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Crypto group protests court order to freeze trucker convoy accounts — says it ‘cannot’ freeze money or prevent it from being moved

A cryptocurrency group whose software was used to funnel bitcoin to the “freedom convoy” in Ottawa says it cannot fulfil an Ontario judge’s order to freeze accounts associated with the protest, testing the legal system’s ability to curtail the flow of digital currency.

On Friday, after Ontario Superior Court Justice Calum MacLeod granted an injunction to a private citizens’ effort to stop funding for the protest — including more than $1 million in bitcoin — crypto exchange Nunchuck.io said that it “cannot” freeze its users money or prevent it from being moved because it does not have access to their digital wallets.

Yesterday, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice sent us a Mareva Injunction, ordering us to freeze and disclose information about the assets involved in the #FreedomConvoy2022 movement.

Here is our official response. pic.twitter.com/iuxliXhN5y

— nunchuk_io (@nunchuk_io) February 19, 2022

HMA

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ottawa Mayor Can Sell Protest Trucks Using Emergencies Act; Freeland Affirms Cities Have Certain Powers

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson had told the CBC on Feb. 19 that his city has the power to sell the vehicles due to the Emergencies Act invoked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 14.

“We actually have the ability to confiscate those vehicles and sell them,” he said, adding that “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.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Bitcoin Can Fix Financial Deplatforming of Canada’s Truckers—But It Won’t Be Easy

The government controls on the traditional banking system also apply to custodial cryptocurrency services.

Things are getting pretty wild up in Canada. While other countries are removing their COVID restrictions, our neighbors to the north have decided to invoke emergency powers to seize the bank accounts of those who oppose lockdowns and mandates. Meanwhile, state media is prowling through a hacked database of convoy donors (isn’t that a bannable offense on Twitter?) to dox and open targets to harassment.

Financial deplatforming has always been a threat, but it’s mostly been a remote one. With these unprecedented banking punishments against the Canadian trucker convoy and its supporters, the reality of the controls baked into our financial system have become clear to the world.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

LEDREW: Trudeau has brought Canadians to the tipping point

The Canada that Canadians now view every day is not the sensible, reasonable, and generous society that Canadians of all stripes have built up over many generations.

It has become polarized, nasty and barely recognizable.

Just listen to people talking in stores, on the street, and in meeting places.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Cabbage Patch doll authoritarian

Justin Trudeau’s Canada is tyrannical government by the mediocre

At last, Canada has been freed from the menacing threat of bouncy castles. The bouncy castles first appeared in Ottawa earlier this month, brought in by the truckers who were peacefully protesting Covid restrictions and who Prime Minister Justin Trudeau later compared to Nazis. And you can understand why. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked into a McDonald’s PlayPlace and felt the dark night of fascism descending all around me.

It is prudent to regard Ottawa as enemy territory and its public service predator class as pirates.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islamic Barbarians

Don Martin: An emergency about nothing as tow trucks become the excuse to act

Pressed hard for an Emergencies Act justification with the protests gone, border blockades down and convoy leaders in custody, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached deep into his leadership vacuum for rationalizations.

The emergency demanding the unprecedented use of the Act was . . . hesitant tow truck drivers, the prime minister declared.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

RCMP, banks and Ottawa say convoy protest donors won’t have accounts frozen after viral tweet said otherwise

The RCMP, banking sector and federal government said Monday that account-freezing powers bestowed under the Emergencies Act to help authorities deal with convoy protests do not affect donors to the protests, despite unsubstantiated claims by a Conservative MP that a constituent had her bank account frozen over a $50 contribution.

“At no time, did we provide a list of donors to Financial Institutions,” the RCMP said in a statement Monday.

The agency said while it had sent financial institutions a list of accounts to monitor and freeze, those accounts belonged to “individuals and companies suspected of involvement in illegal acts,” such as “influencers in the illegal protest in Ottawa” and vehicle owners and drivers “who did not want to leave the area impacted by the protest.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, WTF?

Ontario reports 1,335 new Covid cases … and Trudeau explained? Hamsters’ testicles shrink with Covid-19!

Ontario reports 24 new COVID-19 deaths over past two days

Ontario is reporting 24 new COVID-19 deaths detected over the past two days, as the rate of decline in hospitalized coronavirus patients began to slow.

The Ministry of Health said 15 additional deaths were detected on Monday and nine on Tuesday.

There have been 168 net new deaths reported in the past week and 1,376 in the past 30 days.

Today there are 1,282 new cases of #COVID19. Yesterday there were 1,335 new cases.

Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 22, 2022

Hamsters’ testicles shrink with Covid-19 – study

Researchers have found that Covid-19 infection in hamsters causes several unwanted effects on their reproductive organs. The infection results in shrunken testicles, an acute decrease in sperm count, and a reduction in testosterone levels. The study, published on Friday in the peer-reviewed journal ‘Clinical Infectious Diseases’, was undertaken at the University of Hong Kong.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Ottawa protest organizer Tamara Lich denied bail

OTTAWA — Tamara Lich, one of the key organizers of the anti-vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa, has been denied bail.

An Ontario court judge issued the decision in Ottawa this morning, saying she was not convinced Lich would not reoffend.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

The Rising Biosecurity Surveillance Regime

Our ruling class saw in Covid an opportunity to revolutionize how we relate to one another and how we exist in the world. Recall how the phrase “the new normal” emerged almost immediately in the earliest days of the pandemic. This public health crisis offered the ideal pretext for expanding exceptional state powers beyond all previous limits. Our government and public health authorities have still not defined the thresholds for what counts as a public health emergency—the supposed legal justification for burdensome Covid “countermeasures” (a military, not a medical, term), serious infringements on civil liberties, and censorship of dissenting voices. The assumption of emergency powers by both elected officials and unelected bureaucrats continues indefinitely, with little critical scrutiny and no appropriate checks and balances.

by Sarcasticat•February 22, 2022February 21, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Totalitarianism, Tyranny!

GiveSendGo Founder: ‘It‘s a Moment for People to Stand Up‘

The Freedom Convoy moved its fundraising activities to GiveSendGo after GoFundMe, a leftist-owned platform, froze a fundraiser that previously raised over $10 million.

GiveSendGo has since been the target of leftist cyberattacks, which has seen the names of donors leak onto the internet. Despite a policy against sharing hacked materials, Twitter has done nothing to stop the hacked data, which has been used by establishment journalists to dox and harass donors, to spread.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 21, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "China eats weird animals disease", "Surveillance Society", Canada, USA

Lawyers Concerned About Ottawa Police’s Threat of Criminal Prosecution of Those ‘Involved in This Protest’

A Twitter post by the Ottawa Police Service threatening criminal prosecution for those “involved in this protest” raises concerns for some lawyers who fear people’s rights will be trampled upon.

“If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges,” the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) said on Twitter on Feb. 20.

Derek From, a lawyer based in Alberta, says he is concerned with the “vague and ambiguous threat” in the post.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 21, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

The tyranny of high-status opinion

How the woke left wrote the script for the Canadian state’s tyrannical assault on the protesting truckers.

At first glance, it looked like one of the strangest, most incongruous moments of the great trucker uprising of 2022. There were the truckers and their working-class allies, in Ottawa, loudly agitating against Justin Trudeau’s vaccine mandates, when a bunch of hyper-woke, definitely not working-class counter-protesters rocked up to rail against this horn-honking throng. And what did they chant, these painfully PC counter-protesters? ‘Trans rights are human rights’, that’s what. As clear as anything, these supposed leftists, seemingly horrified by the sight of working-class men and women fighting for their rights, engaged in arguably the most striking non-sequitur of the 2020s so far – they brought transgenderism into an issue that has nothing whatsoever to do with transgenderism.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2022February 21, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

Trudeau Is Now an Authoritarian

The liberties guaranteed by the Canadian Constitution are now subject to his veto.

King Charles ignored constitutional limits on his power and thereby ignited a civil war that cost him his life and put England under a military dictatorship for more than a decade. The profound constitutionalist John Selden reflected on this shortly after the king’s execution and before the eventual restoration of the constitution after Oliver Cromwell’s death:

There is no stretching of power; it is a good rule — eat within your stomach, act within your commission.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau certainly is acting like someone who has eaten more than his stomach can hold, as well as far exceeding his commission.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2022February 21, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Why is the left silent on Trudeau’s crackdown?

Civil liberties have been sacrificed to the culture war.

Last month I gave a speech at the ‘Kill the Bill’ rally in Westminster, with a bunch of fellow lefties who were rightly angry at Priti Patel’s proposed Policing Bill, which would have essentially outlawed protests. Jeremy Corbyn was there (obviously), as were other well-known names from the left, many of whom I am friendly with and respect a lot. There was much impassioned rhetoric about the worrying resurgence of authoritarianism around the world.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2022February 21, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant