And the Rest of It

If the Canada Revenue Agency was heavily financially penalised every time it screwed up, it would stop screwing up:

Fewer than a third of small business owners, 32 percent, say they get respect from the Canada Revenue Agency, according to in-house research. Just 28 percent said they think the Agency treats taxpayers fairly: “Answers vary according to their experience.”

Oh, "internal use":

The Department of Health just eleven days into the pandemic told doctors and nurses they must recycle rationed masks until Covid-19 ran its course, according to an internal briefing note. “The document is for internal use by Health Canada,” wrote staff.

 

 

Just stop trading with China: 

A poll by the Angus-Reid Institute of 5,004 Canadians from Feb. 26 to March 3 has found that opinions of China sit at record lows and that there can be no moving forward until two detained Canadians are released from prison.

 

But forget about the Tibetans and dissidents, right? 

Another dynasty that needs to disappear:

In North Korea’s first comments directed at the Biden administration, Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister on Tuesday warned the United States to “refrain from causing a stink” if it wants to “sleep in peace” for the next four years.

 

If Biden remembers, he will comply. 

B@$#@rds:

A leading aid agency says that children as young as 11 are being beheaded in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province.

One mother told Save the Children she had to watch her 12-year-old son killed in this way close to where she was hiding with her other children.

More than 2,500 people have been killed and 700,000 have fled their homes since the insurgency began in 2017.

Militants linked to the Islamic State (IS) group are behind a conflict in the province

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Relax - it's only two thousand years of doctrine and what everyone is really thinking anyway:

The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”

The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response Monday to a question about whether Catholic clergy have the authority to bless gay unions. The answer, contained in a two-page explanation published in seven languages and approved by Pope Francis, was “negative.”

The note distinguished between the church’s welcoming and blessing of gay people, which it upheld, but not their unions. It argued that such unions are not part of God’s plan and that any such sacramental recognition could be confused with marriage.