What's even worse is she's supposed to be working LTC now

Investment advisor at Canaccord Genuity charged in Vancouver pizzeria confrontation

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/investment-adv...tion-1.5336066

VANCOUVER -- One of the men charged following a heated confrontation over masks at a Vancouver pizza restaurant is an investment advisor at Canaccord Genuity. The company issued a statement to CTV News on Friday saying the employee has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of an internal investigation.

"We are incredibly disappointed to learn of a shameful incident of inexcusable behaviour involving one of our employees," a spokesperson for Canaccord Genuity said in an email. "Canaccord Genuity rejects the disgraceful behaviours, opinions and actions of the individuals involved. They are in no way representative of our firm’s values."

Vancouver police confirmed this week that assault charges have been approved against James Henry Davidson and Brenton Thomas Woyat. Profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn identified Woyat as an investment advisor at Canaccord Genuity as recently as Thursday, though both pages appear to have been deactivated.

i can't recall the specifics of a nurse's oath, but i'm assuming it's similar to doctors and engineers', to do no harm, serve the public interest, etc... seems like she broke it breaking health orders...

wonder if anything will come of that on the licensing end...

Can’t believe she has the audacity to call herself a hero :lol

Would hit :ifyouknow:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...-8m-libel-suit

Tldr: anti lockdown/covid vaccine Doctor suing her critics.


Doctor who said Canada doesn't need COVID vaccine calls online critics 'hyenas' in $6.8M libel suit
The legal action targets tweets that began after Gill wrote that society has existing COVID defences in the form of 'the Truth … T-cell immunity … Hydroxychloroquine'

Author of the article:Tom Blackwell
Publishing date:Mar 04, 2021

Doctors and others have accused Dr. Kulvinder Gill of spreading conspiracy theories, being an “extremist crank” and part of a “war on science” because of her views on COVID-19 treatment.
Doctors and others have accused Dr. Kulvinder Gill of spreading conspiracy theories, being an “extremist crank” and part of a “war on science” because of her views on COVID-19 treatment. PHOTO BY ERNEST DOROSZUK/POSTMEDIA/FILE
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When an Ontario doctor argued publicly that Canadians need neither a vaccine nor lockdowns to combat COVID-19 but should rely instead on a controversial malaria drug, some of the response was sharp.

Fellow physicians, academics and journalists called out Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill on social media last summer for peddling what they alleged was anti-scientific misinformation and conspiracy theory.


At least one of her tweets was removed by Twitter, and complaints were filed to Ontario’s medical regulator. Those recently resulted in cautions for “irresponsible” and “indefensible” behaviour that could endanger public health.

But then the dialogue took a different turn.

Gill filed a $6.8-million libel suit in December against 23 of the detractors – including a former president of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) – claiming they had maliciously sullied her reputation.

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The defendants include two former allies of Gill’s in a previous push to reform the powerful OMA, while the suit alleges racist and misogynist motives.

A year since the first lockdown was imposed, the case seems to underscore the bitter divisions spawned by the virus and efforts to curb it, even among health-care professionals.

“The individual defendants, like a pack of hyenas, attempted and in fact coordinated a circling of the plaintiff to literally destroy her career and reputation,” charges Gill’s statement of claim.

Handling the lawsuit is Toronto lawyer Rocco Galati, known himself for outspoken views about the pandemic. Galati has called public-health measures against the virus a “vicious fraud,” referred to protective face coverings as “slave-trade masks” and blamed it all on the “predatory globalist agenda of Bill Gates and his criminalist cohorts.”

Microsoft founder Gates has given away much of his vast fortune to help combat disease and poverty in the developing world.

Meanwhile, the pediatrician recently teamed up with another scientific outlier on one of her causes – promotion of the drug hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment. Among the authors on a paper that concluded the malaria medicine was a useful therapy were Gill and Paul Alexander. He’s the part-time McMaster University professor who controversially tried to influence the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and other American government agencies as a Trump-administration appointee.

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None of the allegations in the lawsuit has been proven in court and no statement of defence has yet been filed.

Two defendants dismissed the claims when reached this week.

“We believe the case is without merit with respect to Dr. Jacobs and we’re seeking to have it dismissed at the earliest opportunity,” said lawyer Andrew Winton, representing prominent radiologist David Jacobs.

“She’s not going to get any money from anybody,” predicted Dr. Terry Polevoy, a retired Waterloo, Ont., physician who crusades against what he considers anti-scientific health claims and products. “We told the truth. We presented facts.”

Gill referred inquiries to Galati, who declined to comment, saying that the suit spoke for itself.

The legal action targets mostly a series of tweets that began last August after Gill wrote that a vaccine is not needed against COVID-19, and that society has existing defences in the form of “the Truth … T-cell immunity … Hydroxychloroquine.”

She also tweeted that “there is absolutely no medical or scientific reason for this prolonged, harmful, and illogical lockdown.”

One response suggested it was “quite shocking” for such comments to come from a Canadian physician leader, and was followed by reference to an “army of hydroxychloroquine bots and unhinged conspiracy theorists” who chastized Gill’s critic.

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She’s not going to get any money from anybody

Doctors and others then accused the physician of spreading conspiracy theories, being an “extremist crank” and part of a “war on science.” Some suggested she be investigated by the College of Physicians and Surgeons, or actually filed complaints with the regulator.

The suit alleges the criticism of Gill, a woman of Sikh background, falsely and maliciously painted her as incompetent, mentally unstable and unscientific, threatening her future income and career opportunities. It said her views were backed by a “good portion” of the world’s scientific community,” while the criticisms were “laced with sexist, misogynist and racially overt overtures.”

Last month, Ontario’s College of Physicians and Surgeons issued official cautions to Gill for posts stating there was no need for a vaccine or justification for lockdowns. The tweets showed a lack of professionalism and caution that posed a potential risk to public health, its decision said.

“A safe, tested vaccine is the ideal solution to protecting the population and bringing about the end of the pandemic with the lowest possible number of deaths,” said the regulator.

The college said it was fair to question the effectiveness of lockdowns or whether their benefits outweighed the harms. But Gill stated “unequivocally and without providing any evidence” that there is no medical or scientific reason for such measures. The statement wasinaccurate, misinformed and misleading, said the regulator, citing as an example lockdowns in places like China that have virtually stopped spread of the virus.

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In another decision, it blasted her for an “indefensible” retweet suggesting that contact tracing, testing and isolation were ineffective and counter-productive.

Gill’s comments, “are irresponsible and careless in the current context and climate,” the College said.

But the agency dismissed a separate complaint about the doctor’s promotion of hydroxychloroquine in August, saying that at the time there was some good evidence of its effectiveness.

A bottle and pills of Hydroxychloroquine.
A bottle and pills of Hydroxychloroquine. PHOTO BY GEORGE FREY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
The jury is not completely in today on hydroxychloroquine, which became a political football after former U.S. president Donald Trump touted it as a coronavirus therapy. Some trials are still ongoing. But the most recently published or internet-posted “meta-analyses” – studies of past research – conclude the drug had little or no impact on the coronavirus. One analysis did cite lesser-quality observational studies that suggested low doses could lessen mortality.

The study by Gill, Alexander and other authors, however, concluded that early use of hydroxychloroquine combined with other drugs cut mortality in nursing-home residents.

T-cell immunity is a theme embraced by COVID-19 skeptics such as U.S. Senator Rand Paul and controversial Trump advisor Dr. Scott Atlas, who believe herd immunity to the virus may be close at hand. T cells are a part of the immune system not detected in antibody tests, which suggest only a small portion of the population has natural defences against the virus.

Studies have suggested that 20-50 per cent of people have T cells that recognize the COVID-19 virus, likely because of previous infection with common-cold coronaviruses. But even the scientist who spearheaded that research has said it’s unknown whether those cells protect against the pandemic bug, and almost certain they wouldn’t produce herd immunity.

TlL;DR woman thinks she deserves millions because she went on a public forum Being and idiot and got bullied lol

Figures. Canaccord isn't exactly known for its great people and great moral ethics.



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Felt like I needed to get out of the house, cabin-fever setting in. Been wanting to grab something from the office so went for a quick drive downtown. Quick drive turned into a casual solo cruise around Stanley Park and then decided to head across the bridge and check out how Park Royal is coming along.

2 thoughts. A lot has changed here. More importantly. It looks like there's NO pandemic here once you cross the bridge? Was just driving through the "Village" and it is absolutely packed to the gills with people. Groups and groups of "same age people" all walking around with no masks so they're very unlikely to be household.
Is this normal around here? Siighh.

^^ it’s becoming more normal everywhere. People are sick and tired of covid

Yeah I've heard a lot of canadians returning just flouting the rules and the govt not being able to do a thing, some ppl got a ticket, some didnt

Some want to follow the rules but were apparently expected to make hotel reservations on their own before their return, and weren't able to do so the day of their return etc etc

we all are but like i said before, the virus don't give a shit if we're tired. it has no such fatigue unfortunately.

I believe there was another nurse from Ontario that went to a Trump rally or that Capitol Hill riot in the US that got her license stripped and fired. The precedence is there, so it really depends on how the College of Nurses of Ontario approach this case.

wonder if the nurses union can protect her like police union

:D:D:lol

Two Vancouver men thrown in jail for hosting party during pandemic
https://theprovince.com/news/two-van...c-62487745d3f3

Vancouver police arrested two men early Saturday morning for allegedly hosting a party in a downtown condo, a violation of B.C.’s provincial COVID-19 restrictions.

Prior to Saturday’s arrests, VPD Sgt. Steve Addison said police had received 10 previous complaints concerning parties in the high-rise tower near Burrard and Alberni streets.

Officers busted into the suite around 2 a.m.

“After repeated complaints from the public and unsuccessful efforts to convince these hosts to stop having parties, our officers obtained a search warrant and forced entry into the condo Saturday to arrest two men,” said Addison. “The alleged hosts were taken to jail, and six guests were issued $230 tickets for being at the gathering.”

seems like a fast turnaround for a warrant?

George Takei can chill out on his social justice warrior BS.

He makes this virtue signaling comparisons about his life to current situations, like sorry George, no one cares.

People bitch about scenarios in modern day life because they have the luxury to. This isn’t like don’t be upset a virus is preventing you from seeing loved ones because in medieval times they didn’t have soap.

Justices are available 24/7 for search warrants, emergency protective orders, Child custody issues etc.

i dont think his statement touched on the chronic mental distress we all have to endure

classifying 'face diapers' as oppression really is comical though, esp if you put it in perspective to an event that's still within living memory for quite a few

I get it, but it’s kinda like, enough of these celebs making memes to tell people how they should be. If covid taught everyone anything it’s celebs in general are so irrelevant and out of touch they might as well stfu rather than chiming in when it comes to your average person

Just being a celeb, and being in a group of out of touch, often annoying clowns, doesn’t make him wrong.
It’s not like he’s like JUST STAY HOME LOOK HOW FUN IT IS as he floats in the pool of his Hollywood hills mansion.
It’s pretty fucking old listening to these pussies act like masks are some form of oppression.

Well I’m sure they will definitely start listening when a C list actor like George posts a meme quote

Yeah they’ll just hoop a big gulp and lick an ATM to stick it to the left.

i dont hang out in hollywood but are c-list celebs not your average person that still need to go grocery shopping? lol