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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 20, 2022 19:36:45 GMT -8
This thread is about tyranny in Canada. People might laugh, thinking who is this comic book dealer making such assertions? Well, some of us just see stuff ahead of time that most don't see. Our version of the "State Police" in Ontario, Canada is the OPP - Ontario Provincial Police. Ottawa, FEDERAL our capital city is in Ontario at the Ontario / Quebec border. The Prime Minister not only called the protesters a 'fringe minority' and 'extremists' he used that justification to invoke a never before used War Act. OPP intelligence says convoy protests presented no ‘credible’ threat of extremist violence
OTTAWA - The intelligence chief of the Ontario Provincial Police told a federal inquiry Wednesday that he so no "credible" information of a national security threat or extremist violence during the self-styled "Freedom Convoy" protests.
The statement appears to contradict assertions from the federal government, which cited the threat of political violence as part of it's justification for invoking the Emergencies (War) Act to deal with the demonstrations last winter. ---------------------------------------- Oops.
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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 20, 2022 20:25:36 GMT -8
On top of that they were called Nazi sympathizers and accused of violent behavior. Nazi Flag Overblown: Federal Spy Agency Internal MemoThe federal spy agency in a secret memo discounted cabinet claims the Freedom Convoy was infiltrated by Nazis. A lone swastika flag spotted outside Parliament was offensive but not representative of protesters who considered themselves “patriotic Canadians standing up for their democratic rights,” said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. “The Canadian flag was the most prevalent flag on display in the crowd, likely reflecting participants’ belief they are patriotic Canadians standing up for their democratic rights,” wrote the Intelligence Service. “A small number of flags both purchased and self-created reflected racist and bigoted world views. The presence of these flags however is not unique to this event and are often seen at anti-lockdown events across the country.” “The convoy is part of the broader anti-public health restrictions movement,” said the memo Freedom Convoy 2022: The Imagery And Significance Of Flags. “As with any movement only a small, fringe element supports the use of violence or might be willing to engage in it.” The memo marked “secret” was dated February 2, four days after a lone man carrying a Nazi flag was photographed January 29 among 15,000 Freedom Convoy demonstrators on Parliament Hill. The person was never identified. Convoy organizers disavowed any connection to the Nazi. ----------------------------------------------------------------- But they refused to move the trucks....ummm... Convoy Agreed With City of Ottawa To Withdraw Vehicles Freedom Convoy organizers were complying with a city agreement to move trucks the very day cabinet declared a national emergency, a public inquiry was told yesterday. Ottawa City Manager Steve Kanellakos testified he had no warning cabinet would invoke the Emergencies Act. “Events kind of overtook things,” said Kanellakos. He said the agreement with protesters followed six days of negotiations. “This was a relief for us, for me, when I first initiated it,” he said. The testimony contradicted cabinet claims that only the Emergencies Act could persuade protesters to withdraw from Ottawa neighbourhoods. “It is now clear there are serious challenges to law enforcement’s ability to effectively enforce the law,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters February 14 in declaring a national emergency. “This is about keeping people safe.” ---------------------------------------------------------- But, but, but the convoy was a "dange to the public" Not really. It just wasn't pretty to look at. Convoy Was Embarrassment
The Freedom Convoy outside Parliament had to be dismantled not as a safety risk but a public symbol of the “spiritual source of the protest movement,” said Michael Keenan, deputy transport minister. His remarks in a teleconference with police contradicted cabinet claims the Wellington Street blockade was a danger to the public. “While Wellington encampment may be contained it is the spiritual source of the protest movement,” Deputy Keenan was quoted in a February 6 teleconference with local authorities. “It is acting as fuel for the engagement of others.” A stenographer kept notes on the call between Keenan, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly, national security advisor Jody Thomas, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service David Vigneault and others. The teleconference took place on the tenth day of the Freedom Convoy sit-in. Chief Sloly depicted the Wellington Street blockade more as an embarrassment than a security threat. “Wellington is the most contained and least risky of the encampments,” said the Chief. “However it is a visible eyesore.” ------------------------------------------------------ But...but...but...they were a fringe minority not representative of Canada! Not really... A Genuine ‘Mass Movement’The Freedom Convoy was the culmination of a “mass protest movement” against pandemic mandates and lockdowns, a convoy inquiry lawyer said yesterday. Counsel at the Public Order Emergency Commission counted more than 140 major demonstrations and legal challenges nationwide leading to the truckers’ blockade outside Parliament. “We’ve made an effort in this report to just stick to the facts, the raw facts, the places, the dates and numbers,” said Stephen Armstrong, counsel for the inquiry. Protests erupted within weeks of the World Health Organization’s March 11, 2020 declaration of a global pandemic, he said. The Commission in an Overview Report: Early Protest Activities counted 71 major demonstrations against mandates and Quarantine Act restrictions from April 25, 2020 to the start of the Freedom Convoy protest outside Parliament last January 28. “This Overview Report is not an exhaustive catalog of all protests,” said Counsel Armstrong. “This report is intended to provide some high level context to the very detailed evidence we will hear in the coming weeks,” said Armstrong. “What this report describes is the development over time of what could fairly be described as a mass protest movement against Covid-related public health measures.” Protests occurred in Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Salmon Arm, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Kitchener, Hamilton, Etobicoke, Toronto, Barrie, Aylmer, Ottawa, Montréal, Québec City, Sherbrooke, Fredericton, Moncton and Halifax, the inquiry was told.
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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 24, 2022 11:15:17 GMT -8
OPP intelligence says convoy protests presented no ‘credible’ threat of extremist violence
OTTAWA - The intelligence chief of the Ontario Provincial Police told a federal inquiry Wednesday that he so no "credible" information of a national security threat or extremist violence during the self-styled "Freedom Convoy" protests.
The statement appears to contradict assertions from the federal government, which cited the threat of political violence as part of it's justification for invoking the Emergencies (War) Act to deal with the demonstrations last winter. ---------------------------------------- Oops. In a direct contradiction to the announcements from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada, former police commander for the Ontario Provincial Police testifies that the Emergency (War) Measures Act was not necessary to remove vehicles. The quip from a Senator to Mendicino at the end of the article is priceless. When safety minister states they could not get anyone to tow the trucks, he quips: "I found two tow trucks for sale. You could have bought them." A police commander testifying at the Freedom Convoy inquiry said emergency powers were never needed to tow vehicles outside Parliament.
The sworn testimony directly contradicted claims by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.
{Rest of article in SPOILER} Superintendent Pardy led a joint police planning group that attempted to diffuse protests. “Ottawa is renowned for almost daily protests of some sort,” said Pardy. The Freedom Convoy was “one of a kind,” he added.
Cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act February 14 on claims police needed and sought extraordinary powers to remove protesters and their trucks. Pardy denied both claims under questioning from Frank Au, counsel for the Public Order Emergency Commission:
Counsel Au: “Did the police in Ottawa end up needing the Emergencies Act to tow vehicles?”
Chief Superintendent Pardy: “No.”
Counsel Au: “Explain to us why not.”
Chief Superintendent Pardy: “Well if we didn’t have the Emergencies Act that would imply we couldn’t tow vehicles. We tow vehicles every day for different things. We have laws under the Highway Traffic Act. We have common law authorities we use on a regular basis…”
Counsel Au: “Was the Emergencies Act necessary to end the protest in Ottawa?”
Chief Superintendent Pardy: “That’s a loaded question. I’m a police officer. Parliament gives us legislation. We don’t make legislation. They provide it to us and we use it…”
Counsel Au: “In your view was there a police solution to the demonstrations?”
Chief Superintendent Pardy: “A police solution? There was a solution.”
Safety Minister Mendicino in testimony last April 26 at the Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency claimed police needed the Emergencies Act to tow trucks. Mendicino also said police asked cabinet to invoke the Act, a claim denied by all police involved with the Freedom Convoy.
“It was on the advice of non-partisan professional law enforcement that existing authorities were ineffective,” said Mendicino, adding police were unable to tow convoy vehicles. “No tow trucks were available,” he said. “The police couldn’t do it. That’s why we decided to invoke the Emergencies Act.”
Senator Claude Carignan (Que.) challenged Mendicino. “I found two trucks for sale in Auto Hebdo magazine,” said Carignan. “You could have bought some.”
“Why was it necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act in order to remove the vehicles?” asked Senator Carignan. “That situation still leaves me speechless.”
Carignan noted under the Highway Traffic Act section 134.1 any constable among “one of the many police officers there” could have ordered removal of the freight trucks parked outside Parliament. Counsel Au: “Did the police in Ottawa end up needing the Emergencies Act to tow vehicles?” Chief Superintendent Pardy: “No.” Counsel Au: “Explain to us why not.” Chief Superintendent Pardy: “Well if we didn’t have the Emergencies Act that would imply we couldn’t tow vehicles. We tow vehicles every day for different things. We have laws under the Highway Traffic Act. We have common law authorities we use on a regular basis…” Counsel Au: “Was the Emergencies Act necessary to end the protest in Ottawa?” Chief Superintendent Pardy: “That’s a loaded question. I’m a police officer. Parliament gives us legislation. We don’t make legislation. They provide it to us and we use it…” Counsel Au: “In your view was there a police solution to the demonstrations?” Chief Superintendent Pardy: “A police solution? There was a solution.”
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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 24, 2022 11:22:58 GMT -8
Holy cow. Shots fired.
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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 25, 2022 11:50:51 GMT -8
The City of Ottawa hosted Canada's most powerful protest for a month. The news portrayed it as destructive, violent, extremist, fringe minority and wrong. But the most vocal political opponent lost his bid to be mayor in Ottawa. So maybe the protestors weren't just a minority.
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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 25, 2022 12:14:03 GMT -8
It was a common complaint that corporate news REFUSED to accurately represent the Ottawa and Mandate protests.
I saw this first hand when I witnessed protests, MASSIVE protests and the CBC refused to even report on them, as though they never existed.
Worse, was when the CBC completely misrepresented what was actually happening, inciting the public against the truth.
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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 27, 2022 18:03:50 GMT -8
If anyone takes the time to read this opinion / article, you will be absolutely shocked at how politics has horribly failed us, the average people, in Canada.
The main gist of this thread is that Canada has become authoritarian. This becomes more apparent every day.
The entire purpose of separate political parties is to allow the truth to rise to the top through competition in much the same way that the media, the news was meant to be the 4th pillar of democracy and checked them for wrong doing.
When rival parties make a pact to disobey the law it perverts everything. It removes consequence and justice from the political sphere. It perverts truth, and ultimately everyone loses.
I said about a year ago that Canada is in the midst of a civil war.
It was not said lightly.
And the justice and political system has failed us so badly that even the gravest of injustices done to innocent people won't be righted. There will be no consequences.
Jagmeet Singh, leader of the 3rd largest Canadian political party created a coalition to keep Trudeau, leader of one of the 'Big 2' in power longer than he could have alone.
Now it's looking like Trudeau unnecessarily instituted the War Act to stop a legal, peaceful protest against him.
Read this and tell me I'm wrong.
"Here’s the news report: “NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says it is unlikely that his party would pull their support for the Liberals if the Public Order Emergency Commission examining the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act concludes that doing so was not justified.”
Article content
If the imposition of emergency powers, the raiding of bank accounts, the jailing of protesters, the invasions of privacy rights, if all of this is determined to be nothing more than an overwrought prime minister exercising his distaste for opposition and legitimate protest, should that be the inquiry’s findings, would Mr. Singh stay with his Liberal partner?
The Singh-Trudeau compact is an insult to Parliamentary function. It protects the government from all confidence-vote challenges. It dwindles down to tacit co-operation on committees of inquiry. It mocks the voting result itself. The votes went for a minority, with the protections a minority offers to the Parliament as a whole. That it can restrain executive authority, numb the invisible influence of non-parliament actors in the PMO from running an agenda."
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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 31, 2022 11:42:10 GMT -8
The federal Leaders’ Debates Commission paid $8,500 to settle out of court a defamation claim by Rebel News Network Limited. The payment was disclosed in Public Accounts tabled in Parliament.
The payment followed two separate rulings in which federal judges faulted the Commission for blacklisting Rebel News from attending campaign debates in 2019 and 2021. “There is room in the nation for the expression of opposing points of view,” Federal Court Justice Elizabeth Heneghan wrote last March 7. Rebel “did not ask to impose its views, but for the opportunity to participate in coverage of matters of importance during a federal election,” she wrote.
The Court concluded the Debates Commission used arbitrary criteria to exclude Rebel reporters from attending debates. “The Commission is mandated to protect the public interest and this extends to the accreditation process,” wrote Justice Heneghan. “The independence of the Commission does not relieve it from the obligation to act fairly.”
The executive director of the Commission, Michel Cormier, a former CBC reporter, claimed in an affidavit that Rebel News’ disqualification was justified since “the Commission’s mandate is to ensure high journalistic standards for the leaders’ debates.” Cormier did not explain any difference between Rebel News’ standards and those of media that were permitted to ask questions. Rebel News similarly won a 2019 appeal of an earlier Commission blacklist. Justice Russell Zinn called the ban “troubling,” “unreasonable,” “procedurally unfair” and lacking in “discernible rationality and logic.”
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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 31, 2022 11:44:04 GMT -8
A federal handgun sales ban will not “meaningfully” reduce gun crime, the RCMP union and Regina’s police chief testified at the Commons public safety committee. Federal authorities have sought to enforce a ban through cabinet order.
“Firearms will continue to make their way into Canada,” testified Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation representing unionized Mounties. A sales ban will “not address issues of organized crime nor gang violence, illegal weapon smuggling, systemic causes of crime or emerging threats,” added Sauvé.
Bill C-21 An Act To Amend Certain Acts proposes to outlaw legal handgun sales. “Bill C-21 narrowly focuses on the tool or the firearm and not the criminal activity surrounding it,” said Sauvé. “By only addressing the tool you are failing to address the root problem.”Cabinet has sought to enforce a ban by executive order. The Department of Foreign Affairs last August 19 banned legal handgun imports under the Export And Import Permits Act. “Given that nearly all our handguns are imported this means we are bringing our national handgun freeze into effect even sooner,” Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said at the time. The Prime Minister effective November 9 also seeks to ban sales under the Firearms Act section 17. Canadians legally own some 1.1 million licensed handguns, by official estimate. There is no federal count on the number of smuggled handguns. “Restricting lawful handgun ownership will not meaningfully address the real issue which is illegal firearms and illegal handguns obtained from the United States that have led to the disturbing current trend in gun violence that is largely related to gangs, street gangs and more sophisticated organized criminal groups,” Chief Evan Bray of the Regina Police Service testified at the public safety committee. “Does that really improve public safety?” asked Conservative MP Glen Motz (Medicine Hat-Cardston, Alta.). “We do a good job now in trying to restrict firearms and access to firearms to those who are licensed and legally liable to possess them,” replied Chief Bray. “I think we have to focus and consider the fact law-abiding firearm owners are predominantly not the problem.” “Predominantly they are not the ones who are causing the issue,” said Bray, co-chair of the firearms committee at the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. “The issue is people who are criminals.”
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Post by vintagecomics on Nov 2, 2022 6:51:00 GMT -8
This is how police work is done to tackle what the Police stated as a 'national threat'? They were worried about public opinion. Remember, this is the police chief that I have already documented came from one of the world's largest accounting and personel firms in the world, and who is involved with The Great Reset. Police actions dictated by popular opinion. Sounds like the CGC boards
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Post by vintagecomics on Nov 3, 2022 6:33:45 GMT -8
The underlying theme that is emerging throughout all society is that all politics seem to lead towards personal, financial gain. And along with that, law enforcement is used by and arcs toward the support of those political goals. That theme is starting to show through the cracks in every facet of society, from the CGC boards right up through civil law and to the top in Federal law. The people pulling strings at the top use everything underneath them at their disposal to attain financial goals. Nothing else matters. The police or moderators are extensions of political and business decisions. The reason this is so, is because the media which is supposed to be independent and keep society grounded in truth, is no longer independent nor objective. It's arcing toward the same goals as the politicians...it's arcing toward the same money. That's why independent voices that have been recently assailed so vehemently are so important. That's why I've become so vocal about these things. I saw it coming and felt I needed to make a stand, not out of selfish reasons, but because I society falling if people didn't push back and allow independent media to flourish to allow the exchange of ideas. Without those small voices throughout the pandemic that kept competition of ideas afloat, we'd be lost. If you lose the media's objective voice you have lost Western society. It's over. Full stop. {Subsidized Media “Terrible”} The state of Canadian journalism is terrible, a former CBC executive has testified at the Commons heritage committee. Legacy media are “memories of what they used to be” despite federal subsidies, MPs were told.
“I was a journalist in Canada for ten years working in radio, television and online,” said Sue Gardner, visiting professor at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy. “I used to run CBC.ca. I used to run the Wikimedia Foundation.”
“I’d like to ask you about the state of journalism in this country as you see it,” asked Conservative MP Kevin Waugh (Saskatoon-Grasswood, Sask.). “It’s appalling,” replied Gardner. “It’s terrible. I don’t think anyone is arguing differently.”
“I had lived outside Canada for 11 years and I returned about a year and a half ago,” said Gardner, who left Canadian Broadcasting Corporation management in 2007. “The Globe & Mail is a brochure now. The institutions, even the ones that still exist, are hollowed out versions of their former selves. They’re memories of what they used to be.”
Gardner spoke at committee hearings on Bill C-18 the Online News Act. The bill would compel Google and Facebook to pay newsrooms a portion of ad revenues generated by linked stories at a cost of $329.2 million a year, by Parliamentary Budget Office estimate.
Bill C-18 “is a very bad bill,” testified Gardner. “Google and Facebook out-innovated the business side of the news industry and that is not a fairness issue, it’s not a moral issue, it doesn’t make them a villain,” she said.
“If you imagine it’s the 1920s, I make buggy whips and you make cars and Bill C-18 is the government saying you need to give me money forever because nobody is buying my buggy whips,” said Gardner.
Department of Canadian Heritage data show CBC.ca as the largest free news website in Canada would be the biggest beneficiary of Bill C-18. The CBC website, financed by a share of $1.3 billion in yearly network subsidies, claims an average 21.7 million unique visits per month.
“By imposing a cost on news intermediaries for links to news content Bill C-18 threatens the efficiency of news retrieval on the internet and the ability of Canadians to access news content,” testified Philip Palmer, president of the Internet Society Canada Chapter. “Bill C-18 will raise the costs directly or indirectly of accessing news content in Canada.”
Independent publishers have criticized Bill C-18 as another federal subsidy for money-losing corporate media. “Struggling media corporations are using every last iota of their dwindling financial and social capital to lobby for subsidies,” Jen Gerson, co-founder of the online newsletter The Line, testified September 23 at the heritage committee.
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Post by vintagecomics on Nov 7, 2022 10:31:40 GMT -8
I had a friend ask me to help them go look for baby medication. This is what I found. Absolutley no baby meds on store shelves. Empty. Gone. We went to several locations. There was also no baby formula to be found. And toilet paper is now $1 a roll.
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Post by vintagecomics on Nov 7, 2022 10:32:53 GMT -8
So, the question I have is if a government who professes to be benevolent can't look after even the children in a society, why would ANYONE trust them to look after the adults? Anybody?
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Post by parker1865 on Nov 7, 2022 10:58:42 GMT -8
I had a friend ask me to help them go look for baby medication. This is what I found. Absolutley no baby meds on store shelves. Empty. Gone. We went to several locations. There was also no baby formula to be found. And toilet paper is now $1 a roll. You are a liar, and fomenting division of society. By my calculations, the cost is .9579166 cents per roll, excluding tax. How disappointing....
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Post by parker1865 on Nov 7, 2022 11:01:52 GMT -8
So, the question I have is if a government who professes to be benevolent can't look after even the children in a society, why would ANYONE trust them to look after the adults? Anybody? Because there are too many pets that have to be taken care of by adults first, so the dingo doesn't eat the baby. Science.
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