Category Archives: COVID

OCLA Report 2022-2: “Canadian court decisions on the constitutionality of Covid measures are invalid due to jurisdictional errors of law”

OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt, PhD, has authored a new report (OCLA Report 2022-2) explaining fundamental errors of law in Canadian court decisions in which the constitutionality of governmental COVID-19 measures were challenged. From the Introduction: The purpose of this article … Continue reading

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OCLA’s submission to the Public Order Emergency Commission

OCLA strenuously opposed the Canadian government’s February 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act to quash peaceful protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. OCLA has submitted the following letter and package of documents to the Public Order Emergency Commission, pursuant to its … Continue reading

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COVID-Period Mass Vaccination Campaign and Public Health Disaster in the USA

OCLA Researcher Denis Rancourt just released this important paper, with his co-authors Marine Baudin and Jérémie Mercier, based on a detailed analysis of age/state-resolved all-cause mortality by time, age-resolved vaccine delivery by time, and socio-geo-economic data. The PDF can be … Continue reading

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Dr. Denis Rancourt presents OCLA’s criticism of the CMAJ Fisman et al. paper to the Canadian Covid Care Alliance

OCLA researcher Dr. Denis Rancourt presented the OCLA’s criticism of the recent Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) paper by Fisman et al. to members of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance at a Zoom meeting on May 4, 2022. OCLA expressed its … Continue reading

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OCLA Statement on CMAJ Fisman et al. Article Claiming Disproportionate Infection Risk from Unvaccinated Population, and on Negligent Media Reporting

(A PDF version of this statement is available here) (Une traduction en français de cette déclaration est disponible ici) Update: A condensed version of this statement has been published as a Letter to the Editor on CMAJ’s website (here) The recently … Continue reading

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OCLA on the Freedom Feature

OCLA Executive Director Joseph Hickey was interviewed on the First Freedoms Foundation (FFF)’s “Freedom Feature” program by Dr. Barry W. Bussey. The interview can be viewed on FFF’s website at the link HERE, or embedded below: From FFF’s description of the … Continue reading

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Un scientifique des données interjette appel contre la politique de vaccination obligatoire de la Banque du Canada

Joseph Hickey, Ph. D., scientifique des données à la Banque du Canada (banque centrale du Canada), a été mis en congé sans solde et sans avantages sociaux par son employeur en novembre 2021 pour avoir refusé d’être vacciné contre la COVID-19 … Continue reading

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Data scientist files internal appeal of Bank of Canada’s mandatory vaccination policy

Dr. Joseph Hickey, a data scientist at the Bank of Canada (Canada’s central bank) was placed on unpaid leave without benefits by his employer in November 2021, for declining to receive injections of a COVID-19 vaccine [See also: OCLA blog post, media … Continue reading

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Freedom Convoy Statement of Accomplishments

Organizers of the 2022 Freedom Convoy have posted a written statement on the accomplishments of the movement. The Mar. 3, 2022, statement can be read on Twitter or in PDF format at the link here. From the statement: Despite the government’s … Continue reading

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Transcript: MPP Randy Hillier’s Statement – “End of a Chapter”

Randy Hillier, Member of Provincial Parliament for the Lanark, Ontario region since 2007, has announced he will not seek re-election in the upcoming Ontario provincial election scheduled for June 2022. Mr. Hillier is a fierce defender of civil liberties and individual … Continue reading

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