>DOUGH
Oct 29, 2020
welcome to the zone
https://twitter.com/cathmckenna/status/1489246169469444105
Yes - Follow the money. @gofundme should be called before a parliamentary committee and required to provide a full list of donors and recipients.
https://twitter.com/Garossino/status/1488682123825332229
.@gofundme must give a full accounting to Canadians of all funds spent enabling an unlawful occupation of our capital, costing taxpayers millions & harming the lives of thousands.
https://twitter.com/deAdder
Political cartoonist for The Washington Post.
>Biden Delivers Remarks on a Successful Counterterrorism Operation
https://twitter.com/LauraLynnTT/status/1488975770659831810
Polish immigrants from Toronto arrive in Ottawa with thousands of Polish sausages, Pączki (donuts), and bread for the truckers.
“We came from communism. We want a free country.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%85czki
LIVE
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1489238379367706624
Our team has been busy over the past 100 days. Together, let’s keep going.
"I climbed the mountain, clouds had formed, and five seconds before the stroke I had felt what was going to happen," he recalled in an interview with Polish journalist and film critic Lukasz Adamski. "Suddenly, I was struck by the lightning."
Caviezel said he was struck just as Gibson shouted "action."
He did not say how he managed to survive the incident, which he admitted "terrified" him. At the same time though, he said he "felt peace on the inside."
But the incident turned comical when a shocked Gibson uttered, "What … happened to his hair?"
In 2000 the President of NBC promoted 2 new TV shows
Fear Factor and the Apprentice
That TV exec's name? Jeff Zucker
>One day, Porelle forgot how to write the letter "Q," and she went to a doctor for a brain scan.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/policing-end-ottawa-protest-covid-19-mandates-1.6337563
The longer this goes on, the more I am convinced there may not be a police solution to this demonstration.
https://twitter.com/cmckenney/status/1489271188048257027
I have written to @JustinTrudeau & @CommrRCMPGRC on behalf of downtown residents, formally requesting that the RCMP take over policing the Hill with regard to the convoy's occupation to allow Ottawa Police to address the serious safety concerns elsewhere in the downtown #OttNews
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-new-zealand-4513b42df9301b9baacb874c7b91cb30
New Zealand to end quarantine stays and reopen its borders
New Zealand’s government on Thursday said it will end its quarantine requirements for incoming travelers and reopen its borders, a change welcomed by thousands of citizens abroad who have endured long waits to return home.
Since the start of the pandemic, New Zealand has enacted some of the world’s strictest border controls. Most incoming travelers need to spend 10 days in a quarantine hotel room run by the military, a requirement that has created a bottleneck at the border.
The measures were initially credited with saving thousands of lives and allowed New Zealand to eliminate or control several outbreaks of the coronavirus.
But, increasingly, the border controls have been viewed as out-of-step in a world where the virus is becoming endemic, and in a country where the omicron variant is already spreading. The bottleneck forced many New Zealanders abroad to enter a lottery-style system to try and secure a spot in quarantine and passage home.
The shortcomings of the system were highlighted over the past week by pregnant New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis, who was stranded in Afghanistan after New Zealand officials initially rejected her application to return home to give birth. After international publicity, officials backed down and offered her a spot in quarantine, which she has accepted.
The border changes mean that vaccinated New Zealanders returning from Australia will no longer need to go into quarantine from the end of this month, and vaccinated New Zealanders returning from the rest of the world can skip quarantine by mid-March. They will still be required to isolate at home.
However, most tourists will need to wait until October before they can enter the country without a quarantine stay. And anybody who isn’t vaccinated will still be required to go through quarantine.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she knows many people associate the border controls with heartache but they have undeniably saved lives.
“There is no question that for New Zealand, it has been one of the hardest parts of the pandemic,” she said. “But the reason that it is right up there as one of the toughest things we have experienced is, in part, because large-scale loss of life is not.”
She said the controls “meant not everyone could come home when they wanted to. But it also meant that COVID could not come in when it wanted to, either.”
Ardern said the restrictions had allowed New Zealand to build its defenses against the virus by achieving high levels of vaccination while also keeping the economy running strongly.
About 77% of New Zealanders are fully vaccinated, according to Our World in Data. That rises to 93% among those aged 12 and over, according to health officials.
New Zealand has reported just 53 virus deaths among its population of 5 million.
New Zealand’s economy did return to growth quickly after a pandemic dip, and unemployment decreased to 3.2% in the latest quarter, the lowest level since record-keeping began in 1986. But the government has also increased borrowing sharply and home prices have skyrocketed.
Opposition leader Christopher Luxon said the reopening of the border was welcome news, and his National Party had long called for the government to “end the lottery of human misery.”
Ardern said it was a first step toward normality.
“There was life before, and now life with COVID, but that also means there will be life after COVID too, a life where we have adapted, where we have some normality back, and where the weather can once again take its rightful place as our primary topic of conversation,” Ardern said. “We are well on our way to reaching that destination. We’re just not quite there yet.”
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-sports-business-china-russia-b92f4d266b4d8d2e7711ab930c6e9fd1
Putin heads to China to bolster ties amid Ukraine tensions
American and European officials may be staying away from the Beijing Winter Olympics because of human rights concerns, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will be on hand even as tensions soar over his buildup of troops along his country’s border with Ukraine.
Putin’s talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday will mark their first in-person meeting since 2019 and are intended to help strengthen Moscow’s ties with China and coordinate their policies in the face of Western pressure. After, the two will attend the Games’ opening ceremony.
In an article published Thursday by the Chinese news agency Xinhua, Putin wrote that Moscow and Beijing play an “important stabilizing role” in global affairs and help make international affairs “more equitable and inclusive.”