Your middle-of-the-week time to stop and smell the flowers ...
Even though the majority of coronavirus cases are in the Toronto area, the emergency order for the province has been extended to June 9th:
Ontarians will not be allowed to dine in bars and restaurants, gather in groups larger than five or use playground equipment until at least mid-June.
The provincial government says it is extending its COVID-19 emergency orders until June 9.They were last extended on May 19 and were set to expire May 29.The orders include the closure of child care centres, libraries except for pick-up and delivery, theatres, and bars and restaurants except to provide take-out or delivery.It also means that Ontarians looking to beat the heat at public pools and splash pads are out of luck until at least June 9.Ontario has been in a state of emergency since March 17, and it was last extended until June 2.
As of this writing, there have been 6,671 deaths due to the coronavirus.
Though South Korean schools are re-opened, the country and India have seen a spike in new cases:
South Korea reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections in weeks on Wednesday and India saw another record single-day jump of more than 6,000 cases, as the pandemic expanded its grip across much of the globe. ...
In New Zealand, which is still banning foreign arrivals, the Ministry of Health said there were no COVID-19 patients under treatment in the country’s hospitals. The nation took aggressive and early action to stop transmissions and has reported only 21 deaths. It has 21 active cases out of 1,504 confirmed and probable ones. ...
India saw another record single-day jump, reporting 6,387 new cases on Wednesday, as the government prepared new guidelines for the next phase of a 2-month-old national lockdown that is due to end on Sunday.
Also - but I thought that socialism fixed everything!:
“If things were worse than they are now, we would have seen a lot coming out from social media — people talking about the increase of cases, hospitals being overrun,” said Dr. Gerardo de Cosío, the Caracas-based head of the Venezuela office of the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization.
Neighboring Brazil has seen more than 270,000 cases and nearly 20,000 deaths so far, while Peru, Chile and Ecuador have each had tens of thousands of cases. There have been thousands of deaths in Peru and Ecuador and hundreds in Chile.
In Venezuela, officials had been reporting under a dozen new illnesses daily. But that’s started creeping upward, and new illnesses now exceed 100 some days.
Patty Hajdu is an awful b!#ch:
Liberal Health Minister Patty Hajdu is blaming former prime minister Stephen Harper for her government’s failure to properly manage Canada’s national emergency stockpile.
When Hajdu was asked by NDP MP Matthew Green if she had ever been briefed on the poor state of Canada’s National Emergency Strategic Stockpile, she answered that Canada’s lack of preparedness can be blamed on the Harper government’s actions half a decade ago.
Yes, about that, you Chinese stoolie b!#ch:
Just finished a
great telephone briefing from former Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, who
led Canada’s response to H1N1. Canada should have medical stockpiles,
she says. Where did they go?
— pierrepoilievre
(@PierrePoilievre) April
3, 2020
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To support China’s ongoing response to the outbreak, Canada has deployed approximately 16 tonnes of personal protective equipment, such as clothing, face shields, masks, goggles and gloves to the country since February 4, 2020.
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2/ @HoCCommitee on Health:
* MP Jansen: “I’m assuming you keep it in the stockpile because you need it?”
* Thornton: “We keep a minimum level…”
* MP Jansen: “What’s your minimum level of stock on masks?...”
* Thornton: “I couldn’t tell you.”3/ Thornton: “We were not that familiar with what provinces had in their respective stockpiles”. Could not recall when @GovCanHealth began keeping electronic inventory. Thornton confirmed 3 warehouses closed incl. Regina depot that landfilled 2M N95 masks and 440K gloves. #skpoli4/ “Can you undertake to provide this committee with the amount of funding the fed gov’t has provided for the nat’l emergency stockpile for each of the last 10 years?” asked MP @DonDavies. Thornton: “I will do our very best; some of that is not publicly available for disclosure.”6/5/ * MP Jeneroux: “Would you agree we failed to keep an adequate stockpile due to lack of intention and poor inventory?...”
* Thornton: “No, the stockpile was actually doing well, what it was actually mandated and funded to do.”
* MP Jeneroux: “Minister @PattyHajdu mentioned we didn’t have adequate stockpiles. You say it’s not due to lack of intention or poor inventory. So then what’s it due to?”
* Thornton: “I think it was actually delivering on what it had been mandated and funded to do.”
Sorry, whose fault is it again, Patty? Is it Stephen Harper's who has not been in office since 2016? Was the stockpile, the numbers of which were not disclosed by Miss Thornton, so well-stocked that your China-loving boss could hand out sixteen tonnes of it to China?
Justin, with the NDP's help, extends his vacation:
Parliament has been suspended.
It won’t fully open up again until September.
As a result, the Liberal government will now be administering massive government intervention without oversight, allowing them basically free reign to do whatever they want.
This happened because the NDP was bought off with Trudeau’s ‘promise’ to ‘push’ the provinces on the issue of expanded paid medical leave.
The Liberals, NDP, and Greens all colluded to bypass Parliament, while the Conservatives and the Bloc voted to keep Parliament going.
Between now and September, Parliament will meet just four times, giving MPs just hours to discuss the unprecedented crisis our country faces.
The Romanovs saw the inside of a mine shaft for much less, believe it or not.
As much as people want to blame this terrible mess on Ontario Premier Doug Ford and still expect the current federal government (that hasn't met a crisis it doesn't mean to screw up) to fix everything, the plain truth is that society at large abdicated it moral and practical responsibilities to the elderly a long time ago:
A Canadian military report released on Tuesday chronicles horrific conditions at five long-term care homes in Ontario, ranging from poor infection control practices to the neglect and abuse of residents.
The Ontario government said Tuesday it would send inspectors from the Ministry of Long-Term Care into the seniors’ residences to investigate the military’s allegations. But critics said members of Premier Doug Ford’s government should have been aware of long-standing problems at the homes well before the military stepped in.
(Sidebar: ... say the people who had an inkling but waited until now to say something about it.)
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A 60-page report from the military on the condition of Quebec’s long-term care homes released by the government on Wednesday points to three major challenges in the facilities: staffing shortages, management of personal protective equipment and how hot zones related to the novel coronavirus are handled.
Also - why? What will people see if they look through the windows?:
A long-term care facility owned and operated by the city of Timmins has banned window visits by family members of residents.
True North has obtained an email sent out by Golden Manor’s Quality, Risk and Resident Experience Coordinator Amy Beaven telling family members that their visits could be “confusing to residents.”
I'm sure that this is nothing to be concerned about:
Deficit spending is unsustainable, Parliamentary Budget Office Yves Giroux yesterday told the Senate national finance committee. Giroux said this year’s budget shortfall is now an unprecedented $260 billion and counting, five times the previous record of $55.6 billion set a decade ago: “We’d be looking at a level of taxation that’s not been seen for generations.”
It's just money:
The taxpayer-financed Canada Infrastructure Bank endorsed a scale of million-dollar bonuses for its CEO, according to records. The Bank had withheld the disclosure under Access To Information: “It’s a little hard to ask questions about the Bank because nothing is really public at all about it.”
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The Department of Justice loses almost a third of lawsuits at a taxpayers’ cost in legal fees averaging more than $200 million a year, says a newly-released audit. Of cases settled out of court, 44 percent were paid out just before trial: “Some improvement is needed.”
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Two of Canada’s biggest banks said Wednesday that their second-quarter profit was essentially cut in half, as the shock of COVID-19 forced both the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal to set aside massive piles of cash for possible loan losses.
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Thousands of people in Canada can expect a letter shortly from the U.S. Treasury Department.
However, you’re (probably) not in trouble. In fact, you’re most likely receiving a US$1,200 cheque thanks to America’s stimulus package.
Justice Heather Holmes is set to release Meng Wanzhou today:
A former ambassador to China says Wednesday’s decision in the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou could also determine the fate of two Canadians detained in China.
David Mulroney, who served as Canada’s ambassador to the People’s Republic of China between 2009 and 2012, said Tuesday if Meng is released then he expects China will eventually follow suit and release Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
The detention of Kovrig and Spavor has widely been seen as arbitrary retaliation against Canada for the arrest of Meng, who is wanted on fraud charges in the United States.
If Meng’s case instead proceeds to the next stage, Mulroney said he worries that China may choose to more actively prosecute the two Canadians on the national security charges they face.
While Meng’s arrest in December 2018 was a lightning rod for the collapse of Canada-China relations, Mulroney said he believes China’s behaviour over the past year has had the effect of “decoupling” the case from its initial influence on bilateral relations.
China’s interference in Hong Kong and other events have caused Canadians to become disenchanted with the idea or goal of returning to some kind of “golden status quo” with the Asian superpower, he said.
“I think if Ms. Meng were to go back to China, it would probably mean good news on the part of the two Michaels but I don’t think it would or should change Canada-China relations,” said Mulroney, who is also a distinguished fellow with the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
This Hong Kong:
Hong Kong police fired pepper pellets to disperse protesters in the heart of the global financial centre on Wednesday and arrested about 240 people as national security legislation proposed by Beijing revived anti-government demonstrations.
As tensions soared, riot police were deployed around Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, deterring protesters who had planned to gather there as a bill was due to be debated that would criminalize disrespect of the Chinese national anthem.
Also:
Facing a brutal totalitarian state that puts the population under total surveillance, executes people without any semblance of a legal process, disappears people, kidnaps journalists and activists, and seeks to stamp out freedom, the people of Hong Kong have shown incredible bravery in standing up for democracy and liberty.
Indeed, as our own pathetic Liberal government acted like a disgusting coward towards China, the People of Hong Kong braved immense danger, and continue to brave that danger.
The reality is that the freedom fighters of Hong Kong have shown a stronger allegiance to Canadian Values than our own government has.
Of course, we cannot accept everyone, nor should we, since the needs of Canadian Citizens must come first.
That said, we can welcome many thousands of refugees from Hong Kong, as their commitment to freedom and the values we share in common will strengthen Canada and send a clear message that we are a haven for those fleeing the brutal oppression of the Chinese Communist Party.
Why? This country is China now.
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