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Publishing Blacklock’s news article on the fact that Blacklock’s has been evicted from Ottawa’s parliamentary press gallery seems almost too surreal to believe.

As reported by Blacklock’s itself on December 5th, “Blacklock’s said the eviction, first of its kind in the history of the National Press Building, was a clear reprisal over its continued protests against media subsidies.”

“Eviction followed Gallery president Guillaume St-Pierre’s threat to ‘terminate’ Blacklock’s membership. The eviction letter stated Blacklock’s managing editor Tom Korski was ‘impolite,’ ‘disturbs the journalists around him’ and “streams parliamentary committee hearings on his computer.’”

Photo: Mike Murchison

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Canada should provide more rest areas before it writes tickets for Hours of Service violations

December 4, 2022 Mike Murchison

So. The Hours of Service (HOS) have come up again in the halls of government.

On November 24th, Road Warrior News wrote about the fact that the federal government wants to start issuing fines to violators of the Hours of Service (HOS) regulations.

This is nothing new. Provincial jurisdictions have been doing this for a number of years and still continue to do so. Just roll into to your friendly neighbourhood weigh station/inspection facility with a falsified HOS log and see what happens.

Yes, the Inspection Officer can issue a ticket with a monetary fine. Which, depending on much falsifying you’ve done, could blow your Christmas shopping budget in one shot.

Freedom Convoy supporters cheer on the Truckers as they pass through Langley, British Columbia on their way to Ottawa on February 24th, 2022. Photo: FB

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Hypocritical Trudeau supports protests in China while denying the Freedom Convoy’s legitimacy

December 2, 2022 Rita Smith

The Liberals are playing an interesting game as people in China protest against draconian ‘zero-Covid’ policies, and as Canadians draw parallels with what happened in our country during the Freedom Convoy.

They can’t accept the legitimacy of the concerns of the Freedom Convoy protestors, because that would imply the government had overreached in its imposition of vaccine mandates, and would make the use of the Emergencies Act look even worse.

But they also can’t openly side with the Chinese Communist Party regarding the protests in China, since the CCP is massively unpopular in Canada.

So, they have to pretend to be fully supportive of protests against authoritarian Covid measures, while also defending their invocation of the Emergencies Act.

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“Looking at China right now, the Truckers did Trudeau a favour; he should be grateful”

November 30, 2022 Rita Smith

Photo: Tom McKenzie/Twitter Hear that in Beijing, China @JustinTrudeau? Sounds like the universal language of freedom. #HonkHonk https://t.co/zudSk6jJ4S — Kulvinder Kaur MD (@dockaurG) November 29, 2022 The column below, “What Trudeau really feared about the convoy was its organizing abilities”

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Meat, plastic bags, road space: basic human choices now transferred to government officials

November 27, 2022 Guest Contributor

At which point, I envisioned myself arguing with the order taker at a McDonald’s restaurant, trying to explain to me that there was no way she could process my order for a quarter pounder with cheese combo, because I had already exceeded my monthly beef quota. “It’s to save the planet,” she’ll remind me cheerfully.

I’m hearing that a lot lately when I ask for a bag in the grocery checkout line.

Opinion/Column Taxi industry news Trucking

Ottawa experiences with robbery, drug dealers, murder: I’d feel safer with more Truck drivers

November 25, 2022 Rita Smith

Listening to Chrystia Freeland and her friends testifying at the recent Public Order Emergency Commission (PEOC) hearings, you might take away the impression that Ottawa was a bucolic ‘burb, a sleepy, peaceful village free of crime and danger before the horn-honking Freedom Convoy Truckers arrived on January 29th, 2022.

Actually, even some of the nicer parts of Ottawa (the Glebe, Parliament Hill, the Byward Market) can be cesspools of drug dealing, crime and violence. I have no doubt the reports that crime actually dropped after the Truckers arrived are true.

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Truckers for Safer Highways submission to Transport Canada’s Hours of Service consultation

November 24, 2022 Guest Contributor

Trucker for Safer Highways have made a submission to Transport Canada’s consultation on amendments to the Hours of Service regulations, including more fines for drivers and carriers. Image: TFSH Interested parties can submit their thoughts to Transport Canada on amendments

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Convoy lawyer tossed out of POEC

November 22, 2022 RWN Staff

Freedom Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller was thrown out of the Public Order Emergency Commission Tuesday morning. Photo: CPAC/YouTube

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Don Taylor’s “Stories from the Road” available on Audible – make Christmas shopping easy

November 20, 2022 RWN Staff

Don Taylor’s book “Stories from the Road” is officially now available on Audible.

The stories – which are in turn hilarious, absorbing and shocking – got started as stories told around a campfire during fun times with family and friends. So many friends urged Taylor to write them down, eventually he did. The result is a fun, interesting book which was easy to read, but now even easier to listen to as the audio version has just been released on Audible.

Click the link below for a four minute sample of Don Taylor’s “Stories from the Road.”