Tag Archives: covid-19

Complaint to CBC: Painting critics of China’s Communist Party as “racist” hurts real victims of racism

Dear CBC Ombudsman, I’m writing to you as a CBC Radio listener who wakes up every morning to The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn. I have appeared numerous times on your news programs on radio and television. I’m a Canadian

Canada donated masks to China. Chinese mask makers now price-gouging Canada.

In early February, Canada donated 16 tonnes of personal protective equipment, such as clothing, face shields, masks, goggles and gloves to China to help the Chinese doctors and nurses battling the original Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. But now as Canada

WHO forced to retract “false, irresponsible” statement after expert outcry

The World Health Organization has been forced to retract a statement claiming that there’s no evidence that recovered COVID-19 patients cannot be reinfected. “Earlier today we tweeted about a new WHO scientific brief on “immunity passports”. The thread caused some

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement donates PPEs to Canada’s healthcare workers

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement is teaming up with Toronto’s Hong Kong community to secure and donate personal protective equipment for healthcare workers in Canada, as Canadian health authorities grapple with a PPE shortfall that’s putting medical workers and vulnerable Canadians

Art in the time of COVID-19 for depression and anxiety Relief

By Katlyn Mortimer Since the outbreak of COVID-19 forced many North Americans into a simulated depressive episode, prescriptions for antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication rose by 18.6 and 34.1 percent, respectively. These figures come from the United States, but Canada is

Million people sign petition calling on WHO boss to step down

A petition demanding the resignation of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general accusing Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of kowtowing to China and mishandling the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic response has crossed the million signature mark. Toronto hair stylist Osuka Yip started

MIT superdrug could cure COVID-19 – but nobody wants to fund it

“New drug could cure nearly any viral infection,” read the headline on MIT News nine years ago that heralded the arrival of DRACO, a new antiviral approach that vanquished every single virus that it came up against. Double-stranded RNA Activated

3M sues Canadian men for bootlegging, price gouging

Face mask manufacturing giant 3M has bought a lawsuit against the directors of a Canadian company on Tuesday, claiming the two Ontario men “falsely affiliated themselves with 3M to sell N95 respirators at exorbitant prices during the pandemic.” 3M filed

Petition calling for WHO head’s resignation nears million signatures

A petition demanding the resignation of the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general accusing Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of kowtowing to China and mishandling the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic response is closing in on a million signatures. Toronto hair stylist Osuka Yip

Majority in Alberta think Notley would be doing a better job handling COVID-19 pandemic than Kenney

A majority of Albertans believe that former Premier Rachel Notley would be doing a better job handling the COVID-19 pandemic than current Premier Jason Kenney, a new poll has found. More than half of Alberta residents (54%) would prefer to