Commentary Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long term care facilities and hospitals. However,…

People who took part in the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa last winter believed they were being patriotic and standing up for civil liberties, says a declassified briefing by Canada’s spy service. “The Canadian flag was the most prevalent flag on display in the crowd, likely reflecting participants’ belief that they are patriotic Canadians standing…

LOS ANGELES—Honking truckers tied up traffic early on July 13 protesting California’s “gig worker” law, which reclassifies many independent contractors as employees. The protests hit a number of roads near the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach and blocked several freeways. The truckers held up signs with such slogans as “AB5 Kills Dreams,” referring…

Organizers of Freedom Convoy USA 2022 are urging all truckers and patriots who planned on joining them in their trek to Washington, D.C. to change course and join the main group, The People’s Convoy, which as of Saturday morning had reached Amarillo, Texas. Kyle Sefcik, national organizer for Freedom Convoy USA 2022 told The Epoch…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the federal government will continue pursuing the Emergencies Act even though the protesters have now been largely cleared from downtown Ottawa and the blockades at several Canada-U.S. border crossings were cleared and had been reopened since before the act was invoked. At a press conference on Feb. 21, Trudeau used pointed language…

Early on the morning of Feb. 17 work crews in Ottawa erected eight-foot high wire fences along the interior of the stone wall separating Parliament Hill from Wellington St, where the main body of trucks and protesters are gathered. Authorities left only one or two gates open to allow people to get up on the…

Commentary Canada is a magnificent country! But our land can also be treacherous because of its unforgiving weather, bad roads, and vast distances between villages, towns, and cities. I was born and raised a 10-hour drive from the closest next big city, Montreal. Ten hours of sinuous roads and, in winter, driving conditions that didn’t…

Commentary Signs abound that Canada’s media-politico class is losing, however temporarily, its collective mind. The signs come daily, often hourly. Or in the immortal words of Ontario Premier Doug Ford: “The cheese is slipping off the cracker.” That would be the same Doug Ford who just declared a “state of emergency” to deal with a…

One of President Joe Biden’s cabinet members has resigned. That’s after he admitted he treated his colleagues disrespectfully. A new report says labor unions collected tens of millions of dollars in pandemic aid, even though it was supposed to go to small businesses and nonprofits instead. Canada’s House of Commons held an emergency debate in…