Government Corruption
The CEO of taxpayer-owned Trans Mountain Corporation is in Federal Court for alleged “abuse of process.” Dawn Farrell, Calgary’s “inspiring business leader” of the year, is accused of ignoring a federal order to release public records under the Access To Information Act.
“The order sought in this application will be of practical value and effect as it will enforce the quasi-constitutional right of access, enforce the Commissioner’s order to ensure compliance with the Access To Information Act and maintain the rule of law,” lawyers for the Information Commissioner wrote the Court. “The lack of responsiveness is in clear contravention of the CEO’s legal duty under the Act and undermines the credibility of the Access To Information system and the Commissioner’s order making powers under the Act in an abuse of process.”
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Read MoreThe circus came to town Wednesday.
With memories of another eyebrow-raising inaugural ceremony of 13 years back long forgotten, the city’s socialists gathered at Toronto City Hall to dance, sing, chant loudly and beat drums in honour of new NDP mayor Olivia Chow.
The same leftists, who got themselves into a lather for days after former colourful commentator (and pink jacketed) Don Cherry called out the city’s “pinkos” at the inaugural of Rob Ford, sat through an over-the-top often cringeworthy ceremony befitting a mayor who has already decidedly made virtue signalling a priority over actually tackling the decrepit city’s many issues.
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Read MoreThe troubled Trans Mountain expansion to the West Coast received another blow after federal authorities slapped it with an inspection office order for failing to monitor the “socio-economic” impacts of construction on local communities.
Specifically, the complaints stem from work camps — or lack of them — in various BC communities along the route that strained local resources and infrastructure, including roadways.
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Read MoreNearing the midway point of its term, Calgary City Council has received a failing grade from Calgarians, according to the results of a recent survey by ThinkHQ Public Affairs.
“These findings align with those gathered last fall, although one bright spot for councillors is that their ratings among constituents have improved nominally over the past year,” ThinkHQ Public Inc. said in a statement.
The survey said Calgary Mayor Gondek has struggled since being elected in October 2021 and has not gained any significant ground with voters regarding their ratings of her performance.
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Read MoreAn investigation conducted by the House Energy and Commerce Committee reveals that 14 National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials, including former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, were not properly reappointed to their positions in December of 2021, as required by law.
Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-Washington) along with Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Kentucky) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-Virginia) began their investigation in March of 2022 and revealed their findings publicly in a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra.
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Read MoreReport describes adverse events following immunisation (AEFI)
Reported to Western Australian Vaccine Safety Surveillance (WAVSS) system
For vaccinations received in 2021.
The format of this Annual Report differs, to enable description of the impact of the program
COVID-19 vaccination started in February 2021
In 2021, Western Australia
5,756,723 vaccine doses were administered,
up from 2,071,167 in 2020.
Of this amount, 3,948,673 were COVID-19 vaccines
In 2021, a significant increase in reports of AEFI
10,726 individual AEFI reports in 2021,
up from 270 in 2020.
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Read MorePrivy Council President Bill Blair yesterday refused to name underlings he blamed for mishandling a “top secret memo” on Chinese espionage in Canada. Blair was repeatedly asked for names after acknowledging his own department was responsible for the error.
“In this cased a memo was sent that was authorized for my attention,” said Blair. “It was sent to a secure device not located in my office, somewhere else that I had no access to,” he said.
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Read MoreTaxpayers are owed more than a half billion in overpayments to federal workers due to Phoenix Pay System mistakes, according to records. One department began writing off excess payments to dead employees.
“Since the launch of Phoenix approximately 389,500 employees have been identified as having received either an administrative overpayment or true overpayment totaling $3.08 billion as of April 24,” cabinet wrote in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in Parliament.
A total $553 million has not yet been recovered. “Some situations are related to late processing where timeliness is key,” it said.
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Read MoreA report released Tuesday by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic presents evidence of a coordinated effort by federal officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, to suppress the COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis and instead promote the “natural origin” theory.
The 55-page interim report is based on the committee’s “comprehensive investigation into the suppression of the lab-leak hypothesis by America’s leading public health officials through the drafting, publication, and critical reception of the infamous ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’ (‘Proximal Origin’) publication” in Nature Medicine.
According to the report, “extensive influence” by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the so-called “Bethesda Boys,” including Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins, combined with a “flawed analysis” characterized by “an alarming lack of evidence,” led to the publication of the highly influential “Proximal Origin” paper.
The report includes previously unrevealed Slack messages and emails between the co-authors, unabridged transcripts of interviews with “every U.S.-based contributor to the paper” and a detailed analysis of the “coordinated effort” to suppress the lab-leak theory.
The conclusions were based on a review of 8,000 pages of documents, 25 hours of testimony and five interviews by the committee.
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