# Source note — Health Canada vaccine side-effect reporting link source-check

User lead: screenshot of X/Twitter post by Yvonne C / @CountryGardener, timestamp visible as 11:41 AM · 2026-09-02.
Visible claim: “Federal data scientist DG reveals that Health Canada removed the consumer vaccine side-effect reporting link from its pages just before the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, restored it when jab mandate ended.”

## Preserved files

- `sources/x-screenshot-countrygardener-health-canada-reporting-link.jpg`
- `sources/2020-09-20-before.html` — Wayback capture of Health Canada consumer vaccine page
- `sources/2020-12-27-after.html` — Wayback capture after Dec. 1, 2020 modification
- `sources/2022-01-29-absent.html` — Wayback capture preserving the post-change routing language
- `sources/2023-03-21-restored.html` — Wayback capture after Feb. 28, 2023 modification
- `sources/direct-form.html` — direct Health Canada voluntary side-effect reporting form capture
- `sources/wayback-compare-summary.json`
- `archive-excerpts.md`

## Source URLs checked

- IVIM Substack article: https://ivim.substack.com/p/evidence-documented-health-canada
- September 20, 2020 archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200920152607/https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/medeffect-canada/adverse-reaction-reporting/vaccine/consumer.html
- December 27, 2020 archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201227183130/https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/medeffect-canada/adverse-reaction-reporting/vaccine/consumer.html
- January 29, 2022 archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220129141012/https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/medeffect-canada/adverse-reaction-reporting/vaccine/consumer.html
- March 21, 2023 archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230321215514/https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/medeffect-canada/adverse-reaction-reporting/vaccine/consumer.html
- Current Health Canada consumer page: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/medeffect-canada/adverse-reaction-reporting/vaccine/consumer.html
- Direct Health Canada voluntary side-effect reporting form: https://hpr-rps.hres.ca/side-effects-reporting-form.php?form=voluntary&lang=en
- House of Commons Q-1482: https://www.ourcommons.ca/written-questions/44-1/q-1482
- CAEFISS page: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/canadian-adverse-events-following-immunization-surveillance-system-caefiss.html
- COVID-19 vaccine safety summary: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/summary.html

## Editorial caveat

The archive comparison supports the core webpage-change claim. It does not, by itself, prove motive or a causal link between the webpage change and any particular reporting volume or vaccine outcome.