The Allison Inquiry: Canada’s Vaccine-Injured Are Going to Parliament Hill

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September 8–11, 2026. Parliament Hill. Ottawa.

Four days have been set aside for something that should have happened years ago:

Listening to Canadians who say they were injured by COVID-19 vaccines.

The Allison Inquiry, chaired by Member of Parliament Dean Allison, will hear testimony from Canadians who have experienced vaccine injuries themselves, as well as family members speaking about injuries suffered by loved ones.

And it will be broadcast live from Parliament Hill.

This matters.

Not because the Inquiry has already decided what happened.

In fact, quite deliberately, it hasn't.

According to its official Terms of Reference, the Allison Inquiry is not tasked with making findings of fact or reaching conclusions. Its stated purpose is much simpler:

To provide a neutral forum where Canadians can tell their stories and where lawmakers can listen.

The Inquiry is also explicitly non-partisan. MPs and Senators from all parties are eligible to participate.

Think about how remarkably modest that request actually is.

Listen to them.

For years, Canadians were told that vaccination was something we did for one another. We heard phrases like protect your community, do your part and we're all in this together.

Well, if someone was harmed while doing what society asked them to do, surely we're all in this together doesn't suddenly expire.

Whatever your opinion of the COVID vaccines, mandates, politicians, pharmaceutical companies, public health agencies—or the entire pandemic response—people who believe they were injured deserve to be heard.

That shouldn't be controversial.

Canada even has a federal Vaccine Injury Support Program, which by its very existence acknowledges a basic reality: although serious vaccine reactions are considered uncommon, vaccine injuries can occur.

So why should discussing those injuries be taboo?

Why should the people living with them be treated as though acknowledging their existence somehow threatens everyone else's medical choices?

It doesn't.

You can believe vaccines have benefited people and believe people injured by them deserve recognition, investigation, treatment and support.

Those positions are not mutually exclusive.

Perhaps one of the most important parts of the Allison Inquiry will therefore be the simplest: putting human beings back into a discussion that has too often been reduced to statistics, slogans and political camps.

More than 50 witnesses are expected to testify over the four days.

Real people.

Real families.

Real stories.

Some may be difficult to hear.

Hear them anyway.

The Allison Inquiry takes place September 8, 9, 10 and 11, 2026, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, and the proceedings are expected to be livestreamed.

The organizers are also encouraging Canadians to contact their Members of Parliament and ask them to attend.

Maybe do that.

And then watch.

You don't have to prejudge the testimony.

You don't have to agree with every witness.

You don't even have to agree with the people organizing the Inquiry.

Just listen.

Because after everything Canadians were asked to endure and sacrifice in the name of protecting one another, surely we can spare four days to hear from some of the people who say they were hurt along the way.

The Allison Inquiry
September 8–11, 2026
Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Official Allison Inquiry website

Listen. Investigate. Ask questions.

Canadians deserve that much.

                                                                                

What Is the Enuma Elish?

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The Enuma Elish is an ancient Babylonian creation story, written in Mesopotamia and preserved on seven clay tablets in cuneiform. The surviving version is usually dated to the late second millennium BCE, although parts of the tradition may be older.

Its name comes from the opening words, Enuma Elish — “When on high.”

The story begins before the world as we know it exists. There are no cities, no land, and no humans. Instead, there are primordial waters represented by divine beings: Apsu, associated with fresh water, and Tiamat, associated with salt water and the chaotic sea.

From them come generations of gods.

Conflict follows.

Eventually the younger god Marduk battles Tiamat, kills her, and uses her body to construct the ordered cosmos — forming the heavens and the earth. Marduk then becomes the supreme god of Babylon.

Humans are created afterward, in part to perform the labour and service previously expected of the gods.

That last point is especially interesting because the Enuma Elish comes from the same broad Mesopotamian cultural world in which some of the earliest biblical traditions later developed.

There are noticeable echoes between Mesopotamian creation stories and Genesis: primordial waters, the ordering of chaos, the division of the waters, the creation of the heavens and earth, and finally humanity.

That doesn't mean Genesis simply copied the Enuma Elish. It does mean Genesis did not appear in a cultural vacuum.

Long before the Hebrew Bible was compiled, people in Mesopotamia were already telling elaborate stories about creation, divine beings, cosmic waters, humanity, and humanity's relationship with the gods.

And those clay tablets survived.

Which makes the Enuma Elish a fascinating piece of the much older world sitting behind the biblical stories most of us were taught as children.

                                                                               

Autophagy: Your Body Has Its Own Recycling System

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Every so often, a health claim goes viral that sounds almost too good to be true.

“Japanese scientist wins Nobel Prize for proving fasting makes the body eat damaged cells.”

That version isn't quite accurate.

But the actual science may be even more interesting.

In 2016, Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering key mechanisms behind autophagy — literally, “self-eating.”

Autophagy is one of the ways cells clean house.

Damaged proteins, worn-out cellular components and other material can be enclosed, broken down and recycled. The resulting building blocks can then be reused by the cell.

The Nobel Committee describes Ohsumi's work as helping explain how cells adapt to starvation and infection, while also providing clues to diseases involving cancer and neurological dysfunction.

Nobel Prize: Yoshinori Ohsumi and autophagy

So Where Does Fasting Come In?

When nutrients are plentiful, cells operate largely in growth-and-storage mode.

When food disappears for a period of time, the metabolic environment changes.

Insulin falls. Stored glucose begins to be depleted. Fat increasingly becomes fuel and ketones begin rising.

And nutrient deprivation is one of the signals associated with increased autophagy.

That connection has been demonstrated extremely well in animals and laboratory models.

Humans have been harder to study because you can't exactly remove bits of people's organs every few hours to see what their cells are doing.

Interestingly, that is beginning to change.

A 2025 randomized human study involving 121 adults found evidence that intermittent fasting combined with time-restricted eating may increase autophagic flux in humans after six months.

That is considerably more meaningful than simply assuming that what happens in mice must happen identically in us.

Human autophagy study — PubMed

When Does Autophagy Start?

Here's where the internet gets way too confident.

You will see charts claiming:

12 hours — autophagy begins
18 hours — strong autophagy
24 hours — deep cellular cleanup
48 hours — stem-cell regeneration

Human biology does not work according to a universal stopwatch.

The metabolic shift toward using fat and producing ketones begins after a period without food. A major review in the New England Journal of Medicine notes that ketones begin rising in humans roughly 8–12 hours after fasting begins, although this varies considerably.

NEJM: Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease

That does not mean an autophagy switch suddenly flips at hour twelve.

Autophagy is occurring in our bodies all the time. Nutrient deprivation can alter and increase the process, but scientists still don't have a precise universal fasting time that produces “maximum autophagy” in humans.

How To Try Time-Restricted Eating

You don't necessarily need heroic three-day fasts.

A far more practical approach is simply extending the natural overnight period when you're already not eating.

For example:

12:12

Finish eating at 7 p.m. and eat breakfast at 7 a.m.

That's an easy starting point.

Then perhaps:

14:10

Finish dinner at 7 p.m. and eat again at 9 a.m.

Or:

16:8

Eat within an eight-hour window — perhaps 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. — and consume no calories during the remaining sixteen hours.

Johns Hopkins discusses 16:8 as one commonly used form of intermittent fasting.

Johns Hopkins: Intermittent Fasting

Water, plain tea and black coffee are generally used during fasting periods because they contribute little or no food energy.

And longer isn't automatically better.

Johns Hopkins specifically cautions that 24-, 36-, 48- and 72-hour fasts aren't necessarily more beneficial and can become dangerous.

What I Find Fascinating

We tend to think of eating as supplying the body with everything it needs to repair itself.

But biology appears to have another mode entirely.

Periods without incoming nutrients tell cells:

Stop building for a while.
Use what we already have.
Recycle what isn't working.
Adapt.

That makes evolutionary sense.

Humans didn't evolve with breakfast at eight, snacks at ten, lunch at noon, snacks at three, dinner at six and something crunchy while watching television at ten.

Periods without food were normal.

Modern life has made constant feeding normal instead.

Autophagy doesn't prove fasting cures cancer, prevents dementia or magically reverses aging. Those claims run considerably ahead of the human evidence.

But it does demonstrate something rather remarkable:

Our cells aren't passive structures waiting for medicine to repair them.

They contain ancient systems for maintenance, recycling, adaptation and survival.

Sometimes biology apparently needs something from us that costs absolutely nothing.

A little time without food.

                                                                               

A Prayer For Us Now.

 Written by me.

Where does "racism" come from?

I think it's manufactured by our govts and control measures. 

Right now, racism is being developed in the minds of those who see the truck drivers smuggling everything from drugs to people.  

It's being developed as we see cities with ample workforce hiring people from other countries.  

It's being developed by cultures clashing against one another.  

We are here, now.  

I struggle with this as you know.  

But I must hold to the truth that all of this is bieng done TO us for disunity.  

Even the illogical bits where we're celebrating gender differences while welcoming those in faiths who do not abide anything outside the "binary".  

Chaos is their goal. 

I ask Source to help me realize that people are being played here. 

I ask Mary to wrap us in love.

I ask Mariam to wrap us in bravery. 

I ask Yeshua to wrap us in light.

Norea: The Woman Who Burned Noah’s Ark.

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Most of us who were raised anywhere near Christianity know Noah.

God sees that humanity has become corrupt, tells Noah that a catastrophic flood is coming, instructs him to build an ark, and Noah obeys. Noah and his family survive while almost everyone else dies.

It is one of the most familiar stories in the Bible.

Then you read an ancient Gnostic text called The Hypostasis of the Archons — also translated as The Reality of the Rulers — and encounter a woman named Norea.

Suddenly the Noah story becomes considerably more complicated.

Who Was Norea?

In The Hypostasis of the Archons, Norea is described as a daughter of Adam and Eve, born after Seth.

Eve says of her:

“He has produced for me a virgin as an assistance for many generations of human beings.”

The text then identifies Norea as a woman whom the ruling powers were unable to corrupt.

You won't find Norea in the familiar Genesis genealogy.

But she appears in several strands of early Gnostic tradition and became important enough that one surviving Nag Hammadi work is actually called The Thought of Norea.

What makes her fascinating is that Norea doesn't simply encounter the powers ruling the world.

She recognizes them.

And she refuses them.

Then Comes Noah

According to The Hypostasis of the Archons, the rulers decide to destroy life through a flood.

They say:

“Come, let us cause a flood with our hands and obliterate all flesh.”

Noah is warned and instructed to build an ark.

So far, the story sounds familiar.

Then Norea arrives.

She wants to enter the ark.

Noah refuses her.

Norea's response is not exactly subtle.

She blows upon the ark.

And the ark burns.

Noah has to build another one.

Yes.

There is an ancient version of the Noah story preserved among the Nag Hammadi writings in which a woman whom most Christians have never heard of burns Noah's first ark.

That seems like something somebody might have mentioned in Sunday school.

Why Would She Do That?

This is where the story stops being simply bizarre and becomes genuinely interesting.

The Gnostic writers behind these texts did not necessarily understand the creator and ruler of the material world as the highest God.

In this cosmology, lower beings called Archons — rulers or authorities — govern the material realm.

Above them exists a greater divine reality.

Humanity contains something originating from that higher realm.

And therefore the central spiritual problem becomes one of remembering where you came from.

Norea knows.

After the ark incident, the Archons approach her.

Their chief tells her that her mother Eve belonged to them.

Norea responds:

“I am not your descendant.”

She tells them instead that she comes “from the world above.”

That may be one of the most important statements in the entire story.

The rulers say:

You belong to us.

Norea says:

No, I don't.

The Archons Try to Claim Her

The encounter becomes darker.

The rulers attempt to overpower Norea and demand that she submit to them as they claim Eve had done.

Norea refuses.

She cries out to the true divine realm for help.

Then a great luminous being named Eleleth appears.

Eleleth tells Norea that he has come both to rescue her from the rulers and to teach her about her root — her true origin.

And then he tells her something remarkable.

The rulers have no real power over what she truly is.

Her spiritual origin belongs to something higher than their world.

Her home is in what the text calls incorruptibility, beyond the authorities of chaos.

Once again, knowledge changes everything.

Norea cannot be completely controlled because she knows what the rulers are and she knows what she is.

Noah Suddenly Looks Different

This doesn't necessarily make Noah evil.

But it does introduce an uncomfortable question into one of the Bible's great obedience stories.

Noah receives instructions.

Noah obeys.

Norea asks:

Who exactly are we obeying?

That is a profoundly Gnostic question.

In the conventional biblical story, obedience to God saves Noah.

In this Gnostic retelling, merely obeying the powers governing the world isn't necessarily evidence that those powers represent the highest divine authority.

The greater virtue is discernment.

That distinction appears repeatedly throughout Gnostic literature.

Authority does not prove divinity.

Power does not prove goodness.

And claiming to be God does not necessarily make someone God.

Another Ancient Version Goes Even Further

There is evidence that similar ideas about the Flood circulated among other early Gnostic groups.

Around the second century, the church writer Irenaeus described teachings he considered heretical in which Yaldabaoth, angry that humanity would not worship him, sent the Flood to destroy them.

In that tradition, Sophia opposed him.

Irenaeus certainly wasn't promoting these beliefs — he was attacking them.

But because he recorded them while arguing against them, his writing provides valuable evidence that Christians and Gnostics were debating radically different interpretations of Genesis very early in Christianity's history.

The Flood wasn't universally understood in exactly the way it eventually appeared in orthodox Christian teaching.

Norea Didn't Disappear

Norea later appears in the short Nag Hammadi work The Thought of Norea.

There she cries out toward the divine realm above.

She is heard.

She is received into her true place and described as possessing something that existed before the world came into being. The text places her ultimately within the Pleroma — the divine fullness beyond the deficient lower world.

So Norea isn't merely the angry woman who torched Noah's boat.

She represents something much larger.

Remembrance.

The remembrance that the material world may not tell us everything about what we are.

The remembrance that authority can be questioned.

The remembrance that something calling itself powerful does not automatically deserve obedience.

And perhaps most importantly:

the remembrance of one's origin.

The Woman We Were Never Told About

There is something almost poetic about Norea disappearing from the version of religious history most of us inherited.

Because her entire story revolves around refusing to accept someone else's account of who she is.

The rulers tell her who she belongs to.

She refuses them.

They tell her what authority they possess.

She sees beyond it.

They attempt to intimidate her.

She calls beyond them.

And when Noah shuts the door of the ark?

She burns the damn thing.

Whatever one ultimately believes about Gnostic cosmology, Norea remains one of the most extraordinary female figures surviving from early Christian-era literature.

Her message is remarkably simple:

Know where you came from.

Because once you know that, false authority becomes much harder to sell.

                                                                                                   

A High-Speed Train Can Cross a Farm in Seconds. The Damage Can Last Generations.

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The final route for ALTO, Canada’s proposed high-speed rail line between Toronto and Québec City, has not yet been chosen.

That does not mean we cannot already understand the risk to farmland.

ALTO is currently studying a corridor about 10 kilometres wide. Eventually, that will be narrowed to a final railway right-of-way averaging roughly 60 metres wide. (ALTO)

Sixty metres may not sound like much.

Until it runs through the middle of a farm.

A Farm Is More Than Acreage

A working farm is a connected system of fields, barns, laneways, drainage, pasture and equipment access.

A fenced high-speed rail line can divide that system in two.

ALTO says the railway will have no level crossings, meaning farmers will not simply be able to drive tractors across the tracks. Overpasses or underpasses may be required to maintain access. (ALTO)

That matters.

A farmer could still own land on both sides of the railway and yet find it much harder, slower or more expensive to actually farm it.

Farmers Are Already Sounding the Alarm

The Ontario Federation of Agriculture and Québec’s Union des producteurs agricoles have raised concerns about:

• farmland fragmentation

• drainage disruption

• loss of productive land

• access for large farm machinery

• livestock movement

They have called for an agriculture-first approach to ALTO planning. (OFA)

These are not minor inconveniences.

For some farms, being divided by permanent rail infrastructure could make the remaining operation inefficient or even economically unworkable.

Compensation Does Not Make a Farm Whole Again

ALTO says affected landowners will be compensated, and expropriation remains possible where agreements cannot be reached. (ALTO)

But compensation for the strip of land taken does not necessarily solve the larger problem.

A farm assembled over generations can depend on how its pieces connect.

If the barn is on one side and fields are on the other, or if drainage and access are disrupted, the loss extends beyond the acreage underneath the tracks.

You cannot always compensate a farm back into being whole.

We Still Don't Know How Many Farms Will Be Affected

ALTO says individual properties have not yet been identified because the final alignment has not been selected.

So we cannot honestly say how many farms will be divided.

But the proposed network stretches nearly 1,000 kilometres, and parts of the study corridor cross major agricultural regions. (ALTO)

That makes this a question worth asking now, not after the route is approved.

How many working farms will the final route cross?

How many will it split in two?

How many will remain practical to operate afterward?

Food Security Is Infrastructure Too

High-speed rail sounds modern and exciting.

Farmland does not photograph quite as dramatically.

But farmland is infrastructure too.

It feeds us.

ALTO may ultimately prove that much of the route can avoid serious agricultural disruption. If so, good.

But those impacts need to be measured before decisions are locked in.

Because once a high-speed railway cuts through a working farm, the real question is no longer simply how much land was taken.

It is whether what remains still works as a farm.

                                                                              

Quantifying the Impact YOU Have On Others-- A Personal Anecdote.

Written, lived, and felt-deeply by me Dianna Donnelly aka the couch activist. 

I've recently started doing that where Hyundai is concerned.  

Growing up, there was a dealership in Smish Smalls where I test drove an Accent once and my Dad said no way.  He didn't know the brand, didn't trust the brand, and didn't think I needed a car. 

Years later, I was hired and became the local Hyundai's first official Business Manager. The owner had been doing it since he began selling. I did financing, sold insurances on said financing, rust n' dust n' fabric protections too.  This was a very lucrative role for me.

My family supported that job by buying Hyundai.  That's not to say the fam was into the brand though.  I remember my Dad and sister coming in to drive a Mazda we had on the lot but after driving the Elantra, they both realized that driving is believing (lolololol--sorry old job hats leaking through).

Now, every single member of my family drive Hyundai's.  

Every single one!  

There's even an extended family member who knew me when I worked as a business manager, who now is also a business manager at ... yes, a Hyundai dealership.

I can often think I have no effect on anyone --- down dog down!

But the evidence of my impact is clear as quartz crystal.  They would never have bought the brand if I wasn't working there and the extended fam member would never have imagined seeking a job at a car dealership had it not been for my impact on her.  

Big woop for sure.  I mean, not life shattering or life saving but evidence nonetheless.  

Thank you for reading.  Writing this has left me with a little smirk.