“We know that, with viruses, it’s practically impossible to prevent new variants from arriving here in Canada,” said deputy chief public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo, speaking in French during a COVID-19 update on April 21.
Especially when you don’t even try.
Between April 1-17, 40 COVID-positive flights from Delhi landed in Canada — mostly in Toronto, but also many in Vancouver. This is on top of 26 flights from the U.S., 14 from the UAE, 11 from France, nine fromTurkey, and seven each from Germany, Qatar, and the Netherlands.
Hospitals are shifting critically ill patients around, looking for any empty bed. Nurses and doctors are putting in exhaustion-defying amounts of overtime. Some provinces are opening new intensive care unit capacity.
But it may not be enough to stave off a point no one wants to reach in the pandemic — when only a handful of ICU beds remain but a greater number of patients need those spots.
Canada’s procurement minister says she is in the midst of negotiating new vaccine contracts to nail down supplies of vaccine booster shots if they’re needed next year.
“We are actively planning for 2022,” Anita Anand said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press.
In a 20-minute virtual address to thousands of party members, Trudeau said Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole “can’t quite grasp” the struggles that Canadians have endured over the last year during COVID-19. He suggested the Tories would have been less generous with relief programs and unreliable pandemic stewards had they been in power.
Many healthcare professionals agree that having an active and physical lifestyle, taking Vitamin D and other lifestyle choices can lessen the chance of a serious outcome if infected with COVID-19. In fact, the UK government sent its citizens free vitamin D supplements.
Meanwhile, public officials in Canada have never discussed these lifestyle choices. As a result, many Canadians are unaware and unprepared for COVID-19.
Canada’s Chief Science Adviser, Mona Nemer has said vaccine delays “amounts right now to a basically human-population experiment.”
You know a federal election is in the air when a Liberal government starts to dream up a new suite of exotic and invasive gun laws.
In the past year alone, the Trudeau government has announced a federal buy-back program for a list of firearms they have now deemed to be illegal. They introduced new legislation that will allow municipalities to ban law-abiding Canadians from owning restricted firearms, which could also ban airsoft sports. And, most recently, they have introduced Bill C-22 to eliminate a number of mandatory minimum penalties for firearms offenses that keep communities safe.
For those keeping score at home, this means the Trudeau government is now treating people who obey the law like criminals, people who break the law like victims, and people who work for municipalities as if they work for the federal government instead.
You’ve got questions, and they’ve got answers! Tune in as our country’s top doctors – Dr. Tam (@CPHO_Canada), Dr. Njoo, Dr. Sharma, and Dr. Adams – sit down with @HeyScienceSam and @DanielleSipsTea to answer some of your questions about #COVID19Vaccines: https://t.co/hvAlZp1CD9
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 31, 2021
One of Toronto’s local TV stations recently ran a segment on an elderly woman who was accidentally given the wrong address for her COVID jab. Her daughter drove her to the designated spot, which was deserted. Turned out the vaccinations were being done elsewhere.
Shocka! Canadians far more wary of AstraZeneca than other COVID-19 vaccines: Poll
JUST IN – Berlin suspends AstraZeneca vaccinations for under 60 years olds as the German Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) reports 31 suspected cases of brain thrombosis and nine deaths after vaccination nationwide.
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) March 30, 2021
Over the last few years, the Chinese Communist regime has grown increasingly hostile towards the West.
With regard to Canada, the Chinese government has proven itself to be belligerent and uncooperative. The refusal by Chinese authorities to grant access to the trials of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor to consular officials is the most recent instance of Chinese diplomatic hostility.
Even prior to the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in 2019, Chinese state-media and officials were lashing out at Canada.
The following is a list of every single time that Chinese officials and state-media have insulted or downright degraded Canada on the international stage.
Big news story at the end of this week: Canada’s vaccination effort finally reaches 10% of the adult population!
The Public Health Agency of Canada has admitted the modelling they use to create COVID-19 charts is a simple one that leaves out some potential inputs, including the impact of vaccinations.
“The forecasting model uses a simplified approach to model effects of public health interventions, which it does by altering the transmission rate,” explains a document sent by the PHAC to the federal House of Commons health committee earlier this week.
Health Canada is in the process of adding a warning about a rare possible side-effect of blood clots from the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine but is still certain the vaccine is safe and effective against COVID-19.
The department’s chief medical adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma says the warning comes on the heels of a similar warning in Europe last week but doesn’t change Health Canada’s analysis that the vaccine’s benefits outweigh its risks.
