TORONTO—Many police forces in Ontario say they will not be stopping motorists or people at random to enforce new COVID-19 rules. Instead, they say, they plan to act on complaints or obvious violations. Criticism of Premier Doug Ford’s new powers for police has been widespread and furious. The powers allow officers to stop anyone and…
Many Ontario Police Forces Won’t Use New COVID Powers To Conduct Random Stops
White House Walks Back Statement on Agreements With Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras
President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday shifted its portrayal of ongoing discussions with Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, acknowledging no formal agreements were reached on those countries building up their forces at their respective borders. There was no “formal agreement,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in Washington. “We never described it as a…
MP William Amos Speaks Out After Nude Image During Parliament Session Leaked
OTTAWA—The Liberal MP who inadvertently flashed his parliamentary colleagues says the fact that a screenshot of him in the nude was leaked to the media sends a troubling message about the corrosive state of politics in Canada. “It sends a terrible signal,” William Amos said in an interview. “It says if there’s partisan gain to…
France Decides That Sex With Child Under 15 Is Automatically Rape
PARIS—The French parliament on Thursday adopted legislation that characterizes sex with a child under the age of 15 as rape and punishable by up to 20 years in jail, bringing its penal code closer in line with many other Western nations. Sex between an adult and a child younger than 15 was already illegal but…
Pompeo Violated Ethics Rules While Secretary of State: Watchdog
Mike Pompeo, while secretary of state, improperly asked a political appointee to carry out personal tasks, a watchdog said in a report published Friday. Pompeo and his wife, Susan, made over 100 requests to employees in the State Department’s Office of the Secretary, including the unnamed appointee, for work of a personal nature, such as…
Will Chinese Premier’s Soft Tone Work on the United States?
April 17, 2021
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Commentary On April 13, Xinhua, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mouthpiece, reported that Li Keqiang, the CCP’s premier, had a video conversation with U.S. business leaders and made a rare appearance using a soft tone, amidst an impasse between the Chinese regime and the United States. The CCP’s top brass has no choice but to…
Riots Erupt Across US in Wake of Police Shootings
Demonstrations took place in a slew of major U.S. cities on Friday night, with some devolving into riots, in the wake of several deadly police shootings. In Brooklyn Center, where 20-year-old Daunte Wright was fatally shot on April 11 after resisting arrest, a peaceful march swelled in size after returning to the police headquarters, and…
Fully Vaccinated Person Dies of COVID-19 in Texas, Officials Say
A person who was fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 died of the disease in Texas, officials announced Friday. One of the 15 deaths reported in Dallas County was an immunocompromised individual who had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine but was a solid organ transplant patient, Judge Clay Jenkins, the top elected…
Long-Lost Adopted Brother & Sister Reunite After Decades Apart, Discover They Were Living ‘Parallel Lives’
April 17, 2021
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Two siblings who were adopted separately as children have been reunited after decades apart. They discovered they were living “parallel lives” in the same state, New York, but never knew the other sibling existed, until recently. “We would love to get [our] story out so other adoptees don’t have to wait as long as we…
Russia Beefs up Warship Presence in Black Sea as Ukraine Tensions Simmer
MOSCOW—Two Russian warships transited the Bosphorus en route to the Black Sea on Saturday and 15 smaller vessels completed a transfer to the sea as Moscow beefs up its naval presence at a time of tense relations with the West and Ukraine. The reinforcement coincides with a huge build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine, something…
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