Ontario won’t issue retroactive long-term care fines over pandemic violations

Hefty new fines for Ontario long-term care providers won’t be applied retroactively for violations earlier in the pandemic when new legislation from the Progressive Conservatives takes effect, despite concerns that the worst offenders haven’t been held to account.

The Ministry of Long-Term Care said it has not issued a single fine to operators who broke the rules during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far killed more than 4,000 people in long-term care and infected more than 15,000 nursing home residents.

The bulk of those deaths — which make up 40 per cent of all virus deaths in the province — occurred during the first two waves of the pandemic, before most residents in long-term care could be vaccinated. Inspection reports and eyewitness accounts from homes with virus outbreaks described horrific conditions and a failure to follow measures meant to control the spread of COVID-19.

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Is this finally proof China created Covid? Group of online sleuths fought to discover if the virus was engineered by scientists in Wuhan lab at the heart of probe into the pandemic’s origins

We must ask, is it a coincidence that a bat-derived, SARS-like coronavirus showed up in the very city with the largest laboratory collection of bat-derived SARS-like coronaviruses in the world and the most active research programme studying such viruses? And a city that is well over a thousand miles from the region in China where viruses like this are naturally found.

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‘Kill on demand’: China’s chilling organ transplant black market exposed

Thousands of people have their organs harvested every week in China in a “kill to order” market.

And with the horrifying details that dissidents and political prisoners are being slaughtered for their organs, China appears to have its own real-life Squid Game.

Liver on sale for $160k: Uyghur organs ‘harvested’ in China’s black markets

Notably, this is not the first time that allegations have been raised regarding organ harvesting in the detention centres of China. In June earlier this year, the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) said that its human rights experts were “extremely alarmed” by reports of “alleged ‘organ harvesting’ targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China.”

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G20 leaders endorse global minimum corporate tax deal for 2023 start

Leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20) will endorse an OECD deal on a global minimum corporate tax of 15%, draft conclusions of the two-day G20 summit showed on Saturday, with a view to have the rules in force in 2023.

“We call on the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting to swiftly develop the model rules and multilateral instruments as agreed in the Detailed Implementation Plan, with a view to ensure that the new rules will come into effect at global level in 2023,” the draft conclusions, seen by Reuters, said.

The conclusions are to be formally adopted on Sunday.

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Ontario won’t add COVID-19 to list of nine diseases that elementary and secondary students must be immunized against: official

Ontario’s top public health official says that the province won’t add COVID-19 to the list of nine diseases that public school students must be immunized against after concluding that doing so would place “an additional burden” on public health agencies.

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Bakeries, diners and bars serve up defiance to Alberta’s vaccine passport program

The tables at Karen’s Homestyle Cooking in downtown Peace River, Alta., sit empty.

Owner Karen Greaves would rather turn diners away than participate in Alberta’s vaccine passport program.

“I’m just totally done with it. From Day 1, I was done with it,” Greaves said Thursday.

“This is not about health and safety, it’s about control.”

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China announces new case of bird flu infection in humans

“The increase in human cases in China this year is worrying. It is a virus that causes high mortality,” said Thijs Kuiken, professor of comparative pathology at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, who noted that it is urgently needed. , further research in this regard that allows us to understand the current increase in infections in people, as well as the potential risks that this implies.

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ADL begs Fox News to stop Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 documentary

Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s upcoming documentary on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is drawing flak despite the fact it won’t be released until next week.

His claim that evidence points to provocation by FBI informants is enough for those who call President Trump’s belief that the election was stolen “a big lie” and insist the riots amounted to an “insurrection.”

As Democrats lead an investigation of Jan. 6 apparently aimed at finding a conspiracy hatched by President Trump himself, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is pleading with Fox News to stop the release of Carlson’s documentary, titled “Patriot Purge.”

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