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Health Canada distributed funds to encourage groups to promote brand-new vaccines. Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization-vaccine-priorities/immunization-partnership-fund.html
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The Vaccine Brainwashing Bandwagon

Reputable organizations took government money in exchange for telling the public the scarcely tested vaccines were safe by Donna Laframboise Why was it so easy for the mainstream media to convince a portion of the Canadian public that the trucker Freedom

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Marianne Klowak testifies at the National Citizens Inquiry, 18 May 2023.
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Canada’s COVID Media Disaster

On Thursday, May 18th 2023, an earthquake occurred. On that day three senior journalists described under oath how Canada’s mainstream media broke the rules and failed every ethics test during the COVID era.

Media coverage of the Freedom Convoy was so obviously dishonest because journalists had, by then, gotten used to torquing the news outrageously. After two years of mindlessly parroting every official COVID talking point, they’d ceded their independence so thoroughly they no longer cared about the audience to whom they were meant to be delivering a public service. Taking orders from above, they were playing follow-the-leader.

Last Thursday, at a National Citizens Inquiry hearing, Marianne Klowak talked about resigning from CBC Winnipeg. In disgust and despair. After 34 years on the job. In her words, “I had witnessed in a very short time the collapse of journalism, news gathering, investigative reporting. And the way I saw it is that we were, in fact, pushing propaganda.”

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Uber rescued municipalities from their own failure to understand supply and demand principles; Taxi paid the price

The city had opened a Pandora’s Box when it initiated the restricted entry, equity licensing regime. By the time I entered the business, the city was trying to find a way of extricating itself from this system.

The main problem with extrication was that too many industry participants had invested their lives in the system the city had created. Thus, any move to eliminate the equity plate system was met with strong opposition from those who stood to lose everything they had worked for.
The city opted for a stealth approach.

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Protests in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 Photo: NPR
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1963 Birmingham, 2022 Ottawa

ivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr would have instantly identified with the truckers’ cry for freedom. He himself talked about the “struggle for freedom,” the “freedom movement,” and “the gospel of freedom.”

Screen capture from the Enclyclopedia of Alabama.  Source here.

Screen capture from the Encyclopedia of Alabama. Source here.

Like some Ottawa residents, certain Birmingham residents were hostile to the civil rights movement. They didn’t care about desegregating society. They resented the inconvenience. They wanted the protests to end.

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Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley with supporters. Photo: Twitter
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Notley’s carbon tax largest tax hike in Alberta history

The Alberta election is officially underway, and early polls indicate the results will be close. Though there are several parties contesting this election, only two parties can win:  the United Conservative Party (UCP), led by Premier Danielle Smith, and the Alberta NDP, led by former premier Rachel Notley.

Rachel Notley served as Premier of Alberta from 2015 – 2019. The NDP election victory in 2015 came as a shock not only to Alberta, but to the country. 
What did Notley and her NDP government accomplish during her time in office?

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Michael Alexander addresses the Great Canadian Awakening conference in Whitby, Ontario, May 6 2023. Photo: Donna Lafromboise
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“We are losing and we are losing badly”

by Donna Laframboise Yesterday I described a remarkable incident in which a person delivering a speech was suddenly inundated with cash by members of the audience. That person was Michael Alexander, a Toronto lawyer. He represents doctors who are battling the Ontario

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U.S. States That Have Adopted California's Vehicle Standards under Section 177 of the Federal Clean Air Act. Source: California Air Resources Board, "States that have Adopted California's Vehicle Standards under Section 177 of the Federal Clean Air Act" May 13, 2022. Delaware and Pennsylvania were not included as adopters of ZEV policies. Image: Lexology
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The effect of zero-emission vehicle policies on dedicated highway infrastructure funding in Maine

Berkeley Research Group, LLC “When zero emission vehicles replace vehicles with internal combustion engines, the demand for gasoline and, hence, federal and state fuel tax revenues –goes away. Thus, the adoption of ZEV policies likely will have a profound impact

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Freedom Convoy Trucks in Ottawa, February 2022. Photo: Donna Laframboise
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Your Canada today: pastors arrested for preaching

Last year, several witnesses testified under oath that Coutts and Ottawa were separate and distinct protests. There was no coordination, no grand plan. The leaders were different, and they weren’t in contact with each other. The freedom movement was organic. Lots of people, across the country, were concerned about the erosion of our freedoms. Some traveled to the nation’s capital. Other protested closer to home.

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Statement by the Prime Minister on World Press Freedom Day

“Today, we express our gratitude to the journalists who continue to report the facts, give a voice to the voiceless, and often put themselves at risk to deliver timely and accurate information to the world, including those covering Russia’s ongoing, brutal invasion of Ukraine. We stand in solidarity with journalists in Iran who are facing brutal repression and severe restrictions for covering the Iranian regime’s crackdowns on protests. We also recognize the brave work of journalists in Sudan and other conflict areas around the world, who are keeping the world updated on conflicts and the horrifying impacts they are having on people.

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