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Are suicide, assisted dying and euthanasia a sign of human empowerment or a sign that we're in a dystopian world where core human values are disintegrating. My investigative story for @TheFP on the suicide contagion sweeping the West.
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The Free Press
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“I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy. We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house!” Zoraya ter Beek, 28, is one of many scheduling a suicide. She speaks to @rupasubramanya about being “freed from life.”
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Recently released court documents reveal that the Trudeau government’s travel vaccine mandate was driven by politics and not science.Days before it kicked in,senior officials were scrambling to find a rationale. My latest for @bariweiss and it’s a big one.
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Thx to @elonmusk @TheFP ,Twitter's own internal assessment found unequivocally that Trump had not violated any of their rules but yet at the very top,Twitter took a decision to ban him while they never banned incitement to violence and anti-semitic hatred from other world leaders
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Bari Weiss
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THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE. THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER.
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India's solution to those born with XY chromosome was to create a "third gender". They're legally recognized as third gender including by the Supreme Court of India. They have their own sporting events such as football, track and field, and other athletics. So they don't compete
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J.K. Rowling
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Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris2024
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Justin Trudeau has managed to prove the truckers and protestors were right all along. Unbelievable.
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3 years
The jokes just write themselves.
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Canada condemns #Cuba ’s harsh sentencing following the July 2021 protests. 🇨🇦 strongly advocates for freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly free from intimidation. We stand with the people of 🇨🇺 in their aspiration for #democracy .
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There's a homeless man parked at the corner of Wellington and Mackenzie Drive.Seen him many times over the years at the same spot.He told me he doesn't understand why the truckers are here but they don't bother him.They bring over food to him and he's been invited to eat with him
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This is the latest from Ottawa. Cops haven’t really moved much for about 2 hours. Horses are no longer here. I don’t think cops anticipated more people coming in.
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On Indian TV, former Indian diplomat Deepak Vohra claims there are "credible rumours" that sniffer dogs in India found cocaine on Trudeau’s plane and that Trudeau didn't attend the G20 dinner because he was high on cocaine. 😳
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Turns out it was arson. Unprecedented indeed.
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CTV News
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Canada's 'unprecedented' fire season linked to climate change, will be the new normal: scientists
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Is this first time since the Second World War that an advanced western democracy has invoked the maximum emergency powers it's allowed under the constitution over peaceful protests? Especially when the protests have been way below the threshold of violence, terror, etc?
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The party is back in Ottawa. As I noted this morning, this movement is only going to get bigger.Most folks I've spoken to over the last 3 weeks had never even heard of the organizers. It's even bigger than the vaccine mandates at this point given the events of the last few days.
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Rebel News
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HAPPENING NOW: Convoy protesters have a dance party in Ottawa infront of the police line and tactical units. See our coverage at
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There's a diverse group of truckers and protesters, vaccinated and unvaccinated, and of many different ethnicities and backgrounds, at Freedom Convoy. Their stories haven't been told. I meet some of the people at the protests and try to tell their stories.
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Lots of folks here from Montreal and other places in Quebec in support of the convoy. Met many folks of colour like Kamal here who roll their eyes at the notion that everyone gathered here is a white supremacist. #TruckerConvoy2022
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That moment when realization dawns that India is not the bit player it was a couple of decades ago but is now a major actor on the global stage and won't be pushed around by a medium power like Canada. Trudeau has jeopardized our whole Indo-Pacific strategy and likely the
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Tamara Lich to @justintrudeau “We will hold the line”.
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Am struck by the fact that after my testimony yesterday before @JudiciaryGOP @Weaponization on the erosion of free speech in Canada, several American news outlets both large and small reached out to me. It’s striking that not a single Canadian media house has reached out. Not a
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A year ago, I stepped out of my home in Ottawa to check out a protest unfolding in my part of town. Little did I know the #FreedomConvoy protests would go down as one of the greatest cultural moments in Canada's history, inspire the world,and that it would change my life forever.
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This group got in from Montreal. Walked for miles past police barricades to get here.
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I must confess, I've never seen this side of white supremacy...
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Kulvinder Kaur MD
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#TruckersConvoy2022 made its debut in Toronto🇨🇦 last night: bhangra and hockey loving Canadians united with their love for the true north, strong and free. The added #HonkHonk makes for a great bhangra remix, don’t you think @JustinTrudeau @fordnation ?
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Am home now after having spent all day at the protests, since about 10 am. Despite police action,the crowd has been largely peaceful,kind and compassionate,even telling the cops, “We love you, don’t do this”.The world watches as Canada cracks down on peaceful civil disobedience.
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In less than a week, @JustinTrudeau has managed to alienate the world's largest democracy, India, offend Jewish people around the world by giving a standing ovation in the House of Commons to a man who fought for the Nazis, and now has Poland, a NATO ally question his judgment.
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Ottawa residents Alycia @plantbasedb and @SounguiFitness who live in centertown curious about the protests went to check them out and found only love and kindness. Songui brought his mother to the protests. She had only seen the mainstream coverage and she changed her mind.
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I've heard from so many today that some Ottawa hotels have been instructed by the city/feds not to give out rooms to the protestors. The Marriott downtown apparently is empty but evidently all the rooms booked. Someone should really investigate if this is true.
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Just returned from a perilous excursion into the Ottawa badlands. It was tough but the world needs to see these disturbing visuals of “mercenaries” at ground zero. These “occupying forces” continue to threaten civilization as we know it. #FreedomConvoy
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Looks like a new convoy just rolled into town. I live in the market so I have prime view. These looked like fresh trucks coming in. My cat who makes a cameo was also intrigued.
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Chrystia Freeland whose grandfather was a Nazi collaborator is asked pointedly by a reporter how many veterans who fought with the Nazis are in Canada and how her government would respond to it. You'd think this is a fairly easy question to answer yet she's visibly uncomfortable
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Wear a mask even when outdoors in Canada in one of the most vaccinated places on earth, but in Ukraine, one of the least vaccinated places on the planet, go maskless in a room full of people. Makes total sense.🙄
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#Canadian Prime Minister Justin #Trudeau was introduced to Patron, a dog that helps to clear mines in liberated #Ukrainian territories.
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Can protest against government overreach in front of the Canadian consulate in NY but can’t do the same today in the heart of Canada’s capital. Makes sense.
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Happening now in front of the Canadian consulate. NYC activist show support for the people of Canada and have a dance party Video by @njegmedia
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Al Jazeera is concerned about Islamophobia in Bangladesh while an Islamist pogrom targeting the Hindu minority in the country appears to be unfolding without much global attention. Unbelievable.
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Al Jazeera English
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‘Islamophobic, alarmist’: How some India outlets covered Bangladesh crisis
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In less than a week, Canada's Parliament honoured a Nazi "war hero" and is now asking internet companies to register with the government so they can be subject to regulation. Welcome to the dystopia known as Trudeau's Canada. What horrors await us this coming week, one can only
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National Post
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Social media, streaming services must register with the CRTC by November
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"They shot people in cars and at bus stops, they rounded up women and children into rooms like Einsatzgruppen and machine-gunned them. They went house to house to find and murder civilians hiding in their closets, and they dragged the bloody, dead bodies of Israelis back into
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The Free Press
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Today is Israel's 9/11: To understand what is about to happen in Israel, you must not look away from the evil of the past 24 hours. @NoahPollak reports:
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So the CBC reached out to me for a show they were doing this evening on India Canada, and the killing of Nijjar allegedly by the Indian government. The producer did a pre-screening interview with me asking me a bunch of questions related to the topic. My answers were no different
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Having spent all day walking around the protests,here's my punchline: Our political elites have grossly underestimated the anger and frustration. This movement isn't about to disappear. How it shapes conservative politics will surely impact the next election. #TruckerConvoy2022
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Today’s #FreedomConvoy in Ottawa is possibly bigger than last weekend’s. GoFundMe effect? 😅
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This is insane. What is happening to Canada.
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Marie Oakes
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When asked about intel gathering on protesters, Ottawa Police Chief says they will be coming after protesters for months to come. “If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges. Absolutely.”
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I want to thank @JudiciaryGOP @Weaponization and Chair @Jim_Jordan for inviting me to testify on free speech and its erosion in Canada in recent years. Free speech is at the core of Western civilization, going back to the Enlightenment, and is currently under increasing threat
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The Free Press
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The Free Press’s @rupasubramanya testified today at the House Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. She spoke about the gradual suffocation of free expression she has witnessed in Canada and warns that similar practices could soon arrive in the U.S.
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Am in downtown Ottawa. I’ve never seen anything quite like this in the 20+ years I’ve lived here. That too on a bitterly cold day. Seen folks of all colours and stripes so far in support of the truckers. #TruckersConvoy2022
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Wasn't he the same guy who said Modi's Janta curfew on March 22 which happened to be Amavasya was strategically planned, and that clapping on that day as requested by the PM would produce vibrations that would reduce or destroy the potency of Covid-19?
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Amitabh Bachchan
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T 3590 -I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family and staff undergone tests , results awaited .. All that have been in close proximity to me in the last 10 days are requested to please get themselves tested !
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India's PM, @narendramodi , hosted a Christmas event at the Prime Minister's official residence in New Delhi. India, like Canada, is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, pluralistic state. And even though 80% of Indians are Hindu, and Christianity entered India through the sword of
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Highlights from today’s Christmas programme at my residence…
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SCIENCE!! 👇
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Unvaccinated truckers delivering vaccines, COVID devices exempt from border rules
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Tamara Lich before she was arrested. #FreedomConvoy2022
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On a day @JustinTrudeau assumes emergency powers to quell peaceful protests that he claims are violent, meet Nick, 25. He lost his job as a welder because he’s unvaccinated, can’t pay rent, and now lives on the street. He can’t go to a shelter because they won’t take his dog.
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Freedom Convoy co-organizer, Tamara Lich gets @JCCFCanada George Jonas Freedom award here in Toronto.
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1979:100k women in Teheran protest forced hijab by new Islamist govt 2017:Privileged US feminists think Hijab symbol of resistance.Go figure
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This is how it began for New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern before she resigned. She couldn't go anywhere without protestors not that far behind, followed by her popularity plummeting in the polls in just a few months. Both things are now happening to Canada's Justin Trudeau.
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Harrison Faulkner
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CRAZY: Justin Trudeau swarmed by angry protesters outside the Bread Bar in Hamilton.
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@Ravarora1 More than 15 years after arriving in Canada…I must now consider the possibility my civil rights might have been more secure back in India. Once a vibrant, liberal democracy, Canada is now becoming an authoritarian state.” Do read.
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I come from a part of India that gave Jews sanctuary two thousand years ago, and more recently again a few hundred years ago. Two thousand years ago, there was even a Jewish kingdom in what is now the southern state of Kerala. I've always been proud of that history and the fact
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The Jerusalem Post
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More than 200 Indian Jews, members of the Bnei Menashe community, made Aliyah since the October 7 massacre and were called up for either reserve or active combat duty. #India | #Israel | Read more:
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The documents also reveal the travel mandate was concocted by a secretive group headed by a Transport Canada official. Apart from its head and one other member, we don’t even know who’s part of it. No scientists, doctors, or epidemiologists were involved.
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There’s even a mini protest at the Rideau centre. All peaceful and friendly. No one is wearing a mask and zero enforcement. #TruckersConvoy2022
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Rupa Subramanya
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Two masters degrees in economics and international affairs. No journalism degree. All the more reason not to trust me.
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Jean-Luc Marchessault 🇨🇦
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I trust Rachel Gilmore way more the I trust you with truth in reporting. She has journalism degree. What do you have?
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Yesterday's conspiracy theory is today's fact. Repeated vaccination is likely abetting new variants. A year ago, a piece like this would have never appeared in the mainstream media and flagged as misinformation on twitter. Progress.
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Poland is seeking to extradite 98 year Yaroslav Hunka who fought in the Waffen SS on behalf of the Nazis to face trial in Poland for war crimes. Hunka was given a standing ovation in the House of Commons a few days ago as a Canadian and Ukrainian "war hero for fighting against
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Przemysław Czarnek
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Wobec skandalicznych wydarzeń w kanadyjskim parlamencie polegających na uhonorowaniu w obecności także prezydenta Zełenskiego członka zbrodniczej, hitlerowskiej formacji SS Galizien, podjąłem kroki w kierunku ewentualnej ekstradycji tego człowieka do Polski.
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With Tamara Lich, winner of the 2022 George Jonas Freedom award.
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James Topp arrives at the war memorial to a thunderous applause.
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And there it is. @PierrePoilievre is the new leader of the Conservative Party. This is what a landslide looks like.
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Justin Trudeau is the only world leader am aware of at least in the advanced western world who's still threatening mandates and restrictions in the fall and winter if 80-90% of Canadians don't get ongoing boosters. Canada is an extreme outlier.
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Joe Warmington
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says if 80-90 percent of eligible Canadians get up to date with their COVID-19 vaccination “we’ll have a much better winter.” #vaccine #COVID #Canada #Trudeau #politics @CTVNews
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If marching with a war veteran who fought for Canada abroad and marching for our liberties at home is used as a taunt and a smear, it tells you a lot about those doing the smearing who obviously don't believe in individual liberty but favour collectivism.
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I’m from Ottawa, I live in Lowertown and I walked everywhere during the protests. There were no issues to my personal safety. I’m a woman of colour and the city never felt safer. This is sanctimonious, sententious, and self serving from a would be mayor. #POEC
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They’re now just mindlessly copying and pasting. 🤣
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These protestors are kneeling to show the cops they’re not a threat to anyone.
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My adventures from the Wild Wild West aka Ottawa continues.Warmed up by a makeshift fire pit where I found a group of English & French Canadians finding common ground. One said if we’re coming together those guys (the politicians) either doing something right or something wrong.
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This past summer there was an orgy of fear mongering from the legacy media about climate change when wildfires broke out in different parts of Canada. Turns out some of the worst wildfires such as in Quebec and Nova Scotia were a result of arson and the arsonists have been
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CTV News
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Man, 22, charged in connection with largest wildfire in N.S. history
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Why would a progressive Canadian woman want to wear a headscarf which is a symbol of the subjugation of women throughout the Islamic world? Women have literally been beaten, arrested and killed for not wearing the headscarf in Iran. What is the symbolism that you're trying to
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Bonnie Crombie 🇨🇦
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Yesterday, I was invited by members of the Muslim community in Hamilton to attend a meeting at the Hamilton Mountain Mosque and listen. I was grateful for the invitation and for the opportunity to hear firsthand the concerns of the community during this extremely difficult time.
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Tamara Lich:"I was frustrated by the mandates.Families were being torn apart.Many suicides in my hometown. Elderly were dying by themselves. I was becoming increasingly alarmed with my PM saying I was racist and that I shouldn't be tolerated. I found his rhetoric divisive." #POEC
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More forays into the tarpits of Ottawa where mercenaries, racists, and other assorted goons, are wreaking havoc with their smiles, hugs and friendliness. Ottawa has never experienced this wave of affection. How will the city that fun forgot ever get past this? An update follows.
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Tamara Lich: “ We will remain peaceful and planted at Parliament till the mandates are removed.” #ConvoyPresser
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Journalists pretending to not know what Trudeau's direct words actually mean and coming up with bizarre ways to excuse his statement on the unvaccinated. And why now and not when he actually said it last fall?Legacy media providing covering fire for the governing elite.
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Met this nice couple at the protest who drove up from Cambridge, ON with their daughter.They're here for kids suffering because of school closures and lockdowns. Their nephew died by suicide last year and they're here to honour his memory and stand up for kids. #TruckerConvoy2022
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The barrage of dehumanizing, bigoted and racist hate messages am receiving from so called freedom loving Canadians merely for standing up for the rule of law is quite extraordinary. Imagine a statue can trigger this kind of reaction, that too from a religion that is
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No fan of Pragya but she's innocent until proven guilty. Down with the excessive political correctness. Godse's act was heinous but he loved India and hated Gandhi. This is the kind of stupid over the top reaction from "liberals" that makes folks like me defend those we dislike.
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Rahul Gandhi
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Terrorist Pragya calls terrorist Godse, a patriot. A sad day, in the history of India’s Parliament.
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67 churches were burned down through arson between June and July 2021 in retaliation against the Catholic Church as the alleged perpetrator of atrocities against indigenous children. In 2021, Canada saw a 260% increase in hate crimes against Catholics. It was the largest increase
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New York Post
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No human remains found 2 years after claims of ‘mass graves’ in Canada
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In case anyone is interested, there are some children who live in the trucks with their parents so cutting off diesel could also jeopardize these kids.
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Marie Oakes
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Police in Ottawa seizing gasoline from Freedom Convoy protest.
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Justin Trudeau is one of the last remaining progressive leaders in the western world. He's now imploding on the world stage for all to see. Even left leaning young urbanites are deserting him in droves. How did he go from being one of the most popular politicians in 2015 to his
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The Free Press
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In the span of five days, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has managed to alienate the government of the largest democracy on Earth; anger key allies from Washington, D.C. to Canberra; and outrage Jews around the world. @rupasubramanya reports:
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Another update from the Wild Wild West that is Ottawa. Earlier this evening, ran into Jamaican Canadian @CassiusJulius and his friend Brad who is half Indian half Pakistani (there’s unity right there). They say they’re not white supremacists.
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Meet Deep and Bindu, Ottawa residents originally from New Delhi, India. They were sharing delicious hot samosas with anyone who wanted one. They say they're there to fight for their freedom and show support for the truckers.
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Third world style corruption is here in Canada. Ethics commissioner that the PM appoints rules that the PM didn't do anything wrong based on dubious reasoning that the person who gifted the $90,000 vacation to Trudeau over Christmas is an old friend. So if I'm PM and I get
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CBC News
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's trip to Jamaica didn't break the rules that govern gifts and travel for elected officials because the stay was a gift from a longtime family friend, Interim Ethics Commissioner Konrad Von Finckenstein says. .
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A major protest has shown up in the nation's capital. PM @JustinTrudeau has left his residence apparently for security reasons and made no comment so far. He's simply absent from the scene. What gives?
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This is pretty damning. I went looking for news stories and unless I've missed them all, I can't see any coverage of this important story in the legacy Canadian media. Shame.
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Michael Barrett
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BREAKING NEWS Director at Trudeau's $1 Billion Green Slush Fund is under investigation for breaking ethics laws. This director funnelled $400K of taxpayer money to a company he owns. This is the second ethics investigation at Trudeau's corrupt slush fund. More to come.
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"You agree hate speech has been codified in the criminal code, right?" " @ikwilson : Yes I find the PM's hate speech towards the unvaccinated and saying how do we deal with these people deeply troubling". Boom. #POEC
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Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto was a passionate educator who cared about underprivileged kids. For refuting a claim in a DEI session that Canada is a "bastion of white supremacy", he was bullied and tarred a white supremacist, called a weed by the trainer and faced severe
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The Free Press
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Educator Richard Bilkszto challenged a workplace DEI instructor and was tarred as a racist. He lost contacts, friends, support, and professional esteem, and on July 13, he took his own life. An investigation by @RupaSubramanya & @AriBlaff :
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2 years
Canada is becoming an illiberal democracy where rights and freedoms are under threat.The inquiry into the Emergency has brought this out. When democratic backsliding happens abroad, Canada's liberal elite decry it, but when happens here, they cheer it on.
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The documents also contain a damning email exchange where a senior TC official is seeking a scientific rationale for the mandate from a PHAC official just over a week before it went into effect. He never got that rationale but the mandate went ahead.
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Under cross examination,the Transport Canada official heading the secretive group that cooked up the travel vaccine mandate refused to get into detail about its workings citing cabinet confidence. It’s clear the decision went right up to the very top.
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Apparently there was a terrorist attack at Edmonton City Hall on Tuesday. But you wouldn't know that from reading legacy media coverage of the incident. An Islamist terrorist in a video recorded before entering city hall calls for people to rise up against the enemies of Hamas.
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Seems the security guard who firebombed & shot up Edmonton City Hall on Tuesday posted a video beforehand saying "this genocide that’s going on in Gaza and throughout the world... inshallah, we will rise against you guys." No mention of this in the Globe.
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2 years
Trudeau can try to pull the wool over Canadians' eyes on his egregious Emergency and clampdown on legitimate and legal dissent, but at least one European MEP is not buying it and calls him out in the European parliament. Terrible optics but Trudeau got what he deserved.
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PM Trudeau, in recent months, under your quasi-liberal boot, Canada 🇨🇦 has become a symbol of civil rights violations. The methods we have witnessed may be liberal to you, but to many citizens around the🌎it seemed like a dictatorship of the worst kind.
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Trudeau: "I think it’s going to be really important for all of us to push back against Russian propaganda, Russian disinformation". What's astonishing here is this not an apology. @JustinTrudeau can't even bring himself to say that he's personally embarrassed or that he's
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Mackenzie Gray
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Speaking for the first time since a Ukrainian Nazi Veteran was appalled during the Zelensky speech, Justin Trudeau says “this is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians,” adding it is “extremely upsetting that this happened” #cdnpoli
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As others have noted, this is the first condolence message from Modi, condoling the death of a journalist who was widely seen as a government shill.Modi and his party have not sent a single message of condolence on the thousands of other Indian lives lost under the second wave.
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Narendra Modi
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Rohit Sardana left us too soon. Full of energy, passionate about India’s progress and a kind hearted soul, Rohit will be missed by many people. His untimely demise has left a huge void in the media world. Condolences to his family, friends and admirers. Om Shanti.
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Hilarious. First casualty of today's federal court ruling. Lametti was unceremoniously dropped from the cabinet to his "surprise". I guess he doesn't want to face any questions on decisions he faced as Justice Minister when Canada used emergency powers for only the second time in
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Michael Thomlinson
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Canada's former Attorney General and Minister of Justice @DavidLametti is really taking the Emergencies Act ruling personally. #cdnpoli #HonkHonk
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2 years
This story would not have been possible without my incredible editor @petersavodnik who is the best of the best, and the amazing @bariweiss who has created this incredible platform. Thank you both!
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3 years
By this logic, why did @JustinTrudeau comment and support the farmers protests in India urging the Indian government to engage in dialogue. It was a strictly domestic Indian matter. Sorry but you can't have it both ways. 🙂
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Gerald Butts
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If this is a grassroots groundswell of regular Canadians, why is the Governor of Florida so upset about it? Does he love snowbirds that much?
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2 years
@althiaraj Clarification on your clarification. Here he is referring to those who remain unvaccinated, that would be about 5 million Canadians as racists and misogynists and whether we should tolerate them.
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@IvankaTrump Are you seriously this clueless? This kid and her family had to go through this horrific experience because of India's ill-conceived total lockdown which has resulted in a humanitarian disaster, not because she's aspiring to be a professional cyclist.
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Normal people who are plumbers are not regularly meeting with CSIS once or twice a week and they don't get a Canadian passport after being repeatedly being denied permanent residence especially when they find themselves on a wanted list in another country. There's something
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Rupa Subramanya
2 years
@elonmusk Hi Elon what’s the best way to reach you for a story on free speech am working on for @bariweiss .Thanks and hope to hear from you. 🙂
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This is scary stuff coming from a G7 foreign minister. Canada is increasingly regressing and yet more evidence if any were needed of democratic backsliding in Canada. How many western democracies foreign ministers are calling for wartime censorship?
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Blacklock's Reporter
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Canada needs wartime #censorship of internet,  @MelanieJoly tells MPs: "My mandate as   @CanadaFP Minister is really to counter propaganda online"  #cdnpoli
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How did Trudeau go from being a breath of fresh air for many young, progressive urban Canadians in 2015, to his current implosion, where, in the span of a week, he's alienated the world's largest democracy and horrified the world by honouring a Nazi in Parliament. And he’s
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The Free Press
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In the span of five days, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has managed to alienate the government of the largest democracy on Earth; anger key allies from Washington, D.C. to Canberra; and outrage Jews around the world. @rupasubramanya reports:
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2 years
Mayor Jim Watson: "Then they brought the hot tubs in. It was a horrific situation". 😂 #POEC
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Rupa Subramanya
3 years
Today I was invited by a couple of truckers to eat with them because they thought I was hungry (long story, see my tl). I've seen homeless folks being fed by them. I've never seen them happier. No doubt, this is the first time in a long time, they've felt a dose of humanity.
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Swedish PM: "It is political naivete and cluelessness that has brought us here. It is an irresponsible immigration policy and failed integration effort that has brought us here. Social exclusion and parallel societies feed the criminal gangs. There they can ruthlessly recruit
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FT World News
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Sweden turns to military to help police combat gang crime
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