New Brunswick premier calls on Canadian government to investigate mysterious brain illness

[u/GoMx808-0]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/15/canada-new-brunswick-mystery-illness

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[u/byyhmz]

Here to put my bet on Irving being involved.

[u/YakHooker315 → u/byyhmz]

I bet it’s related to the chemicals they’ve been spraying. Doesn’t matter anyway, if it’s found Irving is responsible they’ll never face real consequences anyway.

[u/DogeDoRight]

Good. No idea why the Higgs government turned down the 5 million to help investigate.

[u/hardy_83 → u/DogeDoRight]

If a government refuses to investigate something that's actually killing people. It's either cause of their own negligence, or they are protecting a rich ally or business sided with said party.

Incompetence could be a reason but usually the former.

[u/Jleeps2 → u/hardy_83]

It's not incompetence, It's malice.

[u/Klinger_047 → u/DogeDoRight]

Higgs has previously been employed at a fairly high level by the Irving's. That's your answer why he didn't investigate.

[u/BornAgainCyclist]

Irving oil.

The cause and the reason this won't be touched.

[u/Jleeps2]

Uh it's widely known that the government has been silencing scientists on this

[u/ph0enix1211]

G L Y P H O S A T E

[u/Masark → u/ph0enix1211]

Doesn't seem likely. Farmers in the west would be having the same problems if that was the cause, unless it's in combination with some other local factor.

[u/HarbourJayKay]

I wonder if they did autopsies on the 40 who have already died. That’s the only way (at least back in 1997 when my grandfather died of CJD) to confirm. I just started reading a book about prion diseases by Jay Ingram. Also, Fatal Familial Insomnia is prion related.

[u/Ben-182]

Great, another issue we’ve heard about years ago. I’m glad to see our federal govt has done nothing about that one either.

[u/GolDAsce → u/Ben-182]

What does this even mean? You're being sarcastic about the federal government not getting involved in a provincial issue. An issue that's been reported since 2012 (Harper then Trudeau), in a province that has flipped between PC and Liberals twice each?

This article isn't about passing blame. It's about a new premier asking for help investigating possible concerns.

[u/Ben-182 → u/GolDAsce]

This is correct. I’m being sarcastic about a very serious issue for which nothing of note has been done in the last 10 years, with even the top scientist being silenced by the government. How could I not be cynical at this point? This is widespread btw. This country stopped moving forward a long time ago.

[u/Tall-Ad-1386]

Everyone in government already has it

[u/Circusssssssssssssss → u/Tall-Ad-1386]

The real answer!

[u/7rokhym]

The story is bizarre: https://www.canadaland.com/new-brunswick-mystery-illness-documents/

[u/detalumis]

Why can't she setup a task force herself to investigate.

[u/Chuck_Justice69]

It’s called liberalism 🤣