Lich, Barber Trial: Witnesses Say They Were Harassed for Wearing Masks Outside

Testifying at the criminal trial of Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber on Oct. 13, several Ottawa residents said they were harassed by protesters for wearing masks outside.

“I didn’t feel safe. I was getting comments and insults. I was wearing a mask, because we were supposed to be wearing a mask at the time, and because of that, that would attract attention. So I would just try to avoid any run-ins as much as possible,” testified Chantel Biro, who owns a women’s clothing store on Sussex Drive near the Byward Market in downtown Ottawa.

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‘It was intolerable’: Ottawa local testifies at trial of ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers

OTTAWA – The sanctuary at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in downtown Ottawa was “brutally altered” during the “Freedom Convoy,” the church’s administrator told the criminal trial of two of the protest’s organizers on Thursday.

Vivian Leir told the court she was overwhelmed by the trucks surrounding the church when big rigs and other vehicles arrived in Ottawa to protest COVID-19 public health measures last year.

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Crown to call Ottawa residents in convoy trial

Crown lawyers intend on calling Ottawa residents impacted by what became known as the Freedom Convoy to testify in the criminal trial of two of the protest’s organizers, after the court ruled it would permit their testimony.

Residents are expected to start testifying Thursday morning.

Justice Heather Perkins-McVey ruled Wednesday that residents and business owners can testify in the trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, who are charged with mischief, counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation and obstructing police for their role in the weeks-long protest in January and February of 2022.

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Freedom Convoy’ trial evidence a Rorschach test for attitudes about protest: expert

OTTAWA — The evidence put forward by the Crown and defence in the criminal trial of two prominent “Freedom Convoy” organizers is so similar, it reflects something of a Rorschach test for how people feel about the massive protest, said criminologist Michael Kempa.

The trial is set to reconvene Wednesday after a two and a half week break, and has so far focused largely on the social media posts of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. The two are co-accused for their role in organizing and allegedly orchestrating the events that unfolded in the streets of Ottawa in early 2022.

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Lawsuit Seeks To Untangle Links Between Biden Administration and Southern Poverty Law Center’s Listing on Moms for Liberty

Did the Biden administration coordinate with the Southern Poverty Law Center to designate Moms for Liberty an “extremist” group, and what kinds of communications have the FBI, the Department of Justice, and other federal agencies had about the parental rights group?

Those questions are central to a lawsuit filed last week by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project against a host of agencies in the Biden administration for their failure to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests regarding Moms for Liberty, its co-founders, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Youths charged with hate-related offences after rebelling against groomer indoctrination in Kitchener, Ont

Youths charged with hate-related offences after Pride flag damaged in Kitchener, Ont

KITCHENER, Ont. – Police say four male youths have been arrested and are facing multiple hate-related charges after a Pride flag from an Ontario high school was lit on fire.

Waterloo Regional Police say the flag was damaged on the afternoon of Sept. 21.

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Toronto Police need to explain second shutdown at Queen’s Park

For the second time in a week, major streets in the core of Toronto were shut down on Sunday.

Also, for the second time in a week, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) was not overly forthcoming in why those shutdowns were happening.

This is a case of the police serving as a private army to suppress citizen rights.

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Ontario town proposes bylaw banning any communication that could ‘offend’ LGBT individuals

Just days after the Million Person March against LGBT propaganda in schools swept the nation, the town of Waterloo, Ontario, is considering a bylaw prohibiting any communication on municipal property that could make LGBT-identifying people “feel harassed.”


On Wednesday, September 29, Waterloo Regional Councillors will vote on a bylaw to ban any communication on publicly-owned property which could make someone who identifies as LGBT “feel harassed,” “offended” or “troubled.”

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Barber, Lich Trial: Quebec Officer Says Convoy Protesters Refused to Leave as Police Moved In

OTTAWA—Protesters at the Freedom Convoy demonstrations in Ottawa pushed back against police officers attempting to remove them and refused to leave, according to the testimony of a Quebec police officer at the trial of protest organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.

“The reason that we were going slowly is because it was a heavy presence of demonstrators that prevented us from moving forward,” Captain Etienne Martel with Sûreté du Québec testified in court on Sept. 18.

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Trial by social media: Court struggles under weight of ‘Freedom Convoy’ evidence

OTTAWA – As thousands of demonstrators clogged the streets around Parliament Hill in early 2022, many of them had phones in hand, taking video of the different scenes around them for almost three weeks.

For some participants, the “Freedom Convoy” protests had a festival-like atmosphere. For those who weren’t part of the fun, it felt more like an occupation.

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Did feds rely on poorly sourced info to invoke Emergencies Act?

A team of stressed RCMP staff Googled news media articles to quote right back to news media after the public safety minister told reporters to direct their questions to law enforcement: Lawyer and investigative journalist.

OTTAWA, Ont. – A Freedom of Information request reveals that law enforcement may have used ambiguous information about Canadian Forces veteran Jeremy MacKenzie and Diagolon, which in large part, led to the federal government invoking the Emergencies Act, say two investigative journalists.

Through Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP), independent journalists Caryma Sa’d and Elisa Hategan obtained 1,000 pages of internal RCMP documents on MacKenzie and Diagolon. The documents show that although the RCMP were investigating Diagolon, they didn’t consider them a group, a militia, or a security threat.


A long but revealing read examining how manufacturing hate to criminalize dissent became standard practice with the Liberal government, its media minions, their willing collaborators in law enforcement and the usual suspect NGO’s. 

It is disturbing how easily an extreme left political vendetta can be palmed off as an anti-hate crusade based on the dubious “expertise” of a few self-appointed guardians of social cohesion.  

These practices were first institutionalized in human rights commissions in Canada and have now spread throughout society to include professional licensing boards and our financial system.  

Who can forget Freeland’s schoolgirl cackling on revealing the Trudeau government unpersoned trucker convoy enemies of the state?

And now for a little comic relief courtesy Rachel Gilmore.

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