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Tom Marazzo's book is scheduled for release September 6, 2023.
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“The People’s Emergency Act: Freedom Convoy 2022″ release in September – donate before August 11 to have your name published in it

Rita Smith

Your name could be printed in Tom Marazzo’s new book, “The People’s Emergency Act: Freedom Convoy 2022.”

Freedom Convoy organizer Tom Marazzo’s new book is getting ready to go to print. His team has committed to print in the book a list of the names of the donors making the print edition possible; there is still time to have your name included in the book.

“We’re planning to print a list of donors in the book,” Marazzo says.  “If you’d like to see your name in print and have not donated as yet, you still have until Friday, August 11th. We would be most grateful for your contribution. There’s a ‘donate button’ on the website.”

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Photo supplied by Mark. Taken February 2, 2022 on returning to his truck.
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“You can interview that front tire”

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During the three weeks Mark and his truck spent in Ottawa, the parking tickets and small acts of vandalism were minor matters. Wife Joanne describes him as a laidback guy who doesn’t talk much about feelings. But as they texted back and forth during those weeks, she says, he told her about the tears and the gratitude. People kept thanking him for taking a stand. “He said the love that was there, it was just unbelievable.”

Regular people would come by his truck offering submarine sandwiches and fried chicken. An Asian woman, Mark says, “was bringing us down Chinese food all the time. And Tim Horton’s. I don’t drink coffee myself, but they’d be bringing wagons full.” At random times of day, strangers would ask if he needed fuel. “Yeah, I’ll take it.”
After the police started cracking down on fuel deliveries, folks got more creative:

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Is it possible to teach an old dog new tricks? Mike Murchison says you can. Photo: Moose.Bloodhound https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093299167765&sk=reels_tab
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Teaching an old dog new tricks

Mike Murchison

You hear the expression “transferable skills” here and there. In the work world it basically means something to the effect of taking whatever you learned in your previous job(s) and seeing what fits with the new endeavor.  An old dog

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Photo: RWN
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The Highway to Hydrogen: Recent Hydrogen Developments in Alberta’s Transportation Industry

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Virtually every industry is looking to reduce carbon emissions in its development and operational life cycles. This has proven to be a particular challenge in the transportation industry, specifically heavy-duty transport where the industry has traditionally relied heavily on energy-dense diesel fuel to provide the torque necessary for heavy load transportation. However, Hydrogen may become an attractive zero-emission alternative for heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Unlike diesel which produces carbon dioxide and other harmful bi-products, hydrogen produces only water at the tailpipe.

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Screen capture from a video Mark recorded around 9 am, Friday January 28th, 2022. (Click image to view video.) The long white sign reads: ‘Camionneurs, Montmagny vous remercie,’ which translates as: ‘Truckers, Montmagny thanks you.’ That community is located an hour north of Quebec City.
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Every Beautiful Thing You’d Ever Seen

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‘A thousand people standing on an overpass and you driving under it’ by Donna Laframboise Read Part One, here By the time Mark, a Nova Scotia commercial fisherman, joined the Freedom Convoy the pandemic had dragged on for nearly two years.

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Then-Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and CPOH Dina Hinshaw. Photo: CBC
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Alberta court strikes down public health orders that violated Charter freedoms, triggered Truckers’ Convoy

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 The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced on August 1st that it is pleased with the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta’s decision to invalidate the public health orders of Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH), in Ingram v. Alberta. The court struck

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Mark’s Kenworth. Photo: Donna Laframboise
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A Fisherman, a Truck & a Train Horn

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Mark rescues old trucks. These days he owns 30 of them, the oldest being a green 1936 Maple Leaf, one of the earliest heavy duty pickups sold in Canada. “I get most of them outta California,” he says. “You start with no rust, so they’re a lot easier to restore.”

A commercial fisherman in Nova Scotia for 40 years, in the summer of 2023 he tells me scallops are doing well. Lobsters are another story. Market prices are “always up and down, they’re yo-yos. You never know.”

Back in January 2022, an Ontario friend told Mark he was heading to Ottawa to take part in the trucker protest scheduled for that weekend. Did Mark want to come?

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Facebook Marketplace is the 2023 version of a car trunk full of stolen goods - now, when a consumer product "falls off of a truck," it probably lands at an online market. Photo: Facebook
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Stolen goods from stolen trailers

Mike Murchison

Ah yes! The underground “black market” of hot goods. Stolen stuff. It’s thriving and as hot as ever – at least, it was in Peel Region until July 19th. 

Operation “Big Rig” put a stop to what we now know was a ring involving 15 individuals. Possibly more. But 15 were charged. Its probably not the end; just an interruption in a trade that will kick back up down the road when things cool down.

Myself, I’ve spent many days and nights visiting, working, and slumbering within the borders of Peel County. Never had any problems unless you count the slow lines at the Tim Hortons.

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