SIDE-EFFECTS TIED TO OFF-LABEL DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS WILL BE MADE PUBLIC. It questions the judgment of Health Canada and its policies when learning how unaffected they are about the data collected for side-effects and deaths caused by off-labe…l prescription drugs (drugs used for a condition or type of person for which they are not approved). In...Read More

MORE POWER DOING IT THE “OLD-FASHIONED” WAY Many ask why the Charter of Health Freedom petition is not online. The simple answer is because our government wouldn’t recognize it, which begs the question: “Why not?”. Check out NHPPA’s article by Carolyn Steele “Petition Power Then and Now: The Charter of Health Freedom, the internet and...Read More

TALK BACK: MP REBUTTAL PACKAGE Step 2 of “The Charter to 308 MPs Campaign: MP Rebuttal” is well underway! The MP Rebuttal Package campaign was launched on April 4, 2014 at the Total Health Show in Toronto. All of the materials are now on-line and ready for you to join your fellow activists. We are sure you...Read More

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THAT ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING HOMEOPATHIC MANUFACTURERS WILL BE EXITING THE CANADIAN MARKET THIS SUMMER. According to a press release from Heel Canada, the company will cease operations in North America as of August 31, 2014. Faced with mounting pressures, the departure is a business decision. Heel is the kind...Read More

“THIS DOCUMENTARY IS DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF THE NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS INDUSTRY AND TO TRUEHOPE IN THEIR PURSUIT OF JUSTICE AND SAFER HEALTH CHOICES FOR ALL.” (Opening credits) Go to directly to trailer This new, independent, 50-minute Canadian documentary is a comprehensive introduction to the problems with regulation of the natural health industry in Canada....Read More

MOVING OUT OF THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE AND INTO THE STORM A lot has changed since Shawn’s last presentation at Total Health 2013. Not only is Health Canada in the throes of full enforcement of the NHP Regulations; recent months have seen the introduction of Bill C-17 (“Vanessa’s Law”) as well as media reports, carrying few actual details, about CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement). Shawn asks...Read More

CTV reported this week on the dangers of Pradaxa, as news broke of the first Canadian family to sue the drug’s makers. On the market in Canada since 2008, this blood-thinning medication has no known antidote and ER doctors in the US have been sounding alarm bells for some time. Dr W Gifford-Jones wrote an article mentioning Pradaxa in...Read More

NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE SPENT BILLIONS STOCKPILING ANTIVIRAL DRUGS. CANADA ALONE SPENT ALMOST $200 MILLION. These decisions were made without access to approximately half of the clinical data available to the manufacturers. In a report titled Tamiflu’s effectiveness questioned CBC’s The National covers an independent analysis of reports on antiviral drugs which have not...Read More

FORMER GSK SALES REPRESENTATIVE TELLS BBC’S PANORAMA THAT DOCTORS WERE PAID TO BOOST PRESCRIPTIONS. The UK-based drug company, which has faced claims of corruption in China and Iraq, has been accused over its alleged behaviour in Poland. READ THE STORY HERE. Last year, a July 2013 CBC headline read: GlaxoSmithKline pledges reform after China bribery scandal.Read More

SHAWN BUCKLEY’S ARTICLE IN APRIL’S EDITION OF VITALITY MAGAZINE IS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE Shawn’s keynote topics for 2014 include CETA, Bill C-17 and our diminishing access to impartial courts. “The store shelves are full, but are things truly rosy? If you depend on a product that is no longer available, or if you depend on...Read More