Tag: pandemic

Childhood COVID Vaccination Causing Contention in Families

The issue of COVID-19 vaccinations, which polls show has become a divisive issue in society, has also caused rifts in some families. A Saskatchewan father recently went into hiding with his young daughter to keep her from receiving the COVID vaccine, just one case of many across Canada where vaccination status is becoming a point…


COVID Exposed the Sorry State of Canada’s Health System, but Don’t Expect Reform

Commentary Apparently the COVID pandemic has revealed the manifest deficiencies of our socialized medicine. We’ve endured massive lockdowns, including among the worst suspensions of in-person schooling anywhere, because of the shrivelled fragility of world-famous-in-Canada “medicare,” which must now be reformed…  provided nothing changes. My National Post colleague Kelly McParland just loosed what passes here for…


Goodbye Pandemic, Hello Endemic

Commentary In early 1918, when World War I entered its final year, the H1N1 influenza A virus infected millions of people, causing the Spanish flu pandemic. By April 1920, after four waves and almost 100 million deaths, the pandemic ended. H1N1 became much less deadly and caused only ordinary seasonal flu. It had become an…


US Grocery Shortages Deepen as Pandemic Dries Supplies

High demand for groceries combined with soaring freight costs and Omicron-related labor shortages are creating a new round of backlogs at processed food and fresh produce companies, leading to empty supermarket shelves at major retailers across the United States. Growers of perishable produce across the West Coast are paying nearly triple pre-pandemic trucking rates to…


Top 10 Xi’an Incidents That Tell the Facts Behind ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy

Since China imposed lockdowns on CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus (coronavirus) stricken regions in an attempt to achieve “zero-COVID,” numerous real-life stories have emerged, giving a glimpse of what’s exactly taking place behind the harsh measures of the “successful” containment policy. Despite the censored and controlled information and media, many Chinese reports from the city of Xi’an,…


UK Economy Finally Bigger Than Before Pandemic in November

LONDON—Britain’s economy grew strongly in November to finally surpass its size just before the country went into its first COVID-19 lockdown, official data showed on Friday. The world’s fifth-biggest economy expanded by a much faster than expected 0.9 percent in November—before the latest wave of COVID-19 infections and restrictions for many firms—leaving it 0.7 percent…


Beijing 2022 in Jeopardy? Omicron Crushes China’s ‘Zero-COVID’; Robert Atkinson on Tech IP Theft in China

Is Omicron going to crush Beijing’s chance to hold the Olympic Games? The latest variant is highly contagious, and it challenges the effectiveness of Beijing’s “zero-COVID” policy—in which the Chinese regime will lock down an entire city in an attempt to eliminate COVID in the area. In this episode, I lay out some of the…


More Trillions in the Slush Fund?

Commentary “Come on, Man. Give us a break! Where did you stash all the swag?” — R.C. Moores One of the least debatable features of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the progress and evolution of the disease has been little understood. And the understanding we think we have achieved has been poorly incorporated in strategies…


Privacy Committee to Study Health Agency’s Mobile Data Collection Program

The House committee responsible for overseeing privacy issues unanimously voted Thursday to conduct a study of the federal health agency’s mobility analysis program, which relies on data obtained from cellphones. At the onset of the special meeting of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics, Conservative MP and critic for ethics John…


Audit: Michigan Paid $8 Billion in Improper Jobless Benefits During Pandemic

An independent audit of the performance of Michigan’s unemployment compensation system during the pandemic gave state officials some good news and some bad news. The audit estimated that the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) thwarted $44 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims but handed out an estimated $8 billion in improper benefits during the first 19…