After John gives us an update on the Aug 11 Justice Centre Award dinner in Calgary (99% chance Tamara Lich will attend), we key off a Rupa Subramanya article--about the government having no science to support their travel bans--to discuss some of the procedural issues in the Covid court challenges. This includes attempts by governments to have cases declared "moot." John then turns his attention to the University of Toronto which is reinstating a vaccine mandate. We "follow the science" the UofT links to in support of their mandate, a website called "This is our shot, Canada."
Rupa Subramanya in Common Sense, Aug 2, 2022: Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis
Justice Centre, Jul 7, 2022: Hearing on federal government travel vaccine ban postponed
Justice Centre, Jul 27, 2022: Hearing for Ontario vaccine passports postponed
Bennett Jones Blog, Nov 2, 2021: Court of Appeal Clarifies When Cross-Examination on Affidavits May Be Permitted in Pre-Trial Applications
Note: The problem was noticed a while ago
Global News, Sep 28, 2016: Judge shortage means some trials taking 2.5 years to be heard
Vancouver Sun, Jul 20, 2022: Support for vaccine passport and mask mandates waning in Canada
University of Toronto, July 28, 2022: COVID-19 vaccinations
This is Our Shot #TogetherAgain
Alliance for Science, Apr 20, 2020: COVID: Top 10 current conspiracy theories
Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2021: How vaccine ‘passports’ became a battle cry for COVID-19 conspiracies, ‘anti-vaxx’ forces
True North, Oct 14, 2021: Vaccine passports were a conspiracy theory — now they’re the new normal
Reuters, Jul 13, 2022: Fact Check-Israeli study finds drop in sperm count after Pfizer vaccine is temporary, no sign of sperm damage
AFLOS Frontline News, Aug 3, 2022: Fauci admits to 'the menstrual thing'
The Counter Signal, Jul 5, 2022: Why did birth rates suddenly drop?
Daily Clout, Aug 1, 2022: Pfizer Used Dangerous Assumptions, Rather than Research, to Guess at Outcomes
Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada: The Tragedy of Thalidomide in Canada
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