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Victoria World Wide Rally Report by Gordon Watson

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On Feb. 25th our usual anti-vaxx  EVENT was swamped by the Save-our-Ancient-Forests demo.  A crowd of 3000 marched along Douglas street to the Legislature.,  in a festival mood, bearing lots of witty signs and costumes.    Led by Indians in full-on regalia,  drumming and yowling and singing in their language.    The parade paused at the main intersection for the de rigeur communist chant of   “So So So Solidarity!”   Cops everywhere NOT wearing their hats.  Polite and orderly,  so Canadian.  Half a lifetime ago, I cut over a million board feet of lumber with my toy sawmill.  So –  jaded old codger that I am re the forestry issue – it came off as a religious service to the gods of the aboriginals.


Rock’n’roll millionaire Neil Young made a cameo appearance. The guy who  once upon a time  was an icon of “anti-establishment-arian-ism’ now dictates that fans must prove they’ve submitted to the Quack-zzeeen in order to get in to his concert.   Yeah, you do have the trophy wife Mister Young,   but we’re the ones who are still out here  “rockin’ in the free world”.   Compared to whom your limosine liberal pals are poseurs. 

A guy my vintage,  there supporting the Old Growth bunch,  complained that they cannot get their message through to their MLAs.  Which means the New Democratic Party machine has lost touch with a key demographic of traditional supporters.     It’s all just show-biz … made for media puffery.   

Camp-followers show up once a year to watch the Indians uluate on cue for the cameras — always good for a color pic on the front page of the Timely Colonic.     But that’s not what we do … two and a half-years at it.    Our weekly presence keeps the issues visible in the faces of the Members of the Legislature. We engage real human beings out in the fresh air,  invaluable feedback from the electorate — something very rare among MLAs hiding out behind locked doors at constituency offices.  We are the nucleus around which His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is coalescing. Present tense.   And if that isn’t good enough for you,  send me better ideas.  I’ll arrange for you to speak at the next WWF Rally in May.

The previous Saturday was a World Wide Freedom Rally. As I arrived at 11:30 am, the rain was stopping.   By 1:00 pm, the sun was out. So, we were blessed with the mild maritime winter weather for which Victoria is famous.    Lots of faces we haven’t seen for a while.   About 500 warm bodies showed up.  200 standing on Belleville Street. 200 in the audience for the speakers.     The protocol office directed that the speakers were to set up on the East side of the drive instead of the steps right in front of the main door. Which worked out better because the crowd stood on dry pavement, rather than the sopping-wet lawn. 


      Suffice to say the speakers were excellent.    Doctor Stephen Malthus called bill 36 = the Health Occupations and Professions Act   =  “a mirage. If you don’t bow to it, it has no power”     I got a kick out of speaker Chris Vlek mentioning  “ the crack ”. and “I want to light a fire” figuratively.  Resonating Leonard Cohen’s verse = “there’s a crack in every thing. That’s how the light gets in”  I’ve been pondering ?  where is that fatal flaw in the power structure ? … so we can hammer-away at it, til the brittle toes of the idol,  fracture.  

         History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.  In all seriousness, America is in the state pamphleteer Samuel Adams found himself in 1776.  To the colonies on the Eastern seaboard he preached that he was “setting brushfires in the minds of men”.   And so are we.    Handing out 500+ copies of DRUTHERS Pandemic Papers and COMMON GROUND in a few hours gladdens my heart.

Shortly after noon on the 18th,  the Veterans came marching down Douglas Street to the Cenotaph with 100 more of our folks.    The provincial Parliament building is a zone of spiritual warfare. Our God, the God of Israel,  commands that when we go to in battle,  musicians and singers go first.   No mere co-incidence, then,  that Freedom Rallies across Canada are led by pipers as we congregate around the Cenotaphs in towns and cities. We are walking the walk, kilts an’ a’.   Witnessing at the gates of the City, proxies for millions of sympathizers.    

Thomas Dalyrymple put it


 “When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse,  
when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.

To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil and is some small way to become evil one-self.

One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed. 

A society of emasculated liars is easy to control” 

Lately I’m reading Power of the Powerless  by Vaclav Havel.  He lived through the disintegration of communism in Czechoslovakia.  It’s rich.  One takeaway is : when one finds himself under totalitarian-ism, the antidote at the personal level, is : doing the simplest thing that you know to be True.  No matter the scale. Showing up at Freedom Rallies is such a courageous act … fellowshipping with others who reject the Lie. 

Two years ago a guy costumed as the Grim Reaper showed up for a while at our superspreader GATHERINGS,  to mock us.  He’s conspicuous by his absence these days, as the toll of sudden deaths directly consequent from the Quack-zeeen, is UN-deniable.     Daily, information surfaces,  connecting the dots as to how the Crime of the Century was committed.   The layers of the onion are peeling-back so it is evident the whole SARS2Covid19 thing was concocted by the US A Department of Defence.     See the post on the website of Dr Henry Makow  

> RFK Jr :     138 Companies Involved in COVID Vaccine. “They’re all military contractors.”
RFK Jr. confirms the work of Sasha Latypova and Katherine Watt
          “Pfizer and Moderna don’t really own those vaxxines. They slap their labels on ’em but it was a Pentagon project.”
        This confirms the work of Sasha Latypova and Katherine Watt, who showed how the Pentagon’s Operation Warp Speed was able to completely circumvent Federal Health Regulations by using what’s called in bureaucratic-speak, an “Other Transaction Authority”, which they used to contract with the bioweapons manufacturers to literally produce the bioweapon.

This was discovered in Pfizer’s motion to dismiss Brook Jackson’s case, when they attached another contract called an Other Transaction Authority  – OTA contract – saying in effect, they had no obligation to conduct valid clinical trials because the only goods and services they were providing to the US government, according to this contract are a  “large scale manufacturing demonstration for a prototype”.
        Under the terms of the OTA, Pfizer may have had no obligation to conduct a valid clinical trial or to be in compliance with any of the regulations that govern clinical trials.     In other words, OTA did for the financial contracting side, what EUA did to the drug regulation side.
        In short, the fake “clinical trials” were a PSYOP to convince people to get the injections.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/rfk-jr-138-companies-involved-covid-vaccine-all-military-contractors/5809886

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Christian McCay put together a piece of performance Art in the form of a coffin decrying MAID *. At the end of the speakers,  it was then delivered  to the head office of the Ministry of Health.      The monsters in high places call it Death with Dignity, but God Almighty says    “All they who hate me, love death.”.

* medical assistance in dying.    Euthanasia came to Canada on little catfeet of euphemism.

At our protest there’s always a few drive-by cheap shots.  Outweighed by dozens of vigorous enthusiastic honks commending us.      And Paul responding with his trademark  FREEDOM !!   in his parade-square voice. You have to be there, beside him, to appreciate the decibel level this guy musters !!

One of the regular pricks in our flesh,   is,  a miserable  76-year-old man with the rictus grin of Alzeheimer’s, who makes a point of coming by weekly to bother women.  Last Saturday, I contained myself long enough for him to finish spewing his bile while Brenda  dished it back at him.  As he departed,  sputtering,  I sounded off  “we’re still here !!”

Gordon S Watson       Metchosin British Columbia       February 27th 2023 A. D

              Who or what is WWD and WWR , anyway?

World Wide Demonstration and World Wide Rally are two parts of a grassroots GLOBAL Unity For Freedom movement.   We started in Spring of 2021.   World Wide Demonstration (WWD), is the collective demonstration including all the grassroots rallies participating in as a World Wide Rally (WWR).    As this can get a bit confusing, I felt it best to share that information here to dispel any myths that there are two different organizations.

Founded by a lady in Germany, it soon became too large for any one person to manage.    So, a group of dedicated individuals from multiple countries took on the task to become a core team.    This team helps to navigate the world wide platform.    This group is run as a democratic team, and does its best to keep decisions as local as possible, and only step in when necessary.    There are five basic values that this group stands for:

  • Freedom of Speech
  • Freedom of Movement
  • Freedom of Choice
  • Freedom of Assembly
  • Freedom of Health

WWD/R seeks out giving a voice to the grassroots movements, refraining from including political, or celebrity voices. We feel it is important to make sure that the true grassroots movements are given a global platform.    Each rally is locally run, but must demonstrate and adhere to these principles in order to be included in the World Wide Demonstration.     I hope that this helps to clear up any misconceptions about the structure of WWD/R and brings confidence as to Victoria is chosen to be a host as an authentic grassroots movement.

Donations appreciated

Please either bring cash or send e-transfers to   WWRVictoria@protonmail.com    to reimburse me – ( Heather Kessler ) as I paid out of pocket ever since I had the honour of becoming chapter leader for the Victoria World Wide Freedom Rallies (since Sept/2021 )     Thank you
mailing address:  VanIsle Threads    501 Belleville St   Victoria  BC    V8V 2L8   Canada

On Feb. 25th our usual anti-vaxx  EVENT was swamped by the Save-our-Ancient-Forests demo.  A crowd of 3000 marched along Douglas street to the Leg.,  in a festival mood, bearing lots of witty signs and costumes.    Led by Indians in full-on regalia,  drumming and yowling and singing in their language.    The parade paused at the main intersection for the de rigeur communist chant of   “So So So Solidarity!”   Cops everywhere NOT wearing their hats.  Polite and orderly,  so Canadian.  Half a lifetime ago, I cut over a million board feet of lumber with my toy sawmill.  So –  jaded old codger that I am re the forestry issue – it came off as a religious service to the gods of the aboriginals.


Rock’n’roll millionaire Neil Young made a cameo appearance. The guy who  once upon a time  was an icon of “anti-establishment-arian-ism’ now dictates that fans must prove they’ve submitted to the Quack-zzeeen in order to get in to his concert.   Yeah, you do have the trophy wife Mister Young,   but we’re the ones who are still out here  “rockin’ in the free world”.   Compared to whom your limosine liberal pals are poseurs. 

A guy my vintage,  there supporting the Old Growth bunch,  complained that they cannot get their message through to their MLAs.  Which means the New Democratic Party machine has lost touch with a key demographic of traditional supporters.     It’s all just show-biz … made for media puffery.   

Camp-followers show up once a year to watch the Indians uluate on cue for the cameras … always good for a color pic on the front page of the Timely Colonic.     But that’s not what we do … two and a half-years at it.    Our weekly presence keeps the issues visible in the faces of the Members of the Legislature. We engage real human beings out in the fresh air,  invaluable feedback from the electorate … something very rare among MLAs hiding out behind locked doors at constituency offices.  We are the nucleus around which His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is co-alescing. Present tense.   And if that isn’t good enough for you,  send me better ideas.  I’ll arrange for you to speak at the next WWF Rally in May.

The previous Saturday was a World Wide Freedom Rally. As I arrived at 11:30 am, the rain was stopping.   By 1 pm, the sun was out, so we were blessed with the mild maritime winter weather for which Victoria is famous.    Lots of faces we haven’t seen for a while.   About 500 warm bodies showed up.  200 standing on Belleville Street. 200 in the audience for the speakers.     The protocol office directed that the speakers were to set up on the East side of the drive instead of the steps right in front of the main door. Which worked out better because the crowd stood on dry pavement, rather than the sopping-wet lawn. 
      Suffice to say > the speakers were excellent.    Doctor Stephen Malthus called bill 36 = the Health Occupations and Professions Act   =  “a mirage. If you don’t bow to it, it has no power”     I got a kick out of speaker Chris Vlek mentioning  “ the crack ”. and “I want to light a fire” figuratively.  Resonating Leonard Cohen’s verse = “there’s a crack in every thing. That’s how the light gets in”  I’ve been pondering ?  where is that fatal flaw in the power structure ? … so we can hammer-away at it, til the brittle toes of the idol,  fracture.  

         History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.  In all seriousness, America is in the state pamphleteer Samuel Adams found himself in 1776.  To the colonies on the Eastern seaboard he preached that he was “setting brushfires in the minds of men”.   And so are we.    Handing out 500+ copies of DRUTHERS Pandemic Papers and COMMON GROUND in a few hours gladdens my heart.

Shortly after noon on the 18th,  the Veterans came marching down Douglas Street to the Cenotaph with 100 more of our folks.    The provincial Parliament building is a zone of spiritual warfare. Our God, the God of Israel,  commands that when we go to in battle,  musicians and singers go first.   No mere co-incidence, then,  that Freedom Rallies across Canada are led by pipers as we congregate around the Cenotaphs in towns and cities. We are walking the walk, kilts an’ a’.   Witnessing at the gates of the City, proxies for millions of sympathizers.    

Thomas Dalyrymple put it


 “when people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse,  
when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, 
they lose once and for all their sense of probity.

To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil
and is some small way to become evil one-self.

One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed. 

A society of emasculated liars is easy to control” 

Lately I’m reading Power of the Powerless  by Vaclav Havel.  He lived through the disintegration of communism in Czechoslovakia.  It’s rich.  One take-away is : when one finds himself under totalitarian-ism, the anti-dote at the personal level, is : doing the simplest thing that you know to be True.  No matter the scale. Showing up at Freedom Rallies is such a courageous act … fellowshipping with others who reject the Lie. 

2 years ago a guy costumed as the Grim Reaper showed up for a while at our superspreader GATHERINGS,  to mock us.  He’s conspicuous by his absence these days, as the toll of sudden deaths directly consequent from the Quack-zeeen, is UN-deniable.     Daily, information surfaces,  connecting the dots as to how the Crime of the Century was committed.   The layers of the onion are peeling-back so it is evident the whole SARS2Covid19 thing was concocted by the US A Department of Defence.     See the post on the website of Dr Henry Makow  

> RFK Jr :     138 Companies Involved in COVID Vaccine. “They’re all military contractors.”
RFK Jr. confirms the work of Sasha Latypova and Katherine Watt
          “Pfizer and Moderna don’t really own those vaxxines. They slap their labels on ’em but it was a Pentagon project.”
        This confirms the work of Sasha Latypova and Katherine Watt, who showed how the Pentagon’s Operation Warp Speed was able to completely circumvent Federal Health Regulations by using what’s called in bureaucratic-speak, an “Other Transaction Authority”, which they used to contract with the bioweapons manufacturers to literally produce the bioweapon.

This was discovered in Pfizer’s motion to dismiss Brook Jackson’s case, when they attached another contract called an Other Transaction Authority  – OTA contract – saying in effect, they had no obligation to conduct valid clinical trials because the only goods and services they were providing to the US government, according to this contract are a  “large scale manufacturing demonstration for a prototype”.
        Under the terms of the OTA, Pfizer may have had no obligation to conduct a valid clinical trial or to be in compliance with any of the regulations that govern clinical trials.     In other words, OTA did for the financial contracting side, what EUA did to the drug regulation side.
        In short, the fake “clinical trials” were a PSYOP to convince people to get the injections.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/rfk-jr-138-companies-involved-covid-vaccine-all-military-contractors/5809886

…………………….

Christian McCay put together a piece of performance Art in the form of a coffin decrying MAID *. At the end of the speakers,  it was then delivered  to the head office of the Min de Health.      The monsters in high places call it Death with Dignity : but God Almighty says    “All they who hate me, love death.”.

* medical assistance in dying.    Euthanasia came to Canada on little catfeet of euphemism.

At our protest there’s always a few drive-by cheap shots.  Outweighed by dozens of vigorous enthusiastic honks commending us.      And Paul responding with his trademark  FREEDOM !!   in his parade-square voice. You have to be there, beside him, to appreciate the decibel level this guy musters !!

One of the regular pricks in our flesh,   is,  a miserable  76-year-old man with the rictus grin of Alzeheimer’s, who makes a point of coming by weekly to bother women.  Last Saturday, I contained myself long enough for him to finish spewing his bile while Brenda  dished it back at him.  As he departed,  sputtering,  I sounded off  “we’re still here !!”

Gordon S Watson       Metchosin British Columbia       February 27th 2023 A. D

              Who or what is WWD and WWR , anyway?

World Wide Demonstration and World Wide Rally are two parts of a grassroots GLOBAL Unity For Freedom movement.   We started in Spring of 2021.   World Wide Demonstration (WWD), is the collective demonstration including all the grassroots rallies participating in as a World Wide Rally (WWR).    As this can get a bit confusing, I felt it best to share that information here to dispel any myths that there are two different organizations.

Founded by a lady in Germany, it soon became too large for any one person to manage.    So a group of dedicated individuals from multiple countries took on the task to become a core team.    This team helps to navigate the world wide platform.    This group is run as a democratic team, and does its best to keep decisions as local as possible, and only step in when necessary.    There are 5 basic values that this group stands for:

  • Freedom of Speech
  • Freedom of Movement
  • Freedom of Choice
  • Freedom of Assembly
  • Freedom of Health

WWD/R seeks out giving a voice to the grassroots movements, refraining from including political, or celebrity voices. We feel it is important to make sure that the true grassroots movements are given a global platform.    Each rally is locally run, but must demonstrate and adhere to these principles in order to be included in the World Wide Demonstration.     I hope that this helps to clear up any misconceptions about the structure of WWD/R and brings confidence as to Victoria is chosen to be a host as an authentic grassroots movement.

Donations appreciated

Please either bring cash or send e-transfers to   WWRVictoria@protonmail.com    to reimburse me – ( Heather Kessler ) as I paid out of pocket ever since I had the honour of becoming chapter leader for the Victoria World Wide Freedom Rallies (since Sept/2021 )     Thank you
mailing address:  VanIsle Threads    501 Belleville St   Victoria  BC    V8V 2L8   Canada

Pathetic Poilievre Toadies to Minority Censorship Groups

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“Christine Anderson’s views are vile and have no place in our politics. The MPs were not aware of this visiting Member of the European Parliament’s opinions, and they regret meeting with her,” says the statement.

“Frankly, it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place. She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here.”

“Christine Anderson’s views are vile and have no place in our politics. The MPs were not aware of this visiting Member of the European Parliament’s opinions, and they regret meeting with her,” says the statement.

“Frankly, it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place. She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here.”

Pathetic Pierre Poilievre denounces visiting German politician, Christine Anderson. The usual anti-free speech suspects were having a canniption after three Tory MPs met and had dinner with visiting Member of the European Parliament Christine Anderson a member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party. She’s a firebrand who speaks perfect English. Why shouldn’t MPs meet with foreign politicians of whatever stripe. How are we going to know what they think, if we don’t talk to them.

Nevertheless, Poilievre was right on board with shunning. His office issued a statement bristling with hostility: “Christine Anderson’s views are vile and have no place in our politics. The MPs were not aware of this visiting Member of the European Parliament’s opinions, and they regret meeting with her,” says the statement.”Frankly, it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place. She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here.” (CBC. February 24, 2023)

So, seeking to prevent your country from being swamped by radically different aliens are “vile, … racist and hateful views”? Poilievre has shown himself ready to kowtow ti minority interess that have tried to limit what are acceptable views for decades. He is, of course, a big immigration man and massive immigration, as we’ve seen it for the past 40 years, means the replacement of Canada’s European founding/settler people.

Interestingly, one of the three MPs who met with Christine Anderson was Leslyn Lewis (Haldimand – Norfolk) who is Black and presumably would have known if MEP Anderson was “vile” hateful and racist”!

And you still think this career politician, obviously beholden to minority lobbyists like the Centre for Israel & Jewish Affairs & the free speech hating Canadian Anti-Hate Network, is an alternative?

Poilievre condemns ‘vile’ views of German politician seen lunching with Conservative MPs

Fri, February 24, 2023 at 4:28 p.m. EST·6 min read

German politician Christine Anderson, centre, poses with a group that includes Niagara West MP Dean Allison (fourth from right), Oshawa MP Colin Carrie (third from left) and Haldimand–Norfolk MP Leslyn Lewis (fourth from left). (Twitter - image credit)
German politician Christine Anderson, centre, poses with a group that includes Niagara West MP Dean Allison (fourth from right), Oshawa MP Colin Carrie (third from left) and Haldimand–Norfolk MP Leslyn Lewis (fourth from left). (Twitter – image credit)

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is attempting to distance his party from a far-right German politician whose views have been condemned as hateful and racist, and who was photographed lunching with three Conservative MPs earlier this week.

Christine Anderson, a member of the European Parliament with Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, is on a cross-Canada tour that ends tonight in Montreal.

On Tuesday, photos emerged online showing Anderson at a restaurant with a group that included three Conservative MPs — Niagara West MP Dean Allison, Oshawa MP Colin Carrie and Haldimand–Norfolk MP Leslyn Lewis.

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, which describes itself as an advocate for Jewish federations across Canada, condemned the gathering, tweeting Thursday that it had raised the issue with the Conservative Party of Canada.

Anderson’s views ‘not welcome here’

On Friday, Sebastian Skamski, director of media relations for the Opposition leader’s office, issued a statement attributed to Poilievre:

“Christine Anderson’s views are vile and have no place in our politics. The MPs were not aware of this visiting Member of the European Parliament’s opinions, and they regret meeting with her,” says the statement.

“Frankly, it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place. She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here.”

Poilievre’s office issued a separate statement attributed to the three MPs who were photographed with Anderson.

“It is, of course, not uncommon for members of Parliament to meet with visiting elected officials from other countries. During a visit, we recently met with an elected representative of the European Parliament while she was in Canada,” said the statement.

“We were not aware of the views or associations of her and her political party. We do not share or endorse her views and strongly condemn any views that are racist or hateful.”

Important Freedom Events in Penticton & Kelowna & GeoEngineering Free Canada

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Important reminders for the weekend 😊

1.    Convoy to GeoEngineering Free Canada this Saturday, February 25

2.   ANOTHER BIG PENTICTON4FREEDOM RALLY – Sunday, February 26 at 1 – Don’t miss it!

Saturday, February 25th

IT’S CONVOY TIME AGAIN! 
DESTINATION:  GeoEngineering Free Canada event at the Sandman Hotel in Kelowna.  Cost: donation

Meeting Time for convoy:  12 noon at the corner of Warren and Main Street in Penticton.  Departure time:  approximately 12:20 pm.

Please join in the fun and support GeoEngineering Free Canada by attending the event.

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ANOTHER BIG PENTICTON RALLY – 3 Exciting SPEAKERS!

Sunday, February 26, 1 to 3 p.m.

2020 Main Street, Corner of Main & Warren, Penticton.

Guest Speakers: Steve Merrill – Owner, Sun City Silver & Gold Exchange, Kelowna. During COVID, he posted a sign on his door that if you were wearing a mask, you were not allowed to come into his shop. That’s just the beginning…

Erica Massey – Scientist, Unity, Health & Science. Co-creator of the Doctors’ Packages.

Steve Jopson – Cash is King – At least half of our participants last week said YES! To this fun and productive initiative. Come see for yourself, and join the fun.

Miss a week and you miss a lot!

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Fighting for freedom is more fun with friends. Bring a few.

Suggest a topic and a speaker, and we’ll be happy to follow up to find an expert to share knowledge with us.

~ Mary Lou Gutscher

780-908-0309

Freedom Rallies & News in the Okanagan: Rallies Kelowna, March 4; Vernon Kamloops, OK Falls, Oliver, February 25; Penticton, February 26, David Lindsay on Trial, March 1&2, Kelowna

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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:

March 4, 2023 12:00 Stuart Park, Kelowna

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Leaders in Dialogue – Stand up for the Kids

February 21, 2023

New Location:

Embassy Church 

410 Leathead Road Kelowna, BC

Join us as we talk about important issues regarding the health and well-being of our children.

www.eventbrite.ca

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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Join David on A4C Empower Hour

Wed. 4:30 p.m.

Smart Cities, Your Rights and More

When: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 4:30pm PST/7:30pm EST Register in Advance. The zoom doors open at 4:30pm PST and the Empower Hour begins at 5pm PST/8pm EST.

We are pleased that David Lindsay, co-founder of Common Law Education and Rights (CLEAR), is once again joining us on the next Empower Hour. Tanya and David will discuss the concerns about the 15 Minute Cities, David’s extensive Webinar series on a variety of Constitutional issues, and much more. The goal is to get you pumped up and educated so that you can walk out your freedom with boldness and confidence. Learn more about our guest and share the Empower Hour invite HERE.

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https://www.geoengineeringfreecanada.com/

JOIN THE COALITION FOR A GEOENGINEERING FREE CANADA

Contact Bettina

Email: geonegineeringfreecanada@proton.me

Geoengineering Free Canada | Facebook

This group is to educate people and try to put a stop to the geoengineering and poisonous chemtrails they spray in our skies.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1780830142282917/?mibextid=6NoCDW

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The Kelowna Courts of

Injustice

March 1, 2, 2023 9:00 a.m.

R v David Lindsay s. 266 Criminal Code Assault

Come out and support David against more Gov’t corruption as they continue to try and shut down our leaders and freedom activists

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The fact that the Canadian “authorities” have concluded that the Trucker convoy conspired an insurrection severe enough to warrant war measures action by the feds should strike horror into the heart of every Canadian who values freedom

Jordan Peterson

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Know Your Rights: 

Guidelines for Peaceful Protesting/Gathering/Rallies and/or Attending Events (eg. Council Meetings, School Boards, Handing out Flyers)

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Sunday Paper Deliveries

Next delivery day: Feb. 26

(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:

  1. 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 TRAP

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.

Health & Sciences

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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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CLEARBITS:

Due to upcoming falsified legal action by the Province, and other time sensitive issues, CLEARBITS is on hold for two weeks. Thanks

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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,

March 4, 2023

12:00 pm Stuart Park

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February 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 25, 2023 10:00 – 12:00 Noon

Valleyview Centennial Park

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Penticton Freedom Rally

February 26, 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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The failures of politics, and empathy, before the Emergencies Act

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The failures of politics, and empathy, before the Emergencies Act

The Editorial BoardPublished February 20, 2023E

Before the crackdown of the Emergencies Act a year ago, there was a policing failure. Before the policing failure, there was a failure of intelligence gathering and analysis.

And before both those things, there was a deeper political failure, most notably by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

There is much to ponder, and some to disagree with, in the exhaustive report that Justice Paul Rouleau has shared with Parliament and the public on the decision by the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act to shut down the disruptive protest occupying the streets of Ottawa.

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We disagree, for instance, with his conclusion that the invocation was justified. Justice Rouleau is prepared to give the Liberal government the benefit of the doubt for not establishing that existing policing plans and powers were not up to the task of ending the protests. That generosity stretches too far, in our view.

Justice Rouleau does note that the factual basis for his conclusions “is not overwhelming” and that reasonable people could reach a different conclusion. And he points out that his opinion is not legally binding, and that it will be up to the courts to render a decisive verdict.

Separate from that yet-to-be-decided legal issue is the more fundamental question of how this country became so badly divided that thousands of Canadians evidently felt their only recourse was to occupy the nation’s capital, and that the federal cabinet evidently believed its only option was to curtail civil rights to oust them.

Wesley Wark: What the Emergencies Act inquiry report got right – and wrong

On that question, Justice Rouleau’s report makes some critical points that Mr. Trudeau, and all Canadians, would do well to think about.

One is the role of misinformation in the Freedom Convoy protests of last winter, often taken to mean the susceptibility of the protesters to conspiracy theories. But Justice Rouleau points out that misinformation moved in all directions.

There were “extreme elements” within the protest, he wrote, but “many and perhaps most” of the protesters were simply looking to protest lawfully. Yet, much of the media coverage simply lumped the protesters together with a handful that espoused loathsome and violent views.

So did the Prime Minister. As the protesters made their way to Ottawa, Mr. Trudeau called them a “small fringe minority of people” that held “unacceptable views.”

That demonization was part of an unfortunate pattern from the Prime Minister, who during the 2021 election campaign had labelled anti-vaccine protesters as “very often misogynistic and racist.” More broadly, Mr. Trudeau used vaccination as a wedge issue against his Conservative rivals in that campaign, a move that even one of his own MPs later criticized as a decision “to divide, and to stigmatize.”

Justice Rouleau is circumspect in his critique of Mr. Trudeau’s comments, inferring that he was not referring to all Freedom Convoy participants. That is an overly optimistic assessment, and one that ignores the political motivations at work for the Liberals as they sought first to delegitimize the protest by painting it as a nest of neo-Nazism, and then to tie it to the Conservatives.

But the justice does go on to point out what the Prime Minister and others should have been saying: that the majority of protesters were “exercising their fundamental democratic rights.” Encouragingly, Mr. Trudeau seems to have taken that part of Mr. Rouleau’s report to heart. Queried by reporters on Friday, Mr. Trudeau said he wished he had chosen different words. Yes, there are a “small number of people that spread misinformation,” he said. “That is a small subset of people who were just hurting, and worried and wanting to be heard.”

That is a welcome, if overdue, change of tone. Imagine how differently the campaign of 2021 and the events of last February would have proceeded if Mr. Trudeau had stuck with empathy rather than deliberate division.

Of course, the Prime Minister had company in his failure of empathy. A large swath of the Freedom Convoy protesters seemed to delight in tormenting the people of Ottawa, as if they were to blame for the deprivations they had suffered during the pandemic. The people of Ottawa returned the favour, seeing the protesters as occupiers, not fellow citizens.

That cycle of enmity did not end with the invocation of the Emergencies Act, or the dispersal of the Freedom Convoy protests, or with Justice Rouleau’s report.

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People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier Blasts Rouleau Report — “Liberals Protest Their Own” http://cafe.nfshost.com/?p=8575

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Today Justice Paul Rouleau released his verdict on Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act to violently crush the Freedom Convoy one year ago.

Rouleau concluded that Trudeau’s use of the Act was justified.

In a delirious statement, he claims that it was reasonable to believe that this peaceful and joyful protest posed “a threat to the security of Canada”!

I have to say, I am profoundly disappointed, but not surprised.

Justice Rouleau was hand-picked by Trudeau to oversee the inquiry. We can’t forget that Rouleau has a history as a Liberal activist and worked with former Prime Minister John Turner.

This Commission was not independent, as it should have been. It was Liberals investigating Liberals.

Is anyone really surprised that Liberals protect their own?

At the end of the day, the findings of Rouleau don’t really matter.

We all know that Trudeau would not have resigned even if the Commission had found he overstepped his powers.

We all know that Jagmeet Singh would not have held Trudeau accountable by withdrawing his support and forcing an election.

No matter the findings of this illegitimate inquiry, Trudeau’s actions of one year ago exposed him as the tyrant he is.

He crushed peaceful protesters with police horses.

He threw people in jail on false charges.

He froze people’s bank accounts without due process.

The Freedom Convoy forced Trudeau to show his true colours.

It exposed the opposition, the NDP, Conservatives, and Bloc as incompetent and incapable of holding the government to account.

Frederick, we must replace these corrupt politicians with People’s Party MPs willing to govern in the best interest of all Canadians!

Help me accomplish this goal with a $10 donation today!

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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

The NDP is high on censorship: NDP MP calls for hate speech law to combat residential school ‘denialism’

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A growing memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C. following the May 2021 discovery of suspected unmarked graves. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

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.”

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Leah Gazan, the NDP MP for Winnipeg Centre, wants to craft legislation to outlaw what she calls “residential school denialism.” (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

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.”

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.”

Michelle Good is the author of the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award-winning novel Five Little Indians, which is about the residential school experience. (Silk Sellinger Photography)

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?”

Métis archeologist Kisha Supernant taking readings using ground-penetrating radar. (Submitted by Kisha Supernant)

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.

The announcement of 200 possible unmarked graves in Kamloops, B.C. sent shockwaves around the world. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)

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.”

A man in a suit poses outside for a photo.
Sean Carleton, an assistant professor of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba, wants governments to educate the public about how to confront mistruths about residential schools. (Submitted by Sean Carleton)

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

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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:
    1. Killing members of the group;
    2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
    3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
    4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
    5. 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

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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.