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Quebec is bringing back its controversial overnight curfew beginning Friday at 10 p.m., which is New Year's Eve, and continuing to 5 a.m the next day. Quebec Premier Francois Legault made the announcement Thursday amid increasing hospitalizations and an exponential growth in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant. Also, beginning on Friday, private gatherings in homes will be prohibited. Only people who live alone or need caregivers will be allowed to join another family bubble. Dining rooms at restaurants will be closed but take-out and delivery options will be allowed to continue...

Joe Rogan was set to attend his long anticipated Vancouver show scheduled for April 20, which has long been sold out, but on Wednesday The Hill is reporting it's been canceled due to the Canadian government barring him from entry for the event. "Ticketmaster Wednesday on its website confirmed that Rogan’s Vancouver show had been canceled and ticket holders would receive a refund," The Hill reports. However, the event has been pushed to a much later date in 2022, though it's unclear whether Canada will relax its vaccine requirement to cross the border by that point (at the rate things...

The Public Health Agency of Canada accessed data such as cell-tower location to monitor people’s activity during lockdown, it said... The Public Health Agency of Canada accessed location data from 33 million mobile devices to monitor people’s movement during lockdown, the agency revealed this week. Due to the urgency of the pandemic, (PHAC) collected and used mobility data, such as cell-tower location data, throughout the COVID-19 response,” a spokesperson told National Post. The program’s existence was first brought to wider attention by Blacklock’s Reporter. PHAC used the location data to evaluate the effectiveness of public lockdown measures and allow the...

Canada’s federal government admitted to secretly surveilling its population’s movements during the COVID-19 lockdown by tracking 33 million phones.The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) clandestinely tracked the devices to assess “the public’s responsiveness during lockdown measures,” the agency acknowledged last week, according to Blacklock’s Reporter, which first reported the disclosure.Canada’s entire population totals 38 million, according to Statistics Canada.“Evidence is coming in from many sources, from countries around the world, that what was seen as a huge surveillance surge — post 9/11 — is now completely upstaged by pandemic surveillance,” David Lyon, author of “Pandemic Surveillance” and the former...

Someone, anyone… please tell me you can see the problem here. Canadian railway officials have a rather familiar method to segregate passengers and identify authorized vaccinated citizens who are traveling in railroad cars:

This past week, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad was the latest victim of the West’s cancel culture, as she was disinvited from a book event by Canada’s Toronto District School Board. Alongside colonialism, imperialism, and nation-building, “cancel culture” is the latest of toxic Western ideas to be foisted upon the Middle East. This past week, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad was the latest victim of the West’s cancel culture, as she was disinvited from a book event by Canada’s Toronto District School Board. This may sound trivial, but it’s a big deal. Murad is a member...

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has deemed math proficiency tests for teachers “unconstitutional” due to “racial disparities.” The court ruled that because non-white teachers are less likely to pass the math test, it should no longer be required. As one social media commentator aptly pointed out, Ontario teachers no longer need to pass basic math in order to teach basic math. As bad as your first-impression take on this might be, it's actually even worse. Read closely: this math proficiency test isn't for the students, it's for THE TEACHERS. Your Ontario teacher no longer needs to pass basic math...

Businesses implementing Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine certificate requirements are seeing decreased sales, according to a survey conducted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). Over 60 percent of businesses requiring patrons to show COVID-19 vaccine passports are reporting lower sales “as a direct result” of the provincial government’s vaccination mandates, said Dan Kelly, president and chief executive officer of the CFIB. “Regardless of one’s views on vaccine passports, there is no doubt they’ve led to a further drop in sales for the small businesses required to use them,” Kelly wrote on social media, following the Ontario government’s Dec. 10 announcement...

The National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA) have reportedly reached an agreement to not have players participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. In the NHL and the NHLPA's most recent collective bargaining agreement, the two sides negotiated the participation of NHL players in the 2022 and 2026 Winter games after NHL players were barred from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics. However, an agreement was reached that if the NHL season was "materially impacted" by COVID-19 that the NHL had until January 10th, 2022 to opt out of Olympic participation without incurring a...

The province of New Brunswick backtracked on an aspect of its COVID-19 ‘winter plan’ which compelled grocery stores to either enforce social distancing or require all patrons to be ‘fully vaccinated.’. Unvaccinated Canadians in New Brunswick are now allowed to access all grocery stores again, after intense pressure from the public led the government to retract its policy leaving it up to businesses how to treat people who refuse the abortion-tainted COVID shot. On Friday, the province of New Brunswick backtracked on an aspect of its COVID-19 “winter plan” which compelled grocery stores to either enforce social distancing or require...

Justice may be delayed, but it will not be denied,” is the strap-line of a video from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs that now has millions of views from across the world. The startling speech in the clip attached (below) is part of a new Chinese Communist Party effort to undermine the United States on the world stage, taking advantage of an increasingly weak Biden regime. No such wild sabre-rattling came from China during the Trump administration. They didn’t dare. But with Biden and Harris at the helm for less than a year, the world is now witnessing a rush...

The Department of Energy is selling 18 million barrels of sour crude from storage caverns in Texas and Louisiana in a tender that closes Jan. 4, with deliveries from Feb. 1 through March 31, according to a statement on its website. Crude futures have dropped about 15% since late October, when President Joe Biden and his team began indicating they were considering a variety of tools to bring down fuel prices. Oil has fallen more sharply since news of the omicron variant of the coronavirus broke in late November. Biden to Release U.S. Oil Reserves in Challenge to OPEC+

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The Canadian Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping ban on conversion therapy after senators agreed to fast-track the bill through the legislative process without extensive debate, committee study or votes. Bill C-4, which received royal assent Wednesday, amends the Canadian Criminal Code to criminalize causing someone to undergo conversion therapy, taking a child out of Canada for the purpose of conversion therapy, profiting from the provision of conversion therapy, and advertising or promoting the practice. Penalties for the new offenses range from two to five years in prison. Previous versions of the bill failed in Parliament, but the current bill...

Rumble — Pfizer reported that its vaccine shows a 95% efficacy. That sounds like it protects you 95% of the time. But that's not what that number actually means. That is the relative risk reduction which does NOT tell you what your overall risk is reduced by vaccination. For that number, we need to look at absolute risk reduction. Time only 118 seconds of pure information!

The People’s Republic of China did not announce its discovery of COVID-19 until New Year’s Eve, 2019. But according to a Canadian who was in Wuhan in mid-October of that year (he was there to attend the 2019 Military World Games), the city of 11 million was already acting as if it was in the grip of a severe pandemic: Empty markets, few pedestrians and only a handful of cars on the road. What’s more, the Canadian delegation was so badly infected with a severe respiratory illness that a “quarantine section” was established on the plane home.... Allegations have come...

Toronto police have asked for the public's help in identifying a suspect in the high-profile murders of a Canadian billionaire and his wife. Barry Sherman, 75, and Honey Sherman, 70, were found strangled in their Toronto home in December 2017. Police released a short clip of an individual walking near the Sherman's home on the night they were killed. This is the only person captured on footage nearby that day who police have been unable to identify.

Melanie Bitner, 47, who insists she is not anti-vaccine, got her first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine on April 23 and soon became extremely ill. The Squamish marketing and communications professional says that 12 days later she was admitted to the Vancouver General Hospital intensive care unit with multiple blood clots and was “pretty much at death’s door.” She was released from the hospital after a week but had to be readmitted when her rare condition, known as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, worsened. Bitner says she has since lost her business, six months of income, her health and is now...

The Canadian federal government has already banned unvaccinated people from domestic or international air or train travel, a rule that went into effect Nov. 30. Facebook banned news and videos of protests of the development, saying it was misinformation. Those videos showed up on Tik Tok, however. Politifact, owned by the nonprofit Poynter Institute, disputes the assertion that people are being prevented from buying groceries in New Brunswick. But Must Read Alaska’s Fact Check Desk found the New Brunswick government document that allows stores to discriminate against those who haven’t taken the shot. To date, one of the two major...

A member of the legislature of Canada's province of Ontario was expelled during a session Tuesday morning because she was not vaccinated for COVID-19. Cambridge, Ontario, MPP Belinda Karahalios had recently recovered from COVID-19 and tested negative for the virus. But Speaker Ted Arnott ordered her to leave because the current advice from the public officer of health was that she must be out of the chamber for 90 days following her positive test, Canada's CBC News reported. "I need to address the member for Cambridge – member for Cambridge is obviously in the precinct and in the chamber at...