Monday, April 29, 2024

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Womens' Trucking Federation Canada CEO Shelley Walker at a June 27th, 2023 announcement. Photo: RWN
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Ontario investing $1.3 million in Truck driver training for women, other underrepresented groups

Participants eligible for $1,000 for transportation and childcare support, $300 for equipment, $400 weekly allowance On June 27th, the Ontario government announced that it is investing $1.3 million to prepare 54 women, newcomers and others from underrepresented groups for in-demand

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To view Peterson's full video message to the Truckers' Freedom Convoy, scroll to the bottom of this post and click on the white arrow in the red box.
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Jordon Peterson’s hearing June 21 – CCF live tweeting

A disciplinary hearing for Canadian clinical psychologist Jordon Peterson will begin today. Because the hearing is not accessible to the public by video conference, Christine Van Geyn of the Canadian Constitution Foundation will be live-tweeting the proceedings as exhaustively as possible.

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Young Trucker Tyler was so demoralized by Canada's COVID mandates, he decided to quit trucking and become a mechanic instead. Photo: Donna Laframboise
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Not a Trucker Anymore

“The convoy and life after the convoy has really changed my way of thinking and what I want out of life. I no longer enjoy living in a truck and living out of truck stops for days on end away from family and friends. After losing my job due to the vaccine bullshit and having some time off to sit around and think…I realized that I actually want a home life and a family of my own…

…I also realized that I enjoy fixing trucks more than I enjoy driving them. So I have decided to sell the truck…and chase after another dream. Tomorrow I start a new job where I will be fixing heavy equipment and trucks as an apprentice! I’ll be home every night with weekends off which is something I’ve never had as an owner operator! I’m very excited to start this new life.”

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Ottawa Courthouse Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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New delay puts fake Trucking schools court proceedings over to August 15th, 2023

Court proceedings for the remaining men have been ongoing for more than a year since the charges were laid, with little progress except the request for delays and more preparation time. When another delay was requested at the May 24th, 2023 proceedings, Crown Attorney L. Welch noted, “This file is already pretty old.”

Also noted during the May 24th proceedings was the fact that the paralegal speaking for one of the Deol family (Jagjeet or Charanjit) was not certain which of the two men was her client.

When asked to comment on the proceedings, Philip Fletcher, president of the Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario said, “I really can’t say much, as this is a repeat of a rerun.”

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Court hearing on if ArriveCAN constitutional challenge can proceed happening today

(June 13, 2023) – TORONTO, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the Federal Court will be hearing arguments today on whether the challenged constitutional validity of the government’s mandatory requirement for travellers to use the ArriveCAN app to enter Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic can proceed, despite the ArriveCAN requirement no longer being mandatory.

On December 20, 2021, the Federal Government required Canadians who were unvaccinated, or who were vaccinated but did not use ArriveCAN, to undergo testing and mandatory quarantine upon returning to Canada.

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Protest at Coutts, Alberta February 2022. Image: Twitter
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Coutts protesters still sitting in jail while violent criminals walk free in Canada

In present day Canada, career criminals get arrested, are swiftly granted bail, and are back on the streets within hours or days. These men are not career criminals. Margaret says three of them have never received so much as a speeding ticket before. One, she says, “might have a juvenile record” of some kind.

After she tells us they’ve been charged with “conspiracy to murder RCMP officers – a very serious federal charge,” Gord says you’d think “the government would be in a humongous hurry” to make the evidence public in order to reinforce its narrative that the protesters were terrorists.

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The Connaught building is the headquarters of the Canada Revenue Agency - equivalent to the Internal Revenue Service in the US. Photo by Simon P, via Wikipedia.
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Fake security bulletin slandered convoy

The day before most of the truckers had even arrived, the feds falsely accused them of invading office buildings by Donna Laframboise Blacklock’s Reporter is a gem amongst Canadian news outlets. Its focus is on holding our federal government to account. Yesterday

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