#Manufacturing companies in Ontario

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The Real McCoy

Elijah J. McCoy was born on May 2, 1844, in Colchester, Ontario, Canada, to George and Mildred McCoy.

—They were fugitive slaves who had escaped from Kentucky to Canada via the Underground Railroad. In 1847, the large family returned to the US, settling in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

—Beginning at a young age, Elijah showed a strong interest in mechanics. His parents arranged for him to travel to Scotland at the age of 15 for an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering. He returned home to Michigan after becoming certified as a mechanical engineer.

—Despite his qualifications, he was unable to find work as an engineer in the U.S due to racial barriers;

—He accepted a position as a fireman and oiler for the Michigan Central Railroad. It was in this line of work that he developed his first major inventions. After studying the inefficiencies inherent in the existing system of oiling axles, he invented a lubricating cup that distributed oil evenly over the engine's moving parts. He obtained a patent for this invention, which allowed trains to run continuously for long periods of time without pausing for maintenance.

—McCoy continued to refine his devices, receiving nearly 60 patents over the course of his life. While the majority of his inventions related to lubrication systems, he also developed designs for an ironing board, a lawn sprinkler, and other machines.

—Although McCoy's achievements were recognized in his own time, his name did not appear on the majority of the products that he devised.

—Lacking the capital with which to manufacture his lubricators in large numbers, he typically assigned his patent rights to his employers or sold them to investors. In 1920, toward the end of his life, McCoy formed the Elijah McCoy Manufacturing Company to produce lubricators bearing his name.

—McCoy married Ann Elizabeth Stewart in 1868. She died four years after their marriage. In 1873, McCoy married Mary Eleanor Delaney. In 1922, the McCoys were involved in an automobile accident. Mary died, while Elijah sustained critical injuries from which he never fully recovered.

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The Ontario government says it’s taking swift action against a chemical plant following a spike in benzene readings and after members of Aamjiwnaang First Nation fell ill and were hospitalized.

While the Chief of the community says the government needs to shut down the Sarnia-area plant immediately and hinted at potential legal action, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks issued a provincial order on Thursday against the plant in question INEOS Styrolution:

- It gives the chemical manufacturer one week to create a written plan to address the high levels of the cancer-causing chemical the government says its site is emitting.

- A copy of the report, obtained exclusively by Global News, shows INEOS also has roughly two weeks to implement new procedures to notify the public when levels of the carcinogen reach a certain hourly or daily threshold that can be toxic.

- The company has less than a month to complete an investigation into the apparent source of the chemical leak after dozens of residents in the small First Nation community of 900 in southwestern Ontario became sick. [...]

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Another argument for neverending discussion of when Blue Castle takes place. I looked up a disappearing propeller boat and I found this gem of information:

THE DISAPPEARING PROPELLER BOAT

Popularly known as the Dispro, or Dippy, this small boat was first built on this site in 1916 by the Disappearing Propeller Boat Company Limited. Also manufactured elsewhere in Ontario and briefly in the United States, more than 3,000 were built and sold around the world when production ceased in 1956. Boat builder W.J. Johnston Jr. and machinist Edwin Rogers invented a device that allowed the propeller and shaft to be retracted manually or automatically into a protective housing while the engine was still running. This patented design offered protection from rocks just below the surface in lakes of the Canadian Shield. Built in several models ranging from 16 feet to 19 feet (4.9 metres to 5.8 metres), the boats were constructed of overlapping cypress planks fastened to steam-bent oak ribs. Most were powered by single cylinder, 3-horsepower engines. Simple, versatile and durable, these boats were a common sight on Muskoka lakes. Dispros have made a unique contribution to North American pleasure-boating history.

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Bowmanville Clarington Jane Doe

December 31, 2023

In a field in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, a man harvesting dogwood plants would make a gruesome discovery on October 26, 2006. The man came across the skull, femur and scattered skeletal remains of a woman who had no clothes or hair.

The field was in the area of Clarington, close to the Darlington Nuclear Plant. The unidentified woman had teeth in good condition, and she also had expertly set nose fracture, determining that a some point she may have had a nasal surgery or even a rhinoplasty.

The cause of death could not be determined as the condition of the remains, but it is speculated that this woman was mostly a homicide victim.

The Jane Doe was estimated to be between the ages of 18-30. She may have been there for 2-10 years before discovery (1996-2004), and possibly as long as 25 years (1981). In full, investigators believe she could have died between 1976-2006.

Some believe the potential murder may have happened in that location.

The scene was heavily searched by DRP Forensic Identification Unit, the Ontario Provincial Police and a forensic anthropologist. The search wrapped up on November 29, 2006, with a piece of red ribbon, a small heart shaped object, a penny from 1980, and a women's OMNI digital watch with a large red face and stainless steel straps made for a small wrist.

The watch was made by the Omni Watch Company in the early 1980's and was sold at Consumers Distributing from 1981-1983.

Description of what the woman may look like and a description of the items found were released in 2009, but no leads came forward.

On October 27, 2010, investigators went back to the site 4 years after the original discovery of the body. The water table in Bowmanville had decreased in that time, as the area had a couple dry years recently.

The usually wet and muddy area was dry enough for a better search. More items were found in this search, and they searched over 20 acres.

One of the items found in this second search was a 9.5 size woman's ring, that was hold and had a red garnet stone and two one-point diamonds on either side. Inside the band, the word "Burns" was stamped.

This ring had been made by A&A Manufacturing in Toronto, sold at Burns Jewlers, a family business located in Oshawa. The business operated from 1923-1994, and wasn't far from the Darlington Nuclear Plant.

The ring was frequently worn in life, and investigator's believe this is the most significant piece of evidence that may eventually lead to the Jane Doe's identity.

A man's hooded short sleeved shirt with red, yellow and blue stripes was also found. The shirt was from Tip Top Tailor, labelled "Blue Rodeo" and sold from 1995-1996. In 2019, it was also noted that remnants of grey track pants were also found.

A DNA profile of the woman was created but no dental records or matches have come about. Detectives believe it is likely the woman was never reported as missing.

In June 2013, the Durham Regional Police got a forensic artist named Diana Trepkov to make a sketch of the woman found based on her skull. Because she had no hair upon discovery, her hair type is unknown but she had protruding upper and lower teeth.

The woman had visible white fillings on her front teeth, small silver fillings on some of her back teeth. Her upper teeth protruded more than her lower teeth, and the skull was missing two teeth when it was found.

On September 14, 1963, a 13 year old girl named Noreen Greenley was abducted in Bowmanville. Her case remains unsolved and I will cover it next, but she is not the Bowmanville Clarington Jane Doe.

If anyone has any information they can contact the Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Source: CanadaUnsolved

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Re: that one Boeing flight ---

I know there is a lot going on in the world right now but I really just want to take one second to share my story regarding Boeing and Alaska Airlines. I'm particularly referring to the flight from Portland, OR to Ontario, CA where the door plug blew off due to an explosive decompression.

My partner and I were on that plane that evening. Not just on the plane, but across the aisle from the door plug that exploded out mid-flight. I'm sure you've seen the pictures, but most of the public probably hasn't heard about the true horror and trauma of it all. I mean, are we really surprised when these companies are worth so much money and have so much power in this society that people on the pay may have felt scared into silence? I definitely have felt that way. It’s worth noting that two Boeing whistleblowers have recently died under questionable circumstances after trying to speak out about safety concerns in their manufacturing. I've even sent video messages to loved ones stating they should make it public that we have had concerns about our safety if anything were to happen to us and that they should seriously question anything that seems suspicious.

This was not just a wild and crazy incident the way that many people have downplayed it to be. This incident was pure terror. Everything after the incident has been a living nightmare.

The door plug exploded off the plane while we were ascending. We were not quite at cruising altitude so the plane's nose was still pointed upward and we could feel the pull on the plane when the wind rushed in. It was already dark outside so we had to stare out of a gaping hole into pure darkness and the temperature was freezing cold with wind whipping around, and some type of smoke and debris filling the cabin. My partner and I did not have jackets on because the plane was originally very warm from de-icing (Note: if you'd like to learn more about potential safety concerns, please look into Boeing's request to the FAA about the de-icing mechanism on their MAX planes).

The oxygen masks dropped in a tangled mess, so we had to spend precious seconds fumbling around to find the correct mask and put it on, otherwise, the tubes would not have been able to reach each of us to comfortably secure our masks. (Also, something I've never thought about before this, and that I'm sure many of you haven't thought about either, is that oxygen masks are a fixed size and don't always fit snuggly if you have a larger nose. This is something that you don't want to learn for the first time in the middle of an emergency like this one.)

I woke up to the bang and to the oxygen masks falling in my lap so I was disoriented trying to get my mask on as quickly as possible. Those of us closest to the gaping hole could not hear a thing over the sound of the wind, which is why some of us described it as silent. Let alone the pure shock and uncertainty that hung in the air. It has also been reported that even people farther from the hole did not hear any type of announcement or communication from the pilots or flight attendants before landing. Sit with that for a second. Imagine being in a horrifying emergency situation, struggling to get your oxygen mask on, and not having any idea about what was happening.

It should also be noted that no one knew this was a door plug blowout until the NTSB briefings in the days following the incident. This means that people like me had just assumed it was just a random panel that flew out of the plane. Since my partner and I thought it was just a random part of the fuselage that blew out mid-flight, and since there was no way to communicate to us what was going on because of the strong air rushing through the cabin, I bet you can imagine that one of the thoughts racing through our heads was, "Are other parts of this plane just going to start flying off?" Some other traumatic thoughts I recall having included, "Can a plane even land safely with a hole in it?" and, "Could the back half of this plane just rip off before we have a chance to even descend safely?" It's not like this is information you are given before each flight and we had no idea what the odds were of making it out of this alive.

Moreover, in the moment, we had no clue what happened to the plane to cause the door panel to fly off mid-flight. We did not know if there was a problem with an engine or a wing or if the pilots were even okay (we later learned from the news that the explosive decompression caused the cockpit door to slam open and slam the pilots forward in their seats, knocking their headsets either off or partially off). This all being said, my partner and I were prepared for the worst. We were holding hands and praying our final prayers not knowing if this was going to be the end for all of us on board.

My partner and I were not even able to text our loved ones when this was happening because we were so terrified and the air rushing in was so strong that we thought our phones might get sucked out of the plane if we dared to even grab them. We were preparing for a reality in which our loved ones did not get a final word from us and they just had to learn about our passing from the news. I can't even tell you what it is like to have to prepare for death in that way because your circumstances just look so grim. Even typing this out is re-traumatizing for me.

After several long minutes of praying, worrying about whether our oxygen masks were even working or not, staring out of the huge hole, and feeling the wind whipping around us, we felt the plane level out. At this point, we noticed people moving in the aisle in front of the hole. A teenage boy had his shirt ripped off and his chair was slowly inching back towards the hole. The boy and the other people in that row were thankfully able to move safely and then people were motioning to the man in the row where the hole was to move, but he shook his head and continued bracing himself. We now believe that the air rushing inside the cabin was just too strong and he did not feel like it was safe to even attempt to get out of his seat. Stories we heard from other passengers after getting off the plane included some passengers mentioning they were worried that their small dog under the seat in front of them was going to be sucked out of the plane, passengers in the front of the plane were worrying that there was some type of attack happening because of the loud bang and the cockpit flying open, many small children were on the plane and there were concerns about whether their masks got on safely when they dropped, etc.

When we finally began to descend, the fear did not stop. As I said, none of us knew what exactly was wrong with the plane. None of us knew if we would even be able to land safely or not. The closer we got to landing, the more the plane shook and felt out of control.

It wasn't until the plane touched down and was able to safely slow to taxi into the terminal that there was a collective sigh of relief. This was also when I burst into tears because I was finally able to come to grips with the fact that I almost asked to move seats into the row in which the door plug blew out. For context, the row where the door plug blew out had two empty seats (the window and the middle) and our row was full, with me sitting next to the window and my partner sitting in the middle. Our plane was delayed for take-off because it was de-icing, so I whispered to my partner about asking the man if he would like to switch into our row so that there would be two people in each row (i.e., one person in the aisle seat and one person in the window seat in both rows instead of having one full row). I also always choose the window seat if I can, meaning that if we had gone through with asking this man to switch rows with us, and if he had agreed, I would have been in the seat right next to the hole when it blew out. And if this had happened, I probably would've been sucked out of the plane.

I'm recording all of this information not for sympathy but just to paint a clearer picture of the reality of this situation. So many people have trivialized what this has been like. Boeing and Alaska have barely even acknowledged us as humans let alone the impact of the trauma on us. Basically, everything that the general public has heard from Boeing and Alaska is what we have heard, minus like one voicemail providing us a number to call for refund questions. There hasn't been any other direct and personal communication, apologies, or acknowledgments about what happened. Meanwhile, we're over here living every day with the weight of knowing that there were SO MANY opportunities for this experience to have ended way worse. It is truly pure luck that it turned out the way it did. And, I don't know about you, but there is little comfort in knowing that so much of our survival was down to just luck.

So much of what we've had to process since getting off the plane that day is how much worse it all could've been. If we had been at cruising altitude, it would've been so much worse. If the other door plug across the plane (that no one knew about and was directly in front of where I was sitting) blew out, it would've been so much worse. If the flight attendant was not able to use their body weight to slam the cockpit door back shut, it would've been so much worse. If the people assigned to the seats next to the door plug had showed up for the flight, it would've been so much worse. If the door plug hadn't landed in the trees in some guy's backyard, it would've been so much worse. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Circling back to what it was like directly after exiting the plane, we were directed by Alaska employees to go straight to a customer service line that we ended up standing and waiting in for over 2 hours. To reiterate, we just experienced a traumatic event and we were told to stand and wait for over two hours if we wanted to get any answers or speak to anyone. We were not even informed until around the 1.5 hour mark that the line was only for people who wished to be rescheduled onto another flight. When we were finally able to call someone over to get this clarification, the representative literally told us that if we did not want to get on another plane, we need to "just go home" and that our luggage had just been sitting out in the open at baggage claim this whole time while we were waiting in line. There was no opportunity to discuss options for taxis or ubers to get home. There were no options to talk about potential accommodations for the people in front of us in line who did not live in the area. We just had to "go home."

We saw the man from the row where the door plug blew out pacing around the airport waiting for the line to die down over an hour after we got off the plane. I had to take several breaks to find a seat because I was shaking so much and needed to call my family who were expecting us in California, leaving my partner alone in line to save our spot. We eventually left without even getting to speak to anyone because we were so exhausted, we had not gotten a chance to have dinner, it was going to take around 40 minutes to get home, and we started experiencing muscle spasms from all the stress.

In the months since, we have been struggling to handle the aftermath of this near-fatal flight. The trauma is so difficult to handle and has exacerbated problems we were already dealing with in our personal lives, which no one really thinks about when stuff like this happens. Finding treatment for our trauma has caused us more distress and suffering due to mental health stigmas, the difficult landscape of finding a compatible therapist, and the cost of frequent therapy. Neither one of us have enough PTO or sick leave to be able to take the time we truly need to recover and get the help we need. Not to mention, the actual impacts of stress and trauma on our physical health and even down to our neurological functioning.

I know that it is so hard to be cognizant of all of the issues going on in the world right now, and it is particularly hard for people to be critical about forms of travel that they have no choice but to rely on, but I really just want to stress that I had no idea before this just how much public safety, particularly on planes, has eroded. I, like most people, was attempting to live in blissful ignorance, telling myself nothing would happen to me because, after all, everyone loves to quote the statistics about plane travel still being one of the safest forms of travel. I urge you to consider that what made it safe in the first place were all of the important safety requirements that no longer appear to be of importance.

As an anxious flyer, I even had a moment when we were taxiing for takeoff where I had a scary thought about the Netflix documentary about the Boeing MAX plane crashes and I spent a few seconds trying to talk myself through my anxiety in my head by saying things like, "There's no way that such a big and important company would be so negligent that they would let something so minor but so dangerous like that happen again," and, "There surely must have been more safety regulations put in place since then, so I should be safe."

The NTSB's initial findings were that the bolts that were supposed to keep that door plug in place on our plane were not even installed.

Not to mention the fact that news articles have reported that there were already concerns and maintenance requests put on this plane even earlier that day that the airline knew about but still allowed it to fly.

To sum this all up, please please please, if you have time to look into the questionable relationship between Boeing and FAA, or even just watch some of the recent documentaries about what appears to be an extreme degradation of safety in plane manufacturing, please do it. If you have any power whatsoever to boost the message that we should all be questioning how so many of these big companies nowadays are not meeting important safety criteria, please do it. If you can choose other forms of transportation or help boost the creation of other forms of transportation (like high-speed rail), please do it. Hell, if you know of any other ways to help improve safety regulation in general, please please please do it.

From the information I've been able to gather since experiencing this, it really seems like problems are only getting worse and worse as so many big companies are being allowed to continue to cut corners and risk EVERYONE'S LIVES for their greed.

You shouldn't have to rely on luck to not have your plane fall apart in the air. You shouldn't have to keep tabs on companies because they are not being regulated enough to maintain a reasonable level of public safety. We all should not have to just keep accepting that our lives can be thrown away without a care in the world for stock buybacks or another year of record-breaking profit.

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"LONG SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL," Kingston Daily Standard. February 18, 1913. Page 2. --- Little Business Discussed Besides Paving. ---- Agreement Between City and Buffalo Smelting Company For Lease of Land Ratified. ---- At the meeting of the City Council last night little business was transacted aside from the consideration of the report of the Board of Works in regard to paving Princess street. The Council did not adjourn until near 11.30, but of the whole three hours and a half that the session lasted over an hour and a half was taken up with discussion on this matter.

In addition to the regular reports submitted the Industries Committee submitted an agreement between the city and the Buffalo and Ontario Smelting Company for the lease and purchase of the three and a half acres of ground adjoining the smelter site. According to this agreement the city is to lease the property to the Smelting Company at a rent of $200, a year for two years, the Company at the expiration of that time to have the option of purchasing for $3,000. In the agreement it is stipulated that the Company must use the property for manufacturing purposes.

Ald. Bennett asked what the property cost the city. He was told that the whole parcel of land was purchased for $9,000. Part of this was sold to the North American Smelter Company for $3,000, While the city was losing $3,000, on the deal it was felt that it was worth this to the city to have two such industries located here.

Ald. Bennett then moved that River street be opened up from Orchard street in order that the city may have an outlet on the water front at this point. This motion was carried.

There was very little of importance in the reports of committees. The Civic Finance Committee recommended only the payment of accounts. while the Board of Works recommended the adoption of the work done by the Board last year. The Fire and Light report was passed in totem. the only change recommended was by Ald. Kent, who moved that the clauses in regard to the holding of bazaars and like events in the City Buildings be prohibited while stoves are used for heating, and that all future locations for moving picture shows be restricted to corners of streets, so as to allow exists on two streets, was defeated.

The report of the Utilities Committee was passed without charge. Ald. Stroud asked what was being done with the communication regarding the need of lights in Cataraqui ward, and was informed by the chairman. Dr. Ross that the matter of lighting this section of the city was being given careful consideration and that the question would be taken up as soon as the annual report from the department was received.

Ald. Bennett questioned the clause regarding the reduction of the cost of water to the General Hospital, Hotel Dieu and House of Providence He asked if anything were being done with a view to reducing the water rates of the Orphan's Home and House of Industry. He was informed that all charitable institutions were being considered in a general report which would be submitted shortly.

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Prouty and Glass Carriage Factory which sat at the corner of Brush and Elizabeth st. Wayne Mi. Now occupied by Ford Michigan Assembly plant and Boise Cascade. Few know that Wayne was a major producer of sleighs and carriages until cars put them out of business.

Wayne's First Manufacturing Company

The Prouty and Glass Carriage Company, built on Sophia Street in 1888, was the first manufacturing company in the city. The company had been organized in 1881 by Fayette Prouty and John S. Glass and manufactured, carriages and sleighs. They moved to Wayne in 1888 and by 1889 had employed about 50 men.

The company underwent a reincorporation after a recession. George H. Stellwagen, became president; James R. Hosie; his business partner was treasurer; and William C. Prouty (the son of Fayette Prouty), was secretary and general manager. Augutus Stellewagen, replaced his brother as president, and was replaced himself by another brother, Jacob in until 1915. The company was in operation until 1915, when it was replaced by Harroun Motors, which produced automobiles from 1916 to 1920, when the factory was closed.

The Harroun Motors Corporation raised $10,000,000 in stock to begin a car company. Harroun bought the buildings and equipment of the former Prouty and Glass Carriage Company in 1916 for $40,000. The old carriage factory was 80,000 square feet and used for paint and upholstery, and in 1917 Harroun built a new 1,220,000 square foot factory next door for all other processes. The company operated for 12–18 months producing 200 cars per day. There were three models offered, a roadster and a touring car (each priced at $595) and a sedan ($850), each powered by the company's own four-cylinder engine. Cars were only available with a green body, brown roof and black fenders and upholstery. The roadster was only available in midnight blue. The goal was to get the price of cars below $500 to remain profitable.

In the spring of 1918 the company got a government contract to produce 200,000 artillery shells during World War I. The plan was to produce cars and artillery shells together in the factory, but the government sent an arbitrary order limiting the factory to only 25 cars per day. Harroun produced 23,899 155mm howitzer high explosive, Mark I, Type B shells for the war effort.

After the war, the company tried to get started again, creating a new model for 1920. Representatives took the car on a tour from Detroit to Montana and on to Denver to prove its reliability. The tour went well, but the company still closed in 1920. Fewer that 3,000 cars were built and two are known to survive. In 1923 the company assets were sold off and the factory bought by the Gotfredson Truck Company in 1924.

1925 Gotfredson model 40

The Gotfredson & Joyce Company began in 1920 in Walkerville, Ontario, Canada. In 1923 the company moved to Wayne, MI and became known as the Gotfredson Truck Company.

In 1936, Gotfredson adopted GMC cabs for its trucks. These were ultra custom heavy duty vehicles produced in very small numbers, just five or six a year, and all for Detroit area customers. At the time, if a truck operator wanted a diesel-powered job, he had to go to a custom producer like Gotfredson to get it. The company continued to build these custom trucks in very small quantities until 1946 when production ended,

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Extraordinary Exit by Frederick K. Larkin Via Flickr: C-FJJA, a De Havilland Canada DHC-8-401 Dash 8- 400, rotating off runway 33 at Downsview Airport in Toronto, Ontario. It was departing as DHC4001 (De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited) to Winnipeg, Manitoba and Calgary, Alberta. FIRST: Serial number 4001 was the DHC-8-400's prototype. It first flew on January 31, 1998 at Downsview Airport. The registration is a nod to Jackson "Jock" Aitken, who had been a DHC flight test engineer for 34 years and had passed away seven months prior to this aircraft's first flight. LAST: De Havilland Canada had manufactured aircraft at Downsview Airport since 1929. This aircraft is shown performing the last ever takeoff by a DHC product during the company's 93-year-long presence at that storied airfield.

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Here is the freshly acquired 1972 @traynor_amps #YGM4 #StudioMate in my living room along with my 1968 #Gibson #ES335, 1959 #Fender #Princeton, and another fascinating piece of Canadian amp manufacturing history - a 1960s KEIL (Kitchener Electronic Industries Ltd) amp, on loan from @malonzi5150. Info on KEIL amps is even harder to find than info on vintage Traynor amps, however it looks like they were a company in the Kitchener, Ontario, area that made tube amps under their own name as well various other brand names including Velvetone and Camaro, in the 1960s...and possibly 70s. Not sure when they started, or ended, but if anyone else out there knows more about these amps please comment below. Straps by @tomsvintagestraps Guitar rack by @atlasstands

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why Big Pharma is criminal

The National Institute of Health (NIH) is responsible for the development of many important drugs. Yet, despite that taxpayer support, the major drug companies make billions as they charge us the highest prices in the world for their products. Enough is enough. We must hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable.

I hope you’ll take a minute to read an op-ed I wrote today for FOX News.

OPINION · Published January 23, 2023 2:00am EST

Greedy pharma firms rip off Americans while Pfizer, Moderna swim in profits

5 of the largest US pharma firms totaled $80 billion in profits, but millions of Americans can’t afford medicine

By Sen. Bernie Sanders

There is a lot of discussion about how "divided" our nation is and, on many issues, that is absolutely true. But on one of the most important matters facing our country the American people – Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Progressives, Conservatives – could not be more united. And that is the need to take on the unprecedented corporate greed of the pharmaceutical industry and to substantially lower the outrageously high price of prescription drugs.

Today, millions of Americans are making the unacceptable choice between feeding their families or buying the medicine they need. Seniors from Vermont to Alaska are forced to split pills in half and many have died because they did not have enough money to fill their prescriptions.

All over this country, the American people are asking why it is that they pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs?

Why is it that nearly one out of every four adults in America cannot afford their prescription medication?

Why do nearly half of all new drugs in the United States cost more than $150,000 a year?

Several years ago, I took a busload of people with diabetes from Detroit, Michigan, to a drugstore in Windsor, Ontario. There, they were able to purchase the same insulin products they bought in the United States for one-tenth the price.

How is it that in Canada and other major countries the same medications manufactured by the same companies, sold in the same bottles are available for a fraction of the price that we pay in the United States?

The answers can be summed up in three words: Follow the money.

Over the past 25 years, the pharmaceutical industry has spent $8.5 billion on lobbying and over $745 million on campaign contributions to buy politicians. Incredibly, last year, the drug companies hired over 1,700 lobbyists including the former congressional leaders of both major political parties – over 3 pharmaceutical industry lobbyists for every Member of Congress.

The situation has become so absurd that Pfizer donated a million dollars to the Republican Party in Kentucky to expand its headquarters named after Senator Mitch McConnell, after Pfizer increased its profits by 140% in 2021 to $22 billion.

Meanwhile, as Americans die because they cannot afford the medications they need, five of the largest drug companies in the U.S. made nearly $80 billion in profits last year (a 104% increase from the previous year) while the CEOs of just 13 pharmaceutical companies made over $1 billion in total compensation in 2021.

Over the past decade, 14 major pharmaceutical companies spent $747 billion not to make life-saving drugs more affordable, but to make their wealthy shareholders richer by buying back their own stock and handing out huge dividends – a sum that is $87 billion more than what they spent on research and development.

Examples of corporate greed within the pharmaceutical industry are limitless. Let's start with Moderna. This is a company that received $1.7 billion from U.S. taxpayers to research and develop the COVID-19 vaccine and billions more to distribute it to the American people. As a result, Moderna made $19 billion in profits over the past two years and its CEO (Stéphane Bancel) became a billionaire who is now worth over $6 billion. What is Moderna doing to thank the American taxpayer for their generous support? It plans to raise the price of the COVID-19 vaccine by 400% up to $130 when it goes on the commercial market. Meanwhile, it costs just $2.85 to manufacture the product. And, by the way, Moderna has already approved a $926 million golden parachute for Mr. Bancel once he leaves the company.

Moderna is far from alone. A number of years ago, the former CEO of Gilead became a billionaire by charging $1,000 for Sovaldi, a hepatitis C drug that was discovered by scientists at the Veterans Administration, costs just $1 to manufacture, and could be purchased in India for $4.

The Japanese drugmaker Astellas, which made a billion dollars in profits in 2021, recently raised the price of the prostate cancer drug Xtandi by more than 75% in the United States to nearly $190,000. This is a drug that was invented by federally funded scientists at UCLA and can be purchased in Canada for one-sixth the US price.

Last year over 1 million Americans with diabetes had to ration insulin because they could not afford to take it as prescribed. Why? In large part because Eli Lilly, which made $5.6 billion in profits in 2021, increased the price of Humalog by 1200% since 1996 to $275 while its CEO made nearly $50 million in compensation making him one of the highest-paid pharmaceutical CEOs in America. Humalog costs an estimated $8 to produce and can be purchased for about one-tenth the price in Canada.

It does not have to be this way. The reality is that if Congress had the courage to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, we could cut the price of prescription drugs in America by at least 50%. How? By preventing the pharmaceutical industry from charging more for prescription drugs in the U.S. than they do in Canada, Britain, Germany, France and Japan – a concept that is not only supported by progressives, but former President Donald Trump. I will soon be re-introducing legislation in the Senate to do just that.

There is no rational reason why the HIV treatment Biktarvy costs $45,540 per year in the U.S but only $7,500 per year in France. Or why a weekly dose of the autoimmune medicine Enbrel costs $1,762 in the U.S. but just $300 in Canada. Or why a vial of insulin costs $98.70 in the U.S., but just $11 in Germany.

A life-saving drug is not effective if a person who needs that drug cannot afford it. How many more Americans must die before Congress finally has the guts to stop the pharmaceutical industry from getting away with murder?