The grim milestone was reached with the reporting of 37 new deaths in Quebec. It is unjust for poor Atlantic Canada, a COVID success, to subsidize rich Alberta’s cocky failure. This week’s show begins with an example of the sort of thing which tends to make Western Canadians so grouchy. Public Health Officials Should Focus On Science, Not Politics: Experts There's a fine line between their duty to the people they serve and the people who appoint them. [12] Scientists in the Department of Zoology where Attaran was based opposed the policy as "unacceptable", and Attaran waged a successful whistleblowing campaign that reversed it. While practicing environmental law at the Sierra Legal Defence Fund (now called Ecojustice)[citation needed], Attaran was counsel on a successful administrative law challenge to the issuance of wood incineration permits in British Columbia that caused exceptionally high levels of smoke and small particulates (PM 10) that harmed asthma patients. ", https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/12/19/le-quebec-mauvais-par-nature, https://twitter.com/profamirattaran/status/1334352408584073218, https://twitter.com/profamirattaran/status/1334877938286727168, How Canada has bungled the COVID-19 endgame, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amir_Attaran&oldid=999127419, University of California, Berkeley alumni, BLP articles lacking sources from September 2013, Articles containing Persian-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2020, Articles lacking reliable references from April 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 January 2021, at 16:45. Attaran caused controversy among nationalists in Quebec when he likened it to "the sick man of Canada" after it recorded more deaths in a single day than much more populous countries in Asia, Europe, and the Pacific, and more than any other province in Canada. Amir Attaran @profamirattaran. [32] MacKay was Attorney General of Canada at the time. And we subsequently received results for my wife, for me, the adults but not for the children and Riverside County is apparently failing to provide test results to children through our county testing system,” he says. Of course, rather than take responsibility for their failure, Trudeau has chosen to lie to Canadians again and again. By Amir Attaran November 27, 2020 During the COVID-19 crisis, Attaran testified in Parliament, and wrote articles generally critical of the pandemic response in Canada. By Amir Attaran November 27, 2020 While a graduate student at Oxford, the university secretly ordered its scientists to "remove radioactive warning labels" from dangerous laboratory waste, and instructed them to dispose of it covertly in the city's sewerage and rubbish bins. A licensed physician should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions. Visit the Clinical Trial Finder website and search for active clinical trials by condition, location, demographics, and more. Alberta is the richest province in Canada, so if it needs a bailout, it should pay 100%. Like this person, laughing and attacking because I “never step foot in a lab”. The South African variant also carries multiple spike mutations, but so far it hasn’t been associated with worse symptoms. Attaran earned a B.A. 7, bringing the province’s total to six cases, all tied to travel outside the country. Amir Attaran drew attention on Twitter last week with a number of comments regarding the province's pandemic plans. Warning the coming weeks will be the “hardest yet,” U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a return to a spring-style lockdown in England that is expected to last to mid-February. Amir Attaran is a professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at the University of Ottawa. [36], In July 2019, Attaran was accused of elitism in both mainstream and specialized (higher education) medias for calling the conservatives the "party of the uneducated". Attaran was born in California to immigrants from Iran. Alberta is the richest province in Canada, so if it needs a bailout, it should pay 100%. So what really happened to the Teck Frontier oilsands m Alberta Politics. [28] The Law Society of Alberta initially withdrew the charges, but Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Justice Dawn Pentelechuk said the society's explanation for doing so was "unsatisfactory and unclear" and ordered a hearing to determine if they had committed an abuse of process. Amir Attaran,Adam Houston "Pandemic Data Sharing: How the Canadian Constitution Turned into a Suicide Pact" in Colleen M Flood,Vanessa MacDonnell,Jane Philpott,Sophie Theriault & Sridhar Venkapuram,eds, Vulnerable:The Policy,Law and Ethics of COVID-19 (Ottawa:University of Ottawa Press, Forthcoming) Attaran, Amir and Houston, Adam, Pandemic Data Sharing: How the Canadian Constitution Turned Into a Suicide Pact (May 28, 2020). [30] In 2013, Attaran accused Peter MacKay of falsely alleging that Justin Trudeau committed a crime by smoking marijuana. Still, “we have to look at the U.K. data and certainly start to think, what is our plan to try and reduce transmission and what does this potentially mean for us in the coming months?”, The question is, if the viral variant starts circulating more broadly, how quickly could it overtake the dominant strain? 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WHO position statement", "Patent Rights and Local Working Under the WTO TRIPS Agreement: An Analysis of the U.S.-Brazil Patent Dispute", "Grants, not loans, for the developing world? And when more people get sick, more people die. DISCLAIMER The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. My Alberta county was so proud that they got their first federal grant to build a road when Harper was PM. 1. Attaran has had a diverse career as a scientist, lawyer, scholar, and advocate for public health, human rights and environmental protection. Dr. Amir Attaran says he and his family got COVID testing at the Indio Fairgrounds on Saturday. [27] Levant told a Hispanic banana company executive "chinga tu madre" ("go fuck your mother") on his Sun TV show. “But certainly in places with higher population density, like Ontario and Quebec and Vancouver and B.C’s lower mainland, there is that concern.”. That’s just how viral ecology works,” Attaran said. At Oxford, he matriculated to Wadham College and studied under Professor David Shotton[4] of the Department of Zoology and Professor Alain Townsend[5] of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. [43] He further accused Albertan commentator Max Fawcett of "[t]ypical Albertan arrogance" for claiming that Alberta was entitled to federal medical aid due to its large contributions to equalization payments in Canada. In 2012, Attaran filed a complaint against right-wing political commentator Ezra Levant, who was also a lawyer called to the Alberta bar. 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