Month: August 2022

Annual COVID-19 Boosters May Not Be Good Use of Resources: AstraZeneca Boss

Annual booster vaccination against COVID-19 may not be “a good use of resources,” the boss of major vaccine maker AstraZeneca has said. The UK health authorities are offering a booster jab to everyone over the age of 50 to protect them from COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases this winter. But Pascal Soriot, AstraZeneca’s chief executive…


How Food and Energy Crises Contribute to Economic Downturn

News Analysis If more households are spending on food and energy, will they modify their consumption patterns? With consumer demand gradually weakening and business activity slowing down, the consequences of surging food and energy inflation might be weighing on the broader economy. But what are the data showing and how are higher food and energy…


Markets Fear Food and Energy Crisis Fueling Recession

News Analysis If more households are spending on food and energy, will they modify their consumption patterns? With consumer demand gradually weakening and business activity slowing down, the consequences of surging food and energy inflation might be weighing on the broader economy. But what are the data showing and how are higher food and energy…


Is the Food and Energy Crisis Fueling the Recession?

News Analysis If more households are spending on food and energy, will they modify their consumption patterns? With consumer demand gradually weakening and business activity slowing down, the consequences of surging food and energy inflation might be weighing on the broader economy. But what are the data showing and how are higher food and energy…


Biden Responds to Trump’s Declassification Order Claims

President Joe Biden issued a response to assertions made by former President Donald Trump and his team that he declassified materials that were taken to Mar-a-Lago, which were the apparent subject of an FBI raid earlier this month. Trump’s team and former aide Kash Patel have said that while president, Trump had a standing order…


Artemis Space Mission to Moon ‘A Stepping-Stone’ to Mars and Beyond

The last time humans went to the moon, it was a destination. But when NASA’s Artemis 1 mission launches Monday, the moon will be more of a way station. “It’s really to learn how we can go further,” said Isabelle Tremblay of the Canadian Space Agency, which is playing a big role in the Artemis…


Head of Bell Says Lisa LaFlamme’s Departure Not Related to Age, Gender, or Grey Hair

TORONTO—The head of Bell Media’s parent company says the decision to end Lisa LaFlamme’s contract had nothing to do with her age, gender or grey hair. Mirko Bibic, president and CEO of BCE Inc. & Bell Canada, says removing the longtime CTV National News anchor instead reflects massive changes to traditional broadcasting in Canada. In…


‘Experts’ With Feet of Clay: The Push for Vaccine Mandates While Shunning Fair Debate

Commentary Since the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Canada, the provinces and the federal government have deployed a host of health measures to control the declared pandemic (confinements, masks, social distancing, curfews, etc.). State control has also manifested itself in the systematic denigration of early treatments with generic molecules proven safe and effective to…


Moderna and Pfizer: Cat Fight!

Commentary The legend is that patents are a just reward for new inventions. The reality is that they are government grants of monopoly privilege for industrial interests. What began as a royal privilege left over from feudal times mutated into a right of anyone to deploy the power of the state to block competitors and…


Joe Biden the Inflationary Reverse Robin Hood

Commentary The Democratic Party has finally confirmed beyond any further debate that it is the party of the rich. Democrats already insulted the intelligence of the American people with an inflationary tax-and-spend monstrosity they had the audacity and mendacity to call the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which the geniuses at National Public Radio explain removes “a…