Justin loses pipe dream
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s given up on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, as President Biden has made clear his decision to nix the project.
Trudeau told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, “I think it’s fairly clear that the US administration has made its decision on that and we’re much more interested in ensuring that we’re moving forward in ways that are good for both of our countries.”
Biden’s decision cost thousands of jobs in both nations, although his anti-global-warming chief, John Kerry, claimed that energy-sector workers can “go to work to make the solar panels.”
The city Department of Correction put its workers at risk of COVID-19 by “purposefully” misdiagnosing staff and inmates — and even using faulty thermometers that give ludicrously low readings, jail guards allege in a lawsuit. City Correction Officers Marchele Franklin and Christopher Kinloch allege in their Manhattan Supreme Court suit that they both were severely hit after contracting the virus at work — with Kinloch even “suffering COVID-19 pneumonia” — due to the agency’s shoddy handling of the outbreak.
Further, guards were forced to work without proper PPE including masks and hand sanitizer, the suit filed Saturday alleges.
Another plaintiff, Officer Michael Nelson, and Franklin have been “forced to work around inmates that the department is purposefully misdiagnosing as asymptomatic only [to] later categorize such inmates and housing areas as infected with COVID-19,” the suit claims.
A fourth plaintiff, Jasmine Jonas, was allegedly forced to work in the Manhattan Detention Center without any protection while pregnant.
The DOC screened staff for fevers, but used “defective temperature thermometers that read staff as having temperatures so low that they would be dead if the thermometers were correct,” the suit claims.
The DOC deferred comment to the city Law Department, which said, “[The] DOC follows the relevant guidance from its public health partners to ensure the health and safety of everyone in its facilities.”