Cases among the vaccinated are called “breakthrough cases” because the vaccine was supposed to act as a barrier.
The barrier is gone and covid fascists now claim it was always meant to reduce the severity, not the transmissibility of the virus. LIARS!pic.twitter.com/4gcVcs4jVZ
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) December 22, 2021
Canada
‘We’re a careful country’: Freeland contrasts Omicron responses of Canada, U.S.
Speaking to reporters about Ottawa’s response to the recent surge of Omicron cases, Freeland was asked to explain why the White House is reassuring Americans that holiday gatherings are safe if vaccinated, and that the variant is not a cause for panic, while the Canadian government is urging people to stay home and reduce contacts.
Glavin: The demise of the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations is not a good look
It was one of Parliament’s only open windows into the Trudeau government’s secretive dealings with Xi Jinping’s regime in Beijing. It was one of the few vantage points available for Canadians to get a glimpse of the Chinese regime’s influence operations in Canada.
COVID news reports often look more like propaganda than journalism
When it comes to reporting on COVID in Canada, the legacy media are failing Canadians.
Journalists don’t report the facts, they only push a narrative – even if it means burying important facts. The result is that journalists sound like government propagandists and their reports look like vaccine infomercials.
Thousands of truckers prepared to walk due to vaccine mandates, warn Canadian trucking groups
The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) says it estimates that up to 22 thousand Canadian drivers will decide to leave the Canada-U.S. market when the Canadian government’s planned cross-border vaccination mandate takes effect on January 15, 2022. (The U.S. government is also planning to implement a vaccination requirement for Canadian truckers on January 22.)
Canada needs to build millions — not thousands — of EV charging stations, industry group says
The federal government is promising to spend close to $880 million over the next four years to build about 65,000 new charging stations for electric or fuel cell-powered passenger vehicles.
But an industry group representing some of Canada’s biggest automakers says Canada needs to be building millions of stations.
Where does the electricity come from?
GOLDSTEIN: Pandemic exposed the myths of Canadian health care
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again revealed that Canadians pay among the highest costs in the developed world for health care, in return for mediocre results judged by international standards.
Clearly, we need meaningful and sensible reforms, not more political nostrums that Canadian health care is “free” and “the best in the world”.
It isn’t free, and it hasn’t been the best in the world — if it ever was — for a long time.
Canada, allies must confront China challenge united after two Michaels: Trudeau
OTTAWA — Canada owes no debts to its allies, including the United States, for their help in standing up to China and bringing the Meng Wanzhou-two Michaels affair to a close, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canada and the U.S. resolved the nearly three-year standoff with China by holding firm to their shared belief in the “rules-based” international order, and that united approach will be key to confronting the challenges posed by China in the future, Trudeau said in a year-end interview with the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press.
New Brunswick retracts vaccine requirements for grocery stores after public backlash
The province of New Brunswick backtracked on an aspect of its COVID-19 ‘winter plan’ which compelled grocery stores to either enforce social distancing or require all patrons to be ‘fully vaccinated.’
Trudeau Creates 3rd World-Dominated Immigration Committee
A recently established standing committee oversees matters relating to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB).
The committee is made up of elected Members of Parliament from each recognized political party. In Canada, a party is only recognized if there are 12 or more members in the House of Commons.
The 12-person committee is 25% Anglophone. Statistics Canada’s most recent study(2016) tell us that 68% of our population is comprised of Anglophones.
The irony arrives in no-uncertain terms. In any situation where “racialized” Canadians are under-represented, multicultural advocates scream for equal representation. In all cases of over-representation, “equality advocates” are silent as the lambs.
O’Toole says Conservatives are consulting on the ‘unfair’ Bill 21
Although he still maintains it’s a matter Quebecers will have to settle for themselves, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says his party is consulting on its position on the controversial and “unfair” Bill 21.
In an interview with CBC’s The House airing Saturday, O’Toole said the Conservative caucus has discussed the law. He said he has tasked several people with reviewing the party’s stance on the law and Conservatives are consulting outside groups as well.
You know Canada is a PC backwater when even the EU has come to their senses
Companies can ban headscarves at work, top EU court rules
Where are ‘burqa bans’ in Europe?
The Big One: Canada floods show British Columbia is not ready for a powerful earthquake
Canada’s largest port is shut down. Highways have snapped, buckled and crumbled. Bridges are washed into raging rivers and landslides rumble down mountainsides, burying cars and stranding travellers. Rail lines linking the west coast to the rest of North America are damaged. Oil pipelines cease operating.
Inside the CSIS probe that identified a Canadian mole who spied for Moscow
OTTAWA — An investigation by Canada’s spy service concluded that money, ego and career frustrations were the likely reasons a veteran RCMP officer passed highly sensitive secrets to Russian intelligence for years, newly disclosed records reveal.
Molehunters determined in the mid-1980s that Gilles Germain Brunet was an agent of the Soviet KGB from the late 1960s well into the 1970s, a Cold War spy saga detailed in documents released to The Canadian Press by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service through the Access to Information Act.
Brunet’s betrayal has long been the subject of whispers, chronicled in news articles and books since at least the early 1990s. But until now Canadian intelligence officials have not publicly confirmed his exploits, nor divulged details of the probe that left them convinced he was a mole.
Ex-federal scientist charged with fraud, breach of trust over alleged ties to Chinese university
Federal authorities have charged an internationally recognized agriculture expert who worked in Saskatchewan with fraud and breach of trust, alleging he secretly received money from a Chinese university while employed by the Canadian government.
Yantai Gan started working for Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada (AAFC) in 1999, and the Royal Society of Canada recognized his crop sciences research in 2019. Mr. Gan was arrested two years ago, but the RCMP did not publicly announce the criminal case against him until last week, days before the start of his preliminary hearing in Swift Current.
National Council of Canadian Muslims gets support from CAIR, asks Trudeau for help to fight Quebec secularist bill
It April last year, it emerged that Canada’s Supreme Court wouldn’t hear a challenge to Quebec’s secularism law (Bill C-21), which restricts religious symbols at work. In 2019, Quebec Premier François Legault “shrugged off” complaints that the anti-religious symbols law encouraged “Islamophobia,” and he was right to do so. At that time, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR-CAN, an offshoot of CAIR) vowed to continue the fight in court. They are living up to this promise, with help from CAIR.