Around 1,200 doses will be delivered across the country, and in total 600 inmates will be vaccinated. At this time it’s not clear which institutions will be receiving the vaccines.
“China eats weird animals disease”
‘We Simply Desire to Worship Our Lord’: Canadian Church Fined for Holding In-Person Worship Service
A Canadian church was fined for a second time due to holding an in-person worship service, despite orders banning large gatherings during the pandemic.
Lap Dances, Karaoke, Late Hours: The Speakeasies of the Covid Era
In Brooklyn, investigators arrived at a bar in December to discover exotic dancers giving lap dances to patrons behind a locked door as music blared, state officials said.
At a karaoke bar in Queens, officers found eight rooms filled with people and a manager, none wearing a mask. Just three days earlier, police had discovered a nearly identical scene at the same spot.
And at a locked-up lounge in the Bronx, investigators slipped in through a side door and stumbled upon more than 50 people smoking hookah and not wearing face masks, officials said.
Olympic athletes should get priority access to coronavirus vaccines, IOC’s Dick Pound says
In order to safeguard the Tokyo Olympics, athletes must be given priority access to the coronavirus vaccine, says prominent International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound.
The longtime IOC official, who is Canadian, expressed confidence in the ability of the Olympics to proceed in July — when the delayed Summer Games are scheduled to begin — so long as athletes can jump to the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line.
Ford slams feds over pilot program that will start inoculating inmates with COVID-19 vaccine on Friday
Premier Doug Ford is slamming the federal government’s decision to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to some inmates before inoculating all long-term care home residents, as part of a pilot program starting this week.
Ford made the remarks on Wednesday during his first COVID-19 press conference of the year at Pearson Airport.
“Let’s not give the most dangerous criminals in our country the vaccine before we give it to our long-term care patients, most vulnerable and other elderly people,” Ford said.
COVID-19: Etches announces capacity limits for skating rinks, sledding hills; Ontario again records more than 3,000 cases
Ottawa’s medical officer of health will be issuing a class order under the Health Protection and Promotion Act aimed at outdoor recreational spaces that will outline requirements around signage, physical distancing, and maximum capacity limits in common gathering areas, after large crowds were observed at skating rinks, tobogganing hills and skiing trailheads, “raising concern for me that we need to decrease that crowding,” said Dr. Vera Etches.
U.S. Is Blind to Contagious New Virus Variant, Scientists Warn
With no robust system to identify genetic variations of the coronavirus, experts warn that the United States is woefully ill-equipped to track a dangerous new mutant, leaving health officials blind as they try to combat the grave threat.
The variant, which is now surging in Britain and burdening its hospitals with new cases, is rare for now in the United States. But it has the potential to explode in the next few weeks, putting new pressures on American hospitals, some of which are already near the breaking point.
The United States has no large-scale, nationwide system for checking coronavirus genomes for new mutations, including the ones carried by the new variant. About 1.4 million people test positive for the virus each week, but researchers are only doing genome sequencing — a method that can definitively spot the new variant — on fewer than 3,000 of those weekly samples. And that work is done by a patchwork of academic, state and commercial laboratories.
Covid vaccine queue jumping at University Health Network
‘SPOTS TAKEN’: Warning about vaccine queue jumping sent to University Health Network staff
Individuals associated with University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto attempted to jump the COVID-19 vaccine queue by inappropriately accessing an online scheduling tool, a notice to staff says.
“Unfortunately, we have learned that in spite of very clear messaging, some staff and learners have provided access to the COVID-19 vaccine scheduling tool and posted links to the tool on social media and via email,” a notice sent out to staff last week by the vaccination committee says.
Long pandemic could add to ̷e̷x̷t̷r̷e̷m̷i̷s̷m̷,̷ ̷d̷e̷c̷l̷i̷n̷e̷ ̷i̷n̷ citizens demand for democracy: Defence Department report
A new research report by the Department of National Defence suggests the longer the COVID-19 pandemic rages, the stronger right-wing extremism and other threats in Canada and around the world are likely to become.
The report prepared by the Defence Department’s research arm lays out a range of political, economic and security challenges that could emerge — or become more prominent — depending on how long the pandemic remains.
To that end, it looks at what may happen in a best-case scenario that would see COVID-19 brought under control by the end of this year, as well as the potential ramifications should the pandemic last past 2023 and — as a worst case — 2025.
The only extremism has been by governments and their thugs.
Ontario reports 3,266 new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting more than 3,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus for a third consecutive day as hospitalizations continue to surge.
The province reported 3,266 new infections of COVID-19 on Wednesday and 37 additional deaths.
Ontario logged 3,128 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, 3,270 on Monday and 2,964 on Sunday.
Premier Ford considering overnight curfew in Ontario: ‘Let’s see where the numbers go’
Could a curfew be under consideration in Ontario?
With Quebec in talks to make a final decision on the safety measure, Premier Doug Ford said he wants to see where COVID-19 cases go in the next little while before implementing something similar for the province.
“Everything is on the table but let’s see where the numbers go,” the Premier said on Tuesday. “I’ll have a discussion over the next day or so with Premier [Francois] Legault.”
Not one criminal should be vaccinated ahead of any vulnerable Canadian or front line health worker.https://t.co/4B22ELE2uf
— Erin O’Toole (@erinotoole) January 6, 2021
LILLEY: Trudeau’s border actions should have happened a long time ago
I’ll say this for Justin Trudeau, the man knows how to read the political winds.
It was just two weeks ago that he and his team were claiming that any discussion of problems with COVID at the border was nothing more than a distraction being driven by conservatives.
Member of Ontario’s COVID-19 advisory table booted from role after vacationing in Dominican over holidays
An Ontario hospital CEO who serves on the province’s COVID-19 science table has been booted from his advisory role after it was revealed that he vacationed in the Dominican Republic as Ontario went into a province-wide lockdown over the holidays.
In a statement Tuesday evening, St. Joseph’s Health System confirmed that its CEO, Dr. Tom Stewart, was out of the country on vacation from Dec. 18 – Jan.5.
Fun Fact! St. Jo’s Hospital is currently battling a Covid outbreak!
Man brings gun to enforce face mask compliance in gym before manager tackles him
Michael Florhaug, 64, reportedly went to an LA Fitness on Dec. 31 in Maplewood to monitor whether gym members were wearing face masks. He is not a member of the gym.
Quebec Goes FULL DRACONIAN COVID-19(84) With (Expected) 9pm Curfew Following “INSANE” HOME INVASION!!!
The province of Quebec is expected to announce on Wednesday that they will be implementing an 8-9pm curfew with strict new lockdown rules! Amazingly this announcement comes on the heels of a viral video which showed the Gatineau police aggressively arresting and fining a family of 6 for gathering at home for New Years Eve.
Restricting times and locations people can shop concentrates them, resulting in more virus transmission.
KNIGHT: This government overreach needs to end
I have spent the bulk of my working life in and around policing. Ordinarily, I would publicly defend the police — especially in cases of citizen journalism. I put context to what we are seeing and silence the baying hounds.
However, after viewing the video of Gatineau Police responding to a neighbour’s complaint of members of a family holding a New Year’s Eve gathering, I cannot defend it for a number of reasons.