More than 7,000 people registered for their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, amid threats by Quebec officials to tax the unvaccinated.
“Our highest in several days,” tweeted Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé, noting that 5,000 appointments were also made on Monday. “This is encouraging.”
Dubé notes the appointments were made across all the age groups, and 107,000 doses of vaccine were administered Tuesday alone.
The Trudeau government’s stubborn insistence that all cross-border truckers entering Canada show proof of double vaccination starting this coming Saturday sums up officialdom’s continuing fight against the pandemic to a tee.
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the sex abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew brought by a longtime Jeffrey Epstein accuser could move forward.
In a Wednesday morning opinion, Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the royal’s motion to dismiss Virginia Giuffre’s suit against him.
Andrew’s attorneys had argued in their motion to dismiss the suit that Giuffre was barred from suing him because of a 2009 settlement agreement that she inked with Epstein to dismiss a Florida suit she brought against the pedophile.
Ont. reports 46 net new virus-related deaths; 505 patients with COVID-19 now in ICU
Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott says about 54 per cent of people hospitalized with COVID-19 were admitted due to the virus while 46 per cent were admitted for other reasons. For those in the ICU, 83 per cent per cent were admitted due to COVID-19 and 17 per cent were admitted for other reasons and are now testing positive, she added.
Another 9,783 new cases were logged today but due to testing restrictions, that number is likely a significant undercount of the true number of new infections in Ontario.
Here is the Pfizer CEO clip saying his company’s two dose covid vaccine provides “limited, if any” protection against omicron. @twitter needs to explain what the copyright claim is here. Seems to clearly be fair use & it’s obviously very newsworthy: pic.twitter.com/LrbgkPO6PH
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 11, 2022
Possible legal consequences begin for Sunwing passengers after feds spot 12 alleged infractions
Health Canada has started the process for possible legal consequences for some of the passengers on the infamous Sunwing flight to Cancun on Dec. 30.
However, the alleged infractions the agency is looking at are not related to the partying on the plane, according to Quebec prosecutors.
“These files do not cover the events that occurred during the flight, the images of which made the headlines,” said Audrey Roy-Cloutier, a spokesperson for the Quebec Crown prosecutors’ office.
Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab – but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’
Leading British and US scientists thought it was likely that Covid accidentally leaked from a laboratory but were concerned that further debate would harm science in China, emails show.
An email from Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, on February 2 2020 said that “a likely explanation” was that Covid had rapidly evolved from a Sars-like virus inside human tissue in a low-security lab.
The email, to Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Francis Collins of the US National Institutes of Health, went on to say that such evolution may have “accidentally created a virus primed for rapid transmission between humans”.
But a leading scientist told Sir Jeremy that “further debate would do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular”. Dr Collins, the former director of the US National Institutes of Health, warned it could damage “international harmony”.
Gee Wiz! I’m old enough to remember when this was a conspiracy theory. Just like the CIA buying off journalists. “International Harmony” should be read as “Free Money from the ChiComs & Faucis etc”
Twitter is allowing official Iranian government accounts to issue death threats against former president Donald Trump and other Trump administration officials.
Twitter’s refusal to remove these ongoing threats is renewing congressional scrutiny on the social media platform. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime’s paramilitary fighting force that engages in terrorism and assassination plots, tweeted during the weekend that it will take revenge for the death of terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani, who two years ago was killed in Iraq in a drone strike ordered by Trump.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona personally requested the now-famous letter from the National School Boards Association calling parent activists domestic terrorists, according to new emails obtained by a parent activist group.
The emails were obtained by the nonprofit Parents Defending Education through a Freedom of Information Act request and revealed that the September letter from the National School Boards Association to the Biden administration was personally requested by Cardona.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently has had some plastic surgery.
It didn’t go well.
Tucker Carlson was on the scene to state what everyone was thinking
Last night, Project Veritas released a video allegedly exposing classified documents about COVID and the pandemic response. In the video, Project Veritas showed portions of a memo written by Marine Corps Major General Joseph P. Murphy about the pandemic origins and response. If the conclusions Murphy drew even approach the truth, political affiliation no longer means anything for anyone who lost a loved one to COVID or cares about someone who suffered a vaccine injury.
Ninety people accused of murder are free on electronic monitoring ankles in Chicago thanks to woke bail reforms that have put scores of violent criminals back on the streets.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart revealed the numbers to CBS on Monday, along with his fears that it is making communities significantly less safe.
Dart said that in his county alone, 90 people accused of murder are free along with 40 people charged with attempted murder and 852 people charged with aggravated gun possession.
THE headline, in lofty bold type across two full pages, screams: ‘6million follow anti-vaxxer lies’. The Mail on Sunday is firing a full salvo from the good ship Booster. On the same pages it ‘exposes’ some anti-vaxx military-style group ‘planning mayhem’ and hands the Health Secretary Sajid Javid a column to call out ‘dangerous nonsense’ from extreme anti-vaxxers.
“Hillary Clinton’s all-encompassing ambition will ensure that she can never be completely counted out for a presidential run as long as she is still drawing breath,” noted Robert Spencer recently. With Biden more addled by the day, and few prospects on the bench, such a run could indeed happen — especially with Hillary’s recent hints on the matter.
But Hillary has a problem.
German police have been criticised for using Covid-tracking data to trace contacts from bars and restaurants as part of an investigation.
The case, stemming from November last year, began after the fatal fall of a man while leaving a restaurant in the western city of Mainz.
Police seeking possible witnesses made use of data from an app known as Luca, which was designed for users to register time spent in restaurants and taverns to track the possible spread of coronavirus.
The Ontario government quietly dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, producing a new dataset that reveals how many people were actually admitted to hospitals in the province because they were suffering from COVID-19.
A columnist from Up North warns that soon Canada might have to intervene in America
We begin today by heading north, past Vermont, over Winterfell, above the Arctic Circle, beyond the part of the map labeled “monsters be here,” and into Canada. There do we find a writer named John Ibbitson, who recently published a piece for the Toronto Globe and Mail warning that American democracy may not be long for this world. “If the next presidential election reveals the U.S. hurtling toward possible violence and autocracy,” Ibbitson asks, “should Canada try to intervene?”
