BARRIE, ONTARIO  ~~~~~  January 25, 2023  (LSNews)  The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased to announce that a charge against former MPP Mr. Randy Hillier relating to a May 2021 protest in Barrie has been stayed by the Court. Mr. Hillier was charged with breaching a Covid order issued under the Reopening Ontario Act. The Crown stayed the charge on January 3^rd, 2023.

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COOK COUNTY, MINNESOTA  ~~~~~ January 24, 2023  (LSNews)  Public Health and Human Services (PHHS) along with the Cook County Economic Development Authority (EDA) are preparing to launch a series of efforts to strengthen local childcare systems in 2023. Alison McIntyre, Director of Cook County Public Health and Human Services states, “Childcare is an essential resource for our local families, workforce and community. Families throughout Cook County and the region have been impacted by the shortage of affordable, high-quality care for many years. The PHHS department is proud to be a partner in the ongoing collaborative efforts and infusion of new resources to support existing providers and expand access to care.” 

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THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO ~~~~~  January 24, 2024  (LSNews)   The competition will pressure governments to improve the public system 
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s proposal to use private health centres to alleviate long wait lists has faced opposition from many quarters. It may seem counterintuitive, but Ford’s plan will actually ease the shortages of doctors and nurses.

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OTTAWA, ONTARIO ~~~~~  January 20, 2023  (LSNews)  Throughout my Coronavirus Chronicles I have written much about the destructive and just plain stupid ‘public health’ policies that were imposed on us during the pandemic, some of which may linger for years, unfortunately. 

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THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO  ~~~~  January 19,  2023  (LSNews)  During the COVID-19 pandemic, economy-wide lockdowns, though never part of any pandemic strategy endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), were immediately applied, almost universally around the world, and repeated throughout the first five waves of the disease. During this time politicians, policy analysts, scientists, and public health officials learned a considerable amount about the nature of the virus and the efficacy of lockdown policies. They understood very early on that the virus would not be as lethal as predicted, and by the fall of 2020 they knew that the lockdown policy had only marginal and short-run benefits for public health.

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