Most horrible day in Canadian history, convoy being crushed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWBEp5REwDo
The Canadian emergency act haven't even been pass yet. The police on horseback, RMCP, military are using violence against peaceful protesters. The Canadian Government has broken every Chartered of rights there is. The Canada Council cancelled the emergency act debate. They have been handing out fines in a record amount to protester or donaters or anyone in assistant of this friendly peaceful protests. With trumpt up charges unpresidented . They take away their dog to be killed a week later. They take away their children. Freeze bank accounts. They beat up police and war veterans with the convoys. They have divided Canadian greater than any other time in my History. I will to go to jail also peacefully. If the tyrants and their thugs come for me for being unvaccinate. Next Canadians will not be allowed to protest or speak out your thought against anything in the future if this continues. Any opposing doctor or sciencist has been banned, blocked or ignored concerning these mandates.
Happy kneeling salvery if that is your choice.https://youtu.be/lC4tlUkAP6o
This can effect world wide totalitarianism.
Just my common sense kicking in here. The truckers made an effort to be heard in a pretty much peaceful protest. The Government did not consider their complaints or their protest and crushed them. It would have been so much more effective if they would have striked , stayed home in their warm homes, and stopped deliveries of ALL THEY had been delivering throughout the pandemic. They worked at parrel, while citizens could sit home when the pandemic was raging... They need to strike to be heard...
This shows a lack of respect for these workers that kept working in a very scary situation. They are being told --- shut up or else attitude from the Government."The Government did not consider their complaints"
Don't you actually mean that the government didn't simply roll over and give them whatever they wanted? I can't imagine that the government has simply put in place their mandates without every considering if they are necessary or even useful, and that means that the trucker's complaints were considered, and at depth.
It has become the standard norm to complain that "You didn't listen to me!" when the desired results are not forthcoming, but in truth the lack of listening is far more often on the part of the complainer, who did not consider all the effects of their demands.They refused to meet with the truckers. Trudeau ran from them. They are Canadian citizens and have a right for their government to hear their complaints. It would not have gotten this far if the liberal Trudeau government had not chosen to ignore them, label them and then use the tactics of a totalitarian regime on them. It's a disgrace what the Canadian government has done.
And I guess that all those who are backing the truckers demands enjoy seeing all those empty shelves at their local grocery stores, hardware stores, etc. All I can say is "thank God for Amazon!"
I'm sure over the last 2 years of the wealthy doubling their world record profits won't suffer a week or so slower moment. Specially when these truckers, who risks their lives, filling those shelves for 2 years.
Meanwhile one third of Canadain small estibalish business have gone under like mine for 47 years. All over a fit all and fix all vaccines. A non science nor medical approved or with no good results over all from political vaccine sellman.
And the worst health model worldwide ever invented by mankind with no vaccines solutions in sight.
All pushed by Corporation sponsor or lobbyist owed media and government greatest lies , certainly not approved and backed by scientists or medical worldwide community.
I got nothing if I don't owned my own body and nothing is better than freedom.I'm not worried about the wealthy, i.e. the corporations. I'm worried when I can't find a bag of pinto beans on the shelf at at couple of local supermarkets. (two weeks ago) I worry about not being able to find the things my family needs all because somebody stages a protest because he/she doesn't want to be vaccinated. I don't know that this happened here, but you keep harping on it, which implies that it is so.
Don’t get me wrong, having been a ‘Trade Unionist’ Activist in my younger days; on occasions organising peaceful strike action and demonstrations I do firmly believe in demonstrations as part of democracy, and on occasions violent protests and riots can be justified.
Therefore, I would be hypocritical if I said that the Canadian Truck Drivers blockade was wrong; albeit I don’t agree with the reason for them holding the blockade.
However, I don’t think your suggestion would be effective; where you say:
“It would have been so much more effective if they would have gone on strike, stayed home in their warm homes, and stopped deliveries of ALL THEY had been delivering throughout the pandemic.”
Because, I suspect that the majority of Canadian truck drivers don’t support those involved in the blockade, and therefore if those protesting went on strike and stayed at home goods would still be delivered because they are in the minority.
The most reliable figures I can find is that around 83% of Canadian truck drivers are vaccinated; and quoting from the Washington Post:-
“But even as the vocal group of truckers, known as the “Freedom Convoy,” grabbed the world’s attention, many of Canada’s truck drivers were scrambling to distance themselves from the movement, which they view as radical and fringe.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 … -protests/Vass majority protesters are not truckers, they are people from all walks of life.
vaccinated people are sick of vaccines a
much or more so of vaccine mandates , its the worst model of health ever made up in human history.Well perhaps you ought to think of immigrating to England where we don’t have any vaccine mandates.
Too many laws and not enough sunshine and beaches.
I agree with not enough sunshine, but then I thought that Canada isn’t exactly the warmest of countries?
But there are lots of lovely beaches in the UK, and it doesn’t matter where you live in the UK you’re never that far away from a beach. There are over 1,500 beaches in the UK, so plenty to choose from. Our nearest two beaches from where we live in Bristol are Clevedon (23 miles from us) and Weston-Super-Mare (just 32 miles from our home).
Cornwall Best Beaches (Top 10): https://youtu.be/GBG2Jy6K06g
You say “too many laws” in the UK; yeah for sure, the UK doesn’t have a Laissez-faire government. But what laws specifically in the UK don’t you like; I assume any that infringes ‘freedom’ etc?
List the UK laws that you don’t like, and let’s discuss! Because I bet that when it comes down to it there isn’t that much difference in the freedoms in the UK vs Canada. Certainly in the UK, if you are not vaccinated your freedoms are not infringed in anyway.Been to UK beaches, not like some of the world's best beaches here in Nova Scotia and gets more sun..
If I was young or like my Daughter who loves UK, perhaps.Yeah, I grant you that the beaches in Nova Scotia are nice, for sure; but that doesn’t mean that English beaches aren’t any good; which English beaches did you visit?
When did you last visit the UK, because of climate change (global warming) we get a lot more hot sunny weather in the summer now than we did just 20 years ago. And also, in southern England we don’t get the below freezing winter weather that you get in Canada. So I would dispute your claim that Nova Scotia gets more sun!
2019, Britain boils in record temperatures (reaching 38.1c (100f) in July): https://youtu.be/0aYoEygEUWw
Always an excuse. Then maybe you need to stop complaining.
Canadain Government Bragg's of us being the freest and best Country in the world. Certainly not the last 2 last year's of tryanny communist rule under Trudeau that is worst than the other communist countries I've worked in. They treated me like a rock star rather than treating like trash. This commie Government tells us what job you must do or have no job for being unvaxxed. Then they cancelled my dating sites or any place to take them out. Trudeau aim to make this Marshal law permanent. Not
as long as I am alive and my family is alive.Complaining is for people who are majoring into minor things.
I take action with the business of
1.Healthy food vs Gov drugs cartel that fits all
2. Freedom of speech and physical body vs Tyranny.
3. Affordable tiny house on minimum wage vs most housing that is unaffordable.
What are you doing for humanity?Well s I said originally, “perhaps you ought to think of immigrating to England where we don’t have any vaccine mandates.”; and where you do have freedom to do what you want (to within reason), we have good beaches in the UK, they might not be up to the standard of Nova Scotia beaches, but they’re still beaches, we have a labour shortage in Britain; and I’m sure the ‘dating sites’ are good, although being happily married I’ve had no need to give them a try!
" They [other Communist countries] treated me like a rock star rather than treating like trash."
Sounds like a bruised ego to me. Perhaps you would be happier in Russia or one of its satellites. You worry about having to get vaccinated to protect other people and about your dating sites, while us regular Joes worry about keeping covid out of our homes and buying necessities of life. Get real.What science organization in the world support today says triple jab vaccinated is spreading Covid anymore than unvaccinated. Even CDC and Bill Gates admit the nature immune system works better than the vaccines for Omicron. Beside much of Europe and most of Canada have dropped the vaccine mandates and masks. Vaxxers are on the wrong side of science, history and constitutional law.
Yet the politician and media are still with you.Sorry to burst your bubble Castlepaloma, but the reason most of Europe, including the UK, have dropped mandatory masks is precisely because of the effectiveness of the vaccine rollout, including the triple jab, in reducing hospitalisations and saving lives. And FYI most of the EU never had mandatory vaccines anyway.
Mandates and prohibition have not ever worked in the human history of human kind. They always cause more harm than good.
Vaccine Mandates have cause greater mental illnesses, suicide, isolation, destroyed relationship, poverty, homeless, One third of small business going under or bankruptcy, I can go on in every level in life. In my life history experience this was the worst health model ever invented by the most Evil greedy ever on the planet.
People ask me often, what is your real job other than building sandcastle. For 47 years Sandcastles and sculpture has taken me to 6 Continents. And it has been a living dream of reality more than most people's real jobs. When Covid stops travel and millions of paid fans, it is a great spirit and kill joy. Vs the greed of biilionaire toys in the end game. Yet , no worries for me , let the energy vampire be. I got a new end game of gathering the most joys in life. My business of healthy foods, freedom and affordable housing will take me to a higher energy levels in a already successful life.
CP, I'm sincerely glad that you have a happy and fulfilled life. Some people never find that. I was fortunate enough to have two very interesting and fulfilling careers in my long working lifetime, a broadcaster (20 years) and a legal editor (30 years). I've never had the government interfere in my life, although there was much government control over both careers. I really don't consider the mandates for masking and social distancing to be interference of my personal freedoms. The reason is because in 2009, when there were no government controls over influenza, I contracted H1N1 from a clerk at a health food store. As he waited on me he told me it was his first day back at work after having the flu "but I'm not contagious". I immediately came down with said flu and gave it to my husband, a heart patient. This is why I advocate precautionary measures against covid over my own "personal freedom". Both my husband and I nearly had our personal freedoms taken away by that flu that could have been fatal. I have a genetic autoimmune disease, so I'm vulnerable. I lost my son in 2016 to that autoimmune disease. Not that I have to explain my views to anyone, but that is why I don't see the sacrifices we make to protect ourselves and others from covid as trespassing on my personal freedom.
In Canada I've seen a few people die of the flu, not yet from the Covid in my circle. I've not taken any flu shots and not had the flu, it's the same with the Covid shots because by facts and numbers the are the spreaders. Now Bill Gates and CDC admitted our immunity system is better than the vaccines. Most of Canadian population are dropping the vaccine mandate and mask and that is happening worldwide.
They found a new fear World war 3 Russian. After that WEF said it will be environment passports and AIDS will be next.
Love always conquers fear over time, when confronting the fear. Each tragedy takes a person to another higher energy level expanding. As the fears disappears it opens new doors.Firstly, I have the reverse experience; I’ve never known anyone who has died of flu, but I’ve known a number of people who has died of covid.
Secondly, the vaccines have not only saved tens of thousands of lives, but it’s slowed the spread of the virus, allowing societies across Europe to drop their covid restrictions and mandates safely.
Sorry to burst your bubble Castlepaloma, but the reason most of Europe, including the UK, have dropped mandatory masks is precisely because of the effectiveness of the vaccine rollout, including the triple jab, in reducing hospitalisations and saving lives. And FYI most of the EU never did have mandatory vaccines anyway.I like your reply, Nathanville. However, I have known people who have died of the flu, most of them being elderly. However, one of my childhood friends died of Type A flu back in the early 70s . This lady was the older sister, by 2 years, of a classmate of mine. She was a brilliant woman who was in college studying to be a nuclear physicist. Word was that she passed away from pneumonia resulting from the flu. I guess you could say that the flu itself didn't kill her, but the resulting pneumonia did. Her death probably was a great loss to the scientific world, as well as a wonderful friend.
And I've known a few people who've died of covid. My husband lost a cousin to covid last year, and the brother of a former coworker died from covid earlier this month.
knowing the road record of the State and banks being the top genocide and democide worldwide the last century. They just fooled everyone with cerimonial mass suicide this time. Get ready for some more fearmonger.
I know. I think governments are now trying for survival of the fittest among the unvaccinated, which would lead to herd immunity. Makes sense to me.
MizBejabbers, Yep you are right, people do die of flu. That’s why those at higher risk are given annual free flu jabs by the NHS, including myself now that I’m retired. And that’s probably why I don’t personally know of anyone who’s died of flu, because the more vulnerable have been protected by the flu jab.
But the point I was trying to get across to Castlepaloma is that until the recent Omicron variant, covid was far more contagious and deadly than flu; and I do know of several people (of all ages) who have died of covid in the past couple of years.
There is something wrong when a "peaceful protest" is designed to cause as much harm, pain and simple irritation to people as possible, without crossing that invisible line into "violence".
Here you even go so far as to say that if the truckers didn't cause that harm and pain the protest would not be effective.
Personally, I would call that concept "blackmail" - "If you don't do what I want I will hurt you". Financially, emotionally, hunger, cold - whatever I can do outside of physical harm (to your person - property is fine).I went to mandate protest today in Halifax NS. Had the best terrorist time of my life and didn't kill anyone.
Same in Ottawa no one got into a fight, or no one harmed. Must be the most non violence Terrorism attack in human history. Yet Truckers suffered and punished like under the law of terrorism and were stripped of everything they own including their dog and family.Sounds like what I said; cause the most harm possible without crossing the line into physical harm to people.
I really haven't been following this as much as I perhaps should be...
I did see this video, particularly from 3 minutes in, is this legit, is Canada under Martial Law now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djoY92sX9KE
Yep, it’s a ‘fine’ line: But it is a sad reality that a peaceful protest which doesn’t cause any disruption will generally just be ignored by the authorities and have little impact.
That's correct. Protesters must cause as much harm as possible or they won't be "heard". Or at least that's the thinking - I'm not sure at all that I agree with it. You can use the term "disrupt" while I use "harm" but the result is not a mere hour or two of delay or disruption that doesn't particularly hurt anyone. It is to cause the maximum harm possible, and that doesn't mean a little disruption to daily lives.
Yeah, as a Socialist, and ex-union activist, I am certainly more militant minded than you, and thus will have a different perspective on the issue – that should go without saying!
However, when I was actively involved strike action we were always careful to target the Government/the system to ‘disrupt’ (harm), not the people; although unavoidably, in a major dispute, such as the minor strikes in the late 1970s, disruption (harm) to the people is collateral damage!
But it is a sad reality that if people are not prepared to cause ‘disruption’ (harm), even in a free democratic society, without the threat of force by the people (demonstrations, riots etc.) there is no effective counterbalance when Governments are out of step with the people.
Yeah, sure you can wait four or five years and vote them out of power, but in the meantime a draconian like Government can wreak a lot of havoc on more vulnerable and weaker sections of society if the people are not prepared to ‘fight’ for their ‘rights’.For guns, I don't personally have a gun or want one. Don't want to fight fire with fire, it too final and too deadly.
Being a supervisor in the largest riot in Canadain history. The Vancouver Stanley Cup Riots. I was shot at, twice and 100 people attack me. And saved two cops lives during attacks. The computer futures store I guarded and Chinese jewelry shop next door within a four blocks raduis were the only ones that didn't get robbed and the only buildings not robbed, some people were killed eslewhere.
When nobody was hurt under my guard and only a little property damage, that is a successful defense story.
In this case of postcasting the protests in Nova Scotia. I encourage everyone to get out their cell phones and film like they did in Ottawa. Because everyone in Ottawa was told to stand down from any violences. As many did film the event of what was very different of what the mainstream media was telling and showing.
It was the perfect protest through the intelligence design by the truckers. Yes the military intelligence (oxymoron) and Government robbed everything they owned and they were physically beaten up and jailed for mainly mischief which can be anything from laughing and loving.. Yet these are badges of honor. Wail the Government showed they were the horrible people and the world watched their tyranny and their true colors, Trudeau will be accountable.I didn’t mention guns, but I agree with you on that point – I don’t have or want one; besides we don’t have them in Britain anyway - they’re illegal over here: Thank Goodness.
The US and Canada police could take a lesson from that.
Please do due diligence before making these assumptions.
https://twitter.com/djdynamicnc/status/ … 63200?s=21
https://medium.com/@djdynamicnc/it-wasn … 64f9f97b3d
I don't think this will end with arrests and removal of trucks. It is simply a spark that will grow in the future.
Currently (as a family) we’re re-watching series 4 of Torchwood, ‘Miracle Day’ (on Blu-ray); a joint production by the BBC (Wales) and the USA TV network, Starz; 10 x 50 minute episodes - a spinoff of ‘Doctor Who’.
If you haven’t seen it this series is right up your street as it portrays the world just as you keep describing it e.g. new world order involving conspiracy between an American Pharmaceutical Company and world governments.
A couple of tasters of the Series below:-
• Uncovering PhiCorp's (Pharmaceutical Company) Dark Secret: https://youtu.be/H9DIFTcketY
• Vera Meets a Horrifying End (in one of the worldwide governments death camp’s): https://youtu.be/khxbQoAs8QU
I also stumbled across this short video, and thought of you: - https://youtu.be/KCSA7kKNu2YThat was funny,
I once worked with Weird Al on a set called Running with Scissors.
It was inevitable and I was expecting it. It's the classical theory of Karl Marx of the suppression of the working class by the elite.
Trudeau talks alot about WEF which is deeply this one world order. A tyranny, that he is headed for. Over my dead body.
The larger half of the Canadian provinces are dropping their vaccine mandates and the other half of Trudeau sheep will follow.
Shortly after Trudeau said he plans making the emergency act permanent. He just cancelled the emergency act yesterday. The bank run was off the charts and I'm sure the banks and WEF run Trudeau. Even if they get rid of Trudeau, there is another WEF evil to replace him. Only chance is when people hold the line from their ultimate right to own their own bodies and freedom.
...and then, there's the other stories that no one talks about!!!
My son almost died from one (1) Moderna jab. His life was saved in the E.R.(probably by someone who has been fired since.....) He was perfectly healthy, until he took a shot, that he did not need nor want, he did it in order to get into Canada, with his fiancee, to see her Grandmother, one last time!
They didn't make it into Canada and my son almost didn't make it (.) I have had my fill of Government MAKING {free} people do things against their will and I am disgusted by those perfectly okay with it!Obviously I am to hear about your son’s experience; but the benefits of the vaccinations do far outweigh the risks; and I for one, along with everyone I know, have had no hesitation in taking all the jabs as required, for a vaccination that has saved tens of thousands of lives.
As regards mandatory vaccination; that may be a requirement in some countries like Canada, but it’s not mandatory in the UK; and never was mandatory for travel to the UK, albeit (when restrictions existed) if you were fully vaccinated travel to the UK was easier.Yes, but she said she was disgusted with governments that make people do things against their will. Nobody made her son take the shot. He did it as a requirement to get into Canada. He could have made the decision to stay in the U.S. and let his fiancee continue on by herself. Of his own free will, he unselfishly agreed to take the vaccine to accompany her. People really do put their own "twists" on regulations. I am sorry that it happened to her son. Of all my family and friends who were vaccinated, I know of only one, a cousin, who said he had a really hard time with the vaccine, but it wasn't a near fatality. He took the vaccine because he'd already had covid once and was very ill with it. He was trying to make sure that he didn't get it again, but according to him, the preventative was just as bad as the disease.
My husband and I made it through the vaccinations and booster just fine, and he has COPD, a compromised immune system and lives with a heart pacemaker.Yep, well put; I agree with all you say.
What this discussion does do is show differences in Regulations in different countries; for example the UK’s covid Regulations on travel was obviously far more relaxed than the Canadian Regulations.
If at the time you wanted to travel to the UK, regardless to whether you were vaccinated or not you had to:-
• Have a negative covid test within two days of travel.
• And take a PCR test on day 2 of arrival into the UK.
The only difference under the UK travel Regulations between fully vaccinated people, and people not vaccinated is that those not vaccinated had to ‘isolate’ for 5 to 10 days after their arrival (dependent on their PCR test), while those fully vaccinated didn’t, unless their PCR test on day 2 tested positive.You are right, he didn't have to go, he didn't have to meet her before she died and his fiancee didn't have to go say her goodbyes!
You are so right about that -
But, they didn't have a choice.
It mattered not that they are young and healthy, they don't have COPD or pacemakers, but nevertheless, they didn't get a say in the matter! They could have simply tested before going into the Country, into her room, but no, no, no, in order for them to be permitted to enter, they were made, required, mandated by the Government to be double vaxxed and as a result, of these over the top dictates...my son could have died!
Government decided, it is not up to us to make decisions which work best for us and for our families.
Because so many citizens bowed down and didn't push back, Government has gotten too comfortable in a role, that they were never intended to play, Rulers over our lives!! Which leads me back to the topic at hand, "The Most Horrible Day in Canada's History". The citizens had their fill, fought back {not literally}, but Trudeau flexed his puny dictator muscles and the Canadian people were crushed!
By the way, my soon to be daughter-in-law wasn't able to get in either, enough time hadn't passed, between her second shot and the day she was to go, she was turned away.I am truly sorry to learn that. However, if we all had the freedom to run around and "do what is best for ourselves and our families", which in too many cases means no regard for others, the pandemic would have turned into an epic pandemic. And it truly would have been the survival of the fittest. MY RIGHTS, MY FREEDOM usually means taking away from somebody else. I do wish though that the government would relax restrictions on family members when someone is dying.
I have had more than my fair share taken from me already. My Mom died one year ago, and I wouldn't wish what we all went through, because of Covid madness, on anyone.
I had my fill of this overreaction, long ago.I agree, not ever in my history I've seen more worldwide damages over one thing, on every level. I give it the all time Darwin Award for the worst health model from the most evil horrible people on the planet. It's the first phase of world war 3 and they are far from done with us in this world order. Yet feel the smartest ones will come out the other side, well.
Yep, I agree, the covid virus has caused more death and mayhem than anything else since World War II. Just be grateful that we had the vaccine to save tens of thousands of lives; and that most sensible people had the good sense to follow the covid Regulations to help limit the spread of the virus and save even more lives.
It was a plandemic design for world war 3 a super spreader to weaken the people for phase 2 Ukraine world war 3 and WEF takeover. The people are now pushing back from this greatest abuse of our times, just like throughout human history struggle. I am the lucky one, it being more of a wiggle because I've been prepared for this, a long time ago
You don’t really believe all that crap that you spout do you?
I am not convinced, so much has intentionally been kept from us...all of us! I have that same nagging feeling with all things Covid as I do with Putin's long-term intentions; there's so much more...but I can't quite put my finger on it....
Crushing the convoy may be bad but what were the demands? Were the demands so serious to merit laying seige to the capital?¿
More than Half the world are unvaccinated. To descriminate and segregation
this half of human population and mandating their lives to be impossible to live by, is a crime against humanity.
The Government is breaking more than just the charter of rights, it is doing it to the constitutional laws and international human right laws worst in it's history. And bidding and using the press to mind control the public.
Trucker were the only group with the ability to confront them for the sake of the people democracy and bring the Government God's down to serving the people rather than bank and corporatioism always being served first.. No mandate and give everyone back their natural freedom and love one..
Trudeau showed his dirty hand by freezing Truckers bank accounts and cause the biggest damage to banks a lost of 20% greatest in the last 30 years. In court they forced Trudeau again to unfreezing their accounts.
Foils again.
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