Category: vaccine mandate

Federal Vaccine Mandates Implicate, Infringe on Canadians’ Charter Rights: Legal Experts

The vaccine mandate that requires federal employees from core public services to be fully immunized against COVID-19 has constitutional issues that implicate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, an Ontario lawyer says. “There are several sections of the Charter of Rights that are implicated by mandating vaccines, generally speaking,” said Ryan O’Connor, a Toronto-based…


Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva Says He Will Not Force Employees to Get Vaccinated

Los Angeles’s sheriff Alex Villanueva said he will not force his employees to get vaccinated after the city approved one of the strictest COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the country, saying the issue of COVID-19 vaccines has become “so politicized.” Speaking during his weekly Q&A on Facebook on Oct. 7, Villanueva said the new mandate puts him in a difficult…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Oct. 7)

President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for private businesses will soon be enforced, Pfizer’s seeking emergency-use approval to vaccinate children as young as five, and Senate Democrats insist that bold climate plans remain in the Build Back Better plan.


Trudeau Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates on Federal Workers and Travelers

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced COVID-19 vaccine mandates for travelers and federal public service employees on Wednesday morning, calling the mandates “some of the strongest in the world.” “If you’ve done the right thing and gotten vaccinated, you deserve the freedom to be safe from COVID,” Trudeau said during a press conference. “These travel…


NYC Unvaccinated Teachers Blame Union for Losing Their Jobs

BROOKLYN, New York—Teachers who were put on unpaid leave for non-compliance with a recent CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine mandate say New York City’s largest teachers’ union should have fought harder against the city’s vaccination requirement for school staff. Several hundred teachers and other school staff and supporters chanted, “We will not comply,” and…


Unvaccinated Teachers in NYC Blame Union for Losing Their Jobs

BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Teachers who were put on unpaid leave for non-compliance with a recent CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine mandate say New York City’s largest teachers’ union should have fought harder against the city’s vaccination requirement for school staff. Several hundred teachers and other school staff and supporters chanted, “We will not comply,” and other…


Australian Police Officers, Health Workers Quit Over Vaccine Mandates

Police officers and health workers in Australia have resigned amid COVID-19 vaccine mandates issued in two states, local media reported Wednesday. At least 136 health workers in New South Wales and an unknown number of police officers in Queensland have resigned in the face of mandates on the two industries in the respective states. Health…


Southwest Airlines Requires Its US Employees Get COVID-19 Vaccine, Citing Federal Mandate

Southwest Airlines will require all of its U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. U.S.-based employees of the major carrier have to be fully vaccinated or have an approved religious, medical, or disability accommodation by Dec. 8 to keep their jobs. The Dallas-based airline said in a press release on Monday that it had conducted a…


Vermont Woman Fired, Denied Unemployment for Refusing Vaccine, Becomes Homeless and Flees to Florida

Karen “Kay Sea” Skau is a single mother of two adult children, Zachary (23) and Colby (21) who was living in Vermont. She had applied for a job at JK Adams in Dorset—makers of kitchen cutting boards and serving trays and sellers of wide variety of assorted kitchen accouterments—and was hired just before Thanksgiving in…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Oct. 4)

Democrats are giving themselves another month to reach a deal on President Joe Biden’s social spending package. This, after the House delayed a vote on the smaller package twice last week. What’s the holdup? And why is a moderate concerned about the deadlock? No chance of a vaccine mandate for students in West Virginia, says…