According to deals signed so far, Canada could have access to up to 414 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from seven different manufacturers.
The shipment and distribution of the vaccine — once approved — will, however, be a Herculean effort involving a lot of manpower, a web of logistical challenges and scientific constraints.
from Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. AND @cafreeland wants your feedback. pic.twitter.com/xd4LssawhQ
— not inklessPW (@inklessPW) December 5, 2020
H/T Mauser
Christmas card campaign for Two Michaels imprisoned in China
With Christmas approaching and Michael Kovring and Michael Spavor still sitting in Chinese prisons, a new campaign to send the pair of Canadians Christmas cards is being pushed by a group of former diplomats and supporters.
While Black and Hispanic people in New York City are were more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier this year, a new study shows White people are more likely to have severe disease or die from the coronavirus.
OMG they capitalized “white”! Triggered!
Fitness facilities in York Region and the City of Toronto are in lockdown mode. But gyms are sort of still open in York Region. You see, while the authorities have allowed gyms like Fitness Connection to operate, the limitations are so severe it almost doesn’t make sense to open the doors in the first place.
As Fitness Connection co-owner Mike Mak told me, a gym can only have 10 people on the floor at one time. It doesn’t matter how large your gym is — whether it be a mega stadium or a boutique — you can only have 10 people.
The Washington Post reported on Saturday about the small group of lawmakers, which it compiled by surveying every GOP office. The vast majority, 222 of the 249 Republicans in the House and Senate, did not respond or were unclear about their thoughts on the election when contacted.
Williams acknowledged that “we can’t force someone to take a vaccine,” but when on to explain how people who didn’t take it would have their freedom of mobility severely restricted.
The stark outlook comes as many countries contend with not only the coronavirus pandemic, but also possible famine, economic instability, conflict and other humanitarian crises. A record 235 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection next year, a nearly 40% increase from 2020, the UN projected earlier this week.
GA officials are pressing a judge to “lift an order that is BLOCKING officials from altering information in voting machines in three counties.”
In dramatic, urgent language, K-12 schools across the country – both public and private – professed solidarity with Black Lives Matter and vowed to dismantle white supremacy, as they scrambled to introduce anti-racist courses and remake themselves into racism-free zones.
In a statement issued by the office of India’s minister of external affairs today, the Indian government said the Canadian high commissioner was summoned and told that comments by Trudeau, some of his cabinet ministers and MPs raising concerns about New Delhi’s response to protesting Indian farmers “constitute an unacceptable interference in our internal affairs.”
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister gave a melodramatic, award-worthy performance this week, choking up as he told Manitobans he’s the leader they need, and calling people who question his government’s lockdown measures “idiots” in the same breath as saying “we’re all in this together.” True North’s Andrew Lawton explains how that doesn’t seem to extend to the people being charged for working and worshipping.
When the Conservatives were in power, the West for the most part felt like a valued part of Canada, that at least had a voice in the direction of our nation.
Quebec separatism waned dramatically, with the Bloc losing many seats, and the PQ being defeated at the provincial level.
In short, while regional differences still existed, Canada was for the most part a pretty unified place.
Immediately after the story broke about the video showing workers at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta counting ballots after poll observers had apparently been asked to leave, a purported news site sprang into action to “fact-check” the report. While the “fact check” gave room to Democrat operatives to cover their derrières, the counter-narrative was ludicrous. Additionally, new evidence about vote spikes and two of the vote-counters behaving suspiciously gave even more credence to Republicans’ take on the surveillance video.
When California store owners turned to voters to criminalize shoplifting again with Proposition 20, they never had much of a chance once Patricia Quillin threw in $2 million against them.
When Quillin paid $1 million to support Proposition 16, Asian-American opponents of the proposition, which would legalize racial discrimination against them in the form of affirmative action, protested outside her husband’s job. Her husband is the CEO of Netflix.
What’s wrong with trading youth and beauty for resources? Today #MeToo has framed this dynamic mostly in terms of abuses by powerful men. But while I’m sliding comfortably into middle age these days, I can remember the thrill of being a perky young woman and getting older men in positions of power to do things for you.
I also remember, in the last City job I held, watching with grudging admiration as an office receptionist on her second job sidestepped the entire corporate hierarchy to be appointed company secretary on a six-figure salary, with her main qualification being (as far as anyone could tell) her close personal friendship with one of the senior brokers.
‘Essex girl’ removed from dictionary following campaign
The expression “Essex girl” has been removed from a dictionary used to teach English after a campaign by women from the county who described the term as offensive.
According to the Oxford University Press, “Essex girl” was previously defined as “a name used especially in jokes to refer to a type of young woman who is not intelligent, dresses badly, talks in a loud and ugly way and is very willing to have sex.”
It has now been removed from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, used to teach non-native English speakers, after a campaign group called the Essex Girls Liberation Front said using the expression was “very offensive”.
The Catholic journalist Edward Pentin has an important interview with Father John Lavers, a Catholic priest who has some powerful insights into the McCarrick Report. First, some background:
He led a 2012 investigation into allegations of homosexual behavior and activity at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Connecticut that led to the removal of 13 seminarians, primarily from the Archdiocese of Hartford and Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey.
Father Lavers’ investigation also indicated that a homosexual “pipeline” had been created that funneled vulnerable Latin American candidates into some U.S. seminaries where they were sexually exploited, and subsequently ordained as actively homosexual priests in some American dioceses.
Republicans must win in the court of public opinion by presenting the glaring, prima facie irregularities of the 2020 election cycle for the entire nation to see.
Over the past month, thousands of detailed voter fraud claims have stemmed from the contested November 3 presidential election.
Americans are discussing the intricacies of software algorithms used by the now-infamous Dominion Voting Systems. There has been scrutiny of the insecure chain of custody of mail-in ballots and the signature verification process for those ballots. In several cases, the poll-watching that normally regulates vote tallying appears to have excluded Republicans. There’s plenty of evidence that Joe Biden secured the reliably Democratic necromancers’ union vote, and that unregistered voters and felons voted illegally. Postal workers have come forward claiming they were told to backdate ballots if ballots were postmarked after Election Day.
Staten Island’s self-proclaimed “Autonomous Zone” bar can’t legally open its doors to customers, but the joint is still managing to clean up.
A nearly week-old online fundraiser for Mac’s Public House had raised $75,000 by Saturday afternoon.
“We’ve all been shuttered and struggling since the first shutdowns,” co-owner Danny Presti says in the fundraiser.
