The Hub- The vaccine mandates have proved to be one of the enduring legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic
A few years on, vaccine mandates have proved to be one of the enduring legacies of the pandemic. In British Columbia, they remain in place for health-care workers. The persistence of mandates is a reminder of the inertia of regulation: new powers, once wielded, tend not to be voluntarily retracted.
Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
National Post- Canadian, 93, wanted to give her kids a gift. Instead she got slapped with $40K in capital gains tax bill
The two lots were appraised at $125,000 and $145,000, totalling $270,000, leaving Diachun with a tax bill of about $40,000, an amount she said she cannot pay.
“I’m on pension. How am I going to pay for that?” said Diachun. “I’m not one of the wealthy. I’m 93 years old. Who is going to give me a mortgage? Who is going to give me a loan?”
Rick Bell: After this column was written, Trudeau took away housing $ from Oakville, Ont. after they refused citywide fourplexes
More background here.
To your local city councils ears.
Victor Davis Hanson gives a lengthy but interesting review of a book on white rural rage.
Blacklocks- Commons To Pass Labour Bill
The Commons today is expected to pass a ban on federally regulated employers’ use of replacement workers in case of strike or lockout.
Bill C-58 An Act To Amend The Canada Labour Code would restrict federally regulated employers like airlines, banks and telecom companies from using replacement workers in strikes or lockouts under threat of $100,000-per day fines. A clause of the bill delays enforcement one year from final passage in Parliament.
No Conservative MP spoke against the bill or opposed it in Second or Third Reading.
This is the natural end stage of socialized medicine. It’s a feature not a bug.
Is there not a single civil rights organization or a single politician in all of Canada that can help Roger Foley?
We are still at the “voluntary” stage, but it’s a very short drive from there to mandatory.
Utah resident Brianne Dressen participated in a clinical trial of a Covid vaccine at the beginning of the pandemic. After only one shot, she suffered a severe vaccine injury which has plagued her ever since. What’s just as bad as her injury is the near total indifference of the drug company to her plight. John Campbell explores these issues in a recent interview with Brianne.
“When they call and say jets are inbound and I need to land them“
Trust the government experts to do the right thing (for themselves).
Globe and Mail- Eighteen years and $46-billion later, the CPP admits it could have earned more just by buying index funds
Blacklocks- Aid 6,000 Homeless At $561M
“From 2019 to 2023 this funding has supported placements in more stable housing for 17,849 people annually, emergency housing funding for 5,399 people annually and core prevention services for 31,164 people annually,” said the report. “The best available evidence suggests homelessness has increased in spite of Reaching Home.”
It was “a damning report,” Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre yesterday told the Commons. “If it costs half a billion dollars for the Prime Minister to drive up homelessness how much would it cost to drive it down?” asked Poilievre.
About cannabis legalization is how it expanded opportunities in medical treatment.
A top adviser at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) deleted records critical to uncovering the origins of COVID-19 — and used a “secret back channel” to help Dr. Anthony Fauci and a federal grantee that funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China, evade transparency.
NIH senior adviser Dr. David Morens improperly conducted official government business from his private email account and solicited help from the NIH’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office to dodge records requests, according to emails revealed in a memo by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which The Post obtained Wednesday.
“[I] learned from our foia [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d [sic] but before the search starts,” Morens wrote in a Feb. 24, 2021, email. “Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail [sic].”
“I ask you both that NOTHING gets sent to me except to my gmail [sic],” he emphasized again in a Nov. 18, 2021, email to EcoHealth Alliance president Dr. Peter Daszak, whose organization was suspended this month from receiving federal funds for the next three years and who was himself proposed for debarment on Wednesday.
Roger Pielke Jr was at the hearing.
That there was a cover-up at NIH/NIAID is now well established. Top officials used private email addresses and perhaps burner phones to conduct official government business and to delete communications about COVD-19 origins in order to defeat FOIA requests — all of this is stated in their own words.
The huge question that this raises is — Why the cover-up?
I’m sure that the conclusion of most thinkers on the left will be that these programs were obviously underfunded.
Despite $443 million in new annual spending aimed to reduce homelessness the number of people without a roof over their head has grown by 20 per cent in Canada, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
The new $443 million was a 374 per cent increase compared to prior spending, but it doesn’t appear to be having the desired effect.
In any other branch of medicine, doctors would ask why. If you saw a sudden, 5000% increase in young people with bipolar disorder, the mental health world would investigate immediately… If you saw a 5,000% increase in girls suffering from anorexia, immediately we would want to know – what was that trigger, what is causing this? And yet, with gender, the 5,000% increase happens and nobody says a thing. Everybody’s pretending that it’s perfectly normal and healthy. Why? Because… it’s gender. You’re not allowed to question anything. You can only celebrate.
It’s almost as if we’re supposed to celebrate a 5,000% increase in teenage girls showing up at gender clinics and wanting their breasts cut off.
Andrew Gold interviews the formidable Mia Hughes, author of The WPATH Files, about pseudoscience, malpractice, and experiments on children.
Who would knowingly infect you with HIV or hepatitis and then gas light you about it for half a century?
I know it works out to $170,000 per job, but they’re “green” jobs, right?
Interesting to see that even the CBC is questioning the wisdom of the idea that no price is too high when it comes to reducing a carbon footprint.
One economics professor tweeted he was “legit astonished” by the investment in Italpasta.
“Do they not understand just how insane this is? That spending north of $170k for *one job* is an embarrassment, not an achievement?” wrote Stephen Gordon of Laval University.
“There is really no underlying economic rationale,” said Robert Gillezeau, assistant professor of economics at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. “I think those spends are more about politics than they are about economic development.”
About marijuana legalization is how it shifted buyers away from supporting organized crime.
Issuing short term bonds is a sweet deal when interest rates are falling, but not so much when they go the other way.
Canada has just over $1.4 trillion in debt — more than double the $619 billion owed in the Liberal government’s first year — borrowed using bonds ranging between two and 30 years.
This year, $414 billion of the national debt will be refinanced. During the pandemic, the Bank of Canada’s central rate was as low as 0.25 per cent; it’s now five per cent.
