The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction said in an alert there is a rising presence in the drug supply of potent synthetic opioids referred to as nitazenes, which are often more potent than fentanyl.
Nitazenes usually appear unexpectedly in drugs assumed to contain other types of opioids like fentanyl, oxycodone and non-medical benzodiazepines, said the centre.
The Government of Canada tendered a contract for PHAC to acquire 500,000 doses of smallpox vaccine on April 21, 2022.
The WHO reported on May 21, 2022 that since May 13th, cases of monkeypox have been reported from 12 Member States.
Still think they are being upfront with us? pic.twitter.com/CzrQMPMhrP
— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) May 22, 2022
h/t Mauser 98
Journalist Donna Laframboise has been putting together a wonderful blog documenting the Freedom Convoy.
A culture self-destructs if its people choose not to defend it. Bad people get away with really bad stuff when everyone else chooses to look the other way.
The “broken windows” theory of policing, which was responsible for a stunning drop in crime in New York in the 1990s, was based on a simple proposition. This was that bad people are encouraged to commit serious crimes if lesser social nuisances such as litter, vandalism or fare evasion are ignored.
This transmits the fatal signal that those in authority are giving a free pass to disorder. To stop serious offenses, there must be a consistent message that there will be zero tolerance for breaking any of the rules that keep a society civilized.
The “broken windows” theory might well also be applied to politics. The classicist and commentator Victor Davis Hansen has published a bone-chilling analysis of America that suggests it is inexorably going down to destruction.
I can’t help but think of Canada and how to some community “thought leaders” public displays of Muslim hatred for Israel and Jews is something that just now seems to have sprung up out of nowhere and their bewilderment at how deeply it is embedded within the Liberal-Left. Some of these same “leaders” have called me and the fans of this blog Islamophobic and or racist for merely pointing out the vibrant diversity of the Mohammedan migration. I find it absurd that the one thing the Grandees of the Muslim and Jewish community can agree on is the need for legislation to restrict our right to freedom of speech. I’m certain this will prove as successful as all of your past interfaith outreach efforts.
I have news for the Kumbaya Kool-Aid drinkers, I have been blogging nearly 20 years and it’s only gotten worse and it will only continue to get worse thanks to you. But try the grape I hear it’s yummy!
A prominent Inuvialuit leader said Canada must build up a more consistent presence in the Arctic if the country is going to protect its sovereignty in the region.
Duane Smith, chair and CEO of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation — which represents the interests of Inuit in the western Arctic — said the region is the “backdoor into Canada” and his community has been on the “front lines” of Canadian sovereignty.
The economist Thomas Sowell once said that inflation is just a way to take people’s money without having to openly raise taxes. But you don’t have to tell that to Annette Murray and her husband Tom McGregor.
The Vancouver couple, aged 64 and 59, live on disability pensions adding up to $37,000 a year. Or they used to. With higher prices for food and medical supplies, the two are now relying on their savings to make ends meet.
Since its introduction in the House of Commons last month, the Online News Act (Bill C-18) has been debated or discussed just once. The bill was tabled without comment by Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez on April 5th. Thus far, Friday, May 13th was the only one day devoted debate on the bill at second reading, a day when so many MPs were not present that there was a question on whether there was sufficient quorum to proceed. Rodriguez did not deliver a speech or answer questions that day, leaving it to his Parliamentary Secretary Chris Bittle, who I pointed out inaccurately characterized the requirement for payments by Internet platforms as “use” of content and implausibly argued that the bill involved “minimal government intervention.” There has been a total of less than two hours of speeches and debate with just 10 MPs speaking to the bill or asking questions (Bittle and Mark Gerretsen being the only Liberal MPs).
As the world races to understand more about rapidly emerging monkeypox outbreaks, the speed in which cases are being discovered signals a major shift in the behaviour of the virus and its ability to spread from person to person unnoticed.
Senator Larry Campbell, who struggles with depression, PTSD, and “getting old,” reveals that psilocybin microdoses helped improve his mood.
“This is the first time I’ve admitted this,” teased Senator Larry Campbell of his unexpected psilocybin experience while speaking at the opening ceremonies of the Catalyst Psychedelics Summit in Kingston, Ontario.
The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Canada issued a statement on Friday morning calling the federal government’s 5G network ban on Huawei and ZTE “political manipulation.”
A spokesperson of the embassy said the Chinese government will take “all necessary measures” to ensure Huawei’s legal rights are protected.
Among the many circumlocutions and outright non-answers to straightforward questions about what the federal government announced Thursday, in relation to restraints Canada might place on the ability of China’s multinational telecommunications giants to hack, spy and hold Canada’s critical telecommunications infrastructure to ransom, it isn’t easy to pick one that stands out in its absurdity. That’s because there were so many of them.
The head of the Iranian national soccer team coming to Vancouver next month for a controversial exhibition game recently attended a party with a man wanted by the FBI in relation to a plot to kidnap international targets, including three people in Canada.
The April 8 birthday party in Tehran was captured on camera and photographs were posted online. At the time, a warrant had been out for the arrest of the alleged Iranian intelligence informant for almost a year.
Team manager Hamid Estili appears in the photos with Mahmoud Khazein. Khazein is facing criminal charges in the U.S. which include conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Why is he coming to Canada? Why won’t Trudeau simply bar entry to the Iranian team?
Political football: How the Iranian government intervenes in sports
… The motives of the IRGC are not purely financial. The Guards see sports as a form of social control to be exploited in pursuit of domestic policy objectives. The country’s two most popular sports, wrestling and football, attract a young male demographic, often from poor socio-economic backgrounds, that needs to be managed and directed. Furthermore, sports have a symbolic value, as policies applied to the athletic domain project ideals for society at large. Gender discrimination, for example, is reinforced through the ban against women attending football stadiums and limiting women sports.
OTTAWA — Attempts to cash in on the Conservative leadership campaign is proving a hard sell for Pierre Poilievre officials, who vow to clamp down on a “misleading” website parading as an official shop selling items like “F–k Trudeau” sweatshirts or Justin Trudeau blackface stickers.
Justin Trudeau is making your neighbourhood less safe and using racist tropes to justify it. pic.twitter.com/1nMaD3pirM
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) May 19, 2022
Federal authorities are acknowledging that Canada is facing a shortage of formulas for babies with food allergies and some health conditions.
Health Canada says in a Thursday advisory that supplies of allergy-friendly formulas aren’t meeting demand in some provinces.
The statement comes amid widespread formula shortages south of the border after the shutdown of a large U.S. manufacturing plant, which also ships hypoallergenic formula to Canada.
