Ontario reports a few thousand new Covid cases, maybe… and … Ontario’s Swamis offer up a new batch of predictions for after restrictions eased

Ontario reports 63 new COVID-19 deaths; hospitalizations down 25 per cent from January peak

Ontario reported 63 new COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, as hospitalizations continued a slow decline from their January peak.

Ministry of Health spokesperson Alexandra Hilkene said four of the deaths occurred on Monday, 14 more occurred on Sunday and 20 occurred on Saturday, with the remainder occurring between Jan. 28 and Jan. 4.

Over the past 30 days, 1,238 Ontario residents have died of COVID-19.


New modelling suggests hospitalizations will ‘rebound’ in all but most favourable of scenarios

New modelling from Ontario’s science table suggests that hospitalizations are likely to “rebound” and remain at a “prolonged peak” following the lifting of some public health restrictions this week.

The latest projections, released on Tuesday morning, use three different scenarios based on varying levels of immunity acquired through infection to chart the path ahead.


BA.2 33% more infectious than ‘original’ Omicron COVID strain, study finds

The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant, which has quickly taken over in Denmark, is more transmissible than the more common BA.1 and more able to infect vaccinated people, a Danish study has found.

The study, which analyzed coronavirus infections in more than 8,500 Danish households between December and January, found that people infected with the BA.2 subvariant were roughly 33 per cent more likely to infect others, compared to those infected with BA.1.

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The Biden Administration Is Paying Doctors To Push COVID-19 Vaccination To Parents

Vaccine counseling simply means advising a patient on the facts about a disease and its vaccine, and potentially nudging them toward choosing to get the vaccine if they’re on the fence. Proponents of the CMS program for vaccine counseling on COVID-19 said that doctors were spending an inordinate amount of time answering questions and advising their patients about the vaccines for the virus, and that compensating them for that time made sense and allowed them to do their jobs better.

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Trudeau calls convoy truckers “tinfoil hats,” says he will not meet with organizers

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerged from a secure location on Monday to denounce the thousands of truckers and their supporters rallying in Ottawa as “tinfoil hats” whose behaviour has disgusted him.

“And to Canadians at home,” Trudeau said, “watching in disgust and disbelief at this behaviour, wondering how this could have happened in our nation’s capital after everything we’ve been through together – this is not the story of our pandemic, of our country, of our people.”

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The Great Reset: FDA Approves Ominously Named “SPIKEVAX” With Insufficient Testing on Pregnant Women

Considering the FDA, CDC, Anthony Fauci, and pretty much everyone else in healthcare who is beholden to Big Pharma has promoted jabbing pregnant women despite evidence that it dramatically increases the risk of miscarriage, this is an extremely evil move. As we previously reported, military data indicates a 300% rise in miscarriages in the first 10 months of 2021 compared to the previous five-year average.

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Windsor paramedics union chapter defies CUPE, condemns vaccine mandates

CUPE Paramedics of Windsor-Essex criticized governments across Canada for supporting vaccine mandates on Thursday, borrowing some steam from the Truckers for Freedom Convoy and continuing the chapter’s defiance of the position of the national union.

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Denmark’s state modeller: why we’ve ended all Covid laws

As of tomorrow, February 1st, Denmark will be the first country in Europe — arguably the world — to put an end to all Covid-related laws. Even if you have the disease, it will only be recommended that you isolate, and even then only for three days. If you have no symptoms, you can go to meet your friends.

Most remarkably, Denmark is taking this step at a time when Covid-19 cases have never been higher — and are still growing.

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The Mechanic in the Freedom Convoy

Embedded with the truckers. Repairing their rigs. Telling the world what he sees and hears.

Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Prime Minister, has dismissed the truck drivers’ freedom convoy now protesting in Ottawa. He says these people are a “small fringe minority” expressing “unacceptable views.” But the public response that the convoy encountered enroute tells a starkly different story.

Another Canadian named Justyn is a mechanic from small town Alberta. He’s part of the convoy. When a rig breaks down, he helps get it back on the road.

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Justin Trudeau accuses Erin O’Toole of irresponsible leadership, says Canadians ‘disgusted’ by protesters’ actions

… The Liberals and NDP have both disavowed the protests, as has the association representing truckers in Canada. But the Conservatives have embraced them and Mr. O’Toole has called on the Prime Minister to meet with the protesters – something Mr. Trudeau rejected on Monday.

“If we choose to put up with and tacitly support conspiracy theorists and folks peddling disinformation, that’s a reflection on what we choose to do as politicians and who we are as leaders,” the Prime Minister said.

“I think through this pandemic Canadians have seen and have a right to expect responsible leadership. Unfortunately that’s not what we’ve always seen from the likes of Erin O’Toole or even more, [People’s Party of Canada Leader] Maxime Bernier.”

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Jonathan Kay: To Ottawa progressives the trucker convoy is a military invasion they are bravely resisting

It says a lot about Canada that a guy like me is labelled (i.e., “denounced as”) a conservative. In any sane world, I’d be instantly recognized as — in almost all respects — just another insufferably doctrinaire Toronto progressive. I live downtown, own an electric car, edit essays for a black-turtleneck web site catering to academics, hold forth on the importance of vaccines, and wile away my evenings tweeting smugly about whatever thumbsucker I just read in The New York Review of Books or BlubberTusk.

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The truckers versus Trudeau

The ‘freedom convoy’ against vaccine mandates shows Canadians won’t give up their freedoms without a fight.

Canadian truckers have driven into the heart of the political debate over Canada’s vaccine mandates.

A 70 kilometre-long ‘freedom convoy’ travelled from Vancouver to the Canadian capital, Ottawa, last week, to protest a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border. An estimated 10,000 protesters then converged at Parliament Hill in Ottawa over the weekend, and pledged not to leave until the vaccine mandate is revoked. The mandate was implemented by prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government earlier this month.

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