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Three killed, three injured in Illinois bowling alley shooting
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(Reuters) – Illinois police said they had arrested a suspect on Saturday after media reported three people had been were killed and three injured in a nighttime shooting at a bowling alley.
“Suspect is in custody. This an active and ongoing investigation,” tweeted https://bit.ly/37VtN7r the police in Rockford, west of Chicago.
The department had earlier tweeted https://bit.ly/3rFLyiS that there was an “active shooter investigation near Don Carter Lanes on E.State Street. Avoid the area.”
(Reporting by Sabahatjahan Contractor in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard)
Source: – TheChronicleHerald.ca
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KINSELLA: International media unimpressed by Canada's vaccine rollout and they're right – Toronto Sun
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Other countries? Well, in Israel – a nation perpetually under attack, with a dysfunctional system of government, and no coronavirus vaccine-manufacturing capacity of its own, like Canada – more Israelis get vaccinated in a single day than Canada vaccinated in all of December.
In the United States – a divided nation run by an impeached lunatic, with an actual insurrection still underway – nearly ten million Americans have been vaccinated with one or more doses. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to “move Heaven and Earth,” meanwhile, to get 100 million of his fellow citizens vaccinated in the first 100 days of his administration.
Justin Trudeau’s Canada? Not so good.
Now, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc is a whip-smart guy, educated at Trinity College and Harvard. He was sent out, a few days ago, to polish the turd that is Justin Trudeau’s record on vaccines.
Canada is “on track” with its coronavirus vaccine rollout, Leblanc said to various media, with a straight face. And, in response to criticisms arising from the fact that provinces have run out of doses – because they actually have – well, Leblanc said this: it’s “a bit simplistic.”
And that much is true, although not in the way that Leblanc intended. It is simple: you either have vaccines, or you don’t.
Many provinces didn’t, or not nearly enough. The University Health Network – which has thousands of beds, and patients from across Canada – effectively ran out of vaccines a few days ago. They were forced to reschedule vaccination appointments.
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KINSELLA: International media unimpressed by Canada's vaccine rollout and they're right – Toronto Sun
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Other countries? Well, in Israel – a nation perpetually under attack, with a dysfunctional system of government, and no coronavirus vaccine-manufacturing capacity of its own, like Canada – more Israelis get vaccinated in a single day than Canada vaccinated in all of December.
In the United States – a divided nation run by an impeached lunatic, with an actual insurrection still underway – nearly ten million Americans have been vaccinated with one or more doses. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to “move Heaven and Earth,” meanwhile, to get 100 million of his fellow citizens vaccinated in the first 100 days of his administration.
Justin Trudeau’s Canada? Not so good.
Now, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc is a whip-smart guy, educated at Trinity College and Harvard. He was sent out, a few days ago, to polish the turd that is Justin Trudeau’s record on vaccines.
Canada is “on track” with its coronavirus vaccine rollout, Leblanc said to various media, with a straight face. And, in response to criticisms arising from the fact that provinces have run out of doses – because they actually have – well, Leblanc said this: it’s “a bit simplistic.”
And that much is true, although not in the way that Leblanc intended. It is simple: you either have vaccines, or you don’t.
Many provinces didn’t, or not nearly enough. The University Health Network – which has thousands of beds, and patients from across Canada – effectively ran out of vaccines a few days ago. They were forced to reschedule vaccination appointments.
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Media coverage of COVID is failing Albertans, and it's not the media’s fault. – Alberta Daily Herald Tribune
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This has to stop.
Either Dr. Hinshaw or her two expert, and well-compensated, deputies need to make themselves available on a regular basis to answer technical questions — from reporters whose microphones don’t get muted. They’ll need to explain what the statistics they release really mean and take questions about the particulars of outbreaks and the evolving science of the pandemic.
Yes, some of the questions and answers will be uncomfortable, and uncertainty will be highlighted. But Albertans will be better served by having these questions answered with uncertainty than they are when the questions aren’t even asked.
Of course, the semi-regular official briefings with top decision-makers should continue when there are major policy announcements. But those would also benefit from being less stilted. Also, Alberta is a wealthy province; we can afford a socially distanced second podium on the stage so that we don’t have to waste precious question time on the theatre of hand sanitizing.
COVID is contagious and it has required us to change the nature of news gathering, but the news-gathering function is more important now than ever.
Albertans are being asked to give up so much. Our compliance should happen in exchange for our government’s willingness to answer all our questions.
Vitor Marciano was formerly press secretary to two leaders of the Opposition.
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