Rex Murphy: How COVID-19 taught the public to distrust the authorities

Early on during the pandemic, it was easy to accept that the politicians, guided by their selected cadre of experts, knew what they were doing. And there was likewise in the public mind a considerable reservoir of trust in their pronouncements, which was not diminished if — in the very early days — a caution or a recommendation put out one week was altered, revised, or even contradicted by a caution or recommendation the week following.

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What happens when you find a business on anti-vaccination passport website?

… Owner Jenna Graham said in an interview Friday the restaurant is not enforcing proof-of-vaccination, and compared the vaccine passports to racial segregation.

“We’re not going to backpedal to a time where being racist was a thing,” she said. “[Unvaccinated people] are being enslaved, they’re being forced now not to be allowed to go out of their homes to go eat … we’re being owned by the government.”

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Ontario doctor accused of spreading COVID misinformation

Ontario’s medical regulator says it has imposed a number of restrictions on a family physician accused of spreading misinformation about COVID-19.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario says Dr. Patrick Phillips, who is based in Englehart, is now barred from providing medical exemptions regarding COVID-19 vaccines, masking requirements and testing.

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Ontario reports 466 new Covid cases … and the Children’s hour has arrived

Ontario reports 466 new Covid cases … and the Children’s hour has arrived

Ontario reports 466 new COVID-19 infections, 11 more deaths

Ontario reported less than 500 new COVID-19 cases and 11 more deaths on Tuesday.

Provincial health officials logged 466 new infections today, a notable drop from 613 on Monday and 574 a week ago.


Ontario health units preparing for COVID vaccinations of kids aged five to 11

TORONTO — Ontario health units are developing plans for the vaccination of children aged five to 11 once COVID-19 shots are approved for them.

Toronto Public Health said Monday that it had formed a planning group that includes health partners, school boards, community representatives and the province, while top doctors for Peel Region, Middlesex-London, Hamilton and Ottawa also said they were making arrangements.

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To maintain a mass psychology of panic and fear, Alberta’s corrupt public health bureaucrat now automatically counts anyone staying home from any illness as a Covid case

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Unvaccinated NBA players eligible to play in Toronto under national interest exemption

General manager Bobby Webster says the team decided to stay in Toronto for camp this year to reconnect with its hometown, adding that many players and staff hadn’t been to the city.

Webster says the Raptors are one second dose away from being fully vaccinated and will be at 100 per cent by opening night on Oct. 20.

Visiting players who are unvaccinated can play in Toronto this season under a National Interest Exemption, meaning they will be restricted to Scotiabank Arena and the team hotel, and will have to pass COVID-19 test when they arrive in Canada.

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Researcher definitively dismantles every falsehood underlying COVID mask policies

A researcher has written a definitive, rigorously documented and easily accessible essay thoroughly dismantling the falsehoods used to justify the use of masks in the general population as a means of mitigating the spread of COVID-19. The essay further incriminates government agencies and big tech corporations for “engaging in actions that resemble common disinformation tactics” which have led to “countless deaths.”

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Two docs call for banning all unvaccinated Albertans from employment

Two Alberta doctors — Dr. Noel Gibney and Dr. James Talbot — have written a letter to the provincial government saying non-vaccinated people shouldn’t be allowed to be employed in Alberta.

The letter from Talbot and Gibney to Health Minister Jason Copping demanded the implementation of seven measures to help stem the COVID-19 crisis in the province.

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Military leaders saw pandemic as unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on Canadians, Forces report says

A plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war.

Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.

The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau.

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Ontario reports 613 new Covid cases … and hold my beer Soup Nazi

Ontario reports 613 new Covid cases … and hold my beer Soup Nazi

Ontario reports 613 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths

Ontario is reporting just over 600 new COVID-19 cases and no new virus-related deaths today.

Officials logged 613 new infections on Monday, down from 653 cases on Sunday but up marginally from the 610 cases confirmed one week ago.


Toronto restaurant says it won’t accept medical exemptions

TORONTO — A midtown Toronto restaurant worries its staff won’t be able to tell the difference between real vaccine passport exemptions and potential fakers when it opens to indoor diners in just over a week — so, it’s only going to let fully vaccinated people in.

“Just for now I’m not going to be accepting doctor’s certificates as exemptions. I just want fully vaccinated people in here. For the past two years we’ve been incredibly safe, our staff are healthy, our customers are healthy, and I want to keep it that way,” Stern told CTV News.

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