CDC HID DAMNING REPORTS OF COVID JAB ADVERSE EFFECTS

 Thanks to a court order, we now know that the first people to get the COVID-19 “vaccine” reported a shockingly high number of serious health issues.

Of the roughly 10 million early recipients of the vaccine, 7.7% — almost 770,000 people, mostly first responders and healthcare workers — reported needing medical care after getting the COVID-19 shot. The reports were collected via the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) vaccine effects monitoring phone app, v-safe.

Of those whose adverse reactions required medical care:

• 48% needed urgent care.
• 15% went to an emergency room.
• 10% were hospitalized.
• 66% percent of infants (under three years old) required urgent care.
• 2% of them were hospitalized.

ONTARIO-WIDE BLITZ FOR ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS

  More than 100 people were arrested in a month-long, province-wide investigation into predators targeting children online.
  Ontario Provincial police say Project Maverick — conducted in October by investigators and analysts from the Provincial Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation on the Internet – saw 27 policing partners conduct 255 investigations, complete 168 search warrants, and seize 1,032 devices.
  “In total, 428 charges were laid against 107 people,” the OPP said in a statement Wednesday. “During the investigations, 61 victims were identified and referred to appropriate community-based resources for assistance, while an additional 60 children were safeguarded.”

A job well done by all those involved in catching the predators.   Thank you.

LIBERALS GUNNING FOR GRANDPA'S VARMINT RIFLE

   With no acknowledgment of its chicanery, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now covertly gunning for grandpa’s varmint rifle as though it tops the gangbanger’s wish list.
   In committee last week for a pending gun control bill, Liberal MP Paul Chiang introduced an amendment that would effectively criminalize millions of firearms currently in use with Canadian hunters.
   The amendment proposes to ban “a firearm that is a rifle or shotgun, that is capable of discharging centre-fire ammunition in a semi-automatic manner and that is designed to accept a detachable cartridge magazine with a capacity greater than five cartridges of the type for which the firearm was originally designed.”

  Also tabled was a 478-page amendment banning thousands of additional Canadian firearms by name. This included the SKS, a Soviet-designed surplus rifle that has long been a favourite of Canadian sports shooters, with around 200,000 owners.

WESTERN U QUIETLY REVERSES COVID JAB MANDATE

  The University of Western Ontario quietly dropped its vaccine mandate on Tuesday months after legal challenges and protests from students opposed to the requirement.
    Western made the announcement in a “situational summary” posted on its website on Nov. 29. The post-secondary school claims that the decision to revoke the mandate came following consultations with public health officials.
“Western has committed to regularly reviewing our vaccination policy. Based on the latest consultation with our medical experts and local public health, we are revoking our vaccination policy and will no longer require students, employees, and visitors to be vaccinated to come to campus,” Western wrote.

EXPRESS YOURSELF, EXCEPT IF YOU'RE IN A FREEDOM CONVOY

   Canada stands with people “expressing themselves” in a rare wave of protests across multiple cities in China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
   He made the comment on his way into a cabinet meeting Tuesday morning, as China grapples with its biggest public display of dissent since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — which ended in a massacre when the army violently crushed the student-led pro-democracy movement.
   The latest protests are a response to Beijing’s continued use of a “zero-COVID” strategy amid the COVID-19 pandemic — a strict policy that aims to isolate every infected person to limit the spread of the virus. As a result, millions of Chinese citizens have continued to face broad quarantine orders, mandatory testing and severe restrictions, all of which are the target of growing protests across the country.

HIS ANTI-WOKE SPEECH RUFFLED SOME FEATHERS

   An organization researching chronic pain in veterans has asked for and received the resignation of a retired general behind a controversial speech slamming government and Canadian Forces policies.
   The Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans originally announced Nov. 10 that retired Lt.-Gen. Michel Maisonneuve, who was on its board of directors, would lead the organization’s fundraising campaign.
   The night before, Maisonneuve was given a standing ovation by serving senior Canadian military officers for a speech in which he criticized everything from the removal of historical statues and apologies to victims to government climate change policies. The speech also took issue with the new policy by Chief of the Defense Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, who made recent changes to military dress regulations to include beards and hair colouring, and to give both women and men more options in selecting uniforms.

CRA CLAWING BACK $3.2BILLION IN SUSPECT COVID PAYMENTS

   OTTAWA – CRA is clawing back $3.2 billion in COVID-19 financial aid benefit overpayments, a staggering number that’s just the beginning of the agency’s monumental task of recouping billions in excessive or fraudulent payments through hastily designed emergency programs.
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   In a wide-ranging interview with National Post Tuesday, two top Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) officials, Frank Vermaeten and Marc Lemieux, said the organization has sent out 825,000 debt notes (or “notices of redetermination”) to Canadians it suspects received ineligible or excess payments from any number of the COVID-19 programs for individuals as of Nov. 18.
  But that number will only grow as CRA investigators look over millions of applications for half a dozen COVID-19 programs until at least 2025.

TRUDEAU'S GOV'T UNDERMINING ENERGY SECURITY

   Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not only causing grievous harm to the Ukrainian people but is also triggering the need for a sensible recalibration of energy policy, especially by western democracies that are manifestly obsessed with climate change.
   Canada and the United States should both hit the pause button on climate orthodoxy so they can unleash their extensive oil and gas resources to help staunch inflation, bolster growth at home, and seek to displace Russia as the key supplier to Europe and other markets. The wrong climate policy at the wrong time gave Russian President Vladimir Putin an undeserved financial bonus (in the form of higher oil and natural gas prices) enabling his brutal assault on his neighbour. Oil and gas are vital to our mutual security and our energy advantages should not be frittered away to geopolitical adversaries or sacrificed to illusory climate change prophecies.
   But Canada has made no moves to strengthen energy security. Instead, it has doubled down on climate change, increasing the carbon tax and announcing a $9.1 billion plan to reduce carbon emissions by at least 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Expecting the goal to be met by relying on such renewables as wind, solar, and biomass stretches credulity. The fact that the plan was presented without a detailed analysis of the economic consequences is irresponsible. Since Canada has missed every goal it has ever set, it is not a serious plan, either.

UNRAVELING THE GLOBAL OIL MARKET

   Moscow has weaponized its natural gas supplies to Europe for months and is now actively trying to disable Ukraine’s electricity network. Consumer countries have become competitors as they race to secure scarce energy supplies. Fractures are visible in the decades-old Saudi-U.S. oil relationship. Even in clean energy, leaders such as Joe Biden talk of a new battle to dominate supply chains.
   The potential unraveling of the old order in the global oil market will reach a defining moment over the next week when Europe starts to block Russian seaborne crude from the continent in one of the strongest responses yet to Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
   The new sanctions will also stop European companies from insuring vessels carrying Russian oil to third countries, unless those countries accept a price for the oil dictated by western powers. In other words, western countries will attempt to impose a cap on the price of oil sold by Russia.

MAN ARRESTED & CHARGED IN COLD CASE MURDERS

   TORONTO — A 61-year-old man living in northern Ontario has been arrested in the murders of two Toronto women who were found dead in their homes nearly four decades ago, police announced Monday, saying advances in genetic technology helped them crack the cold cases.
   Interim Police Chief James Ramer said officers arrested Joseph George Sutherland in Moosonee, Ont., on Thursday on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice.
   “As relieved as we are to announce this arrest, it will never bring back Erin and Susan,” Ramer said at a news conference.
   Detectives were able to link the cases in 2000 using DNA recovered from the scenes, with investigators suspecting the same man killed both women, Ramer said.

THE LAST GASPS OF THE COVID CRAZIES

   A desperate attempt by mask-obsessed trustee Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth to mandate masks in Ottawa schools failed this week after many parents and students spoke out against the controversial measure.
   The board intended to vote on Kaplan-Myrth’s motion on Tuesday but was subject to disruption and protest by angry parents. The meeting eventually happened on Thursday and after countless amendments to the initial motion to water it down, Kaplan-Myrth’s attempt to impose masks on students, staff and faculty ultimately failed.
   True North’s Anthony Furey says we just witnessed the last gasps of the Covid Crazies.

CHINESE PROTESTERS CALL FOR XI TO STEP DOWN

   SHANGHAI — Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China’s powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the ruling Communist Party.
   Police using pepper spray drove away demonstrators in Shanghai who called for Xi Jinping to step down and an end to one-party rule, but hours later people rallied again in the same spot. Police again broke up the demonstration, and a reporter saw protesters under arrest being driven away in a bus.
   The protests — which began Friday and have spread to cities including the capital, Beijing, and dozens of university campuses — are the most widespread show of opposition to the ruling party in decades.

"ONLINE OUTLETS ARE NOT NEWS"

   MPs voted down a change to the Liberal government’s online news bill proposed by a group of independent online publishers, a day after a Liberal MP on the committee apologized for saying digital outlets don’t produce news.
   The House of Commons heritage committee is currently in the process of amending Bill C-18, which would force Google and Facebook parent company Meta to share revenue with Canadian news publishers, revenue that could end up funding an estimated 30 per cent of the cost of producing news in Canada.
   At a committee meeting Tuesday, Lisa Hepfner said that “we see hundreds of news outlets have closed since 2008 in this country, and we’ll see the argument that a couple hundred other online news organizations have popped up in that time, what we don’t see is that they’re not news.”
“They’re not gathering news. They’re publishing opinion only.”

EXPLAIN AFRICA'S LOW COVID JAB AND DEATH RATES

  Even in the face of data showing that Covid “vaccines” do not prevent transmission of the virus but do cause extremely high rates of adverse events to be reported, the US (and much of the world’s) medical establishment remains fully committed to pushing universal vaccinations. The G20 meeting recently included plans for a global vaccine passport that would prevent international travel by those who have resisted the pressure to receive the spike protein-laden jabs.
  If there is one dramatic case study that seems to upend the vaccination absolutists, it is Africa, many of whose countries are too poor to have mass vaccination programs, yet which has the lowest death toll from Covid in the world.
  I have yet to see an establishment source mention the high rate of use of Ivermectin in Africa to fight parasites as a possible source of protection against Covid infection or severity. That would contradict the official early response from the likes of the FDA that derided ivermectin as a horse medicine.

INSIGNIFICANT PUNISHMENT FOR PFIZER CEO WHO GAVE MISLEADING STATEMENTS

   Pfizer’s CEO, Dr Albert Bourla, used an interview with the BBC last December to claim that “there is no doubt in my mind that the benefits, completely, are in favour of” vaccinating youngsters aged five to 11 against Covid-19.
   He argued that “Covid in schools is thriving” adding: “This is disturbing, significantly, the educational system, and there are kids that will have severe symptoms.”
   The complaint alleged that Dr Bourla’s remarks about the children’s vaccine were “disgracefully misleading” and “extremely promotional in nature”, arguing that it breached several clauses of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry’s (ABPI) code of practice.
   “There is simply no evidence that healthy schoolchildren in the UK are at significant risk from the SARS COV-2 virus and to imply that they are is disgracefully misleading,” they said.

TESTILYING

   On the final day of the Emergencies Act hearings, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a much-anticipated testimony where he defended invoking the Act and denied ever having called unvaccinated Canadians names.
   The Prime Minister said that despite not reading the police plan signed off on by the RCMP to clear protesters using existing powers, he did not have confidence in the plan and decided to invoke the Emergencies Act anyways.

A CREDIT CARD TO TRACK YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT

   The British Columbia-based credit union Vancity has launched Canada’s first-ever carbon tracking Visa card.
   It will be first available for consumers in 2023 and will allow cardholders to track estimated carbon emissions on every purchase.
   “Members will be able to see how their monthly tally compares to the national average, or which credit card purchases have the highest environmental cost,” said a statement by Vancity.

A CODE OF CONDUCT FOR THE GROCERY BUSINESS

   Food industry leaders are close to finalizing a draft of the first-ever code of conduct for the Canadian grocery business, according to internal documents submitted to government this month.
   Ten lobby groups representing food producers and retailers have been in talks with a government-appointed mediator for more than a year, trying to come up with a set of new rules to govern dealings between grocers and their suppliers. Legislators and industry insiders believe a code of conduct is the best way to finally stamp out years of power imbalances and bully tactics in the sector, in which five retail chains control roughly 80 per cent of sales.
   In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Walmart Inc. and Loblaw Companies Ltd. enraged their suppliers by unilaterally implementing new fees that forced food companies to help fund upgrades to the grocers’ e-commerce operations. Suppliers said the fees were a glaring example of how much power a handful of dominant grocery chains wield against food manufacturers and farmers in Canada. They complained of being forced to pay draconian penalties for short or late shipments, at a time when COVID-19 infections were causing widespread shortages and labour issues for manufacturers. And because the grocers represented such a large portion of national sales, suppliers said they couldn’t afford to push back against the fees out of fear the chains might retaliate by “de-listing” their products from shelves.

I MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE

   Brian Lilley: Justin Trudeau took the stand to testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry Friday with the full confidence that he had done the right thing last February.

His delivery was calm, smooth and unruffled, matching his words claiming that his choice was the right one.

“I am absolutely, absolutely serene, confident that I made the right choice,” Trudeau said.

USA BANS HUAWEI, ZTE EQUIPMENT SALES

   The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies and ZTE because they pose “an unacceptable risk” to U.S. national security.
  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it had adopted the final rules, which also bar the sale or import of equipment made by China’s surveillance equipment maker Dahua Technology Co, video surveillance firm Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co Ltd and telecoms firm Hytera Communications Corp Ltd.
   The move represents Washington’s latest crackdown on the Chinese tech giants amid fears that Beijing could use Chinese tech companies to spy on Americans.

QUEBECERS SUPPORT DEVELOPING OIL & ENERGY PROJECTS

   A majority of Quebecers want the province to develop its oil and energy potential, a new poll has found.
   According to an Ipsos Poll commissioned by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) released on Wednesday, 54% of residents would like to see the province undertake energy developments.
   The survey also found that 61% of Quebecers think that it’s the province’s responsibility to help reduce Europe’s reliance on Russian gas for its energy needs.

RCMP WANTED TO KEEP EMERGENCIES ACT LONGER

   The RCMP wanted to keep the Emergencies Act in place for weeks and worried that revoking emergency powers would "send a powerful message to protesters," the inquiry reviewing the government's decision to invoke the never-before-used legislation heard Thursday.
   In speaking notes prepared for RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki for a Feb. 20 meeting with federal cabinet ministers and senior security officials, she argued against revoking the legislation, which had granted officers emergency powers.
   "As it relates to Ottawa and Ontario, there is an operational need to maintain access to these powers to ensure we can finish what we started and prevent any reentrenchment. Even for the next 2-3 weeks," say Lucki's notes.
   "Revoking or withdrawing the act now, will send a powerful message to protesters."

SHAMELESS LIBERALS

   The Liberal government has had nothing but contempt for the public inquiry into its use of the Emergencies Act last winter, and Attorney General David Lametti’s testimony on Wednesday offered nothing to convince Canadians otherwise. Instead of elucidating the decision to invoke the act and claim extraordinary emergency powers amid the Freedom Convoy protests and blockades, Lametti repeatedly claimed attorney-client privilege and avoided answering questions.
   The client, of course, isn’t some mob boss Lametti is protecting, it’s the Government of Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet could have waived privilege but have, so far, chosen not to — an utterly shameless decision.

CRTC EMPOWERED TO MEDDLE WITH SEARCH ALGORITHMS

   Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez acknowledged on Tuesday that Bill C-11 would in fact provide levers to press social media providers to tweak algorithms in order to comply with government regulation.
   The rare admission came after months of the minister denying that the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) would be empowered to meddle with search algorithms to promote or derank content. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter rely on programmed algorithms to cater content to specific users.
   In response to questions by Conservative Senator Michael MacDonald, Rodriguez explained to the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications on Tuesday that indirect manipulation was possible.

NOT IMPRESSED BY RCMP COMMISSIONER LUCKI

   Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro is calling on the federal government to fire RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, saying her continued tenure is damaging to the national police force.
   On Wednesday, Shandro told reporters that federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should immediately rescind Lucki's appointment. Soon after, Mendicino said the commissioner will remain in her post and Lucki said she has no plans to leave.
   Shandro called Lucki's performance at two public inquiries this year "unforgivable." He said Lucki admitted to making no improvements to RCMP responses and communication during a mass casualty commission into the 2020 shooting deaths of 22 people in Nova Scotia.
   "The commissioner of the RCMP must be held to the highest of standards. So far, Minister Mendicino has stood idly by while Commissioner Lucki has failed to meet even the most meagre of standards for the past two years," Shandro said in a written statement, also on Wednesday.

EMBALMERS' OBSERVATIONS OF THOSE WHO DIED SUDDENLY

Healthy adults are dropping dead all across the globe. In the last 18 months, the term “Died Suddenly” has risen to the very top of “most searched” Google terms. Now, the award-winning documentary team that brought you, “Watch The Water”, and “These Little Ones” travels around the world to find answers, and tell the stories, of those who Died Suddenly.

NATIONAL EMERGENCY A PURE CONCOCTION OF POLITICAL CONVENIENCE

   Rex Murphy:  Trudeau, by this time accustomed to ruling by fiat, denounced the convoy protesters even before they arrived. And not once did he offer an opportunity for a meeting, or delegate ministers to have a discussion. The PM in fact treated them more like invaders than a representative group of Canadian citizens with relevant and pressing concerns.
    Which brings me right to the point of the Emergencies Act.
    What efforts, what actions, did the government take before proceeding to that draconian, unprecedented measure? None. None at all.
     Did they meet? No. Did they negotiate? No. Did they send mediators? No. Did they call Parliament in to debate the protest? No.
    They did nothing. Outside of berating the protest in the most vivid terms, they did absolutely nothing!

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE PART OF MISSING CHILDREN NARRATIVE

 Leon Fontaine sits down with retired chief judge, Brian Giesbrecht, to discuss how political interference and a lack of investigative journalism has skewed the narrative on the unmarked graves at residential schools across Canada. Giesbrecht shares what his research team has found, and outlines a 2021 Frontier Centre book he contributed to titled From Truth Comes Reconciliation.  (25 minutes)

CATCHING PM IN HIS ILLOGICAL CLAIMS

   That said, it would still be incredibly weird and potentially irresponsible to both privately and, via the media, publicly accuse China of election interference if you have no evidence to back it up. Which it appears Trudeau is now claiming.
   “I do not have any information, nor have I been briefed on any federal candidates receiving any money from China,” Trudeau said at a Sunday press conference. It’s a statement nearly entirely at odds with not just media reports –– which Liberals haven’t once said were false or flawed since they emerged two weeks prior –– but Trudeau’s G20 actions.
   There are really only a few ways to digest Trudeau’s new claims. The first is that Global News’ reporting was wrong. However, that directly leads to questions about Trudeau’s decision to confront Xi without evidence in pocket or, if that evidence does exist, why Trudeau was never told about it.

  The second option is that Trudeau is lying. The third is a slightly softer option of door number two. That Trudeau, two weeks later, finally figured out how to splice and dice words so that he’s not technically lying, but can also avoid or delay sharing any useful information with Canadians.

LIBERALS BROKE THEIR OWN LAW FOR CONVENIENCE

   OTTAWA — Marco Mendicino came across as one of those assured characters who fluffs his
putts under pressure.
   The public safety minister was testifying before the Public Order Emergency Commission about the events leading up to the invocation of the Emergencies Act last February.
   Maybe it was the flaws in the early intelligence he received that persuaded him to discount future advice, but there is no evidence that he paid heed to the intelligence he received from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, or from the RCMP, which was that there was no serious threat to Canada from a badly organized protest that offered no tangible plots of violence or had any ideologically motivated violent extremist groups in attendance.
   At one point, commission counsel asked what prompted his concerns that the protest could spiral and overwhelm police services across the country. “It came from observation,” he said, a classic example of marshalling evidence to confirm predetermined convictions and dismissing evidence that contradicts them.

PUBLIC SERVICE WORKFORCE NUMBERS RISING

   OTTAWA – The seven-year hiring spree in Canada’s public service will continue with billions of dollars in additional spending that will push the size of the workforce to about 409,000 jobs within five years, says the parliamentary budget officer.
   Treasury Board President Mona Fortier tabled the government’s latest spending plans – known as supplementary estimates (B) – asking Parliament to approve another $21 billion. That’s among some of the biggest asks in supplementary estimates other than emergency spending to deal with the pandemic.
   In his latest report, Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux estimates $2.3 billion of this additional spending is needed for the salaries and benefits of an expanding bureaucracy, which pushes the wage bill to $55 billion this year. That’s more than $130,000 per full-time employee.

CSIS DIRECTOR'S ELASTIC INTERPRETATION OF EMERGENCIES ACT

 The warm front that passed across Ottawa on Monday morning was caused by a collective sigh of relief emitted by a number of senior ministers and government staffers, after Canada’s top spy revealed in testimony that he advised the prime minister to invoke the Emergencies Act last February to break up the Freedom Convoy.

The Liberals have been adrift on a tossing sea as multiple witnesses testified to the Public Order Emergency Commission that, while the act was helpful, it was not necessary.

Yet in his testimony, it emerged that in a meeting on Feb. 13, CSIS director, David Vigneault advised Justin Trudeau that he agreed it was appropriate to invoke the Emergencies Act because he had gained an understanding that the Emergencies Act definition of what constituted a threat to national security was broader than that laid out in the CSIS Act.

THREE BRAVE CANADIAN DOCTORS NEED OUR HELP

   On November 23rd, Doctors Patrick Brian Phillips, Mark Raymond Trozzi and Crystal S. Luchkiw will face a tribunal b/c they honored their oath to do no harm.

   Michael Alexander, counsel for Drs. Mark Trozzi, Patrick Phillips and Crystal Luchkiw, announced today that the Discipline Tribunal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) has granted his clients an unprecedented opportunity to challenge the College’s efforts to dictate how doctors should practice medicine in relation to Covid-19 in a motion hearing that will be held at 9:00 am on November 23rd.
   Everyone is asked to email the College of Physicians and Surgeons Ontario [CPSO] to request the public access link to the hearings, and ask others to do the same.

TOO MANY HEAD BALLS?

  The Muslim country of Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup, has taken criticism for its sharia laws against homosexuality and its mistreatment of migrant workers. Still, FIFA and the World Cup are holding soccer’s biggest event in Qatar, anyway.
  Now, FIFA President Gianni Infantino is taking criticism for belatedly expressing sympathy with gays and downtrodden migrant workers in Qatar with an address where he exclaimed that he “feels gay” and “feels like a migrant worker” in direct contravention to the host of the World Cup’s much-derided policies, Reuters reported.
  As he opened the World Cup pre-game day press conference, Infantino went into a little speech as a way to address Qatar’s abusive human rights record.
  “Today, I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel (like) a vagrant. Today I feel (like) a migrant worker,” Infantino said, adding, “I feel all of this because what I see … brings me back to my personal story.”

STOP APPEASING THE FRINGE MINORITY OF COVID ZEALOTS

   Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore found himself in hot water this week after videos emerged of him partying maskless days after he made a “strong recommendation” for Ontario residents to mask back up.
   Politicians and public health officials getting caught not following their own Covid rules is a common occurrence after more than two years of dealing with heavy-handed government rules and edicts. However, as True North’s Anthony Furey explains, it’s a good thing when they’re caught breaking their own rules.
  Anthony Furey says Moore never believed in his “strong recommendation” for masking and was only trying to appease the “fringe minority” of Covid zealots.

PM CLAIMING IGNORANCE

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he hasn’t received any information on federal election candidates who allegedly received funds from China in the 2019 federal election.
   “I do not have any information, nor have I been briefed on any federal candidates receiving any money from China,” he told a Global News reporter on Sunday in Tunisia.
   His response stems from a Global News report — which appeared on November 7 — about an alleged Chinese interference effort that Canadian intelligence officials warned Trudeau about, beginning last January.

EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS TO BE UNSEALED

 After a judge concluded that the public interest trumps the right to privacy, dozens of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s contacts will be made public, according to a report.

On Friday, Judge Loretta Preska ordered that sealed documents about eight Epstein associates must be unsealed despite the assertion of one of the subjects that the release of the documents would “wrongfully harm (his) privacy and reputation.”

NOVA SCOTIA PAYS DOUBLE TO REPLACE NURSES WHO REFUSED JABS

   The Department of Health won’t say how many health-care workers remain off work. An access to information document dated Nov. 7 shows that 263 Nova Scotia Health Authority employees and 148 long-term care workers were off the job as of February. The department would not update those numbers. Numbers for the IWK Health Centre were redacted.
   These workers are suspended without pay at a time when there are severe shortages in hospitals and long-term care facilities.
  At the same time, the province is spending tens of millions of dollars on “travel nurses,” according to a story published by the CBC on Thursday. The province is paying these private contract nurses at least double the hourly wage of public sector nurses, including the three nurses we spoke with.

POTENTIAL MERGER OF ROGERS & SHAW

 Major shareholders, particularly members of the Rogers and Shaw families, will be the “biggest winners” and accrue the biggest share of any gains should the $26-billion merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. proceed, an expert witness testified Friday as a second week of hearings to determine the fate of the deal came to a close.

The hearing before the Competition Tribunal is expected to last until mid-December and aims to resolve the impasse between the Commissioner of Competition, who wants to block the deal, and Rogers and Shaw.

The Competition Bureau is one of three regulatory agencies that must approve the deal, in addition to the CRTC and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Rogers wants to close the Shaw deal by the end of the year, with a possible further extension to Jan. 31, 2023.

BC CDC DROPS SELF-ISOLATION REQUIREMENTS FOR COVID

 “Starting Nov. 17, 2022, people who have COVID-19 are no longer required to self-isolate,” new language on the website states.

Before the change, the website had stated that fully vaccinated individuals “need to self-isolate at home for five days and until your symptoms improve and you no longer have a fever.” Unvaccinated adults were required to self-isolate for 10 days.

The new guidance doesn’t differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

WHERE WAS THEIR UNION WHEN THEY REFUSED THE JABS?

 About 325 Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) workers – many facing what their union calls ‘anxiety and financial hardship’ – stand to be reinstated now that the transit authority will be ditching its vaccine mandate.

“They should never have been terminated in the first place,” Marvin Alfred, President, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Local 113, wrote in an email to the Sun.

On Thursday, the TTC announced an end to its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy starting Nov. 27.

CANADIANS KEPT IN THE DARK ON FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN ELECTIONS

   The Liberal government described the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol (CEIPP) it created as “the mechanism for communicating with Canadians during the 2019 election (and subsequent elections) in a clear, transparent and impartial manner, if there had been an egregious incident that threatened Canada’s ability to have a free and fair election.”
  But if CEIPP never tells us anything about foreign interference in federal elections, what’s the point of having it?
   Canadian security experts have long warned that Canada is particularly vulnerable to foreign interference — not just during elections — because its espionage laws are badly outdated.
   Unlike the U.S. and Australia, Canada doesn’t even have a foreign influence registry law, requiring foreign agents to register when lobbying government officials and imposing fines and jail sentences on those breaking the law.

LUCKI VOWS TO KEEP TOP RCMP JOB

   Embattled RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says she wants to remain at the helm of the federal police force even as she faces growing dissatisfaction at the highest levels of the government over her leadership.
   Commissioner Lucki, who has dealt with a series of controversies that has put the government on the defensive, said she does not want to step aside. Her five-year term comes up for renewal in March.
   “I’m absolutely staying on as Commissioner of the RCMP,” she told reporters late Tuesday evening after testifying at the inquiry into the invocation of the Emergencies Act.

GREEDY DOCTOR SENTENCED TO 4 YEARS IN PRISON

   An Edmonton family physician has been sentenced to four years in prison for a crime described as the largest billing fraud by a doctor in Alberta history.
   In 2016, Dr. Yifei Shi billed Alberta Health for a total of $1,388,862. According to an agreed statement of facts entered in Court of King's Bench on Thursday morning, $827,077 of that amount was fraudulent.
   When Shi was charged, police alleged she had over-billed the Alberta government up to $4.1 million in a fraud scheme that dated back to 2013, but Shi only admitted to committing fraud in 2016.

RECORD BREAKING NUMBER OF CANADIANS USING FOOD BANKS

   Food Banks Canada’s report, Hunger Count Report for 2022, shows more Canadians than ever need access to food.
   Despite low unemployment rates in March 2022, the report says there were 1.5 million visits to food banks across Canada, the highest usage on record. This was a 15 per cent increase from the year prior and a 35 per cent increase from March 2019.
   Food Banks Canada used statistics from “most” organizations and only recorded numbers from March 2022. This “snapshot” means some people accessing the food bank may not have been counted. Income data from StatCan Income Survey reported 5.8 million Canadians lived in food-insecure households in 2021.

COST OF FULL TIME FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AT $55B IN 2022

   The latest report by Canada’s federal budget watchdog reveals that taxpayers are paying about $130,000 in compensation per full-time federal employee.
   According to Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux, forecasts shows that the cost of federal public service salaries and benefits for full-time workers will reach $55 billion in 2022 and balloon even further in the coming years. When taking into account all personnel and not just those employed full-time, that figure grows to $60.7 billion.
   “Over the past 7 years, personnel spending grew by an average of 6.7 per cent annually, from $39.6 billion to $60.7 billion,” explained Giroux.

WAITING FOR LIBERALS TO TAKE ACTION

 Trudeau needs to tell Canadians who China backed in our elections.

 Video:  Why Justin Trudeau failed when confronted by China’s Xi Jinping at the G20 meetings.

CRTC COMMISSION CHAIR TOLD THE TRUTH BY MISTAKE

   Conservative MP Rachael Thomas says that Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) chair Ian Scott walked back comments that Bill C-11 would lead to the policing of online algorithms because “he told the truth by mistake.”
   In June, Scott told the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications that the Trudeau government’s controversial internet regulation bill could be used to mandate web platforms manipulate their algorithms.
   Thomas, who is the Conservative heritage critic, told True North in an email Thursday that the issue was not that Scott’s comments were taken out of context, but rather that “he told the truth by mistake and now wants to walk it back.”

COVID UNLIKELY TO MAKE A COMEBACK

   The threat from Covid-19 seems to have gotten over as no new variant of concern has been detected in the past year, former Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientist Dr Raman Gangakhedkar told News18.com.
   The country’s top epidemiologist, who was the face of India’s apex medical research agency during government briefings on Covid-19 last year, said that “previously we have seen that new waves were coming almost every six months. But since last year, the same Omicron lineage continues”.
   “The coronavirus is evolving and changing itself over time – which is making it more infectious but less virulent,” he said.

ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF NORTH AMERICA

 Economic Freedom of North America 2022 is the eighteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2020, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of individual provinces and states were supportive of economic freedom, the ability of individuals to act in the economic sphere free of undue restrictions.

 Canada and the United States have similar scores in the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) report; both have typically been among the top 10 nations, though Canada fell out of the top 10 in 2021 and remained out this year. Mexico ranks much lower, at 64th this year; this is an improvement over past years.

The top jurisdiction is New Hampshire at 8.10, followed by Florida (8.05), Utah (8.03), and then Idaho and South Carolina, tied for fourth (8.02). Alberta is the highest ranking Canadian province, tied for 47th place with a score of 7.76. The next highest Canadian province is British Columbia in 51st at 7.70. Alberta had spent seven years at the top of the index but fell out of the top spot in the 2018 report (reflecting 2016 data). It is now in the bottom half of the 92 subnational jurisdictions in the all-government index.

TRUDEAU'S TANTRUM SPARKED EMERGENCIES ACT

   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be under a great deal of pressure when he testifies next week at the public inquiry examining his government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. The decision was almost certainly illegal and unconstitutional, and nothing that has been presented at the Public Order Emergency Commission so far suggests otherwise.
   In order to justify the use of emergency legislation that permits the government to effectively create laws at will and more easily limit charter rights, it must be shown that there was a genuine “threat to the security of Canada.” Such a threat, which is defined in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, must consist of “activities within or relating to Canada directed toward or in support of the threat or use of acts of serious violence.”
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   There has been no evidence made public so far that such a threat existed. On the contrary, law enforcement and intelligence officials have repeatedly said, either at the commission or to the government at the time, that the convoy protests did not meet the standards required by the Emergencies Act.

CHINA'S PRESIDENT XI KNOCKS TRUDEAU DOWN A PEG

   Any reasonable observer would have to admit that until Wednesday, anyway, the Liberal government had been doing quite a good job of putting a bold and rosy gloss on the humiliations, embarrassments and scandals that have lately encumbered its foundational policy of kowtowing to China’s Xi Jinping in the hopes of winning trade advantages and global-statesman status for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
   In the headlines, everything had been going swimmingly. The Guardian: “Trudeau raises ‘serious concerns’ about Chinese interference in talks with Xi.” Al Jazeera: “Canada’s Trudeau raises Chinese ‘interference’ in talks with Xi.” The BBC: “Trudeau accuses China of ‘aggressive’ election interference.”
   That’s pretty good spin when you consider what the story was really about. It was about Global News revealing last week that for 10 months, Trudeau had been sitting on reports from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service disclosing an elaborate plot hatched out of China’s Toronto consulate that funded interference in 11 ridings during the 2019 federal election campaign.
   It’s pretty good press, because it was so rich: Trudeau getting points for defending Canadian sovereignty after having invited and encouraged Beijing’s sordid influences in Canada’s economic and political life at every opportunity, ever since he was ushered into the Prime Minister’s Office in 2015 by Peter Harder, the head of the Canada-China Business Council, the guy Trudeau hired to lead his transition team and then elevated to lead the government side in the Senate.

LIBERALS: STOP QUIVERING, STAND UP TO CHINA

   Chinese President Xi Jinping’s dressing down of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G20 summit was as close to Real Housewives-style table flipping as intergovernmental forums get — at least publicly, anyway.
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    The decision to confront Trudeau in front of the media was clearly a deliberate one. There is no world in which Xi, a well-known control freak, didn’t spot a gigantic camera hovering nearby. He wanted Canadians, and the world, to see this moment.
   Xi’s public attempt to dominate Trudeau demonstrates the error of the Liberals’ cowardly ways. It’s difficult to imagine Xi doing such a thing to U.S. President Joe Biden, or even most European leaders. Appeasing a bully only makes them stronger and reinforces that their tactics work. More confrontations with China are inevitable, so rather than avoiding them, we better figure out how to handle them and come out on top.

FREELAND'S IDEA OF GOOD NEWS

   Statistics Canada reported Wednesday morning that the Consumer Price Index held at 6.9 per cent in October, marking a fourth consecutive month where inflation either stayed stable or declined after the nearly 40-year high inflation rate of 8.1 per cent in June.
   “This is good news,” said Freeland during question period.
   Poilievre criticized her for painting such a rosy picture.
   “So she tells Canadians that they’ve never had it so good. She’s out of touch and Canadians are out of money,” he said.

TORONTO MAN FOCUS OF CHINESE INTERFERENCE PROBE

   A subject of two separate investigations involving foreign interference, sources tell Global News, both related to a series of briefings and memos that Canadian security officials allegedly gave to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau beginning in January.
   The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has investigated Wei Chengyi for his alleged role in a covert scheme that facilitated large-fund transfers meant to advance Beijing’s interests in Canada’s 2019 federal election, sources said.
   According to RCMP sources, national security investigators are also probing Wei for possible links to several properties in Toronto and Vancouver allegedly used as so-called Chinese government “police stations,” which are believed to secretly host agents from China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS.)

GENEROUS CANADIAN TAXPAYERS COMPENSATE SUPPLY MANAGED SECTORS

   On a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau re-affirmed the Government's commitment to provide compensation for supply-managed sectors for the impacts of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). Dairy, poultry and egg producers and processors are expected to share more than $1.7 billion in direct payments and investment programs.
   This federal investment will help dairy, poultry and egg producers and processors make key investments and improve their operations to be even more competitive and sustainable.
  While dairy producers already know how much they will receive next year under the fourth compensation payment for the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) the Government intends to offer them extra funding of up to $1.2 billion over six years under the Dairy Direct Payment Program to account for the impacts of CUSMA.

RETIRED GENERAL CONFRONTS CANADIAN WOKENESS

  Cue the gags about major controversy, general consternation and private satisfaction. A retired senior Canadian officer just delivered a salvo against cancel culture, whiny entitlement and “woke journalism,” his still-uniformed colleagues gave him a standing ovation, and the usual suspects reached for the smelling salts. A mirror might have been a better choice.
   Retired Lt.-Gen. Michel Maisonneuve ranted against toppling statues and erasing history, climate activists vandalizing art, replacing personal responsibility with collective apologies as “Individuals and groups fight over who gets to wear the coveted victims’ cloak,” gender-neutral military uniforms and “these days of entitlement, Me First, not my problem and endless subsidies and handouts” generally.
   Rahr. Or waaaaaaah if you’re the government subsidized CDA, whose executive director simpered to the Ottawa Citizen that “many attendees were offended by LGen (ret’d) Maisonneuve’s speech. His remarks do not reflect those of the CDA Institute.” Yeah, well, they do reflect those of a great many Canadians including those currently serving and likely to serve.

THE BLATANT HYPOCRISY OF THE NDP

   The federal NDP are calling for an inquiry into the federal government’s Covid-19 response, labeling the Liberal government’s current stance “unacceptable.”

   The new call comes two weeks after former Reform Party leader Preston Manning launched the National Citizens’ Inquiry (NCI), an independent investigation into the response to COVID-19.
   In a press release on Tuesday, the NCI said that the NDP’s newly announced position speaks to changing public attitudes around mandates.
   “Public opinion undoubtedly has had much to do with reversing the NDP’s position since recent polls have shown that 3 out of 4 Canadians report being harmed by the government’s Covid-19 policies,” wrote Manning. The NDP voted alongside the Liberals throughout much of the pandemic and leader Jagmeet Singh continues to prop up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in exchange for policy promises. On various motions demanding transparency from the federal government on pandemic-related matters, the NDP voted to support the Liberals.

CHINA'S INTERFERENCE IN CANADA

   I left the fundraiser that night and did a little digging. The card identified my new friend as John Wei-Bang Zhu, the head of the Chinese Canadian Conservative Association (CCCA), a group that is not formally associated with the Conservative party. It is a private corporation, established in 2013, with a listed address on Midland Avenue in Toronto. Over the years, CCCA directors have been active as conservative volunteers and supporters. Two of its board members, Frank Fang and Eric Wen, describe themselves as president of Mississauga riding associations of the PC Party of Ontario. The CCCA has endorsed many candidates, including Fang who ran in the 2019 federal election. Most recently, it endorsed Patrick Brown during 2022 the Conservative leadership race.
   The CCCA is also the group that called for former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole to resign over his criticism of Chinese human rights abuses. In October 2021, CCCA spokesman Joe Li, a regional councilor north of Toronto and three-time former Tory candidate, held a press conference and said that Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig had been detained after “Canada started the war,” that China had a right to fly its planes into Taiwan’s air-defense zone and that Canada should not publicly criticize Beijing’s human-rights abuses.

CBSA IN NO RUSH TO HAND OVER INFORMATION TO COMMITTEE

   The Canada Border Services Agency has missed a committee-ordered deadline to hand over outsourcing invoices related to the ArriveCan app, and the agency president told MPs Monday that she couldn’t provide a timeline for handing over the documents.
   Further, CBSA president Erin O’Gorman told MPs that her agency doesn’t know the identity of the independent subcontractors who worked on the app and made no commitment to provide that requested information to the committee.
   Later in the hearing, Public Works officials said contractors are required to comply with federal security policies and that contracts can require subcontractors to have specific levels of security clearance, depending on the project.

HYDRO QUEBEC RESEARCHER ARRESTED

   The RCMP have arrested a Hydro-Quebec researcher after allegedly spying on Canada for the communist Chinese government.
   35-year-old Yuesheng Wang is facing four charges including fraud for obtaining trade secrets, breach of trust, obtaining trade secrets and unauthorized use of a computer. The crimes are believed to have taken place between Feb. 2018 and Oct. 2022.
   “While employed by Hydro-Québec, Mr. Wang allegedly obtained trade secrets to benefit the People’s Republic of China, to the detriment of Canada’s economic interests,” claimed an RCMP press release.

ALBERTA GIVES THE BOOT TO CHIEF MEDICAL HEALTH OFFICER

   Dr. Deena Hinshaw has been fired as Alberta’s chief medical health officer.
   The change comes as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has hinted at firing Hinshaw as she campaigned on overhauling Alberta Health Services (AHS). In her first press conference as premier on Oct. 11, Smith said she will no longer take advice from Hinshaw.
   “I appreciate the work that Dr. Deena Hinshaw has done, but I think that we’re in a new phase where we are now talking about treating coronavirus (as) influenza.”

   Smith campaigned on overhauling Alberta Health Services, including changes in management. She’s been critical of the treatment of the unvaccinated, who were barred from restaurants and gyms for a period.

ARROGANT TEACHERS' UNION GETS PUSH BACK FROM PARENTS

   The National Education Association (NEA) appears to be playing clean-up after a tweet Saturday drew harsh criticism for claiming that educators "know better than anyone" what students need.
   The NEA, one of the largest teachers unions in the United States, later turned off replies to the tweet, but not before 5,000 people responded, including former education secretary Betsy DeVos, who simply stated "You misspelled parents."

CSIS: FREEDOM CONVOY WAS NOT A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT

    OTTAWA — Canada’s spy agency told government officials — including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — before they invoked the Emergencies Act last winter that the Freedom Convoy protests didn’t pose a national security threat and weren’t supported by foreign state interference, according to a document made public Monday.
    Ultimately, no activities tied to the pandemic protests across the country ever met the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s definition of a national security threat, as defined by the CSIS Act, according to the summary of an interview of service director David Vigneault by Public Order Emergency Commission lawyers in August.
   It was the first time the act was invoked, and it can only be used in a national emergency when a situation “seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada” and cannot be dealt with by any other law. It specifically refers to the definition of a national security threat detailed in the CSIS Act.

EXPECTING THE LITTLE POTATO TO CONFRONT CHINA'S PRESIDENT

   Don’t expect Justin Trudeau to ask Chinese President Xi Jinping about China’s interference in Canada’s last two elections. A report by Global News last week revealed that Trudeau was presented with a CSIS report last January detailing China’s interference in the 2019 federal election.
   A total of 11 candidates received money, as much as $250,000 was dispersed, along with staff support by a covert operation run through the Chinese consulate in Toronto to influence Canada’s election. Trudeau has been asked about this report multiple times and hasn’t denied its accuracy, but won’t commit to raising it with Xi.
   “At the G 20, you’re going to be sitting beside Xi Jinping. Are you going to raise this issue with him?” Trudeau was asked but his answer was far from direct.

GREENWASHING EGYPT'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD

   Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is meeting with other world leaders in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, a secluded luxury resort town on the Red Sea, for this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). In spite of the fact that combating climate change should be everyone’s top priority, the COP27 meeting has drawn criticism due to the human rights and environmental records of its host country. Guilbeault should not shy away from addressing these issues with his Egyptian hosts.
   As a platform for African activists to speak up for communities ravaged by drought, floods and resource development projects, COP27 has been dubbed the “African COP.” However, only 20 per cent of African activists have been allowed to take part. Residents of Sharm El Sheikh report that authorities have increased security and harassed them in preparation for COP27. A nationwide call for peaceful demonstrations on Nov. 11 led to the arrest of dozens of protesters.

TIME FOR COVID ZEALOTS TO GET A LIFE

   This isn’t an old video from 2020. We are seriously having this conversation again. Just when you thought it was all over and despite everything we’ve learned about Covid, there are people pushing the government to impose a mask mandate again – in 2022.
   Thankfully, public health officials have not mandated masks yet but that won’t stop the Covid authoritarians from continuing to push for more mandates and lockdowns.
   True North’s Anthony Furey says it’s bizarre we’re having this conversation again and it’s time for the Covid zealots to get a life.

THE LONG REACH OF CARGILL IN UKRAINE

 Russians are perplexed at the news that troops will retreat from the right bank of the Dnieper River. Considering all the recent setbacks, this has made even the most stalwart patriots in Moscow feel testy. Just as anticipation of a significant Russian offensive is on the horizon, Russian forces take the exit stage left yet again. And at precisely the moment when General Sergei “Armageddon” Surovikin had Kyiv ready to beg for mercy and electricity, it seems like somebody pulled the ripcord. The whole world is squirming. Russian back channels are a flurry of complaints. And nobody seems to know anything. This is strange since the answer is as plain as the proverbial nose on anybody’s face. The elites have put the brakes on.

TEACHERS: STOP TELLING STUDENTS WHAT TO THINK

   In school, children should learn basic facts to help them become critical thinkers. Not only should high school graduates be knowledgeable and skillful, they should also be able to think for themselves.
   While everyone generally agrees with the importance of promoting critical thinking, there’s significant disagreement over how to get there. A common sentiment in schools nowadays is that teachers should focus on social justice, which means training students to become politically active so they can change the world.
   Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is a role model for many in this crowd. By skipping school to engage in “climate” strikes, Thunberg became world famous and many teachers and their unions endorsed climate strikes in Canada.

LIBERAL GOVERNMENT THROWING AWAY MORE COVID JABS

   OTTAWA – The federal government is throwing away more COVID-19 vaccines, with nearly eight million doses of the Moderna vaccines discarded due to drying-up demand in Canada and around the world.
     The National Post reported in June that the government had thrown away 1.2 million doses of Moderna’s shot that had expired, along with 13.6 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine. The number of expired Moderna shots has now risen to 7.7 million and the government has also now disposed of 3.1 million doses of the Novavax vaccine. About 7,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine has been thrown away.
    The federal government’s data for discarded vaccines are current as of the end of October this year and don’t include vaccines that may have expired and were discarded after they were sent to provincial governments.
   Canada ordered tens of millions of doses from seven different manufacturers before any of the vaccines had cleared clinical trials, at a cost of more than $9 billion.

USA EYES FUNDING MINING PROJECTS IN CANADA

 The United States military has been quietly soliciting applications for Canadian mining projects that want American public funding through a major national security initiative.

It's part of an increasingly urgent priority of the U.S. government: lessening dependence on China for critical minerals that are vital in everything from civilian goods such as electronics, cars and batteries, to weapons.

It illustrates how Canadian mining is becoming the nexus of a colossal geopolitical struggle. Ottawa just pushed Chinese state-owned companies out of the sector, and the U.S. is now considering moving public funding in.

LONG TERM SICKNESS INCREASES

 Dr. John Campbell video:  Excess death and long-term sickness dramatically increased in the UK.

$26M TO STOP PREDATORY PRACTICES IN TRUCKING INDUSTRY

 The federal Ministry of Labour announced Monday that it will be investing $26.3 million over five years to investigate trucking companies that illegally misclassify drivers as independent contractors in order to avoid costs they are supposed to cover.

The practice, called “Driver Inc.”, involves companies that hire truck drivers, then tell them to self-incorporate as independent contractors. As a result, the drivers are denied their rights and entitlements under the Canada Labour Code, including paid sick leave, health and safety standards, employer contributions to Employment Insurance and the Canada Pension Plan, and workplace injury compensation.

Wages are also an issue, as companies commonly hold-back pay to these “self-employed” drivers, even though they effectively work as employees.

TRUST ISSUES

 Neil Oliver:  New covid facts are starting to seep out.  

Peoples' lives were wrecked on the basis of a deliberate lie.

SCHOOL DRESS CODE STYMIED BY HUGE BOOBS

An Ontario school has completed a dress code review after one of its teachers sparked an international outcry by wearing enormous prosthetic breasts in class.
The Halton District School Board concluded in a newly released report that the board should not bring in a dress code for teachers because of human rights concerns.
The review was announced after students posted photos and videos to social media of a transgender teacher wearing huge prosthetic breast. The industrial arts teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School, west of Toronto, sparked a frenzy that spread online and around the world.

ADDRESSING NATIONAL SHORTAGE OF KIDS' MEDICATIONS

 Emergency supplies of pain and fever medication are expected to arrive soon at hospitals overwhelmed by respiratory illnesses but observers say more can be done to guard against future drug shortages.

Health Canada says special imports of ibuprofen from the United States are awaiting distribution, while acetaminophen imports from Australia are imminent.

The agency did not disclose how much was expected or how stock will be split among hospitals, but promised "fair distribution of supply across Canada."

POILIEVRE'S CRUSADE AGAINST THE MONEY PRINTING ORGY

 In person, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is relaxed and even cheery. But get him talking about the Bank of Canada (BoC), and he suddenly seems to vibrate on a higher intensity level.

“When I’m prime minister, we’ll have sound money. The Bank of Canada will have one job, and that’s to keep inflation at two per cent with an eye not just to CPI inflation, but asset price inflation. And that’s how we’re going to stabilize demand for assets like housing,” he says.

Housing policy was a key part of his leadership campaign, in which he promised to withhold federal infrastructure funding from local governments that don’t speed home building approvals or reduce associated costs. “In Canada, the supply problem isn’t because of the market; it’s because of government,” he says.

TORONTO GREENBELT LAND SET FOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

   Several well-established developers are among the owners of the 15 parcels of land the Ford government is proposing to open up for housing in the protected Greenbelt in the Greater Toronto Area, a CBC Toronto analysis of dozens of land registry and corporate records has found.
   The Ontario government announced a 30-day consultation last week on removing 2,832 hectares across 10 municipalities from the Greenbelt, which was created in 2005 to permanently protect agricultural and environmentally sensitive lands in the Greater Golden Horseshoe area from development.
   Corporations run by the DeGasperis family, longtime builders based in Vaughan, Ont. north of Toronto, who founded Tacc Developments and Tacc Construction, own 20 properties in three locations within the Greenbelt the government is proposing to open up.

$4.38BILLION TO CLEAN UP NWT GOLD MINE

   YELLOWKNIFE — Cleanup of one of the most contaminated sites in Canada is estimated to cost taxpayers more than four times what was initially expected.
   The Treasury Board of Canada recently approved a new $4.38-billion cost estimate for the remediation of Giant Mine, a former gold mine that operated from 1948 to 2004 within Yellowknife city limits.
   The federally led project was estimated to cost just under $1 billion in 2013, but that did not take into account inflation, contingency and project management costs, as well as the fact that remediation plans have since expanded.

FREEDOM CONVOY PERFECTLY CANADIAN IN ITS MODERATION

   Rex Murphy: And I also know we’re hearing of noise-making, some traffic-jams, proven false-alarms of attempted arson, general discomfiture. Likewise we are hearing of confused and mixed reactions from the various security and police forces. With no intention of taking a jab at them, they, the forces of the law, were under confused command and mixed directions. It’s easy to jump on the people in uniform, but (a) we aren’t them, and (b) they are faithful to the various directions given them.
    I am not hearing that there were threats of serious violence, or incidents of the same, because there were none.
   The truckers protest may not have been a February picnic, but neither was it a heartless siege. The description that it was an “occupation” — are we thinking France in the second world war — is “journalese’’ of the laziest kind.

COMPARING COVID JABS BY A RISK-REWARD BALANCE

   Moderna’s COVID-19 shot may cause two to three times as many heart-related side effects as Pfizer’s, according to a new Canadian study.
   The rates of myocarditis and pericarditis in individuals within 21 days of getting their second shot were 35.6 and 22.9 per million doses, respectively, for Moderna compared to 12.6 and 9.4 per million for Pfizer, the research found. The connection between the mRNA vaccines and heart complications was most pronounced in men and younger vaccine recipients.
   A number of medical bodies and health professionals have raised concerns about the association between mRNA vaccines and heart conditions. Some have pulled back on recommending the mRNA vaccines for young men in particular due to the less favorable risk-reward balance compared to other demographic groups.

HE'S SO PRECIOUS

 (Bloomberg) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will make an appearance on a new season of Drag Race, becoming the first world leader to do so on the popular television franchise. 

   Trudeau’s visit to the show will be aired as part of Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. the World series, which debuts Nov. 18. The trailer shows the prime minister meeting contestants, who compete to be named the “next drag superstar.” 

EARTH'S TOTAL POPULATION SOON TO HIT 8 BILLION

In just seven days the world’s total population will hit eight billion — but don’t worry too much about it, stress experts.

On November 15, you and some 7,999,999,999 Earthlings might feel a tad claustrophobic as the global headcount officially triples what it was in 1950.

This major milestone reflects ever-growing life expectancy according to the UN’s World Population Prospects 2022 report released today.

CANADIANS GROWING MORE PESSIMISTIC ABOUT ECONOMY

   Canadians grew more pessimistic about the economy last month, according to a new sentiment gauge that tracks households’ feelings about where the economy is headed and the state of finances.
   “What I am seeing is the bleakest and most biting outlook that I have seen since we started this and for many years previous,” said John Wright, Maru’s Toronto-based executive vice-president.
   Wright found that 70 per cent of respondents believed the economy was “on the wrong track,” a significant jump from 65 per cent in September. The result suggests higher interest rates and increased talk of a recession are weighing on the public mood. The last time any of the survey participants had anything good to say about the Canadian economy was back in November 2021, when 54 per cent said they approved of its trajectory.

TORONTO CITY DROPS MANDATORY VAX POLICY DEC 1

 The City of Toronto is prepared to rehire 350 unionized workers let go over their COVID-19 vaccination status.

And as of Dec. 1, the city is dropping its mandatory vaccination policy for city workers, volunteers and contractors.

LEGISLATION NEEDED TO COUNTER FOREIGN INTERFERENCE

 A Canadian Security Intelligence Service boss calls out an unnamed foreign government and its influence over at least two provincial cabinet ministers, the meddling nation eventually identified as China.

Citing unnamed sources, Global News said CSIS alleged that Chinese diplomats had supported 11 candidates in the 2019 federal election, funnelling $250,000 in funding at one point through a sympathetic member of the Ontario legislature.

Community activists and security experts said Tuesday the charges have the ring of truth, echo repeated warnings from the intelligence community — and yet seem unlikely to generate any concrete action in response.

THE INSANITY OF ZERO COVID EVIDENT IN CHINA

How is Zero Covid looking now? Ask China. The suffering of the Chinese people under the ideology of Zero Covid is extraordinary. Lockdown may be a mercifully fading memory for us in the West but it remains the ruthless daily reality for the Chinese. The numbers are staggering. Sixty-eight citiesin China are currently in partial or full lockdown. As of last week this includes the megacity of Chengdu, where 21million people have been instructed to stay indoors. Only one person from each household is allowed out to do essential shopping. No exercise, no strolls in the park, no going to work. Briefly nipping out for food is the only civil liberty the people of Chengdu enjoy.

The Chengdu lockdown is truly dystopian. Not only have millions been placed under house arrest – others have been forced to take up residence at their places of work. Chengdu is an economic powerhouse, home to global players in the automaker and technology markets, including Volkswagen and Foxconn Technology Group. And to ensure that the lockdown doesn’t disrupt production too much, some factories are operating ‘closed loop systems’. This means ‘separating workers from the rest of the community’. The workers stay on site, in campuses, away from their fellow citizens and families, and are constantly tested for sickness. All so that they can carry on being a cog in China’s vast economic machine. Under Zero Covid you’re either a potential carrier of disease that must be sealed into your home or a machine to be separated from society so that you can carry on producing for profit. Zero Covid dehumanises all.

BIDEN'S DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN TRUMP RAID

 A federal judge on Monday granted former President Donald Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized by the FBI during a raid on his Mar-a-Lago home last month. Presiding Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, further held that the Department of Justice cannot review or use for criminal investigative purposes any material seized pending the review process. 

Besides handing Trump a victory in his battle for some oversight of the Biden administration’s digging into his documents, Cannon highlighted several significant facts over the course of her 24-page order that further call into question the DOJ’s targeting of Trump. 

CONFIDENCE IN VACCINES ON THE WANE

 Researchers from the University of Portsmouth carried out two anonymous surveys in the winters of 2019 and 2022 to gauge people's attitudes to vaccinations and to look at what factors cause hesitancy and refusal.

After questioning more than 1,000 adults, they found that the post-pandemic group was considerably less confident in vaccines than the pre-pandemic group.

The paper, published in the medical journal Vaccine, showed a fall in confidence in nearly one in four participants since 2020, regardless of their age, gender, religious belief, education or ethnicity.

CSIS WARNING TO LIBERAL GOV'T WAS IGNORED

OTTAWA — Canada’s spy agency warned the federal government invoking the Emergencies Act could further radicalize Canadians engaged in convoy protests, and push some towards violence.

The document reveals that the day before the Trudeau government invoked the act on Feb. 14 in response to the Freedom Convoy protests across the country, CSIS warned the government that it could have significant and far-reaching collateral consequences.

“CSIS advised that the implementation of the EA would likely galvanize the anti-government narratives within the convoy and further the radicalization of some towards violence,” reads the document,” reads the document. It adds that the phenomenon was already noticed when Ontario declared a provincial state of emergency days earlier.

HOMELESS CRIME IS A REAL THREAT

   A new poll shows that many Canadians feel less safe because of homeless violence and believe that the government is not effectively addressing homelessness. For years, soft-on-crime activists and their allies have tried to bury this issue, but it is clear based on public sentiment that this needs to change.
   The poll, conducted by Leger in partnership with Postmedia, shows that: 58 per cent of Canadians believe that homelessness is an issue in their community; 46 per cent feel less safe in their community because of homelessness; and 39 per cent believe that homelessness has led to more violence in their community.
   These numbers strikingly rebuke the “everything is fine and crime at homeless encampments isn’t serious” propaganda that some activists, bureaucrats and media figures have spent years championing.

SURGING ENERGY DEMANDS LEAD TO ENBRIDGE EXPANSION IN BC

Energy developments in British Columbia are booming such that on Friday, Enbridge Inc revealed a $3.6 billion expansion to its gas pipeline in the province citing surging demand.

Enbridge is also considering a further $1.9 billion expansion in northern BC at the same time.

A recent report by the Canadian Energy Centre found that oil and gas development have contributed approximately $9 billion to BC’s GDP and created over 55,000 jobs in 2018 alone.

FREELAND IGNORES NATURAL GAS IN CLEAN ENERGY PLANS

   Natural gas has the added advantage of backing up intermittent wind and solar power.
  Canada is the world’s fifth largest producer and fourth largest exporter of natural gas.
  But almost all of it goes to the U.S., where we sell it at huge discounts, because we can’t get it to global markets due to a lack of infrastructure. This costs the Canadian economy an estimated $9 billion annually.

THE DANGER OF TIRE IRONS

 Remember how Canadians were told last winter by several Liberal cabinet ministers that the Emergencies Act was necessary to clear out the Freedom Convoy because the truckers blockading downtown Ottawa were “armed?”

Well, it turns out that was true only because Ottawa police were using a ridiculously broad definition of “weapons.”

What was the No. 1 weapon identified by Ottawa police during the 24-day protest?

Tire irons!