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Can you feel the love?:

A new draft law that could make it easier for foreign nationals to gain permanent residency in China has stirred up a torrent of xenophobia online.

The proposal, released by the justice ministry last week, has been gathering billions of views and a flood of angry posts on social media, targeting Africans in particular.

“China’s forty years of family planning policy does not make it a place for foreign trash to soar,” wrote one user on the Twitter-like platform Weibo, referring to the one-child birth limit China imposed between 1980 and 2016.

The person went on to use racist language against black people, saying: “Our common Chinese ancestry will not be tainted by Africans.”

If only someone could have predicted this:

Alberta’s panel studying the social and economic effects tied to supervised drug consumption sites believes the facilities largely result in an increase in crime and disorder in their neighbourhoods, and that the number of reported overdose reversals is exaggerated.

Geri Bemister-Williams, the committee’s vice-chair, said the panel found instances when staff at supervised consumption sites took action, such as administering oxygen to a person using illicit drugs, and incorrectly counted such cases as reversed overdoses. Outside experts reject this interpretation.

Privatisation and the open market are anathema to Canadian sensibilities:

Canada’s telecom providers will be pushed to slash wireless data plan prices by 25 per cent from 2020 benchmark rates over the next two years or risk facing other measures to improve competition in the sector, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced Thursday.

Remember - it's all Doug Ford's fault:

Toronto police say a 14-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe after he was allegedly abducted on his way to school. ...

The boy’s high school failed to notify his family of his day-long absence because his teachers missed an attendance reporting deadline, the Toronto District School Board said.

Spokesman Ryan Bird said four staff members at Newtonbrook Secondary School have been put on “home assignment” because their attendance data wasn’t submitted before 11 a.m. as required.

Let's never forget what a b!#ch she is:

When Kathleen Wynne said she regretted not acting sooner to deal with rising hydro rates, it’s likely because she knew the rising rates were the number one issue driving voters away.

Rates skyrocketed under the Liberals, going up during off peak hours by more than 150% between 2006 and 2017.

Global adjustment charges confused ratepayers while making up an ever-increasing amount of the monthly bill.

Under Wynne, opposition to wind farms and other green energy projects grew.

As green energy drove up costs, Wynne also reneged on her promise to allow communities to opt out of hosting wind farms.

There is a seasonal joke in here an I am struggling to find it:

A 22-year-old Dublin man has reportedly sustained the first venomous snakebite in Irish history, according to the Irish Post.

That’s bad news for a country preparing to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday dedicated to a man widely known for supposedly driving all the snakes out of Ireland some 1,500 years ago.