- The Kinew government certainly has its work cut out for it in salvaging the healthcare system from the ravages of COVID-19 and the Tories. The Manitoba Nurses' Union says that the ER at Manitoba's largest hospital is "drowning", with wait times up to 30 hours and patients left unattended in hallways.
- Myrna Driedger, who served as speaker of the Manitoba legislature under the Tories, has come under fire for a social media post that implies that the refugees that Premier Kinew wants to welcome to Manitoba are a bunch of terrorists.
- A recent poll suggests that the federal Liberals would improve their chances by ditching Trudeau in favour of Chrystia Freeland or Mark Carney. Of course, attempting to turf a leader can turn out badly, as the Manitoba NDP found out (and the Australian Labor Party before them). Whether Trudeau's ego will allow him to leave of his own accord is also questionable.
- Since the start of the most recent conflict in Gaza, nearly 20,000 Palestinians have died and close to 2 million have been displaced. Meanwhile another Israeli has been killed by one of his own as he attempted to stop a terrorist attack and was mistaken for one of the terrorists. And Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen (who is Jewish, incidentally) was scheduled to be awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize but was almost denied it over an article which drew uncomfortable parallels between the Jewish ghettos of Europe during WWII and present-day Gaza. This has led some to wonder whether Arendt herself would be eligible for the prize today.
- London's High Court will rule in February on whether to hand Julian Assange over to the Americans to face what is likely to be a long prison term.
- Poland's new government is busily working to restore their country's democratic institutions. This will be a monumental task; the previous government has spent the last two terms stacking the courts and civil service with their flunkies.
- Four patrons at a London, UK nightclub were hospitalized after bar staff, in a frenzied search for salt to accompany tequila shots, grabbed the first white powder they could find in the back room. Unfortunately the powder in question turned out to be lye.
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