Tag: vaccine mandate

Liberal MP Apologizes for Swearing at Woman Who Criticized Vaccine Mandate

Liberal MP Adam van Koeverden apologized on June 13 for swearing at a Canadian woman living overseas after a heated exchange between the two on social media about the federal travel vaccine mandate. “Last week I responded in an unacceptable way to a message on social media, and I deeply regret it,” van Koeverden said…


Conservative MPs Call Out Health Canada on Vaccine Mandates Transparency

Conservatives are criticizing public health officials for not providing metrics supporting vaccine mandates to MPs, with their lead advisor on COVID-19 saying it’s “unbearable” that the information isn’t provided. Conservative MP Michael Barrett, his party’s shadow minister of health, sought answers from public health officials regarding a timeline or benchmark for the dropping of mandates…


Australian Territory to Close Controversial COVID-19 Quarantine Camp and End Vaccine Mandates

One of Australia’s most controversial COVID-19 quarantine camps, Howard Springs Centre for National Resilience, will be closed by authorities, along with other vaccination and testing centres. The Northern Territory government revealed that it would not be renewing the public health emergency order set to end on June 16, bringing an end to the territories vaccine mandates and…


Pentagon’s Vaccine Mandate Challenged in Class-Action Lawsuit

Around 20 years ago, attorney and former Marine Corps Capt. Dale Saran defended service members involved in a fight against the Pentagon’s mandatory anthrax vaccination program. While Saran lost the case in the military court, the case eventually made its way to the federal court, which issued a permanent injunction in 2004, bringing the mandatory anthrax vaccination…


Travel and Tourism Group Calls on Ottawa to Lift Border Measures

Leaders of industry groups representing the Canadian travel and tourism sector are calling on the federal government to lift some border measures, saying Canada’s reputation as a tourist-friendly destination depends on it. “The travel, tourism, and hospitality sectors were the hardest hit during the pandemic. Necessary public health restrictions shuttered many of our businesses, most…


WestJet CEO Calls for End to Feds’ Vaccine Travel Mandate

The CEO of Canadian airline company WestJet says it’s time for the vaccine mandate for air travellers and employees to be dropped. “As vaccines are not preventing the spreading of the virus since [Omicron], there is no more logic to maintain it,” said Alexis von Hoensbroech on Twitter on May 31. “This will also relax…


‘No Longer Justified’: Liberal MP Criticizes His Party’s Travel Restrictions

The Conservative Party motion to lift travel restrictions on May 30 was soundly defeated by all other parties in the House of Commons, but two Liberal MPs dissented. Quebec City MP Joël Lightbound voted in favour of the motion, in line with his stance on COVID-19 restrictions he had expressed in a press conference in…


Tory Motion to Return to Pre-Pandemic Travel Rules Defeated

A Conservative Party motion to ask the government to revert to pre-pandemic rules for air travel to reduce airport wait times was defeated today in the House of Commons. The motion, tabled by Conservative MP and transport critic Melissa Lantsman, was mostly only supported by members of her own party. Liberal MP Joël Lightbound, who…


Man Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Murder at Coutts Border Blockade in Alberta Denied Bail

A man charged with conspiracy to commit murder at a border blockade in southern Alberta has been denied bail by a judge. Chris Carbert, 45, appeared by video in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Lethbridge on May 27 to hear the decision after a bail hearing last week. Reasons for Justice Johnna Kubik’s ruling…


18 Major Airlines, FAA, and DOT to Be Sued Over COVID Vaccine Mandates

John Pierce Law has filed a lawsuit against Atlas Air, on behalf of US Freedom Flyers (USFF) and Atlas employees, and plans to sue all major airlines, 18 altogether, plus the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT), contending that the vaccine mandates imposed by these agencies on the airlines’ employees infringed…