MALCOLM: Canada’s recovery is being led by economically illiterate ideologues

https://tnc.news/2021/05/02/malcolm-canadas-recovery-is-being-led-by-economically-illiterate-ideologues/

When I asked my editor this week if it was too late to submit a column on the topic of the federal budget, which was finally released last week after nearly two years without a firm reporting on our country’s finances, he said he would welcome the column.

“The fact that our nation’s finances are crumbling shouldn’t just be a 24 hour news story,” he quipped.

I’m sure the Trudeau government would much prefer if it were a simple 24 hour news story. Take a few blows and wait for the news cycle to move on to something juicier — like an inevitable media pile-on against Conservative premiers Jason Kenney or Doug Ford.

When it comes to news on this budget (can we even call it a budget? That word tends to imply a certain level of frugality and restraint), this spending mess is a story that bears repeating.

The house is on fire. Everything is not fine.

The Trudeau government is now borrowing an astronomical $3 billion per week to stay afloat — much of it being printed by the central bank, putting off the eventual need for drastically higher revenue to find a balance.

Instead, each dollar printed by the feds — in what they call the “modern monetary theory,” which is the profoundly irresponsible “theory” that we can print money and not worry about the consequences or the realities of inflation — means that the money in your wallet and bank account will be worth less.

Trudeau plans to add a jaw-dropping $154 billion to the debt this year, skyrocketing our net debt projections up to $1.5 trillion in the next five years.

Perhaps worst of all is the type of spending that Trudeau is embarking on.

Trudeau is fundamentally increasing the size and scope of the federal government, with big ticket items including his version of the Green New Deal and a National Daycare Program. The latter was thoroughly rejected at the polls by Canadians back in 2006, when they chose instead the Conservative alternative which was a direct monthly stipend for parents of young children.

The Liberals beefed up the Conservative program, renaming it the Canada Child Benefit and offering even more cash to parents. But now we learn that they will also be offering subsidized daycare to those same parents — even though the very purpose of the cash payments was to put the parents in the driver’s seat and give them more choice.

This complete lack of restraint is the essence of Trudeau’s borrowing plan. Say yes to everyone and everything, leveraging future generations for the chance to get re-elected today.

Canadians have seen this move before.

A little over a decade ago, I opposed most of the Harper government’s recession spending following the 2008 financial crisis and global meltdown. Much of that government’s so-called Economic Action Plan was little more than corporate welfare and pork and barrel spending to bribe voters with their own money.

But I applauded Harper for his tactics surrounding recession spending, which was to create temporary spending programs rather than permanently growing the bureaucracy. When the economy improved, Harper was gradually able to roll back most of these programs and achieve a balanced budget by 2014.

Looking at today’s spending figures, it’s incredibly difficult to imagine any government — even one run by a fiscal hawk like Harper or steadfast libertarian like Maxime Bernier — getting back to balance in a mere half decade.

At the height of Harper’s deficit spending, in the 2009-2010 fiscal year, Canada borrowed a staggering $56.4 billion. Well, it was staggering at the time. It pales, however, in comparison to the great Trudeau spending bonanza of the early 2020s.

Harper’s recovery strategy was based on a commitment to free market principles and an understanding of the laws of economics.

Today’s recovery is being led by a group of economically illiterate ideologues. God help us all.

15-Year-Old Boy Dies Of Heart Attack Two Days After Taking Pfizer Vaccine, Had No History Of Allergic Reactions

https://davidicke.com/2021/05/03/15-year-old-boy-dies-of-heart-attack-two-days-after-taking-pfizer-vaccine-had-no-history-of-allergic-reactions/

The case, listed in the database as VAERS ID 1242573, reveals that the 15-year-old boy was “vaccinated with Pfizer/Biontech” on April 18, 2021. He began to experience adverse reactions to the vaccine on April 19, 2021, and “died 04/20/2021, 2 days after vaccination.” The VAERS database also reveals that he had no other illnesses, no preexisting conditions, no known allergies, no birth defects, and no permanent disabilities. He merely died of “cardiac failure” exactly two days after receiving the controversial vaccine.

The revelation comes as the mainstream media and Biden regime have repeatedly criticized those suggesting healthy, young people should consider skipping the COVID-19 vaccine. Joe Rogan famously made this suggestion on the April 23 episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast, provoking a litany of leftist responses and criticism.

Read more: 15-Year-Old Boy Dies Of Heart Attack Two Days After Taking Pfizer Vaccine, Had No History Of Allergic Reactions

The New Nuremberg Trials 2021 – Please Share This Info!

FULL ARTICLE

https://breaking-news.ca/the-new-nuremberg-trials-2021-please-share-this-info/

A team of over 1,000 lawyers and over 10,000 medical experts led by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich have begun legal proceedings against the CDC, WHO & the Davos Group for crimes against humanity. Fuellmich and his team present the faulty PCR test and the order for doctors to label any comorbidity death as a Covid death as fraud. The PCR test was never designed to detect pathogens and is 100% faulty at 35 cycles. All the PCR tests overseen by the CDC are set at 37 to 45 cycles. The CDC admits that any tests over 28 cycles are not admissible for a positive reliable result. This alone invalidates over 90% of the alleged covid cases / ”infections” tracked by the use of this faulty test.

In addition to the flawed tests and fraudulent death certificates, the “experimental” vaccine itself is in violation of Article 32 of the Geneva Convention. Under Article 32 of the 1949 Geneva Convention IV, “mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person” are prohibited. According to Article 147, conducting biological experiments on protected persons is a grave breach of the Convention.

The “experimental” vaccine is in violation of all 10 of the Nuremberg Codes which carry the death penalty for those who seek to violate these International Laws.

The “vaccine” fails to meet the following five requirements to be considered a vaccine and is by definition a medical “experiment” and trial:

Provides immunity to the virus

This is a “leaky” gene therapy that does not provide immunity to Covid and claims to reduce symptoms yet double-vaccinated are now 60% of the patients requiring ER or ICU with covid infections.

Protects recipients from getting the virus

This gene-therapy does not provide immunity and double-vaccinated can still catch and spread the virus.

Reduces deaths from the virus infection

This gene-therapy does not reduce deaths from the infection. Double-Vaccinated infected with Covid have also died.

Reduces circulation of the virus

This gene-therapy still permits the spread of the virus as it offers zero immunity to the virus.

Reduces transmission of the virus

This gene-therapy still permits the transmission of the virus as it offers zero immunity to the virus.

The following violations of the Nuremberg Code are as follows:

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Doctors for Covid Ethics accuse EMA of crimes against humanity if they don’t immediately suspend jab roll-out.

https://tapnewswire.com/2021/05/doctors-for-covid-ethics-accuse-ema-of-crimes-against-humanity-if-they-dont-immediately-suspend-jab-roll-out/

The group Doctors For Covid Ethics have sent a further letter to the European Medical Agency Chief Executive Emer Cooke and have copied in various EU Presidents regarding the safety of these vaccines and the clear danger they present.

They pull no punches

After outlining the seriousness of this issue they end the letter with this gem of a statement;

” NOTICE

For the avoidance of doubt, if your regulatory body does not immediately suspend its “emergency” recommendation of potentially dangerous inadequately tested gene-based “vaccines”, while the matters which we have highlighted to you are properly investigated, we hereby put the European Medicines Agency on notice of being complicit in medical experimentation, in violation of the Nuremberg Code, which thereby constitutes the commission of crimes against humanity.”

Shit just got very real!

See the letter thread on the link below.

https://doctors4covidethics.medium.com/rebuttal-letter-to-european-medicines-agency-from-doctors-for-covid-ethics-april-1-2021-7d867f0121e

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"The German lawyer Reiner Fuellmich >(1958) has had a long career in which he has conducted controversial lawsuits against Volkswagen, for example."

>He is not a doctor

I was wondering what you where referring to until I reread the post. It's a mistake by the reporter if you watch the original 1 hr. video he clearly states he's a scum, sucking bottom dweller, hopefully a good one!

Who is the real “stinking albatross”?

https://tnc.news/2021/05/03/who-is-the-real-stinking-albatross/

The mainstream media continues to be out of step with the conservative movement – and ordinary Canadians.

In a Globe and Mail column entitled Tory MP’s bill to ban sex-selective abortion is the stinking albatross Erin O’Toole was warned about Konrad Yakabuski made several baseless accusations about why pro-lifers are not electable for the Conservative Party of Canada.

“Anti-choice groups claim to be acting in the name of ‘gender equality,’ though their ultimate goal of banning abortion – and depriving all women of a fundamental right – shows this claim to be disingenuous,” Yakabuski writes.

This claim has numerous innate errors. To begin, there is no right to abortion in Canada. The 1988 Morgentaler decision ruled that Parliament needed to create a new law to regulate abortion – it has since failed to do so, and thus Canada is in a situation in which abortion is neither legal nor illegal. Canada is one of two countries in the world where this is the case – the other being North Korea.

Interestingly, one of the justices to rule as such in the case was Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Wilson stated, “The precise point in the development of the foetus at which the state’s interest becomes ‘compelling’ I leave to the informed judgment of the legislature which is in a position to receive guidance on the subject from all the relevant disciplines.”

I wonder if the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Canada is feminist enough for Yakabuski – or Justin Trudeau, for that matter.

Secondly, Yakabuski plays the race card stating, “[Social conservatives] place women’s motivations for having an abortion under suspicion, thereby opening the door to discrimination toward and racial profiling of women of colour and immigrant women.”

In English common law, laws are to be applied evenly; that is to say, everyone is equal before and under the law. It is also interesting that the Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate who proposed a sex-selective abortion policy last year was Leslyn Lewis, a black, female lawyer who I doubt has ever been called a racist.

Thirdly, Yakabuski moves onto Lewis herself and the province of Quebec claiming “(Lewis’) socially conservative views, like (Cathay) Wagantall’s private member’s bill, will hurt the Tories in Quebec.”

This is where it is important to look at data and not conjecture.

According to the most recently polling, support for legal restrictions on sex-selective abortion is as high as 82% in Quebec. Further, 61% of those who voted for the Bloc Quebecois in 2019 would be more likely to vote for a political party that promised to legally restrict sex-selective abortion. Unless Yakabuski has mathematical and statistical evidence that points to the contrary, then we must assume that he is basing his argumentation on his own opinion and not reality.

Finally, Yakabuski states, “Eventually, a future Conservative leader must understand that playing to the so-cons is a losing strategy, period.” He continues, “It might help you win a leadership race, but it will leave you with a stinking albatross around your neck of which no amount of flowery perfume can disguise the stench.”

If pro-lifers are a stinking albatross, then why do they make up the majority of the Conservative caucus?

Why were over two-thirds of the newly elected Conservative MPs in the last federal election pro-life?

Why did pro-life Conservative candidates (both those who won and lost) perform better than their pro-abortion Conservative counterparts in the last election?

Finally, if pro-lifers are a stinking albatross, then why is Peter MacKay not leader of the Conservative Party today?

Reasonable and thoughtful pro-life policies on abortion are winning issues. Over 80% of Canadians support restricting sex-selective abortion while 70% support legal restrictions on late-term abortion.

There are plenty of Canadians who identify as pro-choice but support pro-life policies such as legal restrictions on sex-selective abortion.

The sooner the Conservative Party of Canada recognizes, accepts and embraces these reasonable and popular pro-life policies, the sooner the party can get back to contesting for government and not be mired in all-time low polling.

Data conjecture.

Scott Hayward is the co-founder of RightNow.

Med Beds | Video of actual med bed and explanation of how they work

PLAYING GOD!

https://truth11.com/2021/05/03/med-beds-video-of-actual-med-bed-and-explanation-of-how-they-work/

Ontario court orders Trinity Bible Chapel locked to prevent in-person worship

https://tnc.news/2021/05/03/ontario-court-orders-trinity-bible-chapel-locked-to-prevent-in-person-worship/

The Ontario government has locked a southwestern Ontario church’s doors after being granted an injunction in court.

On Friday, the court authorized a request from Ontario’s attorney general to shutter Trinity Bible Chapel over to prevent the congregation from meeting in-person on Sunday.

Officials used a locksmith to ensure no one from the church could access the building, forcing Trinity Bible Chapel to hold its May 2 service online.

Worship services in Ontario are capped at 10 people under the province’s stay-at-home order.

Police allege the church hosted illegal gatherings in violation of the lockdown restrictions on Jan. 22 and Apr. 16.

“A court granted the Province of Ontario the authority to take our facility, at least until next Saturday, with the option of trying to get it for longer by going to court once again this coming week,” Pastor Jacob Reaume said in a statement.

Reaume said the injunction and previous fines will not stop the church’s activities, adding that they will accept any kind of punishment the government gives.

“The purpose of this seizure is to prevent us from meeting as a church. They believe that we will continue meeting in our facility, no matter the fines or the public shame heaped on us,” he wrote.

“We are willing to pay any price necessary to worship our Saviour because He is worth it. He died for us, and we want Him to receive a reward for His suffering.”

A spokesperson from the attorney general’s office confirmed the court order.

“The Court granted interim relief in the form of an Order directing the Sheriff to lock the doors of the Church on a time limited basis. The doors were ordered to be locked, before midnight May 1, 2021, for one week,” the spokesperson told True North.

The government had previously sought an order to close the church in April but this injunction was denied.

The Trinity Bible Chapel and the government will return to court later in the week as the court determines whether the building will remain locked next Sunday.

Isolated elderly are struggling to find the will to continue to live: Ontario doctor

LINK TO ARTICLE WITH 1 MIN. VIDEO

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/isolated-elderly-are-struggling-to-find-the-will-to-continue-to-live-doctor

Ontario doctor reveals that otherwise healthy elderly patients, suffering from extreme loneliness and isolation due to the lockdowns, are asking for assisted suicide.

OTTAWA, Ontario, May 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — An emergency room physician at The Ottawa Hospital said she is seeing an alarming increase in patients, especially among the elderly, who are struggling to find the will to continue to live, as they are isolated from their loved ones due to COVID rules.

In retirement homes, visiting is rarely allowed, meaning that elderly people are alone living without contact with their families and loved ones. Instead, they are being cared for by masked healthcare workers.

Dr. Justine Amaro said that some of her patients have asked to be given assisted suicide. This was not a result of any physical illness; the patients were “just were tired of being so alone.”

She described meeting an elderly patient who asked her for assisted suicide. “I’ve literally sat with an elderly person who has begged me to please provide them with medical assistance in dying,” she said, “because they would rather die than continue living in an isolated way.”

“It breaks my heart to watch people literally feeling they would rather end their life than they would continue to live on in a way where they are alone,” she continued.

During the first months of the pandemic, hospitals experienced an increase in patients suffering from the coronavirus. However, recently, hospitals have seen fewer patients suffering from COVID-19, but an increase in patients suffering from mental health problems.

“Our department is filled with patients right now with mental health problems,” Amaro told CBC News. According to Amaro, these patients did not have a prior history of such issues, but were coming in with new mental health crises. Some even desire suicide, not wanting to live anymore because of the ongoing lockdowns. This was particularly the case with the elderly.

Starting in early April, Ontarians have been experiencing the strictest lockdown measures yet, and a stay-at-home order with threats of police checks for being outside without sufficient reason. This means continued isolation for Ontarians and the elderly population in particular. Since the coronavirus is known to disproportionally affect the elderly, politicians have instituted rules isolating them in the hope of “saving lives” — a measure that appears to backfire.

Amaro further pointed out that she has never seen so many patients suffering from mental health crises in her 17 years of working in emergency medicine. “The social isolation,” she said, “has taken a huge toll on all of us.”

Additionally, many patients are being denied essential health care services. According to Amaro, one patient went into septic shock due to a gall bladder infection. “He was dying of a life-threatening problem that, had he presented himself earlier, it could have been dealt with,” she said.

Many are calling for the removal of the current restrictions. On April 29, Roman Baber, MPP for York Centre, tweeted the video of Amaro explaining the mental health crisis, and called out Ontario Premier Doug Ford, as well as Christine Elliott, the Ontario Minister of Health, for the current mental health situation.

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Police and bylaw raid Hamilton freedom rally, hand out $880 fines for protesting

https://www.rebelnews.com/police_and_bylaw_raid_hamilton_freedom_rally_hand_out_880_fines_for_protesting

This past Sunday marked the 25th week of continuous protests against lockdown restrictions from the crowd in Hamilton, Ontario. Each week, a Freedom Rally takes place outside Hamilton City Hall. However, bylaw enforcement and police have been ticketing each participant $880 simply for being “in a group larger than 5,” as per the Reopening Ontario Act.

I was inside the crowd reporting live.

I decided to be on the scene at City Hall in case the usual suspects, government gang members, were to show up. Like clockwork, they did.

Bursting out of the City Hall building itself, I saw six armed officers and bylaw enforcement pounce to immediately detain the half a dozen people who had gathered for the Freedom Rally.

Apparently, it’s now illegal to protest in the province of Ontario under Doug Ford’s reign. Instead of just recording video to use for a report later in the week, I decided to go live on our Instagram (@news.rebel) to broadcast immediately to as many people as possible.

Most people in Ontario are completely unaware of what’s happening to peaceful protesters in their own country.

If you, like me, are angered to see regular folks being hit with a $880 or more COVID fine for simply exercising their Charter rights, head over to FightTheFines.com and help chip in to provide free lawyers to them.

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“Lions do not bow to hyenas”: Artur Pawlowski continues to hold services despite secret warrant

https://www.rebelnews.com/lions_do_not_bow_to_hyenas_artur_pawlowski_continues_to_hold_services_despite_secret_warrant

Street Church Ministries Pastor Artur Pawlowski is no stranger to controversy. He has been known to Calgary police for years, and was our very first www.FightTheFines.com cases.

Artur says that he was the first Canadian to be arrested for publicly reading the Bible, but that was only the start of his run-ins with Calgary and provincial authorities.

The tension between Artur and the authorities has rapidly come to a boil with added restrictions that are being implemented due to lockdown measures.

Pastor Art previously received a $1,200 ticket for feeding the homeless, which authorities called an illegal gathering.

We hired an amazing lawyer for Art named Sarah Miller, and thanks to her work, those fines were dropped. Also dropped were the mask violation tickets both Art and his brother received, which was fitting since the tickets were issued while Street Church members fed the homeless outside.

Numerous additional charges, including for organizing protests and violating outdoor gathering restrictions have also been brought against Art, but he will not stop feeding the homeless.

Their need to eat does not disappear just because the government declares a lockdown.

This escalating conflict peaked on Holy Saturday, April 3, when armed Calgary police officers and Alberta Health Services officials attempted to interrupt ongoing worship services. Art ejected the authorities, and the video he recorded while doing so went viral.

In response, on April 23, the authorities obtained a special order in secret from Judge M. David Gates that allows them to violate Criminal Code section 176.2, which prohibits interruption of religious worship.

This would effectively allow them to arrest Pastor Artur during worship services.

Authorities then failed to provide the order to Artur’s lawyer, Sarah, and instead attempted to present the order to Artur. But he refused their incursion into the church once again and insisted that they must speak with his lawyer. Sarah Miller has since been presented with the order, and we brought you all the details last week.

Even faced with the prospect of being arrested during services, Pastor Artur has decided that he will not concede his fundamental right to worship God.

He announced that worship would proceed as usual on May 1, and that all were welcome to attend and support him, even if it meant that he would go to jail.

We were there to cover the story.

Watch the full report here, and if you can, please donate to cover Artur's legal costs at SaveArtur.com.

Guilbeault claims Conservatives are spreading “fake news” about Bill C-10

https://tnc.news/2021/05/03/guilbeault-claims-conservatives-are-spreading-fake-news-about-bill-c-10/

Liberal Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault referenced a federally-funded organization in his defence of Bill C-10 on Monday and claimed the Conservative Party is spreading “fake news” about the incoming internet regulation bill.

“I would like to quote the head of the Coalition for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDCE) who addressed my colleague saying that the CRTC has never regulated content on Canadian TV and radio and that it has never limited freedom of expression on the airwaves and that this legislation will not enable the CRTC to do so and yet the Conservative Party of Canada that continues to spread this fake news,” said Guilbeault in French in response to a question by Conervative MP Alain Reyes.

This isn’t the first time a Liberal MP has accused critics of spreading “fake news.” True North has compiled a list of ten times the Liberals dismissed facts as “fake news” or “disinformation.”

Last week, Guilbeault cited the CDCE while responding to a question by Conservative MP Rachel Harder.

“Mr. Speaker, I am puzzled as to who is trying to deceive whom really? I have in front of me a press release from the Canadian Coalition for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which says, regarding Bill C-10, that these ‘characterizations [that this bill would somehow attempt to infringe on free speech] are both factually incorrect and dangerously misleading. They represent neither the text nor the purpose of Bill C-10,”, said Guilbeault.

The CDCE is registered to lobby the government and is the recipient of $375,000 in funding from Canadian Heritage – the ministry in charge of drafting Bill C-10.

According to the CDCE, concerns around how the bill targets free speech rights have put the law “in jeopardy.”

“Let us be clear: these characterizations are both factually incorrect and dangerously misleading. They represent neither the text nor the purpose of Bill C-10,” wrote the CDCE.

“In sum, the CDCE calls on opponents to Bill C-10, including the Conservative Party of Canada, to cease their fearmongering and work with our sector to modernize Canada’s broadcasting policy.”

Guilbeault also cited the group when lashing out at concerns about the bill’s impact on freedom of speech by characterizing those worried about the law as being part of an “extremist element” of the Conservative Party.

“What we are seeing now is that these are big, powerful and, in fact some of the wealthiest corporations on the planet; clearly, the member opposite and her party are just afraid to stand up to them,” said Guilbeault in response to question by Conservative MP Rachael Harder.

“Again it seems that the members of the Conservative Party are listening to the most extremist element of their party, as they have on very important issues such as climate change or women’s right to choose.”

Bill C-10 has recently sparked national controversy after an amendment was passed which would broaden the scope of the bill to include regulating the content ordinary Canadians post on social media.

Last month, MPs on the Heritage Committee voted to remove an exemption for user-generated content, such as YouTube videos. The removal sparked outcries in the mainstream media and among civil liberty groups who characterized the bill as amounting to censorship and government control of the internet.

FUREY: The frustrations of navigating confusing pandemic rules

https://tnc.news/2021/05/03/furey-the-frustrations-of-navigating-confusing-pandemic-rules/

Whether it’s in-person shopping or permitted outdoor activities, Canadians have dealt with confusing pandemic rules for over a year.

As a result, many Canadians are interpreting the rules differently and many people are left wondering what on Earth is going on.

Anthony Furey discusses one confusing pandemic rule in Ontario that he recently dealt with.

Toronto councillor wants “white and male” politicians replaced on Canadian currency

https://tnc.news/2021/05/03/toronto-councillor-wants-white-and-male-politicians-replaced-on-canadian-currency/

A motion by Toronto City Councillor Paul Ainslie (Ward 24) seeks to address the overrepresentation of “white and male” politicians on Canada’s currency.

The motion, which is entitled “Diversification of Depictions on Canadian Coins and Bills to better reflect a more Heterogeneous and Inclusive Society,” asks the City of Toronto to urge the Bank of Canada and the Royal Canadian Mint to print currency that better reflects “multicultural, gender diverse and multiracial” values.

“In the pursuit to better reflect a more heterogeneous and inclusive society this Motion speaks to our currency being overrepresented by politicians, most of whom are white and male, underrepresenting persons who have contributed to other fields of great importance to our society,” writes Coun. Ainslie.

“Our currency does not reflect our current multiracial, gender diverse and multicultural reality as a nation.”

The motion was seconded by fellow Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and will be brought before City Council on May 5, 2021.

Ainslie goes on to cite US President Joe Biden’s recent decision to replace former president Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with that of Harriet Tubman.

“The Biden administration is also considering special coin and bill issues which will give prominence to those who championed women’s rights as well as civil and voting rights. Those being considered include Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King Jr. and Marian Anderson,” argues Ainslee.

In 2016, Canadian Black rights activist Viola Desmond was selected to be featured on the $10 bill.

According to the Bank of Canada website, the decision to make the change was done with the goal of illustrating “the diverse and important contributions women have made in shaping Canada’s history.”

Canada’s $20 bill pays tribute to the reigning monarch and features Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA WILL HEAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY – INDICTMENTS SERVED TO TRUDEAU AND MORE

https://tapnewswire.com/2021/05/supreme-court-of-canada-will-hear-crimes-against-humanity-indictments-served-to-trudeau-and-more/

https://www.bitchute.com/video/5yacwAUAomni

Cardinal calls on Toronto Catholic school board to dedicate June to Sacred Heart as it considers making it ‘pride’ month

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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-calls-toronto-catholic-school-board-to-dedicate-june-to-sacred-heart-as-it-considers-making-it-pride-month

TORONTO, May 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Thomas Collins is calling on the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) to dedicate the month of June to honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus as the board faces a potential vote this Thursday on whether to fly the rainbow Pride flag and declare June as Pride month.

Collins, who is the Archbishop of Toronto, warned trustees and directors of education within his Archdiocese in a March 23 letter that was submitted to the board’s agenda for its May 6 meeting that “social trends antagonistic to the Gospel” are gathering “strength.”

The TCDSB’s newly-established “2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee” has recommended in a report — included in the May 6 meeting agenda — that the board proclaim June as Pride month and that the Pride flag be raised “at the Catholic Education Centre and at all schools in the system.” Declaring June as Pride month “implores us to be compassionate, welcoming, and inclusive of marginalized people, including 2SLGBTQ+, as an example of our faith in action,” the pro-LGBT Committee states in its report.

The pride flag was created in 1978 by open homosexual and drag queen Gilbert Baker. The flag as a whole, composed of various colored stripes, has become an international symbol of the homosexual movement and its view of the human person and sexuality that is at odds with biology, the social sciences, the world’s major religions, and specifically with the Catholic faith.

The Catholic Church, basing itself on the Bible and tradition, teaches that homosexual behavior is “intrinsically disordered” and a grave sin. St. Paul in one of his letters warns the Corinthians that “homosexuals” along with others, such as “idolaters” and “adulterers,” will “not inherit the kingdom of God.” The rainbow was originally a religious symbol of God’s covenant with man that God used to convey to Noah (Genesis 9:13-17) that he would never again destroy the world by a flood. LGBT activists co-opted the rainbow to create a flag where the different colors are often interpreted as signifying sexual “diversity.” The term “pride” in salvation history denotes an explicit refusal to follow God and his rule. The Book of Proverbs warns that “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall” (16:18).

READ: 7 reasons why Catholic schools should not fly the gay pride flag

While LGBT activists promote flying the rainbow flag at all schools as a sign of inclusion, diversity, and acceptance, the Cardinal pointed out in his letter that the Catholic Church already has its own symbol for “compassionate love,” namely the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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Bill to regulate internet a ‘full blown assault’ against free speech in Canada, ex-govt broadcasting chief warns

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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bill-to-regulate-internet-a-full-blown-assault-against-free-speech-in-canada-ex-govt-broadcasting-chief-warns

An amendment to the proposed regulations could mean the federal government would have the power to control what individuals post online.

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May 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The former head of Canada’s broadcasting regulator blasted an amendment to a Canadian bill aimed at regulating online content, saying the removal of an original protection for user-generated content on sites such as Facebook and YouTube is not “going to end well.”

“Putting the CRTC in charge of the entire … internet, I mean, that’s like putting a logging company in charge of the Great Bear Rainforest,” said Peter Menzies, former head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC), in reference to Bill C-10 in a Global News report.

Last year, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault introduced Bill C-10, which would regulate certain online media services through the creation of a new class of broadcaster called “online undertakings.” The new regulations would be done through amendments to Canada’s Broadcasting Act.

The original draft of Bill C-10 had an exemption clause or “Section 4.1” for “user content” posted on social media by individuals, meaning such posts would originally have not fallen under CRTC regulations.

However, a recent amendment to Bill C-10 done through a Heritage Committee meeting last Friday removed that provision, which in theory means the federal government would be able to regulate what people post online.

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Canada Will ‘Absolutely’ Require Vaccine Passport for International Travel

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/05/04/canada-will-absolutely-require-vaccine-passport-for-international-travel/

Canada will “absolutely” require Chinese coronavirus “vaccine passports” for international travel, the country’s health minister said in an interview with Canadian public radio, Britain’s Independent news outlet reported Monday

“Canadians need to be able to have the right kind of certification for international travel because, as we know, Canadians will want to travel internationally, and they will want to make sure they have the right credentials to do that from a vaccination perspective,” Canadian Health Minister Patty Hajdu told The House, a radio program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), on May 1.

“I am meeting on a regular basis with my G7 [Group of Seven] counterparts and this is an ongoing conversation about how that might look and how we might be able to have some sort of standardized approach to this,” Hajdu told the radio program.

The G7 is an intergovernmental organization consisting of Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan.

“From our perspective, we have a bit of a head start in terms of entry into Canada in that we have ArriveCan, the app that allows for digital proof of [Chinese coronavirus] testing … and a variety of other documents that people have to submit to enter Canada,” Hajdu said.

“We’ll be working with our international partners to make sure that whatever the world lands on, Canadians will have documents in the appropriate format,” she added.

Canada’s ArriveCan is a government-run smartphone app that almost all Canadians are required to show when entering Canada by air or land during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. The Canadian federal government currently requires all travelers entering Canada to observe a mandatory 14-day quarantine period upon arrival and before they are allowed to fully move about the country due to the pandemic.

“The [ArriveCan] app allows air travelers to register when they book into their mandatory three-day stay at a government authorized hotel,” according to the CBC. “The app also allows travelers to register the results of COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] tests before and after they arrive in Canada, provide details to border agents about their quarantine plans if they cross at a land border, and provide contact information for themselves and the people traveling with them.”

Chinese coronavirus vaccine passports are “naturally to be expected” for international travel, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said late last month.

“As was the case pre-pandemic, certificates of vaccination are a part of international travel to certain regions and are naturally to be expected when it comes to this pandemic and the coronavirus. How we actually roll that out in alignment with partners and allies around the world, it’s something that we’re working on right now,” Trudeau told reporters at a press conference on April 27.

“We continue to plan for how we reopen the economy, how we reopen our borders, how we get back to normal,” the prime minister added.

Thousands Attend ‘No More Lockdown Rodeo Rally’ in Canada

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https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/05/03/thousands-attend-no-more-lockdown-rodeo-rally-canada/

An event in Alberta, Canada, on Saturday and Sunday billed as the “No More Lockdowns Rodeo Rally” drew thousands of attendees – plus stern criticism from provincial officials, who declared the rodeo “a clear breach of current public health restrictions” and said participants “knowingly put their fellow Albertans at risk.”

Both of those condemnations were rendered by Alberta Health Services (AHS), which issued a statement Sunday that said its inspectors notified rodeo organizers in advance they were violating coronavirus protocols. AHS said it was “disappointing” that the rally nevertheless proceeded and drew a huge crowd, despite a limit of ten people maximum at outdoor gatherings.

The rodeo was originally to be held at the rodeo grounds in the town of Bowden, about an hour north of Calgary, but was moved to a lot along the highway outside of town after the Bowden Agricultural Society revoked the organizers’ permit. Two cowboy associations withdrew their support for the rodeo last week.

According to CTV News, “Hundreds of cars filtered in and out of the property for most of the afternoon, and inside, busy bleachers hosted tightly-packed fans.” CTV reporters only saw one participant wearing a mask.

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Pope Francis Tells ‘Vax Live’ Concertgoers to Abandon Individualism

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2021/05/03/pope-francis-tells-vax-live-concertgoers-abandon-individualism/

ROME — Pope Francis sent a video message to participants in the Vax Live concert in Los Angeles Sunday night, urging concertgoers “not to forget the most vulnerable” in vaccine distribution.

In his Spanish-language message, the pontiff prayed that the “Creator God would infuse in our hearts a new, generous spirit to abandon our individualisms and promote the common good.”

“I beg you not to forget the most vulnerable,” he said.

Sunday’s concert was hosted by Selena Gomez and Prince Harry and featured messages from President and Mrs. Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as live support from Hollywood stars Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Sean Penn, and others.

In his address to the thousands of fully vaccinated attendees at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Prince Harry lauded the work of healthcare personnel during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Tonight is a celebration of each of you here, the vaccinated frontline workers in the audience and the millions of frontline heroes around the world,” he said.

The pope has insisted that priority should not be given to the rich in the distribution of vaccines against the coronavirus, but that special attention should be given to the poor.

Pfizer Plans to File For Full FDA Approval of COVID-19 Vaccine

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pfizer-covid-vaccine-fda/2021/05/04/id/1020057/

Pfizer announced Tuesday it is preparing to file for full FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine by the end of this month. The pharmaceutical giant, along with its German partner BioNTech, received emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration late December.

According to CNBC, Pfizer said that its first-quarter sales of the COVID-19 vaccine was $3.5 billion, exceeding Wall Street expectations. The drug company predicts that revenues for the full year will top $26 million from sales of their vaccine, more than the previous forecast of $15 billion.

If the FDA gives full approval to the vaccine, Pfizer will be able to distribute the drug on its own. It is expected that Pfizer will deliver 300 million doses of the vaccine to the U.S. by the end of July, says CNBC.

The FDA normally takes at least a year to grant full approval to a new drug, but the pandemic fast-tracked the process. The FDA issued emergency use authorization or EUA status to the current COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to stem the tide of the pandemic that has already claimed nearly 600,000 American lives.

Pfizer will need to submit a Biological License Application or BLA to the FDA to secure licensing and full approval of their product. The process could take up to six months, according to CNBC.

"FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) ensures that FDA’s rigorous scientific and regulatory processes are followed by those who pursue the development of vaccines," says the FDA website, adding that their evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of vaccines is "among the most robust in the world."

Pfizer also announced that it plans to apply for EUA for its COVID-19 booster shot to guard against variants this summer and for vaccines that will protect children and infants later this the fall.

According to CNN, since all phases of clinical trials have already been done for the COVID-19 vaccines currently on the market, and the FDA has reviewed the safety and manufacturing data provided by the pharmaceutical companies, the formal approval process should be "very soon," said Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN that the FDA will work "as expeditiously as possible" on approval applications when they come in. Moving from EUA to full approval means that the drug companies will have the power to distribute their products themselves.

"When you are getting a formal approval, you have to have a certain amount of time just observing predominantly the safety — and obviously, the safety looks really, really good in well over 140 million people having been vaccinated with at least a single dose," said Fauci.

Once their vaccine received formal approval, Pfizer and BioNTech can begin marketing their vaccine directly to the public and changing its prices, says CNBC.

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Report: FDA Set to Authorize Pfizer COVID-19 Shot for Ages 12-15 Early Next Week

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pfizer-vaccine/2021/05/03/id/1019977/

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is preparing to authorize Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged between 12 and 15 years by early next week, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing federal officials familiar with the agency's plans.

An approval is highly anticipated after the drugmakers said in March that the vaccine was found to be safe, effective and produced robust antibody responses in 12- to 15-year-olds in a clinical trial.

Responding to a Reuters request for comment, the FDA said its review of expanding the vaccine's emergency use authorization is ongoing, but did not provide further details.

The vaccine has already been cleared in the United States for people aged 16 and above.

Pfizer declined to comment on the NYT report.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said earlier in April that the vaccine could be approved by mid-May.

If an approval for the 12-15 year olds is granted, the CDC's vaccine advisory panel will likely meet the following day to review the clinical trial data and make recommendations for the vaccine's use in adolescents, the report added. (https://nyti.ms/3eclRld)

A potential approval of the vaccine would boost the country's immunization drive and help allay fears of parents anxious to protect their children from COVID-19.

Moderna Inc and Johnson & Johnson are also testing their vaccines in 12- to 18-year olds, with data from Moderna's trial expected to come soon.

Pfizer and Moderna have also launched trials in even younger children, aged six months to 11 years old. Both companies have said they hope to be able to vaccinate children under 11 as soon as early 2022.

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https://www.bitchute.com/video/7d77nLY0Qp0R/

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“A new low”: Pro-life Conservative MP hits back after Guilbeault’s “hypocrisy” smear

https://tnc.news/2021/05/04/a-new-low-pro-life-conservative-mp-hits-back-after-guilbeaults-hypocrisy-smear/

Conservative MP Rachael Harder has fired back at Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault after Guilbeault accused her of “hypocrisy” for being pro-life and supporting free speech.

In a statement to True North, Harder said Guilbeault’s comments were “inappropriate,” but added they are an example of him availing himself of his right to free speech.

“When he wasn’t able to defend his infringement on people’s Charter rights, he decided to go after my personal values and beliefs. Indeed, freedom is messy and although Mr. Guilbeault’s response was inappropriate, I would never wish for his freedom of speech to be taken from him. He is free to use or misuse his voice. The consequences are his to bear,” Harder said.

The statement comes after Guilbeault attacked her personal beliefs in response to a question about his planned internet regulation bill, C-10, in the House of Commons.

“They are incapable of disagreeing without being disagreeable. When important questions or concerns are raised and the Liberals don’t have answers, their standard response is to deflect, attack, or both. Minister Guilbeault took things to a new low,” Harder added.

During question period on Monday, Harder pressed Guilbealt on whether he will ensure the proposed measures respect the free speech of Canadians.

“Experts say that we need a new evaluation from the justice minister to determine if C-10 respects the Charter,” she asked. “Does the minister agree?”

In response, Guilbeault attacked Harder for her personal stance on abortion, claiming her pro-life beliefs somehow discredit her stance on freedom of speech.

“I find it incredibly hypocritical that the member for Lethbridge (Harder) who, given the opportunity, would not hesitate one minute to remove women’s right to choose – a right protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms – but would like us and Canadians to believe that all of the sudden, she cares deeply about said Charter. I have rarely seen such hypocrisy.”

While freedom of thought and expression are explicitly protected by the Charter, the right to abortion is not mentioned and is only legal because the Supreme Court struck down a previous restriction.

If passed, Bill C-10 would radically change the regulations surrounding content posted online in Canada.

The bill sparked national controversy after an amendment was passed which would broaden the scope of the bill to include regulating the content ordinary Canadians post on social media.

Guilbeault has ruthlessly defended C-10, calling anyone who opposes the bill “extremists” and claiming the Conservatives are spreading “fake news” around its provisions.

Alberta gov’t. brings up ‘risky’ act of singing in church in trial against jailed pastor

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/alberta-govt-brings-up-risky-act-of-singing-in-church-in-trial-against-jailed-pastor

EDMONTON, Alberta, May 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — During the first day of the trial of Canadian Pastor James Coates — who was jailed for over a month for defying lockdown orders — the provincial crown used as evidence against Coates video shot by a health inspector of people engaging in what she called the “risky” act of singing in his church.

The video evidence from December 2020 was presented despite the fact church elders at Coates’ Grace Life Church had warned the health inspector that it is an offense under Canadian law to disrupt a church service.

Section 176(2) of the “Criminal Code of Canada” bans interrupting or disturbing a religious service.

According to Coates’ legal counsel, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), the Crown called its only witness in the first day of his trial, Janine Hanrahan.

The JCCF says she is an “Alberta Health Services (AHS) bureaucrat who inspected the church over many Sundays from November 2020 through to February 2021.”

“Ms Hanrahan stated she went to the church balcony to count how many people were in the sanctuary, and video-recorded church members singing in worship. She further testified that Grace Life Elders told her and the RCMP it is an offence under the Criminal Code to disrupt a church service,” noted the JCCF.

The JCCF said its lawyer Leighton Grey, who represents Coates and Grace Life, cross-examined Hanrahan to ask he why she “took RCMP officers with her to the church.”

“Notes from an RCMP officer indicate that Ms. Hanrahan told police that she feared being harmed by going to the church but admitted on the stand that she did not have concerns that someone from church would harm her. Ms. Hanrahan then said that bringing the RCMP was because of media attention,” said the JCCF.

Grey asked Hanrahan if she was told by her employer that “singing was a risky behavior.”

To this question, Hanrahan replied “yes,” explaining the “the science made sense” to her.

Grey then told her that she wrote something “odd” in her notes, saying that “clapping/cheering for RCMP at Grace Life could lead to covid spread.”

Hanrahan replied that she thought this was true, going onto state that she was not told by AHS to think this way, and that it was her “own” theory, and she did not read any studies stating if singing in a church was proven to be “risky.”

Regarding Hanrahan’s comments, the JCCF said, “In other words, Ms. Hanrahan simply believes whatever AHS tells her.”

“Ms. Hanrahan confirmed that she received no additional training at all from AHS once the pandemic hit. She has been provided with no scientific data or even a basic understanding of the risk of contagion. She testified that she simply follows what she is told by AHS because it is ‘the law.’ She also testified that she does not trust any other sources of information besides AHS. She further admitted that her calculations concerning the total capacity of the church were based upon assumptions, and therefore could be wrong,” said the JCCF.

My church is “commanded to sing”

When Coates took the stand, he noted that his church is “commanded to sing” as a primary means in how his congregation worships.

According to the JCCF, Coates stated to the court that virtual services would “alter what worshiping is and would constitute a major interference in their specific beliefs.”

Coates’ trial is continuing over the next few days. The court had granted “the Government’s request that Pastor Coates not be permitted to challenge the constitutional validity of Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s orders at the trial,” according to the JCCF.

Despite this, on Monday the JCCF noted that Judge Robert Shaigec ruled against the Crown, “saying that it has to be very clear that no Charter right breach could possibly be found, and that the rule is to permit evidence and argument regarding alleged Charter breaches.”

“He completely denied the Crown’s application, saying all of Pastor Coates’ alleged Charter rights violation arguments are fair game, and the defence can present evidence of them.”

The province of Alberta’s COVID health rules enacted under United Conservative Party (UCP) Premier Jason Kenney has capped church attendance size to 15 percent and mandated mask wearing and physical distancing.

On April 7, Grace Life was barricaded by police for defying coronavirus health rules. The church has now gone underground to worship.

Canada’s lockdowns nearly as strict as communist China, Cuba: Oxford University

https://tnc.news/2021/05/04/canadas-lockdowns-nearly-as-strict-as-communist-china-cuba-oxford-university/

Canada’s current lockdown measures are some of the most stringent in the world rivalling authoritarian communist states like China and Cuba, Oxford University’s COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) suggests.

Included in the tracker is a COVID-19 stringency index which measures the strictness of government protocols meant to handle the pandemic.

The score is based on nine variables including school closures, travel bans and other public health measures. Each country is given a value from 0 to 100 by the index, with the score of 100 indicating the strictest policies.

“The project tracks governments’ policies and interventions across a standardized series of indicators and creates a suite of composites indices to measure the extent of these responses. Data is collected and updated in real time by a team of over one hundred Oxford students, alumni and staff, and project partners,” reads a research report on the project.

As of May 3, 2021 Canada had a stringency score of 75.46 which is driven by school and workplace closures, gathering restrictions, stay at home orders and other measures.

In comparison, the severity of China’s lockdown measures only surpasses Canada’s by a few points, with the communist state having a stringency score of 78.24.

Included in the evaluation of China’s score is a stay at home order which requires “total confinement” and other required restrictions on internal movement within the country.

Similarly, Cuba has a stringency score of 79.63 driven by policies such as requiring schools be closed at all levels.

In Canada, civil liberties organizations have challenged a variety of public health measures including the Ontario government’s recent attempt to introduce additional police powers to ensure public health orders are being followed. Recently, the Constitutional Rights Centre launched a constitutional challenge on behalf of 19 current and retired police officers challenging a wide range of COVID-19 measures.

Human rights groups have warned that authoritarian states have used the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to increase totalitarian oppression and control within their own borders.

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), China’s success in curbing the spread of COVID-19 within its own borders has come at the cost of a loss of human rights.

“The same censorship has persisted in the COVID-19 crisis. Authorities scrubbed social media posts that criticized the government from the internet, sentenced citizen journalist Zhang Zhan to four years in prison, kicked out over a dozen foreign journalists and stonewalled the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origin of the virus,” writes HRW China researcher Yaqiu Wang.

Despite China’s authoritarian methods, the Trudeau government has heaped praise on the communist state for its handling of the virus in the past.

Last year, Liberal Health Minister Patty Hajdu was praised by a bureau chief at a Chinese state media outlet for being a “role model” after defending China’s COVID-19 record.

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Cuba punches above its weight to develop its own Covid vaccines

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/04/cuba-covid-vaccines?emci=e0a47673-ccac-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&emdi=a380777c-cdac-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&ceid=4606001

Hit by the double whammy of US sanctions and a pandemic, Cuba is going through its gravest economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Pharmacy shelves are barren. People queue for hours to buy chicken. It’s hard to find bread.

And yet this island under siege could become the smallest country in the world to develop its own coronavirus vaccines. Of the 27 coronavirus vaccines in final stage testing around the world, two are Cuban.

“To have our sovereignty we need our own vaccines,” said Dr Vicente Vérez, director of the Finlay Institute, which has developed Sovereign 2, the most advanced of the country’s five vaccine candidates. “In nine months we have gone from an idea to a vaccine in phase three clinical trials.”

About 44,000 volunteers in Havana are currently participating in phase three trials for Sovereign 2. A similar number in the eastern city of Santiago are volunteering for phase three for Abdala, a vaccine named after a poem by José Martí, the island’s official “national hero”.

A medical worker administers a dose of Sovereign 2 to a volunteer in Havana.

A medical worker administers a dose of Sovereign 2 to a volunteer in Havana. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Running alongside the clinical studies is an “interventional study” in which 150,000 health workers in Havana are now being vaccinated.

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Cuba again surpasses 1,000 COVID-19 infections in one day

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-05/05/c_139925066.htm

HAVANA, May 4 (Xinhua) – Cuba surpassed 1,000 new daily COVID-19 infections, reporting 1,019 cases for a total of 110,644 cases, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Tuesday, adding that there were also 11 more deaths, bringing the death toll to 686.

May has started with very negative results, the ministry's director of hygiene and epidemiology Francisco Duran said in his daily report.

Havana had 658 COVID-19 cases in the last day, continuing to be the epicenter of the pandemic on the island, with an incidence rate of 448.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, the highest in the country.

Cuba is currently battling a new wave of infections, making authorities respond by reapplying preventive health measures, closing many public spaces and placing restrictions on arriving international travelers.

In the capital, the ministry is preparing for a mass vaccination campaign this month with two Cuban vaccine candidates, Soberana-02 and Abdala.

Meanwhile, the third and final phase of clinical trials for Soberana-02 continues in Havana alongside an intervention study among health workers, while Phase II clinical trials for another vaccine candidate Soberana Plus continue in the capital.

In addition, Phase III clinical trials and an intervention trial for Abdala are being carried out in the eastern part of the country, while two other candidates, Soberana-01 and Mambisa, are at different stages of research.

Moreover, Granma newspaper reported on Tuesday that a pediatric clinical trial is being prepared with the Soberana-01, 02 and Plus vaccine candidates. Enditem