middleclick

Who is doing that? Please cite something.

> And wasn't even on the public radar 20 years ago?

Where does 20 years ago time frame come from? That's pretty arbitrary and seems more to be based on your feelings than fact.

Yeah sounds totally believable.

> Now, as the convoy descends on Ottawa with the stated aim of opposing all COVID-19 mandates, anti-hate experts allege those with white nationalist and Islamophobic views don’t just represent the fringes of the movement but are among the organizers of the convoy.

There is no guilt by association. These are the people themselves.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-conservative-swasti...

> A small number of the assembled protesters have displayed Nazi insignia, including the swastika and yellow stars of David, while others have flown the Confederate flag during these anti-government demonstrations.

> Other groups have since attached themselves to the movement, including some far-right and white nationalist elements.

What should we call these people? Your being upset at them being called Nazis says more about you than Trudeau.

Note that the protest organizers made no attempt to dissociate themselves from these and only did so in the later days of the protests.

Trudeau's criticism of his conservative colleagues was more about them not criticizing these people (which they didn't) and not calling them Nazis.

It's also telling that the protests against lockdowns criticizing Trudeau, calling for his death (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-protest-racist-deat...) were not addressed towards Doug Ford, the Ontario premier responsible for the lockdowns. No politician in Canada should get any death threats but the point I am making was no criticism was directed towards Doug Ford for something he did (the longest lockdown in North America in Ontario) but towards Trudeau, who had no role in it.

That tells you everything you need to need to know, that is, if you want to know it and not be willfully obtuse.

Also, there is no "Montreal food" as much as there is no "Toronto food". I don't know why you think there is a distinction.

The healthcare you seem to be upset about is years long effort by the conservative governments to gut it down including the current conservative government in Ontario. And yet, not a word from you about that?

Good luck for your move to US but I think you have some other things you are unhappy about and I don't think moving countries is going to help.

It's not pointless. Unvaccinated people are far far more likely to occupy the hospital and the ICU -- see above. How is that pointless? I am not talking about positivity as that is not relevant. See the official numbers above.

Your hyperbole is not valid as these jobs already required vaccinations so I am not sure what the new outrage is.

So maybe find the source and share it here since you are the one who made the argument? Burden of proof is on you, not me.

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-s...

Which groups are not "at-risk" here? What age? Because it seems like there is a significant % of the population in groups other than 80+ that are in the hospital.

https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2...

Please cite your sources.

Quite the hyperbole: not all government services, just employment insurance and that too if you were only fired for not receiving the vaccine. A reminder that in many of these jobs, there was already a requirement for getting a set of vaccines so this is not new. Though for some people, this vaccine is "different" but once you ask them to explain why they can't. So no new rules. You needed vaccines for most of the jobs and this just an additional one.

You will still receive employment insurance for other stuff, irrespective of your vaccination status.

> prevented from patronizing various businesses

You are not prevented from accessing essential businesses and no one checks your vaccination status or even asks for one.

> even restricted from traveling and the ability to work

You are still free to drive to work or take local public transit.

The difference between ICU rates of unvaccinated and vaccinated people in Ontario for example tells us that the vaccination is working:

https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2...

^ Please see the above graph.

If you cannot participate in society moving forward, then you should not expect society to cater to your needs.

Thank you to the authors for working on it. Time to send them a donation!

Again, please read the article as it covers all this and much more and why Netblocks is a problematic organization in this space. It's a detailed article.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/netblocks-internet-shutdowns

The Wired did extensive reporting on them and their unethical practices and is worth a read.

Please be extremely careful with their reporting. They don't publish their data and it's a mystery on how they get access to it.