A Conservative senator from Nova Scotia was seen on a video deriding the response of people who live in Ottawa to recent protests, saying he’s sick of their entitlement and “six-figure salaries and 20-hour work weeks.”
In the video recorded near Parliament Hill, Sen. Michael MacDonald expressed support for the protesters who occupied Ottawa for more than three weeks.
Health Canada says it has legalized heroin as a treatment option for people with “severe opioid use disorder.”
Canadian parents are hesitant about vaccinating kindergarteners against COVID-19 and resent being made to “feel guilty” by federal regulators, according to in-house research by the Privy Council Office (PCO) obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter on Friday.
The New York Times Editorial Board has taken a stance in support of Canadian truckers’ right to protest, saying that peaceful demonstrations are a vital part of democracy.
When he responded to truckers protesting vaccine mandates by saying they had “unacceptable views,” he was undermining the fundamental right to dissent.
On February 24, 2020, a former judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice Deepak Gupta, delivered a lecture to the Bar arguing that “the right to dissent is the most important right granted by the Constitution.”
Gupta took the ancient idea of challenging authority and gave it dignity: “To question, to challenge, to verify, to ask for accountability from the government is the right of every citizen under the constitution,” he said. “These rights should never be taken away otherwise we will become an unquestioning moribund society, which will not be able to develop any further.”
To solve a “national emergency,” banks in Canada can now deprive anyone remotely connected to the Ottawa protest the ability to pay for the following: food, childcare, transportation, phone services, internet, heating, electricity, medication, legal services, and more. I’m no public safety expert, but it’s common sense that people need money to survive daily life. And yet, the federal government has set up a system to deny potentially thousands of people the ability to pay for basic necessities.
It may seem hard to believe that America’s neighbor to the north is now a full-fledged, up-and-running police state. Heavily-armed police are arresting and, in some cases, roughing up, severely beating, and trampling with horses members of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy in Ottawa as well as bystanders. The country has gone off the rails.
The police tried to get into the Iconic Cafe, a small business that commited the crime of serving coffee to the truckers, to arrest the owners. They were scared off by a citizen live streamer, for now
I’m on the scene and will there when the police come back.#TrudeauHasGotToGo— Daniel Bordman (@Ranting4Canada) February 20, 2022
This is a clear example of the federal and Ottawa municipal governments being vindictive of anyone even supportive of the truckers.
Businesses that remained open like the Iconic Cafe made the government and legacy media look unhinged by proving the truckers and convoy supporters were peaceful and good for small businesses in Ottawa.
The truckers were not only not a nuisance to the Iconic Cafe, but according to the owners, the wives of truckers were even helping clean their bathrooms and mopping floors to provide services to them for remaining open for the convoy.
Border blockades cleared. Key protest organizers arrested. A number of protesters arrested. Bank accounts frozen. Trucks seized. Emergency over. And yet, the Canadian government wants to extend the Emergencies Act “indefinitely”? pic.twitter.com/LwCzbO2p2j
— Katherine Brodsky 🏴☠️ (@mysteriouskat) February 20, 2022
The Federal government has locked Journalist Andy Lee’s bank and credit cards.
This is crazy #Trudeau is going after journalists now.
What happened to #Canada
— Shonn Oborowsky (@ShonnOborowsky) February 20, 2022
When thousands of protesters against Covid restrictions arrived in Ottawa last month, it would have seemed unimaginable that they would take over parts of the Canadian capital with little resistance.
To their own disbelief, the rightwing protesters soon controlled the streets outside parliament, brazenly flouting the law in the belief nothing could or would stop them.
This weekend, however, the blockade ended in incredulity, accusations of betrayal and questions over the future of the protest movement.
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.
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
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.”
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.”
