Garry Bredeson has three university aged boys. His testimony surrounds the problems encountered by the kids during the COVID mandates and the concern for their quality of education during this time. During the lockdowns Garry said, “having to come home and learn from our basement online was, it was a definite negative. And it seemed like the universities, they made some effort to make it seamless, but obviously it’s never the same when you have two young men in the same room trying to learn with labs and whatnot, online. It’s practically impossible for them to absorb and to excel.”
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Sherry Strong had a career as a celebrity chef and nutritionist in Australia before she returned to her native Canada and re-establish herself. She became the Alberta Director of the Children’s Health Defense organization and her job involved much public speaking around the country. Post COVID Sherry talks about her family experiences and about courage, “I was afraid for humanity. I was really sad and went through a real dark night of the soul around, that humans couldn’t see through this and what they were willing to do to one another to save their physical assets or their social reputation as opposed to be more concerned about their fellow man or their soul. That was hard.”
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Judy Soroka describes the lack of opportunities to treat or manage her chronic back pain during the COVID lockdowns, the general degeneration of her health, and loss of friends due to her choice to not get vaccinated. In 2009 a doctor gave Judy a new treatment for her back pain and she maintained it for years with exercise but she said all that stopped, "when the lockdowns happened, I could not go to the gym. I could not swim. And I began to have more pain."
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Heather Burgess tells the heartwrenching story of her elderly mother and father during the pandemic. Heather’s father died just prior to the pandemic and her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s dementia, was left without him for the first time in 67 years. The subsequent moves in housing and the lockdowns further confused Heather’s mom who thought she had been kidnapped. It would be 5 months before a family member would be allowed visit her and give her a hug.
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Mandy Geml and her family suffered unspeakable hatred and segregation for not being vaccinated, which caused incredible anxiety and fear. Mandy's daughter was in grade 8 and she was called a murderer by her teacher who claimed to not be pointing out her vaccination status but was preventing her from participating in everything the class was doing. As Mandy said, "she’s being removed from everything that she’s in, so how is that not?"
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A former university student takes action and fights back against COVID hypocrisy and coercion forming a nationwide group, Students Against Mandates (SAM).
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Steven Kiedyk, aged thirty-seven, works as a land surveyor, a profession that requires a degree of physical activity. Mr. Kiedyk was an active gym attendee and completed a marathon in 2019. Mr. Kiedyk was adamant that he did not want to take the COVID vaccine, however increasing pressure from society restrictions and harassment resulted in him getting the Pfizer vaccine in July 2021. In October 2021, during a game of basketball, Mr. Kiedyk collapsed and lost consciousness.
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Dr. Mack has been involved with three large churches and one a mega-church and is fairly involved nationally in the “church scene”. Prior to the pandemic they were usually filled to capacity. A church is a fellowship of believers that come together for a common cause – desire to learn, spiritual nourishment, community outreach. This plays a significant role in the communities they are developed in. Over two years Ontario had some of the harshest, longest lockdowns in the world, closing churches and forbidding Easter and Christmas worship.
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Remus is a paramedic since 2002, he was working for a district that did not require vaccination. He talks of how his work culture dramatically changed after vaccine mandate rollout. He recalls how the Prime Minister of Canada labelled the “unvaccinated” as misogynists and extremists.
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Mr. Oliver Kennedy was a recreational therapist, working with seniors and disabled individuals, for 20 years. He was terminated from his employment for refusing to get a vaccine, despite his manager initially stating that no one in her employ would be coerced to do so.
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