A$50-million program the federal government created to help Canadians seriously injured by COVID-19 vaccines is in disarray, current and former staffers say.
The Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP), created during the pandemic, was designed to compensate people who have been seriously and permanently injured by any Health Canada-authorized vaccine administered in Canada on or after Dec. 8, 2020.
Around the middle of the last century Marx — Groucho, not Karl — declined to join the Friars Club in Hollywood. His classic line: I refuse to join a club that accepts people like me as members. Two recent appointments to the Order of Canada, Theresa Tam and Bonnie Henry, extend the appropriateness of Marx’s remark to the Order of Canada.
Let us start at the top, with the motto of the Order: Desiderantes Meliorem Patriam, ‘They desire a better fatherland (or country.)’
It originally appeared in St. Paul’s epistle to the Hebrews, Ch. 11:16.
These are just handed out to friends and family it seems. Crackerjack box distribution would be more fair.
Kimberly MacDougall lay in a hospital bed beside her injured husband, Stephen, as his final moments came. She and their two kids held him as he took his last breath.
Stephen, 45, a service manager for a luxury automobile dealership, had been fighting to live for weeks in May 2021, but stopped struggling. She informed friends on social media that the man she loved, incredibly fit and with no prior health issues, wouldn’t make it.
"200 years of Western law and tradition — which ensured the independence and autonomy of individual police officers — thrown out the window by a corrupt, politically controlled policing organization."
My address to supporters of @OttawaPolice Detective Helen Grus last night.… pic.twitter.com/fJUk0jITBH
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) June 21, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant shift in parental views on vaccination, with approximately half of parents surveyed citing concerns about vaccine side effects, a government report suggests.
The report from the Public Health Agency of Canada on vaccine uptake said the pandemic “yielded a large shift in Canadians’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards vaccinations.”
All the evidence on the Wuhan lab leak, properly organised
Although the world has largely moved on from Covid-19, a lot of trust was destroyed including – unfortunately and worryingly – in science itself. I can think of few things worse for progress than for the public to lose faith in science, which is why I’ve made it something of a personal mission to get to the bottom of the origin of Covid-19. We need to rescue science’s mission of seeking the truth at all costs, even when it comes with an uncomfortable lesson about the dangers of irresponsible experiments.
As readers may know, I began by thinking a lab leak was unlikely, even impossible, as the source of the virus that emerged suddenly in Wuhan at the end of 2019. But during the late spring of 2020 I saw evidence that this hypothesis was in fact quite plausible and needed investigating at the very least. I teamed up with the molecular biologist Alina Chan to write Viral, our book about the search for evidence on both sides of that question. I remained unsure what happened at that stage. Then in the autumn of 2021 more startling evidence emerged to support the lab leak. I now think that is by far the most likely explanation.
Why did the government and mainstream media collude to discredit alternative, successful COVID treatments?
The COVID pandemic was and remains one of the largest involuntary wealth transfers in history. Which is why, in trying to get to the bottom of what was done in the name of saving us from the ravages of the virus, it is best to “follow the money.” For in the law, as in life, the money trail will inevitably lead to the truth.
Recall that as the COVID virus spread throughout our panicked nation, our government and its associated medical authorities instructed us to shelter in place.
The Biden administration has been accused of purposefully covering up potentially deadly side effects of the Covid vaccines.
A Congressional investigation found White House officials held back warnings about heart damage from Covid vaccines in younger people, even after getting early alerts from other countries, including Israel.
Internal emails and memos suggest that a planned Health Alert Network (HAN) message by the CDC regarding myocarditis was not released.
A new book reveals the bad science and corrupt leadership behind America’s disastrous pandemic school closures.
In the early spring of 2020, freelance writer David Zweig was, like most suburban dads, willing to follow the advice of experts. “People were dying from a scary new disease, and my family and my neighbors were readily compliant with the governor’s orders to stay home and stay apart from each other,” he writes in his new book, An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions. As a member of the “laptop class,” and living in a charming Hudson Valley village, Zweig knew that he and his family were among the luckiest cohort of Americans when it came to weathering the Covid-19 pandemic.
The federal government expects to spend about $7 million this fiscal year to store and maintain four custom-made, portable hospitals that cost taxpayers more than $200 million to buy — facilities meant to bolster overwhelmed hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic that were barely used.
Early on in the pandemic, as the federal government moved at breakneck speed to respond to a global health crisis, it issued rush orders for these Mobile Health Units.
A new report released by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms outlines the extensive and lasting damage caused by COVID-19 lockdowns in Canada, citing a dramatic decline in mental health, a rise in non-COVID deaths, strained healthcare services, economic fallout, and increased crime.
The report, Five Years On: Tracing the Costs of Lockdowns, criticizes federal and provincial governments for implementing sweeping restrictions without transparent, evidence-based analysis.
Early on in the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ that terrified, traumatized and financially devastated so many Canadians, one priority weighed heavily on the federal Liberal government.
That was to protect itself from criticism or embarrassment… and also from legal liability surrounding the $8 billion that taxpayers paid for COVID-19 vaccines to seven pharmaceutical companies — including Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
Like most of us, I suppose, the shock to our system and way of life during the government’s response to COVID-19 cannot easily be forgotten. It was our taste of ill-considered government tyranny, a public-health disaster. As more information about its origins and how the disease was handled is revealed, it always gets my attention. In sum, banking on helping defeat Trump, the public-health establishment and media suppressed more credible options for dealing with a disease which was not life-threatening to most in order to promote a vaccine then in the works. The vaccine when it was developed and administered was not terribly effective and has itself caused substantial injury. In the process of locking the country down, the health establishment and government caused the very deleterious effects which the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration had warned against. Those opposing less tyrannical treatment of COVID-19 included Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose role in creating COVID-19 is no longer deniable.
Canada’s top public health officials, including Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam, were among dozens of federal managers required to sign secrecy pledges during the pandemic that barred them from disclosing information that could cause embarrassment to the Liberal cabinet, newly released documents reveal.
Access To Information records show that at least 29 managers across multiple departments — including Public Health, Foreign Affairs, Health, Industry, and National Defence — signed the confidential agreements.
Ashley Rindsberg, from whose stories I have riffed on before, has a great piece in Spectator Magazine about the COVID cover-up that adds a new twist.
Anthony Fauci, through a Harvard University intermediary, helped funnel money from the Chinese property company Evergrande to Harvard in February 2020. And that contribution was, quite surprisingly, part of a backdoor effort on the part of the Chinese to communicate with and influence Fauci and America’s COVID response.
