If you like, you can situate the opening scene of the Valentine’s Day 2022 Emergencies Act melodrama in Prince Rupert, on British Columbia’s north coast, at roughly 7 a.m. on Jan. 22 last year. An Ottawa-bound convoy of trucks rolled eastward out of town along Highway 16, eventually converging with other convoys from points south and east, and by Saturday, Jan. 29, Ottawa was besieged, it’s fair to say.
Trudeau could resign next.
The FBI is retracting a leaked document that advised the Bureau to infiltrate groups of traditionalist Roman Catholics who the assessment claimed were at risk of committing acts of extremist violence, the Daily Caller has learned.
The FBI tells the Caller that the document, put forward by the Richmond field office, “does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI” and that the Bureau will be conducting an internal review.
What did you expect from an organization once headed up by a cross-dresser?
Kyle Seraphin has a leaked FBI document that purports to show the extremism of “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics.” The document outlines opportunities for agents to recruit assets within the Catholic Church itself.
What’s astonishing about the document is the shoddiness of its analysis and sourcing. The belief that “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” are a potential threat seems to come entirely from an old report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. This is buttressed in the appendices with a clickbait piece from the Atlantic — about populist and hyper-masculine depictions of rosary beads — and a few more from Salon.
The leftist President of Ireland has attacked anti-mass migration protesters in the country, accusing them of “sowing hate”.
Michael D. Higgins, the President of Ireland, has lashed out at the growing number of anti-mass migration protests taking place in the country, attacking those attending the demonstrations for “sowing hate”.
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Huge crowds in Dublin as concerned Irish citizens protest unvetted migrants being planted in their communities 😲
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… Salé has questioned, without evidence, the safety of vaccines, tweeted memes that seemed to support military tribunals and appeared to compare Justin Trudeau to Hitler. To be blunt, most Canadians would find Salé’s stance appalling. Most, but not all. The ideas she espouses are consistent with a growing movement, born of cherry-picked data, conspiracy theories and the opinions of scientists rejected by their peers that rose to new heights during three years of pandemic public health measures and isolation.
“… Now, after Maassen mused in an interview about “a green-leftist race theory” that casts “whites as inferior” and promotes “immigration by Arabic and African men”, the CDU have lost patience with a man who kept doubling down on culture war tropes, making himself a cult figure on the right fringes.”
It’s quite something to think that a year ago today Ontario was still under a hard lockdown. Premier Doug Ford, who had presided over some of the harshest COVID-19 policies in the free world, only ended the province’s fourth lockdown on Jan. 31, 2022.
These outrageous policies happened despite the fact that in most comparable jurisdictions—including the Democrat-governed American states immediately adjacent to Ontario—had abandoned these restrictions months before.
As vehicles pulled into a meeting spot on the side of the highway south of Lethbridge, Alta., it was clear that this year’s convoy protest gathering would be different. As people gathered to mark its one-year anniversary, they were greeted by two RCMP vehicles at the side of the road.
There was no missing the police vehicles scattered along the highway and the helicopter in the air, or the message: The event would be permitted, a large-scale disruption would not.
One year ago, Alberta RCMP had sent out a fairly innocuous media advisory warning of heavy congestion and slow-moving traffic near the border crossing at Coutts, Alta.
While some Conservative MPs and MLAs openly supported the Freedom Convoy as it began a year ago this weekend, others were highly critical of the protests
OTTAWA — The past year has seen many Canadians become politically engaged for the first time in their lives because of the Freedom Convoy, as well as conservative politicians hoping to bring this potential new pool of voters into the fold.
I’ll be voting PPC as they are the only federal party against the mass immigration scam.
Examples are everywhere of why it would be supremely dangerous to permit the Trudeau Liberals and their appointees to police content on the Internet.
On Wednesday, the government-funded Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), claimed that journalistic balance is getting in the way of good public policy.
Police and Bylaw Services officers maintained an increased presence in the Parliamentary Precinct on Sunday, as dozens of people gathered in downtown Ottawa to mark the one-year anniversary of the arrival of the ‘Freedom Convoy.’
Ottawa police vehicles monitored several intersections entering the downtown core, while Parliamentary Protective Service officers monitored people entering Parliament Hill ahead of a planned rally and dance party. A small group of people gathered on Parliament Hill during a snowstorm Sunday afternoon.
What is the current “bylaw” about flag poles in #Ottawa? Would the same treatment apply if this was Pride, BLM Ukraine, Iran or the Palestinian flag? #FreedomConvoy #CanadaFlag pic.twitter.com/zS8aQ0i58H
— Julie Scott 🇨🇦 (@julie_ppc) January 29, 2023
Ottawa counter protestor @DNArigged ASSAULTS a convoy supporter with her megaphone pic.twitter.com/2nVLTxGOe6
— The Pleb 🇨🇦 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) January 29, 2023
The fear in people’s eyes, just as they went about their business — going home, coming back from running an errand or from work — that will always stay in my mind,’ said Catherine McKenney, who was Ottawa city councillor in the ward impacted by the protest.
In Ottawa, Wellington Street has always been an odd duck.
It’s the home address of Parliament, the Prime Minister’s Office and the Supreme Court of Canada, among other notables on the world’s most earnest celebrity-sightings map. It has some of the touristy pomp you’d expect of an official promenade, but it’s also an ordinary commuter artery. And so it’s possible to see Justin Trudeau climbing out of a tinted-window SUV on his way into his office while being delayed getting to your own, all on the same block.
Former MPP Randy Hillier, facing nine charges stemming from last year’s “Freedom Convoy” occupation of downtown Ottawa, wants a change of venue for his trial to ensure an untainted jury.
His defence lawyer, David Anber, has filed a motion for a change of venue that will be heard later this year.
WASHINGTON — Four additional members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia were found guilty of seditious conspiracy on Monday for their roles in trying to keep Donald J. Trump in office after his 2020 election defeat, nearly two months after the group’s leader — Stewart Rhodes — was convicted of the same offense in a separate trial in November.
A jury in Federal District Court in Washington also found the four defendants guilty of two separate conspiracy charges.
