Tag: Freedom Convoy 2022

Freedom Convoy Group Ramps Up for Rally in El Monte

A California organizer for Freedom Convoy USA 2022 is staging an overpass rally in Los Angeles County before the caravan heads to Washington, D.C. Mark Perez, the organizer, told The Epoch Times the overpass rally will be held near the junction of Rosemead Boulevard and CA-60 Freeway in El Monte, California, at 9 a.m. on…


Canada’s COVID Police State

Commentary Are we there yet? Can Canada under the current “state of emergency” (how many states of emergency can legislators declare in two years?) be officially categorized as the latest in the dwindling and discredited ranks of the third world’s police states? The very cornerstone of democracy is the right of every citizen to disagree…


Thousands Join Protests Across Canada As Police Quash Protesters in Ottawa

While police is quashing the protest against COVID-19 mandates in Ottawa, thousands held demonstrations in other parts of Canada on Saturday, Feb. 19, to call for an end to the pandemic restrictions. In British Columbia, protesters opposed to the federal COVID-19 mandates forced another shutdown of the Pacific Highway border crossing on Feb. 19, after…


Canada’s Justice Minister Threatens to Seize Bank Accounts of ‘Pro-Trump’ Convoy Donors

Canada’s justice minister says people who are members of “a pro-Trump movement” donating to protests declared illegal by the government may have their bank accounts frozen. Minister David Lametti made the comment during an interview with CTV New’s Evan Solomon on Feb. 16, after Solomon asked whether Canadians who have donated to the trucker convoy protest…


The GoFundMe Scandal Should Not Be Overlooked

Commentary  Imagine if your bank notified you that you no longer owned your life savings, and that your money would be distributed to those in need on the island of Madagascar. The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe essentially tried to pull that off last week, when it announced that the $10 million raised by the Freedom Convoy in Canada…


GiveSendGo Donors From United States Account For Roughly 50 Percent of Canadian Freedom Convoy Campaign

Around 50 percent of donations to the Freedom Convoy anti-mandate protests in Canada have come from small donations made from the United States, according to the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo. There was “a pretty even split between donations coming from Canada and donations coming from the U.S.,” said Jacob Wells, CFO and co-founder of GiveSendGo, to…


GiveSendGo Says No Credit Card Info Leaked or Money Stolen in Freedom Convoy Crowdfunding Hack

GiveSendGo says no credit card information was leaked and no money was stolen after its website, which contains a fundraiser for the Freedom Convoy, was recently hacked and names of donors were made public. “GiveSendGo has a dedicated team aggressively focused on identifying these malicious actors and pursuing actions against their cybercrime,” said the company…


Trudeau Fanning Protest Flames By Invoking the Emergency Act

Commentary Canada has been wracked with growing anti-mandate protests since the truckers’ Freedom Convoy descended on Ottawa over three weeks ago. The government and legacy media initially tried to ignore the growing convoy. As the convoy gained steam and interest across the nation while it moved through city after city towards Ottawa, the government tried…


Canada Regulating Crowdfunding Platforms, Cryptocurrencies Under the Terrorist Financing Act

The Canadian federal government is now regulating crowdfunding platforms and cryptocurrencies under the Terrorist Financing Act, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced on Monday. Freeland announced the measures at a press conference, shortly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared a state of emergency due to the ongoing protests against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions by truckers…


GiveSendGo’s Website Hosting Freedom Convoy Fundraiser Reportedly Hacked

The website for GiveSendGo, the crowdfunding platform used by the Freedom Convoy to fund their protest against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions, has been frozen and appears to have been hacked. In a series of posts on the night of Feb. 13, a reporter for The Daily Dot, Mikael Thalen, tweeted that the website of GiveSendGo…