Coronavirus

EDITORIAL – Back to school means the end of summer vacation from COVID

September 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S BACK TO SCHOOL and that means a lot of things. For many, it means the end of summer fun. Normally, the biggest thing we have to worry [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Willingness to keep getting vaccinated for COVID wanes

July 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE July 18, 2022 – An emerging seventh wave of the COVID-19 virus – spurred forth by the BA.5 variant of Omicron – has health [Continue]

EDITORIAL – What’s the ‘science’ behind relaxing COVID travel mandates?

June 16, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE SCIENCE SAYS I should get a second booster shot against COVID-19, so that’s what I did this week. When I asked the pharmacist which [Continue]

EDITORIAL – ArriveCAN travel app needs to be either fixed or scrapped

June 7, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DESPITE ALL THE WHINING of those who don’t like COVID-19 mandates, for the most part they have been necessary and effective. We need to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Vaccine-mandate mish mash needs to be sorted out

April 18, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AMONG THE FORGOTTEN CASUALTIES of the COVID-19 pandemic are all those who were laid off or fired for refusing to take the jab. Vaccination [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Proof positive that ‘optional’ masking doesn’t work

April 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I’VE JUST SPENT a couple of miserable weeks feeling sorry for myself. The kind of sorry that comes with a bad headache, extreme fatigue, [Continue]

KNOX – Picking up COVID test with a float plane just part of the service

April 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

HERE’S AN EYEBROW-RAISER: federal health authorities just paid for a float plane to pick up a woman’s COVID test from Lasqueti Island. No, this is not an April [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Are we leaving COVID behind, or just ignoring it?

March 12, 2022 // 1 Comment

I’M NOT READY to leave home. Sure, I’m OK sitting in a coffee shop or walking down the street but I’d still feel uncomfortable squeezed cheek by jowl with a crowd at a [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Half say COVID has worsened their mental health

March 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE March 11, 2022 – As Canadians hold onto hope that COVID-19 case totals will continue to trend downward, many are looking forward to a less [Continue]

BEPPLE – Helpers will get us through the last part of pandemic restrictions

February 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

‘LOOK FOR THE HELPERS. You will always find people who are helping.” So said Fred Rogers, or Mr. Rogers as he is better known. He didn’t just say it once. Again [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Invoking Emergencies Act isn’t the same as War Measures of 1970

February 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ‘JUST WATCH ME.’ Those words from then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, spoken in 1970, are being recalled by many today. They were [Continue]

LETTER – Two-vaccination passport no longer has a medically sound basis

February 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Here’s a recap of covid over the past two years from my perspective. I am lucky that I personally know of very few people who got covid, and none who died. My sincere [Continue]

LETTER – Our national spine appears to be made of spaghetti

February 12, 2022 // 2 Comments

I noted from a very recent news report that a significant number (3? 300?) of Canadian Armed Forces members have joined the anti-virus crusade, and are militantly (so to [Continue]

TRUCKER CONVOY – Elites are blowing their response to the ‘freedom’ protests

February 11, 2022 // 1 Comment

If you attack, slander, dismiss or silence your enemy: You. Will. Lose By SHAWN WHATLEY Munk Senior Fellow Macdonald-Laurier Institute ANYONE WHO SERVES the public learns how [Continue]