Canadian News Knows All and Tells All that is Allowed

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Canadian News Knows All and Tells All That is Allowed

How government mouthpieces do talk!

CBC May 18: Canada should donate AstraZeneca vaccines, or we'll 'have blood on our hands:' doctor

• Last week, several provinces halted administration of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine as a first dose because of supply issues and safety concerns around rare but serious blood clots.
• Those decisions came after the National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommended that Canadians who are less likely to contract COVID-19 consider waiting for "preferred" mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, because they don't carry the same clotting risks.

Confused? First Canadians are warned away from AstraZeneca; now we're saints for pawning it off onto "low income" countries.

It's as generous as donating clothing that you wouldn't be caught dead in.

TheStar - July 12:

• “While Canadians continue to lead the world in vaccine administration, we know that the picture is very different in many places around the world,” Procurement Minister Anita Anand said Monday. “We also know that this pandemic will not end until it ends everywhere.”

It's true that if enough people die from the vaccine, that will help "end" the pandemic.

"Give till it hurts" sort of takes on a new meaning, doesn't it?

I wonder if we'll ever be told where our cast-offs were sent to.

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CBC July 25: Why Some Canadians Still Haven't Had a Shot

You don't need to read the CBC article to know why: basically, it's because you and I are bloody ignorant. But the insults to intelligence don't keep commenters at bay -- and you must know by now how much I enjoy reading CBC comments:
 

Joshua Stein:
“OMG how can people not trust the science!!??!

Science: Masks are not effective. Oops, maybe they are.

Locking down airports is unnecessary. Oops, maybe it is.

Astra vaccine is perfectly safe. Oops maybe not.

Current vaccines are effective against delta variant. Oops, maybe not. 


Anne Young:
Right now the vaccinated & unvaccinated are out mingling among ourselves. As a vaccinated person I have absolutely no fear that the person beside me might have chosen not to be vaccinated, why would I?


Noel Spannagel [Government troll?]:
Canadians who are eligible to get a vaccine but are reluctant to do so are simply misinformed and misled people who are likely terrified of minor needle picks which even babies can endure.

Poor Noel being obliged to make up stuff like that.

I'm a mere woman, but I've experienced natural childbirth, and even my dentist is astonished at how much pain I can endure quietly -- but when infants are forced to endure "needle picks", they never do it quietly. 

Nor will I. I'd rather die than submit to anything that anyone but me decides is "best" for me.


Rob Brownie
COVID-19 cases in B.C. are up — but 78 per cent of new cases are among unvaccinated people

Wow!! almost 30% are vaccinated people [and] still get the COVID ???


YYC:
Okay, Rob; your math is weak but your logic is dead on:  22% is plenty problematic.


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Ontario freedom abounds -- carding has ended, sort of:

CBC: 

• The regulation bans police from collecting identifying information "arbitrarily," or based on a person's race or presence in a high crime neighbourhood in certain instances. Carding is also known as street checks.
• But Sandy Hudson, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, said the new rule on carding doesn't go far enough. 
• "Where these rules apply — and where they don't — doesn't change anything about carding," she said. "A police officer can always say they are investigating a particular crime." 
• Hudson says she and other members of Black Lives Matter would prefer to see an outright ban on carding in Toronto and across Ontario. 
• "Our position is that the regulation doesn't ban carding at all, but instead gives a roadmap as to what is an acceptable form of carding according to the province," she said.

Oh great!  Not another brilliant cure that's even worse than the disease!

CBC: 'This is surveillance':

• Jane-Finch community angry at police plan for CCTV cameras
• Community worker has launched a petition against the move

Ingrates! Vaccines are safe, but your community is not? Too bad: the cameras will have to do until an anti-crime vaccine is developed.

Maybe they can develop one at the Ryerson Leadership "Lab":

CBC: Toronto man discovers CCTV camera pointing into his bedroom

• Joe Masoodi is a senior policy analyst at the Ryerson Leadership Lab.
• "Studies suggest CCTV cameras may be effective in preventing property crimes or theft," Masoodi said. "But they also indicate CCTV cameras are not effective against violent crimes."
• Instead, he said, unintended consequences may emerge and crime could be displaced to a more vulnerable area lacking CCTV surveillance or police patrols or that it might heighten "overpolicing" in marginalized or racialized communities.

When did "science" become a mere jumble of weasel words?

But let's get more of those cameras rolled out, eh?  Even poor people deserve to be spied on.


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