“And they did it again! Today, the Gestapo Attacked our Church Again,” Pawlowski wrote on Twitter about the latest harassment by Canadian authorities. “History is being repeated in front of our eyes! Another sad day for Freedom and democracy!”
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Ottawa ‘constantly’ looking at further COVID-19 border measures, Freeland says
“We’re reviewing the data. We’re talking to scientists all the time. We are talking to premiers across the country constantly looking to see if there’s more we should be doing,” Freeland said in an interview that aired Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live.
O’Toole’s climate plan isn’t good enough for the media, so why bother?
Conservative Party of Canada leader Erin O’Toole has proposed a climate change plan he says will meet Canada’s Paris agreement commitments without killing jobs. Yet one week after announcing it, Justin Trudeau increased Canada’s emissions targets and the media is already asking O’Toole why his plan doesn’t go further. True North’s Andrew Lawton says this is proof the Conservatives will never win by playing on the left’s turf.
Liberal MP Leaks CRTC to Regulate Apps, Too
According to Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Michael Geist, the Liberal government is now planning on adding streaming apps to the scope of the proposed Bill C-10, bringing them under CRTC regulation.
Ford calls for ban on non-essential travel into Canada due to COVID-19 scariant first identified in India
In a statement released Saturday morning, the premier called the discovery of the B.1.617 variant “extremely troubling.”
‘Will be the future’: Canadian billionaire develops one-seat electric vehicle to fight traffic woes
Frank Stronach, founder of the international automotive parts company Magna International, is in the process of developing the “Sarit,” an electric single-seat vehicle with three wheels that’s small enough to take advantage of city bike lanes.
Tory MP sorry after calling lockdowns greatest civil liberties breach since WWII internment camps
“My tweet yesterday regarding the freedom of Ontarian’s was to give a timeline only. In no way was I comparing today with the atrocities of war,” Sweet wrote on Twitter.
Fighting the feedback loop: why scientists are sounding the alarm on Canada’s melting permafrost
Nearly half of Canada’s land mass lies above permafrost. As it thaws, greenhouse gases stored for centuries in the frozen ground are released and once-stable land is susceptible to collapse.
‘This situation is urgent.’ Why pregnant women are flooding Canadian ICUs
“We have more pregnant women in ICUs than any time in the country or this province,” said Dr. Mark Walker, a high-risk obstetrician and epidemiologist in Ottawa. “The situation is urgent for pregnant individuals to get the vaccine.”
Patty Hajdu’s Dismissal Of Vitamin D Is Another Example Of Her Dangerous Incompetence
Someone who doesn’t know much about a topic can at least have the awareness to realize they are ignorant and can listen to those who are wiser. Hajdu doesn’t even seem capable of that.
10 Quebec women have been killed in 2021. Shelters will get a $92M funding boost
A string of femicides that has claimed 10 victims so far this year led the Legault government to announce it will provide $92 million over five years for women’s shelters across the province.
The announcement was made Friday by Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault and Status of Women Minister Isabelle Charest during a virtual press conference.
Ontario’s top doctor issues directive to cease all non-emergency surgeries immediately
Hospitals in the province are required to halt all non-emergent surgeries and non-urgent procedures immediately as people with COVID-19 continue to fill up hospitals and put the healthcare system under strain amid the third wave.
Quebec confirms first case of ‘double mutant’ variant from India
Quebec has identified its first case of the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19 that originated in India and is believed to be fuelling the pandemic surge in that country.
The case was identified in a patient in the Mauricie region, north of Trois-Rivières, officials with the Institut national de la santé du Québec (INSPQ) confirmed Wednesday.
There is no such thing as a ‘double mutant’. This is shameless fearmongering.
Ontario police can now ID children to enforce new restrictions
Police in Ontario say the province has given them the power to ID anyone gathering in public – even if they are children.
“If [police] see something like that going on,” Peel Regional Police spokeswoman Const. Danny Marttini said of gatherings, “they would ask to identify all parties that are participating.”
Trudeau pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030
Trudeau said Canada will reduce emissions by 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 — a target much lower than the one first pitched by the former Conservative government and agreed to by former environment minister Catherine McKenna at the Paris climate talks in 2015.