Category: mandatory vaccination

Vaccines Do Not Stop COVID-19 Spread as Governments Claim: Legal Advocacy Group

Vaccines are not as effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19 as governments have claimed them to be, an analysis of government narratives conducted by a constitutional rights group shows. The report (pdf), published Tuesday by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, found that claims made by government leaders that mandatory vaccination will reduce or stop…


Australian PM Says Federal Government Not in Favour of States Vaccination Mandates

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that the Coalition government does not support vaccination mandates used by the Australian state governments to incentivise the uptake of the COVID-19 inoculations. The statement came while he was touring the Tooheys brewery in Sydney on Thursday. He had been speaking about the anti-vaccine-mandate protests in Melbourne, stressing the…


Doctors and Nurses Speak on the Consequences of Rejecting Mandatory Vaccination

Health care workers who cannot take a COVID-19 vaccine due to medical, religious, or ethical objections are being fired from hospitals that mandated the shots for their staff members. Various states and hospitals have mandated the vaccine, as well as the Biden-Harris administration, which issued an emergency regulation that requires all health care workers that…


Queensland Extends Mandatory Vaccination for All Health Workers by Dec. 17

Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath has announced that the state will mandate COVID-19 vaccination for all health workers in any health care setting in the state. It had previously been a mandatory requirement only for public health workers in public hospitals and other certain facilities, such as aged care. “Today I announced that we are…


Senators Will Need to Be Fully Vaccinated to Set Foot in Senate Chamber

OTTAWA—Senators will have to be fully vaccinated against COVID−19 if they want to participate in person in Senate proceedings. Senate Speaker George Furey announced the new policy Thursday following consultations with the leaders of the various groups in the upper house. But although Conservative Senate leader Don Plett was among those consulted on the policy,…


Conservatives Push Back Against Parliament’s Mandatory Vaccine Requirement for MPs

The Conservative Party is protesting a new mandatory vaccination policy that would ban members of parliament who aren’t fully vaccinated from entering the House of Commons’ precinct when Parliament resumes on Nov. 22. The federal Conservatives voiced their protest in a statement after the House of Commons governing body announced the new rules on Oct. 19, requiring MPs…


Upcoming Reopening Plan Will Provide Ontarians With ‘More Certainty,’ Ford Says

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is finalizing plans to exit the final stage of the COVID-19 pandemic reopening roadmap and will “cautiously lift more public health measures.” “The work began months ago and we’re finalizing the plan now, including where and when we may need to reapply measures should they be required to…


MP Receives 2,000 Inquiries in 2 Weeks Over Mandatory Vaccination

A member of Parliament in the Australian state of Queensland has received over 2,000 inquiries in the last two weeks, including from nurses, miners, and even police officers, reaching out with concerns over mandatory vaccination policies. George Christensen, the federal member for Dawson and fierce critic of mandatory vaccination, said his office received inquiries from…


RCMP Union Will Back Officers Who Refuse Mandatory Vaccination

The union that represents 20,000 RCMP officers says it will back its members if they choose to refuse vaccination, and will help them should they face “employment consequences.” “The [National Police Federation] supports a member’s right to choose to be vaccinated or not,” says a Sept. 23 email to members obtained by CBC News and reported…


Fair Work Commission Upholds Dismissal of ‘Anti-Vax’ Aged Care Worker Who Refused Flu Shot

The Australian Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision to uphold the dismissal of Jennifer Kimber, an aged care receptionist, who refused the influenza vaccination was likened to a “system of medical apartheid,” a commissioner said. In April 2021, FWC rejected Kimber’s application for unfair dismissal after ruling the dismissal was not “harsh, unjust, or unreasonable,” a…