The Canadian government claims that the reason the police used violence and force to move protesters off the streets of Canada’s capital was that the demonstrators themselves were violent.
Police Chief Steven Bell gave a press conference on Saturday trying to justify his officers using horses to push the protesters back. After several demonstrators were trampled — caught on video — Bell denied that it was a big deal.
A woman was killed and five others wounded in a shooting Saturday night at a Portland park where people had gathered to protest the police shooting of Amir Locke.
Police responded to reports of shots fired at a street intersection near Normandale Park just after 8 pm, before demonstrators could even begin a planned march, which was set to begin at 8, flyers posted on social media show.
Arriving officers found one woman dead, and two men and three other women were taken to the hospital, police said. Their conditions were not immediately known.
Last night there was a mass shooting in Portland at Normandale Park where armed #antifa & far-left militants were gathering for a direct action. One female is deceased & there are five others injured. #Antifa are claiming shooting was politically motivated pic.twitter.com/68n38GAsPV
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) February 20, 2022
There are few words to describe the depth of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s depravity. I’m not going to even try.
This is a person, because no real man would ever govern like him, so thoroughly ill-prepared for its job it doesn’t even know how to properly read from the prepared script.
It was all fun and games making Trudeau/Hitler memes until this week when Trudeau’s enforcers on horseback trampled an old woman.
Nice Turnouts!
British Columbia pic.twitter.com/O8eX1VWNSI
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 20, 2022
Calgary is on fyre pic.twitter.com/LMzyCRHHf2
— Denver Hodge Fund (@DerAchsenZeit) February 19, 2022
#FreedomProtest In #Toronto After #Ottawa Crackdown On #FreedomConvoy2022
The End Of The Truck Protest In #Ottawa Does Not Mean An End To The #FreedomProtest Across #Canada
Peaceful Protests On Foot Are 100% Legal And As Effective Without Having To Block Roads pic.twitter.com/csSIK9egia
— 🔴 Choice News Network 🌐 (@ChoiceNewsNet) February 20, 2022
“A specter is haunting France, the specter of Islam!”
This is the message that, with variations of intonation and nuance, comes from almost all of the dozen or so declared candidates in France’s forthcoming presidential election.
This reminds those of us who witnessed the 20-year-long Brexit saga of the ordeal that Britain went through to end up more divided than ever and less able to deal with the problems that the anti-immigration discourse occulted under a fog of pseudo-nationalism.
Even after nearly 200 arrests made in Ottawa over the past couple of days in an effort to crack down on “Freedom Convoy” protesters, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair says the job is “not yet done.”
Following a briefing with law enforcement officials on Sunday morning, the minister said threats that prompted the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act are ongoing.
“It’s still clear that although they’ve made very significant progress, and we’re pleased with the progress that they’ve made, the job’s not yet done,” he said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period. “The reasons why we had to bring forward these measures, unfortunately, still exist.”
A grooming gang who raped a 14-year-old girl and ‘abused her systematically and repeatedly’ over a two-year period have been jailed.
The woman was raped by multiple men in the Keighley area of West Yorkshire over a period between 2008 and 2009, when she was aged between 14 and 16.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said eight men were found guilty of 23 counts of rape and two of conspiracy to rape in two separate trials at Bradford Crown Court last year.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association on Friday applied for a judicial review in federal court seeking an order to quash Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14.
The CCLA presents a logical and balanced argument, free of political rhetoric, about why it believes that decision was unconstitutional.
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A New York Times feature about an upcoming book by Toronto filmmaker Sarah Polley says it includes allegations of a decades-old violent encounter between her and former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi.
In an article published Thursday, the Times summarized sections of Polley’s upcoming essay collection “Run Towards the Danger,” and said the actress, screenwriter and director describes an incident with Ghomeshi when she was 16 and he was 28.
Times reporter Dave Itzkoff zeroed in on a chapter titled “The Woman Who Stayed Silent,” and recounted a passage as saying Ghomeshi “became violent during a sexual encounter in which he ignored her pleas to stop hurting her.”
“… If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges,” Bell said.
“This investigation will go on for months to come. It has many, many different streams both from a federal financial level, from a provincial licensing level, from a Criminal Code level, from a municipal breach of court order, breach of court injunction level.”
1,056 people are hospitalized with #COVID19. Please note that not all hospitals report on weekends.
There are 324 people in ICU with COVID-19.
There are 1,966 new cases of COVID-19.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 20, 2022
The Queen has tested positive for Covid, Buckingham Palace has said.
The monarch is experiencing “mild cold-like symptoms” but expects to continue “light duties” at Windsor over the coming week, the palace said.
“She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all the appropriate guidelines,” it added in a statement.
The Queen, 95, had been in contact with her eldest son and heir, the Prince of Wales, who tested positive last week.
Ottawa’s mayor says any vehicles seized during the police crackdown on the occupation of the downtown should be sold to cover costs incurred by the city.
“We actually have the ability to confiscate those vehicles and sell them,” Mayor Jim Watson said Saturday.
“And I want to see them sold. I don’t want the return to these people who’ve been causing such frustration and angst in our community.”
Things had been very quiet here downtown. Now, vans and bus loads of police and the Toronto police mounted unit—horses in trailers—-have arrived back near parliament. Day 3. #ottawa pic.twitter.com/OpOPNoAPqV
— á ’ Global News (@ConsumerSOS) February 20, 2022
Police are poised for a third day of actively confronting protesters in downtown Ottawa in hopes of finally ending the weeks-long occupation of the national capital.
… They also said they deployed mid-range impact weapons last night after protesters allegedly assaulted officers with weapons, though no serious injuries on either side were reported.
The Canadian government has developed an incredible talent for talking out of both sides of its mouth. While cracking down on peaceful protesters with both slanderous rhetoric and draconian physical and financial measures, government officials are running around condemning the actions of other governments against their protesters.
It was a September day, hot and dusty, normal. Meryem Sultan was lined up in front of the school with three classes of Uyghur schoolkids waiting for the buses. Back when she was nine, Meryem hated these school trips to the country. She had to pick caterpillars off the crops because, she was told, Chinese people liked to eat them. Kind of weird. When she was ten, what bugged her was that she was the smartest kid in the class, but now the teachers said they had to pick cotton. Then they told Meryem off, right in front of everyone — “Meryem, your results at school mean nothing. If you can’t pick cotton? You’re useless.” It was humiliating, but other kids were getting regular beatings for slacking off. Anyway, it was “just part of going to school” so Meryem did it. Turned out, she could pick faster than almost anyone in the class, especially the boys. Once she got going, she was “an addict.”
Prince Andrew had “no choice” but to reach a settlement with Virginia Guiffre as his “head was in a vice”, a lawyer who previously represented survivors of deceased millionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
