The European Union will have a much shorter interruption in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine than Canada, despite commitments last week that countries would share equally in a temporary drop in doses.
Canada
Public opposition growing: Petitions against Alberta coal mines top 100K signatures
More than 100,000 signatures have been collected on two petitions opposing the move, one addressed to the federal government and one to the province.
Kenney urges Biden to ‘show respect for Canada’ and sit down to talk before cancelling Keystone XL
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney wants U.S. president-elect Joe Biden to give the Canadian government a chance to make the case for building the Keystone XL pipeline.
Kenney will seek legal damages if reports are true that Biden plans to scrap the pipeline expansion project on his first day as U.S. president, the premier said Monday.
“We hope president-elect Biden will show respect for Canada and will sit down and at the very least talk to us,” Kenney said.
Toronto Catholic school board’s website links kids to LGBT resource promoting gay sex
In only three clicks, children can go from the website of Toronto’s Catholic school board to adult homosexual sites where they can learn about ‘cruising,’ ‘fisting,’ and ‘how to have lesbian sex’.
Don’t avoid going to the ER because of pandemic, Canadians urged
Avoiding or postponing a trip to the ER can result in grave repercussions, CIHI said in an email to CTV News this week, pointing to data collected during the first half of 2020 and released in November. Many patients who finally did go to the ER for care may have been sicker and needed greater interventions, the institute noted.
This is the set up; the punch line is the next post.
Canada Virtually Wide Open to Islamic Extremists
Canada is no stranger to welcoming imams with radical ideas across our borders. Many prominent imams, scholars and teachers started their careers in their country of origin and continue to spread their teachings here in Canada with the blessings of our government. Teachings that include killing of apostates, killing of gays, polygamist marriages, implementation of sharia, return of the caliphate, the denigration of the Jewish community, hate for Israel, just to name a few.
Emergence of new strain could cause Ontario’s COVID caseload to explode, doctor warns
A top doctor on Ontario’s COVID-19 scientific advisory committee says the province could face up to 40,000 new cases each day by the end of February if a virus variant that originated in the U.K. takes hold.
I’m Sure It’s Nothing to Be Concerned About
Japan plans to collect data from people who become infected with the novel coronavirus even after they receive vaccinations to assess how vaccines may help prevent the spread of the virus, sources close to the matter said Sunday.
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Suicide rates in Japan have jumped in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among women and children, even though they fell in the first wave when the government offered generous handouts to people, a survey found.
The July-October suicide rate rose 16% from the same period a year earlier, a stark reversal of the February-June decline of 14%, according to the study by researchers at Hong Kong University and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.
“Unlike normal economic circumstances, this pandemic disproportionately affects the psychological health of children, adolescents and females (especially housewives),” the authors wrote in the study published on Friday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.
The early decline in suicides was affected by such factors as government subsidies, reduced working hours and school closure, the study found.
But the decline reversed — with the suicide rate jumping 37% for women, about five times the increase among men — as the prolonged pandemic hurt industries where women predominate, increasing the burden on working mothers, while domestic violence increased, the report said.
The study, based on health ministry data from November 2016 to last October, found the child suicide rate spiked 49% in the second wave, corresponding to the period after a nationwide school closure.
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The death of a Montreal Inuit man is being investigated after his body was discovered in a portable toilet just 25 metres from the homeless shelter he used to frequent.
The La Porte Ouvert shelter, which translates literally to “the Open Door shelter,” normally operates 24 hours a day, but was closed due to “plumbing problems and a major COVID-19 outbreak,” reports CBC Radio-Canada.
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China’s economy exceeded its pre-pandemic growth rates in the fourth quarter, propelling it to a stronger-than-expected expansion of 2.3% for the full year and making it the only major one to avoid contraction in 2020.
Gross domestic product climbed 6.5% in the final quarter from a year earlier, fueled by industrial output, the statistics bureau said Monday. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had predicted 6.2% growth for the quarter and 2.1% for the full year.
“China has more than returned to trend growth,” said Raymond Yeung, chief economist for Greater China at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. The strong rebound means authorities can “prioritize structural reforms rather than economic reflation” in 2021, he said.
Biden indicates plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on 1st day in office, sources confirm
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources confirmed to CBC News on Sunday.
A purported briefing note from the Biden transition team mentioning the plan was widely circulated over the weekend after being shared by the incoming president’s team with U.S. stakeholders.
The words “Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit” appear on a list of executive actions supposedly scheduled for Day 1 of Biden’s presidency.
Justin is happy.
The CCFR’s Court Case Could See Trudeau’s Firearms Ban get Derailed
The injunction is looking to stay the May 1st Order in Council (OIC) gun ban until the case against the ban is heard and Associate Chief Justice Gagné has delivered his ruling.
Trudeau’s ‘ideological colonialism’ explored in new film ‘Obsessed: Canada’s Coercive Diplomacy’
The film helps break down the deceptive nature of Trudeau’s foreign aid and posits concerns with the Canada’s colonialistic and “feminist” approach to providing assistance.
Care home staff struggle to isolate dementia patients during outbreaks: experts
Staff in long-term care homes across Canada are struggling to isolate elderly residents with dementia during COVID-19 outbreaks, accelerating the deadly spread of the virus, experts say.
Gripping ’09 Documentary Featuring Fauci, Redfield, & Other Now-Familiar Faces Inadvertently Sheds Some Very Interesting Light on COVID-19
Sometime in the early 2000s, a young Canadian filmmaker by the name of Brent Leung found himself struck by a number of facts:
The media and education establishment had instilled an obsessive fear of HIV and AIDS—not just in him—but in his entire generation.
He didn’t have a clue about the difference between HIV and AIDS or even whether there was one or, for that matter, what either is even precisely supposed to be.
Neither did virtually anyone else.
It is, of course, very unlikely that Monsieur Leung was the first to recognize this all-too-common gap between the general public’s certainty about some topic and their paucity of any actual knowledge that might warrant it.
Be that as it may, Leung’s proactive response to his befuddlement certainly was unique.
He went to the trouble of contacting all the major experts on HIV and AIDS and somehow got every single one of them to appear on camera as he asked the most basic questions about what those two acronyms represent and the relation between them.
The result of Leung’s dogged determination to get to the bottom of this disease he’d been taught to obsessively fear is about the most fascinating, can’t-stop-watching-even-if-you-want-to, 90-minutes of video that you’re likely to encounter.
That would be so even if the massive worldwide upheaval we experienced in 2020 had been nothing more than an awful bad dream.
But, of course, it was, sadly, all too real.
As such, Brett Lueng’s documentary—though released way back in 2009— winds up inadvertently shining a very different and interesting light on the obsessive fear of COVID-19 that overcame the world in 2020.