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GoFundMe’s withholding of donations to the Canadian truckers is a foul, classist attack on democracy.

We need to talk about GoFundMe’s withholding of millions of dollars from the Canadian truckers protesting against vaccine mandates. This is union-busting 21st-century style. This is a multimillion-dollar company using its corporate clout to starve working-class activists of funds. This is a signal from Silicon Valley, clear and loud, that it will wield its power to crush any form of political agitation from ‘the lower orders’ that pushes too hard against the political consensus. Anyone who thinks this clash between a profit-making fundraising website and drivers pissed off at being pushed around by Covid authoritarians is just another weird online spat needs to think again. This is far more than that. It is a scoping out of the battlelines over freedom and power that are likely to define the internet era.

Ottawa police are warning the supply of fuel and materials will be cut off to protesters downtown, saying, “Anyone attempting to bring material supports to the demonstrators could be subject to arrest.”

Police announced new enforcement is underway just hours after Mayor Jim Watson said the downtown area is “out of control” on day 10 of the ‘Freedom Convoy” on Wellington Street and other roads around Parliament Hill.

Man arrested after allegedly throwing dog feces at person during Toronto convoy protest

A 34-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly hurled feces at another person during the Toronto convoy protest on Saturday, police said.

Police said the man has been charged with assault with a weapon after the alleged incident involving dog feces at Bedford Road and Bloor Street West.

Further circumstances surrounding the incident have not been released.

Province says Ottawa has tools needed to end convoy protest; Watson warns city authorities ‘outnumbered’ by protesters

While increasingly desperate Ottawa officials look to other levels of government for help ending truck protest, the province is sending a message that Ottawa police have all the tools and resources they need to do the job themselves.

On Sunday afternoon Premier Doug Ford underscored that message on Twitter, saying: “While we cannot direct the police, we have provided the city of Ottawa everything they have asked for and will continue to provide whatever support they request.”

It was kind of fun to watch “progressive” politicians and lib-left media light their own hair on fire over last weekend’s truckers’ rally in Ottawa.

But only kind of fun, because you know their over-the-top narrative about the Freedom Convoy (that it is a racist, sexist attack on Canadian democracy), is likely to prevail, no matter how false.

As trucks line the streets around Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, in conjunction with the Freedom Convoy protest, thousands of truckers and supporters were seen dancing to loud music under flags hung across intersections Saturday.

Multiple videos posted across social media showed what some were describing as a festival.

The biggest political event since COVID brought its miseries to the country is taking place in the precincts of the Rideau Canal and the Chapters bookstore down the street from the terribly underused House of Commons, rather than the Parliament buildings themselves.

One of Britain’s top scientists is to be interviewed under oath by the US Congress over concerns that he was at the centre of a cover-up about the origins of Covid, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Sir Jeremy Farrar was among a group of scientists who initially claimed the coronavirus could have been man-made in a lab in the Chinese city Wuhan, where the pandemic began.

But after discussions with US officials and other leading scientists in February 2020, he changed his position, dismissing suggestions that the virus was made in a lab as a conspiracy theory.

Canadians have done as they were told during the pandemic. They lined up for shots until the country had one of the developed world’s best vaccination rates, they endured some of North America’s longest lockdowns, and they’ve complied with a wide assortment of curfews and quarantines.

But even in a society known for its civility and deference to authority, many are reaching their limit.

More than 1,200 people have now signed a petition calling for the resignation of Police Chief Peter Sloly and Mayor Jim Watson over handling of the trucker convoy.

“Ottawa is under siege and occupied by an unlawful group under the banner Freedom Convoy 2022. Despite the illegality, danger, and impact of having our nation’s capital taken from us, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Ottawa Chief of Police Peter Sloly refuse to take action and have refused an offer of help from the RCMP.

“Citizens of our beautiful capital have become hostage to an extremist movement. Join in making it clear this is unacceptable and disgusting.”