Category: vaccine mandates

Liberals Set Short-Term Agenda as COVID-19 Weighs on New Parliament

With a new Parliament session opening on Nov. 22 and soon pausing for the holidays, the Liberal government has set its target on passing four pieces of legislation before the break. Government House Leader Mark Holland laid out the agenda during a press conference, saying his party will focus on providing pandemic financial aid, banning…


The Free North Declaration Is an Island of Sanity in a Country Gone Mad

Commentary “Things don’t add up.” As a lawyer who has been writing, speaking, and litigating against lockdowns and now vaccine mandates these last 20 months, I have heard this sentiment countless times. Ordinary people who are being stripped of their normal lives—their jobs, sports, education, gatherings, travels, and medical services—have told me that the country…


‘Absolutely No Evidence’ Vaccine Passports Boosted Uptake in Scotland: Government Adviser

No evidence suggests vaccine passports have increased the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccines in Scotland, a government adviser said on Sunday. Stephen Reicher, a psychology professor who’s in the Scottish government’s COVID-19 Advisory Group and the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, said the increase rate of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccinations in…


Florida Reports 18 Consecutive Months of Private Sector Job Growth and 12 Consecutive Months of Labor Force Increases

Florida has reported 18 consecutive months of private-sector job growth, the office of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday. The sunshine state continues to make economic progress, with more job growth, labor force increases, and a decline in the unemployment rate, owing in part to its “successful policies that put Floridians and businesses first,” the…


Could Boosters Backfire?—Dr. Paul Alexander on Booster Shots, Natural Immunity, and the Failures of Lockdowns | PART 1

“We do not know how the immune system is going to react to so much boosting. Why? Because the vaccine developers did not study it.” In this two-part episode, we sit down with Brownstone Institute’s Dr. Paul Alexander, an expert in evidence-based medicine, research methodology, and clinical epidemiology. He served in the Trump administration in…


Vaccine Mandates: A Question of Ethics

Commentary Various vaccine mandates imposed across Canada are proving to be contentious, conflicting, and legally dubious. Medical mandates are ethically spurious in a constitutional democracy, and ethics is fundamental to these new and divisive policies. Those who have been following the issue may have come across Julie Ponesse, an ethics professor at Ontario’s Huron University…


First Responders Fight Chicago Vaccine Mandate

CHICAGO—Government control over people’s lives has spread like fire since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Scott Troogstad, a fire captain from Chicago. Small-business owners were deprived of their livelihoods, students couldn’t go to schools, people of faith were forbidden to pray at their churches. Yet it wasn’t his fight, not at the time….


Jeffrey Tucker: How the Working Class Was Betrayed By Lockdowns, Vaccine Mandates

“Many societies have been constructed around this idea of clean and unclean. That’s what we did. And it’s grim. It’s brutal. It’s anti-modern.” At the Brownstone Institute’s inaugural conference in Hartford, Connecticut, we sat down with Brownstone founder and president Jeffrey Tucker to discuss vaccine mandates, the devastating consequences of lockdown policies, and his vision…


Pennsylvania Doctor Loses Job After Speaking Against Vaccine Mandates

Pennsylvania pediatrician Dr. Chaminie Wheeler has put her career on the line for both speaking freely about the COVID-19 vaccination, and refusing to get the shot. Until this month, Wheeler worked for two hospital systems. “I have been fired and was told not to come back from one health care system because I did not…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Nov. 18)

The House has started debate on President Joe Biden’s social spending package – as the president showcases his newly signed infrastructure deal and what it means for electric vehicles. The battle over vaccine mandates rages on. New Hampshire lawmakers pass a measure to ban them altogether. And hundreds of workers in Los Angeles face unpaid…