Category: vaccine mandates

Most Who Object to Mandatory Vaccination Are Not ‘Anti-Vaxxers’

Commentary As someone who has been taught to measure my words, I have had enough of the prime minister’s attempt to brand people who object to the COVID vaccines as “anti-vaxxers.” He made the most of it, of course, during the recent election campaign, when he told us that he was not going to let…


Actor Matthew McConaughey Says He Opposes COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Children, Needs ‘More Information’ About Shots

Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey says he is against COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children and will not be forcing his own kids to get the shot until he has “more information” about them. The 52-year-old actor is married to Brazilian-American model and designer Camila Alves and the couple share sons Levi, 13, and Livingston, 8, and daughter…


Australians Should Not Demonise Those Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine: Australian Prime Minister

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that he respects people’s choices, and those who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine should not be demonised in the country. “We don’t have a mandatory vaccine policy as a Federal Government. That’s not something that we have done. We respect people’s choices,” Morrison told the Seven Network on Thursday….


Australians Should Not Demonise Those Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine: Prime Minister

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that he respects people’s choices, and those who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine should not be demonised in the country. “We don’t have a mandatory vaccine policy as a Federal Government. That’s not something that we have done. We respect people’s choices,” Morrison told the Seven Network on Thursday….


Anti-Vaxxers Should Not Be Demonised: Australian Prime Minister

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that he respects people’s choices, and those who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine should not be demonised in the country. “We don’t have a mandatory vaccine policy as a Federal Government. That’s not something that we have done. We respect people’s choices,” Morrison told the Seven Network on Thursday….


Demand for Fully Jabbed Job Applicants Rises in Australia

An increasing number of employers are requiring job applicants to be fully vaccinated, as the majority of Australians support workplace vaccination mandates for COVID-19, a survey found. Melbourne Institute’s latest Taking the Pulse of the Nation survey (pdf) reported that 70 percent of Australians were either strongly or somewhat in favour of a vaccine mandate…


Vaccination Deadline Looms for Rugby League Player

Rugby league player, Nelson Asofa-Solomona, has until the end of this week to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, as state governments continue locking out unvaccinated Australians from venues. Asofa-Solomona plays for the Melbourne Storm and is the only player on the team resisting the jab. Across the league however, he is not alone, as fellow National…


Live Q&A: Bill Gates Calls for Bioterror ‘Germ Games’; Vaccine Mandate Temporarily Blocked by Court

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is warning that the world needs to prepare for the next pandemic, and is calling for “germ games” exercises to mitigate threats from potential bioterrorism scenarios. And in other news, the vaccine mandates for private businesses have been temporarily blocked by a federal court for the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,…


‘It’s Been a Nightmare’: BC Health Workers Describe Staff Shortages Due to Vaccine Mandate

Anna Isaak knew her job as a care aide at Worthington Pavilion in Abbotsford, B.C., was coming to an end. She had decided not to comply with the provincial mandate that all health-care workers be vaccinated against COVID-19, and the Oct. 26 proof-of-vaccination deadline was looming. However, the impact of her unexpectedly sudden departure struck…


Vaccine Mandates Are Dividing Canadians: Former Judge

The vaccine mandates pushed by the federal and provincial governments have divided Canadians, and the way the unvaccinated are berated is “extremely ugly,” a former judge says. “I would never have thought such a thing could happen in Canada,” said Brian Giesbrecht, who served as a provincial court judge in Manitoba from 1976 to 2007….