The CEBA loan program would not have been necessary if all businesses would have told the Gov’t to go fekk yourself and refused to close BUT they didn’t and instead “borrowed” money they KNEW had to be repaid, well 50% anyways. That was a $20,000 gift out of the taxpayers purse for businesses thank you very much. NOW all the boohooing commences because business owners aren’t paying back their debts and leaving it to the taxpayer to shoulder their default resulting rampant inflation and impending poverty. I can’t tell you how annoyed I am at the moment
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/canadas-pandemic-loan-program-faces-31-billion-in-defaults/55091
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I couldn’t agree more. Start with her and go through this Ottawa bureaucracy to clean house. And prosecute.
STUDIN: Canada’s minister of health must resign now
The Allison Inquiry exposes the inertial mess of our post-pandemic reality.
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Western Standard Guest Columnist
Western Standard Guest Columnist
Published on:
09 Nov 2026, 10:30 am
Dr. Irvin Studin is President of the Institute for 21st Century Questions.
Here’s a very Canadian curiosity nearly seven years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic: no one ever declared its official end.
The result is an inertial mess across our vast country, with different jurisdictions, communities, institutions, and social groups all interpreting appropriate “post-pandemic” norms, behaviour, and measures according to invented preferences. One is reminded of the inertial mess following the conclusion of the Second World War, when partisans and soldiers in various military theatres around the world continued to fight and ambush well after the ...