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    Default What's hot in real world news? - Thread 7.0

    Here's a link to What's hot in real world news? - Thread 6.0, followed by a fresh news item:

    https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...ews-Thread-6-0

    For the record, here's one link that shows that late last year, the Ford gov't was considering vaccine passports, contrary to Ford saying he was always against such passports (until recently, anyway):

    https://www.thestar.com/politics/pro...orts-next.html

    Ontario portal to download proof of vaccination intermittently shut down on first day/sept 2021:

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...rily-shut-down
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    ottawa.ctvnews.ca/Ottawa LRT train had already derailed before reaching station, but kept going - TSB [damage could take weeks to repair]:

    https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/lrt-train-...-tsb-1.5594646

    An oldie but goodie (I forget if it touches at all on history of fishy LRT wheeling, dealings and whitewashing by liberal mayor Watson and his city council lackeys - SNC Lavalin won a fishy process that was rushed, to get LRT phase 2, for example {next link posted after this one touches on a lot of fishy stuff besides that}]:

    ottawa.ctvnews.ca/One year of LRT in Ottawa - a timeline of troubles:

    https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/one-year-o...bles-1.5103082

    How much more is Ottawa's LRT costing taxpayers?

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...elay-1.6027530

    [edit: here's a link re: SNC Lavalin bid. It's a wonder the competing bidders didn't sue the city - were they quietly paid off? Did Trudeau want Quebec's SNC Lavalin to win?]

    ottawa.ctvnews.ca/Fatally flawed - the glaring weaknesses of SNC-Lavalin's winning bid for stage 2 of LRT:

    https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/fatally-fl...-lrt-1.4781786
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    nypost.com/2021/09/22/Biden admits botching AUKUS-Pact rollout after call with France:

    https://nypost.com/2021/09/22/biden-...l-with-france/

    theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/21/US has no closer ally than Australia says Biden, after AUKUS-pact [so I guess that makes Canada chopped liver, unless Biden was having another senior's moment and/or Trudeau is seen as too close to China's @$$]:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ter-aukus-pact
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    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Gunter: Meaningless [expensive, health-risking federal] election settled nothing [and changed little]:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ettled-nothing

    FIRST READING: The least popular Canadian government ever elected [Plus, Julie Payette’s new job as an election worker]:

    https://nationalpost.com/news/politi...t-ever-elected

    John Robson: In election 2021, everyone was a loser [Who won? I {J.R.}don’t think anyone did]:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/joh...ne-was-a-loser

    Chris Selley: Trudeau faces a tough follow-through on his vaccine tough talk [If the Liberals try to retreat to a typical 'compromise' position, they will never hear the end of it]:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chr...ine-tough-talk

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: How the conservatives can beat Trudeau in the next election:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...-next-election

    Less optimistically, for the right in Canada these days:
    KINSELLA: 10 thoughts on the outcome of Election 2021 [It confirmed something pretty big: The country has changed]:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...-election-2021
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    COVID-19: 140 unvaccinated staff at Windsor, Ont. hospital placed on leave:

    https://globalnews.ca/news/8213516/u...dsor-hospital/
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    Biden's approval rating hits new low in latest Gallup poll:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ll/5819831001/

    It’s not just Republicans. Everyone’s mad at Biden [especially] over migration:

    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...roubles-513370
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    HIV is Africa's latest covid-19 problem:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsl...vid-19-problem
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    oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Will South America's Latest Oil Boom Spark A Military Clash?:

    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oi...ary-Clash.html
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    theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/22/US-UK 'special relationship' faces new challenges despite signs of healing:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...gns-of-healing
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    Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Wednesday [Vaccine passport systems rolling out in New Brunswick and Ontario; N.B. reports record 76 new cases]:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/corona...2021-1.6185001
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