Air Canada to use controversial facial recognition technology in a trial phase at major airports
The airline plans to expand the digital technology that infringes on the privacy rights of travelers.
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Trudeau gov’t admits having $105 million digital ID contract with World Economic Forum
Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis said, 'It’s no longer a conspiracy theory – it’s a contractual fact.'
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Documents show Canadian gov’t agency used COVID jab mandates for travel to raise vaccine rates
Transport Canada had hoped the shot requirements would be a 'very strong impetus to drive vaccination.'
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Canada’s ‘suspension’ of COVID travel mandate still places masking, testing requirements on the unvaxxed
The Trudeau government also no longer going ahead with a vaccine mandate for federal workers, but says it will 'not hesitate' to bring back jab mandates for travel should they decide to do so.
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Canada’s transportation chief under pressure to justify vaccine travel mandates, says changes coming ‘soon’
Omar Alghabra would not elaborate on whether the changes would include lifting a travel ban for the vaccine free.
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Retired NHL player blasts Canada’s airports, says ‘I need to get out of this country’
'God bless anyone who ever has to step foot in that hellhole,' Ryan Whitney said of Toronto's Pearson International Airport, which is understaffed due to COVID vaccine mandates, after enduring massive delays.
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Canadian airline CEO calls for an end to Trudeau’s COVID jab travel mandate
WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech tweeted: 'As vaccines are not preventing the spreading of the virus since #omicron, there is no more logic to maintain it.'
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Canada’s airport council blames COVID mandates for massive travel delays at airports
Strict COVID restrictions still in place are 'having dire impacts at our airports.'
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Conservative MP calls for an end to Trudeau’s ‘vindictive’ COVID vaccine mandates for travel
MP Melissa Lantsmann asked when the Canadian government will stop making airports famous for their incompetence.
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Canada’s transport minister won’t ‘adjust’ travel vaccine mandate until ‘we feel it’s right’
'When we feel it's right, we will adjust these measures.'
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