Your middle-of-the-week moment in the sun ...
I'm sure it's nothing at all to be concerned with:
Chinese military scientists in 2015 detailed a plot to unleash a bioengineered SARS coronavirus to cause mass terror and advance the communist regime’s global political ambitions.
These newly uncovered revelations come amid intensifying scrutiny over the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, an institute that has collaborated with the Chinese military.
More:
MPs last night cited Iain Stewart, president of the Public Health Agency, for concealing facts over the January 20 firing of two Chinese scientists at a federal lab. Stewart invoked the Privacy Act in refusing to release uncensored records to the Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations: “What is going on that is being kept from us?”
The special committee has demanded to know why two federal government scientists were escorted out of Canada's only Level 4 Lab in July 2019, just four months after one of them shipped samples of the Ebola and Henipah viruses to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China — stories first published by CBC News.
Two months after that shipment, on May 24, 2019, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) referred an "administrative matter" to RCMP that resulted in the removal of two Chinese research scientists — Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng — and several international students on July 5.
Also:
In recent weeks, a seeming contradiction has emerged: States in the U.S. that have had little to no COVID-19 restrictions have gotten case counts under control, while in Canada there are provinces still struggling with a third wave despite having never fully reopened.
It has the potential to become fuel for anti-lockdown protesters: If those states have opened up and brought case counts down, why can’t we? Do lockdowns not work?
Nope.
But don't take my word for it:
Economics professor Doug Allen wanted to know why so many early models used to create COVID-19 lockdown policies turned out to be highly incorrect. What he found was that a great majority were based on false assumptions and “tended to over-estimate the benefits and under-estimate the costs.” He found it troubling that policies such as total lockdowns were based on those models.
“They were built on a set of assumptions. Those assumptions turned out to be really important, and the models are very sensitive to them, and they turn out to be false,” said Allen, the Burnaby Mountain Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, in an interview.
Allen says most of the early cost-benefit studies that he reviewed didn’t try to distinguish between mandated and voluntary changes in people’s behaviour in the face of a pandemic. Rather, they just assumed an exponential growth of cases of infection day after day until herd immunity is reached.
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MIT researchers 'infiltrated' a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism.
— commie lee jones (@commieleejones) May 10, 2021
"Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution."https://t.co/jsoAG8G2VT pic.twitter.com/CpEvCKz2HK
And:
On Monday, Ty and Gail Northcott, who organized an anti-lockdown rodeo earlier this month that saw thousands attend in Bowden, Alta., were served a court summons by the RCMP for violating public-health rules.
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In a fiery Facebook post Tuesday, Ty Northcott, called Kenney “ruthless and spineless” for summoning him and his wife. (The premier does not direct police or health officials to arrest or charge people.)
(Sidebar: not yet, anyway.)
“If he is willing to do this to yours or my wife or mother, would he do this to your children?” Northcott wrote.
In Calgary, there was yet another arrest over the weekend, this time of Artur Pawlowksi, who styles himself a street preacher in Calgary. His brother, Dawid Pawlowski, was also arrested. Both face charges for promoting and hosting an illegal gathering at a Saturday church service.
But it's alright for some people to do whatever they want:
Plans for Canada’s foreign affairs minister to take his second international trip in less than a month have raised questions around what’s allowed for those in quarantine and a discrepancy between what Canadians are told and what regulations actually say.
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Do note it's always the takers who have "trust" in their overlords:
A new poll suggests that most Canadians have less trust in their current political leadership because of how the COVID-19 pandemic was handled, with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau taking the worst hits.
But the poll also found one province to be a notable outlier: Quebec, where respondents reported a substantial increase in trust in Premier François Legault’s leadership. The only other place where respondents reported an increase in trust was in Atlantic Canada, though the gains were much less than in Quebec.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s talk of a “great reset” is really about increasing the size and reach of government, which means an ever-increasing public service payroll to provide government-designated services financed by unprecedented levels of public debt.
This is a financial house of cards paid for by low interest rates with no guarantee they’ll last forever and no plan for what happens if they don’t.
The pandemic has already exposed two different classes of workers — those in the public sector who have been largely insulated from the economic ravages of lockdowns and those in the private sector who have largely borne the brunt of them.
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Take the vaccine, you flat-earther anti-vaxxer!:
According to VAERS reports, the Kentucky deaths occurred on Dec. 30 after vaccinations with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. An ill 88-year-old woman who was “14 + days post covid” was given the Pfizer-BioNTech shot while she was “unresponsive in [her] room.” She died within an hour and a half (914961-1). An 88-year-old who was “15 days post covid” got the shot, was monitored for 15 minutes afterward, and passed away within 90 minutes (914994-1). A third report says an 88-year-old woman who was “14 + days post covid” vomited four minutes after receiving her shot, became short of breath, and passed away that night (915562-1). And an 85-year-old woman vaccinated at 5 p.m. was “found unresponsive” less than two hours later and died shortly after (915682-1).
In response to questions about the Kentucky cluster, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said its experts noted “no pattern … among the [Kentucky] cases that would indicate a concern for the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine.”
Scientists differ on whether people who have had coronavirus, like the Kentucky patients, should receive the COVID-19 vaccination at all. The CDC insists it’s safe for people who have recovered from COVID-19 to get vaccinated and that there’s no minimum interval recommended between infection and vaccination.
“Vaccination should be offered to persons regardless of history of prior symptomatic or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 [the virus that causes COVID-19] infection,” it states.
But other scientists say vaccinating people who are already considered immune after a natural COVID-19 infection wastes valuable doses of vaccines when there are shortages. And neither Pfizer’s nor Moderna’s studies showed any benefit to vaccinating previously infected patients.
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The peculiar blood clotting disorder linked with Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, a vaccine now temporarily paused in Ontario and Alberta, doesn’t cause the regular kind of blood clots. These clots require more extensive care, they can’t be predicted and, most importantly, are “really kinda bad,” says a Toronto infectious diseases specialist. The case fatality rate ranges between 20 and 40 per cent.
For those reasons and more, Dr. Andrew Morris believes it’s time to halt AstraZeneca’s shots across the country, except where COVID-19 is burning and people at very high risk of COVID cannot wait for a Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna shot — mRNA vaccines that haven’t been associated with the same blood clot “safety signal.”
Nice Internet you've got there. It would be a shame is something were to happen to it:
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s YouTube regulation bill C-10 will censor everyday Canadians’ uploaded content, a former vice-chair of the CRTC said yesterday. “The government itself doesn’t seem to understand what it is doing,” he said: “All Canadians communicating over the internet will do so under the guise of the state.”
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MP yesterday summoned Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault to explain his YouTube censorship bill. Members of the Commons heritage committee voted 11-0 to suspend all further hearings on the bill until Guilbeault explains federal regulation of videos intended for private viewing: “The government has gone too far.”
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Last week, we saw a preview of how the Liberals could weaponize this power. When Guilbeault was pressed by Lethbridge MP Rachael Harder to answer questions about the constitutionality of Bill C-10, Guilbeault responded by trying to distract the Canadian people with an irrelevant debate about abortion. “Given the opportunity,” Guilbeault said, Harder “would not hesitate one moment to remove a woman’s right to choose — a right protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — but would like us, and Canadians, to believe she cares deeply about said Charter.”
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Might pro-life political opinions, a favourite target of the Trudeau Liberals, be censored on social media if Guilbeault has his way? If the minister is willing to use the abortion debate to divide and conquer Canadians on matters of free speech, then we can expect that the they may use similar tactics in the future to manipulate the internet in their favour.
Trusting idiots who waste money with our money.
What can go wrong?:
Every dollar spent by the federal government benefits the economy, says a senior Department of Finance official. Nicholas Leswick, assistant deputy minister, yesterday told the Commons finance committee all money taxed and spent benefits the nation: “Did I understand that incorrectly?”
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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday said she will “really act” to rewrite federal usury law for the first time since 1978. The pandemic has dramatized predatory lending practices, Freeland told the Commons finance committee: “Payday lending can impose real hardship.”
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Taxpayers made about $40 million on the Trans Mountain Pipeline since cabinet bought it for $4.5 billion, the Parliamentary Budget Office said yesterday. Financing costs, write-downs and construction delays were to blame for the low return, said analysts: “The Canadian approach will be to ensure that we make a profit.”
For those who believe that there will be a free and fair election in this country and that it will represent the political make-up of the people - behold!:
Liberal and New Democrat MPs yesterday by a 176-155 vote cut short debate on a bill to allow mail-in election ballots to be counted even after federal polls close in an expected 2021 campaign. Elections Canada has predicted a hundredfold increase in mailed ballots this year: “What is the big desire to rush this bill through now?”
Because those who hold the purse-strings can always be trusted:
It’s rare, some in the industry believe, because over-regulation, labour shortages and heavy concentration in the grocery business have historically tamped down Canada’s ability to process what it grows, leaving the country dependent on other countries to turn crops into food. That dependence can be precarious, especially in uncertain times that send shock waves rippling through global supply lines and countries grow reluctant to share.
Much of Canada’s food processing infrastructure is aging and understaffed, due in part to a slow procession of multinational manufacturers relocating their Canadian operations to countries with less regulation and longer growing seasons.
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More than half of all the crops and livestock produced in Canada are now exported to another country to be processed, according to a report last week by the parliamentary standing committee on agriculture and agri-food.
Processed food, for many, may sound like junk food — say, chicken parts blitzed with additives to form nuggets. But in the agricultural sector, processed food involves anything that adds value to a raw material. For example, crushing canola seeds into oil is processing, as is freezing corn niblets or canning beans.
For a country so rich in raw materials, untapped processing potential means untapped value. But more importantly, it can make the national food chain more vulnerable.
Why rely on Canadian ingenuity (if it has it?) when one decidedly will not?
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The Department of Transport says it has no evidence mandating Safety Management Systems at Canadian airlines actually improved safety. The department concealed the findings for two years: “A number of interviewees expressed concern that Transport Canada was ‘offloading regulations’ onto operators.”
If one were to outsource this particular job to illegal migrants, one could be sure that the "educators" would study:
Passing the Mathematics Proficiency Test (MPT) is now required to become a certified Ontario teacher, but some teacher candidates say trying to get an appointment — and make sure they're ready for the exam — is causing them a lot of stress.
If only unions did not interfere with fixing a broken system.
Bleeding the east might take a while:
The government of Canada is urging a federal judge to stall Line 5's state-ordered shutdown through the Straits of Mackinac because of ongoing treaty discussions between the Canadian and U.S. governments.
A United Nations committee on racial discrimination is asking the federal government to respond to allegations it committed racist actions in its treatment of Mi’kmaq lobster fishers in Nova Scotia.
I would like the UN to answer question as to why it let Rwandans die a bloody death.
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