| Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s Powerful Advice for a Broken Canada |
| The past few weeks have been a ‘wild ride’. We witnessed media hype over supposed UFO sightings and shootdowns, media silence on catastrophic train derailments, and obfuscation from those in positions of leadership, including on the topic of foreign interference in our elections. That was rounded out yesterday when an ostensibly neutral commission, ignoring glaring evidence, brought in the anticipated ruling of ‘no harm, no foul’ regarding the invoking of the Emergencies Act. As if these were not enough, a parliamentary committee decided that killing citizens with taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be limited to adults, the Canadian government wants to help end minors’ lives as well. One of the baseline thresholds for a civilized democracy is the protection of her weak and innocent. Apparently not the case in Canada, circa 2023. In the face of crumbling foundations, Canada needs grounded leaders able to foresee pitfalls, discern lies and recognize true danger, and who continue to walk with steadfast resolve through the emergent chaos. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, the courageously principled author and dissident, was asked to address Harvard in 1978 after he was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. We’ve heard much about rights and freedoms this past year (I’ve said plenty myself), but freedom is not an end in itself. I recommend you read the entire address, but the excerpt below was highly prescient, piercing to the core of our current national crisis: |
| “In early democracies, all individual human rights were granted on the ground that man is God’s creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Such was the heritage of the preceding one thousand years. Two hundred or even fifty years ago, it would have seemed quite impossible, in America, that an individual be granted boundless freedom with no purpose, simply for the satisfaction of his whims. Subsequently, however, all such limitations were eroded everywhere in the West; a total emancipation occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great reserves of mercy and sacrifice. The West has finally achieved the rights of man, and even to excess, but man’s sense of responsibility to God and society has grown dimmer and dimmer. In the past decades, the legalistic selfishness of the Western approach to the world has reached its peak and the world has found itself in a harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the celebrated technological achievements of progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the twentieth century’s moral poverty, which no one could have imagined even as late as the nineteenth century.” |
| Our loss of a collective moral rudder has the good ship Canada drifting toward rocky shores. It’s why we’ve focused lately on the work to be done closer to home, daily; connecting locally for support and spiritual grounding; being the best spouse, friend, or parent we can; raising children grounded in truth, aware of a danger-filled world, but who’ve been taught resilience and courage; speaking the truth, in love, even when it sacrifices our peace, reputation or career. If the past weeks confirmed one thing, it’s that hope is not found in political leaders (or those waiting in the wings), lawyers, commissions or similar. They can be peripheral means to various ends, but more often than not, they’re making things worse, and rapidly so. As Jordan Peterson said recently “I don’t see how we could be stupider here in the West if we actually took courses in stupidity and tried as hard as we could. We seem to be doing everything we can to break everything as rapidly as possible”. Don’t sell yourselves short on your ability to discern right from wrong, smart from stupid, and to act in ways that greatly impact your spheres of influence. We may desire freedom, but without taking on the immense responsibility it requires, we simply join the race for a version that is little more than self-centered hedonism. That responsibility may mean boldly speaking truth in the face of lies. Other times, it may require refusing to comply when compelled by an authority to act in ways harmful to those around us or which violate our conscience. Heed that conscience. Be the steadfast, calm leaders our nation so desperately needs. Greg “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 |
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The NDP is high on censorship: NDP MP calls for hate speech law to combat residential school ‘denialism’
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Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller interested in reviewing proposed bill
Olivia Stefanovich · CBC News · Posted: Feb 18, 2023 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: February 18
WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
Some Indigenous academics and activists say they’ve become the targets of a growing backlash against reports of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites — and they want Parliament to do something about it.
They say they’re being flooded with emails, letters and phone calls from people pushing back against the reports of suspected graves and skewing the history of the government-funded, church-run institutions that worked to assimilate more than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children for more than a century.
They call it “residential school denialism” and describe it as an attempt to downplay, twist and dismiss the facts to undermine public confidence in the Indigenous reconciliation project.
CBC News: The House13:11What is residential school ‘denialism’ and should it be banned?The discovery of possible unmarked graves on the site of several former residential schools shook many Canadians, but some Indigenous academics fear it has also led to a backlash: people misrepresenting facts or dismissing the harms of residential schools. CBC’s Olivia Stefanovich has a special report on what’s being called residential school denialism — and whether anything should be done about it.
NDP MP Leah Gazan, who got the House of Commons last October to unanimously recognize that genocide occurred at residential schools, now wants to take the issue a step further by drafting legislation to outlaw attempts to deny that genocide and make false assertions about residential schools.
“Denying genocide is a form of hate speech,” said Gazan, who represents the riding of Winnipeg Centre.
“That kind of speech is violent and re-traumatizes those who attended residential school.”
Gazan’s proposal is causing controversy, even among those who want the facts about residential schools widely known. But the Office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said he would be interested in reviewing the proposed legislation.
“Residential school denialism attempts to hide the horrors that took place in these institutions,” Miller’s office told CBC News.
“It seeks to deny survivors and their families the truth, and distorts Canadians’ understanding of our shared history.”
‘People are responding … with fear’
More than 130 residential schools operated across the country from roughly 1883 until 1997. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission found the federal government created them for the purpose of separating Indigenous children from their families and indoctrinating them into the culture of the dominant Euro-Christian Canadian society. The goal, said the commission, was to weaken Indigenous family ties and cultural linkages.
The commission said that many children at the schools were subjected to physical and sexual abuse. It described conditions at the schools as “institutionalized child neglect.”
- Why Canada’s plan to criminalize Holocaust denial could be unconstitutional — and redundant
- OpinionFighting ‘denialists’ for the truth about unmarked graves and residential schooling
Michelle Good, author of the upcoming book Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada, said she believes denialism is rooted in Canada’s shifting power dynamics.
“Indigenous people are experiencing a very important renaissance, a resurgence,” Good said.
“As we are returning to our strength as nations, as peoples, people are responding, I think, with fear.”
Good, who also wrote the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award-winning novel Five Little Indians, said declaring denialism hate speech would send a powerful message that the era of oppression and racism is over.
“My mother watched her friend Lily haemorrhage to death from tuberculosis at the Onion Lake Residential School,” said Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation, 153 km northwest of Saskatoon.
“To have people respond to our lived experience as though it never happened is devastating, and our country should be beyond that at this point.”
Busting myths
Crystal Gail Fraser, a Gwichyà Gwich’in assistant professor of history and Native Studies at the University of Alberta, said she would welcome the opportunity to engage in fair dialogue with denialists.
She said she receives messages every week from people arguing that residential schools were established with good intentions, or that Indigenous communities are concocting claims about unmarked graves. Some of these messages, she said, come from missionaries working overseas.
“For people who do this as a part of their jobs, their professional lives, that is very disturbing,” Fraser said.
“How is it that we can better educate everyday Canadians so we don’t have to be at the point where we’re directing efforts to bust more myths about Indigenous peoples in Canada, and we can really redirect and return our attention to the truth and reconciliation part?”
Kisha Supernant, director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta, said she received an email challenging her own family history after she identified 169 potential graves through ground-penetrating radar in March 2022 at the former Grouard Indian Residential School in northern Alberta.
Supernant, who is Métis, also shared messages with CBC from people threatening to dig up suspected burial sites.
“I’m already dealing with the emotional toil of spending my time walking over potential graves of children who went missing, and then for that to be called into question makes the work a lot more challenging,” she said.
Supernant said expanding hate speech law to cover residential school denialism is an idea that should be explored but she doesn’t think it will silence the “denialists.”
“If nations decide to exhume, which some may, and they do find the bodies of children, they will still not be enough for denialists,” she said.
“They’ll still find ways to excuse it. Because it’s not actually about the facts.”
‘This is totalitarianism’
Some academics have experienced consequences over their stances and statements on residential schools.
Frances Widdowson was fired last year as a professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, in part for her criticism of what she called “dominant residential school narratives.”
A speech she planned to give at the University of Lethbridge last month was also cancelled after students protested.
She said using hate speech laws to criminalize some opinions and views on residential schools would cross a dangerous line.
“This is totalitarianism,” Widdowson said.
Unlike the House of Commons, Widdowson doesn’t believe the institutions were genocidal. She gained notoriety for saying the institutions gave Indigenous children an education that “normally they wouldn’t have received.”
But Widdowson said she’s not a “denialist.”
She said she acknowledges residential schools caused harm and children died, but takes issue with the reports of possible unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site in B.C., which she said caused “hysteria.”
“The only way that you are going to determine whether in fact there are burials there is to do excavations on that site,” Widdowson said.
“I’m completely, you know, open to the fact that I could be misguided and wrong. But the answer to that is not to make what I’m saying illegal, which is ridiculous.”
Countering ‘denialism’ with education
Richard Moon, a law professor at the University of Windsor who specializes in freedom of expression, said any law targeting residential school denialism would invite a Charter of Rights challenge.
“We want to be very careful about regulating claims about historical events — even if we think those claims are misguided, ignorant or hurtful,” he said.
“The Supreme Court has said only a very narrow category of extreme speech is caught by hate speech laws, and that’s all they should catch in order to reconcile the regulation of hate speech with our commitment to freedom of expression under the charter.”
Eldon Yellowhorn, professor and Indigenous Studies department chair at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., said he knows that many sceptics are demanding that suspected unmarked graves be dug up for proof.
He said that’s controversial because it crosses many taboos about the treatment of the dead in Indigenous cultures.
“People like myself are working hard on finding a resolution to this and to making the evidence stronger so that we can be more confident in the statements that we make,” said Yellowhorn, who is from the Piikani Nation, 200 km south of Calgary.
“You can’t legislate stupidity away.”
Sean Carleton, an assistant professor in the departments of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba, said he doesn’t think hate speech legislation would be the best approach either.
“It takes the responsibility out of Canadians’ hands to challenge the people in their lives,” Carleton said.
“It risks … giving denialists more of a platform to say, you know, look at the heavy-handed approach of the government. What do they not want us, Canadians, to really understand?”
Carleton said his preference is for governments, churches, schools and community associations to counter lies and misinformation about residential schools with education.
“We need to get to that point where denialism is seen as people who deny gravity or say the earth is flat,” he said.
Prof. Frances Widdowson – Latest Victim of Campus Cancel Culture. Lecture Cancelled Because Her Questioning Residential Schools Narrative Offends the University
BREAKING: The Department of Indigenous Studies and others vehemently condemn Frances Widdowson
Hymie RubensteinJan 27
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A scheduled February 1, 2023 lecture at the University of Lethbridge (U of L) by Dr. Frances Widdowson whose unfair dismissal in December 2021 from her tenured position at Calgary’s Mount Royal University [MRU] has been reported on several times in this newsletter, including in the piece below, has created a firestorm of controversy.The REAL Indigenous Issues NewsletterFighting Back Against Big Brother’s LoveAs most active readers know, Frances Widdowson is a former professor of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University unfairly fired by the university in December 2021 for daring to be a vocal advocate for academic freedom and free speech…Read morea month ago · 10 likes · 2 comments
Hundreds of people have digitally signed a petition on Change.org seeking to have the event cancelled. The petition states:
Her presence on campus not only denigrates the status of the University by giving space to a speaker who promotes historical falsities and racial bigotry, but endangers students’ well-being and safety.
The petition has attracted the attention of U of L President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Mike Mahon, who issued the following statement:
The University of Lethbridge has become aware of a guest speaker, invited by one of our faculty members, whose views are in conflict with a number of the values held by the University — including the University’s stated commitment to the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. We strongly disagree with assertions that seek to minimize the significant and detrimental impact of Canada’s residential school system. I have heard from many students, faculty and staff who have expressed their disappointment that this event is taking place. It is encouraging that a concurrent evidence-based counter-lecture has also been organized, and that the vast majority of our community finds these views abhorrent.
The U of L Statement on Free Expression states that its “mandate affirms its commitment to protect free inquiry and scholarship, facilitate access to scholarly resources, and support artistic expression and free and open scholarly discussion of issues.
Mahon also said that debate or deliberation on campus “may not be suppressed because the ideas put forward are thought by some, or even more, to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or misguided.”
This largely virtue-signaling reply that nevertheless upholds academic freedom and constitutionally protected speech did not satisfy the U of L’s indigenous studies department which just issued the following statement full of distortions and other errors as shown by my annotated comments in UPPER CASE BOLD.
The Department of Indigenous Studies vehemently condemns the anti-Indigenous rhetoric routinely disseminated by former MRU professor Frances Widdowson and deplores the fact that she is being given a platform to legitimize that discourse on our campus. [ANTI-INDIGENOUS RHETORIC IS ANYTHING THAT REMOTELY CHALLENGES THE RHETORICALLY FALACIOUS MAINSTREAM NARRATIVE] Widdowson has left us in no doubt as to her positions; she has regularly espoused these views through published articles, public speaking, broadcast podcasts, and other public forums. She specifically denounces the TRC’s classification of the Residential School system as genocide and disputes the veracity of the unmarked graves of Indigenous children found at the sites of multiple former Residential School sites. [GENOCIDE? THERE IS NOT SINGLE VERIFIED EXAMPLE OF A CHILD MURDERED BY A STAFF MEMBER AT ANY RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL; NO “UNMARKED GRAVES” HAVE BEEN LOCATED OUTSIDE THOSE IN KNOWN INDIGENOUS RESERVE GRAVEYARDS. NONE.]
The facts of the Residential School system and the experiences of Indigenous children within that system were rigorously established through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. [THE WORK OF THE TRC AND THE QUESTIONING OF THE INDIGENOUS “SURVIVORS” WAS THE FURTHEST THING FROM “RIGOROUS.”]
- At least 150,000 Indigenous children across multiple generations were removed from their families and communities. [MOST OF THESE STUDENTS VOLUNTARILY ATTENDED THE SCHOOLS.]
- They were processed through an alien education system that was designed to forcibly remove all vestiges of their original identities, cultures, and languages. [THIS IS A GROSS DISTORTION EVEN OF WHAT IS CONTAINED IN THE TRC REPORTS AND BY THE VOLUMINOUS MATERIAL ON THIS BRAND NEW SITE: https://indianresidentialschoolrecords.com/.
- These policies, which are a matter of historical record within Canada, clearly meet the United Nations definition of genocide, as listed in Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. [NOTHING COULD BE LESS CLEAR BECAUSE THE IRS AND OTHER INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCES SATISFY NOT A SINGLE ELEMENT OF ARTICLE II:“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
A protest organized by the U of L Student Action Assembly is scheduled to be held at the university’s Anderson Hall building beginning at 4:00 p.m. on February 1, 2023, prior to the start of Widdowson’s speech at 4:30 p.m.
Don’t be surprised if the ferocity of this protest results in the cancellation of Dr. Widdowson’s address.
At the same time that Widdowson will give her speech at the U of L, Dr. Sean Carleton, a self-declared “settler” on indigenous soil, and assistant professor of history and native studies at the University of Manitoba will deliver a virtual presentation, titled, “Truth before Reconciliation: How to Identify and Confront Residential School Denialism.”
CAFE Joins 1,000 Freedom Fighters from Across Ontario for Reunite Ontario Rally in Queen’s Park
CAFE Joins 1,000 Freedom Fighters from Across Ontario for Reunite Ontario Rally in Queen’s Park
The Canadian Association for Free Expression was delighted to participate in the Reunite Ontario Freedom Rally in Queen’s Park. Our dozen associate3s added to the crowd of 1,000. Great speakers.
Freedom Rallies in the Okanaga, February 18-19 — Kelowna, Kamloops, Vernon, Penticton, OK Falls, Oliver
Please forward
Rally’s and Events
“It Ain’t Over”
Where have all the men gone?
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato
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Our next protest/rally is set for:
February 18, 2023
CLEAR once again is honoured to be with Ocean2Ocean and to promote our MEGA Rally and downtown march for freedom
12:00 Stuart Park, Kelowna
Speakers:
Ed Kallio Billboards4Truth
Dave Shearer The One-Eyed Budgie – Keremeos
Andrea Henders Former KGH Nurse
David Lindsay Legal Updates
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Leaders in Dialogue – Stand up for the Kids
February 21, 2023
Mary Irwin Theatre 421 Cawston Avenue, Kelowna
Join us as we talk about important issues regarding the health and well-being of our children.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/leaders-in-dialogue-stand-up-for-the-kids-tickets-529813565637
One week away, get your tickets ASAP.
Purchase your tickets on or before Friday, Feb 17th for a 50% discount with the promo code UNITY50
After Feb 17th use promo code UNITY for a $10 discount.
Leaders in Dialogue is Co-hosted by former medical rep Lindsay Gabelhouse and former Global Vancouver newscast director Anita Krishna, this talk will cover important issues about the kids and how we can better serve and protect them. Have you heard about the Infants Act and Mature Minor Consent? Are you concerned about what’s being taught in our schools? Have you ever felt like the media only gives one side of the story or that the government is lying to us?
Guest speakers include Tanya Gaw, from Action 4 Canada, Sean Taylor, a former ER nurse (including pediatric) and military vet, and Dr Robert Johnson, a practicing dentist in BC. This talk will include a few short presentations, some lively discussions about what’s happening in our schools and public health system, plus plenty of time for audience Q and A. Special performances by Mitch Murphy (aka The Red Pill Rapper) and his awesome wife, Hailey.
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Finally!!!!
For those who have wanted to see Canada’s foremost intellectual against the radical Socialist left wingers, your opportunity is here.
Jordan will appear here to promote his 12 More Rules for Life Tour.
Kelowna
May 26, 2023
Front row tickets are about $125 going to $45 in the bleachers
$422 for meet and greet
Tickets go on sale at Prospera Place (1223 Water St.), or online on Friday, February 17, 2023, 10:00 a.m.
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Here are some of our Yukon supporters when Trudeau appeared this week in Whitehorse!!
https://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/trudeau-visits-city-for-several-events
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Guidelines for Peaceful Protesting/Gathering/Rallies and/or Attending Events (eg. Council Meetings, School Boards, Handing out Flyers)
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Brian Peckford 2023-02-14
“Canada-No Bargain At All-Canada’s Health Deal —The Federal Government Out Manoeuvred The Provinces — What Happened To Provincial Rights —That’s When The Rubber Hits The Road!
Walk in the park —the Feds never worked up a sweat!
Forgone conclusion!
As I keep saying—-how many ‘have not ‘Provinces are there drooling for more money? Five, for sure, and look at Canada’s California, near bankrupt Ontario, and they sure are not getting all excited about Provincial jurisdiction —they are getting $23 billion in health transfers just this year. And stumbling Newfoundland and Labrador are doing all sorts of deals with the Feds to emasculate oil and gas rights offshore which had been dully negotiated in the Province’s favour.
Just oil and gas —revenues—Provinces want —-
Health expenditures — another matter Provinces not so eager
That’ s the problem Premier Smith now has —she was alone and had no choice but to accept —-and she knew it. Saskatchewan on side now and then.
BNA Act —Section 91 (7) Exclusive Provincial jurisdiction over health
BNA Act —Section 92(A) Exclusive Provincial Jurisdiction over non-renewable natural resources.
But as I keep informing anyone who will truly listen, and as Professor Savoie points out in his book ‘Democracy In Canada , The Disintegration Of Our Institutions, ‘ we have not adjusted our bargain of 1867 and are now captured by an encroaching Federal entity aided and abetted by the traditional centre—Upper and Lower Canada, Ontario and Quebec and a bunch of have not Provinces , more eager in taking the money from the Feds than get blamed by having to raise revenues and spend like they should.
And in changing the Constitution—-same thing——too many Provinces in the Federal Corner ( you need 7 Provinces , 50% of the population to change the Constitution) Alberta is cornered —taking Federal health money that’s really provincial jurisdiction, But hollering to keep all non-renewal royalties because it is provincial ——-and captured by inter provincial transmission which is Federal —Newfoundland and Labrador , its hydro power and the western Provinces, especially Alberta, their oil and gas.
And the Peoples Party of Canada speaks to this, giving more power to the Provinces through tax points—-but now you know why it does not gain the traction you would think it should. The 30 pieces of silver is easier and the blame is shared.
That’s why The Constitution Act of 1982 is so important. The Federal Government was put in its place in the September 1981 Supreme Court of Canada decision declaring federal unilateral moves to change the Constitution —-UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
Guess what ———the back doors opened wide with the Canada Health Act and other Social Transfers, an activist Court system that began legislating not interpreting——a living tree theory of the Constitution not what was written and its clear intent, and a total fabrication of how the Constitution Act 1982 came together in the first place and presto ——
A made for measure fabricated Pandemic comes along —
And as they say the rest is history —-
The Federal nature of our country is now, no bargain at all.”
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NOTE: I have said for decades the Feds have no power into exclusive Provincial jurisdiction in s. 92 of the BNA Act or Constitution Act 1982, starting with the Income Tax Act 1948. This division of powers is the fundamental basis for my Constitutional Challenge as well to the RCMP. Policing is exclusively Provincial – what does “exclusive” mean to you?
The Provinces are wimps – they rarely challenge the Feds simply b/c they want the money – Constitutional prohibitions mean nothing when they are offered finances to turn a blind eye to the Fed’s unconstitutional legislation.
As part of the new agreement between the Provinces and the Feds, the Provinces must agree with the Federal Canada Health Act, which in pith and substance, is exclusively Provincial.
The transfer comes with very few conditions, though provinces do have to abide by the principles of the Canada Health Act. That means Ottawa can, and has, clawed back funding if the provinces charge patients for health services that are supposed be funded by the public purse.
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Sunday
Paper
Deliveries
Next delivery day: Feb. 19/23
(Weather Permitting)
| Add your name to the delivery list and make sure to check your email on Sunday mornings for confirmation that our paper delivery will take place that day |
Pick the time that works for you:
Make sure you arrive before the designated time so we can all get going ASAP!
Every Sunday at 11:30 am
- Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards except for the odd snowman.
- We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
- Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
- Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
- You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
- We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
- Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenants
3 Simple Things Freedom Activists can do to WIN this War:
- Spread the Word by delivering papers and flyers everywhere:
Knowledge is power!
2. Replace your cell phone with a flip phone:
Think of your apps as TRAPS!
3. Use CASH:
Hand out the “Use cash cards” and “pay cash” business posters
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REMINDER
New Credit Card Fees & Lack of Privacy
The dangers of digital gov’t ID and currencies are here… you need to use cash.
Withdraw money on Sunday from the bank machine, and then leave your money at home if you are scared to carry it with you, and just carry the amounts of cash for each day’s purchases for the week.
NO MORE CARDS!!!! NO EXCUSES!
USE CASH $$$$$$$$$
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Contact Unity Health & Sciences Team to volunteer to distribute their professional brochures and Medical Doctor Packages throughout your home area, and to your medical doctor!
Not every doctor, analyst, and specialist is on the gov’t side and many have strong science and personal experiences opposing the gov’t narrative.
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New signs???
Even though COVID-19 restrictions are, for the most part, no longer in effect, other freedom issues have arisen as gov’ts use the cover of COVID-19 to introduce other more formidable liberty restrictions, including privacy violations.
Freedom is a multi-generational struggle – our legacy is to leave a better place for our children, not simply to quit after an issue appears to be over and anger diminishes; and of course, it rarely is truly over.
We urge you to provide designs (clear2012@pm.me) and/or your own signs for upcoming threats, including Digital ID
Digital currency and no cash
Climate change fraud
Further health, property, rights and freedoms restrictions
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Ed Kallio
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CLEARBITS:
In a clear response to those politicians who continue to claim that we are one of the best countries in the world to live, a recent poll shows that the majority of Canadians agree that our country is “broken”. The real question is how can it be repaired?? Answer: return to our fundamental starting point – the principle enshrined in our Coronation Oath of the Monarch.
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On a most alarming issue, now the Church of England is contemplating a gender-neutral God. Will the Church next claim that Christ was a transexual or some other perversion? The perversion of our governments in only a matter of years, has been sickening, surpassed only by the number of parents and citizens who continue to do nothing to stop them.
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After resolutely promising no agreement with Trudeau that would involve digital ID, both Sask. and Alta. have now signed on board with the Feds for more health care monies. Details have yet to be fully released, however it appears that they both now have lied to the people and reneged on their word.
Listen to Smith:
I agree and stand firmly with @PremierScottMoe in protecting Albertans’ private health information. I will ensure that any agreements with the Federal Government do NOT include the sharing of any such personal information with the Feds or third party.
Compare that with the terms of the agreement:
To access the enhanced CHT, provinces must first commit to improving how health data is “collected, shared, used and reported to Canadians to promote greater transparency on results, and to help manage public health emergencies,” the government said in a background document supplied to reporters.
This is what the Feds expect of the Provinces:
Among the metrics the federal government says it will be looking at to assess whether tangible progress comes from the bilateral funding arrangements are:
- The net new family physicians, nurses, and nurse practitioners in each province and territory;
- The percentage of Canadians who have access to a family health team or family doctor;
- The size of the COVID-19 surgery backlog;
- The median wait times for community mental health and substance abuse services; and
- The percentage of Canadians who can access their health records electronically.
As a condition of this agreement, the Provinces will have to agree to develop and increase digital access. Reading between the lines, this means digital ID.
And look what Trudeau said if you refuse to be vaccinated – you can’t travel. Once digital ID is in place, you won’t be traveling without the Gov’t telling you what you can do to your body.
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Newfoundland is now forging ahead with digital ID this year.
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Over 1000 New Brunswickers report adverse effects to the COVID-19 vaccine, with over 300 considered “serious”. These are undoubtedly unreported as many people seem unable to link the vaccine to the injury or death.
New Brunswick has a population of only 812 061 in 2022, having .06% with adverse effects, or 6/10 000.
Here in B.C., our population is 5 368 266 million, with 14 199 479 vaccine doses administered. Assuming this same ratio, we would have here in BC, 8 519 adverse effects (just reported ones), and 2 555 “serious” reactions.
These are NOT insignificant numbers, nor does this show that these vaccines are safe. Is this a risk you are willing to take? Especially if it was YOUR family member – or YOU!
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Sweden now throws out 8.5 million COVID vaccine shots!!
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/throwing-away-doses?r=1tie6v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Nearly 40% of Canadians are borrowing money to cover daily expenses!!!
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Edmonton and Ottawa are eerily close to implementing this complete restriction on our liberties with their 15 min cities.
A pilot project in Oxford, England, has become the poster child for the idea. Oxford introduced three low-traffic districts in 2022 and will implement another six in 2024 to blanket the city, with the goal of “targeting unnecessary journeys by cars.” The use of traffic “filters” will also begin in 2024, which involve cameras that monitor vehicles driving through roads with time restrictions and facilitate the charging of fines for violations.
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Including our own media
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Freedom Rallies
“It ain’t over till it’s over”
Next Kelowna Rally:
Saturday,
February 18, 2023
12:00 pm Stuart Park
CLEAR once again is honoured to be with Ocean2Ocean and to promote our MEGA Rally and downtown March for Freedom
12:00 Stuart Park, Kelowna
Speakers:
Ed Kallio Billboards4Truth
Dave Shearer The One-Eyed Budgie – Keremeos
Andrea Henders Former KGH Nurse
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February 18, 2023 12:00 noon
Vernon Freedom Rally
12:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. @ Polson Park
Join Darren for the Largest rally in the North Okanagan, and growing weekly!
North Okanagan Shuswap
Freedom Radio
http://s1.voscast.com:11464/stream
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February 18, 2023 11:30 a.m.
OK Falls Freedom
Rally
11:30 a.m. Across from Esso Station
Join the OK Falls freedom activists continuing their local Freedom Rallies!
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February 18, 2023 12:30 pm
Oliver Freedom Rally
12:30 p.m. Town Hall
Join the Oliver freedom activists who are continuing their local Freedom Rallies!
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February 18, 2023 11:00 a.m.
Osoyoos Freedom Gathering
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Town Hall
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Kamloops Freedom
Gathering
February 18, 2023 10:00 – 12:00 Noon
Valleyview Centennial Park
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Penticton Freedom
Rally
February 19, 2023 1:00 p.m. Warren & Main St. in N.E. lot
Join Mary Lou for the largest rally in the South Okanagan, and growing weekly!
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Geoengineering Free
Canada
There’s Big Money in Fighting Racism & Curbing Free Speech
There’s Big Money in Fighting Racism & Curbing Free Speech
Egyptian-born, hijab wearing Amira Elghawaby is Canada’s newly minted Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia. The job comes with a $6.5-million budget — no word on how much the highly critical Elghawaby will pocket. She’s no friend of free speech. She’s been a board member of the anti-free speech Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) — that’s Bernie Farber and Richard Warman, both decades-long advocates of state censorship of speech. She currently works for the Muslim Association of Canada and the National Council of Canadian Muslims. She worked in communications with the taxpayer-funded Canadian Race Relations Foundation. She’s a shrill critic of this country. Terry Glavin in the National Post (February 1, 2023) reports: “As an activist and frequent opinion-pages contributor, Elghawaby has adopted all the respectable standpoints with just the right degree of transgressive élan, rarely too strident or too squishy. She called for removing the Queen as Canada’s head of state and dismissed Canada Day as a festival of ‘Judeo-Christian storytelling.’ She’s been gushing in her praise for Trudeau and backs the Trudeau government’s extremely contentious moves to regulate commentary on the Internet. She’s argued in favour of Muslim prayer rooms in schools [of course, Christian prayers are banned in most public schools], and once blasted the former Conservative government of Stephen Harper as having done more harm to the image of Canadian Muslims than al-Qaida’s atrocities in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.” As she doesn’t like the Queen and believes Canada Day was concocted by Jews and Christians, one wonders why she doesn’t return to Egypt. She quickly ran into a firestorm of protest from across the political spectrum in Quebec for remarks suggesting that Quebec nationalists are Islamophobes. Interestingly, her appointment was endorsed by the loudly anti-free speech Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
The appointment is a shameless attempt for curry favour with the Moslem vote. What is Islamophobia? Literally, it is a fear of Moslems or the Islamic religion. Many people may have good reason to fear radical Islam or the religion itself which has often been a religion of conquest. Does the government have any role in telling people what to think or feel? Certainly not in a country that values freedom. Islamophobia like “anti-Semitism” — yes we have a Special Representative (the well-connected Irwin Cotler) to combat that too –is a vague term and all too often means any criticism of Moslems or Islam.
If any group needs a special representative, it is Christians. Not only is there barely disguised disdain and hostility from many Canadian governments to Christianity, but 2021 saw a cross-Canada terrorist campaign of arson and vandalism of Christian churches. Writing for True North (August 21, 2021) Cosmin Dzsurdza reported: “Sixty-eight Christian churches in Canada have been vandalized, burned down or desecrated since the announcement last month of the apparent discovery of graves found near a residential school in Kamloops, BC. Since then, three other first nations have announced similar findings of burial sites located near former residential schools. In response to these announcements, far-left radicals have used this opportunity as an excuse to terrorize Catholic and other Christian communities by targeting churches. Twenty-five churches across the country have been lit on fire in the past two months, many of them have been completely destroyed.” Far from appointing a special representative to combat Christophobia, Trudeau said that, while he didn’t support arson and vandalism, he could understand it.
There she is, second from the left, beside the monumentally incompetent fellow Moslem Ahmed Hussen, ex-immigration minister who presided over the Roxham Road invasion, and now is Minister of Housing, Inclusion & Diversity; beside him iis Omar Alghabra, the Saudi Moslem and witless
Transportation Minister who blamed Canadian travellers last summer for airport delays, saying
had forgotten how to unpack their laptops for screening.
We remember the Massacre of Dresden
Society of East-German Heritage
Ostdeutscher Kulturverband
We remember the Massacre of Dresden
Dear Friends,
what was written last year will also have to suffice this year. The organizer of the past 20 years of Dresden Commemorations is feeling his age, having just turned 90 and missing his former energy. The remembrance will therefore be only found in the internet. Please accept the repetition of last year’s letter. Yes, there are all kinds of reminders of ‘‘man’s inhumanity to man’’ repeated time and again by our media, often going back as far as our own history but never about what happened to us. Thus the accompanying video, Blitz on Dresden, should remind us again of just one instance of what occurred, namely of those fateful days between February 13th and 15th of the year 1945 in Dresden. The film is surprisingly free from propaganda and a true documentary. It not only shows the bombardment of Dresden but also that of Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin. There are also interviews of survivors and participants in those events.
As stated before, we are not only remembering the fate of Dresden but also that of countless other German cities during World War II. And here are some facts: There was an agreement between European nations in 1907 in Den Hague which demanded that in war times civilian populations should be protected. This agreement was shamefully disregarded by those who thought that the mass murder of civilians could bring an early end to the war. In the 54-minute documentary we are told by a German witness that it was the Germans who started the bombing terror. Against this stands the statement of the undersecretary of the British air force, J. M. Spaight who said that “we started this type of warfare before Germany thought to do it against England”. And indeed, the first British air attack was directed against the cities of Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven on September 5th, 1939 while the first German counter measure on London took place on September 7, 1940. Winston Churchill decided on the bombardment of German cities the day after he became the British premier, which was on May 11th 1940. On the 12th of May bombs were dropped on civilian living quarters of Mönchengladbach and Aachen. It continued with Düsseldorf on May 13th, with Eschweiler, on May 15th Hamburg, on May 16th... On the 24th of June 1940 Berlin saw its first bombardment.
The accompanying movie starts with the unveiling in London of the statue of Arthur Harris, the chief of “Bomber Command” by the Queen mother, in May of 1994. It is surprising to see British people demonstrating against this ceremony with signs like “People of Dresden forgive us”. Of interest should also be the statement at the beginning of the movie that speaks of 600,000 victims. Well, it echoes Churchill’s pronouncement that he wants to “baste” the 600,000 refugees that had crowded into Dresden from the East, fleeing the advancement of the Soviet army. That number of Dresden victims has shown up in various publications but was gradually reduced – until on February 13th of 2014 it was determined by a German historical commission that the number of victims was only 25,000. This naturally has upset German survivors. It is considered a strange phenomenon that the German government tends to diminish the number of German victims but showing great empathy with those in the rest of the world. What is most disturbing for us, that have witnessed horrible atrocities committed against our people and those that have been expelled from our ancestral homeland of East Germany, is the fact, that young people in Dresden have displayed signs with the words “Do it again Bomber Harris” and have organized “Antifa” groups to shout down those who try to commemorate the Dresden atrocity peacefully.
An interview is also documented with Group Captain Ken Bachelor, a member of Arthur Harris’ “Bomber Command”. He explains that it was due to his efforts that the statue was erected. He says that the bombing of the civilians was justified in order “to free the Germans from the Nazi-Regime”. The truth is, however, that it strengthened the people’s resolve to carry on with the war. He also states that Hitler had said that he wanted to kill 20million people, at 10,000 a day. However, there is absolutely no truth to this and it is not recorded in any book on World War II.
The film finally shows the efforts of the people of Dresden to rebuild their city that had been called “the Florence on the river Elbe”, the crowning achievement of which was the resurrection of the “Church of our Lady”, the “Frauenkirche”. The controversy continues: Was the firebombing of Dresden a crime against humanity? We certainly think so.
Christian Jürgen Klein
Come & Pack the Court Tomorrow in Kelowna & Support Freedom Fighter Dave Lindsay
Please forward
Rally’s and Events
Hi everyone. Just a reminder, that I am in the Provincial Court, 1355 Water St. in Kelowna, just down the street from Stuart Park, at 9:30 am. Many of you are aware of the falsified assault charge that was laid against me during our protest at the Interior Health building in Kelowna, and set for trial on March 1, 2 at this same courthouse. In response, I filed a Notice of Constitutional Challenge that the RCMP Act is of no force and effect as policing is Constitutionally an exclusive Provincial power under s. 92 of the Constitution Act (aka BNA Act 1867), not Federal.
The Crown has placed my Constitutional Challenge on the docket for this day to seek judicial directions on how we are to proceed.
Please come and pack the courtroom with supporters and for people who truly would love to get rid of the RCMP in BC.
Friday, Feb. 10, 2023 9:30 Kelowna Courthouse The room number will be posted inside the courthouse.
This will not be a long hearing, but an important one to determine how this Challenge will proceed to be heard and ruled upon.
I, Tanya Gaw, Action4Canada, have an announcement that I hope will bring health care professionals in BC some much needed encouragement… I had to wait for Rocco to give me the thumbs up to announce it … we will be including Bill 36 in our amended Notice of Civil Claim when we file it in the very near future.
That means it will be part of our constitutional challenge against the BC government.
This is a very important and critical action against the BC government’s unlawful passing of this Bill that violates guaranteed protected constitutional rights of citizens
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LEGAL VICTORY: New Brunswick pastors win again in battling COVID lockdown tyranny!
We are thrilled to announce that two New Brunswick pastors have defeated a government motion to put them into contempt of court for holding church services in a commercial tent during COVID-19 lockdowns that banned indoor public gatherings.
In the fall of 2021, Pastors Phillip Hutchings and Cody Butler were bound by a court order requiring them to make “all reasonable efforts” to comply with mandatory health orders, including the order banning indoor public gatherings.
With your help, we retained Jonathan Martin to defend the pastors.
After hearing the legal argument from Martin, the court concluded that it could not “clearly and unequivocally” conclude that the commercial tent met the definition of a public indoor space as described in the mandatory order.
Nor could Chief Justice Tracey K. DeWare, who heard the contempt motion, conclude that the pastors knew they were breaching the mandatory health orders.
According to the Chief Justice, an “alternative and reasonable point of view can be that the Respondents moved their church services to the commercial tent in an attempt to avoid the restrictions on ‘public indoor space’ and therefore avoid breaching the Mandatory Order.”
As you may know, Phillip Hutchings and Cody Butler are no strangers to legal proceedings.
They previously persuaded the New Brunswick Court of Appeal that a contempt finding against them should be vacated for reasonable apprehension of bias.
More recently, charges of obstruction and disobeying health orders were dropped against the pastors in November 2022 after they filed a constitutional application challenging the legality of the health orders.
You can click here to read our official news release and a copy of the court decision.
Thank you for your support,
The Democracy Fund
Catholic School Suspends Teen For Stating God Created Two Genders And Protesting Against Transgender Students Using Girls’ Bathrooms
Catholic School Suspends Teen For Stating God Created Two Genders And Protesting Against Transgender Students Using Girls’ Bathrooms
Western societies today, telling the truth regarding human biology can have detrimental consequences. A so-called Catholic School suspended a conservative Canadian teenager named Josh Alexander for the remainder of the school year because he refused to abandon his correct beliefs on gender and for standing up for girls uncomfortable with biological males in their restrooms.
No one should be surprised this happened in Canada, either. The country is led by a globalist authoritarian who has declared war on both people of faith and conservatives.
Alexander, 16, was first suspended back in November by St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario after organizing a demonstration against transgender students using girls’ restrooms. He said he launched the protest because two girls expressed their discomfort to him over biological males in their washrooms.
Alexander made clear to school officials he had no intention of starting conflicts with transgender students but simply wanted the freedom to express his views. The school, however, rendered their final judgment that Alexander’s mere attendance on school campus would damage the “well-being” of transgender students.
The school refused to consider the well-being of female students forced to share bathrooms with boys.
Here is the story from The Epoch Times:
Josh Alexander, 16, is not allowed to attend school for the rest of the year after saying he would continue to express his belief that God created only two genders. The school told him his presence would be “detrimental to the physical and mental well-being” of transgender students, Alexander told The Epoch Times.
He told St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, he would not intentionally engage or start conflicts with transgender students, but he would continue to express his belief. He and his lawyer are bringing this matter to an Ontario human rights tribunal, calling it religious discrimination.
“Offence is obviously defined by the offended. I expressed my religious beliefs in class and it spiraled out of control,” Alexander said. “Not everybody’s going to like that. That doesn’t make me a bully. It doesn’t mean I’m harassing anybody. They express their beliefs and I express mine. Mine obviously don’t fit the narrative.”
He hasn’t attended school since November, when he was first suspended. He had organized a protest against transgender students using the girls’ washrooms. Alexander said he launched the demonstration after two girls at his school confided in him that they were uncomfortable sharing bathrooms with biological males.
He had also said in class discussions that there are only two, immutable genders.
When his suspension was lifted the beginning of January, he was instead “excluded” by the principal, which has the same effect as suspension but is considered non-disciplinary. He was told this week that he will be excluded for the rest of the school year, and he’s not sure if that will end up extending into the next school year as well.
Alexander’s lawyer, James Kitchen, told The Epoch Times the school has characterized Alexander’s actions as “bullying.”
