Calling it “arbitrary and capricious,” the New York State Supreme Court on Monday struck down New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public workers, ruling in favor of 16 unvaccinated city workers who sued following their termination. This article was originally published by The Defender – Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website Calling it “arbitrary and capricious,” the…

A special joint parliamentary committee has voted to block the release of uncensored documents that detail the federal government’s rationale for invoking the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy. Sponsored by Bloc Québécois MP Rhéal Fortin, the motion that federal agencies “be required to provide the committee with unredacted versions of those documents” was defeated…

An Ottawa city councillor wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the RCMP in February claiming that residents in her ward, which includes the area surrounding Parliament Hill, experienced “unprecedented violence” from the Freedom Convoy, although she had not seen any acts of violence herself. “I didn’t personally witness any acts of violence. I was…

There was no evidence of violence by Freedom Convoy organizers and supporters when they protested against federal COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Ottawa earlier this year, according to security reports from an internal department of Public Safety Canada. In a security update dated Feb. 14—the day the Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act—the public safety…

An RCMP blacklist of individuals who supported the Freedom Convoy was emailed to securities regulators nationwide, with the personal information of convoy sympathizers potentially being received by thousands of financial advisors, according to internal emails.  Issued under the Emergency Economic Measures Order enacted by the federal government on Feb. 15, the RCMP email told investment…

Dr. Anthony Fauci dismissed shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic as collateral damage while speaking at an event on Wednesday. Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the president, blamed “divisiveness in society” and people on social media for creating an “understandable confusion” about his guidance during the pandemic. He went on to justify the harsh COVID-19…

Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform have launched an inquiry into thousands of deaths at New York nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (pdf), the ranking members from the two committees pointed to guidance issued…

Commentary To protect the fundamental rights of Brazilians, President Jair Bolsonaro announced the lifting of public health measures that were still in place in the country in April, with the health minister, Marcelo Queiroga,  putting an end to such measures after signing a decree on April 22. But the fact is that the president could…

Canadians now have a much smaller appetite for COVID-19 public health measures compared to just months ago, despite warnings of a resurgence of cases fuelled by the Omicron BA.5 variant, says a recent Angus Reid poll. The survey, published on July 20, shows just a quarter of Canadians would now support the reimplementation of a…

The Canadian government aims to “further subjugate society” by extending COVID-19 mandates in the country, a criminal lawyer told a large crowd of protesters at Parliament Hill on July 1, following calls from the country’s top health officials to get the boosters shots. Knia Singh, a criminal defence lawyer with Ma’at Legal Services in Toronto, made the…