Thursday, April 18, 2024

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Lt. Col. (Ret.) David Redman provided a detailed overview of what goes into writing an Emergency Plan for fire, flood, terror attack or pandemic. "They burned all the plans for COVID," he told the NCI. Image: NCI
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Former Canadian Armed Forces, Emergency Management Officer slams Canada’s COVID response

13 provincial plans, federal plans written, shared, updated regularly by professionals were tossed aside during COVID, Lt. Col. (Ret.) David Redman tells the NCI Plans developed by Canada’s best professional Emergency Management Officers (EMOs) were discarded at the start of

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Striking PSAC workers "take" the Portage Bridge on April 28th. Photo: Rob Primo, Twitter
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Striking workers “take” the Portage Bridge in Ottawa; no riot cops, police horses in sight

The ongoing occupation of Wellington Street and other parts of downtown Ottawa by striking Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) workers is providing a source of ironic humour on social media. “PSAC is taking the Confederation Bridge!” reports “Far Right

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Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer's bill to overturn stringent new EPA regulations for heavy duty trucks passed 50-49 in the Senate on April 26. Image: fischer.senate.gov
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US Senate overturns new EPA emissions rules in 50-49 vote

The Senate passed U.S. Senator Deb Fischer’s (R-Neb.) legislation to overturn President Biden’s aggressive EPA regulation on heavy-duty vehicle emissions by a vote of 50-49 on April 26. Fischer said the regulation would devastate the trucking industry, raise costs for consumers,

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Photo: "Think Big" Mike Murchison
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Trucking industry sounds alarm after Biden’s latest “green” move, warns of supply chain breakdown

It’s all fun and games with these goofy electric vehicles until the next thing you know there’s no more toilet paper. Or medicine. Or food.

In its ongoing effort to destroy just about everything, the Biden administration is now cracking down on the trucking industry.
Let that sink in for a moment.

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Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford is the last living signatory to Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Peckford files argument in case deemed “moot’

CALGARY, ALBERTA: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased to announce that on Thursday, April 13, 2023, lawyers for the Honourable Brian Peckford, the Honourable Maxime Bernier, and others, filed their written arguments in support of their appeal of the October 20, 2022 decision of the Federal Court that found their case was “moot”.

The Federal Court notified the parties that the constitutional challenges against the federal government’s travel mandate during the Covid-19 pandemic were struck for being “moot,” just eleven days prior to the start of the constitutional hearing, which had been scheduled for October 31, 2022.

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