The OPP says the aim of an officer going to the door of a farm in Peterborough County was merely to try to keep things “safe and lawful.”
Responding to a Saturday column on a woman named Nadine Ellis-Maffei being surprised to see a cop knock on her door with advice on how to act at the Freedom Convoy, the OPP said it was merely doing its policing duties.
Against the latest court filings by John Durham, highlighting the tip of the political surveillance iceberg, I have been asked to re-post the deep dive into the totality of the scale of the iceberg. I will add some of the latest information into the outline to show how it all connects.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons only targeted one side of the political continuum.
Together they recalibrated the domestic surveillance capabilities, the internal spying systems, so that only their political opposition would be targeted. This point is where many people understandably get confused.
h/t Mauser
Police made several arrests as they cleared out protesters and vehicles blockading the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., but the bridge was not yet open to traffic on Sunday.
Dozens of trucks, cars, pickups and vans have blocked traffic in both directions at Canada’s busiest border crossing to the U.S. for several days. By Sunday morning, the trucks and remaining protesters were greeted by a heavy police presence, with more than 50 vehicles, including cruisers, buses and an armoured car.
Latest update from the Ambassador Bridge protest:
Police made arrests & removed vehicles earlier. Most police left. Some roads remain closed with cement barriers. A group of protestors remains.
Via: PinkZebra / YT#Windsor #Ontario #AmbassadorBridge #TruckersForFreedom2022 pic.twitter.com/0g61OoRnXg
— DaveO ⚔️ 🗽 (@Patri0tCx_) February 13, 2022
Ottawa mayor made a ‘backchannel’ deal to remove convoy from ‘residential’ areas
Ottawa’s mayor says he’s reached a “backchannel” deal with convoy organizers to limit the three-week occupation’s to the area immediately surrounding Parliament Hill.
But Ottawa police’s plans to bring an ultimate end to the demonstrations – which showed few signs of slowing Sunday – have once again been called into question, after reports they’ve provided no detailed plan to federal law enforcement partners.
In a stunning Sunday statement, Mayor Jim Watson’s office says he successfully negotiated with convoy organizers to leave all “residential” areas in the city by Monday.
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Popular podcast host Joe Rogan slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “demonizing” the unvaccinated, referring to recent comments the prime minister made that described those who have not had the COVID-19 shot as “very often misogynistic and racist” people who “don’t believe in science [or] progress.”
“The way Trudeau talks about people who are unvaccinated … he said they were misogynists and racists,” Rogan said to “The Joe Rogan Experience” guest Dave Smith.
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid an internet company to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House in order to link Donald Trump to Russia, a bombshell new legal filing alleges.
The Friday filing from a Department of Justice prosecutor tasked with investigating the origins of the FBI’s Russian probe served to throw cold water on Democrats’ longstanding allegations of collusion.
The blockade of Ottawa has sparked copycat action around the globe, and such disparate demonstrations of grievance may prove hard to shut down
It only took six dozen trucks, and a few hundred protesters to bring Canada’s capital to a standstill and close a critical border crossing with the US, throttling the car industry that straddles the line between both countries and relies on a constant flow of trade.
On Saturday, Canadian authorities finally began taking action to clear the Ambassador Bridge into the US, the busiest land crossing in North America, which had been blockaded by just over a dozen trucks and smaller vehicles, and a crowd a few hundred strong.
The bridge has been closed for the best part of a week now, and meanwhile downtown Ottawa has been under a form of siege for more than a fortnight, blockaded by crowds gathered under the banner of opposition to Covid regulations.
A viral video showing a man eating a human heart in Mexico is shedding light on the disturbing practices recruits must undergo at cartel “terror schools.”
A member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel—his stomach straining against a black sleeveless vest—is crouching over the body of a mutilated foot soldier from a rival crime group. The fallen man’s hands are bound and his chest looks like it has been torn open.
Shocking cellphone footage—captured in broad daylight—shows the hitman tearing large bites from the dead man’s heart. The cameraman continues to film as the hitman mocks the fallen sicario by pretending to offer him a taste of his no-longer-beating heart. In the background of the twisted scene, another body is partly visible, as is the shadow of someone hacking away at it.
A lot of people around the world are asking how it is that pleasant little Canada, of all places, has suddenly turned into a firebrand of a nation, spurring controversial blockades and convoy protests that are now being copied in other countries.
The answer is simply that frustrations are boiling over after two incredibly tense years. This is especially so in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, which have been some of the most locked-down regions in the world.
Kelly Dolan, Karen E. Knudsen, Jonathan Reckford. These are the respective CEOs of the Ronald McDonald House Charities, the American Cancer Society, and Habitat for Humanity. Their jobs are to offer leadership and guidance and to be responsible, along with their board members, for the direction and financial transparency of their organizations.
Black Lives Matter is another major nonprofit in this country. But who is running it, and how are their donations being spent? The answers are hard to find.
‘Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo’
More than half of the funding for the Canadian trucker convoy protesters on some online platforms is coming from the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.
Trudeau said he spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden about the American and “global” influences on the protests against COVID-19 mandates, which have blocked streets in downtown Ottawa and border crossings to the U.S.
Canadian military trainers were pulled out of Ukraine this weekend ahead of anticipated Russian military action, which allied intelligence agencies suggest could come this week.
CBC News has learned that the contingent of roughly 260 soldiers has arrived in Poland, but it’s unclear whether that will be their final destination.
The decision to suspend Operation Unifier, the largest allied training mission in the embattled eastern European country, came after both the United States and the United Kingdom ordered their own military trainers out of Ukraine.
Poor Ukraine.
OTTAWA — The federal government is prepared to invoke the Emergencies Act to see the trucker convoy protests and blockades end, says Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair, calling it a “critical situation,” while also saying that police need to “do their job.”
“We have an emergency act that I will tell you, there has been a near-constant and vigorous examination of those authorities and what’s required,” Blair said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period.
The federal government warned Saturday that consequences for trucker convoy protesters who break the law will be “increasingly severe” as an occupation in Ottawa extends past two weeks and blockades spring up across the country.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convened a meeting Saturday with ministers and senior officials to see how protests, occupations and blockades can be brought “under control.”
MUST WATCH: A veteran in Ottawa UNLOADS on CBC, “Get out of here!” pic.twitter.com/H0BmbMz5rd
— Angelo Isidorou (@angeloisidorou) February 12, 2022
h/t RM
