A surge in infections from the Omicron variant during the last respiratory virus season left three quarters of Canada’s population with some level of immunity against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The figures on infection-fuelled immunity — as opposed to vaccine protection — was produced by the COVID-19 immunity task force and published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Despite efforts to ban the party, support is surging
I was sitting in a beer garden in Fürstenwalde, southeast of Berlin, when the disturbing news alert about the deaths of six migrants in the Channel pinged up on my phone. I told my German friends about it and the small boats crisis in Britain, but didn’t get very far before one of them interrupted me: “You call that a crisis? It’s much worse here and our government doesn’t even pretend it cares!”
The Liberal government’s approach to gun control to reduce violence is not backed by evidence, says a new report by the MacDonald-Laurier Institute (MLI).
The report released on Aug. 14 goes over the various measures implemented by the government in recent years, from the ban of so-called “assault-style” firearms to the freeze of handgun transfers, and the introduction of Bill C-21.
Donald Trump was indicted on Monday in Georgia for his alleged roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election, with prosecutors using statutes normally seen in mob trials and accusing the former president of being head of ‘a criminal organization’.
Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, secured the 41-count indictment from a grand jury on Monday, and told a press conference the indictment alleged ‘violations of Georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the election in this state.’
Trump called her ‘an out of control and very corrupt District Attorney’, and declared that the charges were part of a ‘witch hunt’.
A Toronto safe injection site has taken down posters promising chocolate in exchange for used needles, following community complaints that the centre appeared to be encouraging local children to handle syringes.
There’s been a flurry of Obama news lately, especially after his personal chef mysteriously drowned on his Martha’s Vineyard estate. Not soon after that report came out, we discovered that Obama once wrote letters to an ex describing how he “made love” to men “in the imagination.”
In 2020, while Justin Trudeau was on vacation, a new message was trickled out by his entourage. The PM wanted a new post-pandemic ambition. It was whispered that his then-finance minister, Bill Morneau, might have to go. Soon, that ruthless personnel change was made. Parliament was prorogued for a throne speech, to symbolize a reset.
That Justin Trudeau was a prime minister in a hurry. Too much so, as it turned out, because the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t over, and the big plans were delayed. Still, his new Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, delivered a big-spending “build-back-better” budget the following spring that included national child care and large sums for green-tech incentives.
With luck the Libs will just wither and die.
For Tianning Ning and her family, Airbnb was supposed to be a way to live in Toronto after facing the brutal reality of the city’s rental market.
The family — originally from Switzerland — was looking for a place to live for 10 months to accommodate Ning’s husband’s sabbatical at York University.
The problem? They could not break into the market due to a lack of Canadian credit history.
Short term rentals are part of the problem in certain cities but with poor data it is impossible to know to what extent.
Mass immigration is the key contributor to Canada’s housing crisis.
Remember Hunter Biden’s extortionate WhatsApp message to his Chinese business associate, Henry Zhao? The message we just learned about in June because Gary Shapley, an IRS whistleblower agent, shone a light on it? The message that spun up Congress and much of the public, and even stirred the press out of its slumber for a moment or two, because it undeniably implicated President Biden?
Hollywood legend James Woods has warned the rest of America about the cold realities of living in a Democrat “utopia.”
Woods raised the alarm in response to mounting reports of soaring crimes in blue cities across the country.
Over the weekend, dozens of thieves looted a Nordstrom store in California, making headlines around the world.
It’s time to revisit the Spanish Civil War — a bloody three-year conflict spanning from 1936 to 1939 in which communists massacred Catholics because the church’s doctrine and its head, Jesus Christ, stood in opposition to their ideology and authority.
Many Americans have never heard of the Spanish Civil War because it’s often ignored by the history books or overshadowed by World War II, but its history is important given the context of our government’s current demonization and targeting of Catholics.
Steely Dan’s 1976 song “The Royal Scam” (from the album of the same name) reflects on the plight of Puerto Rican immigrants to New York City during the 1950s and ’60s, people who hoped to get a piece of the American dream for themselves, only to have their hopes dashed by the hateful discrimination they experienced soon after their arrival.
In America, black antisemitism has its capital in southside Chicago, and its high priest is the sinister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not in the same league as Farrakhan, but he is no friend either to white people or to Jews, as both his church sermons and his comments to the media blaming Jews for preventing him from seeing Obama, make clear. Obama has managed until now to escape the charge of antisemitism, having been careful as a presidential candidate to distance himself from the controversial Rev.Wright. But one of Obama’s former girlfriends, Sheila Miyoshi (married name Jager), suggests that he was not bothered by black antisemitism.
Confession time! I did something last weekend that I’ve never done before: I read a business book.
It’s called Truth To Power, and it’s the memoir of André de Ruyter, who led the troubled South African power monopoly Eskom for three years, before resigning in early 2023. Over his short, fraught tenure, he uncovered criminal networks stealing from the company, allegedly with the collusion of partners high in the ruling African National Congress. On his way out the door, someone in his office tried to poison him with cyanide. Quite a business climate South Africa has these days.”
Washington is closely watching UAPs
The military types who recently testified before a congressional hearing about their close encounters with UFOs were not the usual suspects associated with such reports. Retired naval commander David Fravor said that he, his weapons service officer and their counterparts in another jet had seen a mysterious “Tic-Tac” shaped “object” while both planes were flying off San Diego in 2004. Speaking to a House of Representatives Oversight subcommittee at the end of last month, he detailed how the object’s dramatic maneuvers — caught on video by the next flight crew to take off — were beyond the capabilities of the known.
