A woke liberal arts college has introduced a new masking policy that would require all students in a class to wear face masks as long as a single person requests them.
Under the new policy at Amherst College in Massachusetts, each student would be provided an anonymous survey in which they could express their views on whether they want a mask mandate in their classroom.
The Great Barrington Declaration signatory on why he’s going to court over Covid
In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics — Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff — who appeared on UnHerd to break the story. It marked a watershed moment in the pandemic, but the authors found their criticisms of Covid policy were increasingly censored on social media.
Newly formulated bivalent booster shots that target Omicron variants of COVID-19 are being rolled out around the world, including in Canada, where Moderna has made 12 million doses available.
But Canadians should not be under the mistaken impression that they are receiving the same sort of bivalent shots as those being administered in the United States and Europe.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding an end to the vaccine mandate for military members, but his health critic suggested the situation might need a more nuanced approach.
Last week, Poilievre called for an end to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the Canadian Armed Forces, saying it was “obviously unscientific and contradictory” to keep that rule in place while ending the requirement for those crossing the border into Canada.
Canada’s COVID-19 border restrictions will end on Sept. 30, alongside the mandatory use of the ArriveCAN app, the federal government says.
The Liberal government officially announced the changes on Monday after Global News and other media reported last week Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed off on them. They include mandatory vaccinations, testing and quarantine of international travellers.
A little late no?
A new play sensitively probes one of society’s biggest fault lines
Eureka Day, a play written by Jonathan Spector and transferred from the US, opens at the Old Vic today. It tackles our vaccine moment with surprising sensitivity and painful humour, leaving audiences, as all good ‘issue’ plays should, perhaps less sure of their accepted beliefs.
It was a bizarrely worded social media post, but it speaks to the mindset around official Ottawa when it comes to COVID-19.
“It’s time – if you’re eligible for your booster, get it,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted to Twitter on Thursday. “Let’s keep taking action to fight COVID-19, and let’s make sure our vaccinations are up-to-date. That way, we can continue to do the things we enjoy with the people we love.”
A newly discovered email from 2013 discloses that the vice-director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Yuan Zhiming, is a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official who was formally in charge of international cooperation and biosafety at the Institute. The Institute is suspected to be the origin of the Coronavirus pandemic.
“It will come out the truth and you don’t want to be on that side of the fence when you have killed or actually murdered innocent people,” Ladislas Kenderesi said at an anti-lockdown protest in 2020.
A Canadian Armed Forces reservist was fined $4,200 and will receive a “severe reprimand” after pleading guilty on Thursday to a misconduct charge for urging military personnel not to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, which he linked to murder.
The charge of “conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline” against Officer Cadet Ladislas Kenderesi, 60, relates to comments he made to the crowd at an anti-lockdown protest in downtown Toronto in December 2020 while in full uniform. The comments were captured on videos posted to the internet.
The latest figures from July show 15% more deaths than normal
EU excess deaths reached new highs in the month of July 2022, the latest EU figures show. Excess mortality hit +15.8% — equivalent to 53,000 excess deaths — compared to the same month in the years 2016-2019. This figure marks a steep rise from June and May 2022, both of which were around 7%.
Danielle Anderson, a virologist often cited as a “biosafety expert” by journalists seeking to debunk the lab-leak theory, never disclosed she had worked on dangerous coronavirus research while fact-checking COVID-19 origin theories, resurfaced documents reveal.
Saying it “can do better,” the City of Toronto has pulled a video ad campaign designed to encourage families to vaccinate their kids.
A Canadian legal advocacy organization is challenging the narrative by governments, media, and medical associations that Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been “successful.”
In a report published on Sept. 13, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) argues that the “prevailing consensus” that the Canadian response to COVID has been successful is biased because there appears to be no reference to the “excess deaths” caused by Canada’s strategy that has been “among the most stringent and sustained lockdown policies in the world.”
A bus carrying people to a Covid-19 quarantine facility in China has crashed, killing 27 of those on board.
The coach overturned on a motorway in the south-western province of Guizhou. Another 20 people were injured.
The accident sparked anger online from those critical of Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy.
The policy involves mass testing and tracking. Those who test positive and their close contacts have to isolate at home or in a quarantine facility.
Many Canadians have been taking to Twitter to post their portraits and bios since Sept. 13, saying how because of their choice to remain unvaccinated they’ve been tagged with derogatory labels.
Martin Bélanger from Alberta says he posted the original tweet that started the trend on Tuesday morning.
Three in Ten Americans Still Refusing to Get the Coronavirus Jab
The percentage of Americans who are refusing to get a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus is remaining consistent, as nearly three in ten have yet to receive a single jab for the virus, a poll from The Economist/YouGov found.
