— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) July 4, 2022
“Also it is really important that any of those who are trying to hitch their wagon to this convoy with ulterior motives and off messages – especially racist stuff be openly and roundly condemned by the organizers.” – Wall, to a guy with Confederate flagshttps://t.co/vevdc88VdF
— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) July 4, 2022
Wall has been supporting these insurrectionists for years.
They may be less excited to learn that Justin Trudeau should face similar prosecution for breaking the same law in the same manner. Another who should be charged gave this excuse for their breaking of the public safety measure: “He also noted that the press conference was not a public setting.” Imagine that a ‘private’ press conference.
One of the law profs behind the prosecution of Ford has made waved on Twitter previously.
Doug Ford is being criminally prosecuted for violating public health law. The Rule of Law means the powerful are not above the law, not on my watch. https://t.co/XJ5KYT2Ho9
I think it would be easy to find other Premiers like Moe who’ve broken the quarantine law too. Wasn’t Moe just gallivanting around Europe and the Middle East?
GoFundMe has frozen further donations from going to the convoy organizers. This was at the request of the Mayor of Ottawa, among other authorities becoming desperate to end the blockade peacefully.
GoFundMe announces freeze of the fascists’ funding:
GoFundMe supports peaceful protests and we believe that was the intention of the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser when it was first created.
Suuuure GoFundMe, their intentions started out “peaceful”, while being organized by Pat King of Alberta. who said in previous videos a lot of homophobic and white supremacist things, and that they’d solve their problems with bullets. That’s why the good folks on both sides showed up with their racist flags in the first place too. King thinks the flags were flown as a false flag to sully his spotless reputation… as a bigoted violent racist.
“James Bauder, the founder of Canada Unity and the architect of the “trucker” convoy to Ottawa, has said Trudeau “needs too[sic] be arrested and charged for treason, and for participating in committing crimes against humanity.”
The media has some people doing a good job of reporting on this, but this insurrection attempt is being downplayed in lots of places too as a protest against vaccine mandates, instead of a vast, far-right wing attack on the Prime Minister and legitimate government of Canada.
This is not a movement that's been "hijacked" or "taken over by extremists." That's factually incorrect. The freedom convoy was dreamed up by Bauder as a way to remove Trudeau from power. Since then it's attracted an array of other conspiracy theorists and far-right agitators.
"Downtown has a large LGBTQ+ community. There has been vandalism. Protesters have taken shits on the doorsteps of houses with pride flags. Trucking is being used as a pretext for some pretty raw hate." /2
That’s why all the American flags, the Confederate flag, Trump flags, etc.
And then, some GoFundMe collateral damage happened. Caryma is a legitimate journalist, and GoFundMe just screwed her out of $7000. They’ll have yet one more thing to answer for to Parliament.
This is one of the hardest & most painful threads I’ve ever written.
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Commentator (@CarymaRules) February 5, 2022
Anyway here's Chris Barber with Member of Parliament Jeremy Patzer.
(I don't think MPs should get criticized for everyone they take a photo with. But Patzer has already apologized for coming out to shake Pat King's hand. It's becoming a bit of a pattern.) pic.twitter.com/nZdvEssiog
What is it about Conservative MPs and Senators that draws them to rallies with fascist flags being flown? Hmm, if only we could know what they’re thinking.
Canada’s capital is occupied by white supremacist, anti-vax protesters who’ve urinated on the National War Memorial, stood on the Unknown Soldier’s tomb, flown Nazi and Confederate flags, and even desecrated a statue of Terry Fox.
Yesterday, the Premier of Saskatchewan released a letter supporting these protesters, and his message went viral on Twitter being ‘liked’ more than 11,000 times by last night.
Dear Premier Moe: Your letter on January 29th in support of anti-vaccination protesters was a contradiction to your messaging from the past year saying vaccination is our way out of pandemic public health measures. I have a low opinion of your leadership, but you continually fail to surmount even my low expectations.
You should resign in disgrace, as the organizers of the so-called Freedom convoy included white supremacists, and upon their arrival in Ottawa they attacked front-line workers, defaced monuments to veterans and Canadian heroes, all while protesting the vaccine you once publicly supported.
At some point the folks freezing on the Hill without so much as a pot to piss in, will figure out that organizers made (laundered) $7 million by co opting the trucker brand, fanning their Trudeau hate & lying to them about basic civics.
Massive, in that it weighed and cost a lot. However, the number of people attending couldn't have filled the morgues as well as the bodies of Canadians dead from COVID-19 in the past week!
You know what they say, a few hundred apples who steal food from homeless shelters, display hate symbols, force stores to shut down and a vigil to be canceled, piss and park on a war memorial, and are actually white supremacists spoil the bunch.
Elon, the convoy in Canada is a white supremacist led coup attempt. Please stop promoting it! There are valid ways to stand against government oppression, but the #FluTruxKlan isn't one. pic.twitter.com/JclNfZPmCh
Manitoba’s new Minister really put his foot in his mouth. The leader of the Official Opposition put him in his place.
Here's the exchange between @WabKinew and Dr. Alan Lagimodiere, the new Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations minister. pic.twitter.com/qV87piRT7E
Canada is a normal settler-colonial country with a dark history of genocide against Indigenous peoples
Canada is still fighting Kamloops residential schools survivors, and their descendants, in court.
N2N was there in 2018 and they long suspected there were mass graves on the grounds of the former school. See our story below. Nothing has changed. https://t.co/l2c0CaWVRk
You read this PPE shame before on my blog, but it was brought up in a mailing by local Conservative MP M. Kram.
“Never-Ending Blunders – Tons of PPE from National Stockpile destroyed”
Now, here are the facts:
“CBC News reported Wednesday that last year (2019), the government of Canada threw out two million N95 masks and 440,000 medical gloves when it shut down an emergency stockpile warehouse in Regina.
A spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada, which oversees the stockpile, said in an email that the masks and gloves had been purchased in 2009 and “had passed the limit of five years for their use, as recommended by the manufacturer.” The masks expired in 2014.”
If you can remember 7 years ago, Stephen Harper was Prime Minister, and his government didn’t replace the masks which would have then expired 5 years later in the stockpile while Justin Trudeau was Prime Minister. Would they have thrown out freshly expired masks in 2019, instead of 5-year expired ones? Who knows? As it stands, each PM shares some blame for having Health Ministers not on top of emergency preparedness. So, why does Kram mail out a Liberal criticism list that mostly applies to his party as well?
Kram’s propaganda
“Failed to fund domestic vaccine production facilities”
“How did Canada lose such a national gem? In 1984, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the greatest “privatizer” of our time, sold off Connaught Laboratories in two public issues, and it has since been resold, merged, side-swiped and wasted away to next to nothing. Said Liberal MP Jim Peterson at the time: “No industrialized country … would permit the takeover of its leading biotechnology firm.””
Meanwhile, the Saskatchewan Conservative Premier is in favour of locking up northern Saskatchewanians in their half of the province, but not locking out Albertan plague rats.
Alberta has reported 659 new cases of COVID-19 over the last three days, while Saskatchewan has reported 24 over the same period.
On Thursday, Moe announced further restrictions regarding northern travel.
The public health order restricts all non-critical travel in and out of the Northern Saskatchewan Administrative District (NSAD), which covers nearly half of the province but has a low population relative to the rest of Saskatchewan.”
If it can be done for northern Sask, it can be done inter-provincially too!
“In its latest COVID-19 update to physicians on Thursday, the Saskatchewan Health Authority reported that “uncontrolled intra- and inter-provincial travels is driving ongoing transmission and [facilitating] the speed of variant spread.”” –CBC
Geeze, it’d help if our Premier wasn’t a raging lunatic, hell bent on ignoring medical scientific advice, and just letting people (who aren’t northern Saskatchewanians) go where ever they please even if they *cough cough*, don’t feel well.
“Wasted millions on a feel-good “pandemic postcard” program”
It’s really effing ironic to be reading that from a tax-payer funded propaganda sheet with a printed cut-out postcard next to it, as Kram uses Canada Post on your dime to collect data for his insane party of hypocrites.
In the spirit of Easter, @CMOH_Alberta has announced an outbreak of P1 Variants, but she's not telling you where it is. You have to hunt for it if you want to know. #EasterEggHunt#ableg#covid19AB
Are we truly surprised that Ontario's Covid plan is a complete failure? What did Doug Ford's government believe was going to happen when they opposed paid sick leave, opposed minimum wage increases and decided to leave schools open? They are directly contributing to the problem.
Sucks to be a country where the Official Opposition party rejects longstanding science that a grade school kid can understand. For ideological and economic reasons, the Conservative Party of Canada won’t accept that air pollution is bad. They won’t even accept that it’s air pollution, instead, the veg-heads erroneously call excess carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion “plant food”. And this is the party that was in charge of Canada between 2006 and 2015. Horrible.
Conservative Party members reject policy to recognize that ‘climate change is real’
On Saturday, Conservative Party delegates voted by a margin of 54% to 46% to reject a policy that would add the statement “climate change is real” to the party’s policy book, and recognize that “Canadian businesses classified as highly polluting need to take more responsibility.” The vote came just hours after Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole told delegates that the party “cannot ignore the reality of climate change.””
With how terrible the Conservatives are, the Liberals’ lacklustre, and even bad, management of the climate crisis has been getting a pass. Should Trudeau’s minority government fall during the pandemic, there’s a chance that the anti-science, racist CPC could come to power again, so I get why partisan Liberals are nervous. It’s not like there’s anything concrete for them to point to 5 years into their mandate to do far more, when their hero bought a pipeline, and has yet to build a solar or other renewable power grid where Canada still pollutes with coal burning. Emissions are up, not down.
And the carbon tax fight the ridiculously Conservative SK Government is leading the charge in, goes to the Supreme Court next week. Will the top court side with the stupid people who don’t care if the world burns?
It's been true for a long time but… If you believe the environment needs to be protected and climate change is a threat, you cannot be part of the modern conservative movement. #cdnpolipic.twitter.com/HirXmvbcYU
One of my least favourite Sask Party cabinet ministers (for him closing STC Bus service) is in hot water after going to California during the pandemic. He’s legally required to self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival in Palm Springs.
Did Minister Hargraves self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in California? Obviously not. No regard for anyone else but himself.
Politicians travelling abroad over Christmas has become an issue. Ontario's finance minister @RodPhillips01 is in the Caribbean. Ontario Premier @fordnation has ordered him to return.
There are a lot of people this year who’ve been right about very important things, and had too few people listen to them. I know how they feel.
Far too confusing and dangerous so long as there are untraced cases (as there are many now).#SlowMoe's #ReOpenSK "plan" is completely unprepared to prevent and trace outbreaks. It's part of the Republican #DeathCult propaganda paying dividends to ghoulish billionaires.
— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) May 21, 2020
What ended up happening? Long Term Care homes went viral, and killed dozens of people. This was entirely predictable, yet the SK Government didn’t do anything useful to stop it from happening.
Moe says he wouldn’t change a thing about his pandemic response, suggesting it was perfect.
Same Moe who mocked the opposition for taking Covid seriously from the outset, who entered public spaces maskless, who refused to improve LTC regulations, who dismissed Shahab’s advice. pic.twitter.com/dQkiB6CFo9
Minister of Highways and Infrastructure Joe Hargrave spent Christmas in California to "finalize the sale of a home". It's unknown when he'll be back, but he says he will self-isolate for 14 days upon return — as required. https://t.co/eWEaYSLJXk#skpoli#covid19sk
Palm Springs also requires you to self-isolate for 14 days when you get there & you have to do the same when you return. Did Hargrove or does he think because he is in government, he doesn’t have to?https://t.co/cIhk5pEugS
It’s not just SaskParty MLAs behaving horribly though. Republican Rep-elect Luke Letlow passed away recently from an entirely predictable COVID-19 infection, after appearing maskless in public gatherings, and arguing people weren’t working hard enough through the pandemic. Besides the President likely infecting his Secret Service staff, there are other Republicans guilty too of spreading the plague:
The Republican governor of Missouri is a super spreader killing veterans. This surprising to no one. The GOP has truly become a party of death. @mikeparson is a veteran. Do you feel even an ounce of shame? https://t.co/r3Ncx41TEy
The former longtime MLA for Langley has deleted his tweet, but for the record, the survival rate of #COVID19 in British Columbia is 98.3% among confirmed cases, and 808 people have died.
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