TRUDEAU'S DELUSIONS

Let’s be clear, Trudeau and the Liberals did win the election because they won the most seats but they have secured power by the slimmest of margins. If you thought that would bring about some humility in Trudeau, you’d be wrong.

“Why are you staying on as leader?” Trudeau was asked after it was pointed out that he failed to secure a majority and even took a smaller number of votes than the last election.

“I think Canadians were very clear that on going stronger on the fight against climate change, on continuing to make sure that life is more affordable for Canadians, so an ambitious plan on housing, with an ambitious plan to fight climate change, with an ambitious plan on reconciliation, those were the things Canadians made clear choices by voting for progressive parties,” Trudeau said.

CANADA'S NEGLECTED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

 Until that point, I’d never looked too closely at our health-care system. My own need of it had been minimal over the years. As a journalist, I’d kept an eye on some of the big-picture stories and issues, and was generally aware that our national fondness of the system is more rooted in mythology than metrics — Canadian health care consumes huge financial resources to produce mediocre outcomes relative to other advanced countries, and this has long been obvious to anyone who paid even the slightest attention … which is, alas, not many of us.

In a piece this week in the National Post, Vitor Marciano took a hard look at our ICU capacity and correctly noted that the Canadian system is tiny — a major contributing factor to the worst parts of our pandemic response has been that we have very little margin of error in our system. Marciano’s piece focused mostly on hospital and ICU capacity, which is sensible, given the current crisis in western Canada. But the problems with our health-care system go far beyond that.

THE COORDINATED ATTACK ON IVERMECTIN

    Just as we saw with hydroxychloroquine last summer, government alphabet agencies, the medical industrial complex, and their willing accomplices in the media have recently made it clear that there is yet another safe, effective treatment for COVID-19 they wish to torpedo. It’s the latest naughty word which will get you censored on social media and mocked and belittled by late-night “comedians”: ivermectin.

While ivermectin has been used by certain brave doctors around the world to treat COVID-19 for over a year now, it only recently became the target of a multi-pronged attack, with the U.S. government, the media, and Big Pharma all playing important roles in the deadly dystopian disinformation campaign against the drug. As more Americans became aware of ivermectin’s efficacy against COVID-19, like clockwork the government and its propaganda arm in the press jumped in to discredit it, referring to the drug snidely as a “horse dewormer.”

PRIVACY BREACH OF COVID VAX PASSPORT

 Private proof-of-vaccination app Portpass exposed personal information, including the driver's 
licenses, of what could be as many as hundreds of thousands of users by leaving its website unsecured.

On Monday evening, CBC News received a tip that the user profiles on the app's website could be accessed by members of the public.

CBC is not sharing how to access those profiles, in order to protect users' personal information, but has verified that email addresses, names, blood types, phone numbers, birthdays, as well as photos of identification like driver's licences and passports can easily be viewed by reviewing dozens of users' profiles.

The information was not encrypted and could be viewed in plain text.

DISTORTION OF FACTS RE INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

 Dear Mr. Cecco,

Your article in today’s edition of The Guardian, entitled “‘Cultural genocide’: the shameful history of Canada’s residential schools”, prompts me to write to you — and I apologize if this message simply adds more clutter to your Inbox.

Like far too many published news and opinion pieces that deal with Canada’s relationship with its Indigenous people, and in particular its Indian Residential Schools, your article presents a highly simplified and even distorted picture of a very complicated and very human story.  Its totally negative description of the Indian Residential School (IRS) system and the harm it did to vulnerable Indigenous children contains so many distorted and just plain false statements that I’m not sure where to begin.

I append below some verifiable facts about the IRS system and the people who established and operated the schools. 

USA GENERALS: BIDEN RESPONSIBLE FOR AFGHANISTAN DEBACLE

The nation’s top generals testified on Tuesday that they advised Joe Biden earlier this year to keep several thousand U.S. troops in Afghanistan, directly contradicting his claims that no one had warned him not to withdraw completely from the country.

The botched withdrawal led to panicked mob scenes scenes at the Kabul airport, the loss of billions of dollars worth of military weaponry to the Taliban, and the abandonment of hundreds of American citizens and Afghan allies in the war-torn country. Worse yet, thirteen American service members were killed in an ISIS bombing attack at the airport, and in an attempt to retaliate, the Biden regime droned an innocent family in Kabul, mistaking an Afghan aid worker for an ISIS terrorist.

The generals’ testimony today placed the burden for the debacle squarely on Biden’s shoulders.

PUBLIC DISTRUST OF AUTHORITIES

   Rex Murphy: Early on during the pandemic, it was easy to accept that the politicians, guided by thei  r selected cadre of experts, knew what they were doing. And there was likewise in the public mind a considerable reservoir of trust in their pronouncements, which was not diminished if — in the very early days — a caution or a recommendation put out one week was altered, revised, or even contradicted by a caution or recommendation the week following.

We heard from Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam that “Canada’s risk is much, much lower than that of many countries. (COVID) is going to be rare.” Alas, we have learned throughout the past nearly two years that that declaration was a wild and very, very wrong surmise.

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