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The Quebec government has conceded to a one-month extension of its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers, giving them until Nov. 15 to receive the shot needed to stay on their jobs.
Health care workers were previously given until Oct. 15 to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or face suspension without pay.
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé said that the Quebec government made the “difficult decision” to extend the vaccination deadline amid an urgent staffing shortage. He said if the provincial government enforced the Oct. 15 mandate, they risked the potential loss of 25,000 health care workers who are not fully vaccinated.
“We find ourselves adding undue pressure on our network, and especially on the vaccinated health workers who have been at the front for months,” Dubé said in a press conference on Oct. 13.
“If we continue like this, we will run into a wall.”
You ran into a wall when you forced everyone to take a questionable flu shot or lose their jobs and the right to watch a crappy movie in a theatre.
Also:
Fully vaccinated Canadians will be able to cross the land and ferry border between the U.S. and Canada more freely in November, but the jury is still out about Canadians who received mixed doses.
No specific date has been announced for when these new rules come into effect.
(cough-bribe-cough)
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The post office, the biggest civilian employer in the federal public service, will permit unvaccinated employees to work by taking free weekly Covid tests, according to its largest union. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said accommodation was reached with management and lawyers to ensure workers “have options that respect your rights.”
This is Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko:
Like Saint John Paul II, he fought against communist dictators who told him what he could and could not say and arrested him.
He still fought them in his own way and won.
Be like Jerzy:
Today the judge enforcing Alberta's pandemic lockdown laws sentenced Pastor Artur Pawlowski. His crime? No crime — he simply opened his church during the lockdown.
In a bizarre, 40-minute rant, Justice Adam Germain ordered that for the next 18 months, whenever Pastor Artur talks about lockdowns, the pandemic or vaccines — in tweets, in speeches, in media interviews — he must immediately repudiate himself, and give the “official” government view condemning himself.
He must argue against himself. He must condemn himself. Or go back to jail.
Also - if it makes you feel any better, there is no freedom of speech in Canada:
Festive lighting is not constitutionally-protected free speech, a judge has ruled. The decision came on a pro-life legal challenge of light displays on Edmonton’s midtown landmark High Level Bridge: “Pink represents unborn girls, blue represents unborn boys.”
That's a challenge.
Get neighbours to display such lights for a couple of hours.
Everyone likes Christmas lights, right?
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Everything is libel if Goebbels has his way:
Courts have again rejected claims for a multi-million dollar payment in a defamation case. Million-dollar defamation awards are rare but not unprecedented in Canada: “The internet can be a particularly dangerous mode of publication for defamatory content.”
If you are alienated against a Canadian (though poor) candidate and find yourself conflicted against Canada and a communist, Third-World sh--hole that rapes North Korean women and kills political prisoners for their organs, how Canadian were you in the first place?:
A group representing Conservatives of Chinese descent is urging Erin O’Toole to resign as federal leader, charging that his call for a tougher approach to China alienated Chinese-Canadian voters and cost the party three seats in last month’s election.
I believe that there are Canadians of Chinese extraction who do love this country.
I just don't believe the above are.
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| Be like the Tankman |
Also:
With his comments, Barton joins a long list of international corporatists from the World Economic Forum (WEF) school of business management that encourages business leaders to align with the prevailing statist orthodoxy, no matter how anti-freedom, ant-markets and authoritarian it might be. The Build Back Better slogan, promoted by the WEF and the United Nations, has been adopted by leaders everywhere, including Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau and China’s Xi.
The first priority is the need to suspend principles. As Barton said at the CCBC meeting, Canadian business leaders should get into China “regardless of one’s outlook on it.”
It’s an old playbook, one that corporate executives in Canada and around the world routinely adopt to follow the money. The CCBC itself was founded by Paul Desmarais, the late Quebec business leader who created Power Corporation. The current CCBC board includes Canadian legal and corporate officials such as Power’s Olivier Desmarais; Scott Brison of BMO Capital Markets: former politicians Martin Cauchon and James Moore representing law firms; an SNC-Lavalin executive; and officials from Sun Life, CIBC, Brookfield, RBC and other enterprises with China plans and ambitions.
So how do members of the Canada China Business Council view the top-down Chinese communist economic model? With calm and detached ambition, judging by the council’s new report on China’s latest five-year economic plan, the 14th since the first plan issued in 1953 under Mao Zedong’s dictatorship. The new plan, known as the 14th FYP, outlines major shifts in policy that will require Canadian businesses get ready for massive adaptation and compromise with the all-powerful regulatory state.
“In China,” says the CCBC report, “the government policy determines market outcomes.” Isn’t communism great?
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Chinese military exercises near Taiwan are targeted at forces promoting the island’s formal independence and are a “just” move to protect peace and stability, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday.
And I totally believe them.
Economists at the Fraser Institute reported that one million young Canadians earned more per month collecting CERB and not working in 2020 than their pre-pandemic monthly income. Other research has found that the CRB acted as a deterrent for some people from taking on more work. Quebec Premier François Legault was even more blunt : “I think we have to say it, the CERB and the CRB have been a problem.… There was a disincentive to go work because we could receive a nice cheque easily all the while staying home.” If anything, CERB and CRB were a perfect test case about why a UBI is an idea whose time has not come. Apart from the price tag of a universal income, which the Parliamentary Budget Officer pegged at $85 billion in 2021–22, rising to $93 billion in 2025–26, starting one now would hamper economic growth at the very time when that growth is sorely needed.
The party of Jew hatred (not the Greens this time) wants to have a permanent envoy against anti-Semitism so that when the Liberals are correctly pointed out as being anti-Semitic, they can deflect attention to themselves by trotting out this guy:
Canada will develop a national plan to combat hate with the help of its special envoy for preserving Holocaust remembrance and fighting antisemitism.
The Liberal government will also make the special envoy role permanent, and bolster the position with more resources.
More wasting tax money!
That's nice:
Canada’s largest protestant church complains its “predominantly white” members lack understanding of the Black experience and have not atoned for slavery. “Some people in the United Church have been slow to respond,” the Church wrote in a report: “The Church has not yet been able to apologize for its role in slavery or work towards reparations.”
There is only ONE Church and that is not the United Church.
So there's that.
How much were you looking for, by the way?
He finally has gone boldly where man has gone before.
Save a few:
William Shatner can now say he's gone boldly where no man (his age) has gone before.
He's certainly not the first person to visit space, but as of Wednesday, the "Star Trek" veteran is the oldest. At 90, the actor joined Blue Origin, founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2000, for its second human spaceflight. Shatner and three others were launched in a New Shepard rocket from the aerospace company's West Texas launch site just before 11 a.m. EDT.
The crew safely landed back on Earth several minutes later, when Shatner could be heard saying the experience was "unlike anything they described." All four passengers on board gave a thumbs up to the recovery crew upon landing to indicate they were OK.
Bezos greeted the passengers with a double thumbs-up outside the landing capsule, followed by the passengers' family and friends, who cheered and applauded.
"In a way it's indescribable," Shatner told Bezos. "Not only is it different than what you thought, it happened so quickly. The impression I had that I never expected to have is the shooting up: There's blue sky –" he paused as Bezos sprayed a bottle of champagne.
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