“It’s a condition of employment that hasn’t been met,” Qualtrough said in an interview with CBC’s Power & Politics. “And the employer choosing to terminate someone for that reason would make that person ineligible for EI.
Canada
Health Canada reports increase in calls to poison control centres over ivermectin usage
In an update to a warning on its site, Health Canada said ivermectin has been authorized for human use as a prescription drug to treat parasitic worm infections. It has not been authorized for use against COVID-19.
“There is no evidence that ivermectin works to prevent or treat COVID-19, and it is not authorized for this use,” Health Canada said.
It’s been nearly 20 years since inflation has been this high in Canada
Canada’s inflation rate rose to a new 18-year high of 4.4 per cent in September, with higher prices for transportation, shelter and food contributing the most to the jump in the cost of living.
A military in crisis: Here are the senior leaders embroiled in sexual misconduct cases
It’s a leadership crisis without precedent in the Canadian Armed Forces — a fact that only becomes clear when you take a step back and look at the full depth and scope of the sexual misconduct crisis and survey the wreckage in the top ranks.
Since early February 2021, 11 senior Canadian military leaders — current and former — have been sidelined, investigated or forced into retirement from some of the most powerful and prestigious posts in the defence establishment.
Experts say they can’t think of another military anywhere else in the world that has seen so many senior leaders swept up in scandal at the same time.
I say they ban heterosexuals from the armed forces.
Foreign donors opened wallets to ‘hurt’ Alberta energy sector: Report
EDMONTON — The inquiry launched by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s government into the scale of foreign funds aimed at damaging the province’s oil and gas industry has issued its long-awaited report, finding that foreign donors provided nearly $1.3 billion in funds for Canadian environmental campaigns between 2003 and 2019.
The First Post-National Country – American Democrats’ love affair with Justin Trudeau’s Canada is cause for concern.
If the Democratic party of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden gets its way, America may soon look a lot like Justin Trudeau’s Canada. American conservatives, don’t say you weren’t warned.
On September 16, amidst a closely contested Canadian federal election, former president Barack Obama tweeted his endorsement of Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau, calling him “an effective leader and strong voice for democratic values.” The next day, former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton followed with her own tweet, applauding her “friend” Trudeau for his “leadership in the fight for accessible child care, protected reproductive rights, and ambitious climate action.”
GOLDSTEIN: Expensive, mediocre health care system needs reform — report
Canadians are paying too much for too little health care because the federal government prohibits the provinces from reforming an expensive and deteriorating system, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
The report by the fiscally conservative think tank says while Canada ranks fifth highest in age-adjusted per capita spending on health care among 28 comparable countries with universal health care systems, Canada’s performance is “poor to moderate.”
Early results suggest Alberta votes in favour of removing equalization from Canada’s constitution
EDMONTON — Voters in Calgary, Alberta’s largest city, appear to have cast their votes in favour of removing equalization from Canada’s constitution, according to unofficial results in the province’s referendum on equalization payments.
Pfizer asks Health Canada to approve COVID vaccine for kids five to 11 years old
The vaccine was developed in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech and is now marketed under the brand name Comirnaty. It was authorized for people at least 16 years old last December, and for kids between 12 and 15 in May.
This is the vaccine the FDA has approved in the US.
It is not available in the US.
Everything is a lie.
‘Tax the rich’ plan won’t help pay Canada’s record debt, analysts say
Canada piled on new debt at a faster pace than any of its Group of Seven peers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Top Canadian Jewish Org Demands Investigation Into Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Soldiers Who Allegedly Trained With Canada’s Military
A top Canadian Jewish group is asking Canada’s Department of National Defense to investigate its training of Ukrainian soldiers after revelations that a neo-Nazi group had infiltrated Ukraine’s military.
A study by the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University revealed that members of the Ukrainian military were involved with a far-right group called Centuria.
They were documented giving Nazi salutes, praising members of the SS, and pushing white nationalist ideas.
George McLeod: Seeking friendlier alternatives to China
Recent statements by Canada’s ambassador to China, Dominic Barton, that Canada should “seize opportunities in a rising China,” demonstrate that Canada is taking the wrong approach to the PRC. Rather than treating the two Michaels fiasco as a speed bump in an otherwise productive relationship, Canada should view it as an urgent call to divest and scale-down its ties with China.
Gonna be tough to change course, the China Class is well embedded in our political and business classes.
Why Alberta is holding a referendum on equalization — and what it could mean for other provinces
When Albertans go to the polls Monday to vote for new mayors, councillors and school board trustees, they’ll also be asked to weigh in on a referendum that asks whether or not equalization should be stripped from the Canadian constitution.
N.B. government tells staff to stop making Indigenous land acknowledgments
Justice Minister Hugh Flemming noted that N.B. First Nations are claiming title to ‘over 60% of the province’.
GUNTER: A court sentence that is a direct assault on free expression
This week in a federal courtroom in Calgary, Justice Adam Germain handed down one of the most potentially dangerous sentences I can recall.
I would be surprised if one particular portion of Germain’s sentence survives an appeal. That portion is a direct assault on Canadians’ right to free expression.