As of April 1st 2022, the nadian border will no longer require a pre-arrival negative COVID-19 test from fully vaccinated travellers entering or returning to the country. Previously, a rapid antigen test or a PCR test inditing a person does not have COVID was required by border authorities. This rule change should encourage nadians to […]
After being closed for nearly 19 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on November 8th 2021 the United States land border officially opened to all fully vaccinated nadians. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced they will be staffing their border at pre-pandemic levels, but warns that wait times may be longer than in […]
On August 9th 2021, nada opened its border to all fully vaccinated Amerins allowing tourists from the United States to visit the country once again. The US border remains closed to nadians, however, and Amerin authorities recently extended the border closure until September 21st citing COVID-19 transmission rates south of the border as well as […]
Most nadians are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Consequently, nadians are starting to think about international travel again, and are beginning to research possible vation destinations. This leads to the question, which countries n a fully vaccinated nadian visit? As of July 2021, nadian citizens who have received two doses of the Pfizer, Moderna, or […]
Betsy Ladyzhets, in TIME, tells you what we currently know about the newest crop of variants that n reinfect even those who’ve already had Omicron.
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, in Science, on the possible uses of Long COVID.
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The LA Times has a major article describing the gang of third-raters, rubes, grifters and gullibles who were trying to overturn Biden’s election. First, it’s all just one big tangled ball of string — the same bunch of fellow travellers keep turni…
It doesn’t quite sn like “Remember remember the 5th of November”, but remembering Jan 6 2021 is now a cottage industry in the United States and the Jan 6 Committee hearings are getting more fascinating with every passing day. Today we found out …
Just a bunch of observations today on the passing scene.First up, interest rates. And I do mean up.Now, perhaps there is a problem with the conventional wisdom that raising interest rates will stop “inflation”. The problem is – maybe it won’t.As Atrios…
Whoever this “someone” was… https://t.co/DD07Eluflj pic.twitter.com/JADr2lqewN— Mark Gerretsen ???? ???? (@MarkGerretsen) June 14, 2022 Here’s one thing I noticed today — beuse Trudeau has Covid and has to appear on video in the Commons, he does…
Just a random collection of funny stuff tonight So who knew there could be TWO ranked bulldogs in North Amerin Diving Dogs? But here is one of them, Chewy! This is Chewy. He competed in his first dock diving event last month. Proud to be one of …
I haven’t seen as much about the Russia Ukraine War lately. So tonight I wanted to highlight some recent tweets and articles to summarize the situation:Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 13 June 2022 Find out more abo…
Revisionism about the convoy insurrection:Remember nada 5 months ago? The Convoy Insurrection destroying Ottawa’s downtown, border blockades messing up trade, protestors fanning out across the country to block nurses and doctors from going into hospi…
Rob Chaney, in the Missoulian, on the failures of risk lculus and the misery that n use.
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Justin Ling’s column today made this observation about the Jan 6 hearings “We’re trapped in a hall of mirrors”What’s novel and disconcerting is the degree to which an emerging far-right ecosystem tooled itself into a totally insulated rapid r…
Wow, did you see this tonight? rnage. Chaos. Criminal.#January6th wasn’t a random event. It was a coordinated, deliberate conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/mrzoJG6W4M— Amerin Progress (@amprog) June 10, 2022 Here is the comp…
Busy day today so just some funny animal tweets to enjoy: pic.twitter.com/kxBADuoqhj— thie from nada ???? ???????? (@thienada) June 7, 2022 Bear sits next to guy ???? pic.twitter.com/0mkauOqsaL— ???????????? (@farhad55526050) November 8, 2020…
First, in nada, the Mass sualty Commission into the 2020 Portapique massacre is continuing with RCMP testifying today. Here’s the worst of it: as shown in Tim Bousquet’s hearing coverage this morning, RCMP seemed overly focused on crafting Per…
Follow this tweet thread for some sad photos of the brave nadian boys who lost their lives fighting in D-Day 78 years ago. They were all so young: @FinUS has a remarkable, heartbreaking series today in recognition of the D-Day anniversary and the s…
Just a random collection of news tonight. First, from Uvalde: The more the media tries to dig into what happened in Uvalde, the less it makes sense. It is beginning to remind me of the confusion around the Portapique massacre, where 22 p…
So this is discouraging news: There’s a growing divide in Europe over what would constitute an acceptable conclusion to the Russia/Ukraine war. Macron is saying publicly what a lot of senior people say in private. https://t.co/5XIqEPEclI— Gerald Butts…
Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, on getting COVID again and again and again.
Melody Schreiber, in The Guardian, on the dangers of actively undercounting ses.
Hilda Bastian, in Absolutely Maybe, on the antivax weaponization of absolute risk.
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It has now been 100 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. The yellow markings on this map from Australian Strategic Policy Institute researcher Nathan Ruser show how successful Ukraine has been in retaking its territory from the Russian invaders…
Ontario voters sent a message tonight, and the message was: Meh! We’re good. On a side note.. once I saw at 5 pm that voter turnout was only 35%.. i knew the opposition parties were in trouble. Low turnout rates always favour incumbents. #onpoli— Scot…
Another miscellaneous collection of news items tonight from hither and yon. First up, birds! One of the people I now follow on twitter is Saskatoon’s Tim Brown, who is doing a series of “Birds of Saskatchetoon” which is a portmanteau of “Sask…
I just watched Global’s balancing act.They have criticized PMJT for going too far and not going far enough at the same time.— ㄒ??? ?? ㄒ??? e? ?????????????? (@Aho2ToMan) May 31, 2022 But really, nadian media are just playing another version of “If it’s not…
The idea that the World Economic Forum is some evil and all-power globalist force, hellbent on forcing this New World Order has grown popular amongst right-wing politicians in the U.S, nada, and Australia.
It was simply grotesque to see Trump mangling his reading of the Uvalde victims’ names, as a cowbell rang and they kept messing up the timing. Then there was?the dancing.
I still n’t get over Trump reading the names of the Uvalde victims like a kill list to the sound of bells at the NRA convention. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen in my life.
It was Charlton Heston, one-time celebrity NRA leader, who is remembered for saying something about prying his gun from his cold dead hands. Now, there is this:
i love the argument “well if you make new gun laws, these guys will just get them illegally” as though every would-be school shooter living in his parents’ house in suburbia has an extensive network of black market connections that n get him an AR-15 whenever he needs one
To rephrase: a number of cities have concluded that the only way to make sure cops don’t murder civilians during minor traffic stops is to…not do minor traffic stops at all.
nada will be improving its gun control laws. I’m hearing the usual sniping about how this legislation is being “rushed” and of course it is – the quicker the better:
— Stephen (is really) Near ???????????? (@SNear23) May 30, 2022
Maybe we need to update this 2020 rtoon:
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In other nadian news, it was good to see this report finally out and I think we have a defense minister and a binet that will follow through. Its going to be challenging to transfer jurisdictions to civilian courts (which of course had had their own problems in the past with sexual assault ses) but it sends a message about accountability and transparency:
The release of Louise Arbour’s report concludes more than a year of work. Among its 48 recommendations is a ll for civilian police and courts to handle all sexual assault ses involving allegations against military members going forward.https://t.co/yS4TrVnY5l
— Veterans Transition Network (@VTNnada) May 30, 2022
– Returning sexual assault to the jurisdiction of the civil courts ??
– Ending the Duty to Report policies ??
– lling out RMC as a breeding ground of misogyny ??
– Demanding more civilian oversight ??
We’ve been begging for this & y’all lled us na?ve. Yet, here we are!
As the Ukrainian military stages counterattacks against Russian forces in southern Ukraine, the authorities on Monday urged people living in occupied towns and cities to flee if possible.https://t.co/49pJixciQ7
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) May 30, 2022
The West (ie, Kissinger, the Davos people, etc) have to understand that Russia is committing serious war crimes of all kinds and degrees in all of the Ukrainian territory it has seized:
Exactly! That’s why it is a moral as well as a geopolitil misjudgement for usually sensible and moderate leaders & commentators in the West to be musing aloud about territorial concessions https://t.co/2gUGzbi7K3
The war in Ukraine is essentially being fought on three fronts and among three protagonists. The first front is the battlefield itself. The second front is economic. The third front is the battle of wills. The three participants are Russia, Ukraine and the western alliance backing Ukraine.?
Ukraine appears to be mounting an attack to retake Kherson in the south:
We saw training videos on M-113 and t72. My guess is they are fresh formations now committed there.
Kherson is lightly defended compared to the east and a massive opportunity for Ukraine.
The United Nations has released some figures on civilian sualties in Ukraine in the three months of war – they haven’t been able to gather numbers in occupied areas, however :
In Mariupol, Russian troops have completely destroyed over a thousand of high-rises, says city mayor Vadym Boychenko. Almost every destroyed house that was turned into rubble has 50-100 bodies of people buried under it, adds Boychenko.
What a week! Here’s some funny stuff to start the next one. With dogs too, of course:man i don’t think i have another “why is jk rowling trending?” left in me— Roy?? (@Roy_oh_Roy) May 30, 2022 Legend states that when you’re overwhelmed…
Waiting for more shoes to drop: There is non zero chance they shot one of the kids. Why else make this statement oh yeah it will get worse. https://t.co/xaVehvFMug— Derek Burke (@DBurke_20) May 29, 2022 The reful phrasing of “shot and killed” may be…
Helen Branswell, in STAT, on Monkeypox messaging amidst stigma and unknowns.
Akiko Iwasaki, in The New York Times, on the promise of nasal COVID vaccines.
Danielle Wenner and Gabriela Arguedas Ramírez, in STAT, on the danger and folly of omitting long…
de Adder, Washington Post It’s not really surprising that the Ukraine Russia War isn’t top of everyone newssts anymore, I guess. But it worries me when people complain about “how long” the war has been going on and why it hasn’t been wrappe…
As a freshman in college, I got angry at a friend. Slammed my soda cup on the table & said, “Well, fuck & a half!” before storming off. It’s not much but it might work until something better comes along.— Jean Ann Duckworth (@jeanannduck) May 2…
— bennydiego?????????????? (@bennydiego) May 24, 2022
More news following the break:
The death toll continues to climb in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, but already it is the second-deadliest shooting at an elementary, middle or high school on record in the U.S. https://t.co/lSxmgi0d56pic.twitter.com/fl64tcQCGQ
/2 Be not ashamed, bold men, I know your fear. I too have trembled at that tousled hair, that pitiless chin. Who could stand against him? Not you, you brave, brave men of Texas, standing firm in your loud but unspecific and non-actionable lamentations over dead children.
/4 And if you faltered today in the face of those refully rolled-up sleeves, well, we are all but human, even you brave, brave men of Texas. There will be other days. There will be other dead children. You will have other chances to stand, and clasp big hats, and frown.
And the more we find out about what happened at that school, the worst the police look. They spent AN HOUR dithering around outside before they tried to go in, then couldn’t break down the schoolroom door and had to get a staff member to use their key. By then, of course, the children and teachers were dead.
Cops stood outside the school while the killer rampaged inside.
Onlookers yelled at them to go in. They didn’t. One parent urged bystanders:
“Let’s just rush in beuse the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to.” @AP story: https://t.co/l2CqPCzmAf
Whether an officer fired his gun or not is known almost immediately after any shooting incident. Texas cops have been deliberately opaque about several key aspects of this whole thing https://t.co/RBNM87BR00pic.twitter.com/m7vvI3aUCX
Utterly damning report. If the 2nd Amendment is sacred, surely Amerins should *at least* be able to expect a robust and immediate armed response when their kids get attacked by well-armed freaks. https://t.co/rmIQj9H1mu
“SWAT-like” is doing a lot of work for this group of border patrol (????) folks who n’t break down a classroom door. But at least they went in, I guess.
What’s the point of gun drills in elementary school if the shooter grows up knowing where to find the children hiding and the cops are too afraid to follow the shooters into the schools they’re attacking?
Speaking of assholes, a bunch of white supremacists in Surry turned out yesterday at a fundraising event where Trudeau was to speak in person, and started hurling racial slurs at the mostly-Asian people attending. So RCMP told Trudeau he had to switch to Zoom.
I love how they’re lled protesters. They’re white supremacists.
A noose was brought to the door of an event with nada’s Prime Minister last night
The eslating toxicity being stoked via the extreme-right this year is beyond dangerous. Threats and intimidation have no place in our democracy, full stop. https://t.co/CyNCDBFTDjpic.twitter.com/6nPMEusuQ0
In their coverage, neither CTV nor CBC noticed or mentioned the noose.?
Checking the news from Ukraine today, I realize that when people want Ukraine to “let Putin win” or “settle for a draw”, this is actually what they are afraid of:
George Soros speaking at Davos “This crisis in Ukraine may be the beginning of the Third World War and civilisation may not survive it” pic.twitter.com/9J5djYgZ9c
Its going to be a longer fight, I think, than anyone wants:
It is expensive to support Ukraine, as many point out. But, oh, the cost of Russian victory would be very, very high, for all of us. If you hate war, and want a peaceful future — support the Ukrainians to the hilt. They are on the front line. And n put paid to Putin.
Things aren’t going very well for Russia and they’re not winning a lot. But maybe they’re stopped losing as much.
More details have emerged of Russia’s deployment of very old T-62 tanks in Ukraine, which I commented on in the thread below. /1 https://t.co/iQjlUF69YR
Russian forces may not be prosecuting offensives with much enthusiasm, but it is equally difficult to expect them to rout or melt away. Similarly, the situation within Ukraine’s army remains a major unknown, but it is clear the war is taking its toll. 15/
Meanwhile, Putin is hoping to convince the world that everything is proceeding according to plan:
The signs have been there but this one is glaring. Seems Putin intends to de facto annex parts of Ukraine’s southern Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts occupied by Russian forces by simplifying the procedure to obtain Russian citizenship, a process known as “passportization.” https://t.co/0rD0wW2wm6
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) May 25, 2022
Russia may be attempting to start a new offensive:
Russia “may need to conduct a ground offensive on Sievierodonetsk in the upcoming days to maintain their pace after committing a signifint portion of personnel, artillery, aviation, and logistics to the front,” the ISW wrote.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) May 26, 2022
On a lighter note:
Latest Russian joke: – Putin’s propagandists on TV said nuclear war is fine beuse patriotic Russians will go to Heaven. Heaven heard it and immediately applied to join NATO!
shier: Going mping? Me buy ever single one of the on sale sleeping bags: Nah, do support work w folks living outside Rando Customer: how much are those? Me: $20 Him: I’m paying for 5 [hands me a crisp $100 bill]
— Outreach but Grouchy (@GrouchyOutreach) May 23, 2022
This boy is outstanding (but his school district are cowards)
florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe pic.twitter.com/OqLbar5bwq
REST IN PEACE: Fourth-grade teacher Eva Mireles was killed along with at least 14 students in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. ?????? Here’s what we know about the victims: https://t.co/lgbe4mvp8Dpic.twitter.com/HG9eJZ6Imq
My tia did not make it, she sacrificed herself protecting the kids in her classroom, i beg of you to keep my family including all of her family in y’all’s prayers , IRMA GARCIA IS HER NAME and she died a HERO. she was loved by many and will truly be missed. pic.twitter.com/2XpdJA0q8x
The reason nada n ban A15s and the US nnot isn’t beuse of “politicians” or “extremists” or “gun nuts” or the NRA. Its beuse of Republins – the whole damn party.
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As of April 1st 2022, the nadian border will no longer require a pre-arrival negative COVID-19 test from fully vaccinated travellers entering or returning to the country. Previously, a rapid antigen test or a PCR test inditing a person does not have COVID was required by border authorities. This rule change should encourage nadians to […]
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Interesting Fact of the Month
Did you know visiting nada with a DUI is difficult? If a US citizen has a DUI or DWI they could be denied entry at the nadian border! Even a misdemeanor for reckless driving, or a traffic ticket for impaired driving, n prevent an Amerin from entering nada. In order to enter nada with DUI charges many people hire an immigration lawyer. Going to nada from USA with other criminal convictions like theft or assault n also be challenging.