...they're never uncertain...
A new report by the Parliamentary Budget Office expects the Canadian economy to contract by 25 per cent in the second quarter of 2020. Annual economic growth in 2020 is expected to slide to negative 5.1 per cent.
Unemployment is expected to rise to 15 per cent.
...unavailable for comment...
"Chidubem Anthony Okeke, 22, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder in connection with the attack on Police Const. Andrew Varao."MEANWHILE BACK AT THE BORDER:
"But, but, but... that's so racist!""...you must acquit..."
"Illegal aliens held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at a Pennsylvania facility have started a hunger strike to demand their release in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis."
...on all bank machines, vending machines, cash registers, and door handles and...
Or, call me crazy... we could just do a little elementary screening at border entry points?
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“We are not going to give up. But we also know where these people live and how they live. Strict containment, for them, is just impossible,” one officer explained.You mean, impossible to enforce, right officer?
By golly, good thing we just burned the freakin' economy to the waterline...
Selfies are easy... math is hard...
"By last week, influenza had claimed 23,000 lives in the United States, and yet no politicians or journalists were getting up on soap boxes to declaim the horror of stores remaining open while Americans are dying in hospitals, at home or on the streets as a result of flu."So... less than 2 percent of the total killed by plain old annual flu.
"A male victim is in serious but non-life-threatening condition after he was shot multiple times in Scarborough at Warden Avenue and Cataraqui Crescent late on Thursday night. No suspect information was made available."Oh, it gets better...
"Emergency crews were called to a Toronto Public Library near Don Mills Road and St. Denis Drive, south of Eglinton Avenue, at around 7:30 p.m. for reports of a shooting."**********
"Investigators said they executed a search warrant at a residence on Scarlett Road in Toronto and arrested Abdi Ismail."
The head of the World Health Organization, in charge of making life or death decisions on a grand scale, has been accused of covering up cholera epidemics, supporting a terrorist organization and inflating his resume to claim he conquered malaria and HIV.STONEAGE PEOPLES GONNA STONEAGE:
Tedros Adhanom Ghegreyesus' campaign to rewrite his questionable past has some wondering whether he is the right fit to lead the global agency through the coronavirus pandemic.
More than 300 people have died and a further 1,000 have fallen ill in Iran after consuming methanol in the belief that it will protect them against the coronavirus.
...more equal than others...
It seems when it comes to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “stay home” mantra or Mayor John Tory’s threats to crack down, some stores didn’t get the memo.THE NEW ENTREPRENEURS: Meet Jesse Wong
Chinatown is not the only area not following government orders. Some stores in Kensington Market, Little Italy and The Beaches are doing similar things.
"Toronto Police would like to remind the public to be extra vigilant when it comes to those trying to sell or provide products or services associated to Covid-19. There are no legitimate 'home test kits' available."But wait... it gets better.
“If we do not deal with this, there is nothing to say that we could not in eighteen months’ time have another outbreak, and it could be worse.”**********
"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Friday that the federal government will cover 75 percent of wages for qualifying businesses, backdated to March 15."He puts everybody out of work... then he pays them. With their own borrowed money.
...Shyanne Charles and Joshua Yasay...
"Two board members who heard Nahom Tsegazab’s case earlier this month say he has shown enough personal growth and maturity while incarcerated to be granted day parole."Nice to know a life is only worth four years apiece.
Naod “Gritty” Tsegazab, 22, the brother of one of the Danzig St. block party triggermen has been arrested for the murder of a man killed in a wild shootout earlier this week in Toronto’s east end.You do remember the Danzig Blocko Murders, don't you?
"Homeschooling Day 9: Miraculously, spanking and prayer are back in school again."
BALTIMORE, MD • A new study by Johns Hopkins University found that the Wuhan coronavirus is impacting men and women more than all the other genders combined.
...in a post-national world, there are no borders...
TORONTO • "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told the U.S. Canada is strongly opposed to a Trump administration proposal to put troops at the U.S.-Canada border amid the pandemic and said if it goes ahead it would damage relations between the two longtime allies."**********
"Foreign ministers representing seven major industrialized nations failed to agree on a joint statement Wednesday after the Trump administration insisted on referring to the coronavirus outbreak as the 'Wuhan virus.'”
...has it's privileges...
From the comments:
"Don't come to the Highlands to self isolate... unless you're Prince Charles."**********
"Thugs have been mugging doctors and nurses to steal their identity badges in order to access priority shopping and freebies from supermarkets during the coronavirus pandemic."
..."Why is the Ontario healthcare system rationing N95 masks?"
Belgium’s Public Health Minister Maggie De Block has destroyed millions of expired FFP2 masks stockpiled during the H1N1 flu epidemic in 2009, but did not replace them due to economic reasons.Please tell me we're smarter than this.
“Buying masks without a plan is a waste of taxpayers’ money,” the office added.
...a sainted millennial?
"I asked my parents if they are worried about the pandemic, and they told me they had been through much worse in their lives: famine, armed conflicts, and helplessly watching their loved ones perish. They are not freaking out about the coronavirus like we are because they have seen it all."
"They told me this pandemic shall pass, just like the numerous other challenges they have faced in their lifetime."
"In Canada in 2015–2016, there were around 77,000 hospitalizations caused entirely by alcohol, compared to 75,000 hospitalizations for heart attacks in the same year. Alcohol is responsible for about 4500 deaths per year in Canada."How about the statistical average 4 Canadians killed every day by drunk drivers?
"These 77,000 hospitalizations do not represent all the 1 in 8 Canadians that are addicted to alcohol. So why are alcoholics not being held in quarantine?? Why are we still selling alcohol??"
"Why don’t we shut the country down and introduce Emergency Measures until everyone in Canada quits drinking?? And I haven’t even started on drug addiction."
...groping women at will and paying 10 million dollars to a convicted terrorist & murderer... you start to feel invincible, I guess...
"Part 4 of the draft bill the Trudeau government presented to the Opposition ahead of today's sitting would allow Finance Minister Bill Morneau access toFortunately, every once in a while... somebody calls the Prime Minstrel on his shit.
'all money required to do anything.'"
...I'm not taking medical advice from Tom Hanks... or Kylie Jenner...
Time to throw another politician on the barbie.
You can still get your all-too essential TruDope...
DAVE'S NOT (cough, cough) HERE MAN:
"LCBO, Beer Store, cannabis retailers will remain open amid 14-day closure of all non-essential businesses."I think it'll be illuminating to scrutinize deaths in traffic accidents and in general over the next 14 days.
"Arizona man dies, wife in critical condition after taking aquarium cleaner containing malaria drug for coronavirus."**********
"Joe Biden was around when Covid-1 took place."Seriously, Dems... this is your guy?
"And, in addition to that, in addition to that we have to make sure that we, we are in a position that we are, well let me go to the second thing, I've spoken enough on that."Oh, it gets better...
"Biden called the current Massachusetts governor “Charlie Parker,” (a jazz saxophonist from the 1950s.) Charlie Baker was elected governor of the commonwealth in 2014."More Sleeepy Joe here.
"Nancy Pelosi Proposes 1,400-Page Coronavirus Bill Stuffed with Special Interest Goodies."Never let a crisis go to waste, huh?
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report for the week ending March 14, with the total deaths this season at 23,000."
Justin fixes the world by burning the Canadian economy to the ground...
"Looking at the whole funnel from top to bottom, ~1% of everyone who is tested for COVID-19 with the US will have a severe case that will require a hospital visit or long-term admission."You ever wonder why nobody sheds a single tear for the 1200 Canadians killed every year on the family farm?
"Globally, 80–85% of all cases are mild. These will not require a hospital visit and home-based treatment/ no treatment is effective."
Just ask Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn."A man in his 70s who contracted COVID-19 after travel to Alberta has become the third person in the province believed to have died of the illness."Note... all three had pre-existing health issues... the youngest here had chronic leukemia... which this article fails to mention.
"Three deaths — two Muskoka men in their 70s and a Milton man in his 50s."
Don't mess with Dirty Patty...
"Liberal Health Minister Patty Hajdu says she's looking at 'criminal penalties' for Canadian travellers who don't follow the government's advice to self-isolate."**********
"And I'm hoping we don't have to get to ordering them," she said.
Did Julian's "social justice warrior" Mummy pony up $2000 for that "restricted" rifle?
"Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath's son, aspiring rapper Julian Leonetti, 27, has uploaded photos of himself to social media where he called the ongoing coronavirus pandemic a 'hoax.'"I'm sure there's a logical explanat... wait...
"In one photo, which Leonetti captioned, 'I got hella shooters like I’m hunting,' where he appears to be holding an AR-15."
The Ontario NDP did not respond to The Post Millennial's request for a comment. Julian Leonetti also did not respond to The Post Millennial's request for a comment.Is Andrea Horwath's son exempt from the law of the land?
Let's run through the checklist...A man has died in hospital after a shooting outside Ryerson University campus on Saturday evening, Toronto police say. Police have obtained surveillance footage from the area and are looking for a single suspect.Those darned "single suspects."
