
Absurdity-Observer-October-2026
Absurdity Observer – October 2026
- A BC family doctor has been ordered to pay $28,100 after refusing to inject a 14-year-old transgender patient with a puberty blocker. Dr. Henry Ajaero said the treatment conflicted with his religious beliefs and was outside his experience and expertise, but the BC Human Rights Tribunal ruled that his refusal amounted to discrimination and that he failed to take reasonable steps to arrange alternative care.
- Mere weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney enjoyed a personal summer vacation in Italy, he urged Canadians to “travel in Canada” to support the country during its trade dispute with the United States. Apparently, “buy Canadian” applies to everyone only once the prime minister gets home from Tuscany.
- Ontario taxpayers spent $25,000 responding to Trump’s “Lake America” order with a giant “Lake Ontario” sign. Shortly after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the US federal government to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Premier Doug Ford responded by unveiling a giant bilingual sign near Hamilton declaring “Lake Ontario, Now and Always.”
- On September 10, just two days after Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Canadians that it “won’t be easy” as retaliatory tariffs against the US begin to take effect, he announced hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding and loan guarantees for Ukraine, pushing Canada’s total commitment to Ukraine to over $26 billion since 2022—the equivalent of roughly $622 for every person in Canada.
- Newly released records show Vaughan officials budgeted $120,000 on a 10-day trip to Italy to promote trade and “cultural ties”—working out to $20,000 for each of the six people who went. More than $1,700 went to Ubers, including $31.79 to travel just 900 metres (a 5-minute walk).
- A new peer-reviewed systematic analysis found that vaccinated people can—and do—spread measles. While looking at 890 measles cases in MMR-vaccinated people, researchers identified at least 70 vaccinated patients who transmitted the virus, causing 237 direct secondary infections and transmission chains totalling 812 cases. (Wright et al.)
- Google is rolling out age verification across Canada as the federal government advances new rules requiring online platforms to identify younger users and apply age-based protections. Google says that some users may have to upload government ID or take a selfie to remove restrictions on Google features.
- A drunk driver who killed a 12-year-old girl avoids jail time, with the Ontario judge citing “colonialism” and his Indigenous background as major factors in the sentence. Darris Wilson was travelling about 90 km/h in a 50 km/h zone when he struck a car carrying 12-year-old Sierra Beverly and her mother, Naomi. Sierra was killed, while Naomi suffered a devastating brain injury and still requires 24-hour care. The Crown sought four years in prison, but Justice Gethin Edward instead sentenced Wilson to two years of house arrest, reasoning that prison would once again separate him from a culture that had been “systematically” taken from his family by the Canadian government.
- Emails released by US Senator Rand Paul show Anthony Fauci solicited scientists (including researchers whose institutions received NIAID funding) to nominate him for major cash awards while he was running the agency. Fauci sent out the emails, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) staff later helped prepare his nomination. Fauci won the 2021 Dan David Prize worth $1 million, with 10% designated for scholarships—meaning Fauci took home $900,000.
- As part of the latest Fauci-focused document tranche released by US Senator Rand Paul, a CIA memo shows former FDA commissioner and Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb privately estimated that 20–25% of Americans had already been infected with COVID by May 7, 2020—while publicly estimating national exposure at about 5% in April and just 8% three months later. The CIA briefing came only two days after Pfizer began its first US COVID-vaccine trial.
- Stunning federal records reveal that a myocarditis/pericarditis report was already in Canada’s vaccine-safety system on December 4, 2020—five days before Health Canada authorized Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. Yet Canadians waited six months, until June 2021, for a public warning about the emerging heart-inflammation signal. The records released through Parliamentary Question Q-766 contain tens of thousands of domestic and international myocarditis/pericarditis reports accumulated afterward.
- Is Big Pharma secretly “ghostwriting” articles in top medical and oncology journals to persuade doctors into prescribing their drugs? An investigation identified 1,148 medical-writing and communications companies involved in producing scientific literature, with more than 20,000 published papers acknowledging “medical-writing assistance” from “industry-funded professionals” (Bernisson & Sismondo). Another study examining 270 cancer trials published in six major journals (including The Lancet, NEJM and JAMA) found that 48.5% used “industry-funded professional” medical writers (Buck et al.).
- An Alberta woman is facing a human-rights tribunal hearing over a flyer she distributed opposing a rainbow crosswalk. In 2023, Benita Pedersen distributed a flyer urging residents to contact elected officials and oppose the town’s proposed Pride-themed crosswalk. A human-rights complaint now alleges the flyer violated Section 3 of Alberta’s Human Rights Act by exposing people to hatred or contempt on the basis of gender, gender identity and gender expression.
- Ford Motor Company has patented technology that could turn vehicles into roving biometric scanners. The system can capture a person’s biometric information—including facial features—send it to a remote server, and compare it against a database containing people with active arrest warrants, missing-person reports, and other “security events.” If there’s a match, the patent describes quietly alerting the system’s administrator without telling the person being scanned.
