Your mid-week dose of truth!
Denmark on Wednesday became the first country to stop using AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine altogether, following news of its possible link to very rare blood clot cases, health authorities said.
Health Canada will not be changing its recommendations for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine despite new evidence suggesting a “stronger link” to blood clots, the agency’s chief medical adviser said on Wednesday.
In response to the new evidence, Dr. Supriya Sharma said Health Canada has updated warnings on the vaccine’s label “so that Canadians can be informed of the side effects.”
“We didn’t find any specific risk factors, such as age or sex, so we are therefore not requiring that the vaccine label be updated to restrict the use of the vaccine at this time,” she said.
Except for all of those blood clots killing people.
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I just love love love love love this headline.
— Sanwin (@sanwins) April 14, 2021
Did I say I love this headline ?#TrudeauVaccineFailure #TrudeauMustGo pic.twitter.com/Jd9XHBVDjY
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"When you're looking at clots that are associated with birth control, those are usually going to be in the form of a deep vein thrombosis and very rarely a pulmonary embolism," Dr. Jessica Shepherd, an OB-GYN in Dallas who serves as the chief medical officer of VeryWell Health, told Insider.
Overall, your chance of developing deep vein thrombosis is one in 1,000 every year.
CVST, by contrast, occurs in the brain when the sinuses that drain blood from your head get blocked. About five people out of every million in the general population experience this each year. Women on birth control face a higher risk of CVST than men and than women who aren't on the pill.
Yet they still keep happening.
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Canada’s Liberal government will deliver on its promise to spend big when it presents its first budget in two years next week amid a fast-rising third wave of COVID-19 infections and ahead of an election expected in coming months.
There will be no election.
A real country would send these petty tyrants and lackeys packing:
In a wide-ranging talk with the Montreal Council of Foreign Affairs, ambassador Cong Peiwu touted what he called an “independent foreign policy of peace” currently being pursued by the Communist Party of China, while also chastising Western media for characterizing China’s foreign policy as running counter to international law.
How many organs are being trafficked from China today, Cong?
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Of all people: President Tsai is precisely the kind of dynamic middle-power personality the Trudeau Liberals, if we were to take them at their word about what they claim to stand for, would be falling all over themselves to be seen with. Nevertheless, in the last remaining setting at which Canada can still claim some international prestige — the Halifax International Security Forum (HFX), now in its 11th year — Team Trudeau has beclowned itself again, and this time it’s at President Tsai’s expense.
Because Justin can't and won't stand up to his bosses.
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A Toronto-based community group that has received more than $160,000 in federal funding has again issued a statement echoing China’s official line on a contentious issue, this time condemning Parliament’s recent Uyghur-genocide motion.
A prominent Canadian advocate for the Uyghur people noted that his own group has sought for years to obtain Ottawa’s financial help, with no success.
The statement last week is at least the second time in less than two years the “non-political” Council of Newcomer Organizations has gone public with a political declaration that mirrors Beijing’s messaging.
The House of Commons motion labeling treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide was the result of MPs’ “ignorance and prejudice” toward China and could cause “far-reaching” damage to bilateral relations, the Toronto-based council charged in the statement posted on Chinese-language websites.
In August 2019, the group co-founded by former Liberal MP Geng Tan published an advertisement that harshly criticized pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, suggesting they were colluding with foreign powers.
Seven months later, in March 2020, the umbrella group for 29 Chinese-Canadian associations received the latest of its federal grants — $25,000 from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) for an elder-abuse program.
By comparison, Mehmet Tohti said he’s aware of no Canadian group fighting for human rights in China that has received financial support from Ottawa.
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This is pretty incredible. This is a Canadian Senator appointed by Justin Trudeau. But he is tweeting, in Chinese, a threat to Canada and the two Canadian hostages held by the Chinese Communist Party. pic.twitter.com/6FuiGh2CnB
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) April 13, 2021
What can one expect from this government?:
The Commons public accounts committee yesterday questioned the Auditor General’s Office over favouritism in contracting to a Liberal lobbyist, Susan Smith of Bluesky Strategy Group Inc. MPs did not comment after the committee spent more than an hour behind closed doors questioning Auditor General Karen Hogan: “I would recommend the Bluesky contract be put in place for as long as it can.”
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If Erin O’Toole, Jagmeet Singh and Yves-François Blanchet really want to poke a hole in Justin Trudeau’s socks, all they have to do is deny the prime minister the election his Liberal party is itching for.
It’s within their power, and unquestionably well within their own interests. The thing the Liberals most want is the one thing they daren’t impose on an impatient and ill-tempered electorate. They need help from their opponents, who have nothing to gain by giving it to them.
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The Canada Revenue Agency has locked 800,000 online accounts suspected of being breached by identity thieves. The Agency offered free credit protection to taxpayers victimized by thieves who stole ID to claim pandemic relief cheques: “Where we are focused is organized crime.”
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First-ever legislation requiring federally-regulated private employers to promote French will be introduced, Languages Minister Mélanie Joly said yesterday. Joly blamed the internet for overwhelming French in an “ocean” of English: “We know there is a decline of French in Québec and in Canada.”
Then let it decline some more.
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A Conservative MP and senator have launched a House of Commons petition calling for the government to block governors general such as Julie Payette from receiving their generous pension if they prematurely leave their post.
“When someone leaves their job, they are not entitled to employment insurance. Why should Julie Payette be entitled to a lifetime pension? I invite all Canadians that are as shocked as we are by this unacceptable situation to sign and share this petition,” Conservative MP Luc Berthold said in a statement.
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