Jobs are hard to come by, people were fired for refusing to get jabbed, some have moved onto greener pastures, everyone is in a recession, you might think you deserve more money but the market says otherwise and you haven't been unemployed enough:
In the same way, McCartin said, tropes about today’s labour shortages in industries like trucking, health care and the service industry get linked to the idea that people don’t want to work. “But that sidesteps the key issue, which is that a lot of jobs, for the amount of wear and tear and the hard labour involved — they just don’t pay enough,” he said. “Very often what this kind of rhetoric, whether it’s people don’t want to work or there’s a labour shortage, what that often speaks to is that wages simply aren’t attractive enough for workers.”
A US$15 hourly wage no longer cuts it for most workers in in terms of covering basic expenses, especially as housing costs surge.
(Sidebar: um, inflation.)
So it's official - the Democrats are stupid:
The amendment was introduced by GOP Senator Marco Rubio, who noted “The only people capable of being pregnant are biological females, and therefore, I think federal pregnancy programs should be limited to biological females, and that’s what this would do.”
“A few minutes ago, I looked back across 5,500 years of human history, and so far, every single human pregnancy has been biological female,” Rubio continued.
The Senator further stated “And therefore, the only thing I’m trying to do is make sure that federal law is clear, since every pregnancy that’s ever existed has been in a biological females, and that our federal laws reflect that pregnancy programs are available to the only people who are capable of getting pregnant: biological females.”
Democratic Senator Patty Murray responded to Rubio, stating “it’s actually outrageous that Republicans are trying to talk about pregnancy when in this country right now, they are forcing women to stay pregnant no matter their circumstances, pushing cruel and extreme abortion bans.”
While all 50 Republicans voted in favour, all 50 Democrats voted against.
Which one is the ‘party of science‘ again?
“Based on earlier polio outbreaks, New Yorkers should know that for every one case of paralytic polio observed, there may be hundreds of other people infected,” Bassett said in a statement. “Coupled with the latest wastewater findings, the department is treating the single case of polio as just the tip of the iceberg of much greater potential spread.”
Similarly, in June, the United Kingdom declared a rare “national incident” after traces of the highly contagious virus were found in sewage in London, the government said. The U.K. Health Security Agency had identified 116 polioviruses from 19 sewage samples this year in London. ...
While polio has largely been eradicated, it remains endemic in two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan.
How interesting.
That's the legal system for you:
The trial date for the man accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby’s Central Park more than five years ago has been pushed back again — for the fourth time — to early next year.
The trial of Ibrahim Ali, charged in September 2018 with the July 2017 first-degree murder of Marrisa Shen, was to commence Sept. 19 in Vancouver but has been put over until Jan. 16 next year.
Marrisa’s family could not be reached to comment on the much-delayed case, but a victims’ rights group said that while the court process can bring some relief, it’s important to realize that it never gets easier for the family members of crime victims.
“They wake up in pain and the pain goes on and on and they’re the ones that receive the life sentence,” said Lozanne Wamback, executive director of the Canadian Crime Victim Foundation, an Ontario-based group.
“So let’s do whatever we can to make it easier for them and these delays that go on and on just add to their stress and pain. So I think there’s got to be a better way to speed up this process because I hear this over and over again.”
A trial date was initially set for September 2020, but the jury selection was cancelled and the court told that the trial wouldn’t start until September 2021.
That date was later pushed back until Jan. 10, 2022 to accommodate various pre-trial applications. But that trial date was also set aside and moved to Sept. 19 due to the ongoing motions being heard by Justice Lance Bernard in the absence of the jury.
Now, the fifth date is set for next Jan. 16.
At least they dug up one body:
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, which governs the community south of Montreal, says the remains of Rev. Léon Lajoie, who died in 1999, were exhumed Wednesday.
Last summer, several members of the community alleged that they were abused by Lajoie and called for his remains to be removed to start a healing process.
Members of the community in March voted 233 to 195 in favour of the exhumation.
Lajoie, a Jesuit, arrived in Kahnawake in 1961 and was a parish priest until 1990.
An investigation by the Jesuits found no evidence of abuse by Lajoie, though it found evidence of a "serious sexual assault at St. Francis-Xavier Mission," the church where Lajoie was buried, but the probe concluded the assault was committed by someone else.
People don't read enough Huxley, Lewis, Orwell, Solzhenitsyn and Tolkien:
Like 1984, only on a smaller scale, C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength describes a descent into tyranny that bears an eerie resemblance to our current situation. However, Lewis foresaw a few things that weren’t on Orwell’s radar.
When Orwell reviewed That Hideous Strength shortly after its publication in 1945, he warned that “we are within sight of a time when such [monstrous] dreams will be realizable.” But Orwell also criticized Lewis for bringing “supernatural elements” into the story because “they offend the average reader’s sense of probability.”
But if there are supernatural forces at work in the world, wouldn’t one be remiss not to mention it? The dystopian society depicted in 1984 was based partly on Nazi Germany and partly on Soviet communism. Yet, both regimes took a deep interest in the supernatural. The Nazis hoped to replace Christianity with an occult religion centered on Hitler as savior. And the Leninists and Stalinist wished to stamp out belief in God altogether. They slaughtered tens of thousands of priests and nuns in the process.
Many Christians and some agnostics, as well, view our present culture wars in similar terms—as a conflict between those who believe in God and those who think that humans can shape their own destiny without any reference to God or his laws.
In bringing in the supernatural, Lewis may have been more prescient than Orwell. The members of the power-hungry National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.) are now a very recognizable type. Increasing numbers of our social elite seem to think that science has replaced God. And like the leaders of the N.I.C.E. Institute, many of our leaders think that science has all the answers to life’s problems—including the problem of crime and the problem of death.
Indeed, for the top brass at N.I.C.E., belief in progress through science has become a religion—to the point that they are willing to call down supernatural forces that they do not understand to aid them with scientific experiments that they do not understand. Tellingly, Hingest, the only really accomplished scientist in the Institute is murdered by his colleagues for fear that he will betray their plans.
At first, their plans go well. Before long, N.I.C.E. controls Bracton College, then the University of Edgestow, and then, the whole town. Nothing, it seems, can stop them from seizing control of all of England.
How achingly familiar.
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