Canada’s healthcare system didn’t have the capacity, the flexibility, the innovation or the robustness to handle a novel virus that disproportionately impacted the very old, the very weak and the very sick. Meanwhile, Canadians witnessed a colossal failure in leadership across the board – politics, government, media, business and even academia.
You’re (un)invited: ‘Unwelcoming Party’ planned in response to ‘Rolling Thunder’ rally
Still reeling from the weeks-long “Freedom Convoy” occupation that brought the city’s downtown core to a standstill earlier this year, anxious Ottawa residents say they want participants of this coming weekend’s biker rally to know they are not welcome in the community.
OMG they’re still “reeling”, I will vote for the politician who announces plans to nuke Ottawa.
h/t RM
The Trudeau government is still considering a nationwide ban on handguns as a “last resort,” even as it prepares to introduce legislation that will offer financial support to provinces that bring in their own restrictions.
“There is a robust debate about taking action (on handguns) from coast-to-coast,” said one person with knowledge of the government’s plan.
Do not let the Trudeau government disarm you.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was largely predictable but it also brought some surprises. It was quite expected that the current U.S. administration would try to draw Russia into the “Ukrainian swamp” in order to weaken and isolate it as much as possible. It was expected that the inexperienced and naive Ukrainian leader would trust the promises of the Biden team and let them to drag his country into a devastating gamble.
It was expected that Russia, seeking to restore its former empire, would use Western provocations to establish its presence in a weak and corrupt Ukraine. It was completely unexpected that instead of a modern, maneuverable, and highly organized Russian army, we saw poorly trained troops erasing entire cities from the face of the earth like nomadic hordes. A terrifying surprise has been the use by the Kremlin against its brothers in blood and faith of the Chechen and Syrian militants. Finally, the biggest surprise was the desperate courage of the Ukrainians themselves and the high combat readiness of their armed forces.
This war will not end in the near future. Most likely, it will lead to the destruction of Ukraine and the extreme weakening of Russia, exhausted by excessive exertion of forces and sanctions.
If the government tries to simply obscure the fundamental point here — did it know something that truly made the act the only option? — behind cabinet confidentiality, accountability will be dead on arrival.
By now, there’s a good chance that you will have heard of the WHO’s Global Pandemic Treaty. If you’re confused about exactly what it is and how it will work, that’s understandable. There’s myriad information about this and most of it is written in bureaucratic legalese.
Justice Leslie Pringle said she’s concerned that releasing additional police witness statements and theories of the case from search warrant documents would impact the integrity of the investigation.
This botched testing by the CDC was so catastrophic it harmed the pandemic response early on and many in the agency and across public health argue it set the US response back severely and that the US is still digging out of the hole from this failure.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino repeated disproven claims about the Freedom Convoy to justify the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act to crack down on the peaceful protest in Ottawa.
Mendicino and Attorney General David Lametti appeared before the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency on Tuesday to defend the government’s use of the never-before-used act.
“A Pierre Poilievre government will keep the Bank of Canada out of retail banking by banning its proposed Central Bank Digital Currency,” says the CPC leadership frontrunner.
Ottawa Police are preparing to confront a motorcycle convoy demonstration in the downtown area this weekend by directing over eight hundred RCMP officers to support local efforts.
Attorney General David Lametti confirms that the government referred to CBC articles to justify its use of the Emergencies Act.
The CBC publicly retracted a news story about the convoy that erroneously claimed that support for the protests had largely come from foreigners. pic.twitter.com/xPDge6i2B0
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) April 27, 2022
Mostly we get lies, spin and obfuscation from central bankers, politicians and bureaucrats. But every once in a while, one of these people accidentally wanders into the truth.
During a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed to Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) that the Biden administration is in talks with VA officials to potentially transfer doctors and nurses to the southern border to treat illegal aliens arriving every day in record-breaking numbers.
Many wondered how Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter would impact the way the social media giant operated.
In only a few days, major Twitter accounts have seen massive fluctuations in their number of followers.
The interesting pattern emerging in the data is while the number of followers are dropping for Democrats, followers for Republicans are increasing.
By announcing the raft of measures to tackle Islamist radicalisation in the prison system, the UK government is stepping up its focus on bread-and-butter matters of governance and security.
In a new drive to tackle extremism in British prisons, Justice Secretary and deputy prime minister Dominic Raab has declared that the government plans to upscale the separation of particularly dangerous and influential terrorists into specialist units in order to ‘thwart the spread of their poisonous ideology’.
“Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” The entrepreneur Elon Musk asked in a Twitter poll on March 25, 2022. The answer was 70% no, 30% yes.
On April 25, 2022, Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, reportedly to build “arena for free speech”. He has described himself as a free speech absolutist and has thankfully sparked a wider public discussion about free speech in a democracy. There are instances — such as child-pornography, falsely “shouting fire in a crowded theater,” or, to safeguard national security during a war (see Brandenburg v. Ohio for some of the legal reasoning) — where there are and need to be constraints on free speech. Regarding false information, such as propaganda, Australian writer Caitlin Johnstone cautions against turning a free society into some kind of totalitarianism to fight an adversary
The nights are the hardest, when he lies there on his cot, the whine of the air-raid sirens in his ears and his phone still buzzing beside him. Its screen makes his face look like a ghost in the dark, his eyes scanning messages he didn’t have a chance to read during the day. Some from his wife and kids, many from his advisers, a few from his troops, surrounded in their bunkers, asking him again and again for more weapons to break the Russian siege.
I spent my career as a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, involved for almost all of it in transplantation. Medicine should be a caring profession, seeking the best for patients, doing no harm, and dealing in truth as the basis of trust. Transplantation might be the apotheosis of human generosity, since one human consents to donate an organ to preserve the life of another, usually unknown to them. Sadly, in some settings this ethical basis has been ignored and organs have been removed forcibly and without consent from prisoners of conscience, many times resulting in their death. Clinicians acting on behalf of the state are often involved, and thus complicit in the crime.
Kamala has COVID, and it is, allegedly, a light, asymptomatic case. However, she’s being treated with heavy-duty medicine. The disconnect between these two facts makes it easy to come up with some cool conspiracy theories that will last as long as it takes Kamala to return to her office.
