Our Leader Maxime Bernier was wrongfully arrested this afternoon by the RCMP in St-Pierre-Jolys, Man., for attending rallies with supporters.
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) June 11, 2021
-PPC Team pic.twitter.com/sbOpu6RORn
National Post/Canadian Press: Maxime Bernier arrested, charged after attending anti-COVID restriction rally in Manitoba
The People's Party of Canada Leader was charged with exceeding public gathering limits and violating Manitoba's requirement to self-isolate upon entering the province
WINNIPEG — The leader of the People’s Party of Canada has been arrested in Manitoba after attending a rally against COVID-19 restrictions.
RCMP say Maxime Bernier was charged with exceeding public gathering limits and violating Manitoba’s requirement to self-isolate upon entering the province.
The arrest south of Winnipeg occurred before Bernier was to arrive at a protest in the city. Bernier is a former federal Conservative who served as a cabinet minister in Stephen Harper’s government.
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Update #1: People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier arrested by RCMP in Manitoba (CBC) Update #2: People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier charged after anti-rules rallies in Manitoba (Toronto Sun)
WNU Editor: NHL hockey teams are permitted to travel between borders. A vigil where hundreds if not thousands showed up for a family that was killed in a hate crime in London (Ontario) was permitted. If I had time, I would list dozens of other arbitrary waivers and exceptions to current lock-down laws that have been made in Canada by our federal and provincial governments in the past month.
But if a politician from a small opposition party organizes a small rally to voice opposition to the current lock-down measures .... expect to be targeted, arrested, and put in jail.
Not a good day for civil liberties in Canada today. Not a good day at all.
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Trudeau is not a classical liberal. He does not love liberty except his own.
Most of the population by profession are not in the medical field and are not well educated in biology and genetics, so power hungry politicians and some unscrupulous government employees are us g this occasion to enslave people. The reason that previous generations who made the various constitutions or rules did not envision a pandemic of this type and so the rules do not apply. That is how they reason browbeat people and usurp power.
Not the Canada that dwells in my mind.
This is scary. Don't go down this road Canada!
The West is becoming increasingly totalitarian. I never thought police states would happen in the West ever. Laws are being made in Scotland making it increasingly simple to arrest law abiding citizens for questioning immigration, lawful or illegal under the guise of thought crime. Even in their own home. There is a revolution taking place in the West against the indigenous populations by the ruling class. Concentration camps are sure to follow. Keep ducking 🙈
Lapides loves this, fits right in with that blue nose he holds so high in the air.
(CNN)The United States looks increasingly unlikely to reach President Joe Biden's July 4 vaccine goal. We need at least 70% of all adults to have one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, and we're on pace to have somewhere between 67% and 68%.
The overall picture masks, however, an underlying pattern: Nearly all of the states Biden won will make his goal, while all of the states he lost are unlikely to.
The vaccine partisan divide among adults is greater than ever currently. As of Thursday's CDC report, 69.9% of adults in the average Biden-won state have received at least one dose, meaning those states have basically already reached Biden's goal with more than a little over three weeks to go.
Compare this to the states Biden lost and Donald Trump won, where an average 54.9% of adults have received at least one dose. The Trump-won states aren't anywhere close to where the Biden-won states are. You'd have to go back more than a month for the Biden-won states to be averaging a vaccination rate as low as the Trump-won states.
When you break it down by individual states, 13 of the 25 states Biden took last fall have hit the 70% mark. An additional 7 states have at least 67% of all adults with one dose, so they'll likely reach the 70% threshold by the time July 4 rolls around.
There are zero states that Trump took last fall that have at least 67% of adults with at least one vaccine dose. The closest is Nebraska at 62.8%, which is lower than all but four states Biden won (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada).
The only Biden-won states that likely won't reach the mark were among the very closest in the last election: Wisconsin and the aforementioned Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Biden emerged victorious by less than 3 points in all of them.
Indeed, it's not just the binary (did Biden win or lose a state) that is increasingly predictive of vaccination rates, but how much Biden won the state by. On a scale of -1 to +1, the correlation is +0.85 between Biden's 2020 margin in a state and the adult vaccination rate in a state.
This type of correlation is rarely seen when comparing a non-political and political stat. It gives you an idea of how much partisanship is driving vaccinations.
Back at the beginning of April, when vaccines were becoming more readily available, this relationship did
"fits right in with that blue nose he holds so high in the air."
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In the United States, political polarization has checked efforts to enact even modest federal climate change legislation for decades. Out of frustration, one might even say desperation, some activists have looked to the world of private investing and major corporations—yes, even oil companies—to press a climate change agenda. And those efforts have been somewhat successful. On the one hand, there are now reasonably large investment funds that, through their investment criteria, in effect take resources away from companies that have poor environmental track records and reward those who have better records. On the other hand, activists have also purchased stock in some of the major polluters and used their status as shareholders to push shareholder resolutions and fight for seats as outside members of the boards of directors. Remarkably, a third activist was just elected to the Exxon board.
This strategy should now be extended to the fight to preserve democracy in the United States. All across the United States, Republican majorities in state legislatures are pushing to restrict ballot access, and even to politicize (in their partisan favor) how disputes over the outcomes of close elections will be resolved. Distinguished political scientists see the United States as being on the verge of slipping from a flawed but real democracy to a nation where power will reside in an essentially anti-democratic (small d), even authoritarian party, regardless of what the majority of Americans think and desire. Of course, the Biden administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress are trying to enact federal legislation that would override anti-democratic legislation at the state level. But the odds of such legislation actually being enacted are slipping by the day. And if it is not enacted soon, state-level restrictions on ballot access and state-level gerrymandering could ensure Republican control of Congress as a minority party for years to come.
So far, corporations have been relatively quiet about the fact that the United States, at the hand of one of two major political parties, may be on the verge of losing its democratic system of government. It is true that Delta and Coca-Cola expressed their disappointment over Georgia’s adoption of an anti–voting rights law, and Major League Baseball went further, moving its All-Star Game out of Georgia. But there continues to be relative silence from major corporations around voting rights, even as bills restricting voting edge toward passage in dozens of states. That quiet is explicable. Big business and the Republican Party have had a long, close relationship, and the majority of CEOs probably are (or until recently, were) Republicans. More to the point, CEOs care about making money, and especially their companies’ short-term profitability and stock performance, and so it makes sense for them to try to avoid alienating Republican leaders in Mar-a-Lago, Congress, and the state legislatures.
Which is why corporations must be pushed to take a stand. Both through “democratically responsible” investment funds and shareholder activism, investors can push corporations to state loudly for all to hear which voting measures they approve and which they denounce. Investors could push for corporations to issue “democracy” impact statements, which would detail the corporations’ political contributions, relevant lobbying efforts, and other measures that affect the fight for preserving democracy in the United States. Investors might push corporations to commit not to make direct or indirect campaign contributions to any politician or state party that supports anti–voting rights legislation, or federal candidates who oppose measures that would protect democracy such as the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Admittedly, determining which investor demands on corporations would be productive in terms of the fight for democracy is not straightforward or obvious. But that is all the more reason why the effort to make those determinations needs to begin right now.
Where's the Pew poll info? You cited it or as a typical coward ( patch cord ranger indeed) you'll runaway.
Liar
Lapides is fascinated by sex, his male students understood.
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