'Miracle' tonic event in Calgary prompts probe by Health Canada

CBC News report by Calgary enterprise reporter Bryan Labby, published 6 April 2018 (page datePublished metadata: 2018-04-06). Fetched directly from cbc.ca originally (2026-07-18); this case's authoring first mis-titled this source from its URL slug rather than its actual headline, caught only by checking the page's own <title> tag, which reads exactly as titled above. The automated verify-quotes gate's fetch transport also times out against the live cbc.ca host, so the citation uses an Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot (confirmed to carry identical article text) instead. States the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, which describes itself as a non-religious church, 'touts diluted sodium chlorite as a cure-all for a range of conditions and diseases including AIDS, autism, cancer, lyme disease, malaria and herpes,' and that it 'was founded by an American named Jim Humble, who claims he is a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda galaxy.' An image caption on the page reads: 'Jim Humble, founder of the Genesis II Church, claims that up to '95 per cent of all diseases caused by pathogens can be cured with MMS.'' Covers Health Canada warnings tied to Calgary-based sellers connected to the church.