Every day, it seems like COVID-19 laws get more and more bizarre. From mask mandates to arbitrary business closures, it has become next to impossible to keep up with the rule changes and their logic. And now, they’re targeting churches! Under B.C.’s new province-wide COVID-19 restrictions, churches and other places of worship have been forced to close in what our un-elected health officials claim is an attempt to curb the spread of the virus. Yet restaurants, bars, and gyms remain relatively unaffected. How does any of this make sense?
That’s what brought me to Riverside Calvary Chapel this past Sunday, where worshippers chose to attend an indoor church service in defiance of the new rules. A bylaw officer had been there all day to monitor the morning service before police arrived to issue the church a $2,300 fine! Not only that, but they also threatened to give out more fines if the church remained open.
Watch this video to see my interaction with the bylaw officer and police who came to issue the COVID fine.
Let’s get this straight: people can go to Costco with no issues, but they can’t attend a church service to worship God? What’s worse, the police weren’t even sure what order they were there to enforce! So, where did they get the authority to issue this fine?
Can Canada still be referred to as “the true north strong and free” if we continue to head down this path? Freedom of movement, freedom of association, and freedom of religion have all fallen to the wayside because of these emergency measures, which are in direct contravention of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We don’t think Riverside Calvary Chapel should have to pay this fine. Do you? If we learned anything from our “Fight the Fines” civil liberties project, it’s that these fines won’t easily stand up in court. And if you help us, we’ll make sure they never will. Yours truly, Drea Humphrey
Once the Adamson BBQ Legal Defence Fund hits that magic number, we will close the campaign down.
It is hoped that the family can continue to keep you informed after that happens.
This campaign has never been about the existence of COVID measures but the asymmetric way they treat big business and the little guy.
In short, governments have been frozen into inaction and have ceded control of this country’s greatest crisis to unelected, unaccountable health care bureaucrats.
These are folks who don’t have to face the voter, have no skin in the game and, with the loosening of federal and provincial fiscal checks and balances, unlimited funds.
Hand anyone with no skin in the game the lever of power, an unlimited budget and no concrete strategy and where is the incentive for all of this to end?
In public policy we call this a perverse incentive. They create a mish-mash of conflicting policy responses that serve no real purpose other than to prolong the crisis and hurt everyday Canadians.
Why? Because small business and the everyday worker can’t afford the expensive lobbyists that the big-box stores can. And the government’s policy response reflects that.
Big corporations have the resources to reach government and get these silly policies tweaked.
Thus we have Walmarts open while the family owned small business down the street is forced to pivot to pick-up or deliveries without the regular income available to scale it up to affordable levels.
Is that fair and equal treatment under the law? Is it constitutional? Does some junior public servant at the municipal level have the right to lock a landowner or businessman out of his own property? Or force them to make their body and private health care records available with no evidence of a serious crime?
That’s where the Adamson BBQ Legal Defense Fund can play a meaningful role.
By putting these key legal questions before the courts, they can create order out of chaos and a sense of empowerment for the little guy.
And, ideally, they force a more reasoned and balanced approach to policies intended to keep people safe.
Anyway, that is what this effort hopes to change.
Political leaders have to lead, not just hand some poor public servant the file, an unlimited budget and hide behind them until the storm passes.
Because when this house of cards comes crashing down- and it will, who’s going to lose their job? It won’t be the elected fellas.
Thank you again. And thank you also to my young daughter for making me sound more eloquent than I really am. She’s been tacking away here for me from the beginning, making me sound intelligent.
Let’s get this effort over the top and change this country for the better!
Peterborough Farmers’ Market Bans People With Medical Mask Exemptions — Time to Boycott & Strike Back Against the Corporate Bullies & Mask Fanatics Recently, the Peterborough Regional Farmers’ Market opted to begin strictly enforcing Ontario’s mask mandate. The enforcement is so strict that even those with exemptions are barred from entering the building housing the market.
The new rules aren’t sitting well with some people who reached out to me about this seemingly discriminatory policy. They claim that these mask mandates are dividing the community and destroying businesses.
Yet, many of the vendors continue to support the measures. According to them, they’re just following the rules and doing what they have to do to protect others. So I went to the market to talk to people about what they thought about these rules. Here’s what they had to say:
As one protester succinctly stated, “the government doesn’t decide if I should fear or not.” But that is precisely what’s happening. While covering this protest, the police were actually called to enforce the mandate. Strangely enough, they did this under the guise of enforcing the Trespass to Property Act —
you can watch that video here. When did a medical exemption become a reason to issue a trespassing ticket? And who’s actually responsible for enforcing these regulations?
Amidst the slough of politicians, media and citizen fear mongers
supporting irrational COVID “public health orders” that shut down small
businesses while allowing corporate big-box stores to remain open…
one small business is standing up for the rights of the “little guys”
like you and me to get out and earn a living too.
Ontario’s Adamson BBQ has been opening every day to serve people
lunch. And owner Adam Skelly is paying a high price for carrying that
cudgel of liberty. Over the past 24 hours he’s been hit with numerous
fines totalling tens of thousands of dollars for violating
unconstitutional and draconian COVID “public health orders.”
All because he refuses to let your politicians—who are out there
enjoying their fat salaries that we all pay for, wag their fingers at us
and tell us we don’t have a right to earn a living too. After all,
“we’re all in this together” right?
I don’t know him but I do
know that guys like Adam are in short supply during this overblown COVID
nonsense. And he deserves our support.
So c’mon.
If we’re not going to be out there leading by example, let’s at least
kick in $100, $75, $50 or whatever you can afford to help Adam fight
this fight for us.
If we’re not willing to kick in a few bucks to help Adam fight for our freedoms, then maybe we don’t deserve them.
Don’t put this aside for later. Every fine, every police visit, every
daily scolding by some fat cat politician is chipping away at Adam’s
courage. Show him that he’s not alone.
Reality vs. CBC: was this Manitoba hospital OVERWHELMED with COVID-19 patients?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/C3Canada/permalink/2402345656577687/ A recent report by the CBC sent shockwaves across the country. But was any of it true? CBC published that the Bethesda Regional Health Centre in Steinbach, Manitoba, had been so overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients that nurses were forced to triage people in their cars in the parking lot!
But we’re well aware of the blatant lies and mistruths regularly peddled by our state-broadcaster, so I decided to go and see for myself. What I found will surprise you:
According to Manitoba’s official numbers, the day we showed up at the hospital there were just 300 COVID patients across all 58 Manitoba hospitals. That’s five people per hospital! Even less when you consider that only 52 of those people are in ICU. Is that all it takes to overwhelm Manitoba’s healthcare system? Of course not.
But it hasn’t stopped Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister from inflating the perceived risk of this virus to give himself more authority over the lives of Manitobans. Why does the mainstream media continue to push this narrative and support this tyrant? This isn’t a crisis. It never was. The only crisis is that people continue to fall for CBC’s hysterical reporting.
“Do we want to live in a country where people are not free to gather?” MPP Randy Hillier ticketed for organizing a rally. Welcome to Medico-Stalinist vengeance. “If you follow unjust laws, you’re an asshole.” “I’ll go to court & I won’t be wearing a mask.” https://facebook.com/MikeySchweinst
People want GoFundMe to stop hosting fundraiser for Adamson BBQ
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The GoFundMe to back Adamson BBQ owner Adam Skelly, who is facing steep fines after famously hosting diners inside one
of his Toronto restaurants last week despite lockdown measures, has
raised nearly $300,000 since it was launched four days ago, and many
are pretty sickened by the show of support.
Skelly has become a hero for anti-lockdowners everywhere,
ranging from those who feel for small businesses on the verge of
certain demise due to pandemic closures to those who think COVID-19 is a
complete hoax.
In response to the hundreds of thousands that Skelly has received
from fans, people have started calling for GoFundMe to take down
his campaign before it becomes any more lucrative for the rule flouter,
who some feel put public health at risk for permitting indoor maskless
dining for not one, but three days in a row at his Etobicoke location.
The 33-year-old restaurateur was arrested
outside his restaurant at the QEW and Royal York last Thursday after a
dramatic confrontation between throngs of his supporters and police, and
now faces multiple charges that include operating without the business license authorities seized from him after his first day of illegal opening on Tuesday.
He may also be convicted for violations of the province’s emergency
orders amid the health crisis, including defying indoor dining
regulations and hosting a prohibited gathering, which could bring
penalties of more than $100,000 plus jail time.
The fundraiser
initially started to pay Skelly’s legal fees “for violating
unconstitutional and draconian COVID ‘public health orders'” — which has
become the site’s top crusade — now has a counter petition asking for its removal, as well as growing opposition online.
But, members of the public are justly able to crowdfund for “just about anything” they want, as the platform itself states, and those donating to the Adamson page presumably know exactly what they’re backing.
Still, others have aptly pointed out the countless other small businesses and causes that residents can direct their money toward instead during a time when so many are floundering (and still following the law).
Skelly headed to an anti-lockdown protest at Yonge-Dundas Square
on Saturday — where he encouraged other businesses owners to contend
the rules and open their doors — after being released on $50,000 bail
the day prior.
Should Penguin Random House give so much as an inch on the cardinal idea of free expression, let it get out of the book tradeRex MurphyPublishing date:Nov 25, 2020 • Last Updated 4 days ago • 4 minute read
Employees
at Jordan Peterson’s publisher, Penguin Random House Canada, have
objected to the publication of his new book, a followup to his
best-selling 12 Rules for Life. Photo by Hollie Adams/Newspix/Getty Images
Axiom
1. The purpose of an enterprise is not to assuage or submit to the
immature predispositions of its most self-centred and querulous
employees.
Rule 1. Any employees at a publishing house who break
down in tears when they hear a certain book is to be published should be
kept far, far away from the author’s promotional tour. [Penguin Random
House – take note.]
OK. Enough is enough. Who let the toddlers run the day care?
In the unlikely event you haven’t heard, there has been a woke-monsoon at Penguin Random House Canada. Tears were shed. People wept.
Who let the toddlers run the day care?
Details I’ll come to, but first some general principles.
The
inanity, silliness, indulgence, narcissism and anti-rationality of the
woke mobs have been tolerated and coddled far too long. They should not
be listened to. They should be laughed at. And they should never be
given the slightest influence or leverage in the major decisions of the
company that pays their salaries.
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The
woke mindset brings nothing to the table. Its principal identifiers are
but two: weeping and whining. Both infallibly accompanied by “demands”
for the weird thing they call a “safe space,” which may most easily be
defined as anywhere they can break out their toys and stage their
incessant tantrums.
It is degrading to adult dignity and
intellectual integrity to allow a woke mob sway or say over anything.
And most emphatically over what may or should be written or said.
The woke mindset brings nothing to the table
The
most prominent Canadian intellectual of our day, Jordan Peterson, has a
followup book to his incredibly successful, international best-seller,
12 Rules for Life. It sold millions. 12 Rules had an impact that no
other book of its kind can pretend to. It rocket-shot Dr. Peterson into
world prominence and influence, and was a King Solomon’s mine for its
publishers.
And now (this makes the teeth to grind) we hear that
Penguin Random House (PRH) has endured one of those Mao-like
“thought-sessions” that wokesters put on whenever they sense a wisp of a
thought, or a fragment of opinion that injures their eggshell
sensibilities, or threatens a dent to their highly-inflated and
unendurably fragile self-esteem. The princess and the
pea-under-the-mattress is the woke template.
It is reported that staff at PRH held a meeting
at which — and this from international headlines the day after —
“staffers broke down in tears over release of (a new) Jordan Peterson
book.”
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What it is, really, is just vanity holding hands with folly
The
staff meeting at PRH was described — it is disgraceful to learn this —
as a “tearful town hall.” There was an “emotional outcry” from staff and
“an effort by employees to pressure the company into cancelling” the
release of Dr. Peterson’s new book.
Ah yes, this makes sense;
employees at a book company clamouring for a censorship veto over
forthcoming books. A little like bread-makers protesting dough. Or
dogwalkers allergic to barking.
Emotional outcry? Tearful? People
were weeping. Did somebody die? Was a favourite pet run over? This
precious bunch whined they “were ambushed” by the news. Ambushed mind
you — a very animated verb in this context. Were they lured into the
Canyon of Dangerous Books and bombarded from above with blurb-heavy dust
jackets? Perilous business this, working at a publisher’s.
What
it is, really, is just vanity holding hands with folly. If there are
people in full employment at a respected publishing house crying over a
book yet to be published, and if there are actual tears rolling down
social justice cheeks, because the company they work for has the gift of
Jordan Peterson as one of its authors, it is probably too late: but
send in the therapists. By the bus load.
What are the
accomplishments of the would-be censors compared with Dr. Peterson’s?
What are their intellectual attainments compared with his? What have
they written, what audiences have they attracted? How many books have
they sold?
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Biggest question of all: Who do they think they are that they should judge him?
By what standards, intellectual or moral, do those who do not like what Dr. Peterson writes claim the right to shut him down?
Who do they think they are that they should judge him?
Here’s a few more questions I’ll guarantee didn’t come up at the “town hall.”
Do
they know more? Have they read more deeply, more widely? Are they as
educated as he is? Have they produced work of equal range and force? Do
they over-match his intellect?
Just what, besides adolescent
cowardice and bluster in the face of notions different from their own
shielded and limited half-thoughts, do they have to offer the world?
It
is time to be direct about these adolescent displays. The lachrymose
venting at Penguin Random House was a pathetic and embarrassing display
of over-indulged “activists” and cause-addicts.
Should Penguin
Random House give so much as an inch on the cardinal idea of free
expression, or bend a knee, so much a single centimetre, to still the
clamours of the jejune Pharisees whose salaries it pays, then let it get
out of the book trade and go into something honourable like
refurbishing used tires.
