The Liberal government received harsh criticism from the opposition on Tuesday after failing to deliver on a promise to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization despite voting in favour of a motion to do so in 2018.
What would Canada do if another 9/11 were to take place? What about an electromagnetic pulse attack? Canada’s pandemic response would not bode well if something much worse than COVID-19 were to take place.
To wit:
The Alberta company’s messenger-RNA shot could be rolling out of the Emergent Biosolutions plant in Winnipeg before year’s end, Sorenson said last week, shortly after Emergent executives underwent a public grilling by U.S. lawmakers.
The Maryland-based manufacturer has taken heat in Congress and the U.S. media for ruining 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, struggling with quality-control problems at its Baltimore plant and generating spotty results from a lucrative government contract.
The firm’s little-known Winnipeg facility, not implicated in the U.S. controversy, is slated to do the final stages of manufacturing on the Canadian vaccine. …
But plans are up in the air as Ottawa has shown scant interest in pre-ordering any of the Providence vaccine itself, despite encouraging early results, he complained.
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Officer Cadet Ladislas Kenderesi was charged with one count of “endeavoring to persuade another person to join in a mutiny,” an offence under the National Defence Act. Kenderesi was also charged with one count of behaving in a scandalous manner unbecoming of an officer.
The charges were laid May 12 by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service, defence officials told this newspaper.
Kenderesi had appeared at an anti-lockdown rally in December in Toronto dressed in his Canadian Forces uniform and speaking out about the COVID-19 vaccine, claiming it was a “killer.”
He called on military personnel not to be involved in government plans to distribute the vaccine. “I’m asking military, right now serving, truck drivers, medical, engineers, whatever you are, do not take this unlawful order (for) the distribution of this vaccine,” Kenderesi said at the rally. A video of his speech was posted on YouTube.
I’ll just leave this sad fact here:
The Ontario government has reported the first fatal case of an extremely rare blood clot that has been detected in a small number of residents who received the AstraZeneca/COVISHEILD COVID-19 vaccine.
Never trust snowboard instructors and graphic arts designers to do real scientists’ jobs:
Pandemic stay-home orders and lockdowns were so widespread it cost the federal treasury more than two-third of a billion in lost gas taxes, according to finance department accounts. Fuel tax revenue will remain “well below expected GDP growth” for years to come, wrote staff: “Revenues are projected to fall by 12 percent.”
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The Department of Health receives an average 100 reports a day of opioids lost or stolen from pharmacies nationwide, says an internal audit. The department had a backlog of 20,000 reports it failed to track, and no idea of the volume of drugs diverted to the black market: “I’m dumbfounded the system could allow that much loss and not do anything about it.”
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Why, that doesn’t sound suspicious at all!:
The Privy Council Office is concealing hundreds of thousands of records on pandemic mismanagement, the Commons health committee was told. Disclosure of a few records to date detail favouritism in contracting and attempts to hide supply shortages: “Who in government is responsible?”
University of Saskatchewan epidemiologist Nazeem Muhajarine told Global News on Friday that the possibility of new or existing variants of COVID-19 spreading throughout Canada could lead to a possible resurgence in new cases.
A caring, sensible government would be making HCQ, Ivermectin, and Colchicine available to the public at little or no cost to help save lives and limit overloading the health care system. But no one is doing that, are they? Instead, we’re reliant on vaccines that don’t work and are in short supply. Follow the money.
The minister announced the extension during the weekly Public Health Agency of Canada press conference just one day before the original ban was set to expire.
As plans for safe travel are announced internationally, particularly in Europe, the U.K. and the U.S., some travel and tourism experts have identified that Canada is “lagging behind” other international markets, while we try to administer COVID-19 vaccines to as many people as possible.
Despite record domestic parcel growth, Canada Post cited “significant mail declines and high COVID-19 related costs” as the reasons behind last year’s $779 million before-tax loss.
In last year’s third quarter, the postal service had reported a year-to-date $709 million loss. Now, in its 2020 financial report, Canada Post is reporting a nearly $780 million overall loss for last year – a fivefold increase from 2019’s $153 million loss. Although parcels revenue grew by 25 per cent compared to 2019, direct marketing – once a mainstay of Canada Post’s bottom line – followed a similar trajectory to transaction mail, mostly comprised of letters, bills and statements.
As several provinces suspend the first dose of AstraZeneca, and questions remain about whether a second shot will be green-lighted, the researcher who oversaw the development of the vaccine says the move is not only flawed but may lead to serious consequences.
The government had repeatedly said everyone who wanted a vaccine (and they were talking about two-doses, not just one), would have them by the end of September.
But now, in what is an obvious admission of failure, Trudeau (or more likely some advisor,) came up with the talking point of a “one-dose summer.”
Amazingly, he says it as if it is some sort of accomplishment, as if we should thank him for failing to meet his earlier promise.
Demand for gasoline soared Monday as the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline sent Americans to the pumps.
The Liberal government’s controversial Bill C-10 is being put on hold as a committee of MPs seeks to determine if it could violate freedom of expression rights for social media users.
The Canadian Heritage committee, made up of Liberal, Conservative, NDP and Bloc Québécois MPs is currently studying the bill but decided to stop and ask for a new Charter statement from the Department of Justice on Monday.
The request to do so was passed through a motion that also says the committee is to hear from both David Lametti, the minister of justice, and Steven Guilbeault, the minister of heritage, and a panel of expert witnesses before continuing Bill C-10’s development.
Tam also says young people, who often work in essential services and sit at the bottom of vaccination priority queues, now have the highest case rates and can transmit the virus despite showing no symptoms.
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) says the federal stimulus plan may have been “miscalibrated” and will have less of an impact than the Liberals’ claim.
