President Joe Biden says his administration will end the three-year COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11 but Republican leaders in the United States House of Representatives aim to declare it over as soon as Feb. 1. The newly constituted GOP-controlled House Rules Committee cleared four pandemic-related bills during four hours of hearings on Jan….

Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members are still being discharged for non-compliance with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination directive even after other federal employers have suspended their vaccine requirements, Federal Court records show. The court records, obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, showed that Corporal Shannon Jones, a meteorological technician at Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters in Esquimalt, B.C., was dismissed for…

Brian Peckford, former premier of Newfoundland and the last surviving architect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Jan. 26. Alongside five other applicants, Peckford’s team is challenging the Constitutional merits of the Trudeau administration’s mandates restricting travel for Canadians without a COVID-19 vaccination. And…

VANCOUVER—After raising $1.3 million in a week, a massive group of truckers are rolling across the country to camp in Canada’s capital until a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate on truck drivers is lifted. The Freedom Convoy 2022 is slated to start from the west coast on Jan. 23, heading from British Columbia to Ottawa. Truckers from every…

A jury finds actor Jussie Smollett guilty of staging a hate crime against himself. A group of Washington lawmakers pushes back against a federal vaccine mandate for health care workers. And small number of children who have had COVID-19 face another condition called a pediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome.

A jury finds actor Jussie Smollett guilty of staging a hate crime against himself. A group of Washington lawmakers pushes back against a federal vaccine mandate for health care workers. And small number of children who have had COVID-19 face another condition called a pediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome.