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PHAC President Given Until Friday to Explain Why Two Scientists Let Go

OTTAWA—The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada has been given until the end of the week to explain why two Canadian government scientists were let go 18 months after being escorted from Canada’s only Level 4 laboratory. Iain Stewart came under fire Monday from opposition MPs after he repeatedly refused to explain why

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Chicago Suburb Approves $10 Million Reparations Program Funded by Marijuana Tax Revenue

Officials in a Chicago suburb on Monday approved a first-of-its-kind reparations program that will provide housing grants to black residents as compensation for past municipal segregationist policies, with the money coming from donations and tax revenues from sales of recreational marijuana. City Council members in Evanston, Illinois, voted 8–1 to adopt the “Local Reparations Restorative Housing

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Updates on CCP Virus: Brazil Consumer Confidence Posts Third Biggest Fall

Consumer confidence in Brazil registered its third-largest monthly fall on record, a survey indicated on Tuesday, hammered by a deadly second wave of the CCP virus pandemic and near collapse of the public health system in several cities. The Getulio Vargas Foundation’s (FGV) consumer confidence index fell 9.8 points to a 10-month low of 68.2

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New Border Photos Show Children Sleeping Shoulder-to-Shoulder in Transparent Pen

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials released photos of crowded temporary facilities being used to process illegal immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in the midst of a recent surge in migration. These photos, which were taken in a Donna, Texas, overflow facility, show what appear children sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on floor mats with what appear

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PHAC President Refuses to Explain to MPs Why Scientists Were Fired From Winnipeg Lab

The head of the Public Health Agency of Canada refused to explain to a House of Commons committee the reasons behind why a prominent Chinese Canadian scientist and her husband who worked at Canada’s top laboratory were fired after a police investigation. At the Committee on Canada-China Relations on March 22, PHAC president Iain Stewart

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