OCLA has been actively opposed to all of the oppressive and unnecessary government measures during the COVID era, from the beginning in 2020.
This page collects OCLA’s main reports, public letters, position statements, and interviews on COVID, in chronological order:
2020
April 2020 — OCLA Report 2020-1: “Criticism of government response to COVID-19 in Canada”
April 2020 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt publishes article “Masks Don’t Work A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy”
June 2020 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt publishes article “All-cause mortality during COVID-19: No plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response”
June 2020 — OCLA letter to the World Health Organization asking it to retract its recommendation advising the use of face masks in the general population
June 2020 — OCLA campaign to oppose mandatory face masks in Ontario municipalities
June 2020 — OCLA recommends civil disobedience against mandatory masking
July 2020 — OCLA publishes Prof. Joseph Audie’s criticism of the Chu et al. article used by the WHO as a basis for recommending masking in the general population
August 2020 — OCLA letter in defence of the free speech of Ontario medical doctor Kulvinder Gill
August 2020 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt publishes article “Face masks, lies, damn lies, and public health officials: ‘A growing body of evidence'”
August 2020 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt publishes article “Evaluation of the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 in France, from all-cause mortality 1946-2020”
October 2020 — OCLA participates in the Toronto rally against the Fall 2020 lockdown in Ontario
October 2020 — OCLA invites the Chairperson of the Ottawa Board of Health to participate in a public debate on Ottawa’s face mask law
December 2020 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt publishes article “Measures do not prevent deaths, transmission is not by contact, masks provide no benefit, vaccines are inherently dangerous: Review update of recent science relevant to COVID-19 policy”
2021
February 2021 — OCLA Report 2021-1: “Analysis of the scientific basis for Ontario, Canada’s mandatory face masking and physical distancing law, 2020”
February 2021 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt publishes article “Review of scientific reports of harms caused by face masks, up to February 2021”
August 2021 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt publishes article “Analysis of all-cause mortality by week in Canada 2010-2021, by province, age and sex: There was no COVID-19 pandemic, and there is strong evidence of response-caused deaths in the most elderly and in young males”
August 2021 — OCLA publishes Canadian academics’ “Open Letter to the Unvaccinated”
August 2021 — OCLA publishes Ontario resident Ben Weigl’s report on his efforts to have his face mask exemption recognized by a shopping mall in Windsor
August 2021 — OCLA publishes statement on the Canadian government’s proposal to force injections on employees and travellers
August 2021 — OCLA publishes Canadian academics’ “Open Letter to the Vaccinated”
September 2021 — OCLA publishes Canadian academics’ “Open Letter to Public Health Officers”
September 2021 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt publishes article “Do Face Masks Reduce COVID-19 Spread in Bangladesh? Are the Abaluck et al. Results Reliable?”
September 2021 — OCLA publishes scientist Dr. John Zwaagstra’s article “Vaccine concerns weighed against natural immunity”
September 2021 — OCLA publishes Professor Warren Kindzierski’s article “Rapid appraisal of the usefulness of mRNA vaccines for SARS-COV-2 Delta variant infections and implications for Alberta”
October 2021 — OCLA calls for sudden deaths in Ontario to be investigated
October 2021 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt publishes article “Nature of the COVID-era public health disaster in the USA”
November 2021 — OCLA supports Ottawa resident’s efforts to oppose a proof of vaccination requirement at the Toy Mountain Christmas Campaign
November 2021 — OCLA publishes documents about Bank of Canada data scientist’s case of being placed on unpaid leave for declining vaccination
November 2021 — OCLA publishes documents about Canadian Blood Services employee’s case of being terminated for declining vaccination
December 2021 — OCLA publishes documents about Bank of Canada IT employee’s case of being placed on unpaid leave for declining vaccination
2022
January 2022 — OCLA statement on Analysis of Batch-Specific Toxicity of COVID-19 Vaccine Products using VAERS Data
February 2022 — OCLA Report 2022-1 (ver. 1): “Nature of the toxicity of the COVID-19 vaccines in the USA”
February 2022 — OCLA statement on the Government’s Use of the Emergencies Act
February 2022 — OCLA calls on MPs to Reject the Use of the Emergencies Act to Crush Peaceful Protest at Parliament Hill
March 2022 — OCLA researchers interviewed (in French) about OCLA Report 2022-1 on the toxicity of the COVID-19 vaccines
March 2022 — OCLA publishes Bank of Canada data scientist’s internal appeal of being placed on unpaid leave for declining vaccination (aussi disponible en français)
March 2022 — OCLA director Joseph Hickey interviewed about the lack of scientific basis for all of the COVID measures
April 2022 — OCLA statement on the CMAJ Fisman et al. Article Claiming Disproportionate Infection Risk from Unvaccinated Population, and on Negligent Media Reporting
April 2022 — OCLA’s response to the Fisman et al. article published as a Letter to the Editor on CMAJ’s site
April 2022 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt interviewed about OCLA’s criticism of the Fisman et al. article on the Trish Wood is Critical podcast
May 2022 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt presents OCLA’s criticism of the Fisman et al. article to the Canadian Covid Care Alliance
July 2022 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt co-authors article “Evaluating the Effect of Lockdowns On All-Cause Mortality During the COVID Era: Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives”
August 2022 — OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt co-authors article “COVID-Period Mass Vaccination Campaign and Public Health Disaster in the USA”
September 2022 — OCLA’s submission to the Public Order Emergency Commission on the Canadian government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quash peaceful protest at Parliament Hill during the Freedom Convoy in February 2022
September 2022 — OCLA Report 2022-2: “Canadian court decisions on the constitutionality of Covid measures are invalid due to jurisdictional errors of law”
October 2022 — OCLA hosts report questioning the Canadian government’s official number of “COVID deaths”
October 2022 — OCLA Report 2022-3: “State coercion to receive medical injections confirms conflicting interpretations of the right to life, liberty and security of the person (Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms)”
October 2022 — OCLA director Joseph Hickey and researcher Denis Rancourt interviewed (in French) about OCLA Report 2022-3 on Tribunal de l’Infaux with Julie Levesque
November 2022 — OCLA director Joseph Hickey raises constitutional issues in appeal of denial of Employment Insurance (EI) benefits at the Social Security Tribunal of Canada
December 2022 — OCLA hosts report “Probable causal association between India’s extraordinary April-July 2021 excess-mortality event and the vaccine rollout”
December 2022 — OCLA hosts Registered Nurse Andrew Brannan’s letter to the CEO of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario opposing action campaign for renewed mask mandates
December 2022 — OCLA hosts an important Social Security Tribunal of Canada decision finding that an employee’s personal decision not to receive a COVID vaccination does not constitute “misconduct” barring the employee from receiving Employment Insurance benefits.
December 2022 — OCLA hosts report “Probable causal association between Australia’s new regime of high all-cause mortality and its COVID-19 vaccine rollout”
2023
February 2023 — OCLA hosts report “Age-stratified COVID-19 vaccine-dose fatality rate for Israel and Australia”
March 2023 — OCLA report “The Court of Appeal for Ontario’s decision in J.N. v. C.G. brings the province’s appellate judiciary into disrepute”
May 2023 — OCLA director Joseph Hickey files leave to appeal request of the Social Security Tribunal (General Division)’s decision not to hear his constitutional challenge of the “misconduct” provisions of the Employment Insurance Act.
September 2023 — OCLA hosts report “COVID-19 vaccine-associated mortality in the Southern Hemisphere”
October 2023 — OCLA hosts report “Quantitative evaluation of whether the Nobel-Prize-winning COVID-19 vaccine actually saved millions of lives”
November 2023 — OCLA hosts report “Fisman et al.’s Psi (Ψ) index is ill-defined and leads to absurd interpretations”
2024
April 2024 — OCLA hosts report “Comment on ‘Impact of immune evasion, waning and boosting on dynamics of population mixing between a vaccinated majority and unvaccinated minority’ by Fisman et al. (2024): Incorrect definition and application of a parameter ψ”
