On August 13, 2021, the Canadian government announced that anyone who hadn’t been vaccinated against Covid would soon be barred from planes and trains. In many cases, The Backward could no longer travel between provinces or leave the country. If you lived in Winnipeg and wanted to visit your mother on her deathbed in London or Hong Kong or, perhaps, Quebec City, you’d better get jabbed—or resign yourself to never seeing your mother again.
Jennifer Little, the director-general of COVID Recovery, the secretive government panel that crafted the mandate, called it “one of the strongest vaccination mandates for travelers in the world.”
Harrison and Rickard wanted to expose the truth behind the mandate: that it was driven by politics, not science. They believed they had a right to refuse a vaccine about which they had come to have doubts. They said they were doing this for all Canadians, even those who thought they were wrong.
“What I have personally struggled with and have found to be the most unconscionable and objectionable aspects of how this pandemic has been managed,” Rickard said in his affidavit, “is the unnecessary hateful, vindictive and divisive behavior that I have witnessed from neighbors, friends, family members, colleagues and our government. The words and action of our government, which has entrenched policies based on vaccination status, without reflecting the risk of those unvaccinated, is far from the warm, caring, and thoughtful Canada I remember living in.”
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
FOOD BANKS IN CANADA AT A CRISIS STAGE
Amid skyrocketing food prices as a result of the inflation crisis, more Canadians are using food banks to feed their families.
According to the Daily Bread Food Bank, a Toronto-based food charity, nearly triple the number of people visited a food bank in June 2022 (171,631) compared to June 2019 (65,000).
“The stories that we’re hearing — the common theme is people’s income doesn’t match what their expenses are,” Daily Bread Food Bank CEO Neil Hetherington told CTV.
HOSPITAL CLOSURES ACROSS CANADA
These past few weeks, something Canadians aren’t used to seeing has been happening – hospitals have been closing.
Sometimes it’s overnight. Sometimes it’s for a weekend. It could be the ER department. Or another section of the hospital.
It’s happening in Ontario, in Alberta, in British Columbia, in Manitoba – you name it.
Monday, August 1, 2022
GERMANY SCRAMBLING TO SAVE ITSELF FROM A GAS CRISIS
Shortly after Scholz’s government took power in December, dozens of newly-elected politicians in his coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and pro-business Free Democrats had considered talk of Germany’s gas risks a conspiracy theory, but then they saw the facts: reserves at the time would last about 10 days if a cold snap set in.
It was the beginning of a reality check. For decades, Germany’s leadership under Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel argued that cozy energy relations with Russia were an asset rather than a liability. In last year’s campaign, Scholz called US criticism of German policy “false” because it didn’t take into account the entire energy mix. The thinking across much of the country’s political spectrum was that if Russia didn’t cut supplies during the Cold War, it wouldn’t during a conflict with Ukraine.
But with Europe shifting toward renewable power and away from the fossil fuels Russia provides, officials underestimated Putin’s willingness to take advantage of the leverage while he still had it. They also missed a key red flag.
It was the beginning of a reality check. For decades, Germany’s leadership under Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel argued that cozy energy relations with Russia were an asset rather than a liability. In last year’s campaign, Scholz called US criticism of German policy “false” because it didn’t take into account the entire energy mix. The thinking across much of the country’s political spectrum was that if Russia didn’t cut supplies during the Cold War, it wouldn’t during a conflict with Ukraine.
But with Europe shifting toward renewable power and away from the fossil fuels Russia provides, officials underestimated Putin’s willingness to take advantage of the leverage while he still had it. They also missed a key red flag.
HEALTH CARE WORKERS WIN $10MILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST COVID JAB MANDATE
CHICAGO, IL – Today, Liberty Counsel settled the nation’s first classwide lawsuit for health care workers over a COVID shot mandate, for more than $10.3 million. The class action settlement against NorthShore University HealthSystem is on behalf of more than 500 current and former health care workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate. The agreed upon settlement was filed today in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois.
As a result of the settlement, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate these health care employees who were victims of religious discrimination, and who were punished for their religious beliefs against taking an injection associated with aborted fetal cells.
This is a historic, first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests to COVID-19 shots.
As a result of the settlement, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate these health care employees who were victims of religious discrimination, and who were punished for their religious beliefs against taking an injection associated with aborted fetal cells.
This is a historic, first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests to COVID-19 shots.
TAMARA LICH DARED TO STAND UP TO TRUDEAU
Tamara Lich, co-organizer of the Freedom Convoy – the blue collar protest led by Canadian truckers that grabbed global attention and shook a divided nation on the impacts of COVID-19 restrictions and personal freedoms – was once again released on bail this week.
The truth is, this isn’t a case of justice served. This is Lich being made an example of for embarrassing the political class.
Lich now joins a growing list of women who have been martyred for standing up to Trudeau. For a self-proclaimed “feminist” he leaves a lot of explaining to do when we reflect on his appalling treatment of the likes of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, or the disturbing photos and allegations of inappropriate groping and contact with young women in years past.
The truth is, this isn’t a case of justice served. This is Lich being made an example of for embarrassing the political class.
Lich now joins a growing list of women who have been martyred for standing up to Trudeau. For a self-proclaimed “feminist” he leaves a lot of explaining to do when we reflect on his appalling treatment of the likes of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, or the disturbing photos and allegations of inappropriate groping and contact with young women in years past.
TRUDEAUS' PROCLIVITY FOR DEFICIT-FINANCED SPENDING
Increasing taxes, skyrocketing government debt, expanding regulations, soaring inflation and rising interest rates. You may think we’re describing Canada today, but in fact these were the policy decisions and circumstances that defined Pierre Trudeau’s tenure as prime minister in the 1970s and early 1980s, which eventually culminated in a near crisis. Unfortunately, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is repeating his father’s mistakes.
For starters, the Trudeaus share a proclivity for deficit-financed spending.
With new and expanded programs, Pierre Trudeau increased spending (excluding interest costs and adjusted for inflation) from $4,195 per person in 1967 (the year prior to his first term as prime minister) to $7,474 per person in 1984 when he left office. By spending significantly more than the government collected in revenue, Pierre Trudeau recorded a budget deficit every year excluding a small surplus in 1969-70. Total federal debt (inflation-adjusted) grew from $262 billion in 1967 to $700 billion in 1984—an increase of 167 per cent.
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