Monday, May 18, 2026

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Crown drops charges against seven Freedom Convoy protestors

Guest Contributor

OTTAWA: The Justice Centre is pleased to announce that the Crown has stayed 49 charges against seven Freedom Convoy protestors who took part in a peaceful protest in Ottawa. In the past two weeks, the Crown stayed these charges due to a lack of evidence. The seven protestors participated in the peaceful Ottawa protest that occurred in January to February 2022, and saw thousands of truckers and Canadians assemble to protest government covid restrictions and vaccine mandates. The protestors were charged with mischief, mischief to property, disobeying a lawful order, and obstruction of a peace officer. All seven maintain their innocence and believe that the right to peaceful protest is essential for a healthy democracy.

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Hygiene standards get flushed as COVID fears subside

Mike Murchison

Covid come tearing out of China like a cabinet minister out of question period. It consumed all forms of media. Disrupted the entire world economy and the lives of virtually every person on earth.

The phrase ‘social distancing ‘ becomes the cry of the day for nearly three years.

Masks, lockdowns….and hand sanitizers. Businesses are forced to put ‘stringent’ cleaning protocols into practice.

It was nice during the three-year period to walk into a restaurant, truck stop and even a washroom and smell that ‘just cleaned’ scent, which seemed to be present everywhere I went.

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COVID was a smokescreen and a massive psychological operation

Guest Contributor

Put simply, Covid-19 was not an epidemiological event, it was a money laundering scheme, a smoke screen for economic/social restructuring towards total control and a massive psychological operation among a few other items.

Two and a half years later, as bureaucrats and politicians wind down the Covid restrictions in order to quell growing unrest, we can be assured they will insist on retaining the “right” to re-impose them at will.

As long as “new variants lurk right around the corner,” public health bureaucrats and pandemic profiteers can invent the next “health emergency” to impose more shutdowns for any “viral event” that conveniently suits their political and financial aims.

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Opinion/ColumnPropaganda Watch

I support the current thing (and please forget that last thing, like when we crushed that industry and those families)

Rita Smith

This summer, with the release of “The Uber Files” there has been a flurry of attention to all things Taxi and Uber. Perhaps I should say “Anti-Uber,” because suddenly the fact that Uber is an unprofitable business model which exploits drivers, gouges customers and has been a safety risk from the start has dawned upon the consciousness of the globe.

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A reckoning has to come on energy prices, says Dan McTeague

Guest Contributor

I can’t help but think of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the vivid and illustrative scenes of pigs at the trough, all on the public purse, liars and hypocrites all, telling us how they know best while living off the avails of taxation.  

But this is the new better world of a “Just Transition” – and the elites are advocating for it all the way to the bank. 

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