Month: September 2020

Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore said he believes residents of the state should “vote their conscience” in Tuesday’s special Senate election between him and Democrat Doug Jones. “I think they ought to go out and vote their conscious, and we’ll have a tremendous turnout,” Moore told reporters after voting. “The nation is watching this.…

Republican Roy MooreRoy Stewart MooreSessions goes after Tuberville’s coaching record in challenging him to debate The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip Sessions fires back at Trump over recusal: ‘I did my duty & you’re damn fortunate I did” MORE says he completed a lie detector test after the Alabama Senate election concluded to prove the…

TORONTO — Up to 60 Ontario pharmacies will offer COVID-19 tests starting Friday, an initiative the government hopes will help reduce long waits at assessment centres across the province. Premier Doug Ford announced the pharmacy testing Wednesday as the second part of a fall pandemic preparedness plan, saying it would be expanded in the coming…

OTTAWA — In mid-March, Christine Ilott’s manager broke some bad news to her: she was losing her job in live theatre as a result of the pandemic.  The 47-year-old went home to her basement apartment north of Toronto, walked down the stairs, sat down and took off her shoes. She glanced up the staircase and…

Nationwide strikes halted public transportation in several of Brazil’s major cities on Friday as labor unions sought to show widespread opposition to the unelected president’s austerity reforms. “It is going to be the biggest strike in the history of Brazil,” said Paulo Pereira da Silva, the president of trade union group Forca Sindical.  AFP writes:…

Texas is moving forward with an unprecedented and bold request to the federal government: the state wants federal money to help it strip all public funding from Planned Parenthood. If Texas is successful, other states are likely to follow suit. “We’re all terrified,” Elizabeth Nash, senior state issue manager at the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute, told…

Donald Trump’s bizarre cabinet meeting Monday in which members heaped praise upon him comes on a day the president’s ego may need a bit of stroking. “49% of voters say that they think Trump committed obstruction of justice, to just 41% who don’t think he did.” —Public Policy Polling Gallup’s latest daily tracking poll shows…

There’s a new doctrine dominating policy decisions in Washington, D.C., and it sacrifices the poor, elderly, and disadvantaged at the altar of corporations and the ultra-wealthy.  The Mulvaney Doctrine, as defined by watchdog group Public Citizen in a report (pdf) released Thursday, prioritizes concern over federal deficits and debt—but only when that concern helps to advance…

Widespread applause greeted a large teepee in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario on Thursday morning. First Nations protesters erected the teepee as a reminder of the mistreatment of their ancestors amid celebrations in Canada for the country’s 150th anniversary. Though the demonstrators’ first attempt to raise the teepee was blocked by police the…

Some of the small Caribbean islands that are expected to suffer the most damage from Hurricane Irma have had some of the loudest voices in recent months regarding the effects of climate change—and the harm being done by leaders including President Donald Trump, who withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord in June.…