Commentary After crowds cheered them on from overpasses and at truck stops from one end of the country to the other, the Freedom Convoy arrived at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 29 to protest COVID vaccine mandates. Thousands of supporters joined them to wave Canadian flags, dance in the snow, play street hockey, and…
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VIDEO: ‘Freedom Rally’ Heats Up in Calgary as Supporters, Counter-Protesters Confront Each Other
CALGARY—A protest close to downtown Calgary grew heated when demonstrators against government COVID-19 mandates came face-to-face with counter-protesters at a park where weekly “freedom rallies” have been held on Saturdays for months. A heavy Calgary police presence, including mounted and bicycle officers, was on hand to keep the event at Central Memorial Park in the…
Freezing of Accounts Under Emergencies Act Caused Panic Withdrawals: Credit Union Association
The directive on how to apply the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act after it ordered financial institutions to freeze Freedom Convoy supporters’ accounts was ill-defined and left credit unions “scrambling,” a Commons committee heard on March 17. On a few occasions, customers also withdrew millions to avoid the punitive measure. Martha Durdin, president…
What Canada Can Learn From Britain’s Escape From the European Union
Commentary When the United Kingdom finally left the European Union following the Brexit vote in 2016, the greatest insult the EU mandarins could deploy was to call the British people “retro-nationalists.” The sentiment was intended to be shameful, as though the Brits were some uncouth failed social experiment that simply lacked the sophistication and poise…
Russian Money Not Behind Freedom Convoy, Says GoFundMe
Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe says Russia played no role in the financing of the Freedom Convoy as it was testifying before the House Finance Committee Thursday, with a Liberal MP suggesting it was the case. Liberal MP Sophie Chatel prefaced her questioning of GoFundMe by saying that Russia has been “engaged in misinformation warfare for years”…
No Russian Money Behind Freedom Convoy, Says GoFundMe
Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe said Russia played no role in the financing of the Freedom Convoy in testimony before the House Finance Committee Thursday, with a Liberal MP suggesting it was the case. Sophie Chatel prefaced her questioning of GoFundMe by saying that Russia has been “engaged in misinformation warfare for years” and that it has…
Free Speech, Freedom Among Top Issues of Concern for Canadians: New Poll
Canadians are becoming increasingly concerned about the issues of free speech and freedom, a new poll finds. Conducted by Nanos Research, the poll found that of all national issues of concern, free speech and freedom came in second as the “most important” to Canadians at 8.3 percent, just behind the coronavirus at 13.1 percent, and…
Feds’ Narrative for Invoking Emergencies Act on Convoy Protests ‘Faulty’ as CBC Retracts Second Story, Says Tory MP
With Canada’s public broadcaster CBC retracting a second story about the Freedom Convoy, Conservative MP and party leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis says the government should also make amends about invoking the Emergencies Act. “With even the CBC now admitting that some of their main narratives about the convoy and who was behind it were false,…
Rex Murphy: Claiming the Trucker Protest Was an Attempted Government Coup Is Beyond Ridiculous
Commentary The world is richer than it has ever been in examples of lunacy and triviality, and that part of the world we call the West is richer in the same than anywhere else. Our comfort, security, and wealth, with all the deep benefits that triad has brought us, has also bought committed shallowness, deep…
Emergencies Act Left Crytpo Businesses Scrambling, Committee Hears
The financial measures imposed through the Emergencies Act to target the participants in the Freedom Convoy left some businesses scrambling to interpret the broad order, the House Finance Committee heard on March 14. “We have a very highly skilled team of AML [anti-money laundering] professionals and lawyers,” said WealthSimple’s chief legal officer Blair Wiley, yet the…
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