Over a two-week investigation, the
Westphalian Times asked provincial health authorities and public health labs in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick to determine their level sensitivity used in their polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for COVID-19. The news outlet also researched previous findings scrutinized by prominent epidemiology experts in the U.S. and the UK.
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The reliability of the PCR test used by governments across Canada is a crucial issue in a trial pitting churches and individuals against the Manitoba government.
Represented by the Justice Center, churches and individuals are challenging government lockdown restrictions in the Court of Queen’s Bench as unjustified violations of the Charter freedoms to associate, worship and assemble peacefully. The burden is on the Manitoba government to justify its restrictions on Charter rights and freedoms as being reasonable, necessary and benefici
Alberta’s Cancelled Coal Leases Called a ‘Trick’
An ex-deputy minister terms yesterday’s step back ‘misleading.’ And it won’t deter a court challenge by ranchers and First Nations.
Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. SHARES ‘The government didn’t follow the rules when they rescinded the Coal Policy,’ says Alberta rancher Mac Blades, among those asking the court today to reinstate legal protections of Rocky Mountain slopes from open-pit mining.
Photo by Callum Gunn.
Caught off guard by the fast-growing grassroots opposition to vast expansion of open-pit coal mining in the southern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, Alberta’s government announced yesterday it would cancel 11 newly-issued coal leases covering 1,800 hectares.