Matthew Horwood

Reporter for The Epoch Times Canada

[Matthew Horwood @MatthewH_ET]

Conservative MP @DeanAllisonMP has announced an inquiry into Canadians who have been injured by COVID-19 vaccines, which will be broadcast live on Parliament Hill in September.

Allison told reporters on June 4 that there are many Canadians who "suffered serious adverse events following vaccinations who feel their stories have not been adequately heard."

"My position is simple: compassion for those who suffered from COVID-19 and compassion for those who were injured following the vaccination, and a commitment to transparency, accountability, and giving people a chance to share their stories and to be heard," Allison said.

Allison noted that the Public Health Agency of Canada has reported that there were 58,000 adverse events from COVID-19 vaccines, including more than 11,000 classified as serious.

While the Vaccine Injury Support Program received more than 3,500 claims, only 250 people have been compensated. Allison said there are "legitimate questions" about whether the support program is delivering the assistance Canadians need.

"I believe Canadians agree on one principle: if people have been harmed, they deserve compensation, support, transparency, and timely assistance."

Allison said if Canadians have been injured by the COVID-19 vaccines or know of Canadians who were injured, they should go to https://t.co/FL2wSUruD4 and fill out the form.

The inquiry will listen to and broadcast on Parliament Hill the testimonials of Canadians injured by the vaccines on Sept. 8, 9, 10, and 11.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

The key paragraph of the US-Iran MoU about the Strait of Hormuz (as read it to the press by a senior American official):

“5-Upon the signing of this MoU, the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, and considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles and demining by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will be instated within 30 days. The Islamic Republic of Iran will conduct dialogue with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz, in discussion with other Persian Gulf littoral states in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.”

[Juno News @junonewscom]

BREAKING: Starting July 1, nearly 3.4 million Albertans will receive a $100 energy rebate.

Premier Danielle Smith says it returns revenues from high energy prices directly to residents, providing 50% greater relief than the former fuel tax program.

[Cathay Wagantall @cathayw]

Although my intent when I first announced my plans to step down as the MP for Yorkton-Melville was to continue to represent the wonderful people of our riding until the next federal election is called, I have decided to take my leave as of August 31, 2026.

Read my statement:

[Matthew Horwood @MatthewH_ET]

How Soon Will Canadians See Gas Prices Go Down After the Iran Peace Deal?

With the United States and Iran set to sign an agreement that could completely reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers, Canadians may still not see energy prices meaningfully fall any time soon.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Iran and the United States, to be officially signed on June 19, is set to reopen the Strait, a waterway through which around 20 percent of global oil and gas supplies run. Tehran has severely disrupted the flow of ships through the Strait since March.

But this deal may not provide immediate substantial relief for Canadians at the pump, according @GasPriceWizard Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, who says it will take six or seven months to replenish global oil inventories that have already been drawn down to critical levels.

McTeague said Canadians can expect gas and diesel prices to remain elevated in the short term, and potentially rise much higher as oil traders realize the “disconnect” between current prices and the cumulative shortage of 1.6 billion barrels of oil.

McTeague said oil prices have been kept relatively low over the last few months due to China reducing its imports, International Energy Agency countries agreeing to release 400 million barrels from their emergency oil stockpiles, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated announcements of imminent peace that have “discouraged a lot of other people from taking [long] positions on oil.”

McTeague said the futures markets have been “on happy pills for the past several weeks” when it comes to oil prices, and have not taken into account how long it will take for oil tankers to refill at ports in the Middle East and travel to their destinations, or for energy facilities destroyed in the war to be rebuilt.

McTeague said he foresees gas prices remaining above $1.60 a litre for Canadians for the mid-term. He also noted that the Liberal government’s temporary suspension of the federal fuel excise tax in April, which was expected to lower gas costs by 10 cents per litre on regular gasoline and 4 cents on diesel, will be lifted on Sept. 7.

“Sooner, and I think not later, markets are going to have to say, ‘hang on a second, here we have a very serious shortage, and it cannot be repaired by lower prices or playing this speculative short-selling game that we’ve seen being led by the Trump administration,’” McTeague said.

#Cdnpoli #oil #gas #Canada

[Richard Dias @RichardDias_CFA]

It is too early to tell, but maybe this time was different. Real Crude Oil Prices are now below the trend, and the U.S. may have avoided a recession.

It only costs 15% of the U.S. SPR and untold billions in Global Oil & Gas inventories. 👀

[AF Post @AFpost]

Rupert Lowe has released 'The Rape Gang Inquiry Report,' an independent, survivor-led report into Britain’s grooming gang scandal.

The report finds that organised child rape gangs operated across at least 149 local authority districts while police, social services, schools, health services, and politicians deliberately failed to protect vulnerable young White girls, allowing for 250,000 of them to be subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced conversion, and lifelong trauma.

Follow: @AFpost

[Emel Akan @mlakan]

🚨Asked if Iran could immediately begin selling oil under the MOU, a senior US official tells me:

“This is a performance-based agreement. Iran can only access any benefits of the MOU if they abide by all of the points they agreed to – including no nuclear weapon, neutralizing its enriched material, and not interfering with the free flow of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.”

WSJ earlier reported that the U.S. will allow Iran to immediately begin selling oil and fuel under the MOU, citing people familiar with the agreement.

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

We’ve arrived at the Alberta Court of Kings Bench for SAKAMOTO v. AG of Canada & the government of Alberta for her class action certification hearing. Sakamoto is alleging misrepresentation, negligence and misfeasance of public office, breach of fiduciary duty and conspiracy to commit assault and battery.

Follow thread for today’s updates!
🧵

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

3,000 years from now some sensitive young man in the dusty corner of a college library is going to stumble across these long-banned images of the ancient mythic nation once known as America on a rusty USB stick and no one is going to believe him

[David Gebala @DavidGebala]

Mornings are my favorite with Maya. She’s wide awake, bright-eyed, and so wonderfully responsive. I’m still in awe of how much she’s improved over the past few months especially just this week alone. I love you so much, my sweet baby girl. ❤️

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Mark Carney does an impression of Donald Trump

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.

We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.

He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.

As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.

Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?

[Matthew Horwood @MatthewH_ET]

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled that Parliamentary security violated an organization’s Charter rights by prohibiting it from displaying anti-abortion signs depicting aborted fetuses at a 2023 event on Parliament Hill.

The court found on June 11 that the security’s decision infringed on @CampaignLife (CLC) members’ freedom of expression under section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and was not justified under section 1 of the Charter.

During a press conference held on the Parliament Hill lawn on May 10, 2023, Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) inspected CLC signs depicting aborted fetuses, and told the organizers that the images were too graphic and violated Parliament Hill’s rules that govern demonstrations. The press conference was held a day before the CLC’s annual March For Life through the streets of Ottawa, attended by thousands of people.

The judge found that PPS relied on a rule that prohibited “obscene messages or messages promoting hate or violence,” but said this seemed “problematic” because the signs would not have met the Criminal Code definition of obscenity.

The judge also said that while PPS brought in an expert to demonstrate that the images on the signs could have been traumatizing for children and women who had undergone abortions, there were no “children or vulnerable individuals present at the time in question.”

The judge wrote that while Parliament Hill is subject to rules and reasonable limits, Charter protections still apply to political expression taking place at the site. The judge said that the CLC had only sought a declaration that the citizens’ Section 2 Charter rights were infringed upon, and that this was “appropriate” to declare.

CLC National President Jeff Gunnarson said in a June 12 press release that the ruling is an “important victory” for “every Canadian who believes Parliament Hill must remain a place where one can speak freely on the issues that matter most—in this case, the right to life.”

CLC was represented by constitutional lawyer Hatim Kheir, and the case was funded by the @JCCFCanada. The civil liberties organization said in a statement that the lawyers are reviewing the Court’s reasons and “considering next steps in light of the issues left unresolved by this decision.”

#cdnpoli

[Moongazer @joeybeastmarket]

Her: What are you thinking about

Me thinking about how a novel coronavirus supposedly jumped naturally from bats to humans at a wet market in Wuhan which somehow caused a global pandemic that killed millions while the closest known relative viruses were having gain-of-function research (funded by American taxpayers through Anthony Fauci’s NIAID and EcoHealth Alliance) performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and a 2021 DARPA internal memo calls SARS-CoV-2 an American-created recombinant bat vaccine that DARPA rejected for being too risky but the “research” continued anyway and when the lab leak occurred Fauci was on early calls with scientists privately panicking about the furin cleavage site looking engineered and then all the people doing the gain-of-function research were put in charge of investigating the origin of the virus and then days later they published Proximal Origin paper which claimed zero lab signs and pure natural evolution and then the people doing the gain-of-function research were put in charge of handling the pandemic response and then immediately while hospitals got massive extra federal payments for diagnosing COVID and putting patients on ventilators and listing deaths as COVID (even when patients died with the virus and had multiple serious comorbidities) PCR tests were cranked to absurd cycle thresholds creating false positives that inflated everything creating a manufactured panic (which also eradicated the flu) and then everyone was not allowed to leave their homes and then the mRNA shots were rushed out under emergency authorization and called safe and effective with the memo warning they don’t work since they just code for the same synthetic spike with no other epitopes pumping it into the bloodstream which triggers reactions mirroring the disease including myocarditis which then exploded in young males and then excess deaths spiked and natural immunity was dismissed and VAERS was ignored and the experimental unsafe ineffective gene therapy remained the only permitted treatment even though they already knew by April 2020 that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were effective treatments that inhibit viral replication and calm the immune overreaction to the synthetic spike yet those treatments were banned while while doctors scientists and whistleblowers who spoke out got censored or worse and refusing the vaxx got you fired and the lab leak was called a dangerous conspiracy theory and then leaked emails showed Fauci desperately begging for protection and then he got autopen pardoned by Biden literal hours before his term ended and to this day nobody has been charged with any crime: Nothing babe

[#24 North Texas - KU Ball Knower @Angry_UNT_Fan]

Cut Canada some slack, they had to play Bosnia AND Herzegovina

[Matthew Horwood @MatthewH_ET]

If cats are so smart, then how come none of them are employed?

"But but but catching vermin," yeah, and they got replaced with mouse traps and rat poison.

Meanwhile, dogs collectively sensed that the rise of these new technologies would displace them, and found new and more gainful employment.

[Matthew Horwood @MatthewH_ET]

Farmers, MPs Protest Alto High Speed Rail on Parliament Hill

Hundreds of protesters travelled to Ottawa on June 10 to demonstrate against the federal government’s proposed Toronto to Quebec City high-speed rail line, which they say would involve the expropriation of land from farmers and the dividing up of rural communities.

Several citizen groups oppose the 1,000-kilometre high-speed rail corridor that would stretch from Toronto, to Ottawa, to Montreal, and to Quebec City.

The Alto Crown corporation, which is behind the project, estimates that the railway could cost between $60 billion and $90 billion, while Ottawa has projected it would create 51,000 jobs over 10 years.

Communities in Ontario and Quebec are concerned with the government’s powers to expropriate land for the railway if Alto is unsuccessful in purchasing it from owners, and do not want to see the railway run through their communities.

Robert Charron, a city councillor in Mirabel, Que., and emcee for the event, told the protesters that they were “here to send a clear message to the government,” and that their presence “demonstrates that this opposition is real, widespread, and growing.”

Norman Burns, who lives in a village called Portland southwest of Ottawa, told The Epoch Times that one of the proposed railway routes would go “right through our town” along an oil railway track that has been converted into a recreational trail.

James Young told The Epoch Times that while he likes “the concept” of a high-speed rail, “I’m a little worried that it won’t be as cheap ... and I feel that the fear that the burden on taxpayers will be very large.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre also made an appearance at the protest, saying that the Liberal government will force struggling Canadians to spend around $8,000 each in taxes “for a train they will never take.” The Tory leader said his party would “rather save the $90 billion, let our farmers keep their land, [and] let our communities enjoy their peace and tranquility.”

#cdnpoli #alto #ottawa

[Alex @alexgt1234c]

Goldman: current oil disruption- largest in the history

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Early reports now indicate that retaliatory Iranian ballistic missile launches are already underway, amidst what appears to be the resumption of a new round of U.S. strikes on Iran.

[Babak Vahdad @BabakVahdad]

Interesting claim by a Pakistani source quoted by Al Hadath: “Today we are further away from signing a peace agreement.”

- What makes the remark noteworthy is that Pakistani interlocutors have generally been among the more optimistic voices regarding the diplomatic track in recent weeks.

#Iran #IranWar