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In a report published on Sept. 13, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) argues that the “prevailing consensus” that the Canadian response to COVID has been successful is biased because there appears to be no reference to the “excess deaths” caused by Canada’s strategy that has been “among the most stringent and sustained lockdown policies in the world.”
“Defining ‘success’ without reference to excess deaths or the vast medical harms experienced by thousands of Canadians would be a mistake,” said the report, titled “Excess Deaths Contradict Narrative of Success.”
“It seems, however, that ‘success’ has been defined only as high vaccination rates, as compliance with public health orders, and as reduced mortality from Covid,” the authors wrote.
“Further, this narrative of success is being referenced as a model or standard for future policy responses to the developing Covid pandemic in Canada,” they added.
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A federal tribunal has reinstated Employment Insurance benefits for a Toronto man fired for being unvaccinated. The judgment was the first successful appeal on behalf of Canadians denied jobless benefits over their medical status, said a lawyer in the case: “To my knowledge it is the first.”
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A bus transporting residents to a Covid-19 quarantine facility in China has crashed, killing 27 of those on board.
The coach overturned on a motorway in the south-western province of Guizhou. Another 20 people were injured.
Only two people have died from Covid in Guizhou province since the pandemic struck almost three years ago.
The accident sparked anger online from those critical of Beijing's "zero-Covid" policy.
The strict policy involves mass testing and tracking. Those who test positive and their close contacts have to isolate at home or in a quarantine facility.
Just a handful of cases can spark a city-wide lockdown.
There is no word on the cause of the crash which occurred early on Sunday morning.
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