That COVID-19 tracking app you were urged to download? It didn’t deliver — ‘far from it’

That COVID-19 tracking app you were urged to download? It didn’t deliver — ‘far from it’

The federal government spent $20 million on a smartphone application designed to alert users to possible COVID-19 exposures, and new data obtained by The Canadian Press shows the results didn’t live up to expectations.

Ottawa’s COVID Alert app, introduced late last year in several provinces, uses Bluetooth to detect proximity to others who have installed the app on their mobile devices, and it notifies users when they’ve been in close contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19.

No one trusted this app, and rightly so.

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The privilege of pandemic private jets. How wealthy Canadians travelled during COVID-19

For the past 15 months, Canadians have been advised to avoid non-essential travel outside of Canada, but the definition of “essential” travel is open to interpretation and personal judgment.

While it has not been against the rules to fly abroad, COVID-19 testing and quarantine measures, along with the reduced capacity of commercial airlines, have made travel difficult or even prohibitive.

Friends of Justin no doubt, we really are a Banana republic.

Sabrina Maddeaux: Trudeau’s border closure is a sham designed to only allow the rich to travel. Time to put an end to it

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Today’s Billion Dollar Boondoggle

Liberals announce plans for new ‘high frequency’ rail lines from Toronto to Quebec City

The federal government is signalling plans to build all-new, high frequency rail lines connecting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.

“…Anything that makes the service more frequent and faster is going to attract passengers,” Prentice said. “We’ve got to get more cars off the road and we’ve got to stop using so many airplanes.”

Trois-Rivières is one of the proposed stations on the new line connecting Montreal to Quebec City.

The city is expected to be a battleground riding in the next federal election, since Bloc Québécois MP Louise Charbonneau announced she will not seek re-election. Trois-Rivières has not had a Liberal MP since 1984.

A Green-scam and election campaigning all rolled into one and at your expense.

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Union fears big job losses from going green, after Ottawa pledges $420 million to Algoma’s electric retrofit

Union fears big job losses from going green, after Ottawa pledges $420 million to Algoma’s electric retrofit

The announcement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Monday seemed like undiluted good news.

Ottawa would provide $420 million in aid to Algoma Steel so it could convert its coal-fired furnaces to “electric-arc” technology. Technology that could cut the greenhouse gasses spewed from the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., plant dramatically — by the equivalent of 900,000 gas-guzzling cars.

Can you make steel by burning politicians?

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Liberal hate speech bill will put a chill on free speech

To compare much of social media to a swamp, a sewer, a cesspool or an old-fashioned outhouse is to miss the point.

There is without question an offputting stink to all those entities, enough to discourage people from hanging around any longer than essential. But mere nature lacks something at which online communications excel: the malevolence, the cruelty, the bitterness, the truthlessness and the all-encompassing anger that typifies so much of what gets channelled into cyber discourse in the guise of discussion, commentary, debate, opinion or simple free speech.

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GOLDSTEIN: Tainted water poisons reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians

In light of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada Day message urging us to reflect on our relationship with Canada’s Indigenous people, I’ve been reflecting on why his government can’t get clean water to every Indigenous reserve in Canada, despite spending $24.5 billion on Indigenous issues this year.

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Trudeau’s all-out war on free speech

‘CANADA, just like the USA, only nice’. What was once accurate is true no longer. Nice Canada is becoming increasingly intolerant, and it starts with the government. Justin Trudeau’s administration is trying to take cancel culture and turn it into federal law, empowering any social justice warrior with a grievance to take conservatives to court.

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Woke Revolution, Residential Schools And Trudeau’s War On Christianity

To be forthright, Cultural Action Party of Canada called it from day one. Rather than sunny ways, freshly-minted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would over time bring serious trouble to society. He has done so in myriad ways– worst of all being an unprecedented form of social division.

An outcome of community disharmony is perhaps best exemplified by Justin Trudeau’s agenda of attack upon Christian Canada, in combination with an advancement of 3rd World religious communities.

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John Ivison: Justin Trudeau seems so unstoppable, some of his own MPs worry he’ll win a majority

Justin Trudeau is probably feeling unwell right about now.

The prime minister got his second dose of vaccine on Friday and the pharmacist warned him the side effects are likely to be worse than the slight chills and fever he had after his first dose. “I know,” he said. “Sophie got hers yesterday. She had a bit of a tough night sleep.”

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