Tag: vaccine mandates

Capitol Report (Aug. 3): Trump Backed Candidates Win Key Races; Indiana Congresswoman Killed in Car Accident

Voters across five states have selected their nominees for the midterm elections. Several Trump-backed candidates won. And in one state, Americans got to vote directly on abortion access. A hearing sought to pin down the origin of the pandemic by focusing on gain-of-function research. As more vaccines and boosters are administered throughout the country, what…


Ontario Arbitrator Finds University’s Vaccine Mandates ‘Reasonable,’ Despite Not Being Required by Health Authority

A labour arbitrator has found it “reasonable” for Wilfrid Laurier University to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates and continue to enforce them even when they’re no longer required by the local health authority. Mark Wright, an arbitrator in Toronto, has ruled that Laurier University has the “management rights” to mandate vaccine policy for all students, staff, and…


Cory Morgan: Behind Ottawa’s Fixation on Maintaining Mandates for Travellers

Commentary Canada’s government is addicted to control and uses COVID-19 to get its fix. While nations around the world are dropping all pandemic control requirements at airports, from checking vaccination status to random testing, Canada refuses to back down on entrance requirements. With the pending return of random testing requirements for visitors entering Canada, one…


Empire of Fear: How the Pandemic Made a Canadian University Lose its Mind

Commentary Universities have traditionally been the home and sponsor of critics and commentators, but as institutions they are neither critics nor commentators. Like the Governor General, the university has no official position on controversial social and political policies. Nor does the institution pick one such policy and impose it on its members. As for university…


62,000 Unvaccinated Guards, Reserve Soldiers Facing Loss of Pay as Army Prepares to Enforce Vaccine Mandate

About 40,000 National Guard and 22,000 reserve soldiers will be blocked from service for rejecting the COVID vaccines, U.S. Army officials said on July 8. “Soldiers who refuse the vaccination order without an approved or pending exemption request are subject to adverse administrative actions, including flags, bars to service, and official reprimands,” an Army spokesperson…


Australia’s State of Victoria Continues to Extend Pandemic Declaration for Another Three Months

Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews has extended the pandemic declaration for another three months, a decision that the opposition warned would lead to a “slower road to recovery.” Under the pandemic declaration, which was introduced late last year, the Victorian government can continue to impose pandemic rules such as mask and vaccine mandates as well as…


US Marines Ask Court for Relief From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Several members of the U.S. Marine Corps filed an amended complaint seeking relief from the Department of Defense’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members, claiming they were denied religious exemptions. The complaint was filed (pdf) in the U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida against the Defense Department, Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Gen. David H. Berger,…


Docuseries Challenges Canadian Media’s Narrative: Directors of ‘Trucking for Freedom’

Andrew Peloso and Jeremy Regoto, the directors of the historic six-part docuseries “Trucking for Freedom,” said that unlike the legacy media, their goal was to capture what really happened on the frontlines of the 2022 Canadian Freedom Convoy trucker protests in Ottawa. The first two episodes of the series are now streaming on EpochTV. The…


Queensland Discards Vaccine Mandates at Most Workplaces

The Queensland state government of Australia is scrapping COVID-19 vaccine mandates in a large number of workplaces, including schools, childcare, airports, jails, aged care, and disability facilities. “Restrictions that have protected us have eased in sensible stages, and today, I announce with the advice of the Chief Health Officer, we are removing some of the…


LIVE at 11AM ET America’s Coming Revolution Isn’t Political—It’s Spiritual

From trans activism and vaccine mandates to cancel culture and inflation, American elites are setting fire to the system they built. So it’s time to build something new by going back to our origins. We’re ruled not by our government but by a covenant with our creator. Host of the popular “unorthodox” podcast Liel Leibovitz…