• Another millionaire preaching against climate change and oligarchy—while flying around in private jets. According to Federal Election Commission filings, Bernie Sanders’ Fighting Oligarchy campaign committee spent over $221,000 on private jets in just the first quarter of 2025, eating up 75% of the campaign’s total spending. Confronted by Fox News about the hypocrisy, Sanders brushed it off: “They’re the only way to get around… When was the last time you saw Donald Trump [fly commercial]? You think I’m gonna be sitting in a waiting line at United?”
• Roughly 400 ostriches at Universal Ostrich in Edgewood, BC are set to be culled to prevent the spread of avian flu—despite the fact that none are currently infected and they are now believed to have natural immunity against the virus. The order follows the discovery of avian flu in two dead birds last December and falls under Canada’s strict “stamping out” policy, which mandates the destruction of all domestic birds on affected farms.
• A new Fraser Institute report reveals that in 2024, Canadians faced an average wait time of 30 weeks between a GP referral and medically necessary treatment. The result? Over $5.2 billion in lost wages, millions of hours of lost productivity, and millions of hours of additional pain and suffering.

• Top Canadian health officials signed gag orders to protect the Trudeau government during COVID. Newly released records confirm that Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, and 29 senior federal health officials signed confidentiality agreements during the pandemic, not to protect public health, but to shield the Trudeau government from “embarrassment” and public scrutiny. The internal documents, uncovered through Access to Information requests and reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, reveal a systemic policy of secrecy inside Health Canada. The oath came right after the federal government signed a multi-billion-dollar deal to buy mRNA COVID jabs from pharmaceutical companies.
• Three children have been saved after being held captive for four years under COVID lockdown imposed by their parents. According to investigators, the German-American family were reported to have been living under lockdown conditions in Spain since 2021. Despite living in Spain for years, the children did not know any Spanish and spoke to investigators in English while wearing three masks layered on top of each other.
• A massive peer-reviewed study out of Israel has found that children and teens who received at least one COVID-19 vaccine had a 23% greater risk of developing autoimmune disease compared to their unvaccinated peers. Published in Pediatric Rheumatology, the study of nearly 500,000 youth (Freiberg et al.) found that the onset of autoimmune disease typically occurred nearly 9 months after vaccination, underscoring the need for long-term safety studies—a step bypassed during the vaccine rollout under “Operation Warp Speed.” Notably, researchers did not observe any increase in autoimmune disease among unvaccinated children who had prior COVID-19 infection.
• Global Study finds that COVID deaths rose in the most vaccinated regions. A newly published study (Okoro et al.) found a paradoxical rise in COVID-19 deaths during the vaccine rollout—especially in countries with higher vaccination rates. Titled “Paradoxical increase in global COVID-19 deaths with vaccination coverage,” the study used WHO data from 2020–2023 to track the trend.
• Quebec study finds 50+ pesticides in treated tap water—experts warn of “cocktail effect.” A new study from Quebec, published in Water Research (Feng et al.), has revealed the presence of over 50 different pesticides and their breakdown products in treated tap water, raising alarm about the “cocktail effect”—the unknown health risks of exposure to a mixture of different chemicals over time.
• The Bloc Québécois has filed a Superior Court challenge to overturn the election results in the federal riding of Terrebonne after losing to the Liberal Party by just one vote. In a news release, the party says there is doubt about who won the riding in the April 28 federal election because a mail-in vote from a Bloc supporter was returned to the sender. Elections Canada admitted they misprinted the postal code on the special ballot envelope.
• “Pfizergate” blows wide open: EU court rules Commission broke transparency laws. The scandal erupted in 2021 when The New York Times revealed that EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen secretly negotiated a €35 billion COVID vaccine deal with Pfizer’s CEO—via private texts and calls—sidestepping official channels and legal protocols. After years of stonewalling, the EU Court of Justice has now ruled the Commission violated transparency laws by refusing to release the text messages. The court found no valid reason for hiding the texts, confirming long-standing fears of a cover-up and abuse of power at the highest levels of the EU.
• Nearly $69K of our tax dollars went to study CBC’s hurt feelings. The Department of Canadian Heritage spent $68,640 for research that asked CBC journalists if they were the subject of hurtful remarks by conservative politicians or rival media, according to Access to Information records.
• More than 25,000 students across Ontario have been suspended this school year due to out-of-date vaccination records, according to data collected by Trillium. The actual number is likely thousands more, as 11 of the province’s 29 public health units have yet to report their data.
• High levels of weedkiller RoundUp (glyphosate) found in more than half of sperm samples, study finds (Vasseur et al.). The new research also found evidence of impacts on DNA and a correlation between glyphosate levels and oxidative stress on seminal plasma, suggesting significant impacts on fertility and reproductive health.
• Toxic chemicals are lurking where Canadian kids sleep. A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology  (Vaezafshar et al.) found all 16 low-cost children’s mattresses tested emitted a cocktail of up to 21 different semi-volatile organic compounds, including phthalates, flame retardants, and UV-filter chemicals.
• A small-scale Alberta egg farmer was arrested, and all his chickens are slated to be killed, for selling eggs outside of Canada’s tightly controlled “egg cartel” quota system. In an interview with the Western Standard, the farmer’s daughter stated that five RCMP vehicles arrived to arrest her father, Henk Van Essen. She also alleged that the Egg Farmers of Alberta is targeting small producers to protect its quota system. Critics have labelled the system a “cartel” that restricts competition and inflates egg prices for consumers.
• A major peer-reviewed meta-analysis of hundreds of studies has confirmed what many suspected: young males face a strong and statistically significant risk of myocarditis after receiving COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Just as striking, the study found no such risk among unvaccinated individuals who catch COVID-19 (Mead et al.).

More Absurdities!

• Government shuts down Pfizer whistleblower case—says it could hurt public health messaging. Brook Jackson, a researcher who said Pfizer falsified data during its COVID vaccine trial, is having her False Claims Act lawsuit thrown out. The government says letting the case move forward goes against its public health goals.
• Nearly half of Athens’ “COVID Deaths” had nothing to do with COVID. A peer-reviewed study in Scientific Reports (Basoulis et al.) reveals that nearly half of all COVID deaths had no link to the virus at all, and COVID was suspected to be the direct cause in only about a quarter of the cases.
• The US FDA is requiring Pfizer and Moderna to expand the warnings on the labels of their COVID-19 vaccines to include the risk of heart inflammation in adolescents and young men ages 16-25 and cite a CDC-funded 2024 paper published in The Lancet (Jain et al.).
• Israel proposes Gaza distribute aid only to those who submit to biometric facial recognition. The proposed system would restrict food access to Gazans who do not undergo biometric screening. Israeli officials framed the move as a way to prevent humanitarian supplies from being seized by Hamas.
• Four years after the 2021 “unmarked graves” panic gripped Canada, the CBC has quietly admitted that no human remains have been found at any of the sites flagged by ground-penetrating radar as “potential” graves. In a recent correction on April 17th, CBC acknowledged that chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton was wrong when she claimed on live television the previous day that the “remains of Indigenous children” had been discovered. The network corrected the statement, claiming the locations are instead “potential” burial sites.
• After spending $54 million on slick COVID vaccine ads aimed at Canadians aged 18-24, the federal government is now bracing for vaccine injury payouts to blow past its $75 million budget. According to Blacklock’s Reporter, on April 28, Health Canada admitted that payouts under the Vaccine Injury Support Program are set to exceed expectations. The program was launched in December 2020—just after the Trudeau government granted pharmaceutical companies legal immunity from COVID shot-related harms.