Month: September 2020

Just to be clear: the “blue wave” is coming. No, the “blue tidal wave” is not coming. Actually, the “blue wave” might be coming, but it’s a question mark. Of course, the country will only find out if Democrats can overturn the Republican’s grip on power when people to go to the polls for the…

In what’s being called the People’s Climate Case, families from eight different countries have come together to sue European Union (EU) institutions for failing to adequately address the global climate crisis that’s threatening their livelihoods. With support from the Climate Action Network (CAN), ten families from Fiji, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Portugal, Romania, and Saami…

An investigation sparked by reports from concerned neighbors who suspected that immigrant children were being housed in a vacant office building in Phoenix, illustrated the secrecy surrounding the care of children by the U.S. government and defense contractors that have been hired to help enforce the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. Reveal at the…

At last year’s mid-September campaign launch ahead of the federal election, long-time Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May unveiled a new slogan. Surrounded by a sea of staunch supporters — many older, even more white — at an indoor market in Victoria, May pushed a simple message, repeated in chants and songs.  “Not Left.…

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is blasting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after his family’s frustrating experience with COVID-19 testing and calling on the federal government to greenlight rapid methods being used in other countries. O’Toole revealed this week he and his family were in self-isolation after a staffer with whom he had recently travelled tested positive…

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the partial closure of the Canadian border with the United States is being extended another month to Oct. 21. Crossings of the U.S.-Canada border have been largely restricted to trade goods, essential workers and citizens returning home since March, in an attempt to limit the spread of…

VICTORIA — British Columbia is introducing a new saline gargle test for students from kindergarten to Grade 12 to help make COVID-19 testing easier for children and teenagers. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said B.C. is one of the first places in the world to use a mouth rinse gargle test for the new coronavirus.…

Fresh off a shocking defeat at the hands of a progressive challenger, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) took to the stage at his election night watch party with his guitar to play with the band. Crowley dedicated his rendition of Bruce Springstein’s “Born to Run” to his Democratic primary opponent, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who knocked the House’s No. 4 Democrat…

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has shifted its prediction for Rep. Vern BuchananVernon Gale BuchananMORE’s (R-Fla.) congressional seat toward Democrats after a report that he bought a yacht on the same day the GOP’s tax cuts passed the House. Cook, a popular elections handicapper, shifted Buchanan’s race from a “likely Republican” seat to a “lean Republican”…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE ripped conservative mega-donors Charles and David Koch one day after the political network formed by the billionaire brothers said…