Omicron variant caseload expected to ‘rapidly escalate’ in the coming days, Tam says

Dr. Theresa Tam said there is “great spread potential” with omicron and the situation in Canada is a “few days or maybe a week” behind the U.K. — where British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today said that the country is dealing with a “tidal wave” of new infections, with the caseload doubling every two or three days as the variant takes hold.

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ChiCom 5th Columnists! Conservatives believe 13 ridings were targeted by foreign interference in 2021 election

The Conservative Party has identified 13 federal ridings where they suspect their candidates were targeted by foreign influence campaigns in the recent federal election, Global News has learned.

The party was briefed by Canada’s two main intelligence agencies about potential foreign interventions against their candidates during the election, two party sources told Global News.

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‘Please get me out’: Wannabe ISIS Suicide Bomber with tenuous connection to Canada tells official he would take Siberia, Guantanamo over Kurdish jail

Jack Letts – right where he should be.

Jack Letts’ message to the Canadian government official was simple: “Please get me out of this place.”

In fact, the alleged former ISIL follower and Canadian citizen said in the recorded phone conversation he’d rather be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Siberia or a Canadian penitentiary than continue to be held by Kurdish forces in northern Syria.


He is not an alleged ISIS member: I volunteered for a suicide bombing, Jihadi Jack admits

Jack Letts has told how he wanted to be a suicide bomber for Islamic State as he admitted fighting with the terrorists.

“I know I was definitely an enemy of Britain,” he told the BBC in an interview recorded in October and released yesterday. “I did what I did. I made a big mistake and that’s what happened. I thought I was leaving something behind and going to something better.”

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COVID-19 was ‘expensive,’ but Freeland says economy is improving in fiscal update

OTTAWA – Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland offered few new economic measures in the Liberals’ fiscal update Tuesday, portraying the Canadian economy instead as well on the way to a post-pandemic recovery.

Freeland delivered her speech in Parliament on Tuesday amid growing concerns about the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which appears to be spreading across the country. She said the government was budgeting $1.7 billion to buy more rapid tests and ship them out across the country to provinces.

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Former space agency engineer charged by Mounties for ChiCom links oversaw major Canadian projects

Stickin it to the round eyes.

Wanping Zheng, who was charged last week in what police are calling “a matter of foreign actor interference,” claimed publicly to have overseen a number of major Canadian aerospace projects.

Last week the RCMP charged 61-year-old Wanping Zheng of Brossard, Que. with breach of trust. He’s accused of using his status as an engineer at the Canadian Space Agency to negotiate satellite station installation agreements with Iceland on behalf of a Chinese aerospace company. Documents filed in court show the alleged crime happened back in 2018.

“We do consider this to be a matter of foreign actor interference,” RCMP Inspector David Beaudoin, the officer in charge of operations for the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) in Quebec, said late last week.

Multiculturalism means never being short of a Fifth Column.

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Public health needs renewal

Canada’s top doctor is urging the federal government to transform its public health system so the country is better equipped to handle future and present health threats.

Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call on the need for “public health renewal” in Canada.

Part of that involves improving Canada’s public health data collection and surveillance.

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Liberals open to providing more pandemic support if COVID worsens, says Trudeau in CityNews year-end interview

The federal government is open to providing additional economic support for Canadians that may need it if the country faces another COVID-19 surge this winter.

CityNews, along with our colleagues from Breakfast Television and OMNI News, got the chance to sit down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to look back at some of the biggest stories from 2021, including the government’s overall pandemic response and the vaccine rollout in Canada.

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My year of not buying things from China

“… Anyone who makes even a notional effort to check the origins of the stuff they grab off the shelves of any big-box store understands that China is the dominant supplier. The less expensive it is, the more likely it is to have been made in a factory in Guangdong, or Jiangsu or Zhejiang. “

The China Class sold us out.

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Is the ‘War on Drugs’ over? Canada is seeing a ‘shift’ in its approach to drugs, experts say

The federal government introduced legislation Tuesday to repeal mandatory minimum penalties for drug offences, and Health Canada decided last year to allow some palliative patients to use psilocybin — the chemical compound in magic mushrooms — to relieve end-of-life suffering. Toronto and Vancouver have also called for the decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of drugs.

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