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Despite President-elect Joe Biden’s clear victory in the 2020 US election, Team Trump is still on a mission to dispute the results. For months, Trump has threatened that he won’t easily concede should he lose the election — a promise he’s clearly sticking to with the launch of his election defence fund and his daily Twitter rants. But while Trump continues to flatter himself in believing he still has a chance to hold onto the Oval Office, his inner circle is allegedly starting to think otherwise. According to CNN, after voting maskless in Florida on Tuesday, First Lady Melania Trump has reportedly spoken to her husband about conceding from the race. CNN also says that White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner encouraged Trump’s concession, too, though a White House official later disputed the claim and stated that Kushner was actually encouraging the president to pursue legal justice instead. This would align Kushner with Don Jr. and Eric Trump, who have continued to rage-shame politicians across party lines to support their father, urging the public not to accept these election results as truth. But perhaps none of this is as real as the White House would like us to believe: Team Trump is a clear sinking ship, and while Don Jr. and Eric apparently are eager to go down with it, Melania and Kushner might be trying to figure out the best way to save themselves — including by acting as if they’re valiantly trying to convince the president to do the right thing and concede. While it’s possible that some of those close to Trump are in the process of trying to convince him to accept his loss, it’s more likely that those who have supported him during his disastrous COVID-19 response, the inhumane separation of immigrant children from their parents, and countless other horrible acts don’t really care about what it is that Trump does, unless it endangers their own future. But, if the Trump family is at odds, that would only be a reflection of the Republican party’s greater response. On the one hand, Republican politicians like former President George W. Bush and Sen. Mitt Romney are congratulating Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory. Bush said in a statement that he “know[s] Joe Biden to be a good man, who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country” and Romney tweeted on Saturday that he and his wife “know both of them as people of good will and admirable character.” Romney also called for the US to “get behind the new president and wish him the very best” during an appearance on State of the Union on Sunday. On the other hand, politicians like Republican Party leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy outright said during a Fox News appearance on Thursday that Trump had won the election and called for “transparency,” “accuracy,” and “that the legal votes be protected.” Sen Ted Cruz also stood by Trump on Fox News on Sunday, saying: “I believe President Trump still has a path to victory. That path is to count every single legal vote that was cast, but also not to cast any votes that were fraudulently passed or illegally cast.” Meanwhile, Sen. Lindsey Graham casually suggested that if Trump concedes, the Republican party will “never” elect another president. With memes of Melania Trump speeding out of the White House running rampant on the timeline, it’s important to remember that Melania — along with the rest of Team Trump — isn’t a victim of circumstance, and doesn’t need any sort of redemption. Even if she is trying to convince her husband to concede (which seems unlikely), it would perhaps be the first time where she has asked him to act according to even the bare minimum of decency. And if that is what she’s doing? It’s probably because she knows it’s better for her in the end — she didn’t really want to have to decorate the White House for Christmas for the next four years. Would you? Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?You Don't Need To Feel Empathy For TrumpPatience Is A Virtue: Joe Biden Won The PresidencyKamala Harris Did That!

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Suspect in 1972 Murder Dies in Apparent Suicide Hours Before Conviction

A man who eluded homicide investigators in Washington state for nearly 50 years -- until a DNA match on a coffee cup cracked the cold case -- died in an apparent suicide Monday just hours before a jury convicted him of murder, authorities said.The man, Terrence Miller, 78, was charged last year with killing Jody Loomis in 1972 in Snohomish County, which is about 20 miles north of Seattle.Loomis, 20, had been riding her bike to visit her horse at a nearby stable when she was sexually assaulted and then shot in the head with a .22-caliber gun, according to a probable cause affidavit.Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York TimesInvestigators used genetic genealogy, a process that involved cross-checking DNA evidence -- taken from a hiking boot worn by Loomis -- with ancestry records to connect Miller to the unsolved murder. They did not know each other, the authorities said.Genetic genealogy has been instrumental in identifying more than 40 suspects in languishing cold cases, most notably the so-called Golden State Killer in California. It also led to a double-murder conviction in another high-profile case in the same Pacific Northwest county where Loomis was killed.Just before 10 a.m. Monday, sheriff's deputies in Edmonds, Washington, responded to a report of a suicide and found what they believed to be Miller's body, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said. Miller had been out on bond, and a family member reported the suicide, the sheriff's office said.About three hours later, in Snohomish County Superior Court, a jury that had been hearing the case against Miller for two weeks convicted him of the murder of Loomis. The judge in the case announced in court that Miller had died, a local radio station reported.A final determination on Miller's cause of death won't be made until at least Tuesday, a spokesperson for the county medical examiner wrote in an email Monday night.For decades, the killing of Loomis had stumped investigators. A couple who had gone out target shooting discovered her partially nude body off a secluded dirt road near Bothell, Washington, on Aug. 23, 1972. Semen was recovered from Loomis' body and from a "waffle stomper" hiking boot that she had been wearing at the time and had borrowed from her sister.In 2008, the samples were sent to the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory for DNA testing, but they did not return a match.The breakthrough in the case came in 2018 when investigators, working with Parabon NanoLabs, were able to put together a family tree of possible suspects based on the semen sample found on the heel of the victim's hiking boot. The company uses DNA to help law enforcement agencies find genetic matches.That's when investigators began their surveillance of Miller, whom they followed to a nearby casino and from whom they retrieved a coffee cup that he had thrown in the garbage, the probable cause affidavit said. The DNA sample was an exact match to the semen found on Loomis' boot, the affidavit said. He was arrested in April 2019 and charged with first-degree murder.Both of Loomis' parents are deceased, and her sister could not be immediately reached for comment Monday night.Laura Martin, the public defender for Miller, contested the integrity of the DNA evidence in an email to The New York Times on Monday night."Death seemed preferable to letting a jury decide a verdict on tainted evidence," Martin wrote. "This is a terrible tragedy that began with Jody Loomis' death and is compounded by an innocent man taking his own life."When two undercover detectives visited a ceramics business that Miller ran with his wife out of their garage in November 2018, they noticed a nearly 7-month-old newspaper on a table with a headline about an arrest made in another cold case in Snohomish County, the affidavit said. That case involved the double murder of a young couple from British Columbia in 1987, which led to the conviction of William Talbot II."The presence of the newspaper seemed, at best, an odd coincidence," the affidavit said. "A fair inference could also be drawn that the defendant was keeping track of the techniques that law enforcement was using to solve cold cases."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company

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WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 17: George T. Conway III, husband of White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, attends the 139th Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House April 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. The White House said 21,000 people are expected to attend the annual tradition of rolling colored eggs down the White House lawn that was started by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Since founding The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Super PAC, the Republicans behind it wanted you to believe that they were so disgusted by their party’s sycophancy that they had dedicated themselves to dethroning the president, the nominal head of their party. With their viral tweets — which are reportedly just stolen content from meme-makers — and scathing ads that undermine Trump’s administration one Mark Hamill-narrated ad and anti-Ivanka billboard at a time, The Lincoln Project fashioned itself into an unlikely hero in the mission to oust Donald Trump from office. But after raising $64.7 million, according to Federal Election Commission data — and with no proof those funds did anything to move the election needle — the PAC seems intent to demonstrate that Trumpism is not a flaw in the Republican Party, but its ethos.  In a series of tweets, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged the founders of The Lincoln Project to “do the right thing” and use the substantial funds they accrued during Trump’s presidency to pay for the needs of Black and brown grassroots organizers who actually made it possible for now president-elect Joe Biden to secure the White House. “There’s potential incentive be @ProjectLincoln is def in scam territory w these results. It’s a pretty bad rep even tho GOP has a thing for failing up,” she said. “Come clean, say ‘listen, we thought it’d work, it didn’t, & in good faith we’re gonna raise X mil for these ppl who deserve it.”  According to their own projections, The Lincoln Project garnered at least $67 million in fundraising over the course of the 2020 election. Instead of admitting defeat, though, as AOC suggested they do, the Republicans behind the Super PAC have doubled down. “AOC is mad at us. QANON Republicans are really mad at us. @realDonaldTrump is really, really mad at us. Must be doing something right,” former New Hampshire GOP chairwoman and The Lincoln Project founder Jennifer Horn tweeted.  But Horn’s assertion only goes to show that The Lincoln Project was less about making any substantial dent in outcome of the election than it was about being a vanity project meant to protect the reputation of a few Republicans who don’t want to be attached to the specific nightmare that is the Trump administration. They certainly didn’t care about actually changing Republican voters’ minds — or, if they did, they weren’t very good at it. Exit polls have shown that 58% of white men and 55% of white women voted for Trump in the 2020 election. A reported 93% of Republicans and 40% of Independents also voted for four more years of Trump — all of whom are The Lincoln Project’s so-called target audience. Besides, what needs to be remembered about The Lincoln Project is that they never cared about helping Democrats, but only about helping themselves. If The Lincoln Project was really dedicated to getting rid of Trump, they would recognize that the only way to do that is to get rid of the forces that created, enabled, and supported Trump. They can’t do that, though, because they are those very forces. So while it would be nice to think that they’d throw their money behind the Black and brown grassroots organizers that saved this democracy, and the just take the L and step aside entirely, that’s never going to happen. Instead, they’ll just continue to do what they’ve been doing all along — grifting the American public. Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?Don’t Thank Trump For Pfizer's COVID-19 VaccineMegyn Kelly Talks "Feelings" After Attacking BidenTrump's Unsurprising Reaction To Biden's Victory

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Growing Discomfort at Law Firms Representing Trump in Election Lawsuits

Like many big law firms, Jones Day, whose roots go back to Cleveland in the late 1800s, has prided itself on representing controversial clientsThere was Big Tobacco. There was the bin Laden family. There was even the hated owner of the Cleveland Browns football team as he moved the franchise to Baltimore.Now Jones Day is the most prominent firm representing President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as they prepare to wage a legal war challenging the results of the election. The work is intensifying concerns inside the firm about the propriety and wisdom of working for Trump, according to lawyers at the firm.Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York TimesDoing business with Trump -- with his history of inflammatory rhetoric, meritless lawsuits and refusal to pay what he owes -- has long induced heartburn among lawyers, contractors, suppliers and lenders. But the concerns are taking on new urgency as the president seeks to raise doubts about the election results.Some senior lawyers at Jones Day, one of the country's largest law firms, are worried that it is advancing arguments that lack evidence and may be helping Trump and his allies undermine the integrity of American elections, according to interviews with nine partners and associates, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their jobs.At another large firm, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, based in Columbus, Ohio, lawyers have held internal meetings to voice similar concerns about their firm's election-related work for Trump and the Republican Party, according to people at the firm. At least one lawyer quit in protest.Already, the two firms have filed at least four lawsuits challenging aspects of the election in Pennsylvania. The cases are pending.The latest salvo came on Monday evening, when the Trump campaign filed a suit in federal court in Pennsylvania against the Pennsylvania secretary of state and a number of county election boards. The suit -- filed by lawyers at Porter Wright -- alleged that there were "irregularities" in voting across the state.In recent days, Trump and his allies have been trying to raise money to bankroll their legal efforts. Some of the fundraising entreaties have noted that a portion of donated money might be used to pay down the campaign's existing debts, rather than to fund new legal efforts.While it is not clear which law firms will be filing the suits, Jones Day has been one of Trump's most steadfast legal advisers.As Trump campaigned for president in 2016, a Jones Day partner, Donald McGahn, served as his outside lawyer, leading recount fights in critical states. McGahn later became Trump's White House counsel, before returning to Jones Day.At the time, some senior lawyers at Jones Day objected to working closely for a polarizing presidential candidate, according to three partners at the firm. They grimaced at the sight of McGahn standing with Trump onstage after he won the New Hampshire primary in February 2016. A month later, the firm hosted a meeting at its Capitol Hill office with Trump and Republican lawmakers as he sought to win over the party establishment.The firm's work for Trump has also garnered it unfavorable public attention. "Jones Day, Hands Off Our Ballots," read a mural painted on the street outside the law firm's San Francisco offices late last week.During the Trump presidency, Jones Day has been involved in some 20 lawsuits involving Trump, his campaign or the Republican Party, and it worked for the Trump campaign on government investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election.The work has been lucrative. Since 2015, Jones Day has received more than $20 million in fees from the Trump campaigns, political groups linked to Trump and the Republican National Committee, according to federal records. Jones Day lawyers said that was a small portion of the firm's overall revenue.In addition to McGahn, a number of other partners at the firm joined the Trump administration. Noel Francisco became Trump's first solicitor general. Eric Dreiband is an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department.Before the 2020 campaign, some partners at Jones Day said, they had to reassure clients that the firm's representation of the Trump team would not influence the rest of the firm's work, according to four partners. Lawyers at the firm have worked to promote gun control and have represented unaccompanied minors, including many detained by the federal government.But partners generally swallowed their concerns about the close relationship with Trump.Then the president and his allies, down in the polls, began fanning fears about voter fraud, part of a broader effort to sow doubts about the integrity of the election."Many of the GOP's litigation concerns are meritorious in principle. But the president's inflammatory language undercuts the claim that Republicans seek merely to uphold statutory safeguards needed to validate the results' credibility," Benjamin L. Ginsberg, a longtime Republican elections lawyer who left Jones Day in August, wrote in The Washington Post the following month.After the election, as Trump's reported lead in Pennsylvania was evaporating, Jones Day and Porter Wright petitioned the Supreme Court to segregate all ballots received after Nov. 3. Pennsylvania, they wrote in their brief, "may well determine the next President of the United States." A prominent Republican lawyer, John M. Gore, is helping to lead the effort at Jones Day. He previously served as an assistant attorney general in Trump's Justice Department.On Friday evening, Justice Samuel Alito ordered election officials in Pennsylvania to keep late-arriving ballots separate and not to include them in announced vote tallies. (Pennsylvania's secretary of state had already given the same guidance.)Six Jones Day lawyers said that given the small number of late-arriving ballots involved in the litigation, and the fact that they already had been segregated, the main goal of the litigation seemed to be to erode public confidence in the election results.Jones Day did not respond to a request for comment.In recent days, two Jones Day lawyers said they had faced heckling from friends and others on social media about working at a firm that is supporting Trump's efforts.A lawyer in Jones Day's Washington office felt that the firm risked hurting itself by taking on work that undermined the rule of law. "To me, it seems extremely shortsighted," the lawyer said.This year, Jones Day has received more than $4 million in fees from Trump, political groups supporting him and the Republican National Committee, according to the most recent Federal Election Commission records.A number of Democratic and Republican partners at Jones Day said that while some of their colleagues were grumbling about the Trump relationship, it was the firm's obligation to continue representing long-term clients, even if individual lawyers disagreed with their politics or tactics. Two partners recalled how Jones Day had stuck with Art Modell, the embattled Cleveland Browns owner, even when there were death threats against the firm's lawyers and security staff had to escort employees in Cleveland to their cars.The outcry at Porter Wright, which like Jones Day was founded in the 1800s in Ohio, appears more intense.In the past week, the firm has filed multiple lawsuits in Pennsylvania, trying to poke holes in the reliability of the election results on behalf of the Trump campaign and the RNC, among others. Porter Wright has received at least $727,000 in fees this year from the Trump campaign and RNC, according to federal records.Over the summer, some lawyers at Porter Wright were dismayed to learn that the firm would be representing the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania, according to three current and former employees.Chief among their concerns: How could lawyers, whose profession is based on the rule of law, represent someone who they felt had frequently tried to flout it? One lawyer said he was concerned that the firm might be asked to try to delay the election. Another said he quit in response to the decision to represent Trump in Pennsylvania.At two meetings, associates at Porter Wright told the firm's partners that they objected to the work for the Trump campaign, according to the three current and former employees. They were told that the assignment was limited to the election in Pennsylvania. That assurance struck some attendees as hollow, since the state might decide the election.Robert J. Tannous, the firm's managing partner, declined to comment in detail on the work for Trump. He said, "Porter Wright has a long history of representing candidates, political parties, interest groups and individuals at the local, state and federal levels on both sides of the aisle, and as a law firm will continue to do so."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company

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A Toronto MP is leaving the Liberal caucus after CBC News found she had employed her sister in her constituency office for years using public funds— a violation of parliamentary rules. Yasmin Ratansi announced her departure late Monday on Facebook. "I made an error in judgment by employing my sister in my constituency office, and I have remedied the situation, but this does not excuse the error I made," she wrote. Ratansi said she will continue sitting as an Independent, representing her constituents in Don Valley East, and will "await guidance" from the ethics commissioner.The statement comes more than 30 hours after CBC News asked her office for comment on the issue.Several former staffers told CBC News Ratansi tried to cover up the relationship by having her sister use a fake first name and telling some staff to keep their family connection quiet."I think it's horrific that a member of Parliament that's entrusted to behave honourable and ethically can get away with impunity," said a former employee. "It really questions the integrity of the institutions."Ratansi, a backbencher, is a trained accountant and became the first Muslim woman elected to the House of Commons in 2004. She lost the seat in 2011 and won it back in 2015. Ratansi is the chair of the standing committee on environment and used to be the vice-chair of the committee overseeing federal government departments' expenses.Her sister Zeenat Khatri has worked as her constituency assistant for much of her time in office, according to six former staffers. During her early years as an MP, it was against the rules to hire "immediate family" including parents, spouses and children, but not siblings. That changed in 2012 when the House's Board of Internal Economy updated its bylaws, said House director of communications Heather Bradley. MPs have their own operating budget and are allowed to pay constituency assistants a maximum salary of $89,700 a year, according to the House of Commons. That means Ratansi could have paid her sister up to $267,000 for three years of salary.'Blatant disregard'Multiple sources said Ratansi employed her sister from at least 2005 to 2011, then hired her again in 2017. But that time, said the sources, Ratansi and Khatri told staff to call her "Jenny" rather than Zeenat — a name she hadn't used in the office before. CBC News has seen one business card bearing the name "Jenny Khatri.""Yasmin told us explicitly — my sister will be coming to work in our office," said that same former employee. "She was going to assume a different name, so she was going to be referred to as Jenny. "The idea was we bring her in but try to conceal her identity, keep her hidden, keep her tucked away so that people don't find out that her sister is employed in the office."CBC News spoke to five former employees who worked for Ratansi's office between 2015 and present and a sixth person who worked for her more than a decade ago. They spoke on condition of confidentiality, citing fear of retaliation from Ratansi herself and of potential harm to their careers.Two former employees said Ratansi and Khatri went to great lengths to cover up their family connection from constituents."The fact that she hired her sister and it's against the rules ... it just feels wrong, it is unethical and blatant disregard of the rules," said another former staff member. Multiple former employees said they saw Khatri hide in a spare office when members of the public came in. They said Khatri was worried that a volunteer or constituent might recognize her as Ratansi's sister.Sources also said Khatri instructed some employees to make sure she wasn't photographed at public events — unless she was attending as a family member rather than as Ratansi's constituency assistant."You might not like it, but you're bound to sort of keep that secret, or else," said one former staffer. "We were forced to, as staff members, to basically be complicit in unethical behaviour … it hurts to basically choke that down and not say anything."Other staffers claim they were kept in the dark. One former employee said they believed the pair were not related and, when told that Ratansi and Khatri are siblings, said "the wool was pulled over my eyes."As of Monday, Khatri was still listed as Ratansi's constituency assistant on the government's online directory. More than 24 hours after CBC News asked Ratansi for comment, her Liberal website had been taken down.'It's a hard day' says government whipChief government whip Mark Holland said he was not aware of the issue until contacted by CBC News on Monday. He said the House rules are clear and it's "essential they be respected.""We try to have rigorous systems and processes but clearly this was not caught and now it has to go to the ethics commissioner to figure out what the appropriate restitution is," he told CBC News."It's a hard day. I was elected in 2004 with Yasmin, so it's a very difficult day. But I think taking responsibility for her lapse in judgment, stepping away from caucus … these are the right steps."Chris MacDonald, an associate professor who teaches business ethics at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto, says there are good reasons why the public frowns on nepotism and expects public figures to hire on merit.He said the claim that Ratansi covered up her sister's hiring is more troubling than the hiring itself. He said it suggests a guilty mind and an attempt to keep information from constituents and voters."Once there is an attempt to cover it up, then it makes it pretty clear that even the person doing the hiring realizes there's something fishy here," he said. "If these allegations are true, it's a disturbing picture of abuse of power, of a misuse of a position that involves trust and public resources."

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Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, was unwilling to recognize the result. Instead, senators have tiptoed around -- or in some cases blindly run past -- the reality of Trump's loss, and the lack of evidence to suggest widespread election fraud or improprieties that could reverse that result.Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times"There is no bipartisanship to speak of, in terms of how many members are willing to speak up -- and would it matter to him? Would he listen?" said William Cohen, a former senator and House member from Maine who was one of the first Republicans to break from his party and support the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon. "Trump doesn't care a whit about the House or Senate, and he rules by fear. He still can inflame his supporters -- there are 70 million out there. He still carries that fear factor."By Monday evening, a club of only a few Republican senators known for their distaste for Trump -- Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska -- had acknowledged Biden's victory.McConnell, who is poised to be the top Republican in Washington during the coming Biden administration, threw his support behind Trump, declining to recognize Biden's victory as he argued Trump was "100% within his rights" to challenge the outcome.Far from attempting to influence the president's thinking, most Republicans have gone out of their way to avoid seeming to dictate what he should do."I look forward to the president dealing with this however he needs to deal with it," Sen. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican on McConnell's leadership team, said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, even as he noted that it "seems unlikely" that the outcome would change based on Trump's legal claims.Some of the Trump's acolytes, on the other hand, have rushed to advance his baseless theories of fraud. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia, both of whom are facing runoff elections in January, demanded the resignation of their state's top election official, a fellow Republican, after he said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the state's elections.Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader, also insisted that Trump was right to contest the results of the election."Every legal challenge must be heard," McCarthy said. "Then and only then does America decide who won the race."In 1974, as Nixon faced the Watergate scandal and the strong likelihood of impeachment and conviction, a cadre of powerful Republican lawmakers marched to the White House and one by one, naming lawmakers in their own party who were prepared to vote to convict him, told him it was time for him to go. The message was clear, and Nixon announced his resignation the next day.Expect no such reckoning for Trump, said Timothy Naftali, founding director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and a professor at New York University."It's very difficult for Republicans whose leader got 71 million votes, the most by any Republican standard-bearer ever, to simply just turn their backs on him," Naftali said. "The issue is now not so much Trump as loyalty to Trumpism. And I think that's why you see the contortions now. 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She said she also appreciated the strong focus on culture.But about two years in, she noticed a shift. Jobs were getting cut, there were huge caseloads of up to 25 kids per social worker, a high staff turnover, a lack of training and a lack of qualified leadership. "I had no guidance," she said."You'd start working and get these ridiculous caseloads of high numbers and files that have literally been neglected."The BCGSEU, which ratified a collective agreement with Xyolhemeylh in 2019, agreed that delegated agencies' workers have heavier caseloads, lower wage rates and fewer benefits than MCFD workers. A 2017 report released by B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth showed the B.C. government's funding to delegated agencies is inequitable and inconsistent and revealed that child protection staff carried an average of 30 cases at a time — 50 per cent more than is recommended.In B.C., there's no cap on social worker caseloads.Audit reveals low compliance rates The MCFD audit published in January found Xyolhemeylh had high staff turnover and vacancies were left unfilled for long periods of time.The agency was taken over by the province in 2006 as a result of staffing problems but has been operating under a new delegation agreement since 2010.The audit found that Xyolhemeylh had only a three per cent compliance rate — instances that conform to a policy, process or procedure — when it came to a social worker's relationship and contact with a child in care. It pointed to the large geographical area that the agency covers as presenting a challenge for workers to maintain regularly scheduled face-to-face contact with families and children in care.When it came to developing a comprehensive care plan, Xyolhemeylh had only an 11 per cent compliance rate, the audit found.Of the cases the ministry reviewed, 49 per cent did not contain initial and annual care plans.The audit also found a need for records management training for the administrative staff and consistency in filing procedures between offices. The ex-Xyolhemeylh social worker said because of the high caseloads, paperwork was often the last thing on social workers' minds.Investigations underwayThe lawyer for Samantha Chalifoux, Traevon's mother, is now pushing for a public inquiry into her son's death.Xyolhemeylh previously said it had launched an internal review into the death, while B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth said it is reviewing the case and preparing for an investigation. CBC News tried to contact contractor Rees Family Services, but its phone numbers listed in the Fraser Valley are out of service. 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NOTE: This story contains disturbing details and images.When Serrece Winter found herself locked up in a jail cell at Halifax Regional Police headquarters, she sat on the metal bench, leaned back against the bars and thought about dying.Then she turned toward the concrete wall and started hitting her head against it. She banged her head about 36 times — at times pulling her head back and smashing it into the wall  — until she finally stopped.Winter, 45, of Dartmouth, N.S., has no criminal record.She was jailed Nov. 20, 2019, because earlier that afternoon she had failed to show up in court to testify against her on-again, off-again boyfriend for allegedly assaulting her.Winter had been at home drinking beer since the morning to find the courage to testify as the main witness against the man she feared.Arrest warrant issuedWhen she didn't show, the Crown attorney requested a warrant for her arrest to bring her to court. The warrant was granted by a judge.The self-harm was the result of utter despair and a mental breakdown, Winter told CBC News in an exclusive interview."I'm cold, I'm depressed, I'm thinking about death because at this point, it seems like nobody in the system cared that my life was in danger or how this was affecting me," said Winter, recalling that day at police headquarters."I was really hoping to crack my head open so that I would die and then it would be over, and I wouldn't have to worry about being threatened."I don't want to die at the hands of some psycho guy."Ex faced 14 chargesThe scene inside the police cell, the conversation that preceded it and what followed afterward were captured on surveillance video and viewed by CBC News.Seven officers, six of whom are male, are on hand as Winter is strapped to a restraint chair. Two officers cover her mouth and chin with their hands.At the time, Winter's then-boyfriend was facing 14 charges, including choking, assault causing bodily harm, assault, unlawful confinement, mischief, and failing to comply with a recognizance for alleged incidents between February 2019 and September 2019. Those charges were dropped last Friday after Winter indicated she would not testify and the Crown determined there was no realistic prospect of conviction, said a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service.A peace bond is in place ordering Winter's ex to keep his distance and not contact her for one year.'They put the victim in jail'Winter's act of self-harm in her cell nearly a year ago followed a five-minute exchange in the booking area in which she told two officers that as a domestic violence complainant, she didn't belong there."They put the victim in jail," she can be heard telling two officers in the video.Her voice grows louder as she argues her imprisonment is unjust."I didn't commit a crime. He did. He assaulted me," she pleads. The officer replies: "If you had shown up [at court] at 1:30 today, I already told you, you wouldn't have been arrested."Warning: This video contains disturbing contentWinter has a history of being assaulted by partners.In 2015, she entered the province's high-risk case co-ordination program, which monitors women who are at the highest risk of being murdered by a partner and follows her as she enters new relationships.Winter told CBC News she had made numerous calls to authorities that she was afraid to testify against her then-boyfriend. Her last communication with the Crown's office was before attorneys went on strike in late October, she said.Ordered to sit downWhen officers tell her to quiet down, Winter explains in the video that she's afraid of being in lockup. She's asked if she has any health problems, to which she replies that she's "crazy.""I don't think that's a medical condition," says an officer."Well, my doctor disagrees," Winter says, listing PTSD and bipolar disorder as her conditions, along with her medications.The conversation turns into shouting when Winter asks if she can stand up. One officer orders Winter four times to sit down."I'm not hurting you, I'm not doing anything bad," Winter yells, her arms stretched out in disbelief.As soon as Winter sits down, she's sent to her cell.At no time in the booking area is she advised of her right to call a lawyer or offered medical assistance.After banging her head repeatedly against the cell wall, she stops and clutches her body.Restrained in chairMoments later, an officer wheels a restraint chair that's covered in straps next to her cell. The chair is used to stop Winter from self-harm, according to the officer's notes.Three officers grab a struggling Winter and pull her from the cell. She thrashes about on the floor as they hold her limbs and pull her coat off.The male officers throw her onto the chair. One yanks her hair and holds her by the chin to pin her head back. The other officer places his gloved hand over her mouth. For a few seconds, both men each have a hand on her mouth as straps are tightened around her wrists, shoulders and ankles to immobilize her. It was a "big reminder" of allegedly being choked and confined by her partner, said Winter.The video shows Winter being wheeled into the drunk tank, where she is left for about an hour and checked later by paramedics.Charged with assaultThe self-harm and the restraint left her with bruising, but no serious physical injuries.The emotional scars, however, persist nearly a year later. Winter said she feels defeated by her former partner, thanks to the justice system."I just felt like he won," said Winter.What unfolded at police headquarters is coming to light because Winter is defending herself against an assault charge for allegedly kicking a booking officer's leg during the ordeal.Winter's legal aid lawyer, Tony Amoud, is attempting to have the charge thrown out. "This was her reacting to the excessive force that the police displayed that day," he said in an interview.Violation of rights, says lawyerHe intends to argue that Winter's charter rights to a lawyer, her right to security and freedom, and her right to be treated equally were breached."This is not someone being arrested for an alleged crime," he said.He contends that if Winter had been able to talk to a lawyer right away to understand why she was in custody, the situation would not have escalated.Amoud said officers showed a "lack of sensitivity" toward a woman who was alleging domestic violence and didn't show up in court out of fear.He described Winter as being "upset, she's hurt, she's scared," but not belligerent or violent."What makes it even more upsetting is that she tells them that she has mental health issues," said Amoud, who believes police should have used a trauma-informed approach in communicating with Winter. He believes his client's mental health, coupled with being part Black and part Indigenous, resulted in her concerns not being taken seriously by officers and underscores systemic racism within the justice system. Warrant 'not intended to punish'The issue of domestic violence victims who fail to appear in court is dealt with in Public Prosecution Service policy. An adjournment is listed as the first option. Asking for a warrant is possible, but it should be held to determine why the victim failed to appear. "Obtaining a warrant is not intended to punish the complainant/victim for being reluctant to testify, but rather as a means of keeping the prosecution alive in the hope of protecting the complainant/victim in the short and long terms," the policy states.A spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service said the prosecutor "acted appropriately in accordance with our policy on spousal/partner violence" in requesting an arrest warrant.Chris Hansen said a victim services worker provided Winter with support prior to the trial. The Crown also met with Winter to prepare her to testify, said Hansen. "The Crown also took steps to apply for a witness screen to be placed between Ms. Winter and the accused during Ms. Winter's testimony. But Ms. Winter said she did not need it," Hansen said in an email to CBC News.Hansen did not indicate whether the assault charge against Winter would go ahead, but said "the Crown continually assesses each prosecution always weighing the realistic prospect of conviction and public interest."Police decline commentIn a statement, a Halifax Regional Police spokesperson said there would be no comment on the specifics of this case as it is before the courts.However, Const. John MacLeod said "the determination of whether the police are authorized to release someone or are required to hold them is determined by the endorsement placed on the warrant by the judiciary."A spokesperson for the judiciary said the Criminal Code requires a police officer to arrest the person to bring them before a judge to testify.The experience has left Winter without faith in the Crown."At this point, I see the Crown attorney as the enemy," she said. "Nobody addressed the very real fear I had of being assaulted or murdered if I testified."Amoud is expected in court Monday on Winter's behalf to represent her on the assault charge. Dates are expected to be set for her trial and a hearing to argue her charter challenge. Winter's ex-boyfriend, meantime, is due in court next month on five new charges, including choking and uttering threats, after an alleged incident involving Winter on Dec. 10, 2019 — not quite three weeks after that day at police headquarters.Winter said this time, she'll be in court to testify. But she no longer feels protected by the police."I already feel like they've proven that I'm less of a human being to them," she said. "That my life didn't matter, and doesn't matter to those that's in the system."MORE TOP STORIES

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Bully offers: Some argue they give home buyers an unfair advantage — but others say, given the state of today's real estate market, it could be the best strategy to land the house you want. Jazz Chappus, a realtor with Royal Lepage Binder Real Estate in Windsor, explains that a so-called bully offer, or pre-emptive offer, is made prior to an offer presentation date set up by the sellers. "It's called a bully offer because it quite literally is a bully offer," she said. "It's a buyer and their agent who are somewhat bullying their way in to get their offer reviewed before the presentation date to beat out the competition."Most of these bully offers are pre-qualified, cash offers, above the list price and without conditions, Chappus said, adding that about 75 per cent of her clients are ready and willing to submit these kinds of offers. "Once they've missed out on a couple of offers or once they've heard the horror stories of people who have found their dream home and lost out because of a bidding war or a pre-emptive offer, they tend to get their ducks in a row and get everything ready to go for a pre-emptive offer," she said.'Getting ahead of the game'In October, the Windsor-Essex real estate market was deemed the hottest in the country, according to a survey from Royal LePage, with strong demand and record low supply continuing to drive up housing prices."This market's very difficult for buyers — especially for first-time home buyers," Chappus said.When 24-year-old Scott Neilson, one of Chappus' clients, set out to buy a new property earlier this year, he quickly recognized that a bully offer might be his best approach. "If you are the one trying to put a pre-emptive offer in, you're getting ahead of the game," he said. "Anybody who didn't get in there yet, I'd beat them to it."Neilson said it's important to be aggressive because the market is so fast-paced and you have to fight to not get "chewed up."Even with a bully offer, buyers are often still going up against multiple competing pre-emptive offers. Neilson unsuccessfully made bully offers on two houses, and both times was beat out by higher offers. Eventually, he was able to buy a home by making an offer the traditional way; the sellers had already declined other pre-emptive offers.How do bully offers work?If a buyer finds a house they truly like, Chappus will arrange a viewing as soon as possible for her clients.She says she also usually sets up a pre-inspection, done before the offer presentation date. If that goes well, she'll work with her clients to make a pre-emptive offer. But Chappus said a pre-inspection isn't always possible. As a result, bully offers can sometimes force buyers into feeling like they need to make an offer without a home inspection, which is risky.The process carries risks for sellers too, she explained. "There are pros and cons to accepting a bully offer," Chappus said. "One of the pros would be, you're typically receiving an offer that's going to be no conditions and higher than your listed price. One of the cons is if you accept that offer, you'll never really know if you would have gotten a higher offer if you would have waited."Waiting is exactly what Neilson chose to do when it came time to sell his current house. Though, as a buyer he liked the advantages of a bully offer, he decided not to entertain them as a seller. He was patient instead, to see what the open market could do for him.Are bully offers regulated?Last year, the Ontario Real Estate Association had called on the province to ban bully offers, saying that they give some home buyers an unfair advantage. But Lorraine Clark, the president of the Windsor-Essex County Realtors' Association, says so far, the government hasn't acted.According to a spokesperson for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, the Real Estate and Business Brokers Act (REBBA) does set out rules around bidding wars, but it does not regulate the actions of buyers or sellers involved in real estate trades, "nor does it place any requirements on sellers related to accepting offers, including bully offers.""Our government took action to introduce legislative amendments to REBBA to ensure that rules for real estate brokerages and professionals reflect contemporary business practices through the Trust in Real Estate Services Act (TRESA), 2020," said the ministry spokesperson in an e-mailed statement,. Clark maintains that bully offers are unfair."It's not fair to the rest of the people that have gone through the house and they're waiting for the offer date," she said. Chappus explained that the province does require sellers to declare in writing whether or not they'll be looking at pre-emptive offers, so that everyone is on the same page. It's called a "sellers' direction.""This was put in place to try to slow down that process [of bully offers] so that the rug is not being pulled out from beneath buyers feet when a bully offer is brought to the table," she said.However, she added that a seller can still change their mind after signing the direction — they just need to sign a new form.Clark says bully offers have become more popular but she couldn't quantify by how much compared to previous years. "I think a lot of people are frustrated, a lot of the buyers are frustrated, and so you're seeing more and more all the time," she said. Tips for buyers and sellers?Chappus' number one tip for a buyer considering making a bully offer is to be ready. "Have your pre-approval set with your mortgage specialist and if you're able to, get a pre-inspection done on the property, because as soon as somebody brings a bully offer to the table, you don't know if they're going to be presenting that night or the next morning, but it's going to be quick," she said. As for sellers, she suggests doing your research and having a discussion with your listing agent to make sure you understand the pros and cons involved. "Know that there are a lot of buyers that are going to come forward and try to bring a pre-emptive or bully offer right off the bat," she said. "It might be the best offer that you'll get — but you might get more if you wait until your presentation date."

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Slave Lake councillor apologizes for saying town should 'stop feeding' homeless Indigenous people

A Slave Lake councillor is apologizing to residents after saying the community should "stop feeding" homeless people from surrounding Indigenous communities. Coun. Joy McGregor, who was giving an update on the Homeless Coalition, made the comments during a Sept. 8 council meeting. "A lot of our people are coming from Trout, Loon, Atikameg, Wabasca. They're not even local to our own community," said McGregor. "We need to do some solid work ... to get them home. We need to stop being so nice to them. We need to stop feeding them. We need to stop doing all these wonderful things." McGregor acknowledged at the time that her comments would likely cause anger. "I know that that sounds horrible ... but they have to be accountable and we have to get them home." She added that the homeless population tends to charge phones and iPads outside the local college, a practice that she would like to see stopped. As well, she suggested the town work with local grocery stores to stop the homeless population from stealing hand sanitizer. She said hand sanitizer may have to be an over-the-counter product like Sudafed and mouthwash, to stop people from drinking it. "It's a quick way that people use it and abuse it." In a Nov. 8 press release, the Driftpile Cree Nation released a statement condemning her comments. The First Nation is "of the view that neither the approach nor the language used by Councillor McGregor are appropriate or acceptable — particularly in an era of reconciliation between First Nations and Canada." As well, the First Nation said, the statements show a "willful ignorance" to the root cause of the issue, which is "the direct result of our peoples' forced disconnection from our land, culture and community by Canadian colonization." The First Nation said it recognizes there is a significant homelessness problem in the community. Barbara Courtorielle, executive director of the Slave Lake Aboriginal Friendship Centre, had pitched rezoning a provincially owned building for transitional housing, but that proposal was rejected by council on Nov. 3.The Friendship Centre hosted the mat program in its building last year but that's not possible this year because the space has been dedicated to youth programming."We are and continue to be deeply disappointed by the lack of partnership shown by the Town of Slave Lake in this regard," wrote the Driftpile Cree Nation. The First Nation is encouraging members to stop supporting Slave Lake's businesses. The First Nation said it will not be making any expenditures in Slave Lake until it receives a public apology for "the callous, cruel and racist comments made by councillor McGregor." Mayor speaks to issueIn a Monday news conference, Mayor Tyler Warman offered an apology."The Town of Slave Lake would like to start by apologizing to the Indigenous communities near and far that we have left you with the impression that this is how our council thinks," he said. He said the town has work to do in helping those in need. When Warman was asked if thought McGregor's comments were racist, he said, "Obviously I think that those comments were not correct."But he added he doesn't have the expertise to say whether or not the comments were racist. "We recognize an apology needs to be made and we need to move forward." Warman has not reached out to any of the nearby Indigenous communities, but he said that's coming soon. McGregor did not attend the news conference, but Warman said he is is the spokesperson for the town and McGregor has apologized.WATCH | Councillor says town should 'stop being so nice' to the homeless from surrounding communitiesWarman also said McGregor has experienced "some very personal attacks and she's taking some time now to herself." The mayor added that he probably should've spoken up at the initial council meeting. "I have to do better as well," said Warman. "We need to work on our wording. We need to work on our understanding." Boycott still in playChief Dwayne Laboucan of Driftpile Cree Nation said he's thankful the mayor recognized the issue with the councillor's comments. "We still would like to have councillor McGregor say something," he said. Laboucan said in the meantime he's still encouraging a boycott of Slave Lake's businesses and will meet with council in the next few days to see if the boycott will be lifted. In a Nov. 9 Facebook post, McGregor said she acknowledges "that I have upset many people by using language that was inconsiderate."I am deeply sorry to you all and those affected by poor choice of language." The text of McGregor's apology has also been published directly on the town's website. She said she has learned from this experience that representing her community "means welcoming ways to unlearn racism, to invite cultural sensitivity training, and ways of educating myself and others on what it means to be a better leader."Laboucan said would like McGregor to address the communities she pointed out in her initial comments and stated McGregor's online apology wasn't satisfactory."She apologizes to everybody," said Laboucan.

Mayfield out, Browns welcome Chubb back from knee injury

BEREA, Ohio — There was a buzz on the practice field Monday as the Browns returned from their bye with several starters, including star running back Nick Chubb, returning from injuries.However, there was a noticeable absence: the quarterback.Baker Mayfield remains away from the team after being placed on the COVID-19 list because he came in close contact with a staff member who tested positive for the coronavirus. Mayfield has tested negative to this point and he could return Wednesday as the Browns (5-3) get ready to host the Houston Texans (2-6) on Sunday.“I can’t really get into it,” coach Kevin Stefanski said of Mayfield's status. "We are just following all the protocols. In this day and age, all of our guys are doing their absolute best. Nothing is foolproof, but we will make sure that we just follow all of the rules.”Stefanski said Mayfield participated virtually in team meetings. It's impossible to predict whether he'll practice, let alone play, this week.“Anytime you are not out there, you wish you had all of your guys out there to get the reps, that is just natural,” Stefanski said. "But we will make sure we bring him up to speed as soon as he is back in the building.”Mayfield's tenuous situation underscores the importance of players adhering to protocols inside and outside the team's facility. Stefanski doesn't think there was anything more the team could have done to protect Mayfield.“We try to be very careful and try to make sure at every moment we are reminding the guys,” he said. "At some points, there are going to be some unfortunate moments, but I can promise you all of our guys are being diligent about this."No one, I can promise you, is flippant in any way about the rules, protocols, etc. All of us have to make sure that we stay on top of it.”Chubb's return was the most noteworthy, but the Browns are closer to full strength than they've been in some time with right guard Wyatt Teller (calf) and tight end Austin Hooper (appendectomy) also practicing with the starting offence for the first time in weeks.“It is awesome having Wyatt Teller back and just the juice he brings and the physicality and the nastiness,” Hooper said of his teammate. “Definitely a guy that is a lot of fun to play with on game day when he is burying people.”Wearing a knee brace, Chubb changed directions quickly while doing individual drills during the portion of practice open to media members. He's been out since spraining his right medical collateral ligament in the first quarter of Cleveland's Oct. 4 win at Dallas.As long as he doesn't have any setbacks, Chubb could return to the lineup this week.“I was joking, he was fresh legs out there," Stefanski said. "He looked like Nick looks. He was ready to roll out there at practice. Obviously, he is chomping at the bit. He has done everything in this rehab that has been asked of him. As you can imagine, he has attacked it. We will see how the week unfolds here.”A Pro Bowler after gaining 1,494 yards last season, Chubb rushed for 335 yards and four touchdowns in four games before injuring his knee. When he was healthy, the Browns led the NFL in rushing and their offence hasn't been the same without Chubb.Also, with receiver Odell Beckham Jr. out for the rest of 2020 with a torn knee ligament, the Browns need Chubb as they try to end the league's longest playoff drought.The Browns will start the season's second half healthier than they've been in weeks.“The NFL season is a slog,” Stefanski said. "Every game comes at you and every team deals with injuries. We are no different. To get this bye right in the middle and to be able to have guys that are coming back potentially off of this can be a big boost to our guys."Nobody feels 100 per cent. That is just how it goes. They are all battling through different things, but it is nice to have those guys back out there.”NOTES: LG Joel Bitonio (elbow) rode a stationary bike and is not expected to miss any time. ... RT Jack Conklin was excused from practice for a personal reason. He'll be back Wednesday.___More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFLTom Withers, The Associated Press

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OPINION | On COVID-19, Jason Kenney refuses to take responsibility

This column is an opinion from Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist at the University of Alberta. It's a tough time to be Jason Kenney. As premier of Alberta, he's dealing with a provincial economy hobbled by oil price declines and cratered foreign investment, provincial books further in the red than the province has ever seen, and a pandemic well into its second wave. He promised jobs, economy and pipelines 18 months ago. At least the Trans Mountain pipeline still looks likely to be completed. But, if you ask him, none of the bad news is his responsibility. The oil sector's troubles? Blame OPEC, Russia, Trudeau and maybe soon Biden. The red ink? The same, plus the NDP's legacy of a bloated public service. The pandemic? Everyone but his government. The man who demands you take personal responsibility refuses even the smallest measure of it for himself or his government. COVID-19 cases hit record levels nearly every day now — a startling 919 new cases were identified on Nov. 7. But it's not the case counts that hit hardest, it's what the numbers signal. Alberta's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, reports almost daily now that our medical system is bending under the strain of new COVID cases, with more restrictions on elective procedures announced nearly every day. Health-care workers speaking out Doctors and nurses on the front lines are speaking out. We know that hospitalizations follow new cases with a lag, and with more than four times the active cases we had a month ago, we have to hope that the system can cope with the coming surge. And, worse still, we know that increased numbers of deaths will follow in the wake of the ever-increasing new cases. It was Premier Kenney who decided we should wait until our hospital system was strained to consider more actions to prevent transmission and, when anyone questioned this approach, the premier's army of issues managers were quick to ask why they didn't trust the province's chief medical officer of health. Honest advice, loyal implementation and please don't mind the rapidly approaching bus, Dr. Hinshaw. I'm sure Premier Kenney will stand behind you when things start to get ugly. On Nov. 6, Premier Kenney joined Dr. Hinshaw at her COVID briefing for the first time in months. He started, incomprehensibly, with a victory lap, claiming that his government had created one of the best testing and tracing systems in Canada. You'd be forgiven for thinking that everything was working just fine and according to plan. We learned that it wasn't. It had been announced only a day earlier that AHS was giving up on effective contact tracing for most cases, downloading that responsibility to Albertans as well.   This didn't have to be the case. We've seen rising case counts here and elsewhere for months. We knew that, with the measures our government was prepared to implement, cases were doubling rapidly and would continue to do so. More new cases, and thus the need for more contact tracers was predictable, but rest assured it's not the premier's fault. No one should be surprised that calls for personal responsibility alone could not solve a provincewide collective action problem. Last week, we also learned that many people with COVID-19 travelled, worked or attended social events while symptomatic. To some degree, that responsibility lies with the people, but as far as working is concerned, that's not an easy choice for some people to make. Dr. Hinshaw, concerned as ever, asked that employers "support their staff to [take time off] wherever possible." The federal government has provided emergency benefits for this, which were oddly not mentioned. Mention of any help provided by Premier Kenney's government was also absent from the briefing, because they've not provided much at all, other than a provision to allow employees to take unpaid leave without risk of being laid off.  Schools could be next The next shoe to drop is likely going to be schools. As schools reopened in the fall, there were concerns with Alberta's already-rising case counts. While there is no magic number for safe schools, metrics proposed by Harvard's Global Health Institute hold that safe school openings can happen, with appropriate safeguards, if a jurisdiction is seeing fewer than 25 daily new cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Over the past four days, we've averaged 17.5 new cases per 100,000 across the province, with numbers expected to rise in the coming weeks. More cases mean more contacts, more students and staff in isolation, more strain on teachers, and eventually the system will not be able to cope. If schools can't operate consistently, that's going to place a heavier and heavier price on parents with kids, especially single parents and those with jobs that can't be done remotely. As case counts have risen, we've heard that "it's time to up our game," and that some among us need to "knock it off," but even Premier Kenney and his ministers can't make that happen. WATCH | Jason Kenney tells Albertans to stop having gatherings at home  About 48 hours after asking Albertans to give up their social gatherings and to be personally responsible, there was the premier at an indoor event in Grande Prairie. Other ministers' social media accounts routinely show similar gatherings. Knock it off, indeed. Many of us have given up a lot of things that matter to us for months now, and the premier couldn't muster enough personal responsibility to pass up the chance to give a speech as the second wave of the pandemic spirals out of control. There is no trade-off between health and the economy — the economy is the people, and the virus is what's keeping things from getting back to full speed. Just as a government can create economic activity with debt-financed spending, we can stimulate economic activity in the short term by avoiding public health guidance, but it won't last. Just like so much borrowed money, the public health bill is coming due in Alberta. The question is, who is going to pay it? If things keep going down the path we're on, we're going to see costs fall disproportionately on the backs of some Albertans, while the premier and his government resist taking on costs on our behalf. Fear and goodwill not enough Premier Kenney is banking on a combination of fear and goodwill being enough to keep new case counts from continuing to grow exponentially. So far, that's not working, and I can't find any evidence of such things working elsewhere once case levels are as high as they are here. Rather, we've seen plenty of examples, notably in the U.K., where a delayed reaction saw growing case numbers quickly close off less draconian options than a hard lockdown. We do see evidence of success from other policies, from relatively early lockdowns in Australia reducing community transmission to zero, to aggressive tracking, tracing and isolation measures in jurisdictions like New Zealand keeping the virus largely at bay thus far. There is no one best solution, and certainly no magic solution that comes without costs of its own. As we allow the number of active cases to grow, we'll quickly come to face more and more extreme choices. The role of government is to co-ordinate collective action toward a common goal and to ensure that everyone pays their fair share of the freight. And right now, that's not happening. We can afford millions to fund a war room and a witch hunt, and billions for new oil and gas projects, but we can't muster more than a good scolding to fight the pandemic? It's time to knock it off, and take some personal responsibility, Premier Kenney. This column is an opinion. For more information about our commentary section, please read our FAQ.

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Melissa Gosbee was working from home at her kitchen table on Friday when she saw something out of the corner of her eye. "I assumed it was one of our goats," said Gosbee. "We have a goat that looks just like Ivy. I looked over and I kind of took a double take. And sure enough, it was Ivy."Ivy is one of the Gosbee's dogs. The two-year-old Lab-husky mix had been missing for three weeks. "I just started screaming and bawling because I was just in shock and I couldn't even form words to tell everybody what had happened," she said. "I was just running through the house. I couldn't get to her fast enough."A little more than three weeks ago, Gosbee let her two dogs, Ivy and Willow, out of the house in the morning. Gosbee lives in the Albion area, near Montague, and often lets her dogs roam around the property.When she looked out and saw Willow standing alone, she knew something wasn't right. "It's very unusual for just Willow to be alone. They're always together. And we realized that Ivy was missing."  Soon after, Gosbee started reaching out to neighbours. She posted online and searched for Ivy. But no one had seen her.Gosbee began to worry that something had happened to the dog in the woods surrounding her house. After three weeks, Gosbee said the family was still searching."We were really losing hope," she said. "With absolutely zero sightings from anybody, we were beginning to think that maybe something did happen to her out in the woods."  The dogs are always around Gosbee, her husband and their two children."The dogs are just … more our children, we love them so much. They're part of the family, that's for sure. And nothing was the same without Ivy."'We all just held her and cried'Then, out of the blue, Ivy showed up on Friday."When she's ready to come in, she always knows to come to that window for me. She just looks at me kind of through the window and I'll walk around to the door and let her in," said Gosbee."We all met her at the doorstep and … we all just held her and cried."Ivy had lost some weight, said Gosbee, but otherwise she seemed fine. She's already back to her normal energetic self."I'm still in shock. It's been a couple days and still every time I look at her, I cry. I cry because I'm happy that she's home. I cry because we don't know what has happened the last three weeks and the trauma that she's had," said Gosbee.  Gosbee said they won't be letting the dogs out of their sight again, and she hopes the story gives other people hope who might be looking for a lost pet. "Miracles do happen. They do come back home. Sometimes things happen."More from CBC P.E.I.

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Amanda Nunes vs. Megan Anderson UFC 256 headliner scrapped due to injury

The planned UFC 256 headliner between dual-division champion Amanda Nunes and featherweight challenger Megan Anderson has been scrapped from the Dec. 12 fight card in Las Vegas. Sources confirmed that Nunes was forced out of the bout with an undisclosed injury, following an initial report by ESPN's Brett Okamoto. The injury is apparently one that Nunes is expected to recover from fairly quickly, as Anderson tweeted that the UFC is rescheduling the bout for early 2021. Nunes vs. Anderson was expected to headline the UFC 256 fight card with a co-main event featuring bantamweight titleholder Petr Yan making the first defense of his belt against Aljamain Sterling. https://twitter.com/MeganA_mma/status/1325871869556363264?s=20 TRENDING > Islam Makhachev out of UFC Vegas 14 main event, Rafael dos Anjos calls out Michael Chandler UFC 256 main event's revolving door UFC 256 was originally slated to feature a welterweight championship fight between champion Kamaru Usman and challenger Gilbert Burns. Nunes vs. Anderson was to serve as the co-main event. Then the UFC hoped to ink Yan vs. Sterling to make its final 2020 pay-per-view a championship tripleheader. Those plans went awry when Usman indicated that he would not be ready to fight on Dec. 12, citing the need for more time to heal from unspecified injuries. Nunes vs. Anderson was then moved to main event status and Yan vs. Sterling signed to take the co-main event slot. Now, with Nunes vs. Anderson at least delayed until 2021, the promotion is left to determine whether it will move Yan vs. Sterling into the headlining slot and/or try to ink another championship bout. But there are few, if any, championship options left as the year winds down. UFC 255 is already slated to be a championship doubleheader with Deiveson Figueiredo defending the men's flyweight title opposite Alex Perez in the headliner, and women's flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko expected to face Jennifer Maia in the UFC 255 co-main event. Heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, newly minted light heavyweight champ Jan Blachowicz, featherweight titleholder Alexander Volkanovski, and strawweight champion Zhang Weili are the only champions without fights booked. Miocic isn't expected to fight again until 2021, likely defending against Francis Ngannou. Zhang was also not anticipating a bout until 2021 with the UFC working to match her with Rose Namajunas. Volkanovski is likely to defend against Brian Ortega next, which might be a possibility for 2020, though it has been most recently targeted for February of 2021. UFC president Dana White initially had planned for middleweight champion to move up and challenge Blachowicz for the new titleholder's first defense. With Nunes now out and Glover Teixeira's performance over the weekend and his current winning streak, perhaps Teixeira could make a quick return to challenge Blachowicz in December. For now, however, the UFC has not commented on Nunes's withdrawal or plans for a possible replacement bout.

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Transport Canada floats new user fee for pleasure craft

The recreational boating season is mostly over, but Transport Canada is floating a plan to expand the number of pleasure craft that require a licence, shorten the renewal period and introduce a user fee on those licences.The proposed rule changes would provide the government with more information to identify the owners of recreational boats abandoned or wrecked in Canada's lakes, rivers and oceans.Transport Canada signalled its intention to amend the small vessel regulations in a presentation prepared for a virtual meeting of the Canadian Marine Advisory Council this week.The user fee is undefined.Pat Nelder of Boating Atlantic said the industry in this region is on board — so far."We have to pay to license cars," she said. "We have to pay to license trailers. I don't think it's a big issue to license boats as long as they're … very reasonable in the amount of money they want to charge."We also feel that it will support Transport Canada's work that they do with our industry for safety and for the wrecked and abandoned boat program."The changesRight now, only pleasure craft with an engine over 9.9 horsepower need a licence — and it's free.Proposals introduce a user fee and make a licence mandatory for any boat above six metres, regardless of engine size.Transport Canada intends to end lifetime non-renewable licences and reduce the licence-renewal period from 10 years to five.The amended regulations are expected to go to the treasury board in 2021. The federal cabinet committee oversees government financial management.The new licence requirement would capture thousands of pleasure craft, including the 7.9-metre sailboat owned by Pat Nelder, which is powered by a 2.6-horsepower engine."It's currently not licensed and it would probably ask me to license that particular boat, which I have no problem doing," she said."But I don't know how putting these boats under a licensing system would be policed. I mean, I've never been boarded by Transport Canada."Transport Canada declined to discuss its plans until the Canadian Marine Advisory Council later this week."All details will be presented for the public and stakeholders to review and comment at that time," the department said in a statement.Nelder said the recreational boating industry will raise the amendments with officials later this week."We want to know what the fee would include. Is it a fee for service for the licensing, plus a charge towards the wrecked and abandoned boats program?"She said the user fee is better than the alternative — a luxury tax proposed by the Liberals in 2019 on boats, planes and cars over $100,000.Most wrecks are from overseasIn Atlantic Canada, most pleasure boats are taken out of the water for the winter.Boat yards along the coast are brimming with boats covered in shrink wrap this time of year.Nelder said recreational boats that are wrecked and abandoned here generally come from overseas."The person may have run out of money and just abandoned the boat," she said. "And those are the boats we see. The licensing system isn't going to change that."She considers it the beginning of a consultation that could take several years.MORE TOP STORIES

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Whole Foods employee who blew whistle on poppy ban 'in disbelief' over reaction

The Whole Foods Market employee who first told CBC about a company policy prohibiting workers from wearing poppies says she never dreamed the issue would garner so much attention — or prompt such swift action.Within hours of CBC reporting the story last Friday, Canadian politicians including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced the U.S.-based company's move, with Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowing to introduce legislation outlawing the policy."I was just sitting there in disbelief, but also ... [I was] super happy," the employee told CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning on Monday. "I think I was squealing quite a bit." CBC News has agreed not to name her as she's still concerned about reprisals from her employer. After initially refusing to back down, Whole Foods reversed the policy later on Friday, explaining that its new dress code wasn't designed to single out the symbol of remembrance, and that employees are now welcome to wear poppies at work. 'They've done so much for our country'The employee told CBC the poppy was initially prohibited because it would be seen as "supporting a cause." She said it was "scary" to come forward with her complaint, but felt it was necessary.  "It's the time of year. It's our one week that we get to celebrate and to honour our veterans and even our still active [military] members," she said. "They've done so much for our country."The employee said members of her own family have served in the military, but added she'd feel the same way even without that personal connection. "It's unthinkable that we would be told we're not allowed to wear the main symbol that says, 'I recognize you, I see you and I thank you for everything that you've done.'"While she said she was in "pure shock" when she first learned the poppy wouldn't be allowed on uniforms, she said that emotion was soon replaced by "pure happiness" when someone at work came around with a poppy box in hand. Even customers were bringing up the ban and subsequent reversal, she said."Everyone was just really happy that ... it got fixed." she said. "And so quickly, of course."

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Confusion prevails around new COVID-19 restrictions in B.C.

British Columbia's Ministry of Health is clarifying the latest rules restricting social gatherings after new regional public health orders caused confusion. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced the sweeping new restrictions in a special media briefing on Saturday amid spiking COVID-19 cases. The new orders focus on social gatherings, travel, indoor group exercise and workplaces.They apply to residents of the Vancouver Coastal and Fraser Health regions for the next two weeks. Residents of both regions are being told not to have social interactions with anyone outside of their immediate household members.Almost immediately, individuals and businesses criticized the orders as unclear and vague. On social media, many specifically asked for clarity about social gatherings and what constitutes a "household.""I know there has been some confusion on what immediate household means," Ministry spokeswoman Shannon Greer said in an email."These would be the people you spend the most time with and are physically close to. These would be people who are part of your regular routine, so household members, immediate family, a close friend or the people you have regular close contact with "Those who live alone cannot host gatherings but can continue to see members of what they would consider their immediate household at home, outside or at a restaurant, she said.Contradiction on outdoor gatheringsThe Health Ministry also clarified that the prohibition on gatherings includes those held outdoors, at restaurants or at other venues.The ministry then clarified again that outdoor gatherings didn't include walks, as long as they don't "turn into a group of people gathering outside."Sowing further confusion, Vancouver Coastal Health posted on social media Sunday afternoon that outdoor gatherings were, in fact, allowed.Later on Sunday though it clarified its messaging and said that until Nov. 23 there are to be no social gatherings of any size with anyone other than your immediate household, in homes or outdoors.It mirrored the province's update by saying that walks were acceptable as long as they didn't turn into a group.It also said that people could gather in small groups in restaurants."We need to reduce our social interactions as much as possible," said the authority in an email to CBC News.It also said that people who live alone could continue to see, "members of what they would consider their immediate household at home, outside or at a restaurant."'Come out to the bars'Businesses also expressed concern about the lack of specificity in the health orders and some shared messages that contradicted them. Jeff Guignard, executive director of the B.C. Alliance of Beverage Licensees, emphasized that restaurants and bars were still open for business. "Our message today is we want people to stop having private gatherings, come out to the bars and restaurants where we can keep you safe, keep you socially distanced," Guignard said. Establishments won't be telling people who they can and can't hang out with as long as no more than six people are seated together, he added.'What are our next steps?'Dominik Desbois, CEO of Spin Society in Vancouver, temporarily closed his group cycling fitness club as per the provincial health order, but he's not sure what might happen after that. The province says facilities will be able start operating again once their new reopening plans have been approved, but Debois and other business owners CBC News spoke with said they don't know what that means."What are our next steps? Who do we contact? What do we need to do to reopen?" Desbois said, adding that he was concerned the orders might last beyond the two-week period. Some are worried the new orders don't go far enough.Caroline Colijn, a mathematics professor at Simon Fraser University who has been doing modelling in conjunction with the BC Centre for Disease Control, says cases in B.C. are doubling every one to two weeks."Anything we do for two weeks is so temporary we will barely see the impact before it ends," Colijn said. "So I am hoping they have a plan beyond two weeks."

GM recalls 217K vehicles to fix leak that can stop travel

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Winter storm shuts down highways and schools in southern Alberta

Drivers were urged to stay home on Sunday, as heavy snow and strong winds shut down multiple highways in southern Alberta.Winter storm warnings were in place for the southern and eastern parts of the province, including Crowsnest Pass to Lethbridge to Medicine Hat.Many students had a snow day to look forward to on Monday.In Lethbridge, the school division said it wouldn't be safe to operate buses on Monday so both in-person and at-home classes were cancelled. University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge College also moved all classes online for the day, and urged students and staff to avoid coming to campus unless absolutely necessary.Westwinds School Division, which serves 4,500 students in 13 southern Alberta schools, also declared a snow day.More than 20 to 40 centimetres of snow were expected in some areas of the province, along with northerly winds gusting 50 to 80 km/h that were creating sudden whiteout conditions, Environment Canada cautioned."AVOID ALL TRAVEL in the affected areas until conditions improve, particularly in the areas south and east of Highway 1, and south of Highway 3," 511 Alberta, the traveller information service operated by the provincial government, said in an advisory posted to its website shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday.Multiple highway closures were in place due to either poor conditions or multi-vehicle crashes, including: * Highway 41 in the Oyen and Consort area. * Highway 9 in the Oyen area. * Highway 3 between Lethbridge and Coalhurst. * Highway 5 north of Cardston.  * Highway 505 between Highway 2 and Highway 5.  * Highway 1 has been closed east of the Alberta border to Swift Current, Sask. Speed was reduced on Highway 25 between Highway 526 and Highway 521 due to deteriorating conditions.Lethbridge police said at 2:15 p.m. that driving conditions within the city were poor and that only essential travel was recommended.In Waterton, Parks Canada closed the entire Akamina Parkway due to heavy snow.An up-to-date list of weather alerts is available on Environment Canada's website.

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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has officially found the line for Fox News — and crossed it.On Monday, McEnany continued to peddle the Trump administration's baseless claims that Democrats stole the election, alleging that the party is "welcoming fraud and … welcoming illegal voting." Though Fox News let McEnany run on for some time before cutting in, anchor Neil Cavuto did eventually interrupt. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, I think we have to be very clear," he said after breaking in. "She's charging that the other side is welcoming fraud and illegal voting. Unless she has more details to back that up, I can't in good countenance continue showing you this."Cavuto added that it is an "explosive charge" to say the other side is "effectively rigging and cheating," and that "if she does bring proof of that we'll of course bring you back."> Fox News cuts out of McEnany > > Cavuto: "Whoa, whoa, whoa. I just think we have to be very clear: she's charging the other side as welcoming fraud and illegal voting, unless she has more details to back that up, I can't in good countenance continue to show you this." pic.twitter.com/0koLBJasl9> > — Lis Power (@LisPower1) November 9, 2020The press conference had been off to a rocky start to begin with, as McEnany clarified that she was speaking in a "personal capacity," evidently in an attempt to sidestep the Hatch Act, which bans political activity from taking place on federal properties like the White House. Later, when asked to provide any evidence whatsoever of her claims, she told a reporter, "look, what we are asking for here is patience."You can read more about how Fox News has refused to bend to President Trump throughout the election here at The Week.More stories from theweek.com Trump's aggressive assault on election integrity is reportedly making some of his outside lawyers queasy Does it matter if Donald Trump never concedes? Intelligence officials have found a silver lining to Trump's 'scant attention' in briefings

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Inside the large auditorium of the Free Chapel megachurch in Gainesville, Ga., pastor Jentezen Franklin, an evangelical adviser to Donald Trump, delivered a message that seemed tailored to supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump still smarting from the election results.Speaking from on top of a wide stage to about 800 churchgoers a day after Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump, Franklin hedged on whether the former vice-president was actually the winner. Although he referred to Biden as the president-elect and insisted that whoever becomes the president "will be my president," he also declared he wants "a good honest and certified count from every state."And there was one other point he wanted to make clear."Regardless of who becomes president," he said, his voice slowly rising, "Free Chapel will always be a pro-life church, a pro-Israel church, a pro-religious freedom church, a pro-equality and justice church!"Franklin, who was met with loud applause, certainly knows his audience and knows many Trump supporters fear these issues will not be supported by a Biden administration.Trump's record on economy resonatesNearly a week after the election, results in Georgia are still extremely close, with Biden leading by about 10,000 votes. While state officials have announced a recount, it appears Georgia is on the verge of tipping blue if Biden's lead holds out.But Trump supporters say they're skeptical of Biden's progressive policies on the environment, the economy and abortion. They also fear a Biden administration might raise taxes and the economy could suffer.Terry Olongo is a 54 year old manager of an IT company, a married father of three and a strong Trump supporter who believes the president and his pro-business deregulation policies have boosted the U.S. economy.Olongo, who attended Franklin's Sunday service, said he's nervous a Biden administration will bring in new business regulations and phase out fossil fuels.WATCH | In Georgia, Democrats' attention turns to Senate races:'Absolutely worried'"I'm absolutely worried from the standpoint [of how it's going to affect our personal lives and our freedom in business and so forth," said Olongo, standing outside the chapel with his wife, daughter and soon to be son-in-law."It's going to be an overreaching policy type of an agenda on his part."Olongo lives in Gainesville, a town of about 45,000 about an hour northeast of Atlanta, which is right in the heart of the politically Republican district of Hall.It's also home to Jaemer Farms, which offers everything from fresh produce to fresh kernel corn. On Sunday afternoon, Robert Seraphie and his wife dropped in from their home in Snellville, about 50 kilometres east of Atlanta."We just wanted to take a drive," Seraphie said. "And we like farms. We like the farm stuff. We like the fresh vegetables."Seraphie, 61, is a retired police officer and Trump supporter and will be watching the results of the runoff elections for Georgia's two Senate seats in January very closely. None of the four candidates met the threshold of a majority in last Tuesday's vote so are headed for a rematch Jan. 5, 2021.With the Democrats and Republicans tied in the U.S. Senate after Tuesday's results, Seraphie hopes the runoff elections will lead to two Republican victories and control of the upper chamber.  That could stymie some of Biden's plans, which Seraphie believes include trying to claw back gun rights, and placing limits on freedom of speech."I don't like restricting people's personal rights, the rights under our Constitution. I don't like the Second Amendment being infringed upon," Seraphie said.He also is worried that both Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris will implement an economic policy that is too far left. "One of  the main concerns with him and Kamala Harris was the socialism and Marxist type agenda they been putting across."  Seraphie also believes Biden, for all his years in politics, had little to show for it."He's been in politics for 47 years now, and I can't think of anything," he said."Now all of a sudden, the 48th year, everybody thinks he's going to cure everything, and he's going to do everything that he couldn't do the last 47 years?"WATCH | Republicans back Trump's court challenges of election result:'Democrats are not what they used to be'In the nearby small town of Flowery Branch, also located in Hall County, Trump supporter Lori Whitfield was also disappointed by Biden's win.Whitfield sat on a wooden chair of the front porch of her bungalow where she's lived since 1981. Her husband died about 10 years ago. From her porch, she can see the home of her 88-year-old father, a widower, and also a Trump supporter."In my younger days, I was a Democrat, but I've changed as I got older," says Whitfield, a retired saleswoman.She, too, is worried that once Biden is in office, the Democrats would ensure there are no restrictions on abortion. "I'm a devout Christian, but I see the Democrats are not what they used to be."Whitfield said she was also worried about what a Biden presidency will do to the economy, which she believes has thrived under Trump."I think he believes in handing out the money to the people that's able to work that just won't work. I think our economy will take a [hit]."WATCH | Biden transition team gets to work:Senate still in playCornelia, a town about a 30-minute drive northwest is in Habersham County, which has traditionally voted even more Republican than Hall County. Results show that more than 80 per cent of the county went to Trump, meaning, if you meet someone here of voting age, they are likely a Trump supporter.Outside the home of Bob Ferguson, a pilot, he and his wife, Sandi, and friends Brad and Kathy Fairbairn sat around a fire pit, happy to discuss their views on Trump, Biden and their fears of the future. Sandi Ferguson and Kathy Fairbairn said they're still skeptical of the election results. They fear Biden will raise taxes, which will raise interest rates, and he will raise the minimum wage, all of which will negatively impact the economy.All are Christians, and members of the Free Chapel church in Gainsville. They're putting some of that faith into a Republican victory in the Georgia Senate runoff races."Joe Biden and Kamala Harris need a babysitter, and that would be the Senate," Sandi Ferguson said. Fairburn agreed. "That's going to be a very much-needed balance," she said.But Sandi Ferguson said if Biden is confirmed, while they may not agree with his policies, they all agree with a sentiment pastor Franklin expressed earlier that morning at church: "He's our president. We shall hold him up for four years."

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