Big Picture News, Informed Analysis

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

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

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

The Mechanic in the Freedom Convoy

Embedded with the truckers. Repairing their rigs. Telling the world what he sees and hears.

January 31, 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

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

Better to Laugh Than to Despair

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

January 10, 2022

Four Football (Soccer) Deaths in Four Days

The normal rate is 7 per year.

January 5, 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

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

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 24: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

‘Stop this nonsense…The vaccines are killing people. My son is dead.’ (2 mins, 30 seconds)

September 29, 2021

Day 23: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Come on, it’ll be fine. (comedy sketch, 2:30 min)

September 28, 2021

Day 22: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

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

September 27, 2021

Day 21: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

‘Dear Mom’ (2:35 minutes)

September 26, 2021

Day 20: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Coroner says 44-year-old BBC radio host died from a vaccine-induced brain bleed. (1:45 minutes)

September 25, 2021

Day 19: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Elderly woman survives COVID, dies a day after her first Moderna vaccine. (4 minutes)

September 24, 2021

Day 18: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

From Israel: the Testimonies Project (1 hr, 7 min)

September 23, 2021

Day 17: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

The conscience of Anne McCloskey, Irish physician. (9:30 min)

September 22, 2021

Day 16: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

How many careers will take a sharp turn due to vaccine mandates? (1 minute)

September 21, 2021

Day 15: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Canadian immunologist Byram Bridle addresses public rally. (3:10 min)

September 20, 2021

Day 14: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Canadian rapper: ‘Just Say No’ (music video, 4:45 min)

September 19, 2021

Day 13: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Mother in a coma, son barred from visiting her in a Canadian hospital. (40 seconds)

September 18, 2021

Day 12: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

The story of two Australians: a 77-year-old woman, a 21-year-old man. (11:15 min)

September 17, 2021

Day 11: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Confined to a wheelchair post-vaccine. (2:20 min)

September 16, 2021

Day 10: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

A brother describes his sister’s death. (1 min)

September 15, 2021

Day 9: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

New Zealand doctor Alison Goodwin wants you to be fully informed. (3:30 min)

September 14, 2021

Day 8: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Friend’s daughter receives Pfizer vaccine, develops heart problems. (30 seconds)

September 13, 2021

Day 7: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

A captain with the Los Angeles Fire Department discusses COVID vaccination coercion. (12 min)

September 12, 2021

Day 6: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Respiratory therapist. Double vaccinated. (2:15 min)

September 11, 2021

Day 5: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Musician Eric Clapton tries to make sense of his distressing vaccine experience. (20 min)

September 10, 2021

Day 4: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

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

September 9, 2021

Day 3: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Irish doctors speak out about COVID vaccine risks. (7 min)

September 8, 2021

Day 2: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

The widow of an FBI agent who died hours after receiving his first COVID vaccine begs us to be more compassionate. (4:40 min)

September 7, 2021

Introduction: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

Acknowledging the messy COVID-19 vaccine landscape.

September 6, 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

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

Two Vaccine Doses, Two Leg Amputations

Minnesota woman develops catastrophic health problems after her second COVID-19 vaccine.

August 9, 2021

When Medical Personnel Have Dreadful Vaccine Experiences

Doctors and nurses are among the thousands of individuals coping with severe COVID-19 vaccine reactions.

August 4, 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

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

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

A COVID Stricken Doctor, an Air Ambulance & Ivermectin

When a hospital refused to treat her husband with Ivermectin, a wife physician had him flown to another facility. 

June 7, 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

WHO Quietly Corrects Its Own Misinformation

Dissident scientists spent a year convincing the World Health Organization that the virus that causes COVID-19 spreads through the air.

May 24, 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

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

Many Frontline Workers Decline COVID Vaccines

Concerns mustn’t be swept under the carpet.

March 17, 2021

Facebook, Fact-checkers & Medical Debate

When group think masquerades as ‘fact-checking.’

March 15, 2021

What We Know About UK Vaccine Reactions

460 people have died after receiving COVID-19 vaccines.

March 10, 2021

China: Land of the Anal Swab

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

March 8, 2021

Who Died After Receiving COVID Vaccines? – Part 2

Part 1 is here.

March 3, 2021

Who Died After Receiving COVID Vaccines?

966 post-vaccine deaths have been reported to the CDC.

March 1, 2021

Biogen’s Superspreader Conference: One Year Later

Boston biotech conference likely infected hundreds of thousands of people.

February 22, 2021

What the Swedish Doctor Said 6 Months Ago

Be careful of your words, lest the future make a fool of you.

February 3, 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

Veterans’ Home Bosses Banned Face Masks, 200 People Died

New Jersey officials waged an aggressive, anti-mask campaign against nursing home staff & ambulance crews.

January 13, 2021

The Story of America’s First COVID-19 Hotspot

Did this nursing home fail in its duties? Or did authorities do too much to hinder it – and too little to help?

January 11, 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

Vaccines, Legal Liability & Learning from History

Governments are shielding vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits.

December 14, 2020

Vaccines & Informed Consent

Adverse reactions to a 2009 swine flu vaccine profoundly harmed a small minority of those who received it.

December 9, 2020

Checking Your Blood Oxygen

Consider adding an oximeter to your pandemic medicine cabinet.

December 2, 2020

Eastern Europe’s COVID Woes

While many of these nations skipped the first wave, they’re struggling now.

November 18, 2020

Record-Breaking COVID Deaths

April 17th was the worst day for reported COVID deaths globally. Until the past two weeks. We’ve now blown past that record seven times.

November 16, 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

COVID: Worries, Weariness & Humility

We don’t know what’s coming next – and the past three months are not a reliable predictor.

October 26, 2020

Pandemic Bungling Undercuts UN Goals

German study calls public transit ‘the big loser.’

October 7, 2020

Vaccines Are Complicated

Eager as we are for a COVID vaccine, we need to be realistic about possible harms – and a plausible timeline.

September 30, 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

Blog Returns Sept. 23

I’m deep diving into a new research project. There’s lots to read and lots to learn.

September 7, 2020

Science, Skepticism, and Irony

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

August 31, 2020

Will Skyscrapers Survive COVID?

Tall buildings, dependent on elevators, have become precarious investments.

August 26, 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

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

Funerals Have Spiked in Numerous Nations

Across the globe, many more funerals are being held this year than normal.

August 5, 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

Where Are COVID Deaths Rising?

Chile, Peru, Brazil, and Mexico have experienced dramatic increases. So have New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

July 8, 2020

40 Days in Brazil

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

June 24, 2020

Financial Conflicts & the Retracted COVID Research

Lead author, paid by drug companies, gives the all-clear to products those companies sell. World’s leading medical journal fails transparency test.

June 22, 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

What Went Wrong in Massachusetts?

State hit disproportionately hard by the coronavirus.

June 10, 2020

Staggering Death Rate in 7 US States

American deaths per million equal or exceed Europe’s worst-hit nations in several locales.

June 3, 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

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

Belgium: Coronavirus Hotspot

The death toll you’ve heard almost nothing about.

April 15, 2020

Inside America’s Hospitals

The coronavirus is straining the healthcare systems of the richest nations in the world.

April 8, 2020

How NYC’s Leaders Betrayed the Public

Medical bureaucrats wrapped themselves in the cloak of science. They said the battle was against paranoia, misinformation & stigma. Thousands have now perished.

April 6, 2020

Why Homemade Masks Make Sense

Coronavirus deaths follow choir practice. A grassroots, homemade-masks-for-all movement gathers steam. 

April 1, 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

Protect Hospital Staff, Or Healthcare Collapses

Doctors on the front lines are shouting from the rooftops.

March 23, 2020

Best Coronavirus Memes

Humour is our secret weapon.

March 18, 2020

From Valentine’s to Friday the 13th

Four weeks ago, we lived in a different world.

March 16, 2020

Italy’s Hospital Meltdown

Coronavirus has turned hospitals into war zones, say Italian doctors. 

March 11, 2020

So You Thinks SARS Was No Big Deal (Part 1)

Canada was the only country outside Asia in which people died from the SARS coronavirus. A doctor and two nurses were among its victims. All three were in their 50s.

March 9, 2020

Coronavirus Math: The Number I’m Watching

How are different countries coping? What is the case fatality rate?

March 4, 2020

When Is A Pandemic Not A Pandemic?

The World Health Organization is playing games.

February 26, 2020

Cancel Culture Hits Medical Journals

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

January 27, 2020

About Those Nitrates in Our Food

Your salad contains more nitrates than a bacon sandwich.

September 9, 2019

Suicide Crisis, Climate Propaganda

How can zero deaths be a ‘health emergency’?

July 15, 2019

Diabetes, Doctors & Real World Results

Some people are ‘curing’ their Type 2 diabetes by changing what they eat.

June 3, 2019