Commenting on Adam Skelly’s chant of “Small business! Small business!” after being handcuffed and led away by police for attempting to enter his own restaurant in Etobicoke, Ontario, Ezra recalled that Walmart’s CEO, “at a very high expense, hired two of [Ontario premier Doug] Ford’s [former] staff” Melissa Lantsman and David Tarrant to get a private meeting with the premier.
Brian Lilley says Canadians are going to be waiting longer for the Covid-19 vaccine because of the decisions made by the Trudeau government.
A pastor, a politician and a restaurateur are among those charged for their protests against government lockdowns in the past week under the guise of public health, revealing the criminalization of everything and everyone who dares to stand up for their civil liberties.
As soon as Macron appeared on TV to declare the new Covid-19 measures, I knew we were in trouble. Manu suffers from what poker players call a “tell”: an unconscious physical gesture that betrays the working of the mind. With President Macron it is the hands: he makes an Eiffel Tower of his fingers when stressed. When the tower of digits tumbled I said, “Full lockdown.”
Could it be possible that the phrase “dark winter” has some sort of deeper meaning that most of us are not meant to understand? We have heard that phrase over and over again in recent weeks, and usually it has been used in discussions regarding the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it also turns out that “Dark Winter” was also a code name for a high level simulation that was conducted back in 2001. That simulation envisioned a scenario in which a widespread smallpox attack was unleashed inside the United States. As you will see below, the simulation was “designed to spiral out of control”, and the hypothetical consequences were absolutely disastrous.
While Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland glossed the dire results of her financial update — there hasn’t been a real budget in 600-plus days — COVID-19 infections were also going off the charts.
Provincial health officials on Friday recorded a record high of 1,855 new cases, and the fifth straight day of more than 20 new deaths.
Environmentalists in the United Kingdom are pressing for “economy-wide” lockdowns, similar to those put into place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, in order to address the creeping threat of climate change.
The wealthy have pulled out of the orbit of the rest of the country. Can they be leashed back?
By late October, the best grasp of America’s perilous economic situation was coming from GoFundMe, the internet’s largest donation platform. The website had already become a de facto large insurance company, as hundreds of thousands of patients struggling with exorbitant medical bills started fundraising campaigns every year. By 2019, one-third of all donations on GoFundMe went toward health care costs, according to former CEO Rob Solomon.
But the pandemic created a new kind of precarity in America. From March 1 to August 31, just 3.2 percent of all donation campaigns went toward medical bills. Demand grew so much for other needs that GoFundMe announced a new fundraising category: Rent, Food, and Monthly Bills.
A made-in-Canada antibody for the coronavirus is good enough for COVID-19-ravaged Italy but not good enough for … Canada.
“I regret to inform you …”
So says the letter from the federal government received Nov. 9 by Dr. Sachdev Sidhu, the esteemed University of Toronto biomedical engineer who insists that his lab has invented a synthetic antibody to mitigate — possibly eliminate entirely for the aged and particularly vulnerable — symptoms of a relentless virus that has brought the world to its knees.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Ontario surpassed 1,700 once again today as the test positivity rate and rolling seven-day average continue to rise in the province.
Ontario health officials reported 1,746 new infections today, up slightly from the 1,708 confirmed one day prior but down from the record 1,855 recorded on Friday.
Plunge in city parking revenue due to pandemic is ‘staggering,’ Toronto councillor says
As the city struggles to balance the 2021 budget in the face of a worsening pandemic, councillors are coming to grips with a steep drop in revenue from one of its key money-makers: the Toronto Parking Authority (TPA).
The agency was expected to chip in almost $60 million this year to city coffers. But steep drops in demand for parking downtown mean that amount has plummeted to just $4.1 million. And the amount it expects to contribute in 2021? Zero.
Those numbers, however, don’t shock Coun. Brad Bradford, who represents Ward 19, Beaches-East York and sits on the TPA board.
No worries! Tory will raise taxes!
The media is in love with the idea that 200,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, but last weekend the CDC drastically downgraded the number of deaths and noted that in truth less than 10,000 died solely of the virus.
The group consisted of ordinary people of all ages carrying signs that said a variety of slogans. They included: ‘Take off your mask and smell the bull****,’ ‘My body my choice, no mandatory vaccine,’ ‘Defund state propaganda – CTV, CBC, Global,’ ‘ Where did the flu go? Ask questions,’ ‘Wake-up global reset is in play,’ and ‘Fear is the modern plague,’ ‘Power of the people is stronger than the people in power,’ ‘Lockdowns are more deadly than covid,’ ‘The government loves pandemics for the same reason they love war, it gives them the ability to impose control on the populations they otherwise would never accept,’ ‘God keep our land glorious and free,’ ‘Arrest Trudeau for treason,’ ‘Lock up Nenshi,’ ‘Our fear of death has stolen our courage to live,’ ‘This ends when we stop complying,’ and ‘Boost your immunity avoid fake news.’
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, poverty-stricken families from the American heartlands packed up their bags and migrated to California. 90 years later there are signs of a reverse migration. Only this time, it’s not farm workers, but tech workers. According to Katherine Bindley in the Wall Street Journal, smaller tech companies in places like Bloomington, Minnesota and Tucson, Arizona are getting job applications from the people based in the big coastal tech clusters.
As some of the employers interviewed in the article make clear, this is happening for the first time. If that’s indicative of a wider trend, then we’re looking at a significant disruption
With a significant number of Britons skeptical of a Covid vaccine, the army has reportedly deployed an “information warfare” unit to stamp out anti-vaxx propaganda online. Offline, citizens still protest lockdowns in the streets.
The British government is expected to greenlight a coronavirus vaccine and begin its distribution next month. In addition to the logistical challenge of getting millions of doses to the public, the government also faces the hurdle of convincing them to take it. According to a recent poll by the British Academy and the Royal Society, more than a third of people in Britain say they’re either uncertain or very unlikely to take the vaccine.
The woman was 52, and the mother of two boys, ages 12 and 15. Seeing her, lying helpless, with her lungs shredded by COVID, reminded Dr. Peter Goldberg of the first wave of the virus, back in early spring, when “it was like a forest fire, and all I had was a garden hose.” No matter what the doctors tried, steroids, everything, her carbon dioxide levels kept rising. At some point they couldn’t ventilate her, they couldn’t get the carbon dioxide out. She died, “and we watched this,” says Goldberg, head of the critical care program at the McGill University Health Centre.
