The Canada truckers protest goes global — and it’s about more than just vaccines
We begin today in the Canadian Parliament, which has its own version of prime minister’s questions. And while it isn’t as entertaining as the famously unruly UK Parliament or the gem that is the Australian Parliament (“the honorable membah is a grub, Mistah Speakah!”), it can still get pretty rowdy.
Studio slavishness to the CCP was for nothing
Filmmakers often end up as propagandists. Hollywood’s biggest directors went to the front lines, cinematically speaking, during the Second World War. Luminaries like Frank Capra, John Ford and John Huston made Why We Fight films to rally a war-weary nation. The series was so effective that Franklin Roosevelt thought they were “dangerous”. Movies were another way of making war.
Liberal MP Joel Lightbound is absolutely correct in observing that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dramatically changed his messaging about the COVID-19 pandemic during last year’s federal election.
“I can’t help but notice with regret that both the tone and the policies of my government changed drastically on the eve and during the last election campaign,” Lightbound said during a press conference Tuesday. “From a positive and unifying approach, a decision was made to wedge, to divide and to stigmatize.”
A recent, high-level hire at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy is a drag queen, LGBTQ+ activist who has “lectured” on kink at college campuses and participated in interviews about fetish roleplay. In one interview, Sam Brinton – now a top Biden official – even discusses having sex with animals.
h/t Mauser
U.S. offers Trudeau government help to end border blockade
U.S. officials have offered to help the Trudeau government end an anti-vaccine mandate protest blockade that is sending ripple effects through the American economy and causing increasing concern in Washington.
The White House says U.S. officials had multiple conversations on Thursday with their Canadian counterparts about the blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, a major trade artery which connects Windsor, Ont. with Detroit.
Gee, it seems like only yesterday the Libs were crying about “foreign involvement” in Canadian affairs.
Furious Freedom Convoy protesters have said ‘Justin Trudeau must go’ and vowed to stay put until he quits after the Canadian Prime Minister dismissed the truckers as a ‘few people shouting and waving swastikas’.
The Canadian premier, 50, made the comments during a debate in the House of Commons on Monday – sparking outrage among opposition Conservatives and prompting a member of his own Liberal party to resign.
Now protesters blockading the border in Coutts, Alberta, have told DailyMail.com Trudeau’s description of them is ‘preposterous’ and vowed to stay put until the former teacher resigns and mask and vaccine mandates are lifted.
Elementary school counselor. This is who kids are supposed to trust. I would never let her near my kid pic.twitter.com/Re5SK1BwGx
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 10, 2022
Last week, near the marble-clad walls of Australia’s largest library, a perplexing confrontation broke out between anti-vaccination protesters and the far right’s news outlet of choice, Rebel News.
One of the Convoy to Canberra members stood over Avi Yemini, Rebel News’s key figure in Australia, as a small crowd and police watched on.
“I’m not going to be intimidated by you, Rebel News, or anybody else,” the protester said. “We don’t want you going up to people.”
A man who wanted to join the protests in Canada’s capital over mask mandates called in a bomb threat so police would waste their time chasing it, authorities said, but he called the wrong Ottawa– a village in Ohio.
The man, a 20-year-old from Akron, Ohio, called the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office twice Monday, said sheriff’s Capt. Brad Brubaker.
OTTAWA — The Ontario government says it has successfully petitioned a court to freeze access to millions of dollars donated through online fundraising platform GiveSendGo to the truckers convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions in Ottawa and at several border crossings.
A spokeswoman for Premier Doug Ford says Ontario’s attorney general brought the application to the Superior Court of Justice seeking an order that would prohibit anyone from distributing donations made through the website’s “Freedom Convoy 2022” and “Adopt-a-Trucker” campaign pages.
Five thousand homes belonging to Palestinians in Lebanon are at risk of collapsing and are in dire need of renovation, according to a report in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
These are the kind of reports that Amnesty International and many human rights organizations around the world apparently choose to ignore because Israel is not involved.
A planned American “freedom convoy” of truckers opposed to vaccine mandates, inspired by protests in Canada, could involve a blockade of the Super Bowl in Los Angeles this weekend that “could severely disrupt transportation, federal government, and law enforcement”, according to reports.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin to US law enforcement agencies warning of a convoy “potentially impacting Super Bowl LVI” on 13 February, and the 1 March State of the Union address in Washington, where the mooted convoy is likely to arrive, CBS reported.
The DHS bulletin said such a protest “could severely disrupt transportation, federal government, and law enforcement operations through gridlock and potential counter-protests”.
NBC’s Tuesday night telecast of the Beijing Winter Olympics drew catastrophic ratings with a -59 percent plunge compared to the 2018 PyeongChang Games, reports Sports Media Watch.
U.S.-based crowdfunding platform GoFundMe will appear before the House public safety and national security committee on March 3 about its involvement in hosting the trucker convoy’s original fundraising campaign.
NDP MP and public safety critic Alistair MacGregor, who introduced the motion to invite the group, tweeted the update on Thursday.
The news comes as the committee is set to hear Thursday from representatives of the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada – the country’s financial intelligence unit – about the issue.
