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Friday, July 11, 2025

Alberta to lift most public health restrictions by Canada Day

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced on Friday that his province will be lifting virtually all of its COVID-19 related public health restrictions by Canada Day this year. 

Kenney made the announcement during a celebratory press conference in which he thanked Albertans for lining up to get their vaccines. 

“The end of this terrible time is just two weeks away,” said Kenney. 

“I never doubted that we would reach this milestone together, that we’d pull together as a province, as a people, and get ‘er done in the true Alberta spirit.” 

Alberta will be entering its final stage of it’s three-step reopening program after the vaccination requirements were reached on Thursday. 

Currently, over 70% of people in Alberta who were eligible for the vaccine have received at least one dose. 

“With more than 70 per cent of eligible Albertans now vaccinated with a first dose and more receiving second doses every day, the end of this pandemic is near,” said Alberta’s Minister of health Tyler Shandro in a news release on Friday. 

“Thank you to the Albertans who have rolled up their sleeves to get protected. For those who are still thinking about getting a shot, you have only one week to get your shot before we draw for $1 million and other great prizes.”

Once Alberta enters the third stage of the plan, the indoor and outdoor gathering restrictions will be lifted. Similarly capacity limits for places of worship and businesses will also disappear.

According to the government of Alberta, mandatory indoor masking requirements will also be lifted, however “limited and specific settings” may still require mask-wearing. 

Isolation requirements will still remain in place for those who test positive for COVID-19 even after the province enters the third stage.

Senate might throw wrench in Liberals’ push to rush Bill C-10

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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The Liberal government’s push to rush through the anti-internet Bill C-10 before the legislative session is over this Summer will likely face delays in the Senate. 

According to the National Post, a majority of senators are calling for further study into the legislation which some critics have claimed could limit the free speech rights of Canadians online.

“There seems to be a broad range of concern with this bill. There doesn’t seem to be any momentum to pass this and rubber-stamp this without thorough review,” Conservative Senator Leo Housakos told the National Post.

Similarly, the leader of the Progressive Senate Group, Senator Jane Cordy, has indicated she does not plan to skip the senate’s study period on C-10.

The Liberal government has claimed that the scope of Bill C-10 is limited to updating Canada’s outdated Broadcasting Act to meet current digital and social media realities. 

However, public outrage erupted after Liberal members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage voted to strip the bill of protections that would prevent the government from regulating the content of ordinary Canadian users. 

“Over on the House side, the process was completely unacceptable, and it should be deplored by any Canadian,” Housakos explained to the National Post.  

Conservative MPs have accused the Liberal government of cutting short debate to ram the legislation through in spite of questions about the scrope of the bill on users’ social media content.

“We’re going to continue to fight this bill right through all the stages in our efforts to defeat it. I think the prime minister is in a mad rush to get it through so that he can have it in place and locked in before the next election,” Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said in a committee meeting on June 9. 

Recently a Liberal attempt to end debate on the legislation was turned down by the Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota on Tuesday after the Liberals submitted a series of last-minute amendments to the law. 

Federal Court rejects constitutional challenge to mandatory quarantine hotels

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True North
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The Federal Court has upheld the Trudeau government’s hotel quarantine program as constitutional. 

Chief Justice Paul Crampton released his decision in favour of the Trudeau government Friday, in a decision that said pandemics require “sacrifices,” even of constitutional freedoms.

In his decision, the judge explains that while mandatory quarantine hotels do violate the right to liberty and can be considered a form of detention, they are justified as preventing the spread of COVID-19 is in the national interest.

“Like times of war and other crises, pandemics call for sacrifices to save lives and avoid broad based suffering,” the ruling reads.

“If some are unwilling to make such sacrifices, and engage in behaviour that poses a demonstrated risk to the health and safety of others, the principles of fundamental justice will not prevent the state from performing its essential function of protecting its citizens from that risk.”

In February, the Trudeau government issued an order forcing international air travelers to be quarantined for three days in specific hotels at their own expense. 

Travelers have reported atrocious conditions in the hotel and little assistance from staff. In one instance, a woman was sexually assaulted in a government quarantine facility.

The court found this incident did not mean there were broader security issues that would warrant finding a Charter breach. 

The challenge was started by multiple Canadians who were forced to go to quarantine hotels as well as Rebel News, arguing that forcibly detaining travelers violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Cramoton noted that Charter Rights are not absolute and can be limited if in the public interest.

JCCF litigation director Jay Cameron said the ruling gives the Trudeau government free reign to violate the freedoms of Canadians.

“Never in post Charter history have law-abiding Canadians been detained en masse against their will, with no regard for the fundamental freedoms this country was founded on,” Cameron said.

“The Federal Court’s finding that these heavy-handed measures are constitutional is deeply concerning. Canadians continue to wait anxiously for the courts of the land to draw boundaries around the increasingly authoritarian measures of government regarding Covid. We are reviewing the decision carefully.”

Jason Kenney lashes out at “wokeness” after Winston Churchill statue defaced

By
True North Wire
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says historic figures should still be honoured if they don’t “meet the standards of contemporary wokeness.”

Kenney was responding to the defacing of an Edmonton statue of Sir Winston Churchill, the former British prime minister instrumental in the Allied effort to defeat the Nazis and fascism in World War Two.

The statue in front of Edmonton City Hall was found covered in red paint Thursday morning. The incident is being investigated by police.

In a tweet, Kenney called the vandalism “shameful” and argued that Churchill’s legacy needs to be properly recognized as “one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century.”

“Churchill led the free world with heroic courage and skill to defeat global fascism in the Second World War,” Kenney wrote. “People should continue to debate Churchill’s complex legacy (and) record, but vandalizing public property like this is shameful. No member of the greatest generation can meet the standards of contemporary wokeness. But we should still honour those who secured our peace and freedom.”

The vandalism was also condemned by Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson, who said attacking a statue is not an appropriate way of expressing opinions.

“I don’t know the intent behind the vandalism, but I know historical monuments and sculptures, here and elsewhere, are at the heart of an emotional debate regarding what legacies and stories we venerate as a society,” he said in a statement.

“I believe there are more productive ways to move society along towards a more inclusive and uplifting future [than] vandalizing city property.”  

In recent weeks a wave of hostility has been directed at historical figures after investigators suggested that 215 human remains are at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. While some have compared the discovery to genocide, the reality of what happened is not yet known.

Since the Kamloops discovery, statues of pivotal Canadian figures such as Sir John A. Macdonald and Egerton Ryerson have been removed or destroyed.

Earlier in the month, Kenney argued against the cancellation of historic figures, particularly Sir John A. Macdonald, saying that Canada can only grow as a society if we learn from the good and bad.

“So if we go full force into cancel culture, then we’re cancelling most if not all of our history. Instead, I think we should learn from our history. We should learn from our achievements but also our failures.”

CBC restricts comments section to hide opposing voices

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True North Wire
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CBC often intervenes to censor opposing voices in its comment sections according to documents obtained by Rebel News.

In a series of emails released through the Access to Information Act, Rebel News learned of several instances in which CBC took a heavy-handed approach to comment moderation, including to deflect against criticism of itself.

In one instance, CBC employees shut down the comment section of an editorial which discussed how the CBC can become more trusted by the public.

CBC ultimately reopened the comment section after a former CBC journalist complained to management.

“This morning we have been reviewing deactivated comments on ‘Canadian trust in journalism is wavering. Here’s what CBC News is doing about it,’” the email reads.

“Normally we consider criticism about moderation to be off topic but in this case, we feel that type of criticism is allowable in the context of this article. 

On Tuesday, CBC News Editor-in-Chief Brodie Fenlon announced the state broadcaster is disabling comments on all Facebook posts to protect journalists from increasing “vitriol and harassment.”

In another series of emails, CBC staff discussed how to handle comment moderation on posts about the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.

The staff ultimately decided that commenters should not be allowed to link videos of former president Donald Trump, including his call for peace.

Along with censoring comments on the January 6 riot, CBC moderators also focused on censoring voices opposing official narratives on COVID-19. 

Theories surrounding the 2020 Nova Scotia mass-shooting and the Quebec City mass-stabbing have also been censored.

A recent study by the consultancy firm Edelman found that 52% of Canadians believe most news outlets are more concerned with promoting their own ideology than telling the truth.

Another 49% of Canadians surveyed believe journalists are “purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations.”

UN conference to demand more aggressive climate action from countries

By
Andrew Lawton
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As the United Nations gears up for its massive COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this fall, the event’s chair is calling for more “ambitious” emissions reductions plans from national governments.

At a virtual press conference marking the end of a UN Climate Change conference Thursday afternoon, COP26 president Alok Sharma said it’s clear there’s “much further to go” when it comes to national climate change policies.

“We must use the full weight of some of the world’s major economies to push down global emissions so that we are able to keep 1.5 degrees alive,” Sharma said.

The Paris climate agreement reached at the end of COP21 in 2015 set a target for limiting global warming to less than two degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100, while “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C.”

Countries could not agree during negotiations to a hard 1.5 degree Celsius target, hence the softer language. Canada’s then-environment minister Catherine McKenna was among those pushing for the more aggressive 1.5 degree goal.

It seems the goalposts for the upcoming summit have been firmly planted at 1.5 degrees, with Sharma calling it “vital to the very many millions of people around the world who are facing the challenge of climate change head on.”

COP26 will bring tens of thousands of delegates from governments and non-governmental organizations to Scotland in November to finalize the rules of the Paris Agreement and “accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis.” The summit was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure it could be held in-person and not virtually.

Among the conference’s goals is to get firm emission reduction commitments from countries through a range of measures, including pivoting to renewable energy and switching to electric vehicles.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used Canada’s endorsement of the Paris Agreement as justification to impose a national carbon tax in 2018, and steadily increase the tax over subsequent years.

In April, Trudeau hiked the Canadian government’s emissions reduction target to 40% to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030, a goal Trudeau said amounted to Canada’s “highest possible ambition in light of its current national circumstances.”

Despite this, Canada’s emissions have increased since signing the Paris Agreement, and have stayed relatively flat per capita.

Canada accounts for just 1.6% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

In its emphasis on the 1.5 degree Celsius target, COP26 is pushing states beyond the Paris Agreement, which the United Nations now says is inadequate to tackle climate change.

A UN report published earlier this year said global carbon dioxide emissions must decline by 45% from their 2010 levels by 2030 to meet the 1.5 degree, or by 25% to meet the 2 degree target. 

While 196 countries signed the Paris Agreement, the UN report found these countries’ combined impacts are on track to cut emissions by just 1%. 

PHAC to disclose records on firing of scientists accused of sending viruses to China

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is facing censure for being in contempt of Parliament after he refused to disclose documents related to an RCMP raid on the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. 

Conservative members of the House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China have been pressing the Trudeau government to reveal the details surrounding allegations levelled against two federal scientists who are accused of sending infectious virus samples to the Chinese government. 

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, President Iain Stewart was censured by House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota saying it was not “for the government to decide” what records get concealed. 

“There are precedents that support censure,” said Speaker Rota. 

Rota said that MPs have the “fundamental” right to be provided documents even if those documents have national security implications. Stewart’s position on refusing to disclose the vital information based on those grounds was echoed by Liberal Health Minister Patty Hajdu earlier this week during her own testimony before the committee. 

“I would suggest your insistence on having documents presented in a way that would not protect security is exactly that, putting Canada’s national security at risk. I would ask if you have the appropriate security clearance to be able to look at documents,” said Hajdu at the time.

A motion by Conservative MP Gérard Deltell will compel Stewart to appear before the House of Commons for formal censure and will oblige PHAC to release the records about the accused scientists Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Chang. 

“This is not a game. It is about the fundamental and ancient powers of the House of Commons to act as the grand inquest of the nation. This is being openly defied, dismissed and mocked by the Liberal government. It is, in a word, treating the House with contempt,” said Deltell. 

Stewart has repeatedly refused to answer questions posed to him in the past by parliamentarians on why the two scientists were fired from the federal lab. 

Derek Sloan hosts press conference with censored doctors

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Independent MP Derek Sloan held a press conference on Thursday to sound the alarm about an increasing number of doctors who say they are being silenced and reprimanded for speaking out against the prevailing public health narrative in Canada. 

Appearing alongside Sloan were Dr. Byram W. Bridle, who is a viral immunologist and University of Guelph associate professor, Dr. Patrick Phillips of Englehart and District Hospital, and Western University physiology and pharmacology professor Dr. Donald Welsh.

Sloan said numerous health professionals have reached out to him after he put out a call for whistleblowers in the scientific and medical communities.

“At times, the information they’ve provided has been shocking. However, the single uniting factor was that none of their stories were being told either here in parliament or international media,” said Sloan. 

Sloan spoke of an unnamed nurse, from his riding of Hastings—Lennox and Addington in Ontario, who claimed that taking in new patients from Toronto hotspots “artificially raised” the numbers of COVID-19 patients in the local community. 

“It made it look like locally we had a lot more active cases than we truly had. This type of fear-mongering in media reports has been a major issue of concern throughout this pandemic,” said Sloan. 

Sloan also recounted a story from a 30-year-old woman from Winnipeg who claims she pressed to take the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and was never informed of its risks.

Bridle recounted how a short radio interview on the ties between vaccination and heart inflammation led to a spate of attacks from his colleagues.

“I did this interview five minutes again trying to present to a lay audience, it was like a nuclear bomb went off in my world and my life was thrown upside down,” said Bridle. 

“There’s colleagues of mine who have been harassing me both on social media and in the workplace.”

Bridle said some of the backlash came from members of Ontario’s COVID-10 Science Advisory Committee.

The committee did not respond to a request for comment from True North.

Dr. Phillips, family and emergency physician, said it was a growing number of suicidal children, among other notable harms, that prompted him to speak out.

Phillips also pointed to threats from the regulatory colleague when doctors point to peer-reviewed studies showing the effectiveness of treatments like Vitamin D and Ivermectin against COVID-19.

Western University’s Welsh echoed his colleagues’ views, saying that the decisions by public health authorities have not been rooted in science and simply haven’t worked. 

“I want to be clear, science has not been functioning properly for the last 15 months as we address COVID-19. Our public health community has proclaimed to no science and to provide unassailable solutions,” said Walsh. 

“It is time for all in Canada to engage in critical thinking…. We need deep engagement, we need thoughtful debate and to turn this public health response around.”

FUREY: The Woke mob’s demands are becoming mainstream

By
Anthony Furey
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Cancel Canada Day? Rename Ryerson University?

Not too long ago, the demands of the Woke mob weren’t taken seriously. Unfortunately, in 2021, politicians and universities are succumbing to the Woke mob.

Anthony Furey discusses in his latest video.

NS emergency head fired after criticizing public health powers

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Another Canadian physician is being punished by local health authorities for the crime of questioning public health officials. 

According to CTV News, Dr. Chris Milburn was sacked from his three-year post as the department head of emergency medicine for Nova Scotia’s eastern zone after giving a critical interview where he challenged school closures and the “de-facto rule” of public health decision-makers. 

Milburn made the comments during a local radio interview which aired on June 10, 2021. 

“The decision to cancel in the first place was unjustified in my estimation. There were actually groups of pediatricians, physicians both in Canada and elsewhere that put out statements basically saying that it was a very bad idea to take kids out of school. When we do that it shows a complete lack of understanding of COVID,” Dr. Milburn told Cape Breton with Steven Sutherland. 

“Most civilized places in the world left young kids in school all through this. My problem with it is number one: it’s completely unscientific, political and crass, to make it look like we’re doing good things. And number two, it’s harmful for the poorest kids.”

Millburn went on to criticize Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin for allegedly “inexcusable” comments he made when suggesting that the virus doesn’t discriminate by age. According to Millburn, the science indicates that COVID-19 affects the elderly significantly more than the youth. 

True North attempted to contact Dr. Milburn for comment on his dismissal but did not receive a response by the time this article was published. 

During the interview, Millburn also highlighted how emergency powers were a “favourite trick of tyrannies everywhere” and pointed out how some Nova Scotia public health officials seem to be enjoying their newfound powers. 

“I would suggest that it’s a benefit to many people. Many people like power. I think there’s a number of people in power in the public health realm who are quite enjoying being in the limelight and are quite enjoying having de facto rule over our province right now and that’s not easily given up. People don’t give up power easily enough,” said Milburn. 

Soon after the interview, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Robert Strang responded to the interview saying that Milburn should focus on his own area of medicine instead of interfering with public health officials. 

 “I think he’s had a strong response from the community in Cape Breton,” said Strang. 

“My only other thing [I] would say is that he’s a trained emergency physician and I’m trained as a public health physician, I don’t try to practice emergency medicine, and you shouldn’t try to practice public health medicine.” 

Milburn is not the only physician to be reprimanded by public health authorities in recent months. As exclusively reported by True North, a Lytton, BC physician was also removed from an emergency hospital shift by the Interior Health Authority after writing an open letter to the province’s chief medical officer highlighting adverse vaccine reactions he allegedly witnessed among his patients. 

The Interior Health Authority has since refuted Dr. Charles Hoffe’s claims and has said that physicians who contradict public health officials could face disciplinary actions.

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