Tonight, On Unsolved Mysteries

Financial Post- Yes, everyone really is sick a lot more often after COVID

Canada, Japan, Singapore and Germany — places lauded for their successful efforts to contain COVID — are now seeing unusual levels of excess mortality, said Christopher Murray, Washington-based director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. In contrast, places that failed to control the spread of COVID, like Bulgaria, Romania and Russia, are now back to pre-pandemic mortality rates.

“Why would it be worse in places that did a good job? That seems a bit strange.

No Payments, No Interest, Forever

You don’t have to dig far into the details to find out that this “loan” is really just a giveaway, or, in modern parlance, a “special-purpose vehicle”.

The government sent a letter to First Nations groups last year proposing a special-purpose vehicle that would hold a stake in the pipeline, and individual groups would be able to choose whether to opt in. For those that want a piece of the action, the government intends to provide risk-free access to capital, the letter said, without providing details such as how big of a stake it would sell.

 

Safe and Effective®

Dr. Byram W. Bridle- BC Centre for Disease Control Caught Lying and Withholding Important Public Health Data

The report obtained by a freedom of information request is damning. It demonstrates the withholding of comparative data that would have dramatically facilitated informed consent with respect to COVID-19 shots. It also shows that numbers of adverse events were manipulated in the public report in a way that substantially downplayed safety concerns. I did not find explanations for this in the report.

What he did find…

British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Discovered COVID-19 Shots Were More Than Sixteen Times More Dangerous Than Flu Shots But Never Disclosed this Publicly.

COVID-19 Shots Caused 13.6-Fold More Hospitalizations and 24-Fold More Deaths Than Flu Shots.

Blind To The Obvious

Is there anything more frustrating than some court economist declaring that we face serious economic problems but the causes are just a bewildering puzzle that largely defy explanation? Just for starters, Tiff need look no further than the current federal government’s open hostility towards investors.

At the conference, Macklem said the central bank expected productivity growth to pick up coming out of the pandemic as companies found the workers they wanted to hire and the supply chain started to normalize.

“It hasn’t happened,” he said. “That’s why we made such a stark statement.”

The solutions are apparent — more investment in machinery, equipment, information technology, etc. — but Macklem said the tougher question is why that isn’t happening.

“There are some puzzles there,” he said. “We have all the ingredients; we have got to cut through obstacles.”

 

The Broad Spectrum Gang

Brought to justice: Laval police arrest three suspects in Desjardins data theft

Three men, including a West Island resident, were arrested Wednesday by Laval police as suspects in the theft of a massive amount of client data from Mouvement Desjardins five years ago.

Laval police also said they are looking for a fourth suspect in the leak of information used to commit $8.9 million worth of fraud. Wednesday’s operation involved several Laval police officers and investigators and was the result of what the police force said was “one of the most complex investigations that the service has experienced in its history.” […]

Two of the men arrested on Wednesday, Ayoub Kourdal, 36, of Pierrefonds, and Imad Jbara, 33, of St-Hubert, are scheduled to appear before a judge at the Laval courthouse Thursday morning. A third man, Nassim Alikacem, 30, of St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, was released on a promise to appear in court at a later date.

h/t James McMaster

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