A comprehensive external review of the RCMP’s response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy describes the “highly politicized” invocation of the Emergencies Act.
The 92-page National After-Action Review, codenamed Project NATTERJACK and led by retired Assistant Commissioner Eric Slinn, reveals significant shortcomings in four main sectors: command, intelligence sharing, mobilization, and employee wellness.
The Department of Justice has agreed to pay a hefty settlement to the family of Ashli Babbitt because of her wrongful death at the hands of a Capitol policeman.
Ashli Babbitt was a veteran who marched to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with no intention of being violent or participating in a riot. In fact, evidence shows she tried to stop the violence committed by a small number in the J6 crowd at the Capitol. She became one of four protestors who died that day, and like Rosanne Boyland, Babbitt’s death was the result of police brutality.
Pro-life activist Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted earlier this month for standing outside an abortion clinic with a sign reading: ‘Here to talk, if you want.’ She was fined £20,000 for twice breaching the clinic’s ‘buffer zone’.
Freedom Convoy Organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have been found guilty of mischief as “protest leaders” and “social influencers.”
“The Crown has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Lich and Barber have committed mischief,” said the Court of Ontario judge overseeing the mischief trial.
The parents of a nine-year-old girl were arrested by police after they complained about their daughter’s primary school in a WhatsApp group.
Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were reportedly detained in front of their young daughter by six officers before being left in a cell for eight hours.
They said they were questioned on suspicion of harassment, malicious communications and causing a nuisance on school property.
The police are the enemy of the people.
This is not policing by consent. This is China.
It’s about time we stopped paying taxes to fund the salaries of these little gestapo pricks. https://t.co/NNQMw7ESTZ
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) March 29, 2025
An Ottawa police officer accused by the force of using her position to probe the potential linkage between infant death cases and COVID-19 vaccinations has been found guilty of discreditable conduct under Ontario’s Police Services Act.
Constable Helen Grus was ruled guilty of discreditable conduct in a March 25 decision following a disciplinary hearing overseen by retired superintendent Chris Renwick. Renwick said Grus’s actions had the “real potential of bringing discredit to the reputation of the OPS [Ottawa Police Service].”
BREAKING Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus Found GUILTY
"…unauthorized criminal negligence inquiries on public officials were being undertaken by a criminal investigator within SACA."
So now police officers are required to obtain permission before investigating public… pic.twitter.com/tQadMGX127
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) March 25, 2025
When the police knocked on Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson’s door last year, it prompted a justified national outcry. She was told by two officers on Remembrance Sunday that she was being investigated for ‘stirring up racial hatred’ – all because of a nearly year-old tweet, in which she mistook some British Pakistani protesters for pro-Hamas protesters and railed against ‘Jew haters’. That Pearson promptly deleted it soon after apparently made no difference.
Canadians await the verdict in the unprecedented trial of Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus, which ended in mid-January 2025.
The longest, most expensive internal prosecution in Ottawa Police history – perhaps in Canadian police history – concluded on Jan. 14th. Police… pic.twitter.com/C9lTjq7K3G
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) March 7, 2025
Federal lawyers have entered settlement talks in the Ashli Babbitt wrongful death suit, signaling a potential shift in the Department of Justice’s stance on cases related to the January 6 Capitol riot.
“The parties have agreed to work in good faith to narrow or resolve issues in this case,” reads the latest filing, a joint status report between defense attorneys and Judicial Watch, representing Babbitt’s estate and her husband, Aaron Babbitt, according to a report by the Washington Examiner.
PayPal has admitted that a prominent children’s rights campaigner was “debanked” during the pandemic after speaking out against school closures and mandatory vaccines.
The US online payments giant told Molly Kingsley, founder of the parent campaign group UsForThem, that her account had been terminated in September 2022 owing to “the nature of its activities”.
Hers was one of a handful of accounts that were frozen by PayPal, all of which belonged to individuals or organisations that questioned the government’s policies during the pandemic.
By proroguing Parliament on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau snuffed the life out of one of his favourite darlings: Bill C-63, also known as the online harms act.
There’s no excuse for suspending democracy at a time like this, but we should at least celebrate the death of this atrocious bill. Had it (or the two bills the Liberals were to replace it with) passed, the Canadian Human Rights Commission would have been made sheriff of the Canadian internet, empowering it to drag anyone through a lengthy tribunal process making online comments perceived to be hateful. What’s worse, anyone reporting mean comments to this tribunal would be allowed to remain anonymous, which would have allowed the process to be weaponized with ease.
One man has been given jail time for his role in the Coutts border blockade in Alberta in 2022, while another was sentenced to community time.
Marco Van Huigenbos was sentenced to four months in jail and Gerhard (George) Janzen received a three-month sentence, which is to be served in the community. Janzen was also ordered to complete 100 hours of community service within the three months.
BREAKING: Well known Canadian podcaster Lauren Southern testified today that CSIS came to her home and threatened her and her child when she said NO to becoming an Informant/Asset due to a scandal in the US with Tenet Media. A scandal that Ms.Southern had no knowledge of nor… pic.twitter.com/mdHEGIFBKe
— Odessa Orlewicz (@OdessaOrlewicz) November 22, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
The police force at the centre of the Allison Pearson row has not investigated a controversial imam who called for “Zionists” to be destroyed.
Users of X, formerly Twitter, alerted Essex Police to comments by Shaykh Shams Ad-Duha Muhammad after footage of him calling for “punishment” of those who support the existence of Israel was posted.
The imam’s remarks came during a sermon at Hamptons Sports and Leisure Centre, in Chelmsford, last year. On Monday, Essex’s police, fire and crime commissioner had been due to speak at the same leisure centre before the address was cancelled with 90 minutes notice.
