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BLM is based in the United States, so that reference would not make sense unless you are talking about funding crossing state lines. > It's a Canada policy, but is specific to crossing the border from the US. Up until the blockade of the border, it was an internal matter entirely, but you are correct here. If the border situation escalates, then the OAS needs to get involved to mediate a ceasefire and ensure that fre…
Canada and international donations to blm is.
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From the article you linked: > For one, the new report was based on data only through November, before the U.S. booster campaign really took off. It also looked at data during the Delta wave and does not account for the surging Omicron variant. The study doesn't take other variants into account. This is important because later findings reflect the unvaccinated would have immunity from just the one variant and not all…
> the unvaccinated would have immunity from just the one variant and not all of them uniformly And "the vaccinated" have immunity from just one protein, from one variant, which is even lower. If anything recovered people have better immunity, not worse. The best strategy right now is to get vaccinated, and also get Omicron - then you have the best of both worlds, without the risk. But someone who took the risk, and r…
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It has significant impacts so far: Shutdown the largest trade border, cache of guns found in Coutts protest, local downtown core of Ottawa closed, $800,000 per day to the police services to manage it, harassment of people on the street, white nationalist flags and other imagery, attempted arson for an apartment building.
Also it isn't some friendly truckers who are just fed up - this is an organized protest by two fringe politicians from Alberta who planned to use the wedge issue to get traction for their party. Most truckers (90%) are vaccinated and working currently - this is a vocal minority raised combined with a non-truckers right wing nationalists jumping on the protest train.
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> the unvaccinated would have immunity from just the one variant and not all of them uniformly And "the vaccinated" have immunity from just one protein, from one variant, which is even lower. If anything recovered people have better immunity, not worse. The best strategy right now is to get vaccinated, and also get Omicron - then you have the best of both worlds, without the risk. But someone who took the risk, and r…
That's literally not true though: https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-varian...
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A line in a Traveling Wilburys song goes "everything is legal as long as you don't get caught." That's what came to mind as I read your reply, which tacitly agrees with my parent comment.
i have a 4 year old daughter in ontario who has never seen her friends faces or her teacher's face. she eats outside even when it's -20. as of today, no end in sight for these rules. why? it's shameful. im surprised the civil unrest in canada isnt worse.
What school district? This is nothing like what I've seen in the Toronto schools which tend to be more cautious due to population density here.
I'm willing to believe this isn't a made up story, but am interested in details as this is very different from what I've heard or seen in Ontario.
Also why can't your child see their friend's faces outside of school? This is all quite confusing.
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Media coverage of these protests is vastly negative. I remember only a few years ago (2020) when protests were undoubtedly violent across the United States. Video evidence of this violence as well as mass crowd driven theft was widely documented and distributed. I have yet to see video evidence of any violence from freedom convoys, and the ground based video evidence I have seen appears vastly peaceful. This does not…
There's a lot to unpack here, but Ottawa residents are largely against the truckers occupying the roads of their city.
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Are there non-authoritarians that want jab mandates so badly that they will hack websites to doxx innocent protestors? Could be, I haven't met any (thankfully)
Supporting vax mandates doesn't make someone part of the "state". Plenty of people that are not part of the government support mandates. You're also assuming that support for mandates would be the only motive: While less likely than mandate support, someone may simply have been very angry that their life had been turned to chaos & misery by the protestors.
Not my assumption. The premise of the comment I replied to was that they were ideologically opposed
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Media coverage of these protests is vastly negative. I remember only a few years ago (2020) when protests were undoubtedly violent across the United States. Video evidence of this violence as well as mass crowd driven theft was widely documented and distributed. I have yet to see video evidence of any violence from freedom convoys, and the ground based video evidence I have seen appears vastly peaceful. This does not…
11 people were arrested on weapons charges at the Alberta blockade (handguns and body armor) and one person was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder for trying to run over police with his tractor