Raided Kelowna business owner says she got the drugs from India, won’t get a licence

Health Canada has confirmed that it seized ivermectin along with other prescription drugs from a Kelowna business last week.

The health agency said it raided the physical premises of Ezra Healing Oct. 30, alleging she was improperly selling and advertising the use of the regulated drugs.

“Selling unauthorized health products or making false or misleading claims to prevent, treat, or cure illnesses is illegal in Canada,” Health Canada said in an email to iNFOnews.ca.

Ezra Healing owner Svetlana Rilkoff told iNFOnews.ca she didn’t have a licence to sell the drugs, which also included mebendazole, hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin.

“I don’t believe in licensing,” Rilkoff said. “I don’t believe in asking the people who started this genocide for permission to heal people.”

Rilkoff, who used to go by the name Svetlana Dalla Lana, refers to the vaccine for COVID-19 as ‘genocide’.

She said Health Canada had taken $200,000 of her products, along with educational material and $200 cash from her cash box.

“They came in and they just started… seizing everything that doesn’t have a license number on it,” she said.

Rilkoff said she had the drugs shipped in from India and then tested by a third party.

“It’s a very great, high-quality, legit product,” Rilkoff said.

Rilkoff shrugged off any concern when asked if she was concerned she might be criminally prosecuted for selling prescription-only drugs without a licence.

“This is the mound I die on,” she said. “Health Canada has launched a genocide with vaccine injuries… I got into this fight to end this.”

Rilkoff set up Ezra Wellness in 2021 after being fired from her job as a registered nurse at a clinic in Christina Lake.

Ezra Wellness once had brick-and-mortar offices in Cranbrook and Kamloops, although they didn’t last long. She says she set up Ezra Healing in Kelowna last year and also sells online.

The company’s website doesn’t explicitly say it sells ivermectin, but lists “Vitamin I” at $173 for 100 tabs.

When asked how much money she’d made from Ezra Healing she said she didn’t know, before saying it wasn’t anyone’s business.

Ivermectin has been around for decades and is largely used as a deworming drug for animals, but is also authorized by Health Canada for human use as a prescription antiparasitic drug for the treatment of worm infections.

During the pandemic, it was touted as a treatment for COVID-19 after early studies suggested clinical benefits. However, later studies found it not reduce the risk of hospitalization and Health Canada says there is no evidence that ivermectin works to prevent or treat COVID-19, and it is not authorized for this use.

Researchers are also exploring ivermectin as a possible cancer drug, but no studies in humans have found ivermectin to be effective for people with cancer.

Rilkoff is well ahead of them and claims her drugs are already healing cancer. Ezra Healing’s website recommends people with cancer should not have a biopsy and to start on high doses of vitamin D and anti-parasitic drugs.

She denied any allegation that she’s taking advantage of people and profiting from people’s sickness.

“I’m running a business,” Rilkoff said. “My prices are so much lower than any pharmacy that you’ll find. It’s a business, and people can either enter it or they don’t have to.”

While there is no credible medical evidence for what Rilkoff is claiming, she denies she’s doing anything wrong.

“My business doesn’t run on a snake oil model, it runs on evidence-based scientific method,” she said.

Rilkoff didn’t answer when asked what that evidence-based scientific method was and ended the interview.

The Canadian Cancer Society says that selling ivermectin under the guise of a cure for cancer is harmful and gives false hope to people with cancer and their loved ones.  

“Ivermectin is a drug that is not scientifically proven to cure cancer,” the Society said in an email to iNFOnews.ca. “Surgery, radiation and approved drugs like chemotherapy are safe and proven to stop cancer cells from growing and spreading. Choosing an alternative therapy can have serious health effects, such as the cancer spreading or getting worse.”

A crowdfunding site has been set up for her business with a goal of raising US$737,000 (roughly CAD$1M). By late afternoon, Nov. 5, it had raised US$104.