After laying off a third of its workforce over vaccine mandates and receiving $187.5 million in pandemic bailouts, VIA Rail is now asking the federal government for more taxpayers’ money,
“China eats weird animals disease”
The CDC Data Nobody Is Talking About Raises Urgent Questions for Bureaucrats
Some of us are old enough to remember when Dr. Anthony Fauci told the nation that “herd immunity” may require 90% of Americans to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. First, that is a complete revision of the meaning of herd immunity since it is not a static concept. Second, while it may have been a legitimate goal to achieve near-zero COVID-19, all it meant was that 90% of the population needed to have an effective immune response to COVID-19. To date, Fauci, the CDC, and the rest of the health agency bureaucrats have defined this response as having detectable circulating antibodies.
Oligarchy’s Response to the Freedom Convoy Bodes Ill for Them
The deposition of Canada’s prime minister is unlikely to be so sanguinary as the Ceaușescus in Romania. But it will be no less definitive.
As I write, Canadian police, many dressed in military garb and supported by armored vehicles and snipers(!), are moving in to enforce several court orders and demands of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and others that the “Freedom Convoy” of Canadian truckers stop blocking the Ambassador Bridge, the major artery between the United States and Canada, and disperse. Some of the protestors are leaving while many others are standing their ground.
Will the heavy hand of the state succeed in crushing the protest? In the short term, perhaps.
The propaganda war on the Canadian truckers
The US media are shamefully smearing the ‘Freedom Convoy’ as a far-right menace.
By now, most Americans have heard of the truckers’ actions happening north of the border. Based on lurid descriptions of the protests from the US media, they could be forgiven for thinking these protesters are a small bunch of nasty thugs and Nazis who must be put down immediately. Indeed, it seems American reporters and commentators have decided to project all of their hatred of Trumpists and deplorable workers generally on to the Canadian truckers.
‘Where‘s Trudo‘ Comic Brutally Mocks Canadian PM Justin Trudeau
The parody of Trudeau’s authoritarian Canada was created in the “Where’s Waldo” style by artist Bob Moran and features in comic form many of the outrageously, left-wing people and events that are occurring in Canada even as the Freedom Convoy is desperately trying to put a halt to some of it.
GOLDSTEIN: It’s a myth that politicians don’t tell police what to do
Let’s examine Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement yet again on Friday that “politicians don’t direct police in a democratic society,” which is nonsense.
If that was true, the police would be a law unto themselves, which is what happens in dictatorships.
2 special forces members under investigation for allegedly taking part in convoy protest
Two members of the military’s elite special forces unit are under investigation for their alleged involvement in the convoy protest in Ottawa, according to a statement from the Department of National Defence.
Maj.-Gen Steve Boivin, commander of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, said the first case came to the attention of senior leaders on Feb. 1, and the other on Feb. 10.
Both members were already in the process of being released from the Canadian Armed Forces and were supporting the protest “in some form or another,” he said.
Authoritarian Science and the Case of Hydroxychloroquine
The approach to medical information increasingly taken by authorities and the media is damaging to public health and scientific inquiry.
Imperial County, California, a poor, largely Hispanic agricultural region in the southeastern corner of the state, has been hit hard by Covid-19. By the end of January, according to the New York Times’s Covid-19 database, Imperial County had suffered 845 Covid deaths, or 4.7 per thousand inhabitants—a rate almost 80 percent higher than the U.S. average. The case fatality rate in Imperial County is 1.44 percent, the second-highest in California—and was significantly higher, 2.10 percent, at the end of October 2021 before the Omicron wave.
WARMINGTON: OPP defends pre-crime information leaflet handed to Facebook user
The OPP says the aim of an officer going to the door of a farm in Peterborough County was merely to try to keep things “safe and lawful.”
Responding to a Saturday column on a woman named Nadine Ellis-Maffei being surprised to see a cop knock on her door with advice on how to act at the Freedom Convoy, the OPP said it was merely doing its policing duties.
Ambassador Bridge border crossing remains closed as police arrest several protesters
Police made several arrests as they cleared out protesters and vehicles blockading the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., but the bridge was not yet open to traffic on Sunday.
Dozens of trucks, cars, pickups and vans have blocked traffic in both directions at Canada’s busiest border crossing to the U.S. for several days. By Sunday morning, the trucks and remaining protesters were greeted by a heavy police presence, with more than 50 vehicles, including cruisers, buses and an armoured car.
Latest update from the Ambassador Bridge protest:
Police made arrests & removed vehicles earlier. Most police left. Some roads remain closed with cement barriers. A group of protestors remains.
Via: PinkZebra / YT#Windsor #Ontario #AmbassadorBridge #TruckersForFreedom2022 pic.twitter.com/0g61OoRnXg
— DaveO ⚔️ 🗽 (@Patri0tCx_) February 13, 2022
Ottawa mayor made a ‘backchannel’ deal to remove convoy from ‘residential’ areas
Ottawa’s mayor says he’s reached a “backchannel” deal with convoy organizers to limit the three-week occupation’s to the area immediately surrounding Parliament Hill.
But Ottawa police’s plans to bring an ultimate end to the demonstrations – which showed few signs of slowing Sunday – have once again been called into question, after reports they’ve provided no detailed plan to federal law enforcement partners.
In a stunning Sunday statement, Mayor Jim Watson’s office says he successfully negotiated with convoy organizers to leave all “residential” areas in the city by Monday.
Guardianistas ponder … Freedom convoys: legitimate Covid protest or vehicle for darker beliefs?
The blockade of Ottawa has sparked copycat action around the globe, and such disparate demonstrations of grievance may prove hard to shut down
It only took six dozen trucks, and a few hundred protesters to bring Canada’s capital to a standstill and close a critical border crossing with the US, throttling the car industry that straddles the line between both countries and relies on a constant flow of trade.
On Saturday, Canadian authorities finally began taking action to clear the Ambassador Bridge into the US, the busiest land crossing in North America, which had been blockaded by just over a dozen trucks and smaller vehicles, and a crowd a few hundred strong.
The bridge has been closed for the best part of a week now, and meanwhile downtown Ottawa has been under a form of siege for more than a fortnight, blockaded by crowds gathered under the banner of opposition to Covid regulations.
FUREY: Canadians were pushed too far — then they pushed back
A lot of people around the world are asking how it is that pleasant little Canada, of all places, has suddenly turned into a firebrand of a nation, spurring controversial blockades and convoy protests that are now being copied in other countries.
The answer is simply that frustrations are boiling over after two incredibly tense years. This is especially so in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, which have been some of the most locked-down regions in the world.
Trudeau wants the ‘foreign money’ funding illegal protests in Canada to stop
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More than half of the funding for the Canadian trucker convoy protesters on some online platforms is coming from the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.
Trudeau said he spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden about the American and “global” influences on the protests against COVID-19 mandates, which have blocked streets in downtown Ottawa and border crossings to the U.S.
Feds prepared to use emergency powers to end blockades, but police must ‘do their job’: Blair
OTTAWA — The federal government is prepared to invoke the Emergencies Act to see the trucker convoy protests and blockades end, says Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair, calling it a “critical situation,” while also saying that police need to “do their job.”
“We have an emergency act that I will tell you, there has been a near-constant and vigorous examination of those authorities and what’s required,” Blair said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period.
Trudeauscu threatens ‘Increasingly severe’ penalties for convoy protesters who break law
The federal government warned Saturday that consequences for trucker convoy protesters who break the law will be “increasingly severe” as an occupation in Ottawa extends past two weeks and blockades spring up across the country.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convened a meeting Saturday with ministers and senior officials to see how protests, occupations and blockades can be brought “under control.”