Tag: Covid-19-Columns

  By Marnie Cathcart, The Western Standard Anyone who has left their house in recent months knows that the rules on mandatory face masks are hardly uniform. In some places there are no masking requirements at all. Some stores insist on masks, some do not. Only in situations where the requirement to wear a mask is forced on an individual …
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  By John Carpay – The Post Millennial If the Grinch could have used COVID-19 as an excuse, he might have succeeded in destroying Christmas for the citizens of Whoville. The bitter, nasty, hairy, green character with the cat-like face, from Dr. Seuss’ 1957 classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas, learned on Christmas morning that his plan had failed. After stealing …
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Fear is a dangerous emotion to play around with. What started as fear of the virus back in March has evolved for our leaders into fear of telling voters the truth. Politicians ratcheted up the fear to get everyone on board with lockdown measures eight months ago, and now they use fear to maintain these measures in place. Supposedly temporary …
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John Carpay – The Interim With a religious fervour, fear of COVID-19 is permeating and shaping our laws, policies, and culture. The job-killing, economy-destroying, soul-deadening, anxiety-producing, loneliness-creating, debt-incurring lockdowns, imposed on us since March 2020, have now become permanent restrictions on our Charter freedoms to move, travel, associate, assemble, and worship. Prior to Thanksgiving, Quebec’s health minister prohibited celebrating with family and …
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John Carpay – The Epoch Times Across Canada, provincial governments are imposing new lockdown restrictions that violate the Charter freedoms of Canadians to move, travel, assemble, associate and worship. Like other provinces, Manitoba relies on COVID-19 “cases,” which include perfectly healthy people who show no symptoms of any illness, to justify the violation of Charter freedoms. Winnipeg is merely one …
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John Carpay – The Post Millennial “Alberta’s approach has never been to impose a lockdown,” declared Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on Twitter on October 11, 2020. The Premier was responding to comments by Dr. David Nabarro of the World Health Organization, who urged world leaders to “stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method” for COVID-19. Dr. Nabarro’s assertion that lockdowns cause …
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John Carpay – The Interim The lockdowns have now become a permanent violation of our Charter Rights and Freedom to move, travel, assemble, associate, and worship. Governments are showing no intentions of removing restrictions, even as COVID-19 deaths slow to a trickle, and are now proven to be a small fraction of the dire predictions made by politicians in March. Masks have become …
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John Carpay – The Post Millennial While Canadians, Americans and Europeans have suffered greatly from lockdown measures, people in developing nations have been hit even harder. An Oxfam study presents a disturbing survey of suffering around the world, some examples of which are mentioned in this column. Globally, the equivalent of 305 million full-time jobs have been lost, with women and young people …
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  Jay Cameron, Western Standard As Canada faces winter 2020 and the citizens of this country are threatened by politicians with a new wave of lockdowns, it is time to take stock and consider. There has never been a similar six-month period in the history of Canada like the period from April to September 2020.  The massive collateral damage from the …
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John Carpay – The Post Millennial Do you remember Dr. Niles Crane from the 1990s television sitcom Frasier? Niles was the fussy, cultured, snobbish younger brother of call-in radio host and psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane (played by Kelsey Grammer). Fearful of germs and obsessed with cleanliness, Niles was always wiping his hands immediately after any human contact, as well as …
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