Alyssa comments

Glad that other posters are mentioning the Cohrane Library's long-term study and how it proves that masking has " ... little to no significance in stopping respiratory illness." The study is all over non-legacy media sites but fails to get a mention on corporate media news. I wonder why that is.

https://notthebee.com/article/the-gold-standard-for-evidence-based-medicine-has-determined-masks-make-little-or-no-difference-in-community-spread-of-covid-19

All the same, ,knowing that Japan is a collective and obedient population explains the situation. Stands to reason then that it would require directed government urging and modeling to convince more people to unmask.

I'll be facing forward unmasked as much as possible on this one!

fallingintherainforest

"They don't have gun-ownership rights presently. They have privileges, which is as it should be."

Actually, Canadians do have legally protected gun-ownership rights. This is explicitly, and I do mean explicitly, outlined in the Canadian Criminal Code and the Firearms Act. I am unsure what you mean by privilege here as a differential.

Perhaps the ostensible goal wasn't to target guns used by hunters/farmers but unquestionably it is to erode current gun-ownership rights. It was introduced the same year after the shooting in Uvaldale ... in the US, not Canada. However, if the cause is an increase in crime, which is stated at the end of the the article, why not post this directly rather than merely allude to it. It takes only a moment to hyper-link your sources. I did the footwork, and here is the first highlight:

"Firearm-related violent crime represents a small proportion of police-reported violent crime in Canada, accounting for 2.8% of all victims of violent crime reported by police in 2020."

Plus, the police reported stats of all crime from 2009~2016 show that violent crime accounts for 20%. Of that 20% slice of the pie, only 3% is firearm-related violence. Hmmm. I'm not statatician but this isn't adding up especially when the lockdowns and government overreach mandates in Canada during the coronavirus outbreak were present in 2020.

Reading the article again and then looking at the Statistics Canada website gives the strong impression of bias and agenda-driving reporting.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2022001/article/00009-eng.htm

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-005-x/2018001/article/54962-eng.htm