Government Corruption
BEIJING (AP) — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months.
The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace the virus from the first weeks of the outbreak, despite statements supporting open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation found. That pattern continues to this day, with labs closed, collaborations shattered, foreign scientists forced out and Chinese researchers barred from leaving the country.
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Read MoreThe Biden administration has set out to encourage gender transition attempts among federal bureaucrats, establishing gender transition support plans, holding trainings pushing Left-wing gender ideology, and even telling federal employees that referring to someone by biologically accurate pronouns is discrimination.
In a document published by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), effectively the human resources department of the federal government, the Biden administration commanded federal agencies to embed “gender identity inclusion practices” throughout the bureaucracy.
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Read MoreThe Biden administration’s former “disinformation czar,” ousted after an apparent attempt to create an Orwellian ministry of truth within the Department of Defense, has launched a new nonprofit that declares criticism of “disinformation researchers” such as herself as a chief threat to the United States of America.
“The campaign against counter-disinformation work is the greatest threat to freedom of expression and academic integrity since the McCarthy era,” Nina Jankowicz said in a press release, pledging that her group would not “allow it to continue.”
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Read MoreChristian Leuprecht discusses recent revelations by the RCMP of having uncovered a plot to sell Chinese drones and military equipment to Libya illegally.
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Read MorePrime Minister Justin Trudeau intensified his criticism of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Wednesday, when he linked his main challenger for power with an American conspiracy theorist who infamously spread lies about the mass murder of schoolchildren.
Trudeau delivered the broadside at a news conference in Oakville, after he was asked about a video circulating online in which Poilievre is shown telling people at an anti-carbon price demonstration — where the symbol of a group that police have linked with ideological extremism is briefly shown on a trailer door — that everything the prime minister says is “bulls—t.”
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Read MoreMonieya Jess has to constantly watch over her shoulder to make sure she’s not on the radar of immigration enforcement authorities.
On Wednesday, the Jamaican woman overcame her fear and spoke at a rally in Toronto, pleading with the Trudeau government for a long called-for regularization plan to give permanent status to the tens of thousands of non-status residents like her who live in the shadows in Canada.
“I am afraid, but I’m not afraid,” said the 35-year-old, who left her job as a migrant farm worker after suffering from work-related pain and lost her legal status in Canada in 2021.
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Read MoreCanadians are not impressed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest budget and if he was expecting a bounce in public support, he’s not getting it, according to an Ipsos poll released Tuesday.
Although 28 percent of those surveyed had no opinion at all about the budget, of those who did, 40 percent gave Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget of $52.9 million in new spending a “thumbs down.”
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Read MoreCanadians’ prosperity will be harmed unless the federal government manages to raise productivity, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has warned.
“When we’re debating over our priorities, what we value, what we should be doing as Canadians, we should first acknowledge that we have less to spend because we have become less productive,” Mr. Carney said during a keynote address at Canada 2020’s Economic Lookahead dinner in Toronto on April 22.
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Read MoreNDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has refused to say whether an NDP government would keep the carbon tax and its scheduled increases in place.
“So far what we said is that our position hasn’t changed, but we are saying that the Liberals’ plan is unfair,” Mr. Singh
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Read MoreOn Monday morning in Sherbrooke, Que., dozens of tractors slowly rolled along a stretch of road between the regional offices of Quebec’s farmers association and the Agriculture Department a few hundred meters away.
Upset about high interest rates, growing paperwork and heavy regulatory burdens, protesting farmers have become a familiar sight across Quebec since December.
“It’s pretty hard to get farmers out of their farms, because they’ve got so many hours to put in, but to see them going out, it means that there is really something going bad in farming right now,” said Benjamin Boivin, a corn and wheat farmer in Quebec’s Estrie region, east of Montreal, who was out protesting on Monday.
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