Category: proof of vaccination

Public Health Agency of Canada Budgets $17.6 Million for COVID Vaccine Passport Program Until 2025: Memo

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) budgeted millions for a vaccine passport program until fiscal 2024–2025, with a Department of Health memo saying the funding was needed to support federal public health measures “as needed going forward.” “The expected result would be that Canadians have continued access to the Canadian COVID-19 proof of vaccination…


The End of the Freedom to Travel

Commentary Is it possible the United States will lock down again? Is it possible public officials will seek to hold us captive without due process? The World Health Organization (WHO) and European Union have officially teamed up to end the freedom to travel as we know it. The EU boasts that its version of vaccine passports issued during the…


How the Bureaucracy Wrecks International Travel

News Analysis Like all truly great bureaucracies, unelected U.S. government staff members revel in adhering to nonsensical, inefficient procedures to create some semblance of order and limit autonomous decision-making. When it comes to U.S. international travel policy, President Biden’s bureaucratic army has come out in full force to accomplish absolutely nothing and avoid all responsibility….


To Deal With a Hurricane, Get Vaccinated

Commentary The news came in that hurricane Ian was headed to Florida much faster than anticipated. It’s nothing unusual for this area, and the evacuations began. Those who stay know the drill. Board up the windows. Stock on food and water. Drag the generator out from the garage and make sure you have fuel. Most…


Ontario Councillor Suspended for Non-Compliance With Municipal Vaccine Mandate

An Ontario councillor has had 90 days of her remuneration suspended for allegedly breaching her municipality’s COVID-19 vaccine policy following an integrity commissioner investigation. Tony Fleming, the integrity commissioner of Mississippi Mills township, said he received a code of conduct complaint on May 12 alleging that Councillor Cynthia Guerard had breached her municipality’s mandatory vaccination policy…


The Subordinate Citizen

Commentary I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry. Anxieties swept the group as Israeli testers swabbed them. Anyone testing positive would have to delay his…


Law Firm Challenges BC Regional Government Over Vaccine Mandate for Volunteer Firefighters

A constitutional rights group says it is prepared to take legal action against a regional government in B.C. if it does not accommodate a local volunteer firefighter who asked to be exempt from its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy on the basis of religious grounds and natural immunity. On April 28, the Justice Centre for Constitutional…


Legal Organization Challenges BC Regional Government Over Vaccine Mandate for Volunteer Firefighters

A constitutional rights group says it is prepared to take legal action against a regional government in B.C. if it does not accommodate a local volunteer firefighter who asked to be exempt from its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy on the basis of religious grounds and natural immunity. On April 28, the Justice Centre for Constitutional…


Alberta Premier Calls on Trudeau Government to End ‘Pointless’ COVID-19 Travel Restrictions

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said he has called on the federal government to end its “pointless” COVID-19 travel restrictions that no other major country in the world has. “Alberta’s conservative MLAs have called on Trudeau to scrap pointless travel restrictions, including the vaccine passport,” Kenney said in a Twitter post made on April 28. “I don’t…


University of Waterloo Terminates 49 Staff Over Mandatory Vaccination Policy

Ontario’s University of Waterloo has terminated 49 staff members over the school’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccine requirement. The majority of these staff members are non-faculty members, a spokesperson from the school told CTV News. “We have an obligation under the Health and Safety Act to protect our employees, and the employees have the obligation to comply,”…