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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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Sask Party’s Greatest Screw-Up Hits!
Posted October 28, 2024 by Anonymous
I just saw this amazing thread from Regina Poster Boy about the Sask Party’s parade of screw-ups and I had to share it tonight — our Saskatchewan election is Monday! Its very long, but I’ll break it on Monday night when I post another tweet. The…
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Today’s News: Pre-emptive surrender from the gutless Washington Post and LA Times
Posted October 27, 2024 by Anonymous
Can’t really describe how terrified I am about the US election — I hope and pray that Harris can close the deal with the American people. Her rally last night in Houston was epic, as was the Kalamazoo rally today.But talking earlier tonight with …
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Wrapping up the week with some great news for the Sask NDP and Carla Beck
Posted October 26, 2024 by Anonymous
Carla Beck may well be Saskatchewan’s new premier, according to today’s Mainstreet poll:This is such great news:Final Mainstreet poll predicts Sask NDP will win the popular vote in a close race to the finish. https://t.co/TKJNkMwQkg— Sask Votes 🌾 🗳️ (@…
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Today’s News: “Get the clearance, take the briefing, protect the country”
Posted October 25, 2024 by Anonymous
A week ago, when Poilievre’s lack of a security clearance first hit the fan, because of Trudeau’s testimony to the foreign interference inquiry, reporter Stephen Chase tweeted a statement from Poilievre’s office — they tried very very hard to perish t…
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Today’s News: Afternoon of the Rubber Knives, Liberal Caucus Edition
Posted October 24, 2024 by Anonymous
You could almost hear Ottawa deflate this afternoon as the Liberal caucus “let’s get rid of Trudeau!” frenzy squiffed out. Night of the Long Knives turned into the Fish-Slapping sketch.CBC gives us the (un)exciting play-by-play:
…Sources speaking to…
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Today in the Stupid: Trump
Posted October 23, 2024 by Anonymous
That’s it. That’s the title. Two weeks to go but I think America has already reached its gag limit. The McDonald’s stunt may have been the last.
Tim Walz has ZERO f*cks to give:“At McDonald’s, he looks more like Ronald McDonald and Rona…
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Today’s News: Provincial elections; and another friendly sausage-maker moment
Posted October 22, 2024 by Anonymous
We’ve had two provincial elections in the last week — BC was a squeaker for its progressive party, but New Brunswick was a resounding progressive success.Canadian Media today: BC elections reflect the political state of Canada, and it doesn’t look goo…
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Funnies and Long Threads: from King Charles to airplane seats; from hurricane stories to Bob Dylan
Posted October 21, 2024 by Anonymous
Let’s start with some funnies:
Post by @patricknessbooks View on Threads
Post by @ogginblog View on Threads
Post by @the.language.nerds View on Threads
Post by @johnfugelsang View on Threads
Post by @coachs…
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Did anybody have “Big Dick Envy” on their Trump Bingo Card?
Posted October 20, 2024 by Anonymous
Trump just can’t hold it back anymore:A nonzero number of Americans are voting for Trump so they can call stuff “gay” again and meanwhile their guy’s out here lost in a reverie about the late Arnold Palmer’s literal penis pic.twitter.com/2mHtuZqnwT— Pa…
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Comedy tonight: Poilievre lettuce-watch, plus some funny stuff about Trump, Harris, birds, art, dogs, dope, and being old
Posted October 18, 2024 by Anonymous
The Poilievre lettice watch begins:
Start the countdown. Pierre Poilievre or this head of lettuce. pic.twitter.com/zUHF4u7XPS— Roddy 🇨🇦 (@RodKahx) October 16, 2024
POILIEVRE’S CAT pic.twitter.com/5NfqfCGl9z— Brittlestar (@brittlestar) October 17, 2…
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Having some fun now! Trudeau at the PIFI hearing, and Harris on Fox News
Posted October 17, 2024 by Anonymous
First, Trudeau testified at the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference hearings today. Trudeau was supposed to be embarassed, bumbling, and exposed by this inquiry – but instead, it was Poilievre who found himself stumbling — unfit to…
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Today’s News: Quick Takes on Trudeau, Poilievre, the House of Commons, Harris, Trump, the US Election, and Brexit
Posted October 16, 2024 by Anonymous
Just a few Quick Takes – some stuff worth reading tonight:TrudeauMy latest: This is not a diplomatic spat — it’s state terrorism, and Canada is right to call it out https://t.co/GZGbDh6kNU pic.twitter.com/jOYXwM6RyM— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@acoyne) O…
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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!)
and Politico, and
boy are they pissed!)
Anyway, here are some good clips:
From Howard Stern:
How Howard Stern ended his interview with Kamala Harris: “I think you’d be a great president. You’re compassionate. I love your experience as a prosecutor and I want to thank you. I love you as Vice President. I want to encourage anyone who thinks similarly to me to vote.” pic.twitter.com/73SmGO2xo4
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 9, 2024
From Colbert:
This was Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue tonight of his interview with VP Kamala Harris. Holy shit. 🤣🔥 pic.twitter.com/zIWVpvZswc
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) October 9, 2024
“They know how to pronounce my name!” — rockstar reception tonight for
Kamala Harris on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert— 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.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) October 8, 2024 at 4:06 PM
From the 60 Minutes interview:
“You will not hear about how he is going to try to bring the country
together, find common ground,” Harris continues. “That is why I believe in
my soul and heart; the American people are ready to turn the page.”
https://t.co/JfQu4Yz4cq— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes)
October 8, 2024
My background is in law enforcement. Yes, I own a glock.pic.twitter.com/gTbjrEMCPA
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris)
October 8, 2024
Bill Whitaker presses Vice President Kamala Harris on President Biden’s
recent crackdown on asylum seekers as part of a policy shift on border
crossings, and on whether the Biden administration should have taken those
steps sooner. https://t.co/l85soF5tG7
pic.twitter.com/XNnCKNnaWS— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes)
October 8, 2024
60 Minutes’ Bill Whitaker: “How are you going to get [your economic plan]
through Congress?”VP Harris: “When you talk quietly with a lot
of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I’m talking about because their
constituents…are those firefighters and teachers and nurses.”
pic.twitter.com/w8JS6dUDT4— The Recount (@therecount)
October 7, 2024
Kamala Harris fact checking the reporter here is everything
pic.twitter.com/UvyNeobdau— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko)
October 8, 2024
Q: What do you say to those who say Minnesota is out of step?
Gov. Walz: Trump may be referring to the fact that our children get breakfast and lunch in school so that they can learn. He may be talking about the fact that we have a paid family and medical leave policy that was… pic.twitter.com/cXFA22UF35
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 8, 2024
Trump cancelled – he is too addled now to survive an interview with an actual
journalist:
For more than half a century, the major party candidates for president have
sat down with 60 Minutes. This year, Vice President Kamala Harris and former
President Donald Trump accepted our invitation. Unfortunately, last week
Trump canceled.
https://t.co/7t5jr5nyFJ
pic.twitter.com/VDJDDNYFab— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes)
October 8, 2024
VP Harris says since Donald Trump canceled his interview with 60 Minutes,
voters should watch his rallies instead. “You’re going to hear conversations
that are about himself and all of his personal grievances,” she said. “What
you will not hear is anything about you.”
pic.twitter.com/fdESLU5vKu— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes)
October 8, 2024
Harris on Call Her Daddy:
Well said response here from VP Harris. Listen to her whole answer. What she
says about the power of words and truth is also incredibly important.
@AdamParkhomenko
https://t.co/iKDzqTFesr— Maria Shriver (@mariashriver)
October 7, 2024
This is such an amazing answer from Kamala Harris on Sarah Huckabee Sanders
insulting her “I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of
women out here who are not aspiring to be humble. This is not the 1950s
anymore.” Spot on.
pic.twitter.com/AjtDAhQVcv— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson)
October 6, 2024
For those asking why Harris went on Call Her Daddy, NPR obtained audience
data on the show from Edison Research:– 70% women
– 76%
under 35 (93% under 45)
– 48% Democrat / 24% Republican / 20%
Independent
– 34% live in the south / 24% west / 22% northeast / 20%
midwest https://t.co/OaoIZyrDo1— Elena Moore (@ElenaMMoore)
October 7, 2024
And Harris definitely does not shy away from calling out disrespect:
Reporter: There are reports that DeSantis is ignoring your calls..
Kamala
Harris: Playing political games at this moment…It’s utterly irresponsible
and it is selfish and it is about political gamesmanship instead of doing
the job that you took an oath to do
pic.twitter.com/lySDD98xO9— Acyn (@Acyn)
October 7, 2024
Walz on Jimmy Kimmel:
“Supervise a high school lunch room, you’re either an optimists or you’re
dead…I plan on waking up on November 6th with ‘Madame President'” –
@Tim_Walz on
@JimmyKimmelLive.Come for the eternal optimism, stay for the charming stories
about how teaching compares to politics:
pic.twitter.com/tP3BTq6tzB— Matt Corridoni (@mattcorridoni)
October 8, 2024
Speaking of interviews, here’s another one — Elon and Tucker, if you can
believe it:
A monster inside a moron wrapped in a fascist.
https://t.co/887Lqj1SRc— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf)
October 8, 2024
If that’s not motivation to get out and vote for Harris & Walz, I don’t
know what is…
https://t.co/UgOTmWhkfg— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann)
October 7, 2024
Also, this:
If you think the lies and distortions and know-nothing takes about FEMA are
bad, just wait until this time next month.— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta)
October 5, 2024
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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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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 […]
Interesting Fact of the Month
Did you know visiting Canada with a DUI is difficult? If a US citizen has a DUI or DWI they could be denied entry at the Canadian border! Even a misdemeanor for reckless driving, or a traffic ticket for impaired driving, can prevent an American from entering Canada. In order to enter Canada with DUI charges many people hire an immigration lawyer. Going to Canada from USA with other criminal convictions like theft or assault can also be challenging.
Did you know visiting Canada with a DUI is difficult? If a US citizen has a DUI or DWI they could be denied entry at the Canadian border! Even a misdemeanor for reckless driving, or a traffic ticket for impaired driving, can prevent an American from entering Canada. In order to enter Canada with DUI charges many people hire an immigration lawyer. Going to Canada from USA with other criminal convictions like theft or assault can also be challenging.
