I'm sure it's nothing to be concerned about:
Health Canada is updating the labels for the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines to add immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), an autoimmune condition, as a potential side effect.
Indeed:
Opposition parties plan to resume their parliamentary battle for the disclosure of documents on the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest-security laboratory, a dispute that has pitted the Trudeau government against the House of Commons.
In June, the federal government took House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to court in an unprecedented move to prevent the release of documents to MPs that could offer insight into why Ottawa expelled and then fired Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, from Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
The two scientists lost their security clearances in July, 2019, and the RCMP were called into investigate. They were dismissed in January of this year.
Opposition parties would need to adopt another motion in the new Parliament that begins Nov. 22 to compel the release of the documents. That’s because Parliament was dissolved in August, at the start of the 2021 election campaign. The government also dropped its legal action shortly after.
“This is a minority Parliament and the opposition parties have a significant amount of authority and power in this,” NDP deputy foreign affairs critic Don Davies said in an interview. “If the majority of parliamentarians want to see this information disclosed to Parliament, then it is a core part of our democracy that that will be complied with.”
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Statistics Canada says more than 19,000 Canadians lost their lives during COVID-19 than would have been expected had the pandemic never happened.
The report highlights the deadly toll COVID-19 has taken directly and indirectly on Canadian lives.
According to provisional data, approximately 19,488 more Canadians died between March 2020 and July 2021 than would have been expected.
That's 5.2 per cent more deaths than if the pandemic never happened.
During that time frame, Statistics Canada says that while 25,465 people died as a direct consequence of contracting the virus, the pandemic also delayed medical procedures and led to a rise in substance use, which could also have contributed to the number of deaths.
We moved so gradually from "hallway medicine" to outright refusal to care that we should have noticed:
Turning away an unvaccinated customer from a business? Some argue that’s fair.
But turning away an unvaccinated patient looking for medical care? Bad, bad idea, says a Toronto bioethicist.
“I think it sets, from an ethical point of view, a terrible precedent,” said Kerry Bowman, an assistant professor at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
“If physicians are considering not doing it because they think the patient is making a bad decision, we’re rewriting medical ethics and human rights … We cannot be in a position where healthcare workers become judgmental of their patients.”
Also - they went from "heroes of 9/11" to persona non grata that people should have noticed:
Two NYC firefighters gave The Epoch Times an update on the present situation of the FDNY under the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
Most alarming was an internal document indicating that on Nov. 3, there were only 55 percent of firetrucks available. The normal number, according to him, should be about 90 percent.
The Treasury Board yesterday claimed credit for a 98 percent vaccination rate in the federal public service after threatening reprisals against unimmunized staff. However data confirm the vast majority of employees already had their Covid shots before cabinet issued an October 6 ultimatum: “It’s working.”
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An Ontario MPP says despite Premier Doug Ford’s statement that health-care workers don’t have to be COVID-19 vaccinated, health institutions can still mandate the policy on their own.
Ford said on Nov. 3 that he won’t force hospital workers to be vaccinated in light of the challenges other provinces have had in implementing vaccine mandates in their health care institutions.
(Sidebar: if medical professionals won't take these shots, what is their reasoning? I'm sure that information might benefit us all.)
Some people are special:
Cabinet will not demand that federally-appointed judges show proof of vaccination, the Privy Council Office said yesterday. A deadline to have other appointees to quasi-judicial tribunals and commissions disclose their medical status has been extended for a month: “The judiciary is independent.”
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Visitors to federal prisons will require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test though the rule doesn’t apply to inmates. The Correctional Service said it preferred education to coercion in dealing with prisoners themselves: “Inmates are not required to get the Covid-19 vaccine and must consent to being vaccinated.”
A top U.S. health agency failed to oversee risky experiments funded by taxpayer money and conducted at the Chinese laboratories near where the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus was first detected, according to three lawmakers.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), headed for decades by Dr. Anthony Fauci, was supposed to be notified by a nonprofit called the EcoHealth Alliance if experiments done with U.S. taxpayer money at the labs in Wuhan resulted in a one log (10 time-increase) in growth.
One of the experiments, which saw researchers expose humanized mice to a modified bat coronavirus, produced an increase of more than three logs, but EcoHealth did not stop the experiment nor did it alert NIAID, lawmakers said in a letter (pdf) to the NIAID’s parent agency that was made public on Nov. 3.
“As a result, NIAID’s oversight of the grant failed to detect the viral growth issue and, notably, did not hold EcoHealth accountable for violating the terms of its grant,” the members of Congress wrote.
Just like how the Cambodians isolated themselves from life, eh, Noam?:
MIT professor emeritus and political activist Noam Chomsky said he believes that while unvaccinated people have the right to refuse a COVID jab, they should “have the decency to isolate” from the community for the safety of others.
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