Ontario officials fear new SARS cluster

Globe & Mail ^ | 2003-06-10 | Gloria Galloway

[Betty Jo]

Mississauga,Ontario, is the Canadian home of Med-Emerg International, Inc.

Mississauga is /was also the home of "Islamic Association for Palestine".

It is/was part of the whole "infocom Benevolence International Foundation".

Anybody know any more?

[Betty Jo]

http://www.geocities.com/johnathanrgalt/Texas_connections.html

How large a city is Mississauga?

[aristeides]

Ontario chief medical officer questions credibility of U.S. SARS statistics.

[aristeides]

Travis Co. (Texas) Man Recovering From SARS.

[TaxRelief]

Here is a little gem I came across:

SW reader of the week

Socialist Worker salutes our "reader of the week": Dr. Claude Lajeunesse, president of Toronto’s Ryerson University.

It seems that Claude was so impressed by an article in our last issue that he had it clipped and faxed it out to all the members of Ryerson’s Board of Governors.

The article in question was a letter by Alex Lisman, VP Education on Ryerson Students’ Administrative Council, denouncing William Leggett, principal of Queen’s University. Leggett, point man on the drive for fully deregulated university tuition, is therein accurately described as "an incompetent ideologue".

We had no idea Claude found time in his busy day to read Socialist Worker, and look forward to receiving his subscription request, at the "supporters" rate no doubt.

His endorsement is surely a strong signal to Ryerson students to read the paper on a regular basis.

And we appreciate Claude bringing us to the attention of the movers and shakers on the Board of Governors. That includes John Craig Eaton (yes, that Eaton); Lynne Golding (Bay Street corporate lawyer and wife of Ontario PC leadership hopeful Tony Clement); Harriet Stairs (Executive VP, Bank of Montreal) and Ramesh K. Zacharias (CEO of Med-Emerg International Inc., a corporation lobbying hard for privatized health care).

All these folks are major contributors to the Ontario Tory party, but we hope they’ll think of us in our next fund drive. Their pocket change will probably suffice.

[aristeides]

Chinese press rebuts Sars claims.

[aristeides]

Canada Faces SARS Questions With Link To N.C. Case.

[blam]

"As of June 9, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported 311 suspected SARS cases in the United States, 69 probable cases and no deaths. Yet Canada has had 33 deaths with a similar caseload, D'Cunha noted. "

Does make one wonder, huh?

[EternalHope]

Quite an interesting article you linked in post 43.

Is this just a Canadain official trying to divert attention? Taking a few more cheap shots against the U.S. just for fun?

I generally trust the SARS info released by our government, although it is not as detailed as it should be. However, the final comment about the U.S. Homeland Security law is food for thought.

[TaxRelief]

Another interesting tidbit...

MED-EMERG Stock Performance

[TaxRelief]

Maybe this can answer the question about post #43 10 questions about Canada's failure to control SARS

[Betty Jo]

Oh I love your # 43.

The last sentence...it might be underreported because they put it under National Security in the Homeland Security...

Could be true!

If its true that America is messing with the numbers and covering it up as a matter of National Security,then Tommy Thompson this afternoon on Neil Cavuto on FOX saying our gov doesnt know of "any causal relationship from the terrs to SARS and monkeypox" wasnt telling the truth.

Tommy also smiled when he said "despite the fact that the Dr.stayed in room 911 of the Metropole Hotel"

[Betty Jo]

I am reading it correctly... the price of their stock is up?

[Betty Jo]

Zacharias, have you googled him?

I'm not into Canadian politics , so much is lost to me, but yes, I can see why he might want privatized health care.

But Med-Emerg does benifit from both sides of the street.

Did you know that MedEmerg has contracts with the Defence Forces of Canada?

Also, Med Emerg is "International Inc".

A whole lot of irons in a whole lot of fires,and the terrs and the funders are right in there.

[TaxRelief]

I dogpiled him. Much better than google and unfiltered.

Med-emerg is Zecharias' baby and it is failing miserably.

[IYAAYAS]

"As of June 9, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported 311 suspected SARS cases in the United States, 69 probable cases and no deaths. Yet Canada has had 33 deaths with a similar caseload, D'Cunha noted. "
Does make one wonder, huh?


Makes me more than wonder, makes me puzzled. I can't think of an explanation for this. Even if the gov' is hiding cases and only the worst are being report, they would be the most likely to die, but there aren't any deaths.

paging FL_engineer...your thoughts please.

[aristeides]

Expert vows to unshroud SARS secrecy in China.

[blam]

"Makes me more than wonder, makes me puzzled. I can't think of an explanation for this. Even if the gov' is hiding cases and only the worst are being report, they would be the most likely to die, but there aren't any deaths. "

Notice the reference to 'Homeland Security Laws,' is he implying a cover-up?.

[Prince Charles]

Once again, Dr. Donald Low seems to be the only honest Canuck in Sarsville.

[Dec31,1999]

They are not being very open with info on this guy. The US seems determined to keep the facts on SARS cases away from the public. Not a good sign.

Lies, lies and more lies. The "health authorities" are letting this virus run its course through the population quietly. SARS is off the front pages and is now free to do its damage.