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September 21, 2024

Inside Canada’s ‘exploitative’ clinical trial industry, where study participants say they’re incentivized to lie — even about medications’ side effects

“Professional guinea pigs” are lured by cash, referral bonuses, loyalty points and other perks to sell their bodies for pharma research.

It is not just Canada. This same trick was obvious to me back in 2020 when I read and understood the 146-page Pfizer study that claimed high efficacy with few side effects, and was used as a justification for the rollout. This obvious trick and other red flags made me sure I did not want to participate in this worldwide experiment. What is surprising is that apparently few oithers actually read and understood it.

https://archive.is/b96Ub#selection-5339.26-5349.137

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Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It

While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen

June 25, 2025
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June 25, 2025

Some of these things I still miss

I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.

We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.

There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........

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