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Over 100 of them are unvaccinated Covid patients.

People are in hospitals because they are sick and vulnerable. We know the vaccines are not 100%, particularly with people who already have immune systems that have been weakened by other causes. This shouldn't have to be explained to you.

Florida's deaths per million population is three times Canada.

Now, Obama's wading in and coming to the aid of Justin.

You don't even believe the ER doctors who are dealing with it every day. There is no hope for you. I just hope your actions don't result in someone else being denied care. It is quite evident you don't know or care what triage means.

Yes. It's almost impossible for a party promising austerity to get elected in this era, where the other parties are throwing money around so freely. Not until people start getting scared at the size of the debt. And they're not there yet. Still, I've heard little from the Tories about cutting corporate welfare, cutting interprovincial trade barriers, or expanding the economy. Nothing but generalities about the military and very little about national security or law and order.

See Alberta's current situation as to why we keep repeating it. ICUs overwhelmed, other healthcare services restricted. IT. KEEPS. HAPPENING.

Agreed, but Australian decisions about NATO/SEATO/ANZUS were informed by a very sour experience during WW1/WW2 with expeditionary forces that died far away with little return commitment to Australia in time of need (vs. Japan). The U.S. filled that void, albeit for self interest, as is the case today. More so than Canada, Australia participated in Asian theatre conflicts including the Vietnam War. U.S. administrations see Australia and the UK as more reliable military allies for political and practical reasons. Canada has long struggled with the real and perceived relationship with the United States for foreign and domestic policies...a balancing act that some PMs have managed well while others have bungled it badly (like Trudeau).

Incredible that Trudeau, a so-called ideological ally of the US Democrat Party, isn’t taken seriously by the Biden administration. We should’ve known that this was coming when Canada didn’t ban Huawei from 5G networks. Trudeau, a self-proclaimed admirer of China, doesn’t have the diplomatic relationship that he thought he had with China to get the two Michaels released from Chinese detention. The US exercised its extradition treaty with Canada to get at a Huawei executive, driving a wedge between Canada and China. Harper was wise to be hawkish on China, making it clear where Canada’s loyalties lie. Trudeau has lost credibility with both the US and China. If O’Toole wins, he would be wise to take a firm, scathing stance against China, boost Canadian military strength and independence, and diversify trade from the US. Canada is too reliant on US trade and military power. China is a manipulative totalitarian superpower that cannot be trusted. We need to either shift our offshore production from China to other cheap jurisdictions or pay more to manufacture more items ourselves with our higher labour costs. The latter option is the more painful one in the short-term, but it has the best long term impacts for Canadian employment and independence.

If a million scientists believe something does that make it argument ad populum or simply the obvious truth?

To quote the head of the Canadian nursing association "We have nearly half a million nurses in Canada. If only one tenth of one percent are confused or have taken confidence in incorrect/misleading information that's still hundreds of nurses." The organizing nurses of these protests are, I understand, no longer working as nurses, and under investigation and will likely lose their licenses.

That pact was for countries in the north Atlantic to deter Russian aggression. This pact is for the primary Anglosphere countries to deter Chinese aggression. Clearly Canada has no interest in deterring Chinese aggression. It prefers to grovel and feels of it does this long enough perhaps it will get a pat on the head and be rewarded with a nice bone. Plus China is working, using its influence to keep Trudeau in power. It likes having a weakling in charge here. Most Chinese language media in Canada are controlled by China and they're all working to get Trudeau elected.

From a 1905 case, in which an individual refuted the government's right to mandate vaccines: "The court ruled that the requirement didn’t violate Jacobsen’s right to liberty or “the inherent right of every freeman to care for his own body and health in such way as to him seems best.” The court added that “[t]here are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good. On any other basis, organized society could not exist with safety to its members.” " The entire article is here.

No shirt, no shoes, no service; no shirt, no shoes, no vaccine, no service. No difference. When I worked in food service, it was mandated that a certain level of cleanliness was maintained to prevent illness; preventing illness is a primary function of public health authorities. People who oppose public health orders or guidelines are hyper-emotional reactionaries with no sense of logic.

they are in a better position to know what is bright or considerate in a medical context than you

If they are unvaccinated medical staff, they are not too bright or considerate to begin with.

I agree, because when you take the average of the percentages you are weighting them all equally, when in fact they are not equal. But the two answers are still close. Maybe a more advanced mathemagician could make a hand-waving argument for why they averaged it this way. Sim Sala Bim...

Ah. Well it explains the discrepancy but you can't average that way. You're averaging some rows with far more than others. So the 'average of average' is wrong. The source data would have provided the cells but the conclusion came from whoever made the page - and we still don't know. Ah well. Interesting exercise, though. Thanks.

I had a quick look, as I see you folks having a math issue. Seems to me the data is not what you think. Look carefully at the percent of cases column, the total indicates AVERAGE. Hope that helps explain discrepancy with your calculation. Statistician, mathematician, magician...

even by that math percentage of population full vaccinated is 84.4% and percentage of covid cases of the fully vaccinated is 83.7% meaning that the vaccinated are still responsible for a helluva lot of covid spread and the idea that only the unvaccinated are spreading the virus is total anti-science horseshit the people claiming this are either completely misinformed or deliberately lying to justify authoritarian government mandates

Just to make it clear. I like the PPC. I'm with the PPC. In fact, we had a PPC sign on our lawn - but we had to take it down. We're pinching our noses to vote for CPC on this round. The stake is just too high.....imho.

I have a theory, maybe they all just forgot. Some never even knew there was a problem in the first place. Short attention span. Played video games all life. Never read book, or go outside. Except go Tim Hortons Next week, they vote for future direction of country...

perhaps because they've been paid off to do so