Category: COVID-19 pandemic

There Was No Pandemic Mastermind

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn There is a lot of celebratory football-spiking going on in COVID response-skeptic social media circles. When two groups of people are diametrically opposed to one another on a singular…


Ottawa Spent $120 Million on Cargo Flights to Ship PPE from China in 2020: Documents

The Canadian government spent $120 million chartering cargo flights to ship personal protective equipment (PPE) from China in the first 90 days of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Documents obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter through an Access to Information request show that federal agencies had to charter planes after failing to maintain a national stockpile…


56% of Canadians Parents Say Pandemic Impacted Their Kids Negatively: Report

More than half of Canadian parents say the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their kids negatively, a new report finds. Released by human resources firm LifeWorks on Aug. 17, the company’s monthly mental health index found that 56 percent of Canadians say their children’s mental health and development worsened over the last two years due to…


Deaths of Patients Awaiting Medical Treatment Spike in Ontario

More and more people are dying while on wait lists for medical treatments in Ontario, but the province’s latest health data shows that the situation took a turn for the worse during the COVID-19 pandemic, a think tank says. Released on Aug. 15, an analysis conducted by SecondStreet.org says that the Ontario Health Data shows a…


Pandemic Caused Loneliness and Psychological Problems

Ms. Lee, aged 45, is a single Chinese American. She had no history of mental illness or depression before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. She lives alone and is an administrative officer of a garment trading company. After work, she frequently searched for the news about COVID and worried that the pandemic…


Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Given Record-High Bonus of $228K in 2021

Last year, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health received the largest cash bonus paid to a civil servant in the province since 2016. Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s salary in 2021 was $363,634, but she also received an additional cash bonus of $227,911—a record amount since 2016, when the Alberta government started publishing the salaries of its highest-paid public…


Our Pandemic of Stupidity

Commentary As a scientist and a believer in human rights and individual responsibility, I’ve been appalled by the unfounded, unscientific, counterproductive, and authoritarian “public health” policies that have been foisted on an innocent public by out-of-control politicians and bureaucrats. Starting at the beginning, it was stupidity that inspired the American funding of gain-of-function research in…


The Only Choice Left: Slavery or Freedom

A interview with Catherine Austin Fitts about her work in exposing corruption and fraud in the banking industry and government. Typically, my conversations with experts about the COVID pandemic revolved around the infection and its treatment. Today’s interview with finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts will tackle the COVID topic from a different angle. Austin Fitts…


We Need a Reset, but Not ‘The Great Reset’

A interview with Catherine Austin Fitts about her work in exposing corruption and fraud in the banking industry and government. Typically, my conversations with experts about the COVID pandemic revolved around the infection and its treatment. Today’s interview with finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts will tackle the COVID topic from a different angle. Austin Fitts…


Feds to Delay New Clean Fuel Standards, Oil and Gas Sectors Asked to Make Bigger Emissions Cuts

The federal government is delaying the release of new greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) standards until late 2023, but the new regulations are expected to push the oil and gas sector to make bigger emissions cuts by 2030. Last week, the federal cabinet approved the final regulations of the Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) introduced in 2016…