Your early spring jaunt through the flowers ...
If at first something doesn't work, keep doing it until it still doesn't work:
Ontario will issue a new stay-at-home order Wednesday to try and control a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, sources tell The Canadian Press.
Premier Doug Ford is expected to make the announcement at a news conference this afternoon, and sources say the order will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday morning and last for four weeks.
I'll just leave this right here:
The far left column is for the various public health units in the province. The column farthest right indicates how many beds in the intensive care units are used for COVID patients.
Also keep in mind the size of unit and whether or not it is open to unrestricted domestic and international travel and whether strong measures are taken to safeguard populations most likely to be infected.
Look at the chart below:
As of this writing, the Toronto Public Health unit reports that ICU beds for COVID patients alone are at thirty-eight percent.
If the concern is that emergency rooms and intensive care units at major hospitals would be over-run, why aren't they?
Oh, well ... facts ...
The Fourth Reich of Canada, the People's Republic of Canada (Year Zero) or North Korea with fatter, whiter people?
You decide:
RCMP and members of Alberta Health Services were on scene at GraceLife Church west of Edmonton Wednesday morning to “physically close” the facility as temporary fencing was put up around the building.
Police were at the Spruce Grove church before 8 a.m. Crews could be seen putting fencing up around the building’s perimeter, as well as blocking off several parking stalls.
“Alberta Health Services physically closed GraceLife Church and has prevented access to the building until GLC can demonstrate the ability to comply with Alberta’s chief medical officer of health’s (CMOH) restrictions,” AHS said in a statement Wednesday morning.
Alberta RCMP confirmed officers were on scene to assist with enforcement.
(Sidebar: the above article does not indicate how many infections occurred at the church.)
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The church has had COVID-19 cases in the past, but Alberta Health declined to say how many cases were connected to the church or if anyone had died. A statement on the church’s website said there were two cases last July.
I'll just leave this right here:
According to data from Toronto Public Health, a full 68 per cent of all workplace COVID-19 outbreaks so far have taken place in offices, warehouses, construction sites and food processing plants — many of which have continued to operate throughout the pandemic — leading many to question why Premier Doug Ford keeps opening and closing restaurants and salons while doing little to stop the rampant transmission happening at workplaces outside of the public eye.
Reading the comments, I am convinced that Canadians are not only fine with this measure (and they certainly haven't examined the evidence) but would embrace it even if it meant being welded into their homes themselves.
As long as the beer didn't run out.
Somewhat related - if he gets kicked out, tell him to take the contents of the House of Commons with him:
The Federal Court has rejected legal pleas for the government to stop trying to kick Helmut Oberlander out of Canada for Nazi war crimes.
Oberlander, 97, of Waterloo, Ont., was a member of a notorious Nazi killing squad in Ukraine and Russia during the Second World War and has been fighting deportation for 35 years.
Canada is serious about fighting Nazis, you see. It's spent thirty-five years at it.
The purpose of those hotels was rape. Everyone knows that:
"We know that just one case of the variant that comes in could cause significant challenges,” said Trudeau. “That is why we need to take extra measures.”
It was another three-and-a-half weeks before the rule kicked in — too late to do anything about the British variant. But the first Canadian case of the Brazilian variant had only been detected, in Toronto, on February 7, and it was apparently contained. It was more than a month after that that P.1 first cropped up in Quebec, Alberta and B.C.
It obviously wasn’t just one or two people who smuggled P.1 into Canada. Several cases have breached the defences Trudeau erected, and as a result B.C. is in far worse shape than ever before.
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“Approved hotel” it seems, is the latest Trudeau-euphemism for what Carlson more accurately describes as “internment camps.”
Internment camps where YOU pay the bill.
Trudeau continues: “If your results come back negative for COVID-19, you’ll be able to head home and finish your mandatory quarantine there. If your test results come back positive, you’ll need to immediately quarantine in designated government facilities. This is not optional.”
A non-optional stay at a government facility… that sounds a lot like an internment camp. Reaction on Twitter went even darker, where high profile comedians and athletes compared the “hotels” to gulags and concentration camps.
Fortunately for Trudeau, he has his own propaganda machine to cover for his attacks on our rights and freedoms.
Back in October, the CBC assured Canadians that any talk of “internment camps” was false.
“Disinformation campaign falsely suggests Canadians will be forcibly sent to quarantine sites,” read a CBC headline.
According to the fact-checkers over at the state broadcaster, who quote an unnamed Liberal spin doctor to substantiate their report, the feds were merely providing “voluntary quarantine sites” — only to be used by homeless people and international travellers with nowhere else to go.
Voluntary, eh?
How interesting:
💥KABOOM💥
— Yuri Deigin (@ydeigin) April 6, 2021
We examined public sequencing data from Wuhan and discovered contamination of agricultural datasets by viral sequences.
We were even able to pull out two novel MERS-like coronaviruses, one of which was in a reverse genetics backbone.https://t.co/jCPiSDUvBp pic.twitter.com/RcV41oYI7r
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In this study we document the unexpected discovery of multiple coronaviruses and a BSL-3 pathogen in agricultural cotton and rice sequencing datasets. In particular, we have identified a novel HKU5-related Merbecovirus in a cotton dataset sequenced by the Huazhong Agricultural University in 2017. We have also found an infectious clone sequence containing a novel HKU4-related Merbecovirus related to MERS coronavirus in a rice dataset sequenced by the Huazhong Agricultural University in early 2020. Another HKU5-related Merbecovirus, as well as Japanese encephalitis virus, were identified in a cotton dataset sequenced by the Huazhong Agricultural University in 2018. An HKU3-related Betacoronavirus was found in a Mus musculus sequencing dataset from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2017. Finally, a SARS-WIV1-like Betacoronavirus was found in a rice dataset sequenced by the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in 2017. Using the contaminating reads we have extracted from the above datasets, we were able to assemble complete genomes of two novel coronaviruses which we disclose herein. In light of our findings, we raise concerns about biosafety protocol breaches, as indicated by our discovery of multiple dangerous human pathogens in agricultural sequencing laboratories in Wuhan and Fouzou City, China.
(Merci)
The government refuse to let a screw-up run into an obstacle:
The Canadian maker of a rapid COVID-19 test has filed for creditor protection after pausing shipments of the product due to a recently identified issue with the system.
Spartan Bioscience Inc. says the problem is not a safety issue.
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A Covid contractor awarded a rush order for $149 million in test kits after “a couple of good meetings” in the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday filed for bankruptcy court protection. Spartan Bioscience Inc. of Ottawa owes taxpayers at least $25.2 million: “Had a couple of good meetings with the CEO of Spartan.”
But the government's tyranny isn't restricted to freedom of movement and association. Their brand of communism has infected all manner of life's necessities:
Federal regulators should take down websites with hurtful words, says a former Supreme Court chief justice. Beverley McLachlin yesterday said enforcement measures must be taken against internet publishers deemed to hurt democracy: “The consequences ultimately would be to shut them down, which happens in non-democratic countries all the time.”
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Christie released her article on November 10, 2017, in the National Post. “Thought police strike again as Wilfrid Laurier grad student is chastised for showing Jordan Peterson video,” the article was titled. The subheading read “Her supervising professor told her that by showing the video to her ‘Canadian Communication in Context’ class, ‘it basically was like … neutrally playing a speech by Hitler …’”
I read over her article. In the meeting, I had barely even noticed Rambukkana’s comment comparing Peterson to Hitler. When you’re in a high-stress situation like a disciplinary meeting, some of the most revealing comments can go unnoticed.
By the time I clicked on Christie’s article, readers were already pouring into the comment section. Throughout that whole day and the next, I was continually refreshing the comment section, not wanting to miss a single comment. “Long live Jordan Peterson,” “RIP Free speech on campus,” and “What a world we live in when the 22-year old TA has more sense and courage than those corrupt professors,” the comments read. It seemed to me that the verdict was in: I was in the right. There were some comments on the skeptical side: “Sounds like a god-awful situation, but this is just the TA’s side of things, we don’t know what was really said in that room.” Those comments were totally fair: at that point, I had no intention of ever making it known that I had an audio recording of the meeting. At least Christie Blatchford knew that I hadn’t twisted any component of the story. My fears about being widely denounced online washed away: the praise was by far outweighing any negative comments.
For those who think Canada will ever have an election that resembles a free and fair one, behold!:
A federal judge has struck a cabinet order delaying local elections under the Indian Act in the name of pandemic safety. A similar law affecting voters in 338 parliamentary ridings remains on the books: “The government is asking me to tolerate an invalid exercise of power because it was done for a good reason. This is simply incompatible.”
Learning from the masters:
The United States on Tuesday said that it is looking to discuss with partners and allies how to proceed with participation in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, amid growing calls for a boycott of the Games over China’s human rights record.
Canada, too, has faced pressure for a boycott of the Games, especially because of China’s imprisonment of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadians seized in December 2018 in what’s widely believed to be retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who’s facing extradition to the United States.
Don't make your bosses mad, guys.
China’s government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a joint approach to complaints of human rights abuses.
Also:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has acknowledged his country was facing the “worst-ever situation” as he addressed thousands of grassroots members of his ruling party during a major political conference in Pyongyang.
Experts say Kim is facing perhaps his toughest moment as he approaches a decade in rule, with North Korea’s coronavirus lockdown unleashing further shock on an economy devastated by decades of mismanagement and crippling U.S.-led sanctions over his nuclear weapons program.
It's not the US' fault that North Korea is a pariah but China knows that.
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Several young North Korean defectors have taken to YouTube to offer a peek into their lives under the repressive regime and adjusting to the free world.
One young activist in the U.S., Park Yeon-mi, opened a YouTube channel called "Voice of North Korea" last August. She compares the U.S. and North Korea by talking about light topics such as music, foods and culture, as well as the North Korean human rights situation and defectors.
Born in Hyesan in Ryanggang Province, Park fled the North in 2007 when she was 13. She lived first in South Korea and has been studying at Columbia University in New York since 2015.
The channel has about 500,000 subscribers just eight months after opening.
English programs by North Korea-born YouTubers like Park could have a significant influence in raising awareness of the issues surrounding North Korea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a phone call on Tuesday to support Kyiv’s aspirations to join the NATO military alliance, the president’s office said.
Yohan Flaman, 39, a truck driver from Limoges, France, who came to Quebec in 2018 under the Quebec Experience Program, wasn’t too nervous about taking the French test set by the department of Immigration, Francization and Integration.After all, he’d spoken only French his entire life — aside from a smattering of English picked up in school and on long-haul trucking jobs to the United States.
But much to his surprise, when he took the test more than a year ago, he flunked.
“If I failed it, when I’m French, I can understand how someone who is Mexican, who doesn’t speak French, could fail,” he said in an interview Sunday.
Flaman noted when he first arrived in Quebec, he had passed the test for his professional Quebec driver’s licence entirely in French.
“I think it’s ridiculous,” he said.
Two employees of a luxury New York City apartment building have been terminated from their jobs after being seen on video failing to aid an Asian American woman who was violently attacked on a sidewalk near the building last month.
The firings were confirmed today by the building’s management company, the Brodsky Organization. The attack took place 29 March not far from Times Square.
Nathaniel and Ryan looked at three main areas that would impact a fight between Godzilla and Kong: anatomy, geography, and intelligence. (Previous matchups between the two titans were used as evidence since the latest movie wasn’t yet released during the time of the interview.) We’ll try our best to avoid spoilers, at least until the end.
(SPOILERS THEREIN!)
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