Anyone expecting a gentler, more moderate Pierre Poilievre to emerge following his electoral defeat can put to rest any speculation that the Conservative leader is planning a great reset.
Despite internal grumblings that Poilievre’s combative tone and coziness with far-right types has been bringing their party down, his Conservatives are back and picking fights with Crown prosecutors trying “Freedom Convoy” leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.
Last week, Crown prosecutors announced they were seeking jail sentences of up to eight years for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two organizers of the Freedom Convoy protest.
Both were convicted of mischief, but the Crown is seeking a minimum sentence of seven years in jail for Lich, and eight for Barber, who was also found guilty of counselling others to disobey a court order.
The Crown has argued that the disruptiveness of the Freedom Convoy blockades warrants the harsh sentence, but in a statement this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said courts are throwing the book at Barber and Lich while simultaneously giving free reign to “rampant violent offenders” and “antisemitic rioters.”
An elite team of police officers is to monitor social media for anti-migrant sentiment amid fears of summer riots.
Detectives will be drawn from forces across the country to take part in a new investigations unit that will flag up early signs of potential civil unrest.
The division, assembled by the Home Office, will aim to “maximise social media intelligence” gathering after police forces were criticised over their response to last year’s riots.
Remember the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” of truckers? Canada isn’t done overreacting. In early 2022 the disruptive protest of vaccine mandates sent the Trudeau government into a panic, unconstitutionally invoking emergency powers and freezing protesters’ bank accounts. Now Crown prosecutors want protest leaders in prison for the better part of a decade.
In April Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of mischief for their roles in the protests that police inexcusably allowed to block downtown Ottawa streets for three weeks. Prosecutors are seeking seven-year prison terms, plus an eighth year for Mr. Barber, who was also found guilty of counseling others to disobey a court order regarding the honking of horns. Both were found not guilty of intimidation and several other charges thrown at them over the peaceful but noisy protest.
If Chris Barber and Tamara Lich had organized a series of massive rallies in Ottawa to protest the federal government’s failure to control the earth’s climate, would they have been criminally charged with mischief and held responsible for clogging up Ottawa’s downtown core?
If Tamara Lich had urged thousands of Canadians to come to Ottawa to support indigenous rights, and if this very large protest had inconvenienced some Ottawa residents for weeks on end, would they have been portrayed in the media (even before they arrived in Ottawa) as dangerous and potentially violent members of a “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views”?
Once again it appears the Ottawa courthouse is determined to keep the Barber and Lich matter hidden from public scrutiny.
I've sent five emails to the Ottawa Ontario Court of Justice—including the trial coordinator, communications officer and front desk and received no response.
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) July 23, 2025
h/t Mauser
Several Conservative MPs and leader Pierre Poilievre are criticizing the Crown’s approach to prosecuting two key organizers of the Freedom Convoy protests, with the party’s deputy leader calling it an act of “political vengeance.”
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of mischief in April for their roles in organizing the demonstration, which blockaded streets around Parliament Hill in Ottawa for more than three weeks in early 2022.
They may do more time than the ISIS Bitch, she got a whole day.
While Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have been found guilty of mischief following a trial that lasted nearly two years, the pair will soon face sentencing, with Barber waiting to hear whether proceedings against him will be stayed.
On July 23, Lich and Barber are set to begin a sentencing hearing that could continue until July 25. Lich said on X that she is “hopeful we will have the sentencing by mid to late August,” which would bring the pair’s trial length to 24 months.
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) members have been banned from public-sector roles by the regional government of Germany’s sixth most populous state. A new policy in Rhineland-Palatinate requires candidates to submit a written declaration of loyalty to the constitution, and to state that they have not been a member of an extremist organisation in the last five years. Anyone who fails to pass this test will not be permitted to take up any public-sector role in the region.
OTTAWA – An expert in extremism says recent arrests linked to an alleged plot to create an anti-government militia show the Canadian Armed Forces needs to do a better job of vetting at the recruitment stage.
University of Alberta political science professor Andy Knight says the fact that two of the four men charged Tuesday in relation to an alleged anti-government plot are active members of the military shows the Canadian Armed Forces isn’t doing enough to screen out extremists.
He says extremism within the forces needs to be “explored and stamped out as soon as possible” so it doesn’t fester and spread.
I hope this expert has campaigned against the extremists at CAF who decided covering the surgical mutilation of mentally ill “Transgender” soldiers was a swell idea, installed tampon dispensers in men’s washrooms and instituted the DEI insanity regime that lays at the root of it all.
Last week, on June 26th, the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) launched The Next Wave, a “report” that purports to expose the rise of so-called “anti-gender” and “anti-feminist” religious actors in Europe, whose goal is to “dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.”
Cloaked in the language of human rights, the document is, in truth, a politically charged dossier; reading more like a counter-terrorist threat assessment, and explicitly paints religious advocacy groups as part of an organized extremist threat that needs to be stopped at all costs.
Lawyers for Evan Blackman are demanding that the RCMP and Toronto Dominion Bank hand over records detailing why his personal bank accounts were frozen following the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced Thursday it would argue that the freezing violated Mr. Blackman’s constitutional rights.
Canada has seen a steep rise in hate toward South Asians on social media in recent years, with a large spike occurring during the recent federal election — especially aimed at former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, according to a new report.
The report, titled “The Rise of Anti-South Asian Hate in Canada” and published by the U.K.-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, used the social media monitoring tool Brandwatch to analyze posts that mention Canadian cities and regions and South Asians on X.
Between May and December 2023, they found 1,163 posts containing explicitly hateful keywords toward South Asians. During the same period in 2024, that number rose to 16,884 — an increase of more than 1,350 per cent.
Note that the Soros funded so called “Institute For Strategic Dialogue” is notorious for its dubious reports and is really just a front designed to criminalize dissent.
Please keep an eye on this organization. Follow them. They are working to censor @jordanbpeterson @BjornLomborg @AlexEpstein and me. They are spreading lies about us to news media and social media platforms around the world. They are creepy and dangerous. https://t.co/a3UVSyFpeu
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 12, 2023
Carney’s media are a font of lies.
Terry Newman: She objected to land acknowledgments. Now she’s paying the price for her heresy
An elected Ontario school board councillor has been suspended by her board for expressing an opinion about land acknowledgements. It was not explained to her the exact offence she had committed, or who complained, only that the opinion she expressed apparently caused harm.
Catherine Kronas was first elected to Ancaster High Secondary School as chair in 2023 and then re-elected as a council member in 2024.
Catherine Kronas, an Ontario school councilor, objected to her school board forcing staff to recite a “land acknowledgement” at meetings
She was then reportedly suspended for speaking out.pic.twitter.com/3pwFzfUZm3
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 24, 2025
