It's a strategy to reduce the world's population back to the time of serfs:
President Joe Biden on Nov. 23 ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) to help cool surging energy costs and ease pain at the pump.
Would this be why?:
Developers of Keystone XL are seeking to recoup more than US$15 billion in damages connected to President Joe Biden’s decision to yank a permit for the border-crossing oil pipeline even after construction began.
RCMP officers made arrests and cleared a blockaded forestry road Thursday, allowing 500 Coastal GasLink pipeline workers that had been stranded at a work camp access to fresh water and food.
British Columbia RCMP described the operation as a “rescue and enforcement” action to remove protesters that have blocked the Morice Forest Service Road near Houston, B.C., and, police say, prevented essential supplies from reaching workers.
“We have serious concerns that a number of individuals from out of province and out of country have been engaging in illegal activities in the area, such as falling trees, stealing or vandalizing heavy machinery and equipment and causing major destruction to the forestry road, all in an effort to prevent industry and police from moving through,” Chief Superintendent John Brewer said in a statement Nov. 18.
It's not like it's doing us any good:
A Conservative Senator says that Canada is “subsidizing” the cultural genocide of the Uyghur people by allowing the import of goods made with slave labour. When Canada’s Senate reconvenes, Leo Housakos will bring a bill forward that, if passed, will outright ban all imports from China’s Xinjiang province. Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan, is the Uyghurs’ historical homeland and is where China has concentrated its eradication efforts.
The proposed ban is part of a larger Conservative push to condemn how Uyghurs are treated in light of the Trudeau government’s reluctance to criticize China. In June 2020, Housakos published a public letter , co-signed by 11 other Senators, which called for sanctions against Chinese officials implicated in human rights abuses. Then, early this year, the party brought a motion into the House of Commons formally calling China’s actions a genocide.
“At some point, China will have to align with Canadian values to do business in Canadian markets. Forced labour camps will not be tolerated,” Housakos said in a brief interview on Tuesday. “Every time we import these products, we are subsidizing a genocide.”
Goods made with forced labour have been banned from being imported into Canada since July 2020 . However, existing laws are ineffective because they rely on Canadian border service agents to determine whether forced labour has been used. Agents often lack the capacity to accurately make these determinations, as the origins of imports are very difficult to trace and evaluate.
Compare this to what Justin won't do:
The diplomatic damage caused by Trudeau’s foot dragging is already done. At the same time, Huawei has spent the last several years selling equipment to major phone carriers that have in turn put that gear into Canada’s telecom system.
Since the federal government announced a review of Huawei’s role in Canada’s 5G system back in 2018, the company has sold hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment per year. Those sales may be drying up as companies react to public sentiment towards Huawei but the gear is already installed in cell towers across the country.
Telus, in particular, has a significant amount of Huawei gear installed, as does Bell, though to a lesser degree. And regional player Sasktel is also heavily reliant on Huawei gear.
Even with announcements such as those by Bell and Telus that they will be using other equipment suppliers in the future, it will take years to fully swap out the existing gear. In essence, Huawei has taken advantage of Trudeau ragging the puck on this issue to expand their business.
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Canada will continue to discuss with its partners a potential diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, a foreign affairs spokesperson says, amid the recent disappearance of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai.
(Sidebar: this Peng Shuai.)
"Canada remains deeply disturbed by the troubling reports of human rights violations in China," said Syrine Khoury, press secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, in a statement to CTVNews.ca.
Then there is nothing to discuss.
Why not just do it?
Oh, yes - China is Justin's favourite country.
More:
The disappearance of tennis star Peng Shuai this month has led many around the world to question the holding of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Games are scheduled to begin February 4.
Now, only the morally bankrupt could think it is a good idea to allow the hostage-taking, rapist-protecting, genocide-committing Chinese regime to host this competition.
It is now time for the world to face the reality of the Communist Party of China and the horrific system it has constructed. There is only one correct choice: Move the Games. ...
Peng is not the only high-profile figure detained in recent months. Businessman Jack Ma, citizen journalists Zhang Zhan and Chen Qiushi, and celebrity Zhao Wei were all disappeared. Consider it a pattern.
Xi Jinping's China is far more coercive and secretive than the China of the preceding three decades, suggesting the regime is returning to its old ways. Mao and Mao-admirer Xi reflect the true nature of Chinese communism.
That regime, now dominated by Xi Jinping, is a threat to athletes coming to China to compete, as the Peng incident demonstrates. "Athletes are useful to the Communist Party as long as they are tools of the state," Cleo Paskal of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Gatestone. "If they try to be individuals, they become a liability. The state will destroy the individual if that person is any risk to the Party." As Paskal, also associated with Chatham House, notes, Peng now poses a risk to the regime.
That is why the regime will make Peng publicly retract the accusations or destroy her. The individual means nothing in China's current system. Too many times, state television has aired ghastly confessions of obviously worn-down individuals.
Video footage of a dog being killed by COVID-19 prevention workers in China has sparked outrage after a clip showing the incident went viral on Chinese social media.
A woman claiming to be the owner of the dog posted the video to the Chinese social media site Weibo last Friday.
In the video post, which has been viewed by Global News and has since been taken down, a small corgi is woken up by two workers entering the apartment. The corgi cowers underneath a table as the workers discuss the dog’s fate.
“Did the leader say we need to settle it right here on the spot?” a worker dressed in full hazmat suit can be heard asking. “Yes,” the other replies, before striking the dog on the head with a crowbar. The dog whimpers and runs off-camera. Later, the two workers are seen returning to screen, carrying something in a yellow plastic bag — presumably the dog.
Hong Kong - the land everyone forgot:
A student activist in Hong Kong has been sentenced to three years and seven months in prison for arguing that the territory should pursue independence.
Tony Chung was arrested and tried under the strict new national security laws imposed by Beijing last year.
He had already pleaded guilty to charges of secession and money laundering, but maintains that he has "nothing to be ashamed of".
The 20-year-old is the youngest person convicted under the laws to date.
The charges related to his leadership of a small, fringe group called Studentlocalism which he established as a student. The group advocated for Hong Kong's independence from China.
Previously a minority view, it became more prevalent during the pro-democracy protests that rocked the city in 2019.
Chung was also charged for possession of pro-independence materials and over social media posts which had been made illegal by the national security law.
However, several of the posts dated back to before the security law took effect, undermining Hong Kong's pledge that the rules would not be imposed retrospectively.
One knows it's bad when even a fellow traveller won't trust one:
Japan and Vietnam on Tuesday signed a cybersecurity agreement as the two Asian nations rapidly step up their military ties amid concerns over China’s growing assertiveness.
Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi told reporters that the cyberspace agreement aimed to address a “strong sense of urgency” over activities in the Indo-Pacific region that challenge the existing international order, indicating China without identifying any country by name.
Kishi said talks with his Vietnamese counterpart, Phan Van Giang, had taken “defense cooperation between the two countries to a new level.”
Japan has in recent years stepped up cyber defense cooperation with the United States, Australia and other partners, and participated in a NATO cyberspace exercise in April. Japan has also held cybersecurity talks with Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia.
Japanese Defense Ministry says cyberattacks are part of rising security threats from China as it becomes more assertive in the region — a shared concern by the United States and other allies in the region.
And what would one call belligerence in the South China Seas?:
China on Tuesday protested the passage of a U.S. Navy destroyer through the Taiwan Strait, calling it a deliberate move to undermine stability in the region.
The U.S. Navy said in a statement the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit” on Tuesday “in accordance with international law.”
It said the ship’s transit through the strait “demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific."
“The United States military flies, sails, and operates anywhere international law allows,” said the statement posted on the website of the 7th Fleet.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said U.S. warships have been “flexing muscle and stirring up trouble in the Taiwan Strait repeatedly in the name of freedom of navigation.”
“This is not a commitment to freedom and openness, but a deliberate attempt to disrupt and undermine regional peace and stability," Zhao told reporters at a daily news briefing.
That's nice, China.
I love how Lithuania just doesn't care what China thinks:
China on Monday demanded Lithuania end its newly enhanced relationship with Taiwan that has already prompted Beijing to downgrade diplomatic ties from the ambassadorial level with the EU-member nation.
China reduced the level of its diplomatic relations with Lithuania to below ambassador level Sunday in retaliation for the Baltic nation allowing Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory, to open a representative office.
Be a total honey badger, Lithuania!
Let's start with this guy:
Officials confirmed that Darrel E. Brooks, 39, was the alleged driver of an SUV that ran over dozens of people, killing five, during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday evening.
Waukesha Polie Chief Daniel Thompson said Brooks was charged with five counts of intentional homicide. Other charges against the suspect are being considered, he said in a 2 p.m. news conference, adding that the incident was “not a terrorist event.”
Brooks was involved in a “domestic incident” prior to the mass casualty incident, Thompson said, adding there was no police pursuit before he allegedly plowed into the parade. Several mainstream media outlets, citing unnamed sources, claimed there had been.
“We are confident he acted alone,” Thompson also said.
In the incident, five people died and more than 40 were injured, Thompson confirmed earlier Monday. At least 18 children were taken to Children’s Wisconsin hospital in Milwaukee, it said in a statement.
A search of online court records showed a recent open case involving a person named Darrell Brooks, with a birth date that would make him 39 years old. According to the court documents, he is charged with restricting or obstructing an officer, bail jumping, and battery. A $1,000 cash bond was posted earlier this month, the records show.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office released a statement on Monday detailing the pending charges against Brooks and said it was conducting an internal review of the decision involving Brook’s bail recommendation.
I'll bet they are.
He's had a habit of this sort of thing, too:
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Darrell Brooks Jr was out on bail after he was charged with purposely running over a woman with his vehicle
— Jack Posobiec ✝️ (@JackPosobiec) November 22, 2021
Are you paying attention yet?
There is always a justification to be a semi-literate tyrant:
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has banned a plethora of European children’s literature and destroyed 5,000 books for being “offensive.”
As reported by the National Post, some 30 books were burned for “educational purposes” and then the ashes were used as fertilizer to plant a tree.
Ms. Kies proposal denounced the whites who appropriated the history of the First Nations. Under Aboriginal Law, she has no Indian status.
(Sidebar: why does that sound familiar?)
History will not forget what has been done here.
There is a reason why they let old people die en masse:
- Seniors currently compose 17.6 percent of Ontario’s population, and their share of the province’s population will continue to grow and reach nearly 24 percent by 2043.
- This will drive increases in health care spending and slow the growth in revenues, which will impose adverse effects on the provincial economy. The risk of future recessions, rising interest rates, and other unexpected events will only compound problems further.
- Health care expenditures are estimated to increase by approximately 4.1 percent annually from now until 2040/41. Put differently, Ontario’s health care spending will increase from 7.1 percent of GDP in 2019 to 7.6 percent in 2040.
- The aging population will exacerbate challenges for Ontario government finances and projections suggest that at the current trajectory the province will not see a balanced budget before 2040.
- Ontario is expected to run primary deficits (excluding interest costs) equivalent to between 0.3 and 0.4 percent of GDP, unless it makes changes to its spending or tax policies.
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- Seniors currently compose 19.2 percent of British Columbia’s population, and their share of the province’s population will continue to grow and reach nearly 26.0 percent by 2043.
- This will drive increases in health care spending and slow growth in revenues, while imposing adverse effects on the provincial economy. The risk of future recessions, rising interest rates, and other unexpected events will only compound problems further.
- Health care expenditures are estimated to increase by approximately 4.2 percent annually from now until 2040/41. Put differently, BC’s health care spending will increase from 7.6 percent of GDP in 2019 to 8.6 percent in 2040.
- The aging population will exacerbate challenges for BC government finances and projections suggest the province will not see a balanced budget before 2040 at the current trajectory.
- BC is expected to run primary deficits (excluding interest costs) equivalent to between 0.2 and 0.7 percent of GDP, absent a change in spending or tax policy.
The children also need to go:
For starters, while NACI doesn’t make any public policy pronouncements, they clearly don’t support extending the passport system to kids. “It is essential that children aged 5-11 years and their parents are supported and respected in their decisions regarding COVID-19 vaccinations for their children, whatever decisions they make, and are not stigmatized for accepting, or not accepting, the vaccination offer,” the report states.
In fact, when it comes to approving the vaccine, all they say is that it “may be” now offered to kids. They explain that “[g]iven the short- term uncertainties surrounding pediatric vaccination at this time, children and their parents or guardians should be supported and respected in their decisions.”
One of the uncertainties they’re referring to is potential hospitalizations for vaccine-related myocarditis. The report points out that the fact the kids’ doses are a third of the volume will hopefully minimize these problems, but they state how “[t]he overall safety and effectiveness data are limited for children.”
(Sidebar: Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto was preparing for cases of myocarditis and pericarditis. Such is their faith in these experimental jabs.)
A lot of parents likely don’t realize that the trial size for kids was quite small, and the NACI report explains that: “Any uncommon, rare, or very rare [side effect] that occurs at the frequency less often than 1 in 1,000 would not be detected with this trial size.” Keep in mind that Ontario health officials now recommend against young males taking Moderna due to a myocarditis rate that was 1 in 5,000.
Pick another country: “93% vaccinated Ireland has gone into partial lockdown, including midnight curfew.” This recent headline too, “COVID surge in Singapore despite 80 percent vaccination.” Or from the U.K. where the Spectator reported, “The rates of Covid infection per 100,000 are now higher among the vaxxed than the unvaxxed.”
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But there is now “increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission” in COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, Kampf wrote in his paper, dated Nov. 2o.
A study in July suggested that about 469 new COVID-19 cases were found in Massachusetts in July, with 74 percent of the cases among individuals who were partially or fully vaccinated, which Kampf cited to make his argument. Seventy-nine percent of those were also symptomatic.
“In Germany, 55·4 percent of symptomatic COVID-19 cases in patients aged 60 years or older were in fully vaccinated individuals, and this proportion is increasing each week,” he continued, citing another study.
New cases reported in an outbreak in Munster occurred in 22 percent of 380 people who were fully vaccinated or who had recovered from COVID-19 and who attended a nightclub, he noted, citing a German study.
“Both the USA and Germany have engendered negative experiences by stigmatizing parts of the population for their skin color or religion,” he concluded, possibly referencing the Holocaust and the North American slave trade.
“I call on high-level officials and scientists to stop the inappropriate stigmatization of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens, and to put extra effort into bringing society together.”
The rush to inject something that, at best, could be described as experimental, is horrifying.
This:
It is “probably going to be quite difficult” to convince all parents to immunize young children against Covid, says the Public Health Agency. The pandemic is blamed for six deaths among more than 6 million unvaccinated children under age 15: “I have a small child. I’m not happy about injecting him with strange things.”
Also:
The Saskatchewan government has introduced legislation that would ban COVID-19 protests within 50 metres of schools, including on sidewalks, as the province gets ready to roll out vaccination clinics for younger children in schools and other settings.
Imagine a virus so deadly that they let you travel around if they feel like it:
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra confirmed unvaccinated air passengers may seek exemptions from Covid shots under vague rules to take effect next week. Enforcement will fall to individual airline agents under threat of Aeronautics Act fines of $25,000: “Starting November 30 there will be very few exemptions to allow unvaccinated travelers to travel.”
The corrupt legal system was never meant to enforce the rights one should already have:
The unvaccinated, while loudly protesting the purported disregard of their “legal rights,” are losing one legal battle after another.
Their primary complaint is that they are being “forced” or “coerced” to be vaccinated, alleging that this breaches, among other things, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, human rights legislation, the criminal code and, most ludicrously, the Nuremberg Convention. We have said throughout that such arguments are mere piffle.
(Sidebar: piffle, indeed. The Charter was never meant as a serious legal document on the rights of others. It is meant to serve as a governmental cudgel. Using it to appeal for one's self, therefore, is like asking the Devil for help.)
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has now agreed.
On November 20, Justice Jasmine Akbarali rendered a joint decision involving both Toronto Transit Commission and Sinai Health System, denying an injunction by their unions to block the companies from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on their workforces and their right to dismiss unvaccinated workers.
The Superior Court’s decision is a clear indication of how the courts will likely rule going forward. It follows a series of other cases during the pandemic in which the courts have consistently ruled in favour of employers’ safety measures.
What to do? Create a tiered class or fall on one's sword?:
A total 201 federal employees are in Federal Court today to challenge Treasury Board orders that they disclose their vaccination status. No federal judge has yet ruled on whether the November 15 order is constitutional: “They refuse to be vaccinated for reasons that vary.”
Also:
A doctor reprimanded for “inappropriate” tweets about Covid lockdowns and vaccines is appealing the censure. Ontario Superior Court rejected her free speech claim in the case until a 2022 regulatory hearing is complete: “I refuse to live a lie.”
An institution too big to fail:
Robinson said her left breast became dense in September 2020, and called her family doctor asking for a mammogram, realizing she was not notified of her yearly checkup months earlier. She was not able to get an appointment for a mammogram until January 2021. Her results came back abnormal and a second mammogram, done in February, confirmed she had Stage 4 breast cancer.
While doctors were able to get her in for a lumpectomy in early April 2021, Robinson said her recovery was slow and painful. She was experiencing burning across her back and down her legs, was struggling to walk, and developed a sebaceous cyst on her head. This prompted her doctor to order more screens to check if the cancer had spread.
A bone scan confirmed that Robinson's breast cancer had metastasized to her bones. Cancer in the bones is incurable, and the only treatment is to ease pain and slow the progression of the disease.
Screw this social distancing crap!:
Almost half of Canadians plan to abandon social distancing during holiday gatherings and hug, kiss and shake hands with friends and family, a new poll shows.
The poll by Leger in collaboration with The Canadian Press found —that 45 per cent of Canadians say they will “greet others with a handshake, hug or kiss” at Christmas parties and other holiday gatherings.
In Ontario, the number prepared to ditch social distancing over the winter vacation rose to 50 per cent, compared to only 37 per cent in B.C.
But people are fine with firing people who don't get jabbed, so ...
In the throne speech, Justin swear by almighty Thor that he will do everything in his power to destroy what remains of this country if it is the last thing he ever does:
Nineteen months into the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is laying out a vision for rebuilding the country towards the “economy of the future.”
But the vision outlined in the throne speech on Tuesday comes amid growing concerns about the cost of living, housing affordability, and rising inflation — all while the Liberals yet again face the challenges of governing in an unpredictable minority government. ...
The re-elected Liberal government is now promising to go “further, faster” on the climate file, emphasizing promises like capping oil-and-gas sector emissions, accelerating the push towards net-zero emissions and investments in public transit. ...
The Liberals are re-emphasizing their planned ban on conversion therapy, as well as their pledge to bring in “strengthened” gun control legislation – two issues that tripped the Conservatives up in the last Parliament and during the federal election, respectively.
The Conservatives have made rising inflation and affordability issues their main focus in the lead-up to Parliament’s return. After downplaying concerns about inflation for months, the Liberals’ throne speech identified it as a key concern for Canadians struggling to make ends meet.
“While Canada’s economic performance is better than many of our partners, we must keep tackling the rising cost of living,” the document read. “To do that, the government’s plan includes two major priorities: housing and child care.”
Yes, about those things:
Leah Nord, senior director of workforce strategies with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said people should hold off any celebration. The long-term unemployed figure stands at around 400,000. Nord adds there’s no data to explain why these people haven’t rejoined the labour force in months.
(Sidebar: the shutdown of small businesses, the fickle nature of high turnover jobs, refusal to get experimental jabs - pick one.)
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In its report, Express indicates that in addition to supply chain delays, the biggest issue for Canadians is a shortage of jobs in the supply chain network.
James Norris, an Express franchise owner in London, Ont., says that he is seeing shortages in truck drivers, warehouse workers, pick and packers and forklift operators.
“Even with sign-on bonuses being offered and wages increasing, shortages in these job categories persist,” Norris says.
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Consumer prices increased a seasonally-adjusted 0.49% over the previous month in October, a weaker increase than September's 0.56% rise. Looking at the details of the release, prices for food and beverages, and transport increased at a softer rate in October relative to the previous month.
Inflation edged up from 4.4% in September to 4.7% in October. October's result marked the highest inflation rate since February 2003. Annual average inflation rose to 2.7% in October (September: 2.4%). Finally, core inflation rose to 3.8% in October, from the previous month's 3.7%.
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Today’s political developments do not give much room for optimism. Due in part to the pandemic, budget deficits and government spending levels have soared. The size of the government sector, in terms of employment, has also surged to rarely seen levels. Unavoidably, all of this will entail higher taxes or significant spending cuts in the future as governments wind down the large debt levels they racked up during COVID. Because government spending levels and rates of taxation remain fundamental to levels of economic freedom, tax increases will automatically reduce economic freedom.
In Quebec, prospects are even bleaker. Prior to 2018, the province got its fiscal house in order and became a champion of fiscal responsibility in Canada. Since then, however, the Quebec government has rapidly increased spending (even prior to COVID). Fiscal projections to 2024 suggest Quebec will be the only (except Prince Edward Island) that will be far short of returning to pre-pandemic spending levels. In addition to the fiscal mess, Quebec has recently engaged in a series of nationalistic policies—most notably, Bill 96, which aims to deter the use of English in the province. The bill will likely fail to achieve its objective and simply result in a new costly regulation to help drive businesses away from Quebec.
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If this measure cripples Ontario’s auto industry, it will displace and hurt very many hard-working Ontarians, men and women, who have been in that industry and have greatly contributed to the welfare of this country. Now all agree it is a fine thing to wreck the Canadian economy in the fight against global warming if the damage can be contained in Alberta, or Saskatchewan.
But to cripple it in a manner that touches Ontario, well that is grim beyond consideration.
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More than 30 inspectors who enforce credentials in the skilled trades have received layoff notices as a result of a decision by Premier Doug Ford's government, CBC News has learned.
The layoff notices went out last week to inspectors in the compliance and enforcement section of the Ontario College of Trades (OCOT), the agency that licenses tradespeople such as electricians, plumbers, auto mechanics and hairstylists.
The Ford government is dissolving the agency, but all its duties continue. Its inspection role is being shifted to the Ministry of Labour and its work related to apprenticeships goes to a new body called Skilled Trades Ontario.
(Sidebar: we know how well the government does things!)
Legislation that will see continued spending on COVID-19 economic supports will be key among those, he said. So too will a promised bill to ban protests outside of hospitals in the wake of multiple such protests over recent months by opponents to measures like mandatory vaccine policies.
Mandating a 10-day sick leave for all workers in federally regulated workplaces will also be among the four key focuses for the government, along with a bill banning conversion therapy.
Holland said he believes there is enough support from the opposition parties to get those four policies adopted and passed by Christmas — though the House of Commons is only scheduled to sit until Dec. 17 before taking another break until the end of January.
If they enter the country illegally, they will not be tested for anything:
During the pandemic, people who tried to use this border crossing were returned to the United States. Over the weekend, the Trudeau government changed this policy. Anyone who seeks asylum through this point of entry will have their claim processed.
Trudeau's Minister for Immigration said, "all asylum seekers must comply with strict public health measures, including quarantine and testing requirements" in a statement to the press.
On top of this, illegal border crossers that were returned to the United States during the pandemic will now be able to make an asylum claim again.
Voters blocks.
Nice country. It would be a shame if anything happened to it:
Cabinet will not tolerate “obfuscation or political games” in the 44th Parliament, Government House Leader Mark Holland said yesterday. Holland said Parliament must pass major amendments to the Criminal Code and Canada Labour Code in twenty days: “I think Canadians expect us to hit the ground running.”
If this were a real country, one could hope that someone would stymie the crap out these bills.
(Sidebar: I do hope that Mr. Rota remembers his office and who tried to fire him from it.)
But Canada is not a real country anymore.
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Proposed internet controls in Canada are “something you might expect out of China or Russia,” says a former CRTC commissioner. The remarks came in a podcast hosted by Saskatchewan Senator Pamela Wallin: “Do governments think they’ll be able to stay in office forever if their critics are silenced?”
Also - nice pipelines. It would be a shame if unelected and American-funded groups were to - oh, I don't know - blow them up?:
Suzuki later clarified his remarks, also saying that any allegations about him inciting violence were "absurd."
"We’ve come to a time where civil disobedience is what we have to do now — to put our bodies on the line — because if we don’t do this, then I fear what the next stage will be, which will be people will start to blow up pipelines," said Suzuki.
That sounds like accepting violence to me.
Imagine that David Suzuki lived in a country where this sort of thing would get one into a spot of illegal bother.
Would he have said it?
Would he and his eco-confreres have warmed themselves by a propane fire?
It's Christmas and it's awesome:
The Toronto Christmas Market has rebranded into the “Distillery Winter Village” in an attempt to move away from the traditional festive celebration.
Do that with Eid and Setsubon and see how far you get.
This is horrifying:
I’ve spoken with a few nurses from the maternity wards, but they won’t go public. One told me of 8 still births in one day at southwestern ontario hospital! If nurses don’t speak publicly they are aiding & abetting these crimes. Is the paycheck worth it? #onpoli https://t.co/pGFcSPo4o4
— Randy Hillier (@randyhillier) November 18, 2021
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Health Canada is expected to announce Friday that it has approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for use in Canadian children between the ages of five and 11, a key demographic as the fight to control the spread of the virus ramps up ahead of winter.
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In England, vaccinated adults under 60 have been dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated people the same age (all-cause mortality): https://t.co/k6o02u4LOL (Table 4)
— Bruce Pardy (@PardyBruce) November 21, 2021
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The analysis suggests that the relative protection of the booster shot against infection is likely to be significantly smaller than the initial estimates of 10-11-fold (over 90%) reported by the MOH, probably around 60% at best. This also implies that the absolute number of infected individuals in the Vaccinated group is likely to be at least as high as in the Unvaccinated, raising serious concerns that the new Green Pass is inefficient in preventing infection spread, and could expose high risk individuals to risk.
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A total of 30,551 fatalities and 1.1 million adverse events due to COVID-19 vaccines have been reported by the European Union's official database.
Why, that doesn't sound suspicious at all:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked a federal judge on Nov. 15 to give it until the year 2076 to fully release the documents in its possession tied to the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The FDA’s request was made in a filing as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit by a medical transparency group. The government told the court it has 329,000 pages of documents responsive to the FOIA request and proposed releasing 500 pages per month to allow for redactions of exempt material. At that rate, the FDA would fully release the records in question in just under 55 years.
The plaintiff, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), is a group of doctors and scientists, including Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.
The group filed the lawsuit (pdf) after the FDA denied their request to expedite the release of the records. The plaintiff and the defendant, unable to reach an agreement on a disclosure schedule, are seeking a hearing to argue their cases before the judge, who may eventually make a decision in that regard.
“The FDA’s promise of transparency is, to put it mildly, a pile of illusions,” Aaron Siri, whose firm is representing PHMPT in the lawsuit, wrote in a blog post on Nov. 17.
Now someone is trying to blame Laos for this:
Wuhan scientists were studying viral samples of high-risk bat species living in Laos - the country where the closest relative to Covid-19 has been found, leaked documents show.
In September, researchers discovered a viral strain called Banal-52 in Laos, which shares 96.8 per cent of its genome with Sars-CoV-2 - boosting claims that the pandemic was caused by a natural spillover event, rather than a laboratory leak.
However, it remained unclear how a bat-borne virus from Laos could have ended up sparking an outbreak in Wuhan, more than 1,000 miles away.
I'm sure it's quite unclear.
Many Canadians remain wary of a federal Covid Alert app more than seventeen months after it was introduced, says internal federal research. The Department of Health questioned why smartphone users wouldn’t use the app if it could easily scan QR codes to track Covid outbreaks: “Is there a Plan B?”
What? Athletes are no longer special?:
Starting January 15, any unvaccinated professional or amateur athletes will no longer be able to enter Canada, said minister of public safety Marco Mendicino on Friday.
But they were before, Marco, just like the unvetted migrants you want pouring into the country.
The common man, he is as mad as hell and is not going to take it anymore:
Truck drivers and the country’s major airlines joined with the official Opposition Saturday to criticize the Trudeau’s government’s new public health rules that will apply to international travellers, rules that were announced Friday.
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Crowds of rioters in the port city of Rotterdam torched cars and threw rocks at police who responded with shots and water canon, as protests against COVID-19 measures turned violent on Friday night.
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Several thousand people marched in downtown Toronto on Saturday as part of a “Worldwide Freedom” rally to protest COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates.
Rallies were also held in several cities across Canada, including in Ottawa, London, and Calgary, as well as in countries such as Australia, Germany, and Japan.
In Toronto, the protesters departed from Queen’s Park and marched along Yonge Street. Some among the crowd carried signs with slogans such as “Stop the medical tyranny” and “Coercion is not consent” and “No medical apartheid,” while many chanted “freedom.”
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the revolution will not be televised.
— Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) November 21, 2021
Paris, France 🇫🇷 RISES against covid mandates#RESIST pic.twitter.com/39wDKbxk3c
the revolution will not be televised.
— Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) November 21, 2021
Lithuania 🇱🇹 RISES against covid mandates#RESIST pic.twitter.com/YAUjdct83g
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the revolution will not be televised.
— Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) November 21, 2021
Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪 RISES against covid mandates#RESIST pic.twitter.com/MDaKUM0MeS
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the revolution will not be televised.
— Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) November 21, 2021
Switzerland 🇨🇭 RISES against covid mandates#RESIST pic.twitter.com/R2EEDQqCiT
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the revolution will not be televised.
— Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) November 21, 2021
Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 RISES against covid mandates #RESIST ✊🏽pic.twitter.com/2UTHqp5FlA
To remind one, Canadians voted for this:
“Governments lack incentives to spend prudently and balance their financial affairs as evidenced by the deficit spending and run up in federal debt before the COVID-19 pandemic struck,” said economist Livio Di Matteo, author of Tax and Expenditure Limitations for Canada’s Federal Government: A Primer.
He said if Trudeau had established a fiscal anchor in 2015 that limited spending increases to 2.9% annually (keeping pace with inflation and population growth) from 2015-19, instead of his actual increase of 5% annually, the government would have had a $4 billion surplus in 2025-26.
That includes lifting the 2.9% fiscal anchor during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Instead, based on his election platform, Trudeau is now predicting a $32 billion deficit in 2025-26, with no end of deficits in sight.
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Carbon taxes are “not fair” for Canadian companies if foreigners don’t pay them too, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday. Cabinet has endorsed in principle a proposal to impose carbon tariffs on inexpensive imports from coal-powered China manufacturers: “We’re protecting the planet.”
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A Green Budget Coalition whose directors once included Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault yesterday petitioned cabinet for a $4,000 SUV tax. The levy should apply to all makes and models of passenger vehicles with internal combustion engines, the Coalition said: “Minister Guilbeault himself was directly involved with the Green Budget Coalition at one point.”**
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to claim a moral victory Thursday after his day at the White House did little to defuse an escalating continental dispute over President Joe Biden’s plans to encourage Americans to buy more electric vehicles.
(Sidebar: by the way, electric cares are powered by the grid which does not rely on solar or wind power. They cannot drive too far. They cannot be heated or cooled. The battery will go into a dump somewhere. Why would the taxpayer have to subsidise these pious-mobiles? Ask Justin and Goebbels.)
Nope, and why would they?:
Canada’s inflation rate jumped yet again to a new 18-year high of 4.7%. This means everyday goods Canadians purchase are getting more expensive – this includes the cost of groceries and the price of gas.
Life is getting more expensive than ever for Canadians, but do our politicians care? Their current priorities indicate that they don’t.
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Rather, what the government wants to do:
The finding comes as inflation hit its highest rate since 2003 last month — a whopping 4.7 per cent. The climbing costs have forced consumers of every age, income and political creed to spend more to fill up their tanks and grocery carts.
On top of that, a long-simmering affordability crisis spanning housing, child-care and higher-education costs seems to have reached a boiling point. For example, Canada’s average national home price has risen a mind-boggling 32 per cent between July 2019 and July 2021, according to data from the Canadian Real Estate Association.
While these issues are top of mind for Canadians, the poll found a disconnect between what Canadians wished to see prioritized and what they think the government can actually accomplish.
It's no wonder that Justin et al want the Internet controlled and all speech and expression banned from the public.
Imagine hearing what an ineffectual @$$hole you are from people who do real work each and everyday.
It must be dispiriting.
That leads me to this:
A homeowner in Port Colborne, Ontario has been ordered to remove a flag from his house that says "F*** Trudeau," according to the Port Colborne Leader.
Multiple residents complained about the flag both to the local newspaper and the municipal government, citing concerns over its supposed vulgarity. The resident also had a sticker with the same message on his door.
Vulgar?
Perhaps, but that is the state of classlessness and boorishness in Canada, anyway, so why bring that up?
The truth is some Liberal-supporting troglodyte complained and - as one knows - the squeakiest wheel gets the flag taken down.
Justin can let the Canadian flag (in the worthless state he and his father have reduced it to) remain at half-mast for a group of people he doesn't even care about but the line must be drawn at calling the frat-boy what he is.
Justin doesn't have to defend himself (he never has). He can get his mouth-breathing public to do it for him.
Also - see, this sort of thing is alright when Justin does it.
Ask his voters:
A school board official says a Toronto high school teacher who dressed in blackface is "no longer employed" at the board.
It's also not a good idea to keep bringing up the WE "charity":
Marc and Craig Kielburger's WE Charity routinely misled school-aged children and wealthy philanthropists across North America for years as it solicited millions for schoolhouses in Kenya and other projects in its Adopt-A-Village program, an investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate has found.
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Federal Procurement Ombudsman Alexander Jeglic released the results of his year-long investigation into contracts that WE received from the federal government before the pandemic. That means contracts given to WE before the youth volunteer project proposed last year that would have been worth more than $43 million to WE and would have cost taxpayers upwards of $900 million.
Jeglic found several contracts, none of them large, but with a disturbing pattern of apparent favouritism towards WE.
Just stop talking about it and let Justin pretend he is doing some real work.
The real trial that should be conducted is the one where mobs, grievance-mongers, the legal system and the popular press are made to defend their disgraceful actions.
1. He killed two black BLM protesters. All three of the men he shot in self-defense during violent riots in Kenosha on Aug. 25 last year were white.
2. He crossed state lines. He lived 20 miles from Kenosha in Antioch, Ill., with his mother and sisters. But his father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousins and best friend live in Kenosha. He had a job as a lifeguard in Kenosha and worked a shift on Aug. 25 before helping clean graffiti left by rioters at a local school. There, he and his friend were invited to join other adults who had been asked by the owners of a used car lot in Kenosha to guard the property after 100 cars had been torched the previous night, when police abandoned the town to rioters. Kyle took his gun to protect himself, since the rioters were violent and armed, including, for instance, Antifa medic Gaige Grosskreutz, who lunged at him with a loaded Glock pointed at his head before he was shot in the arm.
3. Rittenhouse took an AR-15 across state lines. Esquire accused him of “terrorist tourism.” False. His rifle was kept in a safe at his best friend’s stepfather’s house in Kenosha.
4. The gun was illegal. Wrong. Under Wisconsin law, he was entitled to possess the AR-15 as a 17-year-old. The judge dismissed the gun charge, which the prosecution never should have brought.
5. Rittenhouse’s mother drove him across state lines to the riot. Wendy Rittenhouse, 46, never went to Kenosha. She slept late the morning of Aug. 25 after working a 16-hour shift at a nursing home near her home in Antioch, she told the Chicago Tribune. Kyle had already gone to his job in Kenosha when she woke up. ...
9. He wore surgical gloves “to cover his fingerprints.” This pearl was spread by Matthew Modine, another celebrity bigmouth. Kyle wore gloves because he was giving first aid to protesters. His face was bare, so he was hardly hiding.
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For the families of Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and Gaige Grosskreutz justice was not served today. Armed vigilantes are a threat to the safety of all Americans, in every community and I am deeply disappointed that with this jury’s verdict, it was effectively condoned.
— Charlie Crist (@CharlieCrist) November 19, 2021
(Sidebar: let the left wear defending a wife-abuser and a child molester. Such things suit them.)
Considering the facts above, it is no wonder that the jury decided that Kyle Rittenhouse was innocent.
Now, it is time for endlessly chattering classes to be held to account for manufacturing and spreading lies so obvious and malicious that it would shock me if someone didn't get sued.
Whether Kyle Rittenhouse was a white or black youth, a resident of Kenosha or somewhere else, is irrelevant.
The mob created the unrest in which Rittenhouse and others found themselves. That the American politburos did not find him guilty must stun them that their smear tactics were mostly ineffective and no one will tolerate a violent mob and the cogs in its machine of chaos.
Indeed.
British Columbia is still a disaster zone and it will get worse:
Residents of British Columbia’s north are being warned to prepare for the next atmospheric river to hit the province.
Environment Canada has issued winter storm warnings for inland sections of the North Coast, the McGregor region and Pine Pass on Highway 97, while special weather statements were issued for Haida Gwaii and coastal sections of the North Coast.
Snowfall warnings were also in place for a large swath of northern B.C., including the Prince George and the Stuart-Nechako areas.
The weather system, expected to move into the region Saturday through Monday, is forecast to bring between 100 and 150 millimetres of rain to Prince Rupert, with between 30 and 90 millimetres in other coastal areas.
There is also a concern about flooding in inland areas of the north coast. Environment Canada said there is a “high likelihood” that rivers could swell due to rain and snowmelt.
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Dozens of volunteers were on the ground in Merritt on Sunday conducting a damage assessment of homes in the flood-ravaged community.
An estimated 7,000 residents were evacuated from the city, some due to flooding, and others because the city’s drinking and wastewater systems were rendered inoperable by the flood.
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The death toll from the devastating mudslides in British Columbia climbed to four on Saturday after police recovered three more bodies from one particularly hard-hit area in the southern part of the province.
The RCMP announced the recoveries in a morning statement, though noted the bodies of the three men were recovered earlier in the week.
The Mounties said the men were found in an area east of Agassiz along Highway 7 and a section of Highway 99, known as the Duffy Lake Road.
The discovery comes days after a woman’s body was recovered near the same area on Monday.
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A large fire that was burning in Abbotsford, B.C. on Wednesday morning has now been extinguished, local police confirm.
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The economic toll of cutting off the Port of Vancouver from the rest of the country, at a time when supply chain disruptions are already biting hard, is going to be gigantic. Economist Trevor Tombe did some quick math and estimated it at over $2 billion a week in trade between B.C. and the rest of the country that's just been wiped off the national GDP, not to mention the direct costs of actually fixing the damaged infrastructure, of repairing property damaged or destroyed by the tragedy and, sadly, and the massive losses to farmers in property and livestock, much of which has drowned. This is a big, big economic hit to Canada.
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Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said a limit of 30 litres of fuel per visit to a gas station is an important step to maintaining the supply as the province works to bring in more gas by truck and barge from Alberta, Washington state, Oregon and California.
He said the order would apply for 10 to 11 days and he trusts that people won’t be greedy while keeping critical services in mind as they focus on residents whose communities have been devastated by flooding.
(Sidebar: there is no one more greedy than the government and the Lotuslanders who would see tax money diverted for heroin and Albertan oil left in the ground.)
Never let a siphoning opportunity go to waste:
British Columbia flooding has added “an element of urgency” to the proposed introduction of a national insurance plan, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said yesterday. The proposal affecting a million homeowners on flood plains across Canada has been under consideration for two years: “Canada is the only G7 country without a national coordinated approach to flooding.”
Let's trust the government to spend money wisely!:
An internal audit of Canada’s department of foreign affairs found paperwork was missing in about 33% of sampled files from 2020, reports Blacklock’s Reporter — also finding that many managers tasked with checking up on projects had little knowledge of what became of taxpayers’ money.
One such case studying foreign aid dollars involved supposedly unspent portions of a $20.5 million, four-year commitment to help the Philippines recover from Typhoon Yolanda in 2013 that, according to auditors, was used instead to buy karaoke machines.
Another audit uncovered reports from staff responsible for foreign aid to Afghanistan stating they were under pressure to spend money there — expenditures managers said weren’t having an appreciable impact.
Was this preventable?:
Dikes that were breached in Abbotsford this week following a massive rainstorm were predicted to fail years ago.
Indeed, a consultant’s report found that most of the sample of dikes surveyed in the Lower Mainland were vulnerable to failure.
The failures of a 100-metre section and a second, smaller section at Cole Road of the Sumas Lake reclamation dike in Abbotsford have exacerbated the flooding in the community of 150,000 in the Fraser Valley.
A temporary replacement is being built in place of the 100-metre failure in order to prevent the flow of more water into Sumas Prairie, an area of farms with a population of about 3,000. Sumas Lake was drained in the 1920s to create much of the farmland.
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British Columbia MPs yesterday compared severe flood damage in their province to a long-feared catastrophic earthquake. Insured losses to date are unknown but will run to the billions, said MPs: “We have heard for many years that we are going to have a big earthquake one day and the Lower Mainland could be cut off from the rest of the province. Well, that just happened.”
Your middle-of-the-week snack party ...
Oh, dear:
Floods and landslides that have killed at least one person have cut all rail access to Canada's largest port in the city of Vancouver, a spokesperson for the port said on Tuesday.
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In this photo, members of Pemberton Search and Rescue make their way over a washed out section of the Sea to Sky Highway just north of Whistler, B.C. It was this slide that would claim the first confirmed victim of the B.C. flooding. Between five and seven cars were pushed off the highway by the rush of mud and debris. As of Wednesday, RCMP have confirmed the death of one of the drivers, a woman from the Lower Mainland.
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“I know it’s hard for farmers to leave their life’s work,” Braun said. “But lives are more important to me right now than livestock and chickens.”
But that’s a tall order for the farmers in the Fraser Valley, who supply 50 per cent of all B.C.’s eggs, chickens and dairy products. There are 45,000 dairy cows in the valley and each chicken farm houses around 25,000 birds.
Residents and volunteers using powerboats were hauling cows out of barns overrun with water. People were putting calves into boats and trudging through cold water to make sure their animals weren’t left behind, Braun said.
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That's awfully kind of you, sirs:
But instead of profiting from the floods’ victims, Hope Pizza Place went out of its way to help. Firing up the restaurant’s one gas oven amid a power outage, owners Rupinder and Dewan Davesar baked pies and, with the aid of volunteers, delivered them in the rain to the occupants of marooned cars. For free.
“We could have made lots of money but we have other days to do that,” said Rupinder Tuesday after getting just five hours’ sleep. “We take the blessings from the people today. I think that will pay off in future for us.”
Corruption is how this country is run:
Charles Robert, the $231,000-a year clerk of the House of Commons, yesterday said he is off duty following allegations of incompetence and pro-Liberal bias. The Speaker’s office said it knew nothing of his paid leave: “I have decided to take a few days away in light of recent events.”
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Goebbels is an @$$ but one already knew that:
For starters, obviously, Guilbeault can’t “travel across the country” by rail any more than you or I can. Five of Canada’s provincial capitals have no passenger rail service. Nor do the islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward and Vancouver. It’s usually considered best practice not to remind Canadians of such regional discrepancies.
What remains of Via Rail, meanwhile, after years of service cuts and ever-slower schedules, is an unadulterated disgrace. The most fundamental problem is not Via’s fault — that is, its inability to get people from A to B on tracks it does not own with any reasonable speed or reliability — but that does not explain the execrable food, the 128k Wi-Fi, the refusal to transport bicycles during the pandemic, or its insistence on weighing people’s luggage at terminus (but not intermediate) stations. It is literally a government bureaucracy on rails.
And that describes the least unprofitable part of the network, between Windsor and Quebec City — the part that only required a public subsidy of around $30 per passenger in 2019. Anyone travelling between Halifax and Vancouver — the eastern and western terminuses of the Via network — is essentially riding a cruise ship on rails, but with shoddier internet. Guilbeault would likely need a satellite phone just to be in touch with Ottawa the whole way.
He didn't have the guts to face her:
Saskatchewan Senator Denise Batters last night was expelled from the federal Conservative caucus after demanding a Party leadership review. “I will not be silenced by a leader so weak he fired me via voicemail,” said Batters.
Enough with the pretense that the press must be "vaccinated". Simply don't grant them access.
Be proper censors and autocrats. Don't do anything half-half:
The House of Commons yesterday threatened to cancel Hill access passes for reporters and photographers who do not disclose their vaccination status. The Parliamentary Press Gallery executive made no objection: “If they make a choice not to get the shots, they are going to deal with the consequences.”
These shots:
At a time when questions about vaccine effectiveness were rising, the report received worldwide attention. Pfizer said the vaccine’s efficacy remained relatively strong, at 84 percent after six months.
It also reported 15 of the roughly 22,000 people who received the vaccine in the trial had died, compared to 14 of the 22,000 people who received placebo (a saline shot that didn’t contain the vaccine).
Some honesty from the unelected and unaccountable judicial activists in the Supreme Court:
A federal judge has ruled legal challenges of mandatory vaccine orders “raise a serious issue” to be decided at trial, but declined to issue an injunction suspending the orders for the time being. “Rights protected by the Charter are not absolute,” said the Federal Court: “This motion is about the consequences.”
This is why the Charter is rubbish and why we should be adopting a system similar to the one in the US where it's harder for the chair-moisteners in Congress to rob you blind.
It's just an economy:
The CPI surged 4.7 per cent in October from a year earlier, compared with a year-over-year gain of 4.4 per cent in September, Statistics Canada reported on Nov. 17. The CPI also increased 4.7 per cent in February 2003, which had stood alone as the biggest increase since a 5.5 per cent gain in October 1991, a moment when the Bank of Canada was nearing the end of a successful fight against a wave of price increases that peaked around seven per cent earlier that year.
A man convicted of attempting to leave Canada to fight for a terrorist group, who was imprisoned but then released in 2020, will now be going back to jail after he made threats and broke his release conditions.
According to Global News, the Parole Board of Canada ruled that 35-year-old Mohamed Hassan Hersi was an “undue risk to society” before sending him back to prison.
Hersi will be able to apply for another conditional release within one year.
What could go wrong there?
Western Europe's "green" policies played into the Russian energy vulture's talons:
For decades, Greens said Europe could shut down its nuclear plants & rely on renewables & a bit of natural gas. Last week Euro leaders pressured Africa & India to give up coal. Now, Europe finds itself at the mercy of Russia and is burning coal plants like there’s no tomorrow pic.twitter.com/CPkKU6VUen
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) November 17, 2021
Baltic states demand that Belarus be held to account for human trafficking:
Belarus is forcing migrants to breach its borders with the European Union, and the government of President Alexander Lukashenko must be held accountable for human trafficking, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said on Monday.
"We ... condemn the actions taken by the Lukashenko regime instrumentalising migrants for political purposes," the presidents of the three Baltic states said in a joint statement after meeting Polish President Andrzej Duda via video link.
The European Union has accused Lukashenko of orchestrating an influx of migrants to EU members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to pressure the EU to back down over sanctions slapped on his government. Belarus has repeatedly denied the accusation.
"Thousands of people who flew into Belarus from Middle Eastern and African countries are being directed, in caravans, to storm the border of the European Union," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda told a news conference.
"It is obvious what Lukashenko's regime and its allies want - to test unity of the Western world," he added.
The Chinese don't like when you point out some of their gross food:
A news story stating some people in China eat rodents as a delicacy was insensitive, says a CBC ombudsman. The reference perpetuated an ethnic stereotype that Chinese people are strange and different, the Ombudsman said: “The article went wrong.”
I think it's rather silly to attack people over their food just as it is misleading to represent innocuous food choices as a sign that a culture is on par with the values we claim to embrace.
Nevertheless, when you put vile things on Instagram, what would you have people think?
Also:
The president of the International Ice Hockey Federation is warning that China's men's ice hockey team could be pulled from the Beijing Olympics because it is not competitive enough and would be beaten badly if forced to face off against powerhouse teams like the United States and Canada, which will be stacked with NHL stars. ...
Kunlun Red Star was originally based in China, but moved to a suburb of Moscow in 2020 because COVID-19 restrictions made it too difficult to remain in Beijing and keep playing in the KHL.
The team, which was founded in 2016, is near the bottom of the KHL standings. The majority of its players — 19, in fact — are Canadian and have been recruited by China to help bolster its hockey talent and form the backbone of the country's national team.
Fifth columnists.
