Values at the Heart of the Fight for Canada
Has Canada gone to the dogs? Judging by all the barking that goes on in this country—though that has mercifully diminished during the pandemic—the answer is yes. The din comes not from those who embrace the values that built Canada: individual freedom, private property, free enterprise, personal responsibility, faith, and family. Rather, the snarls tend to emanate from the throats of those malcontents who embrace collective values—egalitarianism, affirmative action, feminism, and victimization. Questioning such creeds is discouraged today; you are sure to be labelled a crank. This tells us much about our conventional wisdom and the state of free speech. In 1944 my late father, Clayton Bird, flew 34 raids as part of Bomber Command’s 420 Squadron in England, and also served in Canada’s peacetime air force until 1964. Many…
SAO PAULO—A Brazilian judge has suspended activities at a pork plant owned by meatpacker JBS SA in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul for 14 days, according to a copy of the decision seen Friday night.
As part of the decision, employees in high-risk groups are to be removed immediately and doctors will be given access to medical records at the plant. The judge also requested that JBS test the workers using protocols established by the Health Ministry.
JBS did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside business hours.
According to the suit from prosecutors calling plant to be shut down, which was seen by Reuters on Wednesday, 21 of for the the plant’s 1,700 employees had contracted the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, and two were hospitalized. In the state of Rio Grande do Sul alone, there were some 3,201 cases among all meat plant workers, prosecutors said.
By Ana Mano
Epoch Times staff contributed to this report
Focus News: Court Orders JBS Pork Plant in Brazil Shut for 14 Days Amid CCP Virus Fears
Minister Miller Outraged at Violence Against Indigenous People
OTTAWA—Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Canada needs a reckoning over a repeated and disgusting pattern of police violence against Indigenous people. Miller says he “watched in disgust” video and reports this week of violence against a 22-year-old Inuk man in Nunavut and a 26-year-old First Nations mother in New Brunswick. In the first, a graphic video shows an RCMP officer in Nunavut ramming the door of his car into the man walking along the road in Kinngait in the evening on June 1. In the second, police went to check on the well-being of 26-year-old Chantel Moore in Edmundston, N.B., Thursday evening, and ended up shooting and killing her. “A car door is not a proper police tactic, it’s a disgraceful, dehumanizing and violent act,” Miller said, at a…
