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The Senate passed legislation Thursday designed to address the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer touted the bipartisan passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act: "Bigots, we're going after you."
Biden gave a speech for Earth Day in which he urged everybody to take action on climate change, but refused to specifically mention China, despite that nation being the world's biggest polluter.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Quebec Premier Francois Legault wrote a letter on Thursday to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for stricter border measures which they believe will help contain the spread of COVID.
Despite saying earlier in March that Americans may be able to hold small gatherings on the 4th of July this year, President Joe Biden is now warning that those events may need to be canceled if the reluctance to get the vaccine continues.
On Thursday Ibram X. Kendi, the author of "How to be an antiracist", was being interviewed by CNN's Brianna Keilar and he mentioned his opinions on the recent police shooting in Columbus OH.
According to new police footage, the girl threatened by Ma'Khia Bryant at knifepoint tells authorities, "She came after me." That's why the officer shot the teen, the victim says, expressing gratitude.
In their article "Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons," the more than a dozen authors, all of them doctors, refer to "pregnant persons," erasing women.
In their anti-racism training, Global Affairs Canada states that they were inspired by "critical race theory."
The results of a survey released Thursday have found that younger professionals are more likely to experience "zoom fatigue" and anxiety with the increase of video meetings during the pandemic.
"Today I would like to apologize to the House for breaking the rules by taking a photograph of a colleague during question period on April 14."
"We, the young people, are the ones who are going to write about you in the history books. We are the ones who get to decide how you will be remembered. So my advice to you is to choose wisely," she concluded.
Unlike Canada, however, the British governing party chose not to abstain. Instead, they condemned the genocide in the strongest possible terms.
The Toronto Metropolitan Police announced on Wednesday that all 16 of their divisions will have enforcement teams formed specifically to respond to illegal gatherings.
Conservative Party Leader Erin O'Toole also took time on Thursday to comment on Trudeau's undeserved status as a climate hero.
"The notion that black people need to be protected from a free ID to secure their votes is not just insane, it is insulting... This doesn't have anything to do with justice, it has to do with power," Robinson said.