MUST WATCH: A veteran in Ottawa UNLOADS on CBC, “Get out of here!” pic.twitter.com/H0BmbMz5rd
— Angelo Isidorou (@angeloisidorou) February 12, 2022
h/t RM
“China eats weird animals disease”
Convoy protesters break through Surrey RCMP barricade with military-style vehicle as others march to U.S. border on foot
SURREY, B.C. – Several commercial trucks and a military-style vehicle broke through an RCMP barricade on the Pacific Highway as they followed protesters marching to the border crossing at approximately 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
Several officers were cut off from their colleagues by what Mounties described as a hostile mob. Hundreds of protesters celebrated on foot near the border crossing, with traffic at a standstill through a massive area of south Surrey.
Ontario reports 2,265 new Covid cases … and Deltacron may be real!!!
Ont. reporting 1,540 COVID-19 patients in hospital, including 402 in ICU
The number of patients in hospital with COVID-19 has fallen to its lowest level in more than a month, according to the latest data released by provincial health officials.
There are now a just over 1,500 patients with COVID-19 receiving treatment in hospital, down from 2,230 one week ago. This number includes 402 patients in the ICU, about 80 fewer ICU patients than there were seven days ago. The province does not release detailed hospitalization data over the weekend and cautions that data is incomplete due to a lack of reporting from some hospitals.
1,540 people are hospitalized with #COVID19. Please note that not all hospitals report on weekends.
There are 402 people in ICU with COVID-19.
There are 2,265 new cases of COVID-19.
Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 13, 2022
Dismissed ‘Deltacron’ variant could be real
Health authorities in the UK have officially begun monitoring the so-called ‘Deltacron’ variant of the Covid-19 coronavirus that is thought to be a hybrid of the Omicron and Delta strains. The move comes after experts at the World Health Organization and elsewhere had dismissed the variant as a lab error last month.
Police move to break up remaining protest at Windsor’s Ambassador Bridge
Officers from multiple police forces began advancing toward protesters on Sunday morning to break up a days-long occupation near the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ont.
A group of protesters opposing pandemic-era laws such as vaccine mandates has been at the bridge since Monday, blocking what is typically Canada’s busiest border crossing. On Friday, a judge granted an injunction demanding that the protesters clear the bridge by that evening.
Police have cleared the entire Windsor protest zone and are pushing back anyone remaining who may be blocking the road leading to the Ambassador Bridge pic.twitter.com/MKx3o9C4gt
— Thomas Daigle (@thomasdaigle) February 13, 2022
The last of the trucks has left pic.twitter.com/aaz5lx8I5a
— Ellen Mauro (@EMauroCBC) February 13, 2022
We saw the second trucker get arrested. Different tone today. pic.twitter.com/4J57xPiEEC
— á ’ Global News (@ConsumerSOS) February 13, 2022
Twitter – #AmbassadorBridge
Canada truckers protest: After a police raid, what next?
A police raid on the bridge blockade at Windsor, Ontario, failed to shut it down. With protesters in Ottawa also digging in, what will it take to get them to budge?
They arrived by the bus load – police in balaclavas and carrying long guns, ready to oust dozens of protesters blocking roads leading to the Ambassador Bridge.
There were pickups and SUVs festooned with Canadian flags, anti-vaccination slogans and anti-Trudeau epithets, as well as some heavy commercial trucks.
About 100 vehicles have been parked along the roughly 2km (1.25 miles) of road leading up to the bridge for almost a week.
Here’s what Ontarians have to say about Ford’s state of emergency
After Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency, hundreds of Ontarians took part in the freedom convoy protest in Toronto this weekend.
True North’s Harrison Faulkner attended the protest to get their thoughts on the Ontario government’s decision.
California bill would require vaccines for all employees
California would mandate that all businesses require their employees and independent contractors to receive the COVID-19 vaccine under legislation announced Friday by Democratic state lawmakers that was immediately criticized by Republicans as government overreach.
In Windsor
On day 6 of the Ambassador Bridge blockade, protester holds up “I’m not leaving” sign #Windsor #AmbassadorBridge pic.twitter.com/RfXcxIDLFP
— Lisa Bennatan (@LisaBennatan) February 13, 2022
Freelance Journalist Takes a Tomahawk to the Media’s Narrative About Canada’s Freedom Convoy
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with the rest of the liberal media, have denigrated the truckers of the Freedom Convoy. It’s not a band of white supremacists. There is no violence. These are all lies. There’s no looting. There’s no arson. There’s no security issue present that would warrant the government rolling in the tanks. Luckily, the Canadian military has rejected any overtures that they be used to clear these people out. Ontario’s government tried to block the donation stream. It failed. GoFundMe pinched off donations to the truckers; GoSendMe picked up where they left off.
Trudeau is getting dangerous, but the truckers still have options
Tucker Carlson (see below) had a somewhat ebullient segment about the fact that the Canadian truckers represent the rise of the ordinary people, while the response from Canada’s leadership class bespeaks fear and helplessness. I’m sorry to say I believe that Tucker is wrong and that things are getting very dangerous for the truckers. They still have options, but, whenever you have to depend on the goodwill of a tyrant, his police state, and his military, things aren’t going well. That’s especially true of Canada because, on May 1, 2020, Canadians gave up their guns.
The future of protest: Where does the Freedom Convoy go from here?
“This is definitely not a one-time thing,” activist Sam Hersh predicts.
When the trucks finally leave downtown Ottawa, when quiet returns and traffic resumes, hard questions will have to begin to be answered.
Chief among those is: Will it happen again?
Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly has already raised the possibility that truckers could return to the city this spring — or sooner — and has cited that concern to explain, in part, why his officers have yet to force the trucks from downtown streets.
Bill Maher Says Canadian Truckers are ‘Not Wrong’ to Be ‘P—ed Off’
“Real Time” host Bill Maher explained during the latest broadcast of his show that the Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates are justifiably upset at the elites because they had to continue to work throughout the pandemic while many others had the flexibility to sit at home at the expense of the government.
In starting the panel discussion of his Friday night show, Maher said that the Freedom Convoy is people “understanding this is about something more than just the vaccine mandate.”
World-famous liberal commentator Bill Maher calls out Trudeau’s bigoted remarks about unvaccinated people.
➡️https://t.co/HkDUvD7orG pic.twitter.com/BASA4Toc2j— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) February 12, 2022
Half of Canadians say Trudeau ‘not up to the job’ – poll
Only 16% of respondents to the Maru Public Opinion poll said they would vote for Trudeau based on his actions over the past two weeks, when a protest by truck drivers against a Covid-19 vaccine mandate bubbled up into massive blockades, inspiring similar movements in several other countries. Just 29% said Trudeau had acted “like a prime minister should,” and 48% concluded that he was “not up to the job of being prime minister.”
MyPillow CEO Donates Thousands of Pillows to Trucker Convoy in Canada
Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of MyPillow, is donating thousands of pillows to Canadian truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Ottawa—as he praised the movement dubbed “Freedom Convoy” for all the work they have done.
“In Canada, they have backed off on some of the mandates,” Lindell said. “The truckers are gaining. It is working … they’re doing it now on the U.S. side. MyPillow’s getting involved. We’re shipping up pillows to all of the truckers.”
This will make lefty heads Pop.