On February 18, 2019 Health Canada released a MedEffect Notice advising that children under the age of 18 should not be consuming cough and cold products containing opioids. The products in question contain codeine, hydrocodone and normethadone. Read the original February 2019 MedEffect Notice A safety review of these products has found that people who use...Read More

RIGHTS & FREEDOMS In this second 2:28 minute video of a 21-part series, Shawn Buckley explains Section 2 of the Charter of Health Freedom, “Recognition and Declaration of Health Rights and Freedoms”. This section identifies the fundamental freedoms that currently exist – and more importantly, should remain protected – under Canadian law. We cannot continue allowing our...Read More

She signs off all of her emails with “Never Give Up”. And we don’t want to! Betsy V. recently encouraged the team with her email. She is one of our longtime supporters. For almost the entire time NHPPA has been working! She set up a regular monthly donation to spur the fight for health freedom....Read More

We do not take pleasure in accurately predicting the future. NHPPA’s position stems from a knowledge base that relies on facts and acuity to analyze government actions. In this March 11, 2019 article (4 minute read) by Shawn Buckley, published in Common Ground, “Didn’t We Win in 2008 with Bill C-51?,” the words chosen to...Read More

Shawn Buckley’s opinion paper concerning the “evidence” provided by Health Canada to support the proposed Self-Care Framework to group Natural Health Products (NHPs) and non-prescription chemical drugs under a single set of regulations is now available. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the names of the people responsible for the change and to show...Read More

Plants never cease to amaze. For all our familiarity with herbs and spices, we have yet to understand the origins of the seasonings we use so frequently. Many of us for medicinal purposes! In this January 24, 2019 article (5 minute read) by National Geographic, “See the Microscopic Wonders of Herbs,” photographer-scientist Martin Oeggerli offers...Read More

There are major changes coming into effect that the public and Natural Health Product (NHP) industry will see based on the consequences of disregard through a false sense of security and inaction. NHPPA believes that the conversation with Members of Parliament (MPs) must ramp up. They need a knowledge counterpoint, especially crucial in an election...Read More

“I usually sit down in the New Year to think about what I would like to accomplish going forward. This year is no exception except that I began thinking less about what I would like to do and more about who I would like to be. That got me thinking about people who have made...Read More

In this July 4, 2017 article (2 minute read) “Natural Health Products: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You”, published in the Pincher Creek Echo, Dr. Lena Derie-Gillespie writes, “The Oxford definition of a “drug” is a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when introduced into the body. Therefore, natural health products...Read More

In June 2017, Health Canada held their final series of online and in person consultation meetings on their proposed “modernization” of self-care products regulations. The presentations focused on the finer details of how NHPs will be classified based on risk, acceptable evidence and claims for each classification, product registration, Ministerial abilities, cost recovery, product labeling,...Read More