-member nations of the UN General Assembly voted in October to elect China to a three-year term on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), starting Jan. 1.
PM Asshat and his type luv the UN.
Security sent to observe toboggan hill in Mississauga, Ont. amid reports of crowding
TORONTO — The City of Mississauga said it found no one breaking the province’s COVID-19 lockdown rules at a toboggan hill on Sunday afternoon despite numerous reports of crowding and little social distancing.
It happened at Birchwood Park, off Lakeshore Road West and east of Southdown Road, where dozens of children and families could be seen sliding down the snow-covered hill and making their way back up to the top.
Dizzying 27 alternate pronouns displayed on college business school application — along with an ‘other’ option
Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business features a program called WomenLead which “equips female students to excel in school, enter the workforce with developed skills, and find their place in leadership positions.”
One might assume a program geared toward women wouldn’t need much in the way of gender identifiers on its application form, but once you scroll down a little ways past boxes to input your last name, first name, and “nickname or preferred first name if different from your given name,” the form asks “what pronouns do you prefer?”
KNIGHT: Trudeau’s complete disregard for the taxpayer
Justin Trudeau has racked up the biggest deficit in Canadian history in a matter of two months. Our deficit is nearing $400 billion and our national debt is a whopping $1.4 trillion.
To make matters worse, there is no oversight and no accountability for this historical amount of spending. Even the Parliamentary Budget Officer has acknowledged that there is a lack of information available to the public.
The CDC’s Rules Let Teachers, Lawyers, Media Jump to the Front of the COVID Vaccine Line
Education sector “support staff members,” corporate tax lawyers, and magazine fashion editors will all jump to the front of the coronavirus vaccination line ahead of the general population, under recommendations issued in late December by the federal government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What’s at stake for the main political parties as an election looms in 2021
For all the bluster among federal political leaders about not wanting an election any time soon, the political truth is as cold as a winter’s wind: the potential for one is a reality in 2021.
For now, political parties say getting through the long dark winter without the health-care system collapsing due to COVID-19 is a priority, as is ensuring vaccines quickly and effectively reach all parts of the country.
But running parallel to that is the ongoing debate over how to cushion the economic blow caused by the pandemic.
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“We make Canada better:” Canada Revenue Agency
According to an Access to Information document, senior management at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) praised the government finance agency as “an important part of the engine that helps Canada operate.”
The Biden era is on the horizon — but that doesn’t mean Canada-U.S. relations are back to normal
After Canada’s walk-on part in the U.S. reality-TV zeitgeist, the Joe Biden era will be boring by comparison — not such a bad thing, said Roy Norton, a former senior diplomat who did two stints at the Canadian Embassy in the 1990s and 2000s.
Discovery Islands salmon farms on their way out
B.C. salmon farm operators have been given 18 months to clear out of the Discovery Islands.
Independent biologist Alexandra Morton, who spearheaded much of the research and activism against the farms, learned of the decision from Black Press Media.
WHO chief scientist says not enough evidence that COVID vaccine prevents infection
At a press conference on Monday, World Health Organization Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said that there is not enough evidence that the new COVID vaccines prevent infection.
Dr. Swaminathan said “I don’t believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines to be confident that it’s going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore passing it on.”
Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis
In recent years, investigators have realized that automobiles — particularly newer models — can be treasure troves of digital evidence. Their onboard computers generate and store data that can be used to reconstruct where a vehicle has been and what its passengers were doing. They reveal everything from location, speed and acceleration to when doors were opened and closed, whether texts and calls were made while the cellphone was plugged into the infotainment system, as well as voice commands and web histories.
We Found The Factories Inside China’s Mass Internment Camps
In August, BuzzFeed News uncovered hundreds of compounds in Xinjiang bearing the hallmarks of prisons or detention camps, many built during the last three years in a rapid escalation of China’s campaign against Muslim minorities including Uighurs, Kazakhs, and others. A new analysis shows that at least 135 of these compounds also hold factory buildings. Forced labor on a vast scale is almost certainly taking place inside facilities like these, according to researchers and interviews with former detainees.
An 18-year-old boy’s terrible revenge on a girl who never harmed him
In 1954, Joseph Welch asked Sen. Joseph McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency?” Someone needs to ask this of leftists regarding their cancel culture. The latest example of their revered cancel culture is a New York Times article approvingly profiling a boy who destroyed a classmate’s aspirations because, four years before, in a private video, she used a racial slur common in that generation’s music.