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Do Flu Shots "Save Lives"?

Jan 30 2025 34 mins

When I started family practice in ‘99 I held flu shot clinics for several years for patients in the rural community of Lansdowne, Ontario, where I worked. I was taught that “Flu Shots Save Lives”. The government advertised them to my patients. Demand was high. The pay was good.Over the years I became more skeptical about vaccines, including flu shots. What does the science sa

What's the D-eal on D

Apr 07 2024 42 mins

I was very honoured to speak with Dr. Kanji Nakatsu, a PhD in pharmacology and emeritus professor from Queen’s University, about the interesting and somewhat controversial subject of Vitamin D.Is D a wonder drug? Or a fad? Should we be supplementing? If so, how much?This discussion is a little technical, and perhaps not for everyone, but I hope many of you find it of interest.Thi

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction - Part 4

Feb 10 2024 19 mins

Urban wastelandsOne of my friends described our hometown of Sydney’s downtown as looking more and more like a zombie apocalypse. Those who are addicted to the point of homelessness tend to migrate to larger centres. A rural community won’t put up with Joe Smith, Mike and Maggie’s son, pitching a tent in the field where the kids play baseball, leaving dirty needles around, and

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction - Part 3

Feb 07 2024 15 mins

The watering down of languageWhen I was a medical resident in Kingston Ontario in the late 90’s, we would sometimes receive patients from the Rideau Regional Centre. This was a residential facility or “Institution” between Kingston and Ottawa that at its peak in the mid-50’s housed over 2500 mentally handicapped people. Back then in the 90’s, the government was in the las

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction? Part 2

Feb 03 2024 19 mins

Once again you have the option to listen or read. Either way, thanks for being here and I look forward to your comments and ideas.The Solution to drug addiction is unlikely more drugsBig Pharma was a Big Part of creating this crisis in the first place. At minimum it poured gasoline on a fire lit by the loss of religion, social and community connections. Yet of course Big Pharma has

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction

Feb 01 2024 7 mins

(I’m posting this as a podcast as some of you have mentioned you like having an audio version. But if you prefer the traditional written format, simply continue reading…)Problems in CottonlandI moved back home to Cape Breton in 2003. CB has long been a “depressed area”, Canada’s equivalent of Appalachia, which JD Vance wrote about so well in Hillbilly Elegy. We were a coa

Canadian Federal Court Rules Invocation of The Emergencies Act was Unjustified

Jan 24 2024 32 mins

By now most people who are tuned in to these issues have heard lots about the recent Federal Court ruling that concluded that Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act), which granted the government essentially unlimited powers to forcibly end the trucker rally in Ottawa, was unjustified.This decision amounts to a hard beat-down of Trudeau and his

Dr. Ken Zucker

Oct 21 2023 48 mins

I first heard of Dr. Ken Zucker back in 2015 when the story about his firing as the head of the CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s) gender dysphoria clinic first broke. The story struck me as strange. At that time he had 40 years of experience in the clinic. And as far as I could tell he was being accused of being “anti-trans”, one of the new heresies of the woke

Dr. Eric Payne

Oct 19 2023 31 mins

Dr. Eric Payne is a paediatric neurologist. He has a degree in Public Health from Harvard, and worked at the Mayo Clinic for a number of years before returning to Canada to take a job in Alberta in 2020.A healthy society sacrifices for and protects its children. I know of no grandparent who would not willingly lay down his or her life for a grandchild. But COVID policy took such ch

James Manson

Oct 18 2023 46 mins

(note that in this podcast I read this intro in the audio version, so if you plan to listen, you can save the time and eyestrain)The idea of “god-given freedoms” is at the basis of classical liberalism. These are often referred to as “negative rights”. I touched on this issue briefly in a previous substack. Negative rights can be thought of as freedom FROM something. The ri