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Milton Chan says that as a volunteer, he is exempt from party's travel restrictions. Staffers of the financially strapped party cry 'Nonsense!'.. The order came down before Christmas from Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca that anyone hoping to run as a candidate in the upcoming provincial election would be prohibited from travelling out of country for sunny winter getaways. No exceptions. But some had already made plans to travel, and they were in a bind. One candidate said she called the Ontario Liberals’ chief returning officer, Milton Chan, in December, to explain that she had already purchased expensive non-refundable...

ATLANTA - A man walking to his car at Lenox Square Mall became the latest armed robbery victim at the luxury shopping center. The incident happened on a recent weekend during a very busy time when patrons flock to the area for entertainment as well as shopping. According to an Atlanta Police report, a customer purchased a pair of Jordan sneakers at the Nike store located at the mall's front entrance. As he walked to his car, two men approached him in a vehicle. One suspect exited the car, pulled out a gun, and demanded the Nike bag and the...

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten both said Tuesday they do not support ending mask mandates for school children, amid a growing trend by states to end masking in schools. Weingarten said she would support the end of masks if there is no transmission in schools. “So, the real question becomes, how do we make sure that people can plan for it and what are the measures so that everybody knows, so it doesn’t feel like it’s based upon politics, it feels like it’s based upon...

MADISON, Wis.– They’ve been called a ‘game-changer’ in treating COVID-19, but local healthcare workers say Wisconsin’s supply of coronavirus pills is largely going unused. A challenge to prescribe “It’s not as easy to get these pills out to people as you might think,” UW Health Hospitalist Dr. Bart Caponi told News 3. When state hospitals and pharmacies got their first shipments of pills in January, Caponi expected they’d go quickly. “They’re for people who are at the highest risk of becoming very sick from COVID, but haven’t become very sick just yet. They can really help a lot of people,”...

Approval of President Biden's performance in the White House continues to weaken as the administration works to deal with the Ukraine border conflict, rising inflation, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and chaos at the Mexican border. For the first time since taking office, Biden's approval rating — based on an accumulation of polling data — fell below 40%. A Real Clear Politics average of all the most recent national surveys measuring Biden’s standing put the president’s approval at 39% and his disapproval at 54%. Biden has also found himself at the center of a Russia-Ukraine border conflict in Europe. Last month,...

The discovery by researchers led from the University of Toulouse–Jean Jaurès was made in the 'Grotte Mandrin', 1.5 miles south of Malataverne, in the Rhône Valley.Previously, the oldest proven examples of modern human settlements in Europe were dated back to 45,000–43,000 years ago — 10,000 years earlier.Furthermore, the Mandrin cave also provides the first clear example of a site that was alternately occupied by Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens).

Landlords and residents in California’s Bay Area are being asked to take in vagrants as homelessness continues to spiral out of control. Several nonprofits and a mayor in the area are prodding residents and landlords to take in one of the nearly 30,000 homeless individuals in the five-county area, the Mercury News reports. Existing affordable housing developments do not have adequate room to accommodate the homeless population.

Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, said the “real issue” when it comes to coronavirus restrictions, including masking children, is making sure people “feel” safe — not the actual science. “The issue becomes how do we make sure the entire community in a school feels safe and welcome,” she said during an appearance on MSNBC, agreeing that it is time to discuss an “off-ramp for masks” in schools. Weingarten said:

Bob Saget’s family is providing an update to his fans after he passed away last month at 65. In a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, the late Full House star’s relatives confirmed that authorities have determined the cause of death to be head trauma. The message added that drugs and alcohol were not involved. “They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep,” the family stated of the investigation into Saget’s death. The comedian was found dead in his Orlando hotel room on Jan....

Ottawa basilica cancels Masses due to Freedom Convoy protestThe Freedom Convoy ensnarling the nations’s capital has led to the cancellation of Masses in churches near downtown Ottawa.But despite St. Patrick Basilica Parish cancelling all five Sunday Masses and closing church doors on the second weekend of demonstrations, Msgr. Kevin Beach praised the majority of those in the truckers’ convoy that descended on Ottawa protesting vaccine mandates for their civility.“The truckers are amazingly well-behaved, well-organized, and it looks like well-financed,” said Beach. “It’s all these other folks who are joining in to vent their own disagreement with the government.”St. Patrick’s, located...

Some of us knew this was coming. All you had to keep in mind was the fact that democrats accuse everyone else of the crimes they commit or plan to commit. They spent a lot of time laying the groundwork, accusing Trump of planning a dictatorship. Trump’s Message Isn’t Confused. He’s Promising A Dictatorship. Trump Is Preparing the Ground for a Totalitarian DictatorshipTwelve signs Trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship ...So, to combat Trump's alleged plans for dictatorship, the Biden regime is going full dictatorship. We had an insight into this even before he was elected. A year...

Queen of Martyrs Principal Placed On Administrative LeaveEVERGREEN PARK, IL — Queen of Martrys principal Jacob “Doc” Mathius was placed on administrative leave after he emailed parents stating that the Catholic elementary school would be “mask optional” as of Tuesday, in response to a downstate judge’s order blocking Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mandate for face masks to be worn inside school buildings.A copy of the principal’s email to parents sent Monday evening, provided to Patch by a Queen of Martyrs parent, stated that, “Independent of the mandate placed upon schools that operate under the auspices of the Office of the Catholic...

Tina Kotek, a Democrat who is expected to be the next shoo-in governor of Oregon, expressed support for far-left violent rioters in Portland. Her top staffer was even arrested at a riot. She lists being a lesbian as an accomplishment on her campaign site. Link to article: https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-gubernatorial-candidate-expressed-support-for-violent-portland-rioters?utm_campaign=64470

On Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department announced it seized most of the 119,754 Bitcoins (worth almost 3.6 billion today) lost during this infamous hack and have arrested a New York couple who is accused of attempting to launder the stolen funds. Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife Heather Morgan, 31, were arrested without incident Tuesday morning in Manhattan and face charges related to conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government. The couple, however, is not being charged for the hack itself as the investigation is ongoing. The department partially credited the “blockchain” or the underlying...

Scary Watch the lynching attempt on the taxi driver in Nablus by bloodthirsty Arabs - 0404 A taxi driver who entered Nablus after the elimination of the terrorists was almost killed by an angry mob | View documentation from the lynching attempt A Jewish taxi driver, a resident of the center of the country, entered Nablus today (Tuesday) with his vehicle, shortly after the three terrorists were eliminated, and was attacked by an angry mob who tried to murder him with stones, other objects, beatings and knives. Among the attackers are adult terrorists, boys and children. Miraculously, the Jew emerged...

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The PLO Central Council decided on Wednesday to suspend recognition of the State of Israel until Israel recognizes the “state of Palestine” on the June 6, 1967 border with its capital in eastern Jerusalem. At the conclusion of a meeting in Ramallah, the PLO Central Council issued a statement saying that the “state of Palestine” alone has sovereignty over Palestinian land and that "the presence of the occupation, its army and settlers on Palestinian land is an illegal presence that must be stopped immediately. .....

Amid multiple massive Freedom Convoys throughout Canada, the Western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan have become first provinces to end COVID-19 vaccine passports. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on Tuesday announced an end to the vaccine passport system in Alberta, effective midnight last night. At an evening news conference, Kenney said the restriction exemption program has served its purpose, but is no longer needed since Alberta passed peak of Omicron infections about three weeks ago. “The threat of COVID-19 to public health no longer outweighs the hugely damaging impact of health restrictions on our society,” said Kenney, adding his government would...

"The maritime industry transports 90% of the world’s trade and cyberattacks on shipping increased 900% between 2017 and 2020, to the tune of one incident on a ship every day. How much of your supply chain runs across the ocean?" "“The disruption of ships, ports, communications and shipping lanes is a genuine threat. This is crippling to the larger economy/larger supply chains—especially with things stretched thin today,” says Steve Moore, chief security strategist at Exabeam. “Amazon is even building its fleet with its own technology to control these problems more effectively.”"

Gov. Steve Sisolak is widely expected to announce the suspension of Nevada’s mask mandate at a virtual news conference he’s scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday, following the lead of governors in several other states as COVID-19 case numbers continue to fall. Governors in Delaware and Oregon have announced they will relax their state’s mask mandate by the end of March, according to the New York Times, following news that New Jersey was suspending the mandate in its public schools. California will lift its indoor mask mandate next week. And Connecticut is looking to end its mandate by Feb. 28, including...