Big Picture News, Informed Analysis

Canadian journalist Donna Laframboise. Former National Post & Toronto Star columnist, past vice president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

Trudeau Meets Greta, Scorns Truckers

Canadian elites have declared war on ordinary people.

April 15, 2022

Can Computer Models Predict Climate?

Guest post by Christopher Essex, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Physics, University of Western Ontario.

April 13, 2022

Guts & Grit

Any society in which people are fired for not making the medical decision their government wants them to make is an unjust society.

April 11, 2022

Meet Canada’s Trampled Lady

Police horses trampled two protesters in Ottawa five days ago. One suffered a broken collarbone. The identity and condition of the other remains unknown.

February 24, 2022

Convoy Organizer Denied Bail

Cheerful non-violence: no bail for you. Drive your jeep into protesters: out on bail in less than 72 hours.

February 22, 2022

Free Tamara, Trucker Convoy Organizer

How long will non-violent protester Tamara Lich be kept behind bars?

February 20, 2022

Rock Star Truckers

Members of the public are showering the truckers with thanks. And with food, fuel, and cash.

February 14, 2022

Veterans Stand on Guard for Freedom

This morning, at 11am, armed forces vets assembled in front of Canada’s Parliament in support of the truckers’ freedom convoy. Tears were shed as members of the public thanked them … Continue reading

February 11, 2022

Dispatch from Ottawa

I’m currently in downtown Ottawa in the midst of the truckers’ freedom protest. Many of the people here are from small communities. There are so many stories, so much to … Continue reading

February 9, 2022

Northern Miracle

The Truckers Freedom Convoy is being called the ‘Northern Miracle’ south of the border. Here a ‘black dude from New York’ gets on the horn with ‘a white brother from Saskatchewan.’

February 6, 2022

What’s It Like to Have Truckers Protesting Outside Your Door?

The truckers are organized, disciplined, and magnificently competent. Read a firsthand account from someone who resides in downtown Ottawa.

February 4, 2022

Trudeau Denies Truckers Fair Hearing: News Report from India

Indian news channel says public support for truckers is overwhelming, but Canada’s Prime Minister has responded with scorn and disrespect.

February 2, 2022

Dispatch From Canada

For the first time in two years, millions of people feel a sense of hope.

January 29, 2022

Canadian Truckers: Fighting for Freedom

Truck drivers have kept our supermarkets stocked & hospitals supplied during this pandemic. The Canadian government is now threatening their jobs. 

January 26, 2022

300 Published Reports of Vaccine Linked Medical Problems

Eight Hispanic boys treated for heart inflammation at a Miami children’s hospital in 36 days. 18 reports of heart inflammation in Switzerland during the first half of 2021 – compared to six in the previous 9 years.

January 26, 2022

Higher Education. Science. Peer review.

Ecologist Allan Savory says students enter university as ‘bright young people,’ but ‘come out of it brain dead.’

January 24, 2022

200 Published Reports of Vaccine Linked Medical Problems

COVID vaccines are linked to inflammation of the brain & spinal cord. They’re linked to blood clots, strokes, heart problems, liver problems, vision problems, facial paralysis & skin disorders (includes photos).

January 19, 2022

100s of Published Reports of Post-Vaccine Medical Distress (Part 1)

Peer-reviewed medical journals describe extensive harm linked to COVID vaccines. When does the ‘cure’ become worse than the disease?

January 17, 2022

Melbourne Filmmaker Battles Big Tech Censorship

Watch this trailer for Topher Field’s latest documentary, then tell others about it.

January 12, 2022

Better to Laugh Than to Despair

We’re drowning in COVID absurdities. Selected satire from the hilarious Babylon Bee.

January 10, 2022

They DID Say Vaccines Would Stop Virus Spread

The COVID narrative is changing quickly. It’s important to notice how.

January 3, 2022

67M vaccine Doses, Twice as Many COVID Infections

Canada’s numbers show the vaccines don’t stop disease spread, don’t deliver normal life.

December 29, 2021

Fired Ethics Professor Writes Book

Julie Ponesse, fired for opposing workplace vaccination mandates, explores what COVID has taught us about ourselves and our society.

December 27, 2021

From Canada, with Love

Two young musicians – from different cultural backgrounds and different genres – team up for a song called ‘Home.’

December 22, 2021

Vaccine Absurdity: Double Jabbed a Threat to the Triple Jabbed

Twice-vaccinated individuals told not to spend time with triple-vaccinated elders during Christmas. Unless everyone’s outdoors. In the Canadian winter.

December 20, 2021

Retired Doctor Explains: Why I Won’t Take a COVID Vaccine

Human rights are not negotiable.

December 15, 2021

2021: The Year Freedom Died

The right to make our own medical decisions vanished in 2021. What are we teaching the children? Obey the government or you’ll lose your job and be subject to house arrest. No due process, no hearing, no criminal conviction necessary.

December 13, 2021

New COVID Strategy Desperately Needed

More Americans have died of COVID this year than last. The vaccines don’t stop this disease from spreading. It’s time to focus on early treatment.

December 8, 2021

6 Questions About Coercive Medicine

Vaccine mandates are coercion. Governments are implementing – and citizens are permitting – a strange, immoral form of medicine.

December 6, 2021

COVID Vaccines, Heart Attacks & Pharma Funding

Are COVID-19 vaccines damaging hearts? Cardiologist says some researchers are keeping quiet for fear of jeopardizing their pharma funding.

December 1, 2021

News Story Relies Solely on Pharma Funded Doctor

When a doctor has financial relationships with 4 vaccine manufacturers, every word he utters about vaccines is suspect.

November 29, 2021

Awash in Big Pharma Funding, Expert Urges COVID Vaccines for Kids

Canadian doctor James Kellner receives $3 million from pharmaceutical giants, but is portrayed as a neutral, disinterested expert by journalists.

November 24, 2021

Say ‘No’ to COVID Vaccines for Kids (We Got a Puppy)

The chance that these vaccines will save your child’s life is nearly infinitesimal, since the risk is extraordinarily low to begin with. Guest post by a retired doctor.

November 22, 2021

Climate Activism’s Ugly Reality

You don’t improve the world via witch hunts, blacklists, and cruelty.

November 17, 2021

The Hounding of Roger Pielke Jr

Roger Pielke, Jr. is the most senior environmental studies prof at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His treatment sends a clear message to students & faculty alike: Deviate from the climate script and you will be cast out.

November 15, 2021

Ethical Moorings, Where Art Thou?

I’m now afraid of hospitals. I no longer assume medically trained individuals will behave ethically. This loss of trust will never be repaired.

November 10, 2021

Finale: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

The case against vaccine passports. (2:15 min)

September 30, 2021

Day 22: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Dividing society into ‘the good’ and ‘the bad.’ (90 seconds)

September 27, 2021

Day 4: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Ethics professor practices what she teaches. And pays a heavy price. (5 min)

September 9, 2021

Professor’s Vaccine Mandate Manifesto

‘This will be, for most Canadian faculty, the first if not the only real test of their integrity and dignity, and their purpose as scholars and intellectuals. It is absolutely essential that they not fail this test…’

September 1, 2021

Toronto Star on Unvaxxed: ‘Let them die’

Canada’s largest newspaper foments hate & hysteria toward the non-vaccinated.

August 30, 2021

Message to I’m-a-Feminist Trudeau: It’s My Body, My Choice

Canada’s Prime Minister threatens millions of women.

August 25, 2021

Australia Loses its Mind: Assaults Protesters, Shoots Dogs

Peaceful protesters met with rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray. Rescue dogs shot so people won’t travel to save them.

August 23, 2021

The Stark Math Behind Vaccine Mandates

New vaccines have a 98% failure rate after 10 full years in development. How can more than a dozen COVID vaccines possibly be ready for prime time?

August 18, 2021

Breastfeeding Infant Dies After Mom Is Vaccinated

CDC says there’s no data about COVID vaccines & nursing infants. But its own database records the death of a 5-month-old. From blood clots. 72 hours after his mother received her second shot of Pfizer.

August 11, 2021

COVID Vaccines: What Medical People Say Amongst Themselves

Enthusiastic support is counterbalanced by concerns about Dr. Fauci, improper inoculation techniques, and unknown long term consequences.

August 2, 2021

Unity or Division? Individual Choice or State Coercion?

Prominent artist promotes brave, big-hearted petition addressed to Singapore’s Prime Minister.

July 28, 2021

COVID News You May Have Missed

Lockdowns and vaccine coercion were protested around the world this weekend, as doctors sang the praises of Ivermectin.

July 26, 2021

How Big Tech Erases History: My New Paper

Censorship by corporations is shutting down debate and obliterating parts of the historical record.

July 21, 2021

World Ivermectin Day

ICU doctors say a safe, generic drug can prevent COVID-19. Why aren’t we using it?

July 19, 2021

8 Ways in Which COVID Vaccines Are New

Should we trust vaccines that are unprecedented in so many respects?

July 14, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines & Forbidden Questions

Is the public good guiding government decisions? It doesn’t look like it.

July 12, 2021

Israel Not Tracking Post Vaccine Problems

Every health system in the world should be keenly interested in Israel’s adverse vaccine reactions. But the data doesn’t exist.

July 7, 2021

Israeli Doctors Against COVID Vaccines for Kids

Highly qualified medical professionals have been objecting for months.

July 5, 2021

Doctor Resigns Over Lack of Informed Consent

Israeli committee decides pregnant women don’t need to be told COVID vaccine risk is wholly unknown.

June 30, 2021

Francis Christian, Medical Hero

Saskatchewan surgeon insists on informed consent prior to children receiving COVID-19 vaccines. Health authority fires him before an investigation has even begun.

June 28, 2021

WHO: Most Kids Shouldn’t Get COVID Vaccines

Parents are urged to vaccinate their kids. They aren’t told the World Health Organization disagrees.

June 23, 2021

Canadians Aren’t Being Told About Vaccine Risks

Guest post by a recently retired doctor.

June 21, 2021

ICU Doctors Censored By Big Tech

When the grandkids ask Big Tech titans what role they played during the 2020 pandemic, the real answer will be: They silenced debate. They prevented doctors from being heard.

June 16, 2021

Delete that Tweet! Twitter Censors Journalism

Intellectual conformity leads nowhere good. Twitter has no business taking sides in any debate about how to treat any disease. 

June 14, 2021

CDC Revises Vaccine Screener 9 Times in 6 Months

2-page COVID vaccine screening form is now 9 pages long – and was updated three times in May alone.

June 9, 2021

Doctors, Lawyers & COVID

Hospital refuses to treat ICU patient with Ivermectin. Family hires a lawyer, secures a court order, and she recovers.

June 2, 2021

Doctors Shout from the Rooftops About COVID Miracle Drug

Accomplished, experienced ICU doctors say Ivermectin can end the global pandemic. But health authorities don’t want to hear about it, and journalists won’t report it.

May 31, 2021

Remember When N95 Masks Were Anti-Science?

Ontario, Canada began by properly protecting medical staff from COVID infection. Citing the WHO, it then reversed course.

May 26, 2021

Engineered Viruses: Not a New Concern

The pandemic may well be linked to lab experiments in China. A thorough investigation is warranted.

May 19, 2021

Natural Virus or Lab Experiment Gone Wrong?

Seasoned science journalist sparks new round of debate.

May 17, 2021

Facebook Fact Checks Are Rubbish: Reading List

The world’s largest censorship machine relies on partisan fact checkers. The results are absurd.

May 12, 2021

Reckless Journalism & the Uphill Battle to Correct the Record

Rather than behaving responsibly during a moment of crisis, the New York Times printed inflammatory, unconfirmed gossip. It fanned fear & fed hysteria.

March 31, 2021

US Senator to Facebook: Kill Free Speech Now

Intelligence Committee chairman targets private companies.

March 29, 2021

Weaponizing Scientific Expertise

Activist scientists have appointed themselves arbiters of who’s entitled to protest and who isn’t.

March 24, 2021

Glenn Greenwald Clobbers the Mainstream Media

Watching journalists closely. Calling a spade a spade.

March 22, 2021

China: Land of the Anal Swab

Travelers to China are now subject to anal penetration by the authorities.

March 8, 2021

The Media is Now Malevolent

Democracy is not served by censorship, malice, derision, and denunciation.

February 24, 2021

Biogen’s Superspreader Conference: One Year Later

Boston biotech conference likely infected hundreds of thousands of people.

February 22, 2021

Climate Facts or Leaps of Faith? Governments Can’t Tell the Difference

We have no hard evidence of a crisis. Only expert opinion and best estimates.

February 17, 2021

9% Support: Let’s Make it Government Policy

Organizers of the Climate Assembly turned weak support for ‘less meat’ into a key finding. Climate bureaucrats are now exaggerating further.

February 10, 2021

Climate Assemblies: Faking Democracy

What colour dinner plate do you want your bread and water on?

February 8, 2021

What Canada’s Top Health Official Said A Year Ago

Theresa Tam repeatedly said the risk was low & COVID cases would be rare. She naively trusted China & relied on the WHO. 20,000 Canadians are now dead.

February 1, 2021

The Fake Nobel Laureate & the Climate CEO

Patrick Verkooijen was awarded a PhD despite writing only half a thesis. William Moomaw was one of his doctoral advisors.

January 27, 2021

The Climate Summit’s Fake Nobel Laureate

Chemist William Moomaw has never won a Nobel Prize. But advertisements for his speaking engagements say otherwise.

January 25, 2021

4 Weird Things About the Climate Summit

When an organization can’t be bothered to describe itself accurately – but thinks you should do what it says – that’s a red flag.

January 20, 2021

Bill Gates, UN Launch New Climate Agenda

Who elected Bill Gates? Which voters, in which countries, approved these measures?

January 18, 2021

We Don’t Know if COVID Vaccines Are Safe

Let us be adults. Let us be honest. At this stage, no one knows what will happen when COVID vaccines are given to millions of people.

December 16, 2020

Climate Activism: How Democracy Dies

Last chance to buy tickets to this online event. 40 minutes, followed by a live Q&A.

December 7, 2020

Censoring Jordan Peterson’s New Book

Junior publishing staff think censorship is part of their job.

November 30, 2020

Tickets Now Available

$15 Canadian to watch my speech, followed by a live Q&A session (approx. $12 USD, £9 UK, and €10).

November 25, 2020

UK Politicians Demand Online Censorship

Antisemitic UK Labour Party wants to police other people’s speech.

November 23, 2020

Remembering the Korean War

America had good reason to be hostile to Communism.

November 11, 2020

Money, Medications & COVID

Experts with fewer financial ties to drug companies are noticeably more supportive of an inexpensive, off-patent drug.

November 9, 2020

Moving Forward

Everyday decisions by ordinary citizens matter more than who’s in the White House.

November 4, 2020

Halloween Lynching of Innocent Family

Canada’s national broadcaster is careful not to prejudge French priest’s attacker, but denounces Halloween display as racist.

November 2, 2020

Twitter: Double Standards & Advertising

Twitter earns billions from advertising. But restricts Trump tweets on the grounds they might mislead.

October 28, 2020

Creepy Climate Conversations

Coaching children to become climate propagandists.

October 21, 2020

Honouring Samuel Paty

High school teacher is beheaded on a French street following classes on free expression.

October 19, 2020

UN on Disasters: Those Who Can’t Do, Scold

The United Nations, which failed to stop the coronavirus from spreading everywhere, and which introduced cholera to earthquake-devastated Haiti, releases a report on disaster management.

October 14, 2020

Pandemic Bungling Undercuts UN Goals

German study calls public transit ‘the big loser.’

October 7, 2020

Nice Idea, Shaky Evidence

Media stories about Norway winters & positive thinking lack proper skepticism.

October 5, 2020

Is COVID Responsible for Only 6% of US Deaths?

When someone commits suicide, comorbidities on their death certificate don’t mean they didn’t kill themselves.

September 28, 2020

Davos and COVID-19

While our ‘thought leaders’ worried about the elderly in the year 2050, a virus that would kill hundreds of thousands of elderly people this year was spreading like wildfire.

September 23, 2020

About That Sharp Rise in Climate Concern

Poll sponsors say climate attitudes have been ‘remarkably consistent’ over two decades.

September 2, 2020

Science, Skepticism, and Irony

An impressive new book about the shortcomings of scientific research is inadvertently ironic.

August 31, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine & the Judgment of History

How a safe, well-understood malaria drug was demonized as a COVID-19 treatment. Because a politician said good things about it.

August 24, 2020

Rejoice! We Have Millions of Whales

Whales are at no risk of extinction. When 50,000-strong species are classified as ‘endangered,’ words don’t mean what we think they do. 

August 19, 2020

Canadian Wildlife Federation: Lying With Pictures to Raise Cash

Humpback whales are thriving, but an activist fundraising campaign says they’re on the brink of extinction.

August 17, 2020

A Few Months of Hindsight

Journalist George Gilder declared the pandemic over in April. Mathematician Isaac Ben-Israel insisted the virus would burn out everywhere 70 days after it began.

August 12, 2020

Benghazi, Fake News, and Extraordinary Heroes

Much of the conservative narrative about Benghazi is wrong.

August 10, 2020

What Happened to ‘Without Fear or Favor’?

New York Times journalists want news stories vetted prior to publication. They want mandatory & ongoing newsroom sensitivity training. The Gray Lady is now a place where journalists fear each other.

August 3, 2020

False Gods for Lost Souls

With its threats of fire and brimstone, environmentalism is the new religion. But where’s the humility, the compassion, the spiritual transcendence?

July 29, 2020

Environmentalism for the Non-Naive

Like colonialists of old, affluent green activists impose their will on poor people in impoverished countries who have no means of defending themselves. 

July 27, 2020

WHO: Disinformation from the Top

The head of the WHO isn’t annoyed his organization learned about the coronavirus from third parties. He isn’t angry it had to ask China for info more than once. In fact, he’s been covering for China.

July 22, 2020

WHO Now Says China Didn’t Report Coronavirus – Corrects Timeline

After implying for months that China followed international rules, the World Health Organization backtracks.

July 20, 2020

Secrecy & Stonewalling: China and SARS 1.0

China gave the WHO permission to send in investigators, but wouldn’t allow them near the affected area after they’d arrived. They departed empty-handed, two weeks later.

July 15, 2020

Sea Turtles and Plastics – The Bigger Picture

Plastics saved sea turtles, when tortoiseshell luxury goods became mass market items. 

July 13, 2020

How Climate Trickery Infiltrated the AGU

11 presentations – based on private, agenda-driven research – were delivered to the world’s largest gathering of climate scientists.

July 6, 2020

How the Ugliest Climate Fairy Tale Won

A preposterous climate yarn has taken center stage.

June 29, 2020

40 Days in Brazil

Forty thousand Brazilians have died of the coronavirus in the past 40 days.

June 24, 2020

Retracted Papers Written by Journal VIP

The lead author of two retracted COVID-19 papers is editor-in-chief of an Elsevier medical journal.

June 17, 2020

The Swedish Teenager Interfering in Canadian Politics

Democracy dies when activists wield more influence than voters.

June 15, 2020

Grovelling Doesn’t Lead to Equality

Symbolic gestures can be powerfully negative.

June 8, 2020

Fantasy Wish List Masquerades as Climate Poll

Green lobby group invites public to endorse green fantasies.

June 1, 2020

When Government Tells You Whose Balls to Touch

First came the virus. Then new rules for recreational tennis.

May 27, 2020

Racism, Magical Thinking & the Coronavirus

Rather than quarantining travelers, our leaders chose a course of action that led to entire countries being locked down. 

May 25, 2020

Early March Did Not Predict the Future

Certain adamant coronavirus declarations look foolish now.

May 20, 2020

This Blog Will Return May 20th

In the interim, I recommend this brilliant essay on what the coronavirus has taught us.

April 22, 2020

Civil Liberties, the Economy & Typhoid Mary

Let us not be cavalier about the coronavirus. Let us pay proper respect to the dead.

April 20, 2020

Easter Morning

A season of renewal and rebirth.

April 13, 2020

Losing Doctors on the Battlefield

176 61 physicians have died in Italy. They’re also dying in France, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

March 30, 2020

The Virus and the Fires

When things are dire, humans accomplish amazing feats.

March 25, 2020

When Is A Pandemic Not A Pandemic?

The World Health Organization is playing games.

February 26, 2020

UNESCO: Prosecute Climate Criminals

If voters elect leaders who reject climate treaties, those leaders will be dragged before an international court. The UN: neutralizing dissent one way or another.

February 24, 2020

The UN’s Planet Saving Delusion

It couldn’t help Haiti recover from an earthquake, but the UN’s gonna rescue the planet.

February 19, 2020

Poll Results: Climate Is Always Low Priority

There is no evidence that climate change has ever been a top concern for most Americans.

February 10, 2020

Mission Accomplished, Starbucks

When I walk into a coffee shop, the last thing I need is someone nagging me about my carbon footprint.

February 4, 2020

Here’s Who Pressured the Medical Journal

Do we want to live in a world in which medical journals are afraid to publish certain conclusions?

January 29, 2020

Cancel Culture Hits Medical Journals

Anti-meat experts ask external bodies to suppress rival research.

January 27, 2020

Newspapers: Betrayers of the Public’s Trust

Journalists abandon professionalism, repudiate free speech. 

January 22, 2020

Speaking in Calgary, April 6th – Tickets Now Available

CANCELLED. Climate activists want your freedom. They’re impeding your ability to choose, in one arena after another.

January 20, 2020

Fishy Findings: 100% Replication Failure

Eight fish studies were double-checked. Not one was accurate.

January 13, 2020

Journalists: We Want Censorship

Official editorial in Canadian newspaper calls for climate skeptics to be silenced.

January 8, 2020

Decades of Public Opinion: Climate Change Not on the Radar

Vast majority don’t mention climate when asked about important problems.

January 6, 2020

Tipping Points: The Big Picture

The UN said we were at a tipping point in 2007. And in 2009. In a single decade, the media talked about climate tipping points 14,000 times.

January 1, 2020

Will Trump Smash Academic Paywalls?

US taxpayers pay three times over for scientific research.

December 30, 2019

Fast & Furious Improvement: 2010-2019

So much progress to celebrate.

December 23, 2019

Balanced, Static Nature: The Grand Illusion

Change is natural and normal. Let us eat, drink, and be merry.

December 18, 2019

Young People Distressed About Climate Change

Forget fear and pessimism. Step into the sunlight & soar.

December 16, 2019

Turning Dogs Into Dinner

Is there anything climate change can’t do?

December 11, 2019

The Great Global Warming Swindle

If we’ve heard only one side of a debate, we can’t claim to be fully informed.

November 27, 2019

Climate Activists Aren’t Joking

Saving the planet: the all-purpose, never-ending justification for more taxes, control, and deprivation.

November 25, 2019

Climategate: 10 Year Anniversary Reading List

Forget the shallow, conformist media narrative. There’s plenty of sound, perceptive analysis.

November 20, 2019

The Corals That Don’t Exist

Peer-reviewed science is contradicted by the real world.

November 18, 2019