While plenty of countries are currently experiencing record-breaking COVID-19 cases due to Omicron, almost none are locking down quite as hard as Ontario and Quebec . Both Canadian provinces have closed schools and imposed blanket bans on indoor dining, gyms and bars, and Quebec has even imposed a curfew prescribing fines of up to $6,000 for anyone outside their home after 10 p.m. without explanation. Here’s a quick look at how that compares to the rest of the Omicron-plagued world.
There are countless examples showing how little sense the federal government has shown in its handling of the COVID pandemic over the past two years.
With the Omicron-driven pandemic wave sweeping the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians are growing more angry and frustrated with people who still refuse to get vaccinated.
Trudeau said that while most Canadians have stepped up to get their shots — putting Canada near the top of the list of countries with the highest vaccination rates — the unvaccinated remain a problem.
A national leader stoking divisions in the most cynical way, asking if certain people in the country should be ‘tolerated’ and demonizing a group for his own political advantage.
Repeated closures of businesses on the whims of politicians.
Rules that benefit a select few while punishing everyone else, like allowing professional athletes to keep training while closing gyms to the general public.
Whiplash-inducing reversals by government officials that seem almost designed to cause further mental health anguish in the population.
Incompetent management of the healthcare system, which is then used as the pretext to take away rights and freedoms.
Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota ruled on Monday that Chinese-made masks will be banned from Parliament by the end of January, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
MPs also voted to ban Chinese-made masks from all federal buildings across Canada. The move comes after MPs realized that their masks were being imported from the communist regime and not coming from local manufacturers.
Canada has lost the first-ever dispute case under the new North American trade agreement, with a panel siding with the U.S. and saying Ottawa flouted part of its obligation to open the dairy market.
The three-member panel — made up of a Uruguayan diplomat who was once ambassador to Canada, a Canadian trade lawyer based in the U.S., and a U.S. trade lawyer named to the panel by Canada — agreed that Canada violated its promise to allow slightly more dairy imports by imposing unfairly complicated rules.
The U.S. says Canada now has a few weeks to comply with the ruling, or face the possibility of a trade penalty such as a tariff.
If taking away jobs and large gatherings isn’t enough to coerce some people into getting vaccinated against Covid-19, cutting them off from hard liquor and marijuana might do the trick. Canada’s Quebec province may soon find out.
Quebec Prime Minister Francois Legault’s administration is expected to announce a new requirement for proof of vaccination at liquor stores and cannabis outlets later this week, the Journal de Montreal reported on Tuesday. Minor details of the latest mandate, such as whether to require the passport at entrances or cash registers, are still being ironed out, the newspaper said, citing unidentified sources.
In a recent December 31 column in Meshwar Media, an Arabic-language publication that has been accused of antisemitism and of publishing blood libels, praising terrorists and comparing Israelis to Nazis, Kamal Khalaf extols the virtues of the Palestinian “revolution” in the 1960s, when Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization achieved widespread international legitimacy in his terror war against Israel.
Somali’s breakaway Somaliland region is asking Canada for international recognition and aid, saying it’s important for Western countries to support a functioning democracy that’s resisting China’s influence in the Horn of Africa.
The self-declared state, which split from Somalia 30 years ago, sent its Foreign Minister, Essa Kayd, to Washington, London and Ottawa recently as part of a campaign to refashion its external relationships. A U.S. congressional staff delegation later visited Somaliland.
… Mr. Kayd alleges that Somaliland only receives a fraction of the aid provided to Somalia from international donors. “Ninety-eight per cent of it is going to Somalia and perhaps 2 per cent is reaching Somaliland,” he said, accusing other players such as militant Islamist group al-Shabaab of taking a share of the aid.
I don’t know if Somalia’s man in Ottawa will care much for this. – Go incognito.
A majority of Canadians oppose government efforts to stigmatize and punish individuals who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19, according to in-house government research.
As first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, Privy Council research revealed that any domestic vaccination passport system was very unpopular among Canadians – including individuals who chose to be vaccinated.
Canadians expecting a change in their personal finances are more likely to say theirs will get worse through 2022 rather than better, while most Canadians overall believe their finances will stay the same, according to a new survey from Nanos Research.
The poll, conducted by Nanos Research and sponsored by CTV News, found that the pandemic has once again become a top issue for Canadians, surpassing debt, jobs and climate change.
Readers truly interested in courageous Muslim women’s ‘lived experience’ can find them online under hashtag #FreeFromHijab
Quebec’s Bill 21, which proscribes visible religious symbols in many public-sector jobs — popular with Quebec francophones, unpopular with Quebec and Canadian anglophones — was passed in 2019, but it wasn’t until October that a test case emerged in the public school system. In an act of civil disobedience abetted by Bill 21-dissenting school administrators, substitute teacher Fatemeh Anvari, who wears the hijab, was assigned to a homeroom Grade 3 class at Chelsea Elementary School.
This entire affair is media incited. Sane people do not desire to live under the Mohammedan cult’s sharia law.
In December, optimism for a “normal” holiday season was once again overshadowed by a sudden resurgence of cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, forcing several provinces to implement stricter public health restrictions and prompting record case counts not yet seen during the pandemic.
But, despite the looming threat of Omicron, Canada’s top doctor says she remains hopeful going into the new year—one she hopes will allow us to live more comfortably with the virus that has long disrupted life as we know it.
There are now 98 homes in outbreak across the province, provincial data show. There are no residents with COVID-19 in 38 of those nursing homes.
The future belongs to Canada, says author and global strategy advisor Parag Khanna, thanks to the country’s “heroic” approach to welcoming newcomers and its geographic advantage in a time of climatic emergencies.
