DROP THE COVID ALARMISM CYCLE

 Did you know that official hospitalization rates include some people who remained asymptomatic and just happened to test positive for the virus upon arrival but were admitted to hospital for something completely different than COVID?

Did you know that in Ontario “cases in schools” just refers to people who attend school who have tested positive, and that actual transmission in schools, according to officials, is very low?

Did you know that Dr. Theresa Tam signed off on a  pandemic plan  in 2018 that presumed much worse infection rates than we’re dealing with now but would still see everything stay open?

GHISLAINE MAXWELL TRIAL

NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell manipulated young girls and “served them up” to Jeffrey Epstein, a New York court heard Monday as the trial began of the British socialite allegedly at the centre of one of the largest sex-trafficking rings in U.S. history.

Prosecutors told the jury that Maxwell was the late financier’s partner in a “pyramid scheme of abuse,” in which she groomed girls as young as 14 who were in turn forced to recruit other girls for Epstein’s pleasure.

 Lara Pomerantz, the assistant U.S. attorney, said at the start of what has already been described as the “trial of the century” that the British heiress, who has spent the past 15 months in a Brooklyn prison, used her “cover of respectability” to deceive Epstein’s victims.

“Make no mistake, she knew what Epstein was going to do. He did not abuse (the victims) alone, she was in the room for the abuse,” said Pomerantz, who warned the jury that some of the allegations would be “hard to hear.”

PUBLIC BACKLASH AT WOKE TORONTO SCHOOL BOARD

  Rex Murphy:  Sometimes a public backlash is exactly what’s needed to kick some common sense into our increasingly woke school boards.

Such is the case with the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) insane decisions not to allow students to attend book club events featuring Marie Henein, an outstanding criminal lawyer the board took issue with because of who she chose to defend, and Nadia Murad, a Nobel Prize-winning woman who had been a victim of ISIL, endured torments too ugly to speak, but managed to escape and now champions young women the world over.

 The backlash against these determinedly witless and frankly insulting decisions pushed the board into damage control. It was all a “misunderstanding.” Of course kids can read Henein’s book, and Murad will get a chance to speak to students in February.

DEMOCRATS' DOUBLE STANDARDS

 

If Democrats didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

Donald Trump was president in 2020, and Democrats routinely and relentlessly blamed Trump for every death from COVID.

Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said, "My father and over 300,000 people have lost their lives because of dangerous criminal neglect by Trump and his administration.”

Democrats gleefully repeated Omar’s absurd and infantile claims.

Yet today more Americans have died from COVID under the Biden presidency in 2021 than under the Trump presidency in 2020. Did these Americans lose their lives because of dangerous and criminal neglect by Biden and his administration?

JUDGE HALTS BIDEN'S VACCINE MANDATE FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS

   A judge halted President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in ten states on Monday, court documents show.
   Missouri-based U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp in his 32-page opinion decided that the detrimental impact of losing qualified healthcare workers outweighs the need for employees to be vaccinated and said the mandate imposes a burden “on the ability of healthcare facilities to provide proper care, and thus, save lives.”
   In his opinion, Schelp clearly laid out three ways in which Biden’s vaccine mandate is unlawful, leaving little doubt as to what his final ruling would be.

FAUCI'S GOD COMPLEX

"Fauci is an unelected technocrat who has distorted science and facts in order to exercise authoritarian control over millions of Americans."

Fauci appeared on CBS News’ Face The Nation, and declared that “Anybody who spins lies and threatens and all that theater that goes on with some of the investigations and the congressional committees and the Rand Pauls and all that other nonsense, that’s noise.”

He further claimed “if you’re attacking me, you’re really attacking science,” adding “I mean, everybody knows that.”

XI LOSES FACE WHEN BOYCOTTS BACKFIRE

 Communist China’s plan to bring Australia’s economy to its knees through economic boycotts has backfired after the nation had to wind back some of its policies as its energy crisis worsened.

Since September, the Asian superpower has been struggling to cope with a power crisis leading to rolling blackouts and factories shutting down across the country.

Some of the outages were so severe that Chinese citizens had to live without traffic lights and phone reception in some areas.

LOOTERS RANSACK STORES ACROSS USA

Groups of looters ransacked shopping centers and retailers around the country throughout Thanksgiving week following last weekend’s full-fledged stealing bonanza in California’s Bay Area.

A Sunglass Hut at the Del Monte shopping center in Monterey, California, was hit by a group of four on Friday, who stole an estimated $30,000 in sunglasses, police confirmed to KSBW.

The same day, a group of eight between the ages of 15 and 20, stole crowbars, hammers, and other tools from a Lakewood, California, Home Depot, according to Fox 11, citing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. They made off with an estimated $400 in tools.

OMICRON IS EXTREMELY MILD

Contrary to the panicmongering unleashed by western mainstream median, Barry Schoub, chairman of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines, told Sky News on Sunday that while South Africa, which first identified the new variant, currently has 3,220 people with the coronavirus infection overall and while the variant does appear to be spreading rapidly, there’s been no real uptick in hospitalizations

“The cases that have occurred so far have all been mild cases, mild-to-moderate cases, and that’s a good sign,” said Schoub, adding that it was still early days and nothing was certain yet.

Most importantly, and running counter to the fearmongering narrative being pumped out 24/7 by the mainstream media, Schoub said that the large number of mutations found in the omicron variant appears to destabilize the virus, which might make it less “fit” than the dominant delta strain.

RCMP OFFICER DRAWS HIS LINE IN THE SAND

Corporal Daniel Bulford, an RCMP sniper whose main job is to protect PM Justin Trudeau, has spoken out against the federal vaccine mandate.

Cpl. Bulford is the spokesman for Mounties For Freedom , a group of RCMP officers opposing the vaccine mandate whose letter to the commissioner Brenda Lucki has gathered over 38,000 signatures.

Bulford was already concerned about the suppression of dissenting experts, widespread censorship, as well as the refusal to allow proven and effective early treatments for covid such as ivermectin, but the vaccine mandate has “crossed his line in the sand”.

An interview with Corporal Bulford here.

BLAME GOVERNMENT INEPTITUDE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE

 Before We Lost the Lake is filled with evidence of the seemingly futile hundred-year human struggle to tame Sumas Lake by draining it of water and turning it into fertile prairie, a never-ending battle to build and re-build dikes and infrastructure in the face of recurring flood episodes of varying magnitudes going back centuries. Sumas and areas south of the United States border have experienced so-called 100-year floods in 1908-1909 and 1932. Floods ranked as 35-year events occurred in 1945, 1949,1955,1975, and 1990. At least a dozen others are on the record.

Instead of preparing for the floods, all levels of government, but especially the province of British Columbia along with Ottawa, spent most of the last few decades revving up the long-range aspects of climate change alarm. Instead of promoting the urgency to prepare for the well-understood flood risks, they hyped the long-run but uncertain risks and speculative events forecast for 80 to 100 years in the future.

LIBERALS DECIDE TRAVEL BANS ARE, NOW, NOT RACIST

 With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers now banning flights from seven African countries in a bid to control the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, will they finally admit those who called for banning flights from China at the start of the pandemic were right and they were wrong?

Will they apologize for falsely labeling them as racists and acknowledge their own claims at the beginning of the pandemic that travel bans were ineffective were false?

If travel bans — implemented until at least Jan. 31, 2022 — are justified now to protect Canadians, then they were justified at the start of the pandemic and the federal government failed to protect us by not acting until months later, haphazardly, when it was too late.

PROTECTING GENETIC INFORMATION

 While law enforcement's use of genetic genealogy has been credited with advancing and solving cold cases, it's also raising ethical questions about how police are taking advantage of the at-home DNA testing trend.

"There have been some pretty big wins with this technology, but the downsides are pretty big as well," said Brenda McPhail, director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association's privacy, surveillance and technology program.

"Our genetic information is quite literally the most personal, intimate information that there is about us, which means that it's deserving of the highest level of protection that we can provide it."

PAYING BACK PORTION OF CERB

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit was rolled out at the onset of the pandemic during a historic drop in the labour market — three million jobs lost and two million people with hours cut. The government sent $2,000 payments to some recipients who applied through Service Canada as an advance on the first four weeks to help households who saw sudden loss of earnings.

 The idea was to reconcile the payment at some point during the time CERB was available, which is why many who got the advance saw a break in benefits during the summer of 2020.

The government now says there are still recipients who owe some or all of the $2,000, specifically those who were not entitled to the aid or didn’t collect CERB for at least 20 weeks.

EXPOSING THREATS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

 On Nov. 23, Apple announced it is suing a global software developer following a security breach that left its operating systems vulnerable to surveillance. In September, Apple scrambled to issue a protective patch for a reported 1.65 billion devices that were vulnerable to the NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware. How did Apple find out that it had been hacked? Canada’s Citizen Lab sounded the alarm.

Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary human rights, security and technology research group founded in 2001. Part of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, examples of the lab’s focus areas include digital espionage, online freedom of expression, app privacy and security, and uses of personal data and surveillance tools.

COURT DISMISSES LIBEL SUIT AGAINST PREMIER FORD

 Former OPP Commissioner Brad Blair has lost a second round in his fight against Doug Ford, with the Ontario Court of Appeal upholding the dismissal of his $5 million libel suit against the Premier.

And not only that, but Blair must now pay Ford’s legal costs of $130,000 all at once rather than in two installments. Plus he’s on the hook for the Premier’s $30,000 legal bill for this loss as well.

In 2018, Blair was angry when he was passed over for promotion as OPP commissioner and Ford’s buddy, Toronto Police Supt. Ron Taverner, was hired instead. The optics were certainly bad: The longtime family friend didn’t initially meet the requirements for the post but the job qualifications were lowered just before he was chosen.

PROFOUND JUNK SCIENCE OF CLIMATE

Climate change prophecy hangs its hat on computer climate models. The models have gigantic problems. According to Kevin Trenberth, once in charge of modeling at the National Center for Atmospheric research, [none of the] “models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate” [of the Earth]. The models can’t properly model the Earth’s climate, but we are supposed to believe that if carbon dioxide has a certain effect in the imaginary Earths of the many models it will have the same effect on the real earth.

The climate models are an exemplary representation of confirmation bias, the psychological tendency to suspend one’s critical facilities in favor of welcoming what one expects or desires. Climate scientists can manipulate numerous adjustable parameters in the models that can be changed to tune a model to give a “good” result.

CHINA RAISING TENSIONS ACROSS THE PACIFIC

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said on Friday that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) desires closer relations with the U.S. military – and then blamed the U.S. for taking “provocative” actions that make such a close relationship difficult.

Wu said China wants to be friends, but Washington insists on such aggressive policies as supporting Taiwan, challenging China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, and monitoring Chinese military movements.

In truth, China is the party raising tensions across the Pacific – everywhere from the skies of Taiwan, which have been filled with a large number of Chinese warplanes lately, to the Philippines, which is resisting aggressive Chinese attempts to seize disputed shoals by force.

USA SUPPORTS 75% OF WORLD'S DICTATORS

 The US supports nearly 75% of the world’s dictators, autocracies, monarchies, military regimes, etc., with weapons, military training and money. Please remember this the next time someone tells you the US should do X or Y because such and such a nation is bad…

Comparing Freedom House’s list of Not Free nations to FY 2020 US overseas weapons sales, military training and financial assistance**, we find that of the 57 nations considered undemocratic, 42 receive weapons, training and/or money for their military and security services. This means 74% of the non-democratic nations of the world are supported militarily by the US. Interestingly, the remaining 15 nations are nearly all sanctioned. The world’s countries can be divided into two parts: those who buy/receive weapons from the US and those sanctioned. It seems like it’s a pretty simple arrangement.

THE TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY

 Get used to it. Whenever the Trudeau Liberal government climbs up on a soapbox to claim it has a mandate for anything – much less the complete reordering of Canada’s society and economy – I am going to point out that they were elected with the smallest share of the popular vote of any federal government in Canadian history.

Indeed, they received so few votes in September, that had they followed through on their first-term promise to end first-past-the-post elections, they might well not even be the government now.

Since I oppose proportional representation, I can’t object entirely to the party with the most seats forming the government, even if it is a minority. That said, the Liberals don’t have a mandate to do much of anything.

POLAND CLOSES OFF & MILITARIZES ITS BORDERS

 As I write, thousands of migrants from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Africa are gathered on the Belarus–Poland border. They have been transported there as part of a plan laid out by Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, acting as the “in” Islamist travel agency. Through chain messages on WhatsApp and social networks, these migrants have been lured to their current situation under the promise that they will be able to enter the European Union and even, in many cases, that they will find a job there, which besides being a lie strikes me as a bad joke. I am writing from Spain, where youth unemployment is at 42 percent and we have a cretin in the Government telling us that he is going to spend our money to stop global warming.

Poland has reacted by condemning the attack and has closed off and militarized its border. They are not ready for an Islamic invasion — the umpteenth — orchestrated by Europe’s enemies and tolerated by a cowardly European Union.

THE UNIVERSITY PROF. WHO DEFENDED PEDOPHILES

 The university professor who defended pedophiles, claiming they should be called “minor-attracted persons,” has resigned after a public outcry.  Dr. Allyn Walker, 34, who uses pronouns they/them, had been placed on leave by Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., last week following the release of their book calling for a new paradigm for pedophiles.

But the blowback was fast and furious, with 15,000 signing an online petition calling for the sociology and criminal justice professor to get the boot after suggesting pedophiles should not be stigmatized for their sickening urges.

Walker called them MAPS, or minor-attracted persons, and suggested child-like sex dolls could keep their philia at bay.

OPPOSITION STILL DEMANDING LIBERALS RELEASE DOCUMENTS

    Federal opposition parties moved quickly on the first day of the new Parliament to force the Liberal government to release secret documents on the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest-security laboratory.
   Conservative House Leader Gérard Deltell mounted an effort Tuesday to resurrect an order of the House of Commons that required the government to disclose records that could shed light on why Ottawa expelled and then fired Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, from Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg
    NDP deputy foreign affairs critic Don Davies said the foundational principles of the House include democracy, the rule of law and the supremacy of Parliament.
    “No government of any stripe is entitled to ignore these fundamental principles. … To do so is an act of autocracy and a repudiation of the basic tenets of our nation for which so many fought and died.”

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS JUSTIN

 A throne speech promise to improve diplomatic relations in the Indo-Pacific and Arctic regions is a sign of a new foreign policy direction by the Liberal government, say analysts.

Even the use of the term Indo-Pacific is a signal that the government intends to work more closely with allies to counter China’s growing influence, they said.

Paul Evans, a professor at the school of public policy and global affairs at the University of British Columbia, said the government faces a series of decisions involving China that it will have to make quickly. That includes a decision on whether to ban Huawei equipment from Canada’s 5G networks, and how to handle the upcoming Olympics in Beijing.

I HIT HIM BACK FIRST

Nice pipelines you have there. Pity if something were to … happen to them. Thus spake St. David Suzuki, guardian of all that is good and nice in Canada, channeling the mafia.

Not that he was threatening violence when he said “there are going to be pipelines blown up if our leaders don’t pay attention to what’s going on.” Sure, he was speaking at an Extinction Rebellion event and they routinely break the law because they can’t prevail in free votes. But they are clad in the armour of the Lord, or Gaia, and fully justified by their faith.

 As the National Post reported , when asked if he supported bombing pipelines, Suzuki replied, “Of course not.” But just in case, “The violence is coming from the authorities, from government, from the RCMP. They’re declaring war against those that are protesting.” So it’s self-defense, à la Andy Capp’s “I thought he was going to hit me so I hit him back first.”

HIRE ON MERIT, LOSE RESEARCH GRANTS

 An award-winning Canadian scientist said he has been refused two federal government grants for his research on the grounds of “lack of diversity” — even though he is originally from India and has repeatedly suffered racism.

Patanjali Kambhampati, a professor in the chemistry department at Montreal’s McGill University, believes the death knell for the latest grant was a line in the application form where he was asked about hiring staff based on diversity and inclusion considerations. He says his mistake was maintaining that he would hire on merit any research assistant who was qualified, regardless of their identity.

COVID VACCINES A WAR ON CHILDREN

The first battles in the Covid War on Children began with the lockdown, forcing kids into isolation, depriving them of education, smothering them with masks, strangling their innate joy and playfulness, and denying them contact with God-given images of human faces.

The tyrants won those first battles, vanquishing our kids. Children are committing suicides in numbers never before seen; their health has plummeted with terrifying rates of obesity and diabetes, their intellectual and social development is languishing, and they are suffering intensely.

Now with children sicker and weaker than ever before, and with parents desperate for a return to “normal,” the tyrants are moving in for the kill with vaccines. The Pop Culture Brigade unleashed Big Bird to tweet about the joys of the jab, promised kids super powers from the vaccines in a grotesque Pfizer ad, and invited a pop star to the White House to push “Let’s end this pandemic together” to kids.

Do you want your kid vaccinated? Then get the Vaccinate Me Elmo Doll and terrify your kid to a safer tomorrow.

HYPOCRISY OF KAMALA HARRIS

Vice President Kamala Harris’s hypocrisy was on display Tuesday as President Joe Biden raided oil reserves despite her having slammed then-President Donald Trump in 2020 for refilling them.

“Absolutely unacceptable that Trump is prioritizing bailing out Big Oil companies while dragging his feet to support millions of unemployed people, workers, small businesses, and state and local governments,” Harris tweeted in 2020 during the pandemic.

“Vice President Kamala Harris opposed President Trump’s decision to fill America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve—the very reserve that President Biden is exploiting for political convenience today,” McCarthy tweeted. “Utter hypocrisy.”

MR. O'TOOLE, YOU ARE A LIBERAL

After winning the party’s leadership by claiming to be an authentic, common-sense conservative who would fight against carbon taxes and push back against “the radical left,” O’Toole later reverted his stance on almost every major position.

The things O’Toole seemed to be most passionate about on the campaign trail were his Liberal values. He’s pro-abortion, he’s bought into the leftist cult of climate alarmism, he’s a champion of big government spending and borrowing and he’s a proponent of celebrating the latest leftist cultural fad — be it denying that biological women exist or his habit of hectoring the world’s most tolerant country to be even more tolerant.

We get it, Mr. O’Toole, you are a Liberal.

WORLDWIDE FREEDOM RALLY AGAINST COVID MANDATES

 Saturday saw large-scale demonstrations around Europe against Covid lockdowns, vaccine passports, and mandatory vaccination. Austria became the first European nation to require mandatory vaccinations and had earlier announced a lockdown for the unvaxed, which is now being extended to the entire population.  As a result, Austrians took to the streets in Vienna.

TORONTO—Several thousand people marched in downtown Toronto on Saturday as part of a “Worldwide Freedom” rally to protest COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates. Some among the crowd carried signs with slogans such as “Stop the medical tyranny” and “Coercion is not consent” and “No medical apartheid,” while many chanted “freedom.”

Rallies were also held in several cities across Canada, including in Ottawa, London, and Calgary.

FDA NEEDS 55 YEARS BEFORE REVEALING PFIZER VACCINE DATA

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested that the courts allow the agency to wait until the year 2076 to release all of the relevant documents regarding the approval of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, as reported by the Daily Caller.

The FDA made its request after a lawsuit was filed against the agency by the group Public Health Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT). The PHMPT had previously made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on September 9th asking for the release of the vaccine approval documents; after the FDA denied the request, the group filed its lawsuit on September 16th.

ATTENTION-SEEKING FEAR MONGERING SUZUKI

 David Suzuki, the godfather of the Canadian environmental movement, warned over the weekend that if politicians don’t act to reverse climate change, there could be attacks against oil and gas infrastructure.

Asked whether or not he would support the bombing of pipelines, Suzuki said, “Of course not.”

“The violence is coming from the authorities, from government, from the RCMP,” said Suzuki. “They’re declaring war against those that are protesting.”

THIRD MAJOR FLOOD FOR BC'S FRASER VALLEY

 Near-biblical rains and the ensuing floods have devastated the Fraser Valley in the past week.

It isn’t the first time it’s happened in the region: Great floods also struck in 1894 and 1948.

The 1894 flood was the largest. The Vancouver Archives have some startling photographs by George Edwards of flood waters inundating Chilliwack, Mission and Hatzic, stranding houses and twisting railway tracks.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS THROWING AWAY TAXPAYERS MONEY

Audits of approved grant applications found nearly one-third had incomplete paperwork, and money meant to help others was used for questionable purchases.

An internal audit of Canada’s department of foreign affairs found paperwork was missing in about 33% of sampled files from 2020, reports Blacklock’s Reporter — also finding that many managers tasked with checking up on projects had little knowledge of what became of taxpayers’ money.

 One such case studying foreign aid dollars involved supposedly unspent portions of a $20.5 million, four-year commitment to help the Philippines recover from Typhoon Yolanda in 2013 that, according to auditors, was used instead to buy karaoke machines.

CANABIS CUPCAKES LANDS SOLDIER IN JAIL

A Canadian soldier will spend up to 30 days in jail for drugging her comrades with cannabis-laced cupcakes during a live-fire training exercise in 2018.

Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell was sentenced Friday by a military judge in New Brunswick in the first trial of its kind for the Canadian military.

The 28-year-old was found guilty in August of eight charges of administering a noxious substance and one charge of behaving in a disgraceful manner.

CONSERVATIVE SENATORS DEFY O'TOOLE

Sen. Denise Batters may no longer be welcome in the Conservatives’ national caucus but she’s still a member of the party’s Senate caucus.

Conservative senators have chosen to keep Batters in their fold, notwithstanding party leader Erin O’Toole’s decision Tuesday to kick her out of the national caucus after she challenged his leadership.

 The decision to keep Batters in their caucus suggests Conservative senators are defying O’Toole, who warned Wednesday that anyone supporting her attempt to force an early confidence vote on his leadership would be kicked out of national caucus for not being a team player.

A NET GOAL OF ZERO CLIMATE CONFERENCES

 Rex Murphy:  Lorrie Goldstein — sage columnist and editor emeritus of the Toronto Sun — is among the first to call for an end to the gigantic, carbon-spewing gatherings of tech tycoons, decaying aristocrats, current and former heads of state, louche Hollywood prattlers and green fanatics, known as the Conference of the Parties, which, for 26 consecutive years, have tormented the sanity of the world. With immensely refreshing directness, the lede sentence of his latest column says what needs to be said: “It’s time to put the United Nations’ annual global gabfest on climate change out of its misery and ours.”

MIGRATION CRISIS IN SPAIN

 Prosecutors in Spain have charged a dozen North African migrants with sedition for illegally entering the country by forcing a commercial airliner to land on Spanish territory.

The plot, months in the making and unmatched in audacity, has demonstrated that commandeering airliners is a cheaper and safer way to reach Europe than paying people-smugglers thousands of euros for perilous sea crossings.

Spanish authorities, notorious for closing a blind eye to illegal immigration from North Africa, fear that the plot has set a precedent that will be repeated, not only in Spain but at other airports in Europe.

COSTLY NATURAL DISASTER IN BC

  Extreme rains that have caused mudslides, floods and devastation in British Columbia and damaged road and rail links connecting Vancouver’s port to the rest of Canada, could take a toll on the country’s economic growth, according to analysts.

The flooding in the Fraser Valley area could rank among the costliest natural disasters in Canada’s history, both in terms of the bill to repair the damage and the broader costs to the country’s economy, as containers laden with imports sit on anchored ships and shipyards at the Port of Vancouver, which is now cut off from the rest of the country, according to an economist

LIBERALS DO NOT GIVE A TOSS

Is there anything left in Canada that remains unsullied by organized crime? Increasingly, the answer points to no. In recent weeks, there have been a series of reports about organized crime’s impact on everything from spiraling real estate costs to the country’s growing drug problem and even tractor theft . Now, a newly released Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) report reveals that the government has no idea how much pandemic support money went to criminal elements.

Rather than launch an immediate investigation into the matter and commit to tracking down and prosecuting the perpetrators, the Liberals have done nothing. It’s the Conservatives calling on the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to launch an audit and urging the government to implement better safeguards.

The reality is that we’re unlikely to see anyone prosecuted over this alleged fraud. Over the past decade, Canada has secured less than 50 money laundering convictions, despite our reputation as an international hub for parking and laundering illicit funds.

MASSIVE CLEANUP TO BEGIN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

 British Columbia has begun the mammoth task of assessing damage to its transportation networks, infrastructure and thousands of properties along the southern part of the province in the wake of devastating floods. The province also expects the death toll to rise.

Thousands of people remain out of their homes and thousands of farm animals and livestock were also imperilled as waters washed away homes and left farms under metres of water as the province declared a state of emergency on Wednesday.

The flooding was caused by record rainfall last weekend.

The state of emergency will last two weeks and could be extended. It allows the government greater control over supply chains, as access to Metro Vancouver remains constrained by damaged highways.

A TRAIL OF CONTRADICTIONS & DECEPTION

 Marc and Craig Kielburger's WE Charity routinely misled school-aged children and wealthy philanthropists across North America for years as it solicited millions for schoolhouses in Kenya and other projects in its Adopt-A-Village program, an investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate has found.

Slick marketing videos, congratulatory social media posts and crowdfunding websites across the internet tell the story of two brothers on a mission to change the world, but under closer scrutiny those digital crumbs lead down a trail of contradictions and deception. 

"I don't know how they thought they could get away with it for so long," said a former WE employee. CBC agreed to conceal their identity because they were concerned about legal reprisals from the charity for speaking out. 

SOPHIE'S PANTS ON FIRE

On Remembrance Day, Sophie Trudeau promised to "always remember" her grandfather who she said was killed in Normandy, according to Blacklock's Reporter.

Despite Sophie's poem, federal records reveal that her grandfather did not serve in World War II. On top of this, no mention of Sophie's grandfather can be found in the book of remembrance.

Further digging by our friends at Blacklock's suggested that Sophie's grandfather was a non-combatant who died at the age of 83. The PMO would not comment on whether this was true.

QUEBEC GETS A TASTE OF ALBERTA'S PAIN

 But now, millions of dollars and many months into the process, the work suddenly faces political obstacles that threaten to derail the project entirely.

You might think I was recalling the trouble befalling any number of pipeline projects.

But as improbable as it might sound, the trouble this time is focused on the New England Clean Energy Connect project, a multimillion-dollar power transmission line meant to send hydroelectric power from Quebec to Massachusetts.

LIES & MISINFORMATION USED TO SELL COVID JABS

 Once in office, Joe Biden and his administration openly and vociferously claimed that once people are vaccinated, they would not be susceptible to Covid-19.   In this same timeframe the media, the CDC and the pharmaceutical companies were touting the vaccines as nearly 100% effective in preventing Covid-19 infections.  Those pronouncements were the key element that convinced so many to get the vaccine as they assumed once they were vaccinated it was a permanent preventative.

How is it going after 11 months of worldwide mass vaccinations?  A look at those countries with the highest percentage of their overall populations that are fully vaccinated reveals:

Singapore with 85% of the population vaccinated has hit a new high   in both covid infections and deaths due to covid-19.  

TRY BEING CONSERVATIVES

The front page of Tuesday’s National Post highlighted the obvious troubles of Jason Kenney and Erin O’Toole , namely dismal polling numbers and party revolts. But the cause deserves attention too: Both deliberately jettisoned any semblance of principle in pursuit of partisan gain and for some reason aren’t popular with conservatives or voters. Weird, huh?

Kenney did win an Alberta election after uniting various conservative fragments. It’s easier than, say, doing it federally. But since it was all about the brass ring, give some credit for having grasped it briefly. Then consider columnist Don Braid’s claim that Monday “should have been one of Premier Jason Kenney’s best days in office” because he’d gotten hold of free money from Ottawa to shower on voters willing to let the state raise their kids for them.

Incorrect. Such social engineering might be wise. It might be popular. But it’s not conservative in any way shape or form. And if you say so much the worse for conservatism, you can join the NDP, or the Liberals who appear to be having Canada’s first NDP prime minister and loving it. But if you’re going to present as conservative, you need some conservatism or the base will turn on you and so will the public.

LIVERPOOL BOMBER IS ASYLUM SEEKER

The Liverpool suicide attacker built a 'Mother of Satan' ball bearing bomb used by ISIS extremists to 'cause maximum carnage' and may have been driven to take revenge after his asylum bids kept being turned down amid confusion about where he was actually from, it was claimed today.

Enzo Almeni, 32, a Muslim who converted to Christianity four years ago, was killed after the homemade device exploded as his taxi pulled up at Liverpool Women's Hospital just before before the 11am minute's silence on Remembrance Sunday.

The asylum seeker's heritage is disputed, having arrived in Britain claiming to be of Syrian and Iraqi heritage, but security sources believe he actually came from Jordan. It raises serious questions for the Home Office, as he was allowed to stay in the country for at least seven years without being deported.

BAR HUAWEI FROM 5G

 As the Liberal government prepares to unfurl its policy on next-generation mobile networks, global security experts say all signs point to the exclusion of Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies from the long-awaited blueprint.

The opposition Conservatives have long pressed the Liberals to deny Huawei a role in building the country’s 5G infrastructure, saying it would allow Beijing to spy on Canadians more easily.

Some contend Huawei’s participation could give it access to an array of digital information gleaned from how, when and where Canadian customers use internet-connected devices. In turn, the theory goes, Chinese security agencies could force the company to hand over the personal information.

AUSTRIA'S LOCKDOWN FOR UNVAXXED

 Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on Sunday announced the country is placing millions of people who aren’t fully vaccinated for COVID-19 on lockdown starting Monday.

About 65 percent of the Central European nation’s population is vaccinated, according to government data. Under the measures revealed on Sunday, unvaccinated people are ordered to stay at home except for limited reasons.

The rules, the government said, will be enforced by police officers who will be out on the streets carrying out spot-checks on people who are in public. Unvaccinated people are already excluded from entertainment venues, bars, restaurants, and similar venues and businesses.

PARLIAMENT NOT A PRIORITY FOR PM

For someone who called the Sept. 20 federal election the most important since the Second World War, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sure taking his sweet time recalling Parliament.

Following that, according to the parliamentary calendar, the Christmas break will begin on Dec. 17 and continue until Jan. 31, 2022.

He’s not doing that until Nov. 22, starting with a throne speech.

That flies in the face of Trudeau’s post-election comments that the results gave his Liberal government the mandate “to move even stronger, even faster on the big things that Canadians really want.

CLIMATE CHANGE PROGRAMS RIFE WITH CORRUPTION

As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) nears an end, it may be more important to talk about what wasn’t discussed at the summit than what was. Predictably, trendy culprits of the day like oil, private jets and cars were the subject of highly-publicized speeches and promises, with buzzy terms like “sustainability” and “net-zero” tossed about like confetti on a new bride.  

 With Western leaders’ approval ratings slumping to record lows, they’re eager to change the political conversation. The lingering pandemic, inflation, and general government incompetence are downers –– but a brighter, cleaner, greener future is something they’re happy to get behind. And so, suddenly, every prime minister and president is the Oprah of climate promises: “You get a net-zero pledge! You get a net-zero pledge! Everybody gets a net-zero pledge!” 

The problem is you can’t meaningfully tackle climate change without confronting some very ugly realities, namely, corruption. It’s a word conspicuously missing from COP26, despite climate corruption being one of the biggest hurdles to real progress on everything from deforestation to carbon emissions.   

COURT REAFFIRMS STAY ON BIDEN'S VACCINE MANDATE

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reaffirmed its stay on President Joe Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate on Friday.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a rule that would require businesses with at least 100 employees to mandate coronavirus vaccinations or implement frequent testing.

In its decision, the court ordered OSHA to “take no steps to implement or enforce the Mandate until further court order.”

At least 26 states initiated legal challenges against the mandate. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the court’s decision online.

XI JINPING OPENS DOOR TO UNLIMITED RULE

 China’s Communist Party yesterday rewrote its official history to place Xi Jinping alongside Mao Tse-tung as a transformative leader – only the third time in a century it has allowed such a revision and a sign of the president’s tightening grip on power.

The announcement, which paves the way for unlimited rule by the president, came as part of a resolution at the end of a four-day, closed-door meeting in Beijing between senior party officials.

The resolution focused on the party’s achievements in the century since it was founded, but stressed the importance of Xi’s role. Next year, he will seek a third term in power, unprecedented in China’s modern history.

CONTRADICTING A COVID EXPERT

CBS News reports that 44 Cal football players “tested positive” for COVID on Wednesday, after undergoing mandatory testing. Their weekend game is postponed. They were contact traced after “someone” was infected. The team is “99.5%” vaccinated, per Cal Athletic Director Jim Knowlton.

Damage control was immediate. In the same news report, Dr. Monica Gandhi, UCSF infectious disease expert, said the vaccinated players never should have been tested, and that “guidelines” hadn’t been updated. Oops! Gandhi explained why she was not worried:

“I have zero panic whatsoever as a public health person, as an infectious disease doctor, of 44 healthy people who are fully vaccinated who may have a little virus in their nose on a highly sensitive test,” Gandhi told KPIX 5 Wednesday. “It is not an outbreak, it does not mean they got sick, and it does not mean the vaccines don’t work. It means that our public health strategy in this case was off and they were doing mass testing of people who didn’t need it.”

HILLIER TO RUN FOR ONTARIO PREMIERSHIP

Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Randy Hillier announced plans to run for the Premier of Ontario with the People’s Party of Canada in the 2022 election.

“To win this battle it only takes one thing and that’s for all of us to be honest, all of us to have the courage and conviction to speak truthfully and honestly,” said Hillier, calling out the “enemy” of big pharma, big corporation, big government and public health who are “profiteering at our expense.”

MERKEL's DELUSIONS

Despite clear evidence of spikes in violent crime, mass sexual assaults and numerous terror attacks, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested her 2015 decision to allow a million migrants to enter the country was a success.

Talk about re-writing history.

During an interview with Deutsche Welle, Merkel was asked if her infamous quote from an August 2015 press conference about Germany’s ability to absorb large numbers of refugees, “wir schaffen das,” which translates to “we can do it,” still applies.

“Yes, we did it,” she responded, adding that despite some setbacks, “positive stories” emerged from the policy.

ORGANIZED CRIME CASHED IN ON PANDEMIC BENEFITS

 According to a recently obtained financial intelligence report, criminals and organized crime appeared to have "knowingly and actively" defrauded the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, CERB, and Canada Emergency Business Account, CEBA, programs.

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), the country's financial intelligence wing, observed that during the first few months of the CERB program, criminal organizations filed multiple applications using stolen identities.

"They tend to hire groups of individuals to cash the benefit cheques at various locations around town," said the 2020 FINTRAC report, released through an access to information request filed by Ottawa researcher Ken Rubin.

GUTLESS CONSERVATIVES PROVIDE NO OPPOSITION

   Rex Murphy:  They have avoided any real debate on the troublesome COVID mandates and a host of other very pertinent issues. The country, for example, is getting its first substantial taste of inflation — the first signal that the prime minister’s gargantuan and furious spending over the last year and a half is not the painless panacea his team insisted it was.

 There are grave interruptions in global supply chains and talk of impending shortages of familiar consumer goods. There are serious warnings of fuel and energy shortages. The ravages of COVID and its shutdown regimes have yet to be fully inventoried, but it is obvious there has been great damage, economic and psychological, to thousands and thousands of Canadians.

In other words, this is a time when Canada needs the presence and force of a full and determined Opposition. Yet what we have received is the opposite. It’s hard to think of a period when the Opposition party has been less engaged and less a factor in the national conversation.

ONTARIO MEDICAL OFFICERS OUT OF CONTROL

 Canada’s biggest province is being governed by improvised diktat after diktat, issued by Twitter, by 34 separate public health authorities that, through section 22 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act, now have no accountability to anyone or anything but their social media feeds. A weakling political class has lost control, while the population is forced to contort to serial absurdities invented from Zoom rooms by decision-makers who don’t see the people, don’t understand the vast systems they manipulate, and are disinclined to discover their own errors.

BC's VACCINE MANDATE CREATES A NIGHTMARE

Across town, another Abbotsford long-term care facility with multiple residences and a hospital, Menno Place, was already struggling with staffing issues before the province’s vaccination mandates were implemented. Once Oct. 27 arrived, an already challenging dilemma quickly turned more desperate.

Having lost nine regular and 19 casual employees because of the vaccine mandate, she found that looking for workers to fill shifts from a depleted pool is even harder. And despite the province pledging to train thousands more nurses and other specialists, Biggs noted that most are still years away from graduating, and given the shortages that existed before this week’s new crisis, those workers would be “just a spit in the bucket.”

Care homes and hospitals aren’t the only sectors that have been working to avoid severe staff shortages, even before the vaccination deadline. Paramedics, 911 dispatchers, and other first responders were also short-staffed, which worsened once some workers chose to forego the COVID-19 vaccine.

DEBUNKING THE HYPE ABOUT ELECTRIC VEHICLES

 The hype and mythologizing over electric vehicles (EVs) afflicts policy-making and leads to costly subsidies that produce little environmental benefits, according to Danish climate expert Bjorn Lomborg.

“In Norway, there are more EVs per person than anywhere in the world and studies show that people have two cars — a (subsidized) EV car to go `virtue signalling’ and the real car for use for real stuff,” said Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus think tank and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, in an interview with the Financial Post. “Norwegians use the gasoline car a lot more and drive less in a green car. A new study from a select group showed they only drove 5,000 miles a year, on average. This estimate was based on their electricity usage.”

HARPER COMMENTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

Mr. Harper told the CWF event that a transition to a carbon-free economy is harder than it seems. “If you look at COP26, it seems people [are] arguing this is all a matter of will. It’s not a matter of will. It’s a matter of actually having cost-effective real solutions in real time.”

He added: “So much of the energy transition that people are talking about depends on technological developments that simply have not occurred yet. Or in cases where they are occurring, they suffer from serious resource deficiency.”

He also said that in his opinion, Canada’s reputation as a good place for foreign investment is declining, including on resource development.

“When it comes to Canada, international investors simply do not believe that this country can get it done,” he said. “They just don’t believe it.”

SGT. MOE HURWITZ, CANADIAN WAR HERO

 By all accounts, Sgt. Samuel Moses "Moe" Hurwitz was a one-man army. 

For Hurwitz, as for many Canadians, the war was deeply personal. The Montreal native went into Normandy in the summer of 1944 distraught over the plight of his younger brother Harry, who had been captured by the Germans when the Canadian destroyer HMCS Athabaskan was sunk a few weeks before the D-Day invasion.

A member of the Canadian Grenadier Guards (22nd Canadian Armoured Regiment) tank regiment, Moe Hurwitz fought major actions in France and Holland until, wounded and captured, he died in a German military hospital in October 1944. 

Awarded the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct Medal, Hurwitz, 25, was one of the most decorated Jewish-Canadian soldiers of the Second World War.

IGNORING UN CLIMATE DEMANDS

South Africa on Monday declined to sign a commitment to end financing for coal production within 30 years, joining a growing list of countries that are refusing some of the United Nations’ most burdensome climate change demands – a list headed by the world’s worst polluter and largest burner of coal, China.

ATTENTION-SEEKING POLITICIANS

 The so-called controversy over Air Canada’s CEO not knowing French despite residing in Montreal for 14 years continues to escalate in its absurdity. Last week, CEO Michael Rousseau admitted he couldn’t speak the language in front of reporters, leading to a spiral of outrage and political pandering that apparently has no end in sight.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle were quick to use the occasion to show just how sensitive they are to Quebec’s easily-hurt feelings. Jagmeet Singh and the NDP ludicrously called for Rousseau’s resignation with quite the rhetorical flourish. 

Meanwhile, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole tweeted — only in French — that “A person who occupies such a managerial position at Air Canada should ensure that they are fluently bilingual.”

Now, the latest: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland wrote a letter to Air Canada’s chairman saying that Rousseau should not only significantly improve his French, but that doing so “should be incorporated as one of his key performance goals.” 

WHITE HOUSE SAYS NO ENBRIDGE SHUTDOWN

 The White House pledged to discuss a key pipeline that carries Canadian crude through Michigan with the northern neighbour, stressing the U.S. isn’t considering a shutdown of the conduit the state’s governor wants shuttered.

The Canadian and U.S. governments will “engage constructively” on the future of Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 pipeline, the White House principle deputy press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said at a briefing Tuesday.

“These negotiations and discussions between the two countries shouldn’t be viewed as as anything more than that, and certainly not an indicator that the U.S. government is considering shutdown,” she said. “That is something that we’re not going to do.”

THOSE CANNY SCOTS

Scottish nightclubs are bypassing the country’s shambolic vaccine passport system by placing chairs on the dance floor and announcing that customers’ vaccine status won’t be checked.

Yes, really.

“Lulu, a major nightclub in Edinburgh, has begun marketing itself to unvaccinated Scots by advertising the fact that door staff will not be carrying out checks on whether customers have been jabbed,” reports the Telegraph.

By placing seats on the dance floor, the venue is asserting that it no longer qualifies as a nightclub and should be under the same rules as pubs, which aren’t mandated to ask for vaccine passports.

ONTARIO TO BECOME A HAVE-NOT PROVINCE

Ontario is on track to become a “have not” province by 2025 due to a design flaw in Canada’s equalization program, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

“Based on projections, it’s likely that Ontario will become a have-not province in 2025/26, which affects not only the province but others because it will reduce the amount of equalization money available to current equalization recipients,” said Ben Eisen, senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Why Is Equalization Still Growing? 2021 Update.

FOOD PRICES CONTINUE TO INCREASE

 Canadians are likely to see inflated food prices at their local grocery stores for several more months, some experts say.

Sylvain Charlebois, senior director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax, told CTV News Channel on Sunday that food prices have risen by about five per cent across the board since January.

"Now five per cent may seem low, but for consumers out there looking for similar products, some products have actually gone up by 20, 25 per cent," he said.

PFIZER CLAIM PILL CUTS COVID DEATH RISK BY 90%

 Pfizer Inc. said Friday that its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% in high-risk adults, as the drugmaker joins the race to bring the first easy-to-use medication against the coronavirus to the U.S. market.

Currently all COVID-19 treatments used in the U.S. require an IV or injection. Competitor Merck’s COVID-19 pill is already under review at the Food and Drug Administration after showing strong initial results, and on Thursday the United Kingdom became the first country to OK it.

VIRTUE-SIGNALING AND SCHEMING IN GLASGOW

Serious question: Why should we listen to a word that anyone says at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland?

An estimated 30,000 officials — including a Canadian delegation of nearly 300 politicians and their press flacks, the largest of any delegation in the G7 — travelled to the Scottish city to, what, pontificate about the various ways governments can tax and punish people into submission when it comes to lowering their carbon emissions.

 Thousands of gas-guzzling, CO2-emitting airplanes were needed, we’re told, to send these morally superior beings to this crucially important climate summit to glad-hand, virtue-signal and scheme.

ENERGY POVERTY LINKED TO EXPENSIVE RENEWABLES

With the recent rise in the price of natural gas in Europe to five times where it was in early 2021, expect to see many more Europeans and those in United Kingdom plunged into what’s known as “energy poverty.”

From Greece to Great Britain and everywhere in between, the European electricity grid has increasingly been delinked from reliable affordable fossil fuels and hooked up to more expensive and intermittent wind and solar projects.


One result is Europeans pay twice for generated electricity: once for the existing sunk costs of existing fossil fuel (and nuclear in some countries) projects and again for renewable-based electricity projects. Another result is when wind and solar are not available, multiple nations in Europe and elsewhere are chasing the same available oil, natural gas and coal, pushing those fuel prices dramatically higher.

MR. O'TOOLE HAS NOTHING TO SAY

It’s hard not to feel a little sympathy for Mr. O’Toole. His own party can be a fractious bunch, with some insisting he stand up for unpopular things. He doesn’t want to look like he’s defending anti-vaxxers, but doesn’t dare demand that all his MPs get vaccinated. He tried to find a neat phrase to make that sound better, but it didn’t.

He still has to face his own party’s complaints that he promised to be a True Blue leader and shifted left, promised not to propose a carbon tax but did, and promised to loosen gun restrictions but flip-flopped. Mr. O’Toole’s leadership is not secure.

No wonder he seems to feel like he can’t say much.

In the meantime, Erin O’Toole stories are mostly about those complaints. Earlier this week, The Canadian Press ran a story quoting leaders of small-c conservative organizations, including representatives of the gun lobby that was instrumental in his leadership campaign, criticizing Mr. O’Toole. Global News ran a piece citing unnamed MPs underwhelmed with his leadership saying they were watching his next moves closely.

What to do? Mr. O’Toole doesn’t seem to know. He is treed. But he can’t stay up there forever.

THE KITTELBACH PIRATES

By the time Hitler led Germany into war, the self-named Pirates had gained a reputation for their strength of purpose and courage. They were rebels who at first were only an annoyance. Rejecting the Nazi propaganda of the day and unimpressed with the strutting antics of the Hitler Youth, the Pirates engaged in physical altercations with their counterparts in Hitler’s youth movement.

One Nazi official said of the Pirates in 1941: “Every child knows who the Kittelbach Pirates are. They are everywhere … they beat up the patrols … they never take no for an answer.”

As the war continued, the Pirates became even bolder. They assisted the Allies by distributing propaganda leaflets, helped German deserters, hid Jews and ambushed Hitler Youth patrols. Indeed, one of the movement’s popular slogans was, “Eternal war on the Hitler Youth.”

ALBERTA'S RARE EARTH MINERAL EXTRACTION

A company in line to become Alberta’s first major lithium developer says the province’s latest move to regulate mineral and rare earth mining is good news for investors as they eye major productions in the field in the coming years.

Energy Minister Sonya Savage tabled a bill in the legislature on Thursday that, if passed, would move the regulation of all mineral and rare earth mining and development under the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) from start to finish. She also presented a plan to develop the industry in the province as global demand for the sector is set to increase by 500 per cent in the next several decades.

 The government’s plan shows 13 critical minerals present in Alberta, which are used in everything from jewelry to ceramics and manufactured steel

STANDING AGAINST EXTREME WOKE AGENDAS

 The state of Virginia was led by a Democrat Governor and had gone to Joe Biden in last year’s presidential vote, but this past week it went red as Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin beat his Democratic opponent to become Governor-elect.

Youngkin stood firm against ‘woke’ issues, particularly the controversial and divisive ‘Critical Race Theory’, which has upset parents across the country. CRT, as it’s known, is about making everything about race and focusing on our differences rather than our similarities.

Youngkin wasn’t alone in his victory. The winner for the lieutenant governor’s race was Republican Winsome Sears, who broke barriers becoming the first woman and first woman of colour to ever hold that state’s office. Sears also believes in unity over division and stands against extreme ‘woke’ agendas.

ITALY'S GROSSLY EXAGGERATED COVID DEATH TALLY

 A new report from Italy’s Higher Institute of Health provides an objective analysis of the nation’s misleading covid-19 published death tally. Italy’s claimed official covid death tally rose to 132,161 in October of 2021. This tally was grossly exaggerated because covid-19 was diagnosed in haste and under conditions of financial bribery (paying large sums to hospitals to list cases and deaths as COVID-caused) using falsified criteria. Covid-19 was often listed as the cause of death when it was merely “suspected” and when “it could not be ruled out.” In other words, COVID was falsely manufactured by the hospitals.

COVID 19 RESEARCHER BLOWS WHISTLE ON PFIZER

In autumn 2020 Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive, Albert Bourla, released an open letter to the billions of people around the world who were investing their hopes in a safe and effective covid-19 vaccine to end the pandemic. “As I’ve said before, we are operating at the speed of science,” Bourla wrote, explaining to the public when they could expect a Pfizer vaccine to be authorized in the United States.1

But, for researchers who were testing Pfizer’s vaccine at several sites in Texas during that autumn, speed may have come at the cost of data integrity and patient safety. A regional director who was employed at the research organization Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial. Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson, emailed a complaint to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventavia fired her later the same day. Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails.

SANITY PREVAILS IN MINNEAPOLIS

    Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected a progressive plan to do away with the city’s police department and to replace it with a vaguely defined “Department of Public Safety,” which would not have been required to employ any actual police officers.
     The charter amendment failed, with about 56 percent of voters rejecting the proposal in preliminary results Tuesday night. It is the most direct referendum yet on the Left’s post-George Floyd anti-police message.  

      City Question 2 asked voters if they wished to replace the city’s police department with a public safety department that would employ “a comprehensive public health approach.” The department would not have been required to employ police officers, but it could have employed them “if necessary, to fulfill its responsibilities for public safety,” according to the ballot language. The amendment would have gotten rid of the funding formula to determine a minimum number of officers in the city, and it would have removed the police chief’s job from the city charter. The new department would have been headed instead by a civilian commissioner reporting not only to the mayor, but to the 13-member city council.

ENDING FINANCING FOR FOREIGN FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS

The federal government is pledging to end all of its foreign financing for fossil-fuel projects in 2022.

The decision, to be announced on Thursday morning at COP26 as part of an agreement with about 20 other countries, is the latest effort by Ottawa to use the United Nations climate conference to push back against Canada’s international image as a robust supporter of the oil and gas industry.

The commitment will place heavy pressure on Export Development Canada – which provides loans, insurance and other forms of financial backing to oil and gas companies doing business abroad – to rapidly wind down that support

INSPECTIONS BY ALBERTA'S MINISTRY OF TRUTH

  The regulator of Alberta's doctors is performing unannounced inspections at medical clinics in a bid to crack down on doctors who spread COVID-19 misinformation or prescribe unproven remedies for the disease.
   The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) said it has conducted five inspections related to COVID-19 complaints since targeted enforcement began three weeks ago.
   As opponents of vaccinations, vaccine passports, masking and physical distancing became more vocal, regulatory bodies in other provinces started investigating complaints about doctors providing misinformation on COVID-19, but Alberta's use of unannounced inspections is unusual, one expert says.
   "An on-site inspection may occur when — but is not limited to — allegations arise of inappropriate issuance of COVID-19 vaccine and/or mask-exemption letters, prescribing inappropriate interventions such as ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 and spreading of misinformation related to COVID-19," the college said.