Once in a while even leftist groups get it right. The BC Teachers’ Federation. They have “denied specialist recognition of a Holocaust education group, making it ineligible to receive union funding as a teaching resource.” That means these specialists who will be inserting Jewish ethnic history into the province’s curriculum, will not be able to pick the pockets of fellow teachers to pay for their curriculum material The Jewish community is the richest in Canada. Surely, they should have to pay to insert their own WW II history, by provincial mandate, into the province’s curriculum. We can expect another tirade of German-bashing and guilt mongering. Of course, other ethnic groups with sad stories to tell — the Ukrainian holodomor, the clearance of the Scottish Highlands, the Irish potato famine and aftermath — do not by right have their ethnic history by law inserted into the province’s curriculum
B.C. teachers’ union denies Holocaust education group status for funding
BCTF told Holocaust and Antisemitism Educators Association it won’t be recognized as specialist group
The Canadian Press about 15 hours ago
An empty hallway is seen at McGee Secondary school in Vancouver, on Sept. 5, 2014. Jewish organizations say the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation has denied recognition to the Holocaust and Antisemitism Educators Association for the development and funding of teaching resources. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Jewish organizations say the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation has denied specialist recognition of a Holocaust education group, making it ineligible to receive union funding as a teaching resource.
A joint statement from the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs says the union told them it would not recognize the Holocaust and Antisemitism Educators Association as a specialist group.
The association was created in response to the B.C. government’s decision last year to make Holocaust education a mandatory part of the curriculum.
At an unrelated news conference on Wednesday, Premier David Eby didn’t address the dispute, but said the direction is clear that students graduating from high school need to learn about the murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime in the Second World War.
Eyal Daniel, president of the association, says they were shocked by the decision and are hoping the teachers’ federation will reverse its decision.
Nico Slobinsky, vice-president at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, says the association met all the requirements to be recognized by the union and that no one can remember a time when a specialist association has been turned down.
Our society is so dumbed down and indoctrinated that anyone who is a critical thinker is labeled as a Conspiracy Theorist
Did you know: The term ‘conspiracy theorist’ was first coined and used by the CIA to ridicule anyone who opposed the gov’t narrative?
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Kelowna Courts
Falsified assault charge
Kelowna Courthouse
R v David Lindsay s. 266 Criminal Code Assault
Next Provincial Court Hearing Date:
June 4, 2024 2:00 p.m.
Application to Judge Heinrichs for an order to force Crown Persecutor to release video of Sheriff assault on David
June 13, 2024 9:30 a.m.
Sentencing Hearing, Con’t
July 10, 2024 – Sentencing Decision 9:30 a.m.
Thank you!!!
Remember the Freedom Principle:
An attack against one is an attack against all.
An attack against all, is an attack against one.
Next Supreme Court Appeal Hearing Date:
July 22, 2024 — 10:00 a.m.
Notice of Conviction Appeal Hearing
This hearing date will be to set the agenda for the hearing of the appeal from the conviction of J. Heinrichs.
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City of Kelowna v David Lindsay et al
Petition to Stop Rallies
Next hearing date – The week of June 17, 2024
for hearing on my SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) application to strike the City’s Petition against us. (See the B.C. Protection of Public Participation Act)
This is an incredible story you don’t want to miss – with a surprise ending.
Meet and greet with David Stephan personally
Thanks Todd for all your efforts to bring this to the attention of the public.
A conversation with Grant Abraham, author of The Battle for the Soul of Canada.
When: Wednesday, June 5th – 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Where: Gallagher’s Canyon Auditorium
4350 Gallagher’s Dr.
West Kelowna
Grant Abraham
About the author
Grant Abraham has stepped forward to remind Canadians of the root values that Canada was founded upon and why these values provide an off-ramp solution to the destructive forces that are currently attempting to reshape Canada beyond recognition. Grant was born in Alberta and grew up in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. As a qualified Barrister and Solicitor, Grant worked internationally in the area of international development and social impact investment.
“A war is raging for the soul and identity of Canada”
Sunday Paper Deliveries
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May 12, 2024
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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
Make sure you arrive before the designated time so we can all get going ASAP!
Every Sunday at 10:30 am
May 12, 2024
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 tenant
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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A bit about David
Due to time constraints right now, I will try and complete Part II for next week. Thanks for your patience.
Freedom Rallies
“It ain’t over till it’s over”
Next Kelowna Rallies:
Saturday,
June 1, 2024 Noon
Stuart Park
June 8, 2024
Hwy 97 and Cooper!!
Join us for important announcements on the local, legal scene, and informative speakers!
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June 1, 2024 12:00 noon
Vernon Freedom Rally
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. @ Polson Park
Join Darren for the Largest rally in the North Okanagan, and growing weekly!
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D ANNOUNCING the LAST A4C Parksville Chapter prayer Walk4Revival is THIS SATURDAY in Victoria at the Legislature on June 8 @ 11:00am.
Anyone is welcome to join, none are required to lead out in prayer. It’s up to you in that area.A special thank you to each participant in the prayer walks for your diligence in standing up for the truth in the nation of Canada. Our six prayer walks since the month of April have been so blessed and wonderful.
We will be joined by other Vancouver Island A4C Chapters for an ALL ISLAND Action4Canada REPRESENTATION at our provincial capital. It will be a great day of unity and togetherness as we walk around the Legislature building and pray for British Columbia. Please join us; bring your family and invite others to join as well. If you haven’t been able to connect with an Action4Canada Chapter in your area, this would be a great time to meet many of our teams and leaders. We would love to meet you.Download and share the A4C Parksville schedule and prayer card or create your own with your local church or prayer group and let us know! Remember to bring YOUR CANADIAN FLAGS Prayer Walk4Revival FinaleDate: FINAL DATE SAT Jun 8thPlace: VICTORIA Legislature GroundsTime: 11:00 amWe look forward to seeing God pull His people together to fight this pervasive evil which preys on our children, families, faith and freedom. “Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land”.
2 Chronicles 7:14Be inspired by the testimonies of how prayer “moved mountains” in past prayer campaigns. We believe it will happen again! Enjoy the video compilation from the midway point this year.Contact us at: A4C Parksville Chapter. Thank you,A4C Parksville Chapter Team bc-parksville@action4canada.ca
If the Trudeau-NDP’s Bill C-59 comes into force, I may be the first one prosecuted because I won’t stop telling the truth about the many benefits of Alberta’s oil and gas industry, no matter what crazy laws they pass.
If you haven’t already heard, let me give you some background.
In February, NDP MP Charlie Angus introduced a bill threatening fines and even jail time for people who dared to defend our oil and gas sector. Canadians laughed it off as absurd. But now, through last-minute amendments to Bill C-59, the NDP have sneaked their gag order in through the back door.
With support from the Liberals and Bloc, the Trudeau-NDP are creating an echo chamber where their anti-oil and gas views go unchallenged. This bill is designed to silence people from speaking the truth, allowing eco-radical activists to sue over so-called “misleading environmental benefits.”
It’s utterly ridiculous to muzzle folks who talk publicly about emission reduction alternatives that differ from Steven Guilbeault’s failed carbon tax. The bill has already passed in the House of Commons and is now in the Liberal-dominated Senate, where it is expected to be rubber-stamped.
Let me be clear: Alberta will not comply with this undemocratic Liberal-NDP gag order.
… and today is the last day! This month’s Druthers fundraiser has been rather slow. I know many people are out enjoying the warming weather, which is fantastic, but please do not forget about Druthers. We had 225,000 copies made for June but out fundraiser is still $10k short. We have the rest of today to come up with the difference so we can pay the printers and the shippers. PLEASE DONATE IF YOU CAN: www.donorbox.org/druthersOr simply send an etransfer to admin@druthers.net and we will manually add your contribution to the fundraiser page.NOTE: 100% of donations are used to print papers and ship skids across the country. No salaries, overhead or other expenses are ever taken from donations. That’s how we can keep doing it for just 10 cents per paper. A $500 donation pays for the printing and volunteer distribution of 5000 newspapers!!! Even a $10 donation pays for 100 newspapers. How many people will that wake up? Your donations are efficiently, effectively & respectfully used for waking up more Canadians, and we are making a difference!PLEASE DONATE HERE Much love & gratitude, always, Shawn Jason
Removing religion as a defence for hate speech is worth examining, antisemitism envoy tells MPs
The Criminal Code states people shouldn’t be convicted of the willful promotion of hatred or antisemitism if, ‘in good faith,’ they expressed an opinion ‘on a religious subject’
Author of the article:
The Canadian Press
Stephanie Taylor
Published May 23, 2024 • 4 minute read
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Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism, appears before the House of Commons human rights committee on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Photo by parlvu.parl.gc.ca
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OTTAWA — Canada’s special envoy for combating antisemitism is “very interested” in exploring the idea of removing religion as a possible defence against hate speech charges, she said Thursday, raising concern about creating a possible chill on religious expression.
Deborah Lyons, whose title also includes preserving Holocaust remembrance, made the comment before a parliamentary committee that is studying antisemitism on university campuses.
“I am very interested in exploring (it) as an option because I think, frankly, we are seeing it used in this country and in other places as a defence that frankly does not stand the ground in these very difficult times,” she testified Thursday.
Still, Lyons said she is not ready to offer a final opinion on the matter, and is still discussing it with Justice Department officials.
Jewish leaders, students and faculty have for months been voicing concerns over an increase in hate speech and violence since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war last fall.
Lyons said she believes universities’ equity, diversity and inclusion strategies are “failing Jews in this country” because they don’t make much mention of antisemitism specifically.
Her office is working to develop better training to counter anti-Jewish discrimination, which she hopes institutions, including governments, will use.
Members of Parliament also asked Lyons about the role police and prosecutors play in laying hate speech related charges, and whether Criminal Code changes are needed.
They pointed to a recent decision by Quebec prosecutors not to charge Montreal imam Adil Charkaoui over comments said during a prayer — a scenario Lyons says she is discussing with the government.
The comments were delivered at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Montreal, and led to a complaint alleging threats and incitement of violence, which was investigated by the RCMP.
Leading a prayer in Arabic, Charkaoui had called on God to “take care of aggressor Zionists,” adding “O God, don’t leave any of them.”
Last week the province’s director of public prosecutions announced that a committee of three Crown attorneys found the evidence insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the words amounted to an incitement of hatred toward an identifiable group, as defined in the Criminal Code.
Using the case as an example, Bloc Quebecois MP Rheal Fortin asked Lyons whether she supports his party’s proposal to eliminate a section of the Criminal Code that allows the use of religious beliefs or a religious text as a defence against the promotion of hatred and antisemitism.
The Criminal Code states that people shouldn’t be convicted of the willful promotion of hatred or antisemitism — defined as downplaying or denying the Holocaust — if, “in good faith,” they expressed an opinion “on a religious subject” or “based on a belief in a religious text.”
Fortin says his party wants to ban “exceptions” to hate speech based on religion.
“Certainly I think that it’s something we’ve got to continue to examine,” Lyons said.
Justice Minister Arif Virani’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
He is already seeking to increase the punishments for existing hate-related offences — including increasing the maximum consequence for advocating genocide to life imprisonment — in the Liberals’ legislation against online harms, tabled back in February.
The stiffer criminal justice reforms have fallen under harsh scrutiny from critics, including civil liberty advocacy groups, who say it could stifle free speech. Justice officials say criminal charges would only be laid in the most extreme examples.
Removing religion as a possible defence to a hate speech charge would likely be welcomed by those who oppose religion, but would create “genuine fear” for those who have deeply held religious beliefs about what they could say in the public square, said Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett, who works at the public policy think tank Cardus.
“Often, religious people privatize their faith because they’re afraid that if I speak about what I believe, in good faith, in the public square, I’m going to be cancelled, or I’m going to be shut down,” said Bennett, Cardus’s faith communities program director.
He says if a “chill” is placed on religious expression it risks marginalizing a sizeable part of the population, including many new Canadians for whom “religion is not just some sort of cultural relic” but “informs all aspects of society.”
“In many cases, they’ve come here because of the religious freedom we enjoy, and so to then say to those new Canadians in particular, ‘Oh, by the way, you can’t speak about your religion publicly for fear of being censured,’ I think that’s a very bad message to send.”
Bennett said the debate raises questions of how hate is defined and what makes a hateful view “different from a peacefully-held opinion that someone might profoundly disagree with?”
Charkaoui’s comments were “perhaps one of the most egregious offences that I have seen” he told Thursday’s committee.
Mendicino, a former prosecutor who previously served as public safety minister, also cited other examples of demonstrators chanting offensive language, including glorifying Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks.
He believes “Zionists” fit the Criminal Code’s definition of an identifiable group, which refers to “any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or mental or physical disability.”
ST. CATHARINES, ON: May 15, 2024 The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased to announce that two charges against federal party leader Maxime Bernier have been withdrawn. The charges stemmed from his 2021 attendance at a protest against Ontario’s Stay-at-Home Order in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
The Justice Centre provided for lawyers to represent Mr. Bernier. The charges against him were withdrawn on May 14, 2024, in the Ontario Court of Justice (Provincial Offences Division) at the request of the prosecutor after Mr. Bernier donated to a Niagara Region charity.
On April 17, 2021, Mr. Bernier attended a peaceful protest in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The protest started at the Clifton Hill War Memorial and moved across the street to the Oakes Garden Theatre where a crowd of approximately 500 people listened to various speakers, including Mr. Bernier. For his participation, Mr. Bernier was charged with failing to comply with the Stay-at-Home Order and with failing to comply with an order under the Reopening Ontario Act.
At the time, the province’s Stay-at-Home Order prohibited citizens from leaving their residences unless it was for one of 29 purposes deemed “essential” by the Ontario government.
Mr. Bernier is a former Cabinet Minister under the Conservative Government of Stephen Harper. He held ministerial portfolios in Industry, Foreign Affairs, and State. He was chair of the National Defence Select Committee from 2009 to 2011. In 2018, he left the CPC and founded the People’s Party of Canada.
Chris Fleury, lawyer for Mr. Bernier, says, “With the exception of Randy Hillier’s challenge of the Stay-at-Home-Order and our ArriveCAN challenge, this was the last ticket case that we were defending in Ontario. We are slowly putting this shameful period behind us.”
Former Ontario provincial politician Randy Hillier continues his fight against the Stay-at-Home Order with an appeal following the loss of his constitutional challenge to that Order. Mr. Hillier’s hearing is scheduled at the Ontario Court of Appeal in September.
Details on the ArriveCAN challenge can be found on the Justice Centre’s website here.
Chris Fleury continues, “While we would have preferred that no one who attended this protest was charged in the first place, this is an excellent outcome for Mr. Bernier. Ontario’s Stay-at-Home Order was unnecessary, unscientific, and ultimately harmful. It is encouraging that prosecutions of this nature are finally coming to a close.”
