A bit going on ...
A withered Public Health Agency of Canada dithered on pandemic preparedness, the federal auditor general has concluded, leaving officials no choice but to scramble to respond to COVID-19.
Also:
"new variant... 0,15% deadlier to be precise. To put this in perspective, for every 700 people who develop covid due to the new variant, you can expect one extra death, as compared with getting covid due to the older variants."https://t.co/M2VCGhTMTs
— Jean Marc Benoit MD (@JeanmarcBenoit) March 26, 2021
And:
Dr. Elena Hernandez-Kucey says it’s a something dentists across North America have been talking about: a noticeable increase in stress-related dental issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are seeing more joint problems, people arriving (in clinics) saying: ‘I’m not sleeping well, I’m waking up, my face hurts,'” Hernandez-Kucey told Global News.
The Edmonton dentist explains tension and anxiety, whether a patient is aware of it or not, can cause teeth grinding and clenching.
If he remembered where he was, that might be embarrassing:
New photos reveal several cheat sheets used by President Biden during his Thursday press conference — including one with the headshots and names of reporters he planned to call on.
The president also used notes to assist with facts about US infrastructure, a policy area Biden is focusing on during his first months in the White House.
Why, it's like the electorate can see right through you:
It turns out calling an election in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic may have been the inadvertent nail in the political coffin for Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey, according to a new poll.
The poll surveyed 5,267 Canadians between March 2 and 11 on their attitudes toward their premiers (with a national margin of error of 1.4 per cent).
A word on causes and campus activism: if you wake up on campus some morning with an inexorable urge to join a protest to Save the Arctic Hare — resist it with all your might. Your time will be better spent mastering a problem in calculus or catching the subtleties of a poem by John Donne. Reading him will sharpen your mind. Chasing the hare is a waste of your time. The Arctic rabbit will get along just fine without you and a knot of radical vegans strutting about on some downtown street with Save the Hare placards.
By all that is holy, stay away from antifa. They are more fa than anti.
Imagine a kill-switch stamping on a human face forever:
A first-ever federal proposal to block websites in the name of public safety is a “slippery slope” to curbing free speech, says a national internet manager. The CRTC seeks network-wide blocking of websites to limit botnets: “Technical measures to make the internet safer must not allow for a slippery slope towards blocking content or free speech.”
They don't make them like they used to:
Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment before the Atlanta and Boulder shootings, Heston’s son admits that his father’s big-screen legacy — as well as his progressivism on racial issues during the Civil Rights era — was complicated by his off-screen association with the NRA. “I think he did pay a cancel culture price for that political choice, though they hadn’t coined that term yet. From a purely career standpoint, it hurt him and today it would be seen by the Hollywood elite as anathema. But he felt strongly that he was supporting the Constitution: not only the Second Amendment, but also the First, Fourth and Fourteenth and so on. He was so proud that he took part in the March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and they all linked hands, and he led the arts contingent up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. That meant a lot to him.”
Fraser says his father would still support the NRA today, even with the organization’s well-documented internal troubles. “But he wasn't an extremist,” he says pointedly. “He wasn't a gun collector, and he wasn't a gun nut. It was a point of principle for him, and it was something that he certainly never regretted. He felt very strongly that the Constitution was what made America free, and if you erode any part of it, the rest of it starts to go. Obviously, there's an awful lot of people that feel that that's happening, and I think he would be appalled at some of the attacks on the Constitution that are happening nowadays.”
Take a good look at the pontificating pretty-faces in the endless series of reboots and note what causes they will walk back from a few minutes or even years from now.
If principles are that easy to embrace and discard, how important can they be?
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