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Canadian Border Now Fully Open

On October 1st 2022, the Government of Canada removed all COVID-19 border measures such as required proof of vaccination, random testing, and mandatory isolation for high-risk travelers. For the first time since early 2020, the Canadian border is operating under “normal” conditions. For example: Americans interested in visiting Canada no longer need to download the […]

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Pre-Entry COVID Test No Longer Required at Canadian Border

As of April 1st 2022, the Canadian 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 indicating a person does not have COVID was required by border authorities. This rule change should encourage Canadians to […]

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US Land Border Opens to Canadians

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 Canadians. 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 […]

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When Will USA Border Open to Canadians?

On August 9th 2021, Canada opened its border to all fully vaccinated Americans allowing tourists from the United States to visit the country once again. The US border remains closed to Canadians, however, and American authorities recently extended the border closure until September 21st citing COVID-19 transmission rates south of the border as well as […]

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Where Can Vaccinated Canadians Travel?

Most Canadians are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Consequently, Canadians are starting to think about international travel again, and are beginning to research possible vacation destinations. This leads to the question, which countries can a fully vaccinated Canadian visit? As of July 2021, Canadian citizens who have received two doses of the Pfizer, Moderna, or […]


 
 

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Today’s News: Extraordinary warning about threats from India

Posted  October 15, 2024  by  Anonymous

Well, I was going to put up a light-hearted post tonight about Thanksgiving – cartoons, nice stories, etc. But then this happened:

RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme told a news conference in Ottawa that the force decided to take the “extraordinar…

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Today’s News: Freaking Out about the Presidential Polls

Posted  October 14, 2024  by  Anonymous

 https://www.270towin.com/mpThree weeks to go and the Presidential polls are freaking everyone out:If you are noticing that the only national polls Trump is leading in are the ones taken by a single far-right polling outfit known to be run by a Tr…

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Today’s News: Oh for f**ks sake, why would Trudeau step down NOW?

Posted  October 12, 2024  by  Anonymous

Lots of news today about how a group of unnamed Liberal back-benchers are supposedly organizing to get Trudeau to resign as party leader. Yeah, sure — whose bright idea was that?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face mounting pressure from his…

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Imaginary News

Posted  October 11, 2024  by  Anonymous

We have all heard now about Fake News – see also Truthiness, Alternative Facts, and Mis-information.

Now, we’re hearing “imaginary news” –We’ve all become desensitized, but it’s amazing how at this point the Trump campaign rests entirely on denouncin…

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Interviews with Harris and Walz

Posted  October 10, 2024  by  Anonymous
Harris and Waltz are doing media all over this week (except tne New York Times
and Politico, and
boy are they pissed!) 
Anyway, here are some good clips: 
From Howard Stern:
From Colbert:

“They know how to pronounce my name!” — rockstar reception tonight for
Kamala Harris on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.bsky.social)
October 8, 2024 at 11:00 PM

Even the band is excited!

And yes, she drinks beer:   

From The View:

I’ve seen people suggesting this is a pitch to seniors and, while it is in a way, the real target of this are their kids.

They’re the ones who would otherwise have to shoulder the financial burden on their own and/or personally provide the care for their elderly parents themselves.

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) October 8, 2024 at 4:06 PM

From the 60 Minutes interview:

Trump cancelled – he is too addled now to survive an interview with an actual
journalist:

Harris on Call Her Daddy:

And Harris definitely does not shy away from calling out disrespect:

Walz on Jimmy Kimmel:

Speaking of interviews, here’s another one — Elon and Tucker, if you can
believe it:

Also, this:

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Now there’s something you don’t see every day!

Posted  October 9, 2024  by  Anonymous

Some odds and sods and bizarre news: Oh, yeah — I forgot
So today was the day everyone who had been Covid vaccinated was supposed to die.Everyone ok?— RS Archer (@archer_rs) October 4, 2024

What people will remember from Bob Woodward’s newest b…

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Evacuating Eden

Posted  October 8, 2024  by  Anonymous

…They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
– John Milton, Paradise Lost

I was going to do a post tonight on the Harris and Walz interviews, but the situation with Hurricane Milton is just too dire. Th…

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Today’s News: Truanons and Nuremberg 2.0 and understanding the damn question

Posted  October 7, 2024  by  Anonymous

So on Saturday this happened:Angus Reid reposts a doctored video that misquotes the PM as if it’s reality and we’re supposed to accept his company’s poll results are believable? I have a bridge to sell you if you believe a single thing that company put…

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Long Reads: The rise of stupidity; The analytic failures of the Russia-Ukraine War; and how presidential polls are always wrong

Posted  October 6, 2024  by  Anonymous

Last night I posted some long threads; tonight, I have several interesting “long reads” on topics I have frequently discussed on this blog:   The Stupid, It Burns!
Substack writer Black Cloud Six writes The New Normal: Living in the Age of S…

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Long threads: best baseball announcers, North Carolina angels, hopeful happenings, boys will be boys, and some really big things

Posted  October 5, 2024  by  Anonymous

Here are some long threads that I liked. This is a lengthy post because I am including many of the tweets from these threads — a reader told me once that people who aren’t on X anymore aren’t allowed to read their posts now. So first up, wit…

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Today’s Comment: Boomers “are the most coddled political constituency”

Posted  October 4, 2024  by  Anonymous

In his column tonight, Bribes (Between The Lines Of Age) The LPC’s Correct Tactical Choice, Evan Scrimshaw is writing about the Liberal decision to vote against the Bloc motion to raise Old Age Security and he gives us this gem of a paragraph. I h…

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Busy busy busy! Here’s some stuff about Trudeau, the Jack Smith report, the US election, the Russia-Ukraine War

Posted  October 3, 2024  by  Anonymous

I have a feeling that things are going to just be crazy for the next five weeks. Tonight I am reading about a whole bunch of things — the pressure on Trudeau to do something something, the Jack Smith bombshell report, the dark underside of the US…

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Today’s News: “A damning non-answer”

Posted  October 2, 2024  by  Anonymous

WALZ: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

VANCE: Tim, I’m focused on the future

WALZ: That’s a damning non-answer[image or embed]— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.bsky.social) October 1, 2024 at 8:41 PM

Wallace: JD Vance was still unable to say that …

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Today’s News: Remembering for Orange Shirt Day

Posted  October 1, 2024  by  Anonymous

The Scream, by Kent Monkman  The RCMP came in. My mom was trembling. The rcmp took me from my mother’s lap. (I believe it is called abuction today. ) They took me to the airport. I don’t remember, may be we walked to the airport. I would not …

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Some music to enjoy

Posted  September 30, 2024  by  Anonymous

We saw Jelly Roll on SNL and this song is remarkable:”Nobody walks through these doors on a winning streak”    I loved this too! 
My husband saw a presentation from Playing For Change one year at Million Dollar Round Table –…

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Today’s News: Hurricane Helene

Posted  September 29, 2024  by  Anonymous

This is terrible. We’re been following the Hurricane Helene stories – its hard to imagine what these people are going through:At least 56 dead and millions without power after Helene’s deadly march across U.S. southeast https://t.co/C0l6mQTPxo— CTV Sas…

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Happy Saturday! Here’s some fun stuff about politics, golf, librarian spies, getting older, and cool maps

Posted  September 28, 2024  by  Anonymous

First, just a glance at politics:WHO DID THIS?? 🦇 pic.twitter.com/ihJmPT8fmQ— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) September 13, 2024

This should get an award for hilarious description of the GOP these days:
Correct. The GOP has not only ceded the moral high…

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Poilievre and the “sore winner syndrome”

Posted  September 27, 2024  by  Anonymous
I’m trying to think whether there was any time in modern history that Canadians elected a Prime Minister they didn’t actually like. 
Conservatives seem to have a pattern of finding unlikeable leaders — Diefenbaker, Stanfield, Scheer come to mind — but in our recent history, only those Tory leaders who appeared personable on TV were ever elected to lead a government – like Clark, Mulroney, Harper the kitten whisperer. 
(Yes, I know Diefenbaker was PM in the early 1960s, but as soon as people started seeing him on TV, he lost to Pearson.)
And Poilievre definitely falls into the “unlikeable” category, even in spite of his makeover, to anyone who catches Question Period on TV.
Cult Mtl’s Matthew Renfrew writes Poilievre’s poor favourability will cost the Conservatives come election time

A new study by the Angus Reid Institute has found that net favourability of Pierre Poilievre has reached its lowest point in over a year, at -16%. Just 36% of Canadians have a positive opinion of the Conservative Party of Canada leader.

A previous study by Léger also found that, while the Conservatives are leading in the polls, just 26% of Canadians believe Pierre Poilievre is the best choice for prime minister.

The fact remains that Pierre Poilievre is just not that likeable. He rubs most Canadians the wrong way and a large majority don’t want to see him become prime minister.

As a result, support for the Conservatives will decrease as the election approaches, and as more light is shed on right-wing foreign interference scandals.

Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt writes Pierre Poilievre acts as if there’s power in being unlikeable. It’s not a good look

…Conservatives appear to be trying everything this fall to turn their poll lead into eventual election victory, with the exception of one force in politics — likeability.

Nothing in Pierre Poilievre’s repertoire in the Commons the past two weeks has been aimed at making people like him, beyond those who already do. He insults, he taunts, he name-calls, he sneers — all the things that parents tell their children not to do if they want to make and keep friends.

It may be making his base happy, but it is doing nothing to present a positive picture of what he would be like in power.

…Poilievre seems pretty certain that the next election will give him a majority, and not require that he work with any other parties in the House. He’s burning his bridges with the Bloc and the NDP, if any such bridges ever existed.

… About a month or so ago, I started to notice increasing mention of Poilievre’s lack of likeability in the political commentary, even among those who are not fans of the Trudeau Liberals. …

I’ve heard this privately from some Conservatives too, who roll their eyes at what they see as unnecessary vindictiveness from a party that continues to bounce along at the top of the polls. Is this sore-winner syndrome? And what will that look like if they really do end up winners after the next election? More enemies’ lists? More paranoia about the media and the bureaucracy?

…Poilievre didn’t have a good week when Parliament resumed this month, failing to win in a Manitoba byelection and falling short in a bid to rally opposition leaders to bring down the government. He tried to pull that off with taunts and name-calling. Amazing that didn’t work.
Perhaps Poilievre is operating on the principle that nice guys finish last.

Meanwhile, Poilievre apparently thinks leadership means repeatedly failing to lead:

But he doesn’t let failure stop him, does he…

When you’ve lost Charlie Angus…

And here are two more relevant comments:

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Roundup: Trudeau wins today; Scrimshaw writes a Trudeau speech; Rothkopf on the stunning Harris campaign

Posted  September 26, 2024  by  Anonymous

Unsurprising that Trudeau won the non-confidence vote. Parliamentary reporter Dale Smith describes the House of Commons today: Overall, the day started out stupid, and got progressively worse as it went on.I expect we’ll see more of these day…

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Remembering Ebony, our brown-eyed girl

Posted  September 24, 2024  by  Anonymous

Just six weeks abo, we lost our Molly, and today we lost our Ebony too. We got Ebony as a rescue when she was three or four, and we had shared our lives with her for almost 14 years. She was a Labrador, a little on the small side but such a h…

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Trudeau knocks it out of the park

Posted  September 24, 2024  by  Anonymous

Trudeau was on Stephen Colbert tonight and the Conservatives are furious — how dare he demonstrate his popularity, his interview chops, and his international standing so easily, when he is supposed to be crawling into the Parliamentary press gallery a…

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“Basket of deplorables” 2024 version: fearful, credulous, vicious, cheap, thoughtless and destructive

Posted  September 23, 2024  by  Anonymous

Remember in 2016, when Hillary said some Trump supporters were “a basket of deplorables” and the US media clutched their pearls and fainted all over their couches and gasped how unseemly for a Democrat to be so mean to Republicans.Well, like with every…

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Happy Saturday! Canadianisms, strange graveyards, animal crackers, and more!

Posted  September 21, 2024  by  Anonymous

As the weeks wear by, propelling us toward a crucial election in the United States and, increasingly likely, in Canada too, I find myself grasping occasionally at something less intense — funny, even. Hope nobody minds the break:

Post by @am…

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Today’s news: Canada’s intelligence priorities

Posted  September 20, 2024  by  Anonymous

Yes, as a matter of fact, Canada does have priorities for intelligence – why did you ask?Or if you want to save yourself 20 pages of reading, this sums it up: pic.twitter.com/XoTkCqvvwN— @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social (@StephanieCarvin) September 19, 202…

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Mainly, we duck and cover….

Posted  September 19, 2024  by  Anonymous

From 2016 to 2020, Canada survived Trump by ducking a lot – Trudeau managed to save NAFTA mostly, we didn’t get pulled into any American wars, we quietly helped out the refugees who found their way across the border, and only once was Trudeau caught la…

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Canadian Border Now Fully Open

Posted  November 24, 2022  by  Ben

On October 1st 2022, the Government of Canada removed all COVID-19 border measures such as required proof of vaccination, random testing, and mandatory isolation for high-risk travelers. For the first time since early 2020, the Canadian border is operating under “normal” conditions. For example: Americans interested in visiting Canada no longer need to download the […]

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Pre-Entry COVID Test No Longer Required at Canadian Border

Posted  April 2, 2022  by  Ben

As of April 1st 2022, the Canadian 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 indicating a person does not have COVID was required by border authorities. This rule change should encourage Canadians to […]

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US Land Border Opens to Canadians

Posted  November 8, 2021  by  Ben

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 Canadians. 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 […]

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When Will USA Border Open to Canadians?

Posted  August 25, 2021  by  Ben

On August 9th 2021, Canada opened its border to all fully vaccinated Americans allowing tourists from the United States to visit the country once again. The US border remains closed to Canadians, however, and American authorities recently extended the border closure until September 21st citing COVID-19 transmission rates south of the border as well as […]

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Where Can Vaccinated Canadians Travel?

Posted  July 1, 2021  by  Ben

Most Canadians are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Consequently, Canadians are starting to think about international travel again, and are beginning to research possible vacation destinations. This leads to the question, which countries can a fully vaccinated Canadian visit? As of July 2021, Canadian citizens who have received two doses of the Pfizer, Moderna, or […]

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