COVID-19 outbreak in B.C. Indigenous community fuels concerns over waning protective benefits of vaccines

The remote B.C. community of Maaqtusiis, home to the Ahousaht Nation, has been in lockdown for two weeks because of COVID-19. The schools have been closed, non-essential travel to and from the community has been prohibited, and families have been asked not to mingle with other households.

Unlike many Indigenous communities in British Columbia where vaccination rates are below the provincial average, the Ahousaht enthusiastically welcomed a team of public-health nurses who arrived with the Moderna vaccine on Jan. 6. The outbreak adds to growing concerns that the protective benefits of the vaccines may be waning.

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Police alerted to ‘suspicious activity’ on Taliban supporter’s farm near nuclear navy base

Waheed Totakhyl once publicly called for the death of US soldiers in Afghanistan, and has a brother currently serving as a military commander with the Taliban in Kabul.

He leases Aldonaig Farm, situated four miles from HMNB Clyde. Also known as Faslane, the base on Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute is where the Royal Navy house the UK fleet of nuclear submarines.

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California Takeout: When China Enjoyed Free Rein in the Clinton ’90s

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Since my first investigative piece on China’s commercial and intelligence operations in March 1995[1], I had published a half-dozen magazine-length articles in The American Spectator that exposed China’s U.S. networks. Some of these involved Chinese intelligence operations to fund the political campaigns of Bill Clinton. Others focused on Chinese investments on Wall Street or money-laundering. I became fascinated by the sheer number of Chinese front companies I was starting to unearth in Southern California. Many of them were engaged in real estate investing, and turned out to be secret bolt holes for the Princelings, the wealthy children and relatives of top Communist Party officials. Others were not-so-secretly stealing U.S. military technology.

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Australia, the world’s worst at coping with Covid

ALL the Covid hysteria around most of the democratic world, and especially in Britain, New York State, Canada and here in Australia, is driven by two main things. The first problem is that many people haven’t got a clue about what the relative risks are. Ask them what they think their chances of dying would be should they catch Covid and most get this massively wrong – a good few get the odds wrong by two orders of magnitude (answering 30 per cent when at most it’s about 0.3 per cent). And we’re talking about one’s chances of dying before being vaccinated.

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Bill Maher slams the ‘gang’ who followed Kyrsten Simena into a bathroom and tells progressives their demand for ‘everything’ is the reason ‘they’re not bringing anything home’

Real Time host Bill Maher has slammed the ‘gang’ of activists who followed Senator Kyrsten Simena into a bathroom and hit out at progressive Democrats for ‘not bringing anything home’ because they are demanding ‘everything’ with the infrastructure bill.

Maher sparred with rapper Killer Mike – real name Michael Render – and Washington Post reporter Robert Costa as they joined him as panelists on his show Friday night.

The host blasted the ‘outrageous’ incident last weekend when Senator Sinema was followed into a bathroom and hounded by progressive activists at Arizona State University.

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China is using the climate as a bargaining chip

For reasons that are not clear, western environmentalists are mad keen on China, despite its appetite for coal

China’s President Xi Jinping has apparently not yet decided whether to travel to Glasgow next month for the big climate conference known as COP26. That is no doubt partly because he’s heard about the weather in Glasgow in November, and partly because he knows the whole thing will be a waste of his time. After all, the fact that it is the 26th such meeting and none of the previous 25 solved the problem they set out to solve suggests the odds are that the event will be the flop on the Clyde.

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Trudeau has turned Canada into an insular country with little power to affect foreign affairs

“… For a country that was integral to the Allied efforts in two world wars, Canada’s standing has dropped so far that the government and everyone else was caught off guard when the United States struck a landmark submarine deal with the United Kingdom and Australia that has vast geopolitical implications.”

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Seattle’s vaccine mandate may soon result in up to 40% of already gutted police force being fired

The fighting over vaccine mandates continues, but the tug-of-war may soon displace a huge number of Seattle’s law enforcement.

The city of Seattle, Washington, recently established a vaccine mandate for all city employees, which includes police, with a deadline of October 18th – or face possible termination of employment.

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Reduce Population to Save the Planet, Says Former UK Finance Chief

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Britain and other Western nations should welcome declining populations and ageing demographics as it will help them meet climate change goals, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has argued.

In a report from Population Matters entitled Smaller Families and Ageing Populations, Lord Adair Turner, the chairman of the UK Energy Transitions Commission and former head of the FSA, argued that declining native populations will enhance prosperity.

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Still unvaccinated, Maxime Bernier insists PPC doesn’t need a pandemic to grow

London resident and realtor Rob Johnkans’ support for People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier is steadfast.

“I met him, shook his hand and had a couple minutes conversation with him,” said the longtime Conservative voter. “The guy is solid … I believed in him at that moment. He is who he says he is.”

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California law bans small off-road gas engines, including lawnmowers and chainsaws

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California took another step toward its goal of ridding the state of all gas-powered engines thanks to a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday.

The new law will ban the sale of all off-road, gas-powered engines, including generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers, and even golf carts. Under the new law , these machines must be zero-emissions, meaning they will have to be either battery-powered or plug-in, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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GOLDSTEIN: Big news on climate change — Gambia wins, Canada loses

Canada is a laggard in the international effort to avert catastrophic climate change, according to a major new study by Climate Analytics, a global, non-profit climate science and policy institute.

The organization’s “climate action tracker” describes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s policies as “highly insufficient” in regard to achieving the United Nations’ Paris climate accord goal he signed Canada up for in 2015.

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Woke Canadian military can’t recruit new members

The Canadian military, a once illustrious institution with an international reputation for excellence and professionalism, is on the decline as it pushes a politically correct agenda to its members.

LifeSiteNews recently received an email that was sent out on behalf of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), outlining a series of “woke” initiatives that the military is promoting among its ranks.

The email came specifically from the office of the 8 Wing Deputy Commander, which is based in Trenton, Ontario. The current Deputy Commander of the 8 Wing is LCol Audrey Lavoie. Lavoie has served in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) since 2002 and was deployed in Afghanistan in 2008 as well as in other non-combat scenarios around the world.

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