Covid vaccine passports in Scotland are worth 'the fuss', insists John Swinney

FILE - The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Spotify displayed on a phone screen and headphones are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on Feb. 3, 2022.

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FILE - Peng Shuai of China in action during her Women's Singles first-round match against Nao Hibino of Japan on day two of the 2020 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Jan. 21, 2020, in Melbourne, Australia.

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PHILADELPHIA - Another new mask mandate is in place and goes into effect Monday morning for the School District of Philadelphia. The new rule is that clothe masks can no longer be worn as the only protection. Instead, 3-ply disposable masks must be worn. Double masking is allowed with clothe masks so long as a 3-ply disposable mask.Officials say the 3-ply disposable mask is more effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19."The one bit of advice that we've continued to put out there is that people should be flexible in understanding that things change very quickly from time to time," officials said.

PHILADELPHIA - A young man has died after he was shot multiple times in the West Philadelphia section of the city. The shooting happened at approximately 11:20 p.m.

EXTON, Pa. - Police in Chester County are searching for two women they stole thousands of dollars worth of makeup from an Ulta. Police say the incident happened in Exton on Thursday. According to police, the women had a system that allowed them to steal that much merchandise in a short amount of time. The total value of the makeup stolen was approximated to be $10,000. The day before, police say a man came into the store and asked questions and took pictures.

PHILADELPHIA - A 2-alarm fire broke out overnight at an apartment building in the city's Holmesburg section. Officials say the fire broke out around 3:15 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA - A man has died after he was shot and killed during a carjacking in the city's Rhawnhurst section late Sunday night. The shooting happened in the rear yard of a home at approximately 8:12 p.m. on the 2100 block of Afton Street. Police say the unidentified 62-year-old man was shot once in the right side of the abdomen.

Phillip Schofield was relaxing at home ready to watch some Sunday night TV when his house started flooding. The Dancing on Ice star documented his unfortunate leak before getting ready to watch the ice skating show on ITV, as Stephen Mulhern stepped in to host with Holly Willoughby.

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Sri Lankan party leaders have decided to convene Parliament on Tuesday (8) and continue sessions until Friday (11).According to a statement from the Office of the Leader of the House of Parliament, two orders under the ‘National Medicines Regulatory Authority Act, No 5 of 2015’ will be produced to Parliament.In addition, the second reading of the ‘Lalith Athulathmudali Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund’ will take place on Tuesday (8) and two amendments to the respective legislation will be produced as well.The statement noted that an amendment will be produced to replace the Chief Justice, who serves as the Chairperson of the ‘Lalith Athulathmudali Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund’, with a retired Supreme Court Judge of a retired Auditor General.Further, an amendment will be made to replace the subject minister, who serves as a member of the ‘Lalith Athulathmudali Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund’, with a representative nominated by him.On the 11th of February 2022, a condolence motion with respect to the late Minister Mangala Samaraweera will be moved in Parliament.

The actress Andrea Bordeaux says she was fired after she refused to get a COVID-19 vaccination for her Starz series Run The World.In an Instagram post from this weekend, the 34-year-old actress denied that she had chosen to leave the series, as was reported by Deadline on Friday, and instead claimed she had been kicked off the show.'Despite what the article says, I did not opt to leave the series and Lionsgate made no efforts to find a workable solution. I was fired,' she wrote in her lengthy caption.

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 27: U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office at the White House on August 27, 2021 in Washington, DC.

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 27: Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner attend the Travis Scott: "Look Mom I Can Fly" Los Angeles Premiere at The Barker Hanger on August 27, 2019 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Netfl NEW YORK - Kylie Jenner announced the birth of her second child with rapper Travis Scott in a post Sunday on social media — with a blue heart indicating it's a boy.The 24-year-old reality star and makeup mogul didn't disclose the new baby's name.The child was born Wednesday, as the Instagram post was captioned with the date "2/2/22." The black-and-white photo shows the newborn's hand apparently being held by his big sister, Stormi, who turned 4 on Feb.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Comedian and Saturday Night Live actor Pete Davidson is learning what goes around, comes around, after he was booed at a Syracuse University game on Saturday.Davidson has repeatedly made negative comments about the city, dating back to 2019.According to Storyful, after run ins with the police while filming a movie in the area, Davidson that year referred to Syracuse as "trash" during a Howard Stern interview. He also told Variety that the city "sucks."RELATED: Pete Davidson and Colin Jost buy Staten Island ferry boatLocal residents didn't forget and let Davidson know that when he appeared on the jumbotron alongside businessman Adam Weitsman at the Carrier Dome during Syracuse’s game against Louisville on Saturday.SNL cast member Pete Davidson attends the 3rd annual New York Police and Fire widows' & children's benefit fund kick off to summer benefit at Empire Hotel Rooftop on May 19, 2015 in New York City.

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Max Parrot captured Canada’s first gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics in men’s snowboard slopestyle on Monday.Parrot dominated the slope alongside teammate Mark McMorris, who won bronze. It’s the second straight Olympics that Parrot and McMorris have shared the podium in the event.A native of Bromont, Que., Parrot’s gold-medal win is an upgrade from his silver at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games.

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COLOMBO (News 1st): Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Professor G. L.

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Scottish Labour’s health ­spokeswoman Jackie Baillie last night called for an urgent inquiry as it emerged four children were given Covid vaccine overdoses more than twice the approved amount.

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The number of cars on Irish roads has hit pre-pandemic levels, but there are fewer people travelling on public transport.

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COLOMBO (News 1st); Health workers across Sri Lanka including nurses, and Public Health Inspectors are on strike citing multiple demands.They resorted to the indefinite trade union action from Monday (7) against the government’s failure to remove salary anomalies and address their grievances, despite recent token strikes.The unions demand that the authorities eliminate existing salary disparities in the sector just as they eliminated the teacher and principal salary anomaliesAs a result of the strike, Clinics, Dispensaries, Blood Tests, as well as COVID-19 testing, did not function across many government hospitals in Sri Lanka.This in turn caused serious inconveniences to the general public, according to reports.

Assam government had tightened Covid curbs to contain the transmission of the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The state prohibited the entry of non-vaccinated people to public places, except hospitals. It said that all people are required to carry proof of being fully vaccinated while visiting public places/spaces.

Canada Post may be on the verge of an overhaul that could include ways to make it more profitable and more manageable. As David Akin tells us, some possible changes include removing rural post offices.

Australia will reopen its borders to tourists from 21 February, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced, ending some of the world's strictest and longest-running pandemic travel restrictions.

As the trucker convoy demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions in Canada’s capital continues into a second weekend, Ottawa’s mayor has now declared a state of emergency. Mike Drolet explains what this means.

During a COVID-19 update Friday, Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said fully vaccinated Canadians who experienced a COVID-19 infection should wait at least three months to get a booster shot after symptoms start or testing positive, according to Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI).

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Photo: Chick-fil-A If the way to your partner’s heart is through their stomach, then Chick-fil-A has just the right way to express your love this Valentine's Day.The popular fast-food chain is once again offering heart-shaped containers for some of its most popular options ahead of February 14.Customers can choose to go the sweet or savory route. The different Valentine’s Day trays come with 30 nuggets, 10 Chick-n-Minis, six chocolate chip cookies or 12 brownie halves."Nothing says, "I love you" like Chick-fil-A Nuggets," the restaurant said. Photo: Chick-fil-A RELATED: The top-selling Valentine’s Day candy by state revealedThe special trays are available now while supplies last at participating restaurants.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre’s announcement Saturday to run for the party’s leadership and become Canada’s next prime minister is being widely endorsed by fellow Tory members of Parliament.Poilievre, the Tories’ finance critic, is the first candidate to launch his bid for the Conservative Party of Canada’s top spot after MPs forced Erin O’Toole out of the position this past week. The Conservative leadership race has already started Among those who pledged their support to the Ottawa-area MP is John Baird, a former federal Conservative cabinet minister.In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson Sunday, Baird said Poilievre has the qualities to be a “very strong leader,” but unifying a fractured Conservative Party will be a challenge.“He’s someone who I think will galvanize Conservatives, not just in the parliamentary caucus, but across the country and galvanize Canadians,” said Baird, who served as the minister of foreign affairs from 2011 to 2015 in then-prime minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet.In a three-minute video released on social media Saturday evening, Poilievre didn’t mention the Conservative Party by name or the leadership contest, saying only that he wants the job as prime minister.The race to replace O’Toole, who was ousted by Conservative MPs in a vote on Wednesday, is well underway with thousands of new memberships sold, a source told Global News on Friday.

Canada Post, Filomena Tassi polled Canadians to see how they felt about making some radical changes at the Crown corporation.Those changes include shutting down rural post offices, ending all home delivery in favour of community mailboxes, and cutting back mail delivery to three times a week.The poll was put in the field in mid-December, six weeks after Tassi was named minister for Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) and three weeks after the Crown corporation said it lost $264 million on revenue of $5.4 billion in its third quarter, the most recent quarter for which financial results are available. Canada Post reconsidering policy forbidding workers to use their own N95 masks It was clear from the content of the poll questions that Tassi’s office was keen to explore ways to cut costs and reduce losses.But the very fact that Tassi was even asking those questions has angered the union representing 61,000 postal workers.“We’re really concerned and disappointed the government is actually taking a poll right now about reducing postal services when the public is actually asking them to have more services, not less,” said Jan Simpson, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).“Postal workers have been working throughout the entire pandemic and for them to have this poll currently is very insulting to us.”Simpson said CUPW was not informed or consulted about the poll and, coincidentally, it was doing its own poll in December asking Canadians about Canada Post.“They want us to expand services,” Simpson said.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal on Monday (7) ordered to grant bail to Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah who was arrested and remanded under the provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).In addition, the bail order was directed to the Chilaw High Court as well.The order for bail was made when the revision application for bail on behalf of Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah was taken up at the Court of Appeal in the presence of Justices Menaka Wijesundara and Neil Iddawela.Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah was arrested on the 14th of April 2020 with regard to a sermon that was delivered for students at a Madrasa School in Puttlam.After 18 months in detention, Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah was prosecuted under the PTA by the Attorney General at the Puttlam High Court.However, two requests for bail from the High Court were rejected previously.Thereafter, an application for bail was filed with the Court of Appeal.

COLOMBO (News 1st); LIOC has increased its Retail Selling prices for Diesel (Lanka Auto Diesel ) by Rs 3/- per litre and Petrol (LP 92 ) by Rs 7/- per litre with effect from Sunday (6) due to huge price increase in international fuel prices on both the product.92 Octane New Price: Rs. 184/-Auto Diesel New Price: Rs.

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Global’s Keith Baldrey has more on Kevin Falcon’s uphill battle to form a B.C. Liberal government and a look at some of the big names he could bring on board to help revive the party.

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PHILADELPHIA - Authorities say a suspect is in custody after a number of robberies that occurred at multiple SEPTA train stations Saturday. The robberies happened in the areas of 15th Street/City Hall Station and 30th Street Station on the Market-Frankford Line.Sunday night, SEPTA officials confirmed to FOX 29 that a suspect had been identified and taken into custody. Earlier Sunday, police released photos of a male who was wanted for questioning in connection to the incidents.Authorities had been investigating three similar incidents that occurred Saturday. The first took place around 2 p.m.

City and government officials are applauding the combined efforts to control the crowds. This comes after a massive protest took over the streets near Queens Park in Toronto.

There were 24,935 booster doses administered on Waitangi Day yesterday, taking the total to date to 1,586,950. Also, 1,706 paediatric doses were given yesterday, bringing the total to 199,174.

schools, colleges, gyms, yoga centre, offices to function normally along with following Covid-19 SOPs.

The next Covid variant could be ‘more severe’ than Omicron, Scotland’s National Clinical Director has warned.

John Swinney has announced a "range of scenarios" are under consideration by the Scottish Government on extending the covid passport scheme.

John Swinney has been reported to the statistics authority after he was accused of misrepresenting the impact of covid restrictions in Scotland.