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An Edmonton constable who spoke at a "Freedom Convoy" rally, thanked protesters and posted a video suggesting vaccine mandates were "unlawful" and "unsafe" was sanctioned ten months of pay before being permitted to return to the job.
Edmonton Police Service Const. Elena Golysheva "acknowledged the inappropriateness of her actions" during a disciplinary hearing in June, according to documents CTV News Edmonton obtained through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
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I try to keep my blog mostly for fun and hobbies but jesus christ. Watching the UK + USA slowly become more and more anti trans over the past few years is genuinely scaring the shit out of me. It felt like things were getting better in the mid 2010s but now US conservatives are so loudly anti-trans that it's only a matter of time before it leaks up into Canada too. What the fuck are you even supposed to do?
#shut up me#current events#ask to tag#cw for school shootings in the rest of the tags#It's fucking horrific how frequent school shootings are in the US#but its also so scary how this time a lot of US conservatives (including el*n m*sk) are blaming. trans people? for it ??#its not the guns. its never the guns. trans people are the problem#what the fuck#And just like the damn freedom convoy its gonna spread up here I know it#You know how god damn ridiculous it is to see canadian conservatives waving tons of canadian flags like an american patriot?#When in the past NO canadian was ever that patriotic. That was always an american thing#Having pro trump anti biden shit be a core part of their personality? IN CANADA?#I hate how much US politics influences canada#I hate that this is happening#I hate it i hate it i hate it#Im scared man#vent
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"Freedom Convoy" my ass.
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Oh fuck yeah, I would love to see some charges laid and fines issued to the politicians involved in their tyrranical decision making process but that may be asking too much.
Fuck Trudeau
@allthecanadianpolitics cry about it
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HR recruiter Tammy Sepetis’ viral TikTok rant about Canadian Freedom Convoy resurfaces as its leaders’ trial is paused | In Trend Today
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HR recruiter Tammy Sepetis’ viral TikTok rant about Canadian Freedom Convoy resurfaces as its leaders’ trial is paused | In Trend Today
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Today in Ottawa for winter pride. A right wing extremist group better know for the population as the freedom Convoy. Came and protested the drag queen story time event. 3 people got arrested as last time I know 1 for throwing things at the counter protest. 1 for trespassing as he was « wondering » in the building it was hosted and the 3rd one I’m still not sure. The queer community gathered and made sure everyone was safe to participate in the event as walls were created to let in and out the kids and there parents.
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people saying they wanna move to canada and if i havent learned nything in the past 8 months being there its that canada is literally a trip and a fall away from being the exact same as the us
#canadians pride themselves on being better than the us and its SO funny#personal#us and canadian politics bounce off of each other#like#look at the freedom convoy#where i was there were literally freedom marches every single saturday for months#fucking hell
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“I watched some Freedom Convoy livestreams on YouTube and some news media interviews with the many white folks wrapped in Canadian flags cheering for the unvaxxed truckers (a minority of truckers) now blasting their horns on Parliament Hill.Here are some themes in the Freedom Convoy discourse:
*free markets good; government bad;
*individual freedom to do whatever one wants regardless of consequences for others, good; restraint on individual freedom for a greater social good, bad;
*freedom from vaccines in Canada, good, safe; freedom to be vaccinated by government, bad, dangerous;
*Covid-19 conspiracy theory-disinformation, good for Canada, trustworthy, the Truth; COVID-19 'expert'-scientific information bad, untrustworthy, Big Lies;
*unvaxxed folks resisting vaccine mandate, good enlightened patriots; vaxxed folks following vaccine mandate, bad-sheeple "Trudopes";
* unvaxxed folks participating in FreedomConvoy, ordinary rebel hero People fighting for Canadian peace and unity; vaxxed normies, unwitting dupes-pawns of corrupt Big Gov-Media-Science Elite, fomenting hate and division in Canada.
* Canada is greatest country in the world, but it is being-has been corrupted by Liberal PM and Federal government overreach; the great freedom-loving people of Canada are taking Canada back, saving Canada, freeing Canada from tyranny, etc.
Well, the 'national popular' is clearly not dead in Canada (but what would Gramsci do with it? What to do with it?)
When asked what they want, many Freedom Convoy people say they want Canada to be free of the vaccine mandate and free from public health restrictions. One first-time protester said she wants to "get back her individual freedom to go shopping again whenever she wants to, and to travel across the border to visit her friends in the United States." So, the wish is for a restoration of the pre-pandemic neoliberal capitalist status quo: freedom to work for wages and to then go shopping, to enjoy the conveniences of the market unhindered by the 'inconveniences' of responsibly abiding public health guidelines in a global pandemic. Others-many middle aged white dudes-speak of themselves as 'victims' of Justin Trudeau and describe the PM as a 'dictator', 'tyrant', 'authoritarian', 'Communist' and 'Nazi'. They seem to believe Trudeau is pushing them and Canada down the road to 'serfdom', the 'gulag', even to the 'camps'!
These white guys represent themselves as at once the 'oppressed' and the 'enlightened vanguard' of a national liberation movement that aims to emancipate the People in 'Canada' from the Elite and restore to 'Canada' the 'Freedom' taken from them by the Federal Government and the Liberal Party. They make lots of macho death threats against the PM and jubilantly declare a desire to kill the PM to punish him for 'his crimes'' against Canadians. Though the provincial governments are at helm of making and enforcing public health mandates, the Freedom Convoy people aren't calling for the death of Doug Ford.
All this reminds me of Tea Party propaganda and protest and the Far Right populist rhetorical frames crafted and operationalized by Trumpism. Much sounds a lot like what Jordan Peterson has been prattling on about to his millions of fans, for years. After all, Peterson described the splatter of COVID-19 rules as a 'totalitarian' threat to freedom. "The thing that surprised me the most," says Peterson, "was how rapidly we stampeded to imitate a totalitarian state in the immediate aftermath of the release of COVID." After the booster shot was encouraged, Peterson tweeted: "Over my dead body you totalitarian wannabees."
As such, the Freedom Convoy's demand for Freedom is a reactionary one. It draws water from the well of mainstream and fringe conservativism. Simply put, the Freedom Convoy demands nothing more for society than a return to free-market capitalism, where individuals freely pursue their self-interest in the market, unhindered in any way by the State. The demand is to go back to 'business as usual', minus Trudeau, but likely plus Bernier or O'Toole. The Freedom Convoy does not demand freedom for everyone from the realm of necessity; it makes no demand to free anyone from compulsory, precarious and alienating waged work; it advances no demand on the State to enhance our freedom by maximizing resources for universally provisioning necessities like public healthcare, education, welfare, daycare, transit, communications and more, for one and all!
The Freedom Convoy's understanding of Freedom stems from an impoverished political imagination, one in sync with the old political-economic status quo, that fails to contemplate its problems, and cannot take us beyond what was.
The Freedom Convoy's future-oriented political horizon points backwards to the myth of a better past. It is the Canadian far Right trailing behind the American far Right (and as one meme put it, "with much lower production values"). After all, the Freedom Convoy is organized by Alberta seperatist Wexit Party people (Tamara Lichsome), People's Party of Canada people (Benjamin Dichter), Yellow Vest Canada people (white nationalist Patrick King), No More Lockdowns people (anti-vaxx and anti-BLM organizer Jason LaFace), and Action 4 Canada - Canada Unity people (Islamophobic anti-LGBTQ haters) and some other far Right ghouls and goons. These folks know how to organize an effective social media campaign, and to reach out, fundraise and recruit through the Internet and digital platforms. Whatever is going on in the minds of the mix of people in this FreedomConvoy milieu has been given shape and given direction by the digital media environment.
It is this environment that the far Right utilizes to move people that might otherwise go Left, to the far right. The digital media environment, as created, manipulated and mobilized by political actors, plays something of a determining role, when it connects to people's real material conditions and experiences. It is the 'ISA' of our conjuncture, not public education, not the legacy news media, and not the old culture industry. The material conditions people live are given meaning, are made meaningful, with the social problem and political solution identified, framed and explained, within and by the digital media environment. I think the far Right is just so much better than the Left at using these tools, because many Lefties are still just trying to be good public educators, not propagandists.
Anyway, the far Right's Freedom Convoy movement was launched on the Internet and has taken off, gone viral, become a material force, connected with and captivated many many thousands of hearts and minds, won more people to far Right anti-vaxxer ideology and integrated them into far Right disinformation networks. The media spectacle accompanying the big event is commented on, shared, captioned, memed, retweeted, and streamed far and wide, across the Internet by lots of far Right folks all around the world, especially in the US.
Donald Trump praised the FreedomConvoy for "doing more to defend American freedom than our own leaders by far." Donald Trump Jr. cheered: "When we push back against the insanity, we can win, and that’s how all this ends...This is a genius idea. We need to see more of this in the U.S." Ben Shapiro tweeted support: "Canadian truckers are rightfully demonstrating against authoritarian vaccine mandates." Fox News pundits like Sean Hannity praise the protests: "TRUCK YEAH: Canada Forms Freedom Convoy of 10K Trucks to Protest Vax Mandates, ‘Overreach is Over.’” Celebrity Joe Rogan declared "Canada is a country in revolt" and billionaire Elon Musk also approved.
The Freedom Convoy has also been taken up strategically at the national level by Maxime Bernier's People's Party and some in Erin O'Toole's Conservative Party, with each trying to ride the Freedom Convoy to increasing electoral returns.I would not claim that every person swept up by the Freedom Convoy's social media momentum was a willing collaborator with the far Right white nationalists who organized this campaign. Nor will I claim that every person who is exhausted, scared, angry and stressed out by the pandemic and nostalgic for some pre pandemic situation or wishing for some post-pandemic era to come identifies with the far Right. I do, however, claim that noxious far Right groups coordinated and catalyzed Freedom Convoy to influence the working class, to take advantage of people's fears and hopes, to turn truckers into a popular symbol of the Right. They have been effective at pushing and pulling people into their hateful ideological milieu.
At the same time, many people that chose to participate in this campaign, online, along highways, and on Parliament Hill, know very well what they are doing, the type of politics they are supporting and why they are doing what they do.
But why are all the thousands of folks targeted by this far Right Freedom Convoy campaign so receptive to its messages and imagery? Not all started their day identifying as or with the far Right, so what made them so open to its influence? Can anything be learned from this mass event? Structurally? About the conjuncture? About our opponents' strategy and tactics? About how to counter those and win people to a better and different kind of Freedom?
H/T to Steve Maher for earlier discussion and encouraging these types of political questions. I don't know the answers to these questions, but I do share John Clarke 's overall assessment: "it is deeply alarming that a fascist core can find the means to rally such numbers and execute such a serious initiative. The confidence, resolve and sense of purpose this will give them is far more dangerous than the immediate event. Only an equally serious and ongoing working class mobilization can neutralize this threat."”
- Tanner Mirrlees, January 29, 2022.
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In a classic example of better late than never, a Federal Court in Canada ruled on Tuesday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's invocation of The Emergencies Act in 2022, used to crush the largest and most peaceful protest in Canadian history, was "unreasonable," "unjustified," and "violated the fundamental freedoms" set out in Canada's constitution.
The case was brought to the court by a number of individual applicants as well as several Canadian civiil liberties groups, including the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. And in the decision, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley expressed what every trucker and other participant in the trucker's Freedom Convoy knew to be true: There was no justification for granting the government powers that amounted to near Marshall Law over a protest that was 100 percent peaceful, with no violence or property damage committed—that is, until the Emergencies Act was passed, and the police trampled grandmothers under horses, fired tear gas canisters at journalists within point blank range, beat protesters down and smashed the windows of the truckers rigs, and generally deployed the type of violence that the government had knowingly falsely accused the truckers of engaging in.
The government also froze the bank accounts of truckers, seized donated funds, and shut down of the economic lives of hundreds of Canadian citizens, a draconian measure which shocked the world.
Every protester and trucker who took part in the Convoy knew that the government and it's bought and paid for media were lying to the public about the Freedom Convoy, and though it feels good to once again be proven correct, that doesn't change what happened. It also doesn't change the division in Canadian society which took place under COVID, and it remains to be seen if this ruling will put an end to the ongoing punishments of various Freedom Convoy protesters which continue to this day.
For example, the trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, who emerged as public faces and leaders of the Ottawa portion of the Freedom Convoy, has now become the longest mischief trial in Canadian history. Finally getting underway in September of last year, the trial proceeded in fits and starts into December, and is set to resume in February.
Or take Guy Meisner, a trucker from Nova Scotia, was one of the first to be arrested and charged when the crackdown began after the Emergencies Act was invoked. He will be back in Ottawa near the end of February for the ninth time to face his "mischief" charges.
Then there is the case of Christine Decaire, a woman who protested in Ottawa and was charged by the police, who was acquitted last year; much like this ruling today, however, The Crown has decided to appeal her acquittal. To drag an innocent person back to court is the kind of grossly vindictive behavior on the part of the Trudeau Government that they have become well known for.
There are dozens of cases like this working their way through the system.
And then we have The Coutts Four, a group of men who were arrested in Alberta right before the Emergencies Act was invoked and have been kept in custody without bail nor trial ever since. Hopes are high that this ruling may help change their circumstances, but it has now been two years since they have seen their families, which is a grossly offensive situation, especially in a country where nearly everyone gets bail.
All of these cases point to a level of vindictive cruelty on the part of this government as constituted under Trudeau, who was only too happy to champion the fair treatment of someone who fought on the side of The Taliban in Afghanistan and was later apprehended by American forces. Champion the rights of his own peaceful citizens to a fair trial? Apparently that is beneath the Prime Minister.
Trudeau's deputy, Chrystia Freeland was behind the bank account freezing acting as Finance Minister, and she appeared almost immediately after the ruling to announce that her government would be appealing, claiming to "remind Canadians how serious the situation was." This though all the evidence and testimony presented in 2022 at the official inquest into the invocation of the Emergencies Act found that no threats existed, and everything the media said about the truckers was a fabrication.
Justin Trudeau has remarked in the past that Canada is a "post-national" state that has "no core identity," yet when that identity asserted itself to say enough is enough to the strictures of his punishing COVID Regime, he was only too happy to unleash the full power of his "post-national" state to attack these citizens whom he holds in utter contempt.
It appears that there is no ruling Trudeau will not appeal or lawfare he will not pursue to ensure punishment of the enemies of his party.
Justin Trudeau is not a leader, but merely a narcissistic tyrant. This week was only the latest evidence.
Gord Magill is a trucker, writer, and commentator, and can be found at www.autonomoustruckers.substack.com.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
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Ottawa June 11 2023 - 500 Days - Truckers still in front of Parliament !
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Some of the organizers of last year's convoy have altered plans to end a second convoy in Ottawa this February, opting instead for Winnipeg.
James Bauder, co-founder of the group Canada Unity and a co-organizer of last February's protest in Ottawa, made the announcement in a Facebook live video, along with fellow organizers Ron Clark and Colin 'Big Bear' Ross, on Christmas Day.
The rally is scheduled to take place from Feb. 17 to Feb. 20, 2023. The start date falls on the one-year anniversary of the final full day of the protest in Ottawa — one day before police started a push to take back occupied streets in the nation's capital.
Bauder had previously posted a call on social media for "Freedom Convoy 2.0" in Ottawa on those same February dates. Now he says the capital will be a stop on the way to Winnipeg where the convoy will make its presence known.
"We're going to come with our convoy — coming right by Ottawa," he said. "We're going to honk, honk and we're going to invite Ottawa residents." [...]
"We chose Winnipeg because it's the middle point in Canada, so people can come from the east coast, from the west coast," Ross said. "We'll be able to convoy across the nation."
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Remember the CBC called the Freedom Convoy terrorists, but refuse to call jihadis who have beheaded children, taken wives and daughters to rape and sell into slavery, etc etc, what they are, they are Terrorists.
I don't care if you fear being given the Charlie Hebdo treatment CBC, Hamas are terrorists, and the droves of people celebrating the killing of innocents, that are outside your headquarters, should be deported.
The CBC is a government funded propaganda outlet, and is run by cowards.
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🇨🇦 Breaking: Federal Court Declares Justin Castro’s Use of the Emergency Act Unconstitutional. 🇨🇦
The decision follows an application for judicial review launched by the Canadian Constitution Foundation, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and several other applicants in 2022 after the emergency measures were used to end the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.
The measures controversially allowed the government to freeze the bank accounts of protesters, conscript tow truck drivers, and arrest people for participating in assemblies the government deemed illegal.
The court declared that the decision to issue the Proclamation and associated Regulations and Order was unreasonable and beyond the scope of the Emergencies Act.
https://theccf.ca/wp-content/uploads/EA-challenge-fed-court-reasons-FINAL.pdf
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