The NHPPA Podcast

Season two of Highway to Health is up. Jason walks through Health Canada’s Teva-Pregabalin recall after capsules were found possibly contaminated with sertraline, Vertex’s new cystic fibrosis drug Alyftrek and its $322,151 list price, the updated Natural Health Product Compounding Policy and Shawn Buckley’s brief, a check-in with CHFA, public reaction to the Allison Inquiry (NHPPA is not organizing those hearings), and the first-stage build of NHPPA TV. Short, sourced, and delivered straight.

In this episode of the NHPPA Show, Jason Dahl and Eric Clegg host while Shawn and Teresa Buckley work in Ottawa.
Special guest Josh Prefontaine joins live from a campsite in Squamish. He has completed his four-year traditional Chinese medicine program, moved to Lethbridge, and opened Forward Health and Vitality.
Josh focuses his practice on Chinese herbal medicine for chronic illness and explains how he uses social media to educate Canadians about what these herbs can do. He also shares the realities of launching a clinic without a residency system and why practitioners must stay alert to federal overreach on natural health products and compounding.
Eric delivers The Feed with the latest social media engagement, supporter comments, and campaign numbers: more than 20,000 e-letters sent, 157,000 signatures on the Charter of Health Freedom petition, and 43 formal briefs on Bill C-224.
Watch the full show for Josh’s update and the current state of the fight to protect access to natural health products.
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Interview with Dr. Stephen Malthouse recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour live event in Victoria, BC. Dr. Malthouse discusses the principles of naturopathic medicine, the importance of health freedom, and the potential impacts of federal regulation on natural health products and patient choice. Learn more about the NHPPA’s cross-Canada tour and the Charter of Health Freedom at nhppa.org/join-the-tour/. Subscribe to our free newsletter to stay informed about how you can educate and activate your community: https://nhppa.org/subscribe/

Interview with naturopathic doctor Penny recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour live event in Victoria, BC. Penny shares her personal health journey, discusses the long-term impact of antibiotics on gut health, candida overgrowth, and the naturopathic approach to healing. Learn more about the NHPPA’s cross-Canada tour and the Charter of Health Freedom at nhppa.org/join-the-tour/. Subscribe to our free newsletter to stay informed about how you can educate and activate your community: https://nhppa.org/subscribe/

Shawn Buckley opens the NHPPA’s cross-Canada Health Charter Tour by explaining why truthful health information is censored in Canada, how Health Canada restricts access to natural health products, and why the Charter of Health Freedom is essential to restoring Canadians’ right to choose how they prevent and treat illness. He outlines the Health Charter Tour as a grassroots, volunteer-driven journey across Canada to educate the public, share censored health stories, gather signatures for a federal petition, and build support for the Charter of Health Freedom—a proposed law designed to protect access to natural and traditional remedies, mandate balanced risk–benefit regulation, and put health outcomes first.

Homeopathic practitioners in Canada face increasing regulatory pressure that threatens patient access to care. In the first seminar of the new NHPPA Homeopathic Network series, NHPPA President Shawn Buckley is joined by an expert panel for a timely discussion on the challenges facing the profession. The panel takes viewer questions and explains less-understood aspects of homeopathy while addressing real obstacles and their impact on practitioners and patients. Panelists: • Elizabeth Chapman ND (Australia / Denman Island, BC) • Victor Cirone, Registered Homeopath and Clinical Herbalist (Ontario) • Basil Ziv, Registrar and CEO, College of Homeopaths of Ontario Watch the full replay to gain insight into current threats to homeopathy and how the NHPPA Homeopathic Network is responding. Learn more about the NHPPA’s work and how you can get involved at https://nhppa.org Subscribe to stay informed and support the movement. https://nhppa.org/subscribe

Shawn Buckley opens the fourth day of the NHPPA’s cross-Canada Health Charter Tour by clearly explaining why the tour exists and what the proposed Charter of Health Freedom would accomplish. He describes how the tour brings awareness to Parliament, gathers one of the largest paper petitions in Canadian history, and challenges a health system that criminalizes natural remedies, ignores lived patient outcomes, and suppresses vital nutrition. Buckley explains how the Charter would protect fundamental health rights, mandate a focus on real health outcomes, establish legal presumptions favoring patient experience, and require government to protect and promote access to vital nutrients and natural remedies.

Many practitioners still compound remedies for individual patients. Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners, herbalists, homeopaths, and naturopaths have long mixed natural ingredients to meet a patient’s specific needs. The Natural Health Product Regulations were written to protect this practice. Parliament was clear: Health Canada does not regulate compounding by health care practitioners.
Yet Health Canada has now published a new policy designed to shut most compounding down.
The policy invents conditions that do not exist in the law. Practitioners would be blocked if a similar licensed product is already on the market. Strict labelling, testing, and “palatable flavoured” requirements would be forced on them. Single-herb remedies would no longer qualify. Health Canada inspectors, who are not trained in medicine, would gain the power to second-guess clinical decisions and review patient files.
None of these restrictions appears in the regulations. As a result, the policy is illegal. It also risks making compounded care uneconomic and unavailable for the Canadians who depend on it.
​NHPPA has already submitted formal comments opposing the policy​. Shawn’s full analysis lays out exactly how Health Canada is overreaching and what is at stake for practitioners and patients.

Edited replay of our powerful live event held July 9, 2026 at Onoway Community Hall. In Part 3, Shawn Buckley, Bruce Pardy, Leighton Grey, and Teresa Buckley come together for a dynamic panel discussion. They answer audience questions and dive deeper into property rights, Crown grants, Aboriginal title, and what this means for natural health, farming, and freedom in Canada. The session closes with open mic Q&A from those in attendance. Watch the complete series and support the fight for land rights and health freedom. Learn more about the NHPPA’s work and how you can get involved at https://nhppa.org Subscribe to stay informed and support the movement at https://nhppa.org/subscribe.