Comments by "Darlene" (@darlene2709) on "CBC News" channel.

  1. No she is not. The majority of Albertans are vaccinated. Canada's response to the pandemic (following health measures and getting vaccinated) has been quite successful based on the only measure that counts: deaths. US deaths from COVID-19: over one million. Canadian deaths from COVID-19: over 40,000. If deaths from COVID-19 was an Olympic sport, the United States would get the gold medal. To date, 83% of Canadians are fully vaccinated compared to 68% of Americans.
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  2.  @libremercadoencrisiseconom2118  As far as I can tell, most commentators are barely literate never mind scientifically literate.
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  3. When we don't learn lessons from past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat those mistakes. Despite the claim from Nixon that he was not a crook, the evidence uncovered by Woodward and Bernstein proved otherwise. Nixon resigned but didn't admit to any wrongdoing. Who does that remind you of? So many gullible rubes keep following Trump despite all the warning signs.
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  4. Donald Trump speaks what's on his mind, often as soon as it appears there. And after winning his third-straight contest in Nevada Tuesday, Trump credited his "poorly educated" supporters, in part, for the win. "We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated," he said during his victory speech.
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  5. "Far from unleashing a business-led boom, Harper has in fact presided over the weakest economic era in Canada’s postwar history. For example, from 2006 through 2014 (not even counting the current downturn), Canada experienced the slowest average economic growth since the Great Depression (measured by the expansion of GDP after inflation and population growth). Harper wasn’t even close to the next-worst prime minister: another Conservative, Brian Mulroney." Toronto Star
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  6. Donald Trump speaks what's on his mind, often as soon as it appears there. And after winning his third-straight contest in Nevada Tuesday, Trump credited his "poorly educated" supporters, in part, for the win. "We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated," he said during his victory speech.
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  7. When we don't learn lessons from past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat those mistakes. Despite the claim from Nixon that he was not a crook, the evidence uncovered by Woodward and Bernstein proved otherwise. Nixon resigned but didn't admit to any wrongdoing. Who does that remind you of? So many gullible rubes keep following Trump despite the warning signs.
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  8. "Far from unleashing a business-led boom, Harper has in fact presided over the weakest economic era in Canada’s postwar history. For example, from 2006 through 2014 (not even counting the current downturn), Canada experienced the slowest average economic growth since the Great Depression (measured by the expansion of GDP after inflation and population growth). Harper wasn’t even close to the next-worst prime minister: another Conservative, Brian Mulroney." Toronto Star
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  9.  @BigG99  Proponents of minority governments look fondly at the 1960s when Lester B. Pearson won back-to-back minorities that forced deal-brokering with the New Democratic Party. That era was the bedrock of the Canadian social safety net, with the Pearson Liberals advancing national medicare, Canada student loans and the Canada Pension Program.
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  10. Proponents of minority governments look fondly at the 1960s when Lester B. Pearson won back-to-back minorities that forced deal-brokering with the New Democratic Party. That era was the bedrock of the Canadian social safety net, with the Pearson Liberals advancing national medicare, Canada student loans and the Canada Pension Program.
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  11. There’s a big difference between a prediction and a conspiracy.
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  12. ​ @animus3328 If I have to choose between health advice from Sheri Tenpenny, who claimed that Covid-19 vaccines would magnetize you and Dr. Bogash, I pick Dr. Bogash.
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  13. After the 2020 United States presidential election, the campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed and lost at least 63 lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in multiple states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Among the judges who dismissed the lawsuits were some appointed by Trump himself.
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  14. No one was ever forced to be vaccinated. There were and continue to be consequences to not being vaccinated.
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  15. Being afraid of needles doesn't count.
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  16. "Posts mislead on Pfizer COVID vaccine’s impact on transmission. CLAIM: Pfizer admitted to the European Parliament that it had not tested the ability of its COVID-19 vaccine to prevent transmission of the virus before it entered the market, proving the company lied about this earlier in the pandemic. AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. Janine Small, president of international markets at Pfizer, told the European Parliament on Monday that Pfizer did not know whether its COVID-19 vaccine prevented transmission of the virus before it entered the market in December 2020. But Pfizer never claimed to have studied the issue before the vaccine’s market release. Experts and research say that the COVID-19 vaccines have provided benefits in terms of limiting infections and transmission, at least with earlier variants of the virus and for a period of time after being vaccinated." AP News
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  17. The Justice Centre issues a statement on issues when we receive a great deal of email on a topic and/or general misunderstanding of an issue. Mr. King’s case does not appear to be a win at this point, however we do wish him well on having his ticket thrown out.
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  18. We don't need restrictions any longer. Those annoying restrictions saved many lives. You should acknowledge that. The incessant whining about health measures, the ridiculous conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the misinformation about the vaccines is tiresome. Anyone who is unvaccinated and suffers the negative consequences of COVID-19 gets exactly what they deserve. Those who are still unvaccinated are probably not going to be. We can't wait forever. It's definitely time to move on.
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  19. "As Mike Tyson famously said, 'Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.' Most Albertans do not support the Sovereignty Act in the way Smith believes." Edmonton Sun
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  20.  @billclay9511  To partly quote John, "I love the smell of incompetence in the morning."
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  21. @Harley Mann "The top adviser to incoming Alberta premier Danielle Smith says her proposed sovereignty act would respect Supreme Court decisions - a reversal of her core policy promise on how she would challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government. Rob Anderson, Smith's campaign chair for the United Conservative Party leadership and now executive director of her transition team, told CBC in a story published Saturday that Smith's proposed sovereignty act won't empower Alberta to disregard Supreme Court rulings."
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  22. Canada's response to the pandemic (following health measures and getting vaccinated) has been quite successful based on the only measure that counts: deaths. US deaths from COVID-19: over one million. Canadian deaths from COVID-19: over 40,000. If deaths from COVID-19 was an Olympic sport, the United States would get the gold medal. To date, 83% of Canadians are fully vaccinated compared to 68% of Americans.
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  23.  @BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers  Here's the math. With 10x the population, the United States should have had 400,000 deaths. Instead, over one million Americans have died from COVID-19. That is embarrassing for a G7 country.
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  24. Dr. Kyrie Irving and Dr. Aaron Rodgers.
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  25. The document thief would be perfect for the job.
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  26.  @tommycausey5581  Great for the late night comedians.
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  27. It's not actually a law. "As evidence mounts that the omicron variant is less deadly than prior COVID-19 strains, one oft-cited explanation is that viruses always evolve to become less virulent over time. The problem, experts say, is that this theory has been soundly debunked. The idea that infections tend to become less lethal over time was first proposed by notable bacteriologist Dr. Theobald Smith in the late 1800s. His theory about pathogen evolution was later dubbed the "law of declining virulence." But over the past 100 years, virologists have learned that virus evolution is more chaotic. Virus evolution is a game of chance, and less about grand design. In some cases, viruses evolve to become more virulent. Continued virus survival, spread and virulence are all about the evolutionary pressures of multiple factors, including the number of people available to infect, how long humans live after infection, the immune system response and time between infection and symptom onset. Unfortunately, that means it's nearly impossible to predict the future of the pandemic, because viruses don't always evolve in a predictable pattern." Reuters
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  28. More than 1,000 Florida adults being hospitalized daily for COVID-19." By Briona Arradondo FOX 13 News July 29, 2021
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  29. More than 1,000 Florida adults being hospitalized daily for COVID-19." By Briona Arradondo FOX 13 News July 29, 2021
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  30. Hardly. We voted for a minority government.
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  31. This is even funnier. Sheri Tenpenny, a Cleveland-based doctor was invited as an expert witness to a hearing in the Ohio House. She had a warning for legislators about coronavirus vaccines. The anti-vaccination advocate known for spreading unfounded claims falsely told legislators that the drugs could leave people “magnetized. No one who got vaccinated is stuck to their refrigerator.
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  32. After the 2020 United States presidential election, the campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed and lost at least 63 lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in multiple states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Among the judges who dismissed the lawsuits were some appointed by Trump himself.
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  33. Trump confessed to stealing the documents.
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  34. If COVID-19 deaths was an Olympic sport, with over 600,000 deaths, the United States would win the gold medal. We prefer not to compete in that event.
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  35. Dr. Kyrie Irving and Dr. Aaron Rodgers
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  36. The majority voted for a minority government.
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  37. Smith should pay attention. You can be popular with the base but unelectable by the rest of the voters. See if you can spot the Conservative party pattern. In Great Britain: Theresa May to Boris Johnson to Liz Truss to Rishi Sunak. In Canada: Andrew Scheer to Erin O'Toole to Pierre Poilievre.
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  38. We have safe and secure elections.
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  39. NWO is a professional wrestling stable that originally consisted of "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. The stable originated in World Championship Wrestling with the gimmick of a group of unsanctioned wrestlers aiming to "take over" and control WCW in the manner of a street gang. Season 8 Episode 5 of Law and Order dealt with the New World Order. It aired in 1997.
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  40. "As Mike Tyson famously said, 'Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.' Most Albertans do not support the Sovereignty Act in the way Smith believes." Edmonton Sun Alberta not proceeding with Premier Smith’s bill to protect COVID-19 unvaccinated. Smith won the leadership of the United Conservative Party this summer promising to make the change, adding last month that the COVID-19 unvaccinated were the most discriminated group she has ever seen.
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  41. "A video watched more than 700,000 times on YouTube, and being shared on Facebook, wrongly claims that a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) means that “the risk of adverse events [from vaccination] is roughly a little more than four times greater than the risk of the child requiring oxygenation [from Covid-19]”. The video was posted by a popular YouTuber called Dr John Campbell, who regularly posts videos about Covid, and whose YouTube channel has been watched more than half a billion times. At the end of the video, Dr Campbell invites viewers to “see if I have misinterpreted anything”. He has, in several ways. The study shows that the vaccines protected children against hospitalisation with Covid, and does not show that the risk of serious adverse reactions to the vaccine was greater than the risk of getting seriously ill with the disease." Full Fact
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  42. When we do not learn lessons from past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat those mistakes. Despite the claim from Nixon that he was not a crook, the evidence uncovered by Woodward and Bernstein proved otherwise. Nixon resigned but didn't admit to any wrongdoing. Who does that remind you of? So many gullible rubes keep following Trump despite all the warning signs.
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  43. No Disneyland trip for you.
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  44. Edmonton and Calgary should separate from Alberta.
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  45. Section 2(c) guarantees the right to peaceful assembly; it does not protect riots and gatherings that seriously disturb the peace: R. v. Lecompte, [2000] J.Q. No. 2452 (Que. C.A.). It has been stated that the right to freedom of assembly, along with freedom of expression, does not include the right to physically impede or blockade.
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  46. Canada's response to the pandemic (following health measures and getting vaccinated) has been quite successful based on the only measure that counts: deaths. US deaths from COVID-19: 1.1 million. Canadian deaths from COVID-19: over 49,000. To date, 84% of Canadians are fully vaccinated compared to 68% of Americans.
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  47.  @BJJMTF  Obviously that is not true. "The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind,” Trump said. “I came up with a vaccine — with three vaccines — all are very, very good … in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.” “And if you take the vaccine, you’re protected," Trump went on. "The results of the vaccine are very good. And if you do get it, it’s a very minor form. People aren’t dying when they take their vaccine. The vaccine worked, but some people aren’t taking it,” he said. “The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones who don’t take their vaccine.”
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  48.  @BJJMTF  How gullible would you have to be to fall for this claim? Sherri Tenpenny, a Cleveland-based doctor invited as an expert witness to a hearing in the Ohio House, had a grave warning for legislators about coronavirus vaccines. The anti-vaccination advocate known for spreading unfounded claims falsely told legislators that the drugs could leave people “magnetized.
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  49. Canada scored the top spot in "Quality of Life" and "Social Purpose," too. It looks like our country gained some serious bragging rights this year according to the 2021 "Best Countries in the World" U.S. News report, where Canada ranked number one overall.
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  50. What a glorious existence it must be to shove a ventilator tube down someone's throat.
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