STUDY: Lockdowns crushed the working class

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There should be little doubt that government-imposed lockdowns have devastated the economy. Anecdotally, just go for a drive around the city — any city, really.

For a more analytical, data-driven approach, Harvard and Brown universities, along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, revealed just how devastating these lockdowns were for working class individuals.

On yesterday's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra examined how this data showed that it's not just the billionaire class who have been profiting during the lockdowns, but high-wage earners, defined as those making above $60,000 a year, have made gains; meanwhile, those making $27,000 or less have been devastated, with nearly a quarter of those jobs being lost.

Among those who haven't missed a paycheque are, of course, government workers. Speaking about the minimal impact felt by those in the upper echelon, Ezra said that:

If you're a lawyer, you just work from home. If you're a government-sector union, you probably didn't even work for the first six months, but you still got paid.

If you're a politician, well in Canada, our MPs and senators gave themselves two raises — last April and this April — so you're loving life. Government has grown this past year, in case you didn't notice.

But if you're a waiter, a waitress, a bartender, a retail shop clerk, a mom-and-pop shop of any sort, a barber, a hair stylist — tough luck.

Mask-shaming man upset because woman has more courage than him

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A clip of a man shaming a woman for not wearing a mask inside a mall has gone viral. The man, who claims to be concerned about his safety, approaches the woman with his camera in an attempt to shame her. The woman claims to be exempt, the security guards, to their credit, seem not to mind and accept her claims of exemption — after all, that is how the bylaw is supposed to work.

On yesterday's Rebel News DAILY Livestream, Ezra Levant shared his opinion on this particular mask shaming incident.

Ezra speculated that this man was upset with this lady because:

She has more courage and self respect and independence and freedom of spirit and freedom of conscience and freedom of action than he does. And she's a woman and he's a man, and that's emasculating. It's emasculating for a man to be so submissive and to be confronted with the visual evidence.

Look, not only is someone more courageous than you, but it's a woman.

Manitoba has issued more than $2.6 million in COVID fines since April 2020

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Since Manitoba's COVID enforcement efforts began in April 2020, the province has issued 4,910 warnings and 1,979 tickets, resulting in more than $2.6 million in fines to businesses and individuals.

Last week, between June 14 and 20, the province confirmed that they issued 87 warnings and 59 tickets related to COVID enforcement.

Of the 59 tickets:

46 tickets worth $1,296 were issued to individuals

11 tickets worth $298 were issued to individuals for failure to wear a mask in indoor public places

2 tickets worth $5,000 were issued to businesses

Of the 46 tickets worth $1,296, 35 were issued to individuals to relation to gatherings in private residences or outdoors.

10 of the 46 were related to failure to self-isolate, and the last one was handed to a sole proprietorship.

Manitoba's government also announced a plan to continue to patrol provincial parks until the end of September:

Manitobans are advised that conservation and park patrol officers are enforcing public health and state of emergency orders within provincial parks, and issued one ticket to an individual over the past week related to a gathering size.

The Manitoba government has extended the Additional Enforcement Personnel Regulation to Sept. 30 from the current repeal date of June 30 to maintain the capacity to enforce public health emergency orders and emergency health hazard orders made under the Public Health Act.

Earlier this month, Manitoba announced both a vaccine passport and a vaccine lottery with $2 million in cash and scholarships as potential prizes.

Trudeau gov't spends $184,000 telling gamers to wear masks, stay home, socially distance

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A new order paper answer reveals that the federal government, through two different agencies, spent a total of $184,000 to remind video gamers to stay home, remain socially distant, and wear masks, all while playing video games in their own homes.

The proof of the enormous and unnecessary expenditures came to light through an order paper response to a question posed by Conservative MP for Saskatoon West, Brad Redekopp.

Redekopp wanted details of the types and costs associated with promotion and educational videos produced by the federal government. The return on documents was 498 pages.

Rebel News is still winding through it all, but today’s story offers a sneak peak at a broader theme.

Health Canada spent $92,000 on ads to encourage video game players to wear masks, stay home and physically distance themselves from others. Four 15-second long videos were titled “wear a mask,” “keep your distance,” “wash your hands” and “stay home if you're sick.”

The videos were distributed on the Entertainment Software Association of Canada website and the association’s YouTube, Twitter and Facebook channels.

The Public Health Agency of Canada reported a matching expenditure for identical videos to be distributed to the same locations.

Adam Skelly addresses claims he was operating without business licence

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In this short clip from an extended interview, Adamson Barbecue owner Adam Skelly addresses the claims that he was operating his business without a licence, and was potentially violating health codes while doing so.

Skelly explains his side of the story, and says the issue has more to do with outdated city laws than with him neglecting his obligations as a business owner.

And, just to be clear, Skelly also shows off his certification from passing the city's health inspection, and shares an anecdote from one inspector who told him that his restaurant was one of the cleanest he's ever seen.

House of Commons rejects Derek Sloan's motion to sanction Facebook, Twitter over censorship of parliamentarians

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The House of Commons rejected Derek Sloan's move to “strongly defend the rights of parliamentarians against the outside interference of social media companies” and to “officially sanction Facebook and Twitter for their actions in suppressing parliamentary speech.”

Independent MP Sloan (Hastings—Lennox and Addington) proposed the motion after a Liberal MP told him that he should “rethink his choices” if social media companies are suppressing his press conferences.

“Mr. Speaker, last week I hosted a Parliamentary press conference on the censorship of Canadian doctors and medical experts. Their testimony was truly shocking. Unfortunately, Facebook stopped my livestream in mid-conference. Despite this, the full press conference is now the most viewed video in history on CPAC's YouTube channel, with over 500,000 views.

“However, on Facebook and Twitter, they're still restricting the sharing of this video on their platforms.

“Given the importance to democracy, of Canadians seeing official parliamentary functions, does the minister denounce this censorship by Big Tech?”

Liberal MP Jennifer O'Connell (Pickering—Uxbridge) answered:

“Mr. Speaker, when it comes to the dissemination of misinformation and regarding this pandemic, I think the member opposite should… understand his role and responsibility as a parliamentarian and the trust that his constituents placed in him, this pandemic is serious, requires a serious response, and I would urge him to follow the rules. If Facebook won't even allow what he's saying to be put up, perhaps, Mr. Speaker, he should rethink his choices.”

“I'm afraid that's all the time we have for question period today,” said the Speaker.

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Sloan later rose on a point of order:

“Thank you Mr. Speaker, I just had a brief point of order —I want to seek unanimous consent for a motion that I'll declare here briefly. As I mentioned in my question, I did a parliamentary press conference that was censored by Facebook and I've had other people reach out to me and say that they are unable to share this.

“I think that's problematic — anything that goes on this House should be freely able to be shared by Canadians and I just wanted to share this motion that I'd like to seek unanimous consent on.

“That the House recognize that the House of Commons itself, and the Parliament of Canada are a bastion of democracy and free speech. Members of Parliament enjoy special parliamentary privileges overseeing their ability to speak freely in Parliament to discharge their duties freely and without constraint. Any Canadian seeking to share digital content of Parliamentary functions should be able to do so freely and without constraint. The Government must strongly defend the rights of parliamentarians against the outside interference of social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter and (b) call on the Government to recognize that any potential suppression of information or censorship of parliamentary events such as official press conferences can not be allowed to happen, and to officially sanction Facebook and Twitter for their actions.”

After hearing some “nays,” the Speaker declared that the motion did not have unanimous consent.

BREAKING: Nova Scotians SHUT DOWN highway to New Brunswick in protest of province's COVID rules

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Nova Scotia MLA Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin has followed through with her threat to Premier Iain Rankin to shut down Highway 104 to New Brunswick.

The shutdown is in response to Nova Scotia's Liberal government's COVID-19 travel rules, which were changed suddenly today to deny unvaccinated New Brunswick residents entry to Nova Scotia without isolation.

Progressive Conservative MLA McCrossin (Cumberland North) represents the border region between the two maritime provinces, and the Trans Canada Highway 104 is the main point of entry.

The threat was issued today on Facebook, with Smith-McCrossin urging residents to join her at 4:00 p.m. Atlantic Time.

Two Catholic churches destroyed by fire in South Okanagan

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Police are investigating after two Catholic churches were burned to the ground in the South Okanagan region.

The two churches, Sacred Heart and St. Gregory’s, went up in flames early Monday morning. Both churches were on land belonging to the local Penticton and Osoyoos Indian Bands, respectively.

In a statement, South Okanagan RCMP said the fires have been deemed suspicious but will not speculate on the cause or motive at this time.

“Should our investigations deem these fires as arson, the RCMP will be looking at all possible motives and allow the facts and evidence to direct our investigative action,” said Sgt. Jason Bayda.

“We are sensitive to the recent events, but won’t speculate on a motive.”

Several weeks ago, it was alleged that human remains were found at the nearby site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. The residential school was operated by the Catholic Church until its closure in 1978. A report from the company doing the investigation is expected to be released this month.

Penticton Indian Band Chief Greg Gabriel inferred that the burnings may have been a reaction to the discovery.

Speaking to Penticton Western News, Chief Gabriel condemned the burnings and said their church was an important part of their community.

“There are some mixed feelings. I understand there is a lot of anger in our community with the discovery of those 215 innocent, poor children’s graves. There is a lot of hurt. But this type of action doesn’t help if in fact it is found to be deliberate,” he said.

“This church has been here since 1911. It was a fixture in our community. Many in our community were members and involved in services. Some of our elders are attached to the church and have come here today very sad. They are hurting but also they understand.”

Last week, a Catholic Church in Vancouver was vandalized with graffiti. The vandals spray-painted the words “killers” and “release the records” on the front doors of St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Parish.

MALCOLM: Iran just elected a mass murderer as its President

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Iran just elected a mass murderer as its President.

That may sound hyperbolic, and I suppose it is.

I use the term “elected” loosely, since Iran is not a democracy. It holds sham elections that are widely boycotted by the Iranian people, and the list of candidates is limited to hardline Islamists within the brutal regime as approved by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

The second part of the sentence, that new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is a mass murderer, is without question a statement of fact.

Most officials in the Iranian regime have blood on their hands. Iran operates a strict Islamist theocracy that routinely puts to death political dissidents, gay men and women, religious minorities, peaceful protesters and even teenagers.

But few Iranian officials have as much blood on their hands as Raisi.

When he was a young man, he rose up the ranks of the Islamist regime and by age 20, he became the Deputy Prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court. This court does not deal with criminal or civil matters, but instead focuses on political crimes.

This was in the 1980s, which was a particularly brutal time to be in Iran. Following the 1979 Islamist Revolution that overthrew the country’s monarch, and replaced him with a theocratic Ayatollah and Islamist government, the regime began cracking down on its political opponents.

The country’s prisons were filled with religious and political dissidents who were rounded up by Iran’s thuggish moral police force and convicted in dystopian kangaroo courts.

In the summer of 1988, Iran’s then-Ayatollah Khomeni issued a fatwa demanding all political prisoners be retried and if found guilty, put to death.

This ghoulish task was given to a number of government officials, which became known as the Death Commission — including 28-year-old Ebrahim Raisi.

Raisi and others visited Iran’s jails to interview prisoners.

The questions were simple. Are you a Muslim? No? Then that person would be put to death. Do you support the Mujahideen? Yes? That person would be hanged.

Within two minutes, this Death Commission would decide whether a prisoner would live or die — most were put to death.

This cruel madness continued for months, as the Death Commission ordered the killing of thousands of political prisoners in just a few weeks. Some activists put that number closer to 30,000.

The 1988 massacre has all the hallmarks of crimes against humanity. Families of the dead were not allowed to hold ceremonies or funerals, nor were they told where their loved ones were buried. The Iranian regime buried the bodies in mass graves and to this day has not acknowledged this unspeakable atrocity.

Fortunately for the world, Canada has acknowledged the 1988 massacre. The House of Commons unanimously recognized it as a crime against humanity.

I spoke to Kaveh Shahrooz, an Iranian-born Canadian lawyer and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute, who led a campaign called Massacre88 in 2013.

“The idea was for Canada to become the first country in the world to adopt a motion that recognized these killings as constituting a crime against humanity,” he told me.

“If one country’s Parliament declared the other to have committed crimes against humanity, that is a pretty big obstacle.”

“Now we see the value, as Iran has a President who was very directly implicated in that.”

This will make it all but impossible for the Trudeau government to normalize relations with Iran — something he’s been promising to do since he was an opposition MP.

When it comes to the Iranian regime, the mask has slipped. While many on the political Left in Canada and the US — from Obama to Trudeau to Biden — insist that Iran is a country seeking to moderate and work with Western countries, the election of Raisi proves them wrong.

The Iranian regime has no shame, no remorse, no regard for human life and no interest in working with the West.

Maya Angelou said that when people show you who they are, believe them. Iran is reminding the world who they are — a fanatical backwards regime led by a butcher. It’s time the world listened.

MPs move to issue warrant against Public Health Agency of Canada president

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Parliamentarians are now demanding a warrant be issued against the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada Iain Stewart after he refused to hand over documents while censured before the House of Commons on Monday.

Stewart, who is the first non-MP to be summoned before the House for censure in at least 130 years, was rung out by members of the opposition after he failed to appear with the requested files concerning the firing of two scientists from a federal microbiology lab in Winnipeg.

“If this House doesn’t respect its own orders, who will? It’s as though someone said, ‘I don’t believe in this rule so I’m going to flout it. I don’t care about the consequences. I don’t care about the rules,’” Conservative MP Gérard Deltell said on Monday.

“We are 338 Canadians here in the House of Commons, but we are more than citizens. We are representatives of our constituents. When we don’t see respect for the House of Commons, we don’t see respect for Canadian citizens.”

On Monday, Deltell introduced a motion to have the Sergeant-at-Arms “enter into the premises of the Public Health Agency of Canada to search for and seize the documents.”

For weeks, members of the opposition have been pressing the Trudeau government to disclose details concerning why scientists Xiangguo Qiu and Kending Cheng were fired and removed from the National Microbiology Laboratory in 2019.

Xiangguo is being accused of sending samples of highly contagious diseases like Ebola and Henipah virus to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.

According to recent media reports, several other scientists were also found to have collaborated with researchers tied to the People’s Liberation Army of China.

In total, seven scientists participated in six different studies published between 2016 and 2020 while employed by the Canadian government.

This was the third order that Stewart had defied. Liberal Health Minister Patty Hajdu also recently stonewalled disclosures after telling members of the Canada-China Relations Committee that “national security” concerns were behind why the federal government refused to disclose the information.

Lockdown Stockholm Syndrome

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For weeks and months, Canadians have been looking at places around the world reopen. Now, even within Canada, only a small number of provinces have plans to drop COVID-19 restrictions. True North’s Andrew Lawton points out that a lot of Canadians – especially in the mainstream media – are suffering from lockdown Stockholm syndrome and don’t actually want to reopen.

Also Andrew speaks to veteran Gordon Ohlke, who held a Canadian flag at Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue in Kingston to protest its removal last week. Plus, National Council of Resistance of Iran spokesperson Shahin Gobadi joins the show to break down Iran’s sham election of a mass murderer as president.

Trudeau appoints former Liberal candidate to Senate post

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed a former two-time Liberal candidate to the Senate on Tuesday.

Bernadette Clement’s appointment as an “independent senator” was announced by the Prime Minister’s Office alongside two other newly-minted senators Hassan Yussuff and James Quinn.

Both in 2011 and in 2015, Clement ran as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in Ontario and lost both times to former Conservative MP Guy Lauzon.

“Ms. Clement is a lawyer, the Executive Director of the Roy McMurtry Legal Clinic, and current Mayor of Cornwall, who has devoted much of her life to the betterment of the city,” a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) writes.

“Through various professional and volunteer leadership roles, she has served many members of her community, including newcomers, women fleeing violence, and people with developmental disabilities. She is also a tireless advocate for injured workers, and the first Black woman to serve as mayor in Ontario.”

True North reached out to both Clement and the PMO for comment on the appointment but did not receive a response by the time this article was published.

According to the government, the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments is in charge of the candidate-selection process. The board is billed as an “independent and non-partisan” federal body which informs the prime minister on appointments.

The board was first created by the Trudeau government in 2016 as an alleged attempt to sidestep the partisan nature of Senate appointments.

At the time of the board’s creation, Conservative critics blasted the decision saying that it effectively doesn’t change the reality of Senate appointments and ultimately gives the prime minister discretion on who gets chosen for the role.

“This does nothing to fundamentally change how senators are selected. The Senate nominations list which the panel creates will remain secret and non-binding, and Prime Minister Trudeau will have carte blanche to appoint senators who don’t appear on any recommended list,” said a spokesperson for Senator Claude Carigan at the time.

Public Safety Canada wants Canadians to wear a mask at the beach

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ublic Safety Canada wants Canadians to be fully-masked while enjoying the summer weather at the beach.

In a tweet posted to the department’s official Twitter account on Monday, Public Safety Canada reminded Canadians to wear masks outdoors and practice physical distancing.

According to federal public health guidelines, the Canadian government recommends wearing masks in any shared space, whether indoor or outdoor, when there are people from outside of your household.

Included in a list of shared spaces are parks, backyards, outdoor markets, skating rinks and other recreational settings.

True North reached out to the Public Health Agency of Canada to seek clarification on mask wearing at beaches.

“As increased rates of community transmission of COVID-19 continue in many areas across Canada, and as new variants of the COVID-19 virus are identified, it remains important that you wear a non-medical mask,” a PHAC media relations official told True North.

Recent studies have shown that outdoor transmission rates for COVID-19 are very low and that outdoor recreation is generally safe in most circumstances and does not require mask-use.

As vaccination rates ramp up across Canada, several provinces are currently preparing to reopen and lift COVID-19 restrictions and public health orders.

Saskatchewan recently entered the second step of its reopening plan this week and announced that as of July 11, the province will end all COVID-19 public health restrictions.

Meanwhile, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney recently revealed that he intends on lifting nearly all restrictions in the province by this Canada Day.

Conservative MP: Canadian gov’t. must ‘act’ against Canada-based porn website

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Last week, a report said the Ethics Committee recommended that Pornhub be held liable for not preventing explicit material of child sex abuse from being uploaded to its platform.

OTTAWA, Ontario, June 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Shannon Stubbs has called upon Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take action against the Canada-based pornographic website Pornhub, which has allowed rape videos of children to be posted on its site.

“Prime Minister and various ministers said they were also horrified and promised action. But as of right now, the brutal reality is this: There is no new legislation, no new policies, no new regulatory mechanism, no new resources, no new measures for law enforcement to apply the current laws,” said Stubbs, who serves as the CPC shadow minister for public safety, last week at a press conference.

Stubbs led the way on a recent House of Commons’ Ethics Committee report which called on Trudeau’s government to crack down on Pornhub.

Last week, a report said the Ethics Committee recommended that Pornhub be held liable for not preventing explicit material of child sex abuse from being uploaded to its platform.

Stubbs said that Trudeau’s recent words saying he was “horrified” about what has happened to minors has not been followed up by “urgent action.”

“That is not too much for Canadians to ask or expect. And it’s already woefully and shamefully too late for so many victims,” said Stubbs.

Pornhub is owned by Montreal-based MindGeek and is the most viewed pornography website in the world. It has come under fire in recent months after reports surfaced that it has repeatedly allowed pornographic videos involving minors to be uploaded to its site.

A December 2020 New York Times report — titled “The Children of Pornhub: Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault?” — gained international attention for its analysis of Pornhub’s allowance of illegal content involving minors to be uploaded to its site.

On Thursday, Stubbs recalled how she was “blown away” by the “resilience and courage” of the victims’ testimony, but was “horrified” that “the harmful, heartless, and demeaning treatment they endured” has come with no “consequences, and at the evasion of executives.”

“Now it is up to this government to look in the mirror and act,” said Stubbs.

As for MindGeek, company CEO Feras Antoon told the committee earlier in the year that sexually explicit material involving minors against their will has “no place on our platform, and it’s contrary to our values and our business model.”

Despite this, a $600 million lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of Québec in December, but only recently reported, claims the site did host child pornography.

In addition to the Canadian lawsuit, there is an $80 million California lawsuit recently filed by 40 women from around the world that claims MindGeek aided a global trade of sexually exploitative photos of underage girls.

In a recent interview with Jonathon Van Maren, CPC MP Arnold Viersen said that “85 percent of 15- to 35-year-old males are viewing pornography on a weekly basis,” noting in particular that Canada has some of the highest viewership’s of digital pornography in the world.

Viersen is part of an All Party Parliamentary Group to End Modern Slavery, and he told Van Maren that the goal of the group is to stop Canada from being the “headquarters of the largest porn company in the world.”

A petition which calls upon Pornhub to be shuttered for “allegedly enabling and profiting from the sex trafficking and rape of women and children” currently has over 2 million signatures.

Sesame Street introduces ‘married’ dads in ‘Family Day’ propaganda episode

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The 'family-friendly' children's program continues its promotion of homosexuality to preschoolers with its 'Pride Month' statement.

June 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – In yet another display of LGBT cultural aggression, long-running children’s program Sesame Street has introduced a same-sex couple with a child to teach preschoolers that “families come in all forms.”

Released June 16 on YouTube and HBO Max, Sesame Street’s “Family Day” episode features character Nina introducing the classic cast of Muppet characters to her brother and his “husband,” as well as the two men’s daughter.

“I am so honored and humbled to have co-directed this important and milestone episode. Love is love, and we are so happy to add this special family to our Sesame family,” said Alan Muraoka, a Sesame Street actor who also directed the episode. “Happy Pride to all!!!!””

Sarah Kate Ellis, president of the LGBT pressure group GLAAD, also celebrated the episode:

This is not the first time Sesame Street has promoted homosexuality; last year, its official social media account issued a “Happy Pride Month” message.

The show joins a long list of supposed “family-friendly” entertainment properties that have promoted LGBT awareness, acceptance, and celebration to children as young as preschool in recent years, including Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and Clarence; PBS’s Arthur, Netflix’s Voltron: Legendary Defender and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power; Nickelodeon’s The Legend of Korra, The Loud House, and Blue’s Clues; Disney’s Star vs. The Forces of Evil and Doc McStuffins, and Amazon’s Danger & Eggs.

The concerted effort to infuse children’s shows with LGBT characters and messages appears intended to, at a minimum, force families into discussions for which parents may feel their children are too young, as well as set up conflicts between the shows’ feel-good presentation of controversial issues and parents’ own values.

This is “grooming, plain and simple,” The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann wrote in response to Blue’s Clues’ recent “pride” parade segment. “It is training children to be comfortable with things they should be uncomfortable with and remain unexposed to until puberty and following, for their own well-being. To allege otherwise is gaslighting.”

BREAKING: Canada’s House of Commons passes bill criminalizing ‘conversion therapy’

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The bill proposed by the Trudeau government threatens with jail time those helping minors who have gender confusion or unwanted same-sex attraction.

OTTAWA, Ontario, June 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A controversial bill which would punish those helping children with gender confusion or unwanted same-sex attraction with jail time of up to five years passed third reading in Canada’s House of Commons today.

Led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his government’s Bill C-6, often referred to as a “conversion therapy” ban, will now proceed to Canada’s Senate for review.

Bill C-6 passed with 263 votes in favor, and 63 votes against it. The bill had the support from the Liberal, New Democrat, Green, and Bloc Quebecois MPs.

Many Conservative Party (CPC) MPs voted against the bill, including former party leader MP Andrew Scheer, as well as MP Garnett Genuis. Independent MP Derek Sloan voted against the bill, as well, but current CPC leader MP Erin O’Toole voted in favor.

With only a few days left until the Senate breaks for summer, it is unlikely Bill C-6 will be looked at or voted on by the upper chamber until the fall sitting. Nevertheless, the Senate already announced has been introduced at first reading.

Bill C-6 was introduced by Justice Minister David Lametti on October 1, 2020. It defines “conversion therapy” as any “practice, treatment or service designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender identity to cisgender, or to repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behaviour.”

The bill has been called a “disgraceful” attack on parental freedoms by family groups.

Gwen Landolt of REAL Women told LifeSiteNews in early October that Bill C-6 is a “wicked” piece of legislation.

Today, Marty Moore, lawyer for the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), told LifeSiteNews that Bill C-6 is a “deeply flaw piece of legislation.”

“While it purports to criminalize ‘conversion therapy,’ it does not target coercive and abusive practices. Rather, Bill C-6 would prevent Canadians, particularly LGBTQ Canadians, from accessing the counseling and support they voluntarily choose related to their gender and sexuality,” said Moore. “Instead, Bill C-6 imposes, with threat of criminal conviction and imprisonment, a one-size-fits-all medicalized transition approach to gender dysphoria. It further prevents LGBTQ Canadians from accessing counselling to reduce unwanted sexual behavior while allowing straight Canadians to do so.”

Last year, Jack Fonseca, Political Operations Director for Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), told LifeSiteNews that “there are no protections whatsoever in Bill C-6 for parents or pastors who, for example, discourage a gender-confused child from identifying as transgender and try to help them be at peace with the body in which they were born.”

Bill C-6 adds five offenses to the Criminal Code. It would be a crime punishable by up to five years to cause a minor under age 18 to undergo what is called “conversion therapy,” to remove a minor from Canada to undergo “conversion therapy” abroad, and to cause a person to undergo “conversion therapy” against his will.

Additionally, it would be a crime punishable by up to two years in jail to profit from providing “conversion therapy,” and to advertise an offer to provide “conversion therapy.”

Late last year, Bill C-6 was amended so that parents could get jail time of up to five years if they choose to continue to recognize their child’s biological sex.

At the second reading of the bill in October of 2020, Lametti essentially admitted that the federal conversion therapy ban would stop those who are consenting LGBTQ adults from being able to pay for any counseling services.

“We also recognize that criminalizing profiting from conversion therapy means that consenting adults would be prevented from accessing conversion therapy unless it is available free of charge,” said Lametti.

“I have been a critic of this bill from the beginning”

Ahead of the vote on Bill C-6, Sloan held a press conference today in Ottawa with a line-up of licensed psychologists and others who spoke out in opposition of it.

“I have been a critic of this bill from the beginning and I’ve articulated my concerns. I spoke to this bill yesterday in the House of Commons. I’ve put out a lengthy blog piece on my MP Derek Sloan website. And today I want to allow people to tell their story in their own words,” said Sloan this morning.

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Google funded Wuhan lab partner’s research into ‘zoonotic pathogens’: report

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Google's recently revealed connections to virus research raise new questions about the company's COVID-19 censorship.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Recently unearthed reports have revealed that Google has long funded pathogen research by a collaborator of the Wuhan lab, from where COVID-19 is thought to have emerged, shedding new light on the strict censorship which the Big Tech company has enforced on discussions claiming that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory.

The National Pulse released a report June 19, noting that Google had been funding experiments conducted by Peter Daszak’s group EcoHealth Alliance, which itself has long partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in conducting gain-of-function research, particularly in coronaviruses, as further explained below.

Writing for the National Pulse, Natalie Winters noted how the relationship between Google and EcoHealth Alliance spanned at least a decade, with Google sponsoring a 2010 study on bat flaviviruses. Peter Daszak, along with EcoHealth’s Vice President for science and outreach, Jonathan Epstein, were among the authors of that study, and expressed their thanks to “Google.org,” as well as to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of Defense, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Then a 2014 study on “henipavirus spillover,” with Daszak listed as one of the authors, was again funded by “Google.org,” as well as USAID. The study is also linked to bat-originated viruses and their transmission to humans, with the introduction noting that the study will examine the “Zoonotic transmission of lethal henipaviruses (HNVs) from their natural fruit bat reservoirs,” and any future potential transmission.

One year later, Daszak and Epstein were among those who authored a study on “Macacine herpes.” The paper examined the transmission of that strain of herpes, MaHV1, which was widely found amongst macaques in Asia, and how it could pass to those in case contact with the animals. Once again, Google funded the research, along with USAID.

Finally, Winters pointed to a more recent Google-sponsored study from 2018, authored by Daszak and Epstein, along with a number of scientists from the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in southern China. The study itself is of considerable interest in light of COVID-19, as it deals with the concept of “behaviors and perceptions associated with transmission of pathogens with pandemic potential in highly exposed human populations at the animal-human interface.”

As Winters reports, the theme of the study is very much along the lines of Daszak’s later comments supporting a natural origin of COVID-19. It notes that such viruses and “zoonotic pathogens” are very likely to occur in the human-animal interactions which are very widespread in China. Possible places for this transmission to occur include “wet markets,” wrote the authors.

It was a wet market in Wuhan which was originally blamed for being the source of origin for COVID-19, not only by the mainstream media, but also by Daszak.

“Research has demonstrated that human-animal interfaces, such as within these wet markets, provide an ideal environment for infectious disease emergence, transmission, and amplification,” the study continued.

The Google-sponsored study also mentioned how SARS “emerged” in wet markets and was later discovered to have originated in bats.

Daszak’s relationship with Wuhan and COVID-19

Daszak himself has a long and somewhat tainted relationship with COVID-19 and the WIV, having funded research at the Wuhan lab for 15 years. Reports have already extensively noted how Daszak funded and collaborated with Dr. Shi Zheng-li, a world-renowned coronavirus scientist who works on bat-based, gain-of-function experimentation and heads up the WIV’s coronavirus studies.

Daszak’s organization, EcoHealth Alliance, along with the U.S. National Institutes of Health, funded (amongst others) a 2015 study by Dr. Shi, which manipulated bat spike proteins and the 2002 SARS virus in order to infect human cells.

Yet despite this knowledge, following the emergence of COVID-19, Daszak organized a letter, published in The Lancet in February 2020, categorically dismissing “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” He also thanked Dr. Anthony Fauci for denouncing the idea that COVID had originated in a laboratory.

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Unearthed Video Of Peter Daszak Describing ‘Chinese Colleagues’ Developing ‘Killer’ Coronaviruses

https://breaking-news.ca/unearthed-video-of-peter-daszak-describing-chinese-colleagues-developing-killer-coronaviruses/

Unearthed video of Peter Daszak Describing ‘Chinese Colleagues’ Developing ‘Killer’ Coronaviruses (01:06)

“I’m Bound By Ethical Principles”: B.C. Doctor Condemns Censorship Of Medical Community

https://breaking-news.ca/im-bound-by-ethical-principles-b-c-doctor-condemns-censorship-of-medical-community/

Canadian doctors are paying a heavy price for trying to voice their professional opinions about the experimental COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Charles Hoffe has been practicing medicine for 31 years and up until recently worked as an emergency room physician in Lytton, B.C.

But he was recently sidelined from his position and accused of creating “vaccine hesitancy” among his patients after sharing his concerns with colleagues about the numerous allergic reactions and neurological side effects that he observed in his patients who got the Moderna vaccine.

If you’ve been paying attention, you would have caught on by now that any medical professional who is perceived as threatening the mainstream COVID-19 narrative is blackballed by their governing organizations and censored by the media.

So what exactly is going on here?

Here’s what Dr. Hoffe had to say:

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