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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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Corbella: Note to politicians — it’s time to let go of COVID and the powers you gave yourselves

I received my second COVID-19 vaccine on Monday and what a slick operation Alberta Health Services has set up!

I got 90 minutes of free parking at the Telus Convention Centre (that in itself is kind of like winning the lottery) and was directed by a small army of cheerful and eager staff (too many by dozens) indicating where I should go…

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Ontario reports 164 new Covid cases … and that’s Lambda not Lambada

Ontario reports 164 new Covid cases … and that’s Lambda not Lambada

Ontario reports fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases for second straight day, 9 more deaths

Ontario is reporting fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases for a second day in a row and nine more deaths.

The province logged 164 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, down from 170 infections on Monday.

The Lambda COVID-19 variant: What do we know about it?

TORONTO — A recently designated COVID-19 variant of interest by the World Health Organization is coming under scrutiny as more cases are being detected in multiple countries, and amid concerns that it carries mutations that could potentially make it more resistant to neutralizing antibodies.

The newly labelled Lambda variant, or C.37, was first detected as early as last August 2020 in Peru and was being monitored as an alert for some time prior to its new designation. As of mid-June, the variant had been detected in 29 countries or territories with a particularly high prevalence in South America.

Nuke China, Fauci and Justin.

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Ontario reports 170 new Covid cases … and Vaccine passport pimping by the CBC

Ontario reports 170 new Covid cases … and Vaccine passport pimping by the CBC

Ont. reports 170 new COVID-19 cases today, 1 death

Ontario is reporting fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases today for the second time in the past week.

Provincial health officials logged 170 new infections on Monday, down from 213 on Sunday and 210 last Monday.

Vaccine passports ignite debate over privacy vs. public health

As a steadily rising number of fully vaccinated Canadians emerge from hiding to test the gradual return to pre-pandemic normalcy, a conundrum looms: what to do about those who, for whatever reason, haven’t had a shot?

Striking the proper balance between public health and personal freedom, and figuring out whether one must be relinquished to protect the other, will become increasingly key as the country reopens.

Virtually any article by CBC can be considered gov’t propaganda.

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The origins of lockdown

Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism sheds light on today’s socially isolated world.

Can we understand the extensive range of draconian measures designed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic as being, in some way, totalitarian?

By any historical standard, these measures were certainly hugely repressive. Although they varied from region to region, and nation to nation, in many cases they amounted to a system of mass house arrest. People were often forbidden to leave their homes, except under the most stringent conditions. And when they were allowed out, there were often strict limits on how far they could travel, what they could do and when they had to return.

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On the Dangers of Big COVID

Since initial reports of the coronavirus outbreak in late 2019, America has witnessed a rapid and unprecedented transformation within nearly every aspect of mainstream society. At work, many Americans settled into their new daily routines of working from home, hunched over computer screens for hours of caffeine-supported Zoom calls frequently followed by app-delivered box dinners. In elementary schools throughout the country, young children began growing accustomed to wearing masks while sitting in socially distanced cubicles to learn about the dangers of hugging, shaking hands, or breaking social distancing protocols…

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Ontario reports 213 new Covid cases … and BS border easing

Border restrictions to begin easing, slowly, for fully vaccinated Canadian travellers

WASHINGTON — After nearly 16 months of rigid travel restrictions, Canada is finally starting to loosen the rules — but only for a specific few.

Effective Monday, fully vaccinated Canadians and permanent residents — those who have had a full course of a COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in Canada — will be able to skip the 14-day quarantine.

Eligible air travellers will also be exempt from the requirement that they spend their first three days in Canada in government-approved hotel.

Whoop Dee Doo.

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Ontario reports 209 new Covid cases… and why are we still prisoners?

Ontario reports 209 new Covid cases… and why are we still prisoners?

SNOBELEN: Vaccinated people in the U.S. are living life again — what about Canada?

There was a time when a double shot was pretty self-explanatory, and almost always a bad idea.

These days, a double shot means that you have stepped into the world of the fully vaccinated, a condition that makes you almost as bulletproof as the whiskey equivalent.

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Critical Signs To Watch for Famine in North Korea

Covid-19 has not been kind to the North Korean people. Like many authoritarian actors around the globe, Kim Jong-un used the pandemic as an excuse to tighten his grip on power. Among the most draconian measures taken was the decision to put an air-tight seal on the country’s already-restricted border with China.

While the decision to close the Sino-North Korean border was intended to ward off a potentially catastrophic outbreak of Covid-19, it also ushered in instability of another kind: economic uncertainty.

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