Trudeau’s promise to donate 100m doses raises doubts about Canada’s seriousness in helping poorer countries vaccinate

Canada has secured enough potential coronavirus vaccines to fully protect every resident nearly seven times over, even as a global shortage has forced poorer nations to wait.

After initial hiccups with its vaccination plan, more than 65% of Canadians have now received at least one dose, edging ahead of early leaders Israel and the UK, and on Friday, Justin Trudeau said 68m doses will have arrived in Canada by the end of July.

But a recent pledge by Canada to donate 100m doses to hard-hit countries, has highlighted persistent questions about its commitment to addressing such inequities.

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‘Two Americas’ may emerge as Delta variant spreads and vaccination rates drop

With Covid vaccination penetration in the US likely to fall short of Joe Biden’s 70% by Fourth of July target, pandemic analysts are warning that vaccine incentives are losing traction and that “two Americas” may emerge as the aggressive Delta variant becomes the dominant US strain.

Efforts to boost vaccination rates have come through a variety of incentives, from free hamburgers to free beer, college scholarships and even million-dollar lottery prizes. But of the efforts to entice people to get their shots have lost their initial impact, or failed to land effectively at all.

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Ontario reports 318 new Covid cases … and keep that mask on

Ontario reports 318 new Covid cases … and keep that mask on

Ontario’s daily COVID-19 case count continues to hover between 300 and 400 new infections each day, with 318 new cases confirmed over the last 24 hours.

Today’s total is down slightly from the 355 cases reported on Saturday and the 345 infections logged on Friday.


Too soon to ease mask requirements in Ontario — even for vaxxed up

Ontario is not yet at the point where it can begin rolling back masking requirements even for the fully vaccinated, an infectious disease specialist says.

Several jurisdictions in the United States are allowing people who have been fully dosed with a COVID-19 vaccine to go without masks in some public and workplace settings.

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That high-level Chinese defector’s ’embarrassing and damaging information about our intelligence community’

We already knew that a man with a high-level position in the Chinese Communist Party had defected to America.  We also knew that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) refused to let the other intelligence agencies in on the secret because it was immediately apparent that our government is riddled with Chinese spies, agents, true believers, and people on the payroll.  Now, though, we know who the spy is and the broad outlines of the information he provided — and it’s a lot worse than you thought.

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Businesses, U.S. legislators fume as Canada extends travel ban; Trudeau stands firm

OTTAWA — Canada is extending a ban on nonessential travel with the United States and the rest of the world until July 21, officials said on Friday, prompting frustration from businesses and U.S. legislators.

Canada is under pressure from companies and the tourism industry to ease the ban, which was imposed in March 2020 to help contain spread of the coronavirus and has been renewed on a monthly basis ever since.

Of course he does, it’s an economy killer.

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The Investigation Into the Origins of COVID-19 Is Dead in the Water

The Investigation Into the Origins of COVID-19 Is Dead in the Water

NPR reports that the investigation into the origins of the pandemic is at an “impasse.” In fact, the investigation is dead in the water. The World Health Organization (WHO) isn’t saying what the next phase of its investigation will be. American and other researchers outside of China are stuck in place largely because new information that could shed light on the origins — either natural or manmade — is being blocked by the Chinese Communists.

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PHAC head doubles down, withholds docs on suspected communist Chinese spies fired from Winnipeg germ lab

PHAC head doubles down, withholds docs on suspected communist Chinese spies fired from Winnipeg germ lab

The head of the Public Health Agency of Canada is showing no sign he’s willing to release unredacted documents about the firing of two scientists at the country’s highest security laboratory — despite the prospect of being publicly shamed in the House of Commons for his refusal to produce the information.

PHAC president Iain Stewart told the Commons health committee Friday that he is bound by law to protect national security and privacy rights.

And he said nothing in a House order demanding that he produce the documents relieves him of that obligation.

Protecting the privacy rights of suspected Communist Chinese spies? I suspect he’s protecting the misdeeds of our China class.

Imagine if it turns out Canada made a significant contribution to the development of the China plague.

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Ontario reports 355 new Covid cases … and the variant previously known as Indian rises

Ontario reports 355 new Covid cases … and the variant previously known as Indian rises

Ontario is reporting 355 new COVID-19 cases and 13 more deaths on Saturday, with the province’s virus-related death toll surpassing 9,000.

The seven-day rolling average of new coronavirus cases now stands at 390, compared to 411 on Friday.


Public health agency reports spike in confirmed cases of Delta variant

OTTAWA — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases attributed to the highly contagious Delta variant jumped 66 per cent in Canada this week.

Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said as of Friday there are just over 2,000 confirmed cases of the variant.

Just three days ago, the Public Health Agency told The Canadian Press there were 1,187 confirmed cases.

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Massive: Chinese Spy Defects to USA with Dirt on Hunter Biden, Intel on Wuhan Bioweapons Research

The Chinese spy who was reported earlier on Becker News to be in the hands of the Defense Intelligence Agency and kept hidden from the FBI is reportedly high-ranking Chinese counter-intelligence official Dong Jingwei.

This Twitter thread has a lot of information.

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National vaccine passports for international travel coming this fall: Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed on Friday that the federal government is working with the provinces to develop a national vaccine passport for international travel that’s expected to be ready sometime this fall.

Trudeau said while that plan is being developed, his government is working on a system involving the ArriveCan app that will be ready in the “coming weeks.”

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Diane Francis: What Trudeau’s spin doctors won’t tell you about vaccine dose delays

Diane Francis: What Trudeau’s spin doctors won’t tell you about vaccine dose delays

It is premature for the Trudeau propaganda machine to crow about its huge vaccination achievement, given that the country still lags developed nations in fully vaccinating its populace.

This week, the figures show that 66 per cent of Canadians have received one dose but still only 14 per cent have been fully vaccinated. This spread is unique among our peers and has been due to Public Health Canada’s unsupportable dose-delay gambit designed to ration vaccines to camouflage the fact that the Trudeau government has fumbled vaccine procurement for nearly one year.

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