Toronto Sun Capitulates on COVID-19 Vaccines

“The Toronto Sun is one of Canada’s largest-circulation daily newspapers — a Postmedia chain flagship, tabloid-format, with a reach that extends well past Toronto into Ontario’s suburbs, the 905, and syndicated op-ed distribution across the country. It is not a fringe blog. It’s a paper that sits on kitchen tables and in Tim Hortons racks from Windsor to Ottawa, and its columnists get read by the exact demographic — working and middle-class Canadians, tradespeople, parents, veterans, immigrants — that the federal government spent four years telling to “trust the science” and roll up their sleeves. The headline is not subtle: ‘Allison Inquiry must now lead to resignations and full public inquiry.‘ The subhead goes further — ‘Biggest health policy mistake in Canadian history at best, or crime against humanity at worst.‘ The author is very credible. Irvin Studin is the president of The Institute for 21st Century Questions and editor-in-chief of Global Brief magazine. He was nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the pandemic-era education catastrophe. This is a man with institutional standing writing in a mass-market daily, and he is saying out loud what the Canadian establishment has spent five years insisting is a conspiracy theory.”

His core claims, in his own words:

  • The COVID-19 vaccine program “injured tens of thousands of regular Canadians, and killed thousands of Canadians to boot.”
  • The vaccines were “patently defective” and approved “without having been tested thoroughly (and certainly not in Canada, by Canadians for Canadians!)”
  • The campaign was “hyper-aggressive” and in many cases “compulsive” — his word — and continued even after officials knew about risks.
  • Injured Canadians were “doubled down” on second and third doses. “Only maniacs do that!”
  • He explicitly names myocarditis risk for young males, referencing the testimony of Dan Hartman, whose 17-year-old hockey-playing son Sean died in 2021.
  • He calls for the immediate resignation of every remaining medical officer of health in Canada, starting with Ontario’s Kieran Moore — a call he first made in these same pages in fall 2021.
  • He invokes the tainted blood scandal and the Krever Commission as precedent for criminal investigations and civil actions, arguing the vaccine catastrophe is “multiple-fold greater” in human devastation.
  • He demands the Prime Minister Mark Carney call a full public inquiry today.

Read on at Focal Points: https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/breaking-toronto-sun-capitulates?r=o1vob&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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Mark Skidmore is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University where he holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy. His research focuses on topics in public finance, regional economics, and the economics of natural disasters. Mark created the Lighthouse Economics website and blog to share economic research and information relevant for navigating tumultuous times.

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