Steven VanLeeuwen, who was relieved of his position as deputy mayor of an Ontario township after speaking out against COVID-19 lockdowns earlier this year, told panelists at an independent inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response that the country is experiencing a breakdown of communication between the public and government at all levels. He also called for…
Deputy Mayor in Ontario Ousted for Speaking Against COVID Lockdowns Calls for Government Accountability
WTO Strikes Global Trade Deals Deep Into Overtime
June 17, 2022
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GENEVA—The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 164 members approved a series of trade agreements early on Friday that included commitments on fish and pledges on health and food security after more than five gruelling days of negotiations. The deals were ground out over five days of bargaining at a conference of more than 100 trade ministers…
Canada to Extend Stay Times for Parents, Grandparents Holding Super Visas
Canada is extending the length of time parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens or permanent residents can stay in the country under its super visa program. In a statement released on June 7, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) said a series of changes to its super visa program will come into force on July…
Shanghai’s Pandemic Control Staff are Disinfecting Residences
Pandemic prevention and control measures in Shanghai, China have escalated to the point that the Shanghai Municipal Government currently acknowledges there are requirements for quarantine of people with COVID-19 and disinfection of their residences, and it is possible that “a whole building will be quarantined when just one person is infected.” Jin Chen, deputy director…
Tax Accounts for Nearly 40 Percent of Gas Prices Canadians Pay: Taxpayer Rights Group
With soaring energy prices weighing down on Canadian motorists, the governments’ hidden gas taxes are making their struggles even harder, a taxpayers rights group says. The Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CFT) said in its recently released 2022 Gas Tax Honesty Report that taxes cost 55.1 cents per litre of gasoline across the country, making up to 38 percent…
Regulatory Capture in the Age of Covid
May 20, 2022
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Our healthcare system is broken, a fact nobody would have disputed in pre-COVID times. Regulatory capture is a reality, and the pharmaceutical industry is fraught with examples. Yet we trusted private-public partnerships to find an optimal solution to a global pandemic, assuming a crisis would bring out the best in historically corrupt institutions. Here is…
2022 Canada Day Celebrations Moved From Parliament Hill
This year’s Canada Day celebration is bringing back in-person activities across the country, but the parties usually held at Parliament Hill will be moved due to construction projects, says the Department of Canadian Heritage. In an email statement, Canadian Heritage said moving the celebrations to two new locations—LeBreton Flats Park and Place des Festivals Zibi—will “allow…
CDC, FDA Workers Observed Incidents of Political Interference: Report
April 28, 2022
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employees say they observed incidents perceived as political interference within the federal agencies that may have altered or suppressed scientific findings, a new federal report has found. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) interviewed 16 employees at the CDC, FDA and the…
6 Double Standards Public Health Officials Used to Justify COVID Vaccines
From the beginning, the official COVID-19 narrative has been inconsistent, hypocritical and/or contradictory because medical authorities used double standards to create the illusion their narrative was logical and sensible. We are not only in an epidemiological crisis, we also are in an epistemological crisis. How do we know what we know? What differentiates opinion from…
US Companies Load Up on Costly Inventories as New Supply Snarls Loom in China
Through most of the pandemic, Kent International Inc. couldn’t import enough Chinese-made bicycles to supply Walmart Inc. and its other big U.S. retail customers. But in recent months, the New Jersey-based wholesaler and manufacturer built a nice buffer—about a 10-week supply at its three warehouses in California, South Carolina, and New Jersey, compared to the…
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