The truth is out there

Do you remember when there was talk of a coronavirus in February, 2020?

No one really took it seriously or paid attention to it. We all had other things to worry about. And if anyone did say that the world was basically going to shut down for more than two years, we would have laughed at them and thought they were lunatics.

Then COVID-19, which we thought was only going to last for two or three weeks, became the news story and crisis of the century. Approximately seven million people have died worldwide since the virus appeared. More than 1.5 million of those deaths were in the United States. Quick math tells us that one out of every 221 Americans died from COVID-19 since 2020. The numbers in Canada aren’t that much better.

As a whole, we scoffed at and laughed at the realities of the virus. We were paying much more attention to President Donald Trump’s acquittal. By now we have lost tracks of the former President’s acquittals, indictments and impeachments.

And now there is another story that is being laughed at, mocked and ignored. It may be the biggest story in the history of the human race. Yet, here we are, ignoring it and sweeping it under our mental rugs, making fun of anyone even acknowledging what is happening.

Last week, during a United States House Oversight Committee hearing, whistleblower David Grusch testified that he was “absolutely certain” the US government had possession of a non-human craft. Grusch is not legally permitted to share classified information. Lawmakers noted that evading questions about classified information is not the same thing as Grusch saying he does not have proof.

Grusch was the co-lead of the Pentagon’s Unexplained Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) task force. UAP is the shiny new term used instead of UFO. When he was in that position, information was given to hi about a secret program focused on retrieving and attempting to reverse engineer nonhuman craft.

with commercial airline pilots have opened our eyes and minds as well. They all say the same thing. “We’ve all seen something thousands of feet above us, too high to be a military craft and moving differently than a military craft. We report them, but we are forbidden from talking about it because people will think we are looney tunes, and no one wants to fly in a plane flown by pilots who say they have seen flying saucers.”

Grusch’s testimony is as credible as could be, but it has also caused a flurry of claims. It is now an accepted fact that contact has been made with non-human biologics. Other reports claim that we have been watched for centuries. A story was recently published that alien life forms have disabled atomic bombs and have prevented a third world war. We do now know that world leaders from various nations have been briefed on the UAP file. There are also reports that there is some sort of galactic organization involving astronauts and aliens with an underground headquarters on Mars. That one is a little hard to believe. Okay, it’s a lot hard to believe.

The general assumption is that they are here in a mercenary role, trying to prevent us from destroying our civilization and planet.

Locally, this is of interest to many people. Rural Ottawa has long been known as a world leader in reports of UFO sightings.

The sudden spike in interest in UAP and the growing credibility of the reports have turned Canadian ufologist Chris Rutkowski into a celebrity. Rutkowski says there are about 1,000 UFO reports per year in Canada. Anywhere between three and 10 per cent in any given year can be unidentified or unexplained. Most can be explained as anything from airplanes or military craft, drones, weather balloons, birds or meteors.

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Over the last couple of decades, our newsroom would occasionally get calls from people claiming they saw a UFO and wanting us to do a story on it. Our reaction was to do an April Fool’s Day story on crop circles shaped like the Stanley Cup in a farmer’s field near Bankfield Road. Although the story was obviously satirical, and even though we revealed in the story it was an April Fool’s joke, it did send some readers out on a wild goose chase looking for the farm. When they called our office to ask for directions, we would explain that it was an April Fool’s joke. One reader ripped into us, accusing us of “covering it up, just like the government does.”

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The hearings have also removed some of the stigma attached to UAP. Most people who see something never want to admit it for fear that others will think they are mentally ill or unstable. Rutkowski says that there is now a backlog of reports, with people coming forward and reporting something they may have seen a few years ago.

The tricky part of this entire story is that there is a growing movement from people and government organizations wanting full disclosure of the classified information. Those files have to remain classified. We are programed through Hollywood to think of aliens as monsters and predators. If Americans went nuts in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, imagine what an alien hunt would look like?

For most people, the hearing is ignored and David Grusch will be forgotten. Besides, who cares about aliens when the Barbie movie is still in a theatre near you.

By Sylvain CharleBoiS

Ice cream, widely regarded as a beloved treat for the masses, is experiencing a steady decline in demand within the Canadian market. Although retail ice cream sales are on the rise, the overall demand, encompassing both retail and service outlets, a substantial shift in the demand landscape.

Notably, the present level represents less than half of the per capita consumption recorded in 1970, when each Canadian had access to 12.71 litres of ice cream annually.

A similar trend in the United States indicates broader implications for North American indulgence characterized by high sugar and fat content has positioned it unfavourably among health-conscious consumers. The advent of healthier treat alternatives has further diminished ice cream’s allure, and the 2019 iteration of Canada’s food guide, with its reduced emphasis on dairy products, including ice cream, that the pandemic’s influence on ice cream consumption was fleeting.

Demographic changes are instrumental in shaping ice cream consumption patterns. With a decline in the number of children and the prevalence of smaller households, the conventional appeal of ice cream parlours as family ate toppings and ingredients, further complicates consumer choices compared to the more straightforward options available in the past.

The contemporary lifestyle, characterized by time constraints and a preference for convenience, may also contribute to the declining demand for ice cream, as con- reported by Statistics Canada’s recent Consumer Price Index. Despite this favourable pricing trend, the demand for ice cream has yet to register a significant resurgence.

The declining demand for ice cream in Canada embodies a nuanced interplay of factors, encompassing shifting dietary preferences, health concerns, tensified market competition, and the brief impact of the

But it is the summer, after all; there is nothing wrong with treating yourself to some

The Editor,

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Best regards,

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