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Big Doug Decrees: Totalitarian Police Powers! Checkpoints! Travel Restrictions! … Canadian Constitution Foundation Objects!

Ontario is setting up checkpoints at provincial land borders and enhancing police powers to enforce public health measures as part of a push to curb the spread of COVID-19, as new modelling warns of more than 15,000 new cases a day in the province.

The province is also extending its state of emergency and the current stay-at-home order by at least two weeks beyond its current end date of May 5. The government is shutting down non-essential construction at places such as shopping centres and office towers, and outlawing all outdoor activities such as golf, basketball, and playgrounds, as well as outdoor gatherings from outside one’s household, and limiting capacity at businesses such as grocery stores to 25 per cent. After previously loosening the rules, church services, as well as weddings and funerals, will now be capped at ten people indoors and outdoors.

Canadian Constitution Foundation condemns new Ontario police powers as “police state”

TORONTO: The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) is today condemning the new powers that have been granted to Ontario police to enforce the province-wide stay at home order.

The new enforcement powers include giving the police the power to stop individuals and vehicles to ask for their name, address, and their purpose for being away from their residence. The powers comes into effect as of midnight on April 17, 2021.

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Ford government to introduce new restrictions on inter-provincial travel, lower capacity limits at essential businesses: sources

Ford government to introduce new restrictions on inter-provincial travel, lower capacity limits at essential businesses: sources

The Ford government will lower the capacity limits allowed inside essential businesses and introduce new restrictions on inter-provincial travel in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, sources tell CTV News Toronto

They also say that the capacity limit at essential businesses will be lowered to 25 per cent and religious gatherings will be capped at 10 people indoors.

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Florida Gov. DeSantis Says Lockdowns Were a ‘Huge Mistake’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order on April 1 last year locking down the Sunshine State for 30 days amid a global panic about the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak. Sitting in his office exactly a year later, he told The Epoch Times that the lockdowns were a “huge mistake,” including in his own state.

“We wanted to mitigate the damage. Now, in hindsight, the 15 days to slow the spread and the 30—it didn’t work,” DeSantis said. “We shouldn’t have gone down that road.”

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Washington Post columnist takes media to task for ignoring Dr. Anthony Fauci’s ties to research that may have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic

A columnist for the Washington Post is taking the media to task for ignoring Dr. Anthony Fauci’s ties to research that may have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.

Josh Rogin appeared on Megyn Kelly’s podcast Wednesday, where he countered the public love for Fauci since the start of the pandemic last year.

‘I often talk to scientists who say the same thing, who say, “Listen, we really want to speak out about this, but we can’t do it,” Rogin said on the podcast.

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Ontario reports record 4,812 new Covid cases … New lockdown restrictions coming

Ontario reports record 4,812 new Covid cases … New lockdown restrictions coming

Ont. sets single-day record for new COVID-19 cases for second day in a row as number of ICU patients surpasses 700

For the second consecutive day, Ontario is reporting another single-day record for new cases of the novel coronavirus as the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care surpasses 700.

Ontario health officials logged 4,812 new infections today, topping the previous record of 4,736 set on Thursday.

The rolling seven-day average of new cases is now 4,292, up by more than 1,000 cases week-over-week.

Further COVID-19 restrictions likely for Ontario as 3rd wave worsens

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet are set to meet again Friday morning to consider further COVID-19 restrictions to combat a worsening third wave that is pushing the province’s health-care system to the breaking point.

The meeting comes ahead of a scheduled briefing from the province’s COVID-19 science advisory table that is expected include stark new forecasts for the weeks ahead.

A government source told CBC News revised modelling suggests Ontario could see up to 18,000 daily cases of COVID-19 by the end of May if current trends continue unabated, even with help from the province’s ongoing vaccination campaign.

They make furniture and sports uniforms, sell cars and build condos. All remain open as Ontario’s third wave worsens

A retail marketing firm. An Amazon warehouse. A maker of sports uniforms. A metal polishing firm. All of these workplaces remain open in Canada’s largest city – and all had more than 20 COVID-19 cases among their workers in recent weeks, according to data analysis by The Globe and Mail.

As Ontario sets new records for increases in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and people in ICUs – all driven by the spread of more infectious variants – some medical experts say further restrictions, in areas such as manufacturing and construction, are now warranted.

Basically they’re saying we screwed up, the 1st lockdown was too lenient resulting in a significant uptick in Covid infections so now we’re gonna double down and see if that helps.

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Carson Jerema: Trudeau government failed to keep out the variants tearing through Canada

 

It was in the power of the federal government to contain the current wave of the pandemic, fuelled as it is by more contagious variants, through border controls or more timely vaccine procurement. But you won’t hear any contrition from the prime minister. When asked during question period Tuesday about his government’s slow vaccine rollout, Justin Trudeau deflected and said the “facts” are that health restrictions are what are needed to blunt the spread of COVID-19. In other words, take it up with the provinces.

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Ford’s cabinet debates Ontario-wide curfew to curb the spread of COVID-19 – based on modelling that’s never been accurate of course

Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet is debating a province-wide curfew and other restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Even though Ontario has been under a “stay at home” order since last week and schools are closed indefinitely, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones conceded Thursday more will likely have to be done.

“All options are on the table,” Jones told reporters at Queen’s Park.

Ford’s cabinet was to meet Thursday afternoon and again Friday as new modelling from the province’s science table was expected to show the worrying trends continuing.

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‘Case numbers are DOWN’: No10 slaps down Justin Trudeau after he claims Britain is facing a ‘very serious’ Covid third wave – accusing him of ‘fake news’ to distract from Canada’s woes

‘Case numbers are DOWN’: No10 slaps down Justin Trudeau after he claims Britain is facing a ‘very serious’ Covid third wave – accusing him of ‘fake news’ to distract from Canada’s woes

Justin Trudeau was slapped down by Downing Street today after claiming Britain is facing a ‘very serious third wave’ – with critics accusing him of a desperate attempt to deflect criticism over his own country’s sluggish vaccine rollout and surging infections.

The Canadian premier referred to the UK’s hugely successful drive, which has 60 per cent of the population given jabs compared to just 20 per cent in Canada, as he sought to justify keeping tough restrictions.

‘Vaccinations on their own are not enough to keep us safe,’ he told MPs in the country’s parliament.

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Ontario reports record 4,736 new Covid cases … Justin rolls out the Welcome Mat for the virulent Brazil Variant … AstraZeneca very safe they laughed…

Ontario reports record 4,736 new Covid cases … Justin rolls out the Welcome Mat for the virulent Brazil Variant … AstraZeneca very safe they laughed…

Ontario logs 4,736 new COVID-19 cases, another single-day record in the province

Ontario is reporting another single-day record for COVID-19 infections today as hospitalizations and intensive care admissions continue to climb in the province.

Provincial health officials logged 4,736 new cases today, topping the previous record of 4,456 infections confirmed on Sunday.

The rolling seven-day average of new infections now stands at 4,200, up from 3,093 just one week ago.

Ottawa drops specific COVID-19 screening for travellers from Brazil as variant spread throughout British Columbia

Canada has dropped specific screening requirements for travellers arriving from Brazil, measures aimed at reducing the spread of a highly contagious variant of COVID-19 that is now spreading rapidly throughout Western Canada.

The change is taking place as the B.C. government raises the alarm about travellers circumventing the rules imposed by Ottawa for all international arrivals travelling by air. Premier John Horgan said his government may impose travel restrictions unilaterally, after learning that more than 100 passengers arriving at Vancouver International Airport have refused to quarantine as required by Ottawa since Feb. 22. “We haven’t taken travel restrictions off the board, quite frankly.”

The variants of concern spread more rapidly and can cause a more severe case of COVID-19. In particular, the P.1 variant, first associated with Brazil, may be able to re-infect people who have already had the virus, and “current treatments and vaccines may not work as well on cases of this variant,” according to the BC Centre for Disease Control.

See… Whistler silenced by one of the largest Brazil P.1 variant outbreaks outside South America

AstraZeneca very safe, effective, with extremely rare risk of clots: Health Canada

OTTAWA — There is enough evidence to say the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine may cause very rare blood clots but the shot is still extremely safe, very effective and will remain on the Canadian market, Health Canada said Wednesday.

Experts thought Thalidomide was swell too.

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The perpetual pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic was a black-swan event the likes of which this planet hadn’t seen in almost a hundred years. It caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and crashed the global economy, resulting in the largest socioeconomic change since 2008. It was, in short, not good. Yet there are pockets of public health experts and corporate media pundits who seem content to play out an endless cycle of pandemic porn. This runs contrary to what the majority of the population wants to watch and how most Americans are choosing to live their lives.

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Joe Oliver: What treatment of returning Canadians tells us about the government and ourselves

The federal government’s treatment of Canadians flying home from foreign countries is vindictive, egregious and possibly unconstitutional. Its obvious purpose is to look tough and divert attention from the delay in acquiring vaccines that has put us in a humiliating 52nd place globally in full vaccinations per capita, at one-tenth the vaccination pace of the Americans. The prime minister and his colleagues must hope people unaffected by the border measures consider them to be appropriate or at least unobjectionable.

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GUNTER: Canada rides the Trudeau Wave of COVID ineptitude

GUNTER: Canada rides the Trudeau Wave of COVID ineptitude

OK, we can’t call COVID-19 the Wuhan virus. (Although the hypocritical guardians of wokeness don’t seem to have any trouble in labelling the mutations the U.K. variant, the Brazil variant and the South Africa variant.)

But, can we at least agree to call the current third surge of the pandemic that is ravaging Canada the Trudeau Wave?

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