Canadians Disclose COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries In First Day Of 4-Day Hearing

The Allison Inquiry, a 4-day unofficial Canadian hearing about COVID-19 vaccine injuries, has revealed serious side effects that have shattered the lives of families, including neurological collapse, blood clots, brain lesions, facial paralysis, and forced medical retirement. US Senator Ron Johnson, the first witness on day one, told the inquiry that American health officials had early evidence of serious harm and chose not to warn the public.

Johnson, who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, cited VAERS data showing roughly 1.7 million adverse event reports and 39,000 deaths associated with the shots worldwide, with about 24% of those deaths occurring on the day of vaccination or within two days. He pointed to his April 2026 report, Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals. That report, based on internal records, states that in March 2021 FDA officials were warned their VAERS analysis algorithm would mask safety signals. 26 days later, a newer method revealed about 25 statistically significant signals, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell’s palsy, and strokes. Officials continued using the older system.

“Federal health officials were aware that serious harm was being done within months of them granting Emergency Use Authorization,” Johnson wrote in an X article. “Those same officials turned a blind eye toward the safety signals that were screaming at them, but they refused to warn the public.”

Michelle Worton, a 46-year-old dentist and co-founder of Canrise 19, said she had no pre-existing conditions. Within an hour of her first dose, she developed an elevated heart rate, blood-pressure swings, shortness of breath, and chest tightness. After the second dose, she experienced blurred and double vision, burning in her legs, urinary incontinence, tinnitus, vertigo, and neurological decline. She was forced into medical retirement, sold her practice, and traveled to the US for brain surgery and a biopsy after Canadian specialists would not accept referrals. The surgery alone cost $148,000. She currently lives with vision loss, nerve damage, white-matter brain lesions, cystic masses, and constant electric-shock pain. She spends most of her time at home.

“You cannot treat what you refuse to acknowledge,” Worton said. She added that some injured Canadians have been offered Medical Assistance in Dying as their only option.

Carrie Lynn Sakamoto, a previously healthy mother of three who ran a seed farm, received AstraZeneca, then Pfizer, in 2021. She developed swollen lymph nodes, high fever, and what she calls “fire in my brain,” a burning pain that continues five years later. Her face dropped, and hospitals changed the diagnosis from migraine to Bell’s palsy and sent her home. She lost the ability to close one eye, swallow, and walk. She spent 17 days in the hospital with a feeding tube. She now has synkinesis, two types of vertigo, medication-related memory loss that tested as early-onset Alzheimer’s, and an eye that remains infected and drooping. Canada’s vaccine injury program accepted her claim, but denied medications, therapies, hearing aids, and glasses. She is still working through appeals after several years and many different case managers.

Her husband described selling the family farm and four businesses, refinancing, and living on credit. Their youngest son, also vaccinated, suffers severe migraines. “We were told no one would get left behind,” he said. “We’ve been run over, backed up, run over again.”

Michael McNair, a medically released Canadian Armed Forces communications specialist, said he was ordered into line for Moderna shots. Weeks after the second dose he developed a massive clot spanning his superior mesenteric, splenic, and portal veins. He was put on blood thinners, flagged as medically unfit, and released. The military delayed reporting his adverse event for three years and coded his release around mental health rather than the clotting injury. He can no longer afford blood thinners.

Lawyer Katherine Christensen, who represents serving members and veterans, said most active-duty personnel cannot testify without risking charges under military discipline rules. She described patterns of myocarditis, clotting, neurological injury, and reproductive disruption that the Forces recoded as mental health or generic unfitness. Families of deceased members have been denied complete medical files even when they are legal representatives.

Kevin Street, a 54-year-old top-performing store manager and father of seven, collapsed after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine. He developed seizures, violent tremors lasting hours, 13 brain lesions, blood clots, and an overactive immune system that soaks his clothes in sweat. He said he walks like he is drunk and must consciously take each step. Emergency rooms first tested him for drugs. Canada’s compensation program lost his file twice, and he is still waiting for a decision after four years.

Professor Patrick Provost, an mRNA and nanoparticle specialist fired by Université Laval after warning about pediatric vaccination, testified that the 42-day adverse-event window used by public health does not fit modified mRNA products that can persist and distribute throughout the body. After receiving a Pfizer dose, he developed new symptoms. Years later, he was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer. US scientists who analyzed his tissue reported widespread gene dysregulation that they linked to the shot.

Provost said there is a significant difference between ordinary cellular messenger RNA and the product in the COVID-19 vaccine injections. Natural mRNA is unstable and breaks down quickly. He said the shots use modified mRNA in which one of the four nucleotides has been chemically altered. That change was made so the construct would last longer. Provost said the modified mRNA in the COVID-19 vaccines is “almost indestructible.” He added, “This modified mRNA is in human bodies for a long time after vaccines.”

Provost disagrees with the official story that the injection stays in the deltoid and that the genetic material vanishes in a few days. He said the RNA is packaged in lipid nanoparticles, so it can travel through the body, cross barriers, enter cells, and keep those cells producing spike protein. According to this theory, systemic effects of a gene-based product cannot be detected by the normal surveillance window designed for traditional vaccines.

“COVID injections are not traditional vaccines,” Provost said. Traditional shots stimulate an immune response to a protein or inactivated pathogen. “COVID injections are genetic. So they contain a gene that’s put in the body. The only thing that is in common between those two types of vaccines is the fact that they’re injected in a shoulder.”

Canadian witnesses said they are still waiting for recognition, treatment, and acknowledgment of the serious side effects they believe were caused by the COVID-19 vaccines. The Allison Inquiry continues through Friday, September 11. Day 1 was streamed at TheHighWire.com.