And the Rest of It

As of this writing, 8,048 people in Canada have died from the coronavirus.




The time to take temperatures was before it was deliberately let into the country, Justin:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says air travellers will be screened for a fever as another step to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Moron.


Also:

Margaret in London describes the suffering both she and her mother have experienced from the months-long isolation: “My mom is calling every day asking why I don’t want to visit her anymore. Her dementia and anxiety has worsened so badly they have had to increase her medication. She does not know what is going on, why she can’t leave, and why I cannot come and see her. She is calling many times a day asking why I don’t want to visit her anymore ….  ‘We used to be so close. What happened?’ My mom doesn’t understand what is going on and it’s cruel. It is as hard on me as it is on her.”

But people can smash windows in the streets.




Another case of shutting the barn door after the horse has run out:

Realtors must name names of suspicious clients under new federal regulations introduced yesterday. The rules target offshore speculators and money launderers using shell companies to buy property: “A single transaction in the real estate sector could be used to launder a large sum of money.”

Oh, well:

The killer of Canadian Taliban sympathizer Beverly Giesbrecht has been eliminated in a wild shootout with security forces in Pakistan, local media reports.

Law enforcement officials say they were conducting an intelligence operation Tuesday about 300 km north of the capital, Islamabad, when they gunned down Amin Shah after he refused to surrender.

Moving the goalposts some more:

The federal government has delayed implementing reforms to Canada’s Divorce Act just as family law experts are bracing for a surge of women seeking divorces after being cooped up for months with abusive partners during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Sidebar: Pierre Trudeau, who punched his wife in the face, brought in no-fault divorce. I suppose this is the nail in the coffin for people who were never serious about marriage anyway. One already knows that the government is not serious about stopping wife abuse because the sentencing does not reflect that it is.)




Why would Iran hustle for Canada?:

Canada agrees with Iran’s new pledge to send the black boxes from a downed Ukraine Airlines jetliner directly to France instead of Ukraine, and wants it to happen as soon as possible, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Friday.

Garneau expressed dismay this week at a council meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization that more than three months have passed since Iran told the council it would give the flight-data and cockpit voice recorders to Ukraine within 14 days.

From a country where gunmen seem to disappear until they get amnesty:

Northern Irish police said on Thursday that they had recovered the gun used to kill journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry last year and hoped forensic evidence would help them charge the gunman whose identity they say they know.

One man has so far been charged with the murder that sparked outrage in the British region where a 1998 peace deal mostly ended three decades of sectarian violence that cost some 3,600 lives. Dissident Republicans from a group that calls itself the New IRA (Irish Republican Army) have claimed responsibility for McKee’s death, but police say the man who actually fired the shot that killed her remains at large.

Et tu, Belarus?:

Failing to find common ground with Russia on oil prices, Belarus recently started importing crude from countries such as Norway, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan. It's a sign that Minsk aims to cut down on imports of Russian oil to about 40 percent, which may have a strong impact on the Belarusian economy, as Russian crude is much cheaper than other imports, with lower transport costs. Until now, Belarus has always benefited from buying subsidized oil products from its neighbor and re-exporting them, just as Cuba has done with its Venezuelan oil imports. 

Wow. Really?:

A 60-year-old woman with a brain tumour stuffed olives while receiving brain surgery at Ospedali Riuniti, a hospital in Italy’s Marche region.

In an incredible photo of the surgery shared by the hospital, the woman can be seen sitting in front of a bag of olives as neurosurgeon Dr. Roberto Trignani worked on her brain.