Free Speech Martyr & UFO Freethinker Brian Ruhe Profiled in Chinese Blog

Participated in several online and offline activities he planned, two online is invited to the so-called alien abduction of contacts, the other two are Indian descent psychics to introduce her to communicate with extraterrestrial advanced life, and once is a Chinese female immigrant hypnotist to tell the story of the hypnotic guest recalled from an alien planet, and the other one is the first to say that UFO researchers claim that Mars, Mercury has a civilization.

Although I disagreed with everyone, I kept an open mind and listened critically to everyone’s statements.

I have a virtue that many people around me don’t have. That is, others only love what they already believe; they do not care about what they do not believe, and are contrary to their beliefs, knowledge reserves, and values. I am inclusive, diverse, three teaching nine flow of anyone’s opinions are willing to listen to, but does not mean that I can easily believe that I will have my independent thinking and judgment. It doesn’t matter to me what this person says; why he says it, why he believes so strongly in his words, and how he defends himself, it actually makes more sense.

After several observations of Brian, he found that he was a normal person with a common sense, a brain, and an objective judgment. He was last born in Ontario, Canada, in 1959 to immigrants from the Netherlands. My father is an engineer, knowledgeable about books and instruments (below).

When the new Yaner, his father persuaded the bride to immigrate to Canada with him. The two landed in a small town called St. Catherine near Niagara Falls. In the next six years, the two had five children, and Brian was the youngest one (below).

After World War II, the Netherlands, the waste of the economy, and Canada because of its distance from the European battlefield, rich tranquility, coupled with the Canadian troops liberated the Netherlands from Nazi Germany, the Dutch have a natural sense of Canada, so there were many Dutch immigrants who chose Canada to settle down.

Today, the Netherlands is a developed country, and many indicators far exceed Canada. For example, from 2023 to 2024, the GDP per capita of the Netherlands is $62,500, while Canada’s is $53,500. In terms of quality of life, the Netherlands is “extremely high”, while Canada is “high”. The infrastructure of the Netherlands is second to none in developed countries in Western Europe, surpassing Germany, France and the United Kingdom, while Canada’s infrastructure is far inferior. On the Social Security Index, in 2024-2025, with a score of 100, the Netherlands scored 73.7, while Canada scored only 54.8.

According to Brian, his mother regretted immigrating to Canada, believing it was the biggest mistake of his life. Today, almost no Dutch would like to immigrate to Canada, just the opposite of Indians. Brian is grateful for his family’s Catholic tradition to come into the world. It was a well-known middle-class family, and Brian was influenced by his parents and had a keen interest in religion, philosophy, psychology, and science fiction (below).

Brian moved to Vancouver, West Coast, at the age of 20. One day, his father was on a business trip in Moscow, the Soviet Union, and Brian and his friends stole his father’s car to escape from Ontario and to Vancouver, a paradise on earth. At that time, he knew almost nothing about Vancouver, only that the West was booming. They sometimes stay at the Sandbay Youth Hostel, sometimes catch a ride on the grasslands of Saskatchewan, sometimes spend the night in the car deep in the Rocky Mountains, and finally arrive in the Vancouver town of Gas, and then stay in the comparable hotel. At that time, the unemployment rate was only 6%, and it was not as worried about unemployment as the people of Ontario. He started a new life in Vancouver. After much work, he became a financial planner selling investment funds and insurance.

In Vancouver, his roommate suggested that they take a Buddhist psychology course together, so they went to the Dharmadhatu Buddhist Meditation Centre, which was founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He quickly resonated with these teachings and meditation exercises. Three months later, he converted to Buddhism; a year later, he quit his job for eight years and moved to Karme-Choling, the regional center of Rinpoche, Vermont, where he lived for free, worked five hours a day, meditated for about five hours, and often took classes. Later, he decided to go to Nepal and India to cultivate Buddha, which has the “home base camp” of Tibetan Buddhism. Taking into account various practical factors, he came to Thailand, where he was a monk for four years.

After returning to Vancouver, Canada, there was a Buddhist fever in the area, and he quickly got a teaching position at the Vancouver Education Bureau for 17 years. In addition, there are classes and weekend meditation camps throughout Vancouver, where the Dharma has been disseminated for 20 years and taught by more than 15,000 people (above).

In 2006, he approached YouTube and began to dabble in UFOs, conspiracy theories and behind-the-scenes powers. By 2012, he was running a course on the “New World Order” in Vancouver and uploaded videos of such content at BitChute, as well as hundreds of videos related to Dharma and meditation classes. By 2022, his interest turned to spreading the topic of alien intervention to promote human evolution, and opened the Vancouver UFO Interest Group on Meetup, which is held almost weekly in parallel, online and offline.

In May 2025, I attended a lecture at the Commercial Street Community Library in Vancouver, where the speaker was a Beijing woman engaged in hypnotic backtracking, a graduate of Beijing Medical University, and worked at the Northern Medical College before immigrating, and talked about the case of guests hypnotizing their own past lives from a foreign planet. In June, they attended a lecture at a cafe in Coquitlam, where the speaker was a descendant of Punjab, India, who claimed to be a medium and could communicate with aliens. The people here are basically polite, not superstitious, and no one questioned the rebuttal, one by one, they are polite, as far as he and his family or close friends say after returning home, we do not know.

After two offline activities, Brian quickly spoke, left his mobile phone number, and kindly invited me to his house to be a guest. He invited him for a long time and finally found the right time to visit his residence.

It is a simple old bachelor’s apartment in the eastern part of Vancouver, at most 20 or 30 square meters, the kitchen is extremely compact, like a student dormitory; nothing, everything from Jane, at first glance, it really feels that this person lives a family-like life, can be described as four empty, no desire. The living room and bedroom are one, and you can see Buddha statues of different sizes, as well as two alien heads, one is a little gray man, and one is a mantis, according to him, a friend made by hand. A bed occupies almost a small part of the space, there seems to be no mattress, only the bed, there is only a thin pillow on the bed, lamenting that the son of a Dutch immigrant and middle-class family has lived a life of asceticism after retirement. The sheets and blankets were spread out on the bed at random, and there was also a strange black cat lying on it, looking at the baby with a watchful eye, but the baby did not catch a cold, and as soon as he entered the door, he drank the water in the cat bowl, which floated the cat hair and reflected the oil flower under the light, and then sniffed the cat food. The fishy smell seemed to be quite tempting for the baby, and he actually ate it with relish for half a day, and ate most of it in one breath.

People are high in nothingness. Looking back on Brian’s life, it’s really spiritual pursuit that goes far beyond material desires—sleeping, just a bed and a pillow; eating, just pressing hunger; the rest of the time is guarding his big screen computer to read, write, and organize a queue of meetings. These days are catching up with the Shaolin Temple abbot to release Yongxin due to the misappropriation of public funds, the custody of mistresses and other scandals. The same Buddha’s disciple, this one-western two worlds, is in sharp contrast. He opened a cupboard with great interest and took out his previous publications (below).

I roughly flipped the theme, structure, grammar, vocabulary, are not small, it is difficult to imagine this is the work of a college undergraduate, you can see this person hungry and thirsty to learn spirit and Bogu Tong’s current learning ability.

Leaving his house, we took the Skycar to Coquitlam to join his Chinese girlfriend. His girlfriend, Ms. Liu, is a biographer of biotechnology and has earned her PhD in Australia. We attended another meatup event that night, which is known as the field practice of contact with the fifth type of UFO. The last event involved 11 people, including Canada’s leading UFO research expert Grant Cameron (pictured below).

The so-called close contact with UFOs includes the following categories:

The first type of contact refers to the sighting of a UFO within 150 meters, and can clearly describe its shape and details.

The second type of contact refers to the sighting of one or more UFOs and the physical reactions that bring to the witness or the surrounding environment, including heat or radiation, terrain damage, physical paralysis, animal shock, interference with engines or television and radio reception, so that the witness forgets the memory of the UFO’s sighting during that time.

The third type of contact refers to the ability to clearly see UFOs, and can see aliens, and talk to aliens through telepathy.

The fourth type of contact refers to human direct contact with UFOs or extraterrestrial beings, such as hijacked, examined, and experimental.

The CCSTI team, named after Dr. Stephen Greer, a renowned U.S. UFO expert, refers to communicating with extraterrestrial civilizations in a conscious, voluntary and proactive way through human spontaneous or cooperative cooperation.

There are also types 6, 7, 8 and 9 contacts. Our fifth category of engagement event organizer that night was Dr. Greer’s event coordinator in Metro Vancouver, Terry (below).

He claimed to have seen little greys at his home in Quebec as a child.

To be honest, I didn’t take this event too seriously, I just wanted to watch and experience it. I wasn’t much interested when Brian invited me to join him and his girlfriend for the event, because I expected it to be fruitless. Extraterrestrial life is not very interested in getting up close to our Earthlings, just as we humans disdain to build communication with the little squirrel in the yard. Moreover, what kind of person am I waiting for, can alarm the high-level life in the universe to come for us? In the summer, Vancouver has always been cool and pleasant. Although wearing short-sleeved shorts is the norm, but in this deserted countryside, as the night is getting darker, the temperature plummets, and it begins to tremble. Others brought extra clothing and blankets, and I underestimated the sudden change in temperature, and took nothing with me, so I took out my baby’s little blanket and covered my legs. At this time, another white man took the initiative to put his blanket on me. Although there was no alien that night, he encountered a living thunderfront, a good Samaritan.

When everyone meditated, Ms. Liu, Brian’s girlfriend, said that she felt that there was energy behind her, copying Huawei’s mobile phone camera, recording a strange spot, huge, free, flashing, like a ghost fire, which I had never seen in my life. They may interpret it as a UFO, but when I get home, I go to the artificial intelligence consultation, saying that it may be the dust spot of insects or cameras, and all the explanations are difficult to make convincing. Maybe it’s a mystery forever. Anyone interested in watching can add me to WeChat, I will send you the video.

I have recommended Meetup with many friends. Most of these friends are not interested in socializing and meeting new people because of their age. Psychologists say that when you don’t want to talk to new people again, it really means that you’re old.

People are social people, live to old age, learn to be old, no matter how old, or to be curious about the world and others.

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Time to Renew (for 2022) & Help CAFE Survive Financially

Canadian Association for Free Expression

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Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director

November 11, 2021                                           CAFE supporters welcome Dr. James Sears on his release from prison

Dear Free Speech Supporter:

Time to Renew (for 2022) & Help CAFE Survive Financially

                It’s Remembrance Day and we recall with respect the bravery and sacrifice of Canadian men and women who fought and sometimes perished in war — wars ostensibly for freedom (but that’s another story). As I shall explain a bit later, those freedoms have been vacuumed away and, sad to say, many Canadians just don’t care. We have a monumental job to nudge more Canadians into caring. I am asking you to renew your subscription to the Free Speech Monitor (still just $20.00) and to send us a special Christmas gift donation. Quite frankly, CAFE is hanging on by a thread. Many of you have suffered financially because of the COVID lockdown hysteria — jobs lost, businesses closed. One of our key sources of income is meetings across the country. We see our supporters and they donate or buy books or videos. For much of the past 19 months meetings have been impossible. For instance, we have held just two in Toronto this year. Thus, a special Christmas donation to CAFE would be a huge help.

Good News: Political Prisoner Dr. James Sears Free on Early Parole

                First, some good news. Dr. James Sears, the editor of the wickedly satirical YOUR WARD NEWS, was freed from the South Toronto Detention Centre — too late for Thanksgiving — on October 14, in early parole, having served four months of a 12-month sentence (the maximum) for “wilfully promoting hatred” against radical feminists and Jews. He emerged gaunt but smiling and unbroken. CAFE played a role, we are told, in his release. CAFE, from the start, has supported victims of Canada’s notorious hate laws. We staged six protests outside the prison for Dr. Sears. He became an immediate celebrity among both the prisoners and the guards. One guard sneered after one of our protests to Dr. Sears: “There were only 11 of your supporters at the protest.” Another guard retorted: “But that’s 11 more than any other prisoner has ever had here!” The protests also informed astonished prisoners and guards what Dr. Sears’ crime was — satire, jokes, the written word — not assault or theft or DUI. Many came to know Canada’s hypocrisy. We selectively preach about human rights but still toss dissidents in jail. We also contributed to Dr. Sears’ canteen or prison account. However, best of all, in the mysterious alchemy involved in parole decisions, apparently our protests had a positive effect. “Believe me, those protests helped you get early parole,” a guard told Dr. Sears. His co-accused, publisher Leroy St. Germaine also received a year in prison, but, because he was of Metis ancestry, got to serve his time under house arrest. Nevertheless, although 80 years old and not in the best of health Leroy came out to several of our protests in support of his old friend Dr. James Sears.

Freedom of Speech — Many Canadians Just Don’t Get It & Just Don’t Care

                If you haven’t already done so, please read the lead article in the Free Speech Monitor (October, 2021) which accompanies this letter. Entitled “Freedom of Speech: Many Canadians Don’t “Get” It”, it references a recent Leger poll that found that 40 per cent of Canadians felt we had less freedom to discuss controversial topics today than a decade ago. Good, but only 40 per cent? With protests and public gatherings even religious gatherings banned or severely restricted for months over the past two years, with protesters fined and pastors heavily fined or jailed, how can only 40 per cent even see there’s a problem? What should be done about “hate speech”, whatever that is, on social media like Facebook and YouTube and Twitter — outlets, unlike most of the mainstream, largely Fake news media that remain open to dissident voices? Pathetically, 46 per cent of those surveyed felt the government should regulate or ban content it “considers hate speech” and 69 per cent supported social media monitoring (spying) and banning content they considered “hate speech”. In January, 65 per cent of Canadians said they’d support a nightly curfew — that’s house arrest, punishment without charge or trial — to fight COVID, even though they doubted the effectiveness of curfews! (Canadian Press, January 19, 2021)Now, that’s some special kind of stupid! Interestingly, the same poll found that 21 per cent said their own mental health was bad or very bad. [It shows!] Perhaps, many Canadians had been scared witless by the relentless media and government fear mongering about an illness with a 99.7 survival. The dangerous thing is that, if substantial numbers of Canadians don’t cherish or care about their liberties, governments which are full of control freaks won’t either. Also, implicit in all this is that our freedoms come from the government — they can stingily dole them out a little, when we’re good, and yank them back when we’re bad. THAT’S NOT THE NATURE OF OUR ANGLO-SAXON LIBERTIES! These liberties are inherent to our nature and, if you’re Christian, they are intrinsic to  your nature as a human being, a child of God.

Well, the Charter and the Courts Will Protect Us from The Theft of Our Rights?

                It’s a fond thought that Trudeau I’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, crippled by a weasel clause as it is, will protect your rights to freedom of speech, freedom to practise your religion, freedom of assembly. Thus far the Charter has proven as useful as a wet piece of Kleenex in a puddle during this pandemic. In several cases, the courts have said: “Well, yes, the restrictions imposed by the Medico-Stalinists violate your rights, but it’s all in a good cause. So, there!”  Law Professor Bruce Pardy warned: “Ten days ago, the Manitoba Court of  Queen’s Bench was the latest court to rebuff a constitutional challenge to COVID restrictions on civil liberties. Chief Justice Glenn Joyal ruled that provincial public health orders were constitutionally justifiable, joining courts from around the country in embracing the official COVID narrative and defending the authority of the pandemic state. [The case, argued on behalf of several religious groups by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms introduced 2,000 pages of academic testimony and four qualified expert witnesses, including the former Chief Medical Officer of Health of Manitoba. They challenged  the scientific validity of the very basis for the COVID case count so lovingly cited by lockdown proponents — the PSR test.] Over the past 19 months, lockdowns, masking rules, traveller quarantines, closed borders, business restrictions, and now vaccine mandates have made Canadians less free than they have ever been. Yet so far, Charter challenges to COVID rules have been spectacularly unsuccessful. During COVID, the Charter has been useless!”  (National Post, November 3, 2021)

Cancel Culture Where Dissent Can Get  You Fired & Your Life Ruined On A Mere Complaint

                Canadians like to think of themselves as “nice” people: We are polite and always apologizing. This self-congratulatory view is often wrong. All too frequently many Canadians are vicious, destructive nasty people. This is the environment we live in. Consider the Lavallee sisters and a boyfriend: ” Two Ontario sisters have been awarded $100,000 in a defamation suit against an activist who started a social media campaign against them, alleging a Snapchat video they made mocked the murder of George Floyd. The sisters, Shania and Justine Lavallee, were both fired from their respective jobs at Boston Pizza and Canada Border Services Agency in the spring of 2020, shortly after the social media campaign began.    The Ontario Superior Court decision by Justice Marc Smith said that Solit Isak, who identifies as Black, initiated a ‘brutal and unempathetic campaign to destroy the lives of two young women.’  According to the ruling, Isak made dozens of posts about the sisters after viewing a screenshot of a Snapchat video made by Shania Lavallee, which were quickly amplified by social media and the news media. The screenshot showed Justine being pinned down by her boyfriend, who had his knee on her back and was holding her arms back. Isak viewed the image shortly after Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer—setting off a summer of protests about racial injustice—and believed the Snapchat post mocked his death. In the court ruling Isak admitted she never saw the video, and the sisters said the video was just play fighting, and they had no intentions of invoking Floyd’s death. … The court also never saw the video, as it was deleted by Snapchat, but accepted the word of the sisters and two of their friends who saw the video that there was no attempt to mock Floyd.” What exactly does it mean that Isak ‘identifies as Black’? Is she Black or is she a blue-eyed redhead who wishes she was Black?  Her lobbying also got the boyfriend fired. Terrible as her behaviour was, equally vile were the reactions of those businesses and government bodies that blithely fired these people on mere complaints. There was no due process. Oh, and the big irony: Despite the French sounding name, the Lavallees are Eskimos!  We have much to do to try to claw back some of our lost liberties!

The Challenge

                Doug Christie prophetically warned us after three decades battling for free speech in Canadian courts: “Don’t look to constitutions or bills of rights or charters of rights and freedom for the liberties you have. You only have such freedoms as you are prepared to fight for.” Since 1983, CAFE has been in this fight, promoting freedom of speech by assisting the victims of censorship, by  publishing our monthly newsletter, the Free Speech Monitor, by  presenting daily, timely information on our website http://cafe.nfshost.com, by holding meetings (COVID crackdowns permitting) and  rallies and by producing  numerous videos like these recent ones:

* DO CANADIANS HAVE THE WILL TO CLAW BACK THE RIGHTS STOLEN FROM THEM DURING COVID? — talk by Paul Fromm, in Vancouver, October 28, 2021 https://www.brighteon.com/bb297ff3-7073-46e3-a4eb-696f639749d7

* “I Voted for Max & the People’s Party of Canada” — Where the Election Leaves Us & the Looming Soviet State of Cancelled Rights in Canada.  Hamilton, October 17, 2021. https://worldtruthvideos.website/watch/james-sears-is-free-from-prison-october-14-2021_c5sRVOzALQard4N.html

* Paul Fromm on the Great Reset & Trudeau’s Plans to Stifle the Internet — Talk Given at Vancouver, July 17, 2021. https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZUEeqRICKSO2/

                To continue, we need your help.

                I thank you in advance and gratefully wish you and your family a Very Merry Christmas. You might want to consider buying some of the historic Doug Christie dvds on the back of the enclosed coupon and using them as Christmas gifts or stocking stuffers.

                                                                                                                Sincerely  yours,

                                                                                                                Paul Fromm

                                                                                                                Director

CAFE, Box 332, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3

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Christmas Gifts & Stocking Stuffers: The Best of Doug Christie

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DO CANADIANS HAVE THE WILL TO CLAW BACK THE RIGHTS STOLEN FROM THEM DURING COVID?

DO CANADIANS HAVE THE WILL TO CLAW BACK THE RIGHTS STOLEN FROM THEM DURING COVID?

DO CANADIANS HAVE THE WILL TO CLAW BACK THE RIGHTS STOLEN FROM THEM DURING COVID? — talk by Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, in Vancouver, October 28, 2021
https://www.brighteon.com/bb297ff3-7073-46e3-a4eb-696f639749d7


“I’ve made 150 videos of Paul Fromm since 2015 but this is the first fireside chat and it’s at my place. This was Oct. 28, 2021, the day after the previous video of him.” — Brian Ruhe

Paul Fromm is the Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression
Winner of the George Orwell Free Speech Award, 1994

“I’ve made 150 videos of Paul Fromm since 2015 but this is the first fireside chat and it’s at my place. This was Oct. 28, 2021, the day after the previous video of him.” — Brian Ruhe

Paul Fromm is the Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression
Winner of the George Orwell Free Speech Award, 1994

email: paul@paulfromm.com

Loss of Freedoms & Canada’s End the Lockdown Movement

Loss of Freedoms & Canada’s End the Lockdown Movement

[On May 17, the Globe and Mail published an opinion piece co-authored by Bernie Farber smearing the END THE LOCKDOWN rallies. For several days, I sought to reach the editor and Opinion Page editor of the Globe. They are unreachable by phone.  I sent an e-mail proposing a rebuttal piece. I got no answer. I submitted a response which forms part of the article below. I received no answer. The Globe happily publishes smears by one of Canada’s most notorious opponents of free speech, but permits no reply. Here is the Farber hatchet job: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-overlap-between-lockdown-agitators-and-hate-groups-is-a-threat-to/]

            Since mid-March, 2020, End the Lockdown rallies have been a regular weekly occurrence in cities across Canada. At first, most of the press ignored them or dismissed them, as Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford did, a “a bunch of yahoos.” However, their staying and spread across the Dominion have made them impossible to ignore.

            So, many in the elite have changed their tune.

            Calgary’s mayor Naheed Nenshi is a Moslem who alleges that the End The Lockdown Movement is a vast rightwing conspiracy. “They are people who are marching in thinly veiled white nationalist supremacist anti-government protests,” he said. His accusations were echoed by Jagmeet Singh, he of the rainbow coloured collection of turbans, the $2,000 suits, the BMW Coup, hailed by BuzzFeed  as the “most stylish politician in Canada”. He is a supporter of the radical Sikh Khalistan movement and, in 2013, was banned from India. He heads the socialist New Democratic Party in the Dominion Parliament. Recently Singh said the protests are part of “extreme right-wing ideology.” He complained “To brazenly not follow public-health guidelines puts people at risk and that is something that we’ve seen with extreme right-wing ideology, ”

            And Bernie Farber, long one of Canada’s fiercest opponents of free speech weighed in. Writing in the Globe and Mail (May 17, 2021)he alleged: “The principal actors of the anti-lockdown movement have either been or rubbed elbows with some significant haters on the scene. Vancouver neo-Nazi Brian Ruhe, Quebec’s far-right conspiracy streamer Alexis Cossette-Trudel, a big name among France’s QAnon following, is an important mouthpiece of the francophone anti-lockdown movement. Neo-Nazi Paul Fromm is a fixture at rallies in both Ontario and in Kelowna, B.C. Antimask activist Chris Saccoccia’s social-media feeds feature Holocaust denial and racist posts.” Farber was for years the CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, whose lobbying brought about Canada’s notorious Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code, the “hate law”. Farber lobbied mightily to have me fired from my 25-year teaching position as an English instructor in Peel County. He now heads the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), funded by federal government grants and a huge donation from the Bank of Montreal.

            The CAHN tosses around the smear “neo-Nazi” promiscuously. Farber’s fellow board member at the Canadian Anti-Hate Network Evan Balgord elaborated on the conspiracy theory: “We have two pandemics: We have the actual pandemic and then we have this pandemic of hate.Things are kind of getting worse both online and offline … with maybe one pandemic, we have kind of a solution for, but the hate thing, we don’t have a vaccine for that.” The Toronto Star (May 10, 2021) quoted Balgord: “Balgord said such events make for ‘fertile hunting’ for new recruits because hateful ideas are not being policed, and once someone believes in one conspiracy theory, it’s easy to believe in others. ‘We now have a greatly increased number of people who are coming into close contact with racists and bigots of all stripes with more conspiracy theories.'” he said.

            As early as last December, Canada’s censorship lobby was sounding the alarm. The Kelowna Courier (December 18, 2020) reported: “Anti-mask and anti-lockdown rallies in Kelowna have caught the attention of anti-hate groups across Canada because of what they say are ties to a known Canadian white supremacist. According to Elizabeth Simons, deputy director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, the presence of Paul Fromm at several local rallies dating back to the spring, and his association with rally organizer David Kevin Lindsay, are troubling.

            Fromm has been described by anti-hate groups as a known neo-Nazi. According to Simonds, far-right and white-nationalist groups and supporters are directly involved in organizing many similar rallies across Canada. ‘It’s hugely concerning seeing this trend right across the country,’ she said.”

            Jewish lobby groups have, in the past, been adept at “divide and conquer”, decreeing who may associate with whom or meet with whom without being tainted.

            However, with Canada’s End the Lockdown movement, the old tactic is just not working. That’s because of the nature of the movement, as I shall explain. If the End the Lockdown movement is not a vast rightwing conspiracy, then what is it? As they say on the dating sites: “It’s complicated.”

            On  May 17, the Globe ran an opinion piece by Bernie Farber and David Fisman entitled “Overlap between lockdown agitators and hate groups is a threat to us all” which caricatured the END THE LOCKDOWN rallies that have occurred on a weekly across the Dominion.

            A reader, uninformed by information available on the Internet or his own experience at a local rally, might conclude these rallies comprised people strutting around in funny armbands or earnest conspiracy weirdos with tinfoil hats. Nothing could be further from the truth.

            Attend one of these rallies and, although the attendees are angry at the job killing lockdowns, and  the loss of freedom to gather to worship, you find a happy atmosphere, reminiscent of a 60s love-in. Far from being a “hate group”, these rallies are joyous events, often with people dancing to boom box music and songs like Twisted Sister’s “We’re not gonna take it anymore” or Rolling Stones Mick Jagger’s new anti-lockdown song “Easy Sleazy”. No one wears a mask — well, occasionally, some wit wears one of those mediaeval doctor’s masks that looks like a bird’s beak. People embrace and hug complete strangers. Everyone is welcome. Indeed, one of the groups participating in many rallies is called Hugs Over Masks. In Toronto, a Chinese lady circulates through the crowd offering a tray of her home-baked treats free to fellow “freedom fighters.” Sadly, this elegant lady, in high heels and a fashionable dress,  was handcuffed and arrested on May 8 for being in possession of a megaphone.

            The END THE LOCKDOWN rallies are a political protestof a sort unseen since World War II. They started in Vancouver in mid-March 2020 The next weekend, they spread to Toronto. Those calling for an end to the crippling lockdown were sniffily dismissed by Premier Ford as “a bunch of yahoos”. Ironically, many of these people had been part of his populist “Ford Nation.”

            Since then, the rallies have spread right across the country. The remarkable fact about these protests is their regularity and consistency. They occur weekly in cities large and small. Movements in the past have staged mass rallies but not weekly and not right across the country. In the late ’60s, the left organized large anti-war demonstrations in major cities opposing the war in Vietnam twice a year. Similarly, in the mid-80s, the left staged large demonstrations against President Reagan’s star wars programme. Although these demonstrations were large, they were not weekly. Other groups have organized large protests but only on occasion like Right to Life’s annual pro-life rally in Ottawa  and demonstrations against specific legislation like more stringent gun control.

            The consistency and persistence of the END THE LOCKDOWN rallies are remarkable and they have spread and become a weekly occurrence from Kelowna to Penticton to Kamloops to Calgary to Edmonton to Fort McMurray to Saskatoon to Brantford and many other places. These rallies are really like ’60s “happenings.” The word goes out, usually over the Internet and concerned people show up, often with little advance notice and usually with little media attention. For instance, on May  14, over an estimated 50,000 END THE LOCKDOWN supporters gathered in Queen’s Park and heard speakers like Maxime Bernier, leader of the populist People’s Party of Canada. The rally and Mr. Bernier’s message went all but uncovered in the mainstream media. That evening, a smaller demonstration estimated at about 5,000  people supporting Palestine had sporadic clashes with a smaller group supporting Israel at Nathan Phillips Square. That was the event that got all the media attention.

            Participants hail from a wide range of backgrounds. I have talked to participants who voted Liberal, NDP, Green, Conservative or People’s Party in the last election. Mr. Farber, who, I suspect, has never attended an END THE LOCKDOWN rally, alleges participants are dedicated to “an anti-public health agenda aimed at undermining the Canadian economy and the health and well-being of Canadians”.

            What unites these people, young and old, working class, middle-class, rural, urban, is a passionate attachment to freedoms they see being vacuumed away in government lockdowns and restrictions. Far from undermining the economy, they want the economy re-opened and the job and business crippling lockdowns ended, perhaps like the state of Florida which is wide open, with businesses open and no enforced mask mandate and an infection rate slightly lower than Ontario, which has been locked down since November.

            Some from the start some feared that enforced masking was a dry run for forced vaccination. Now, there is widespread talk of some sort of proof of vaccination being a requirement for air travel, attendance at sporting event or entry to certain jobs.

            Many are appalled by the loss of religious freedom. Three Alberta pastors have been handcuffed and jailed for holding Sunday services. Yes, in Alberta, not North Korea. A ban or severe limitation on gatherings essentially cancelled Christmas and Easter worship. Religious folk and many civil libertarians are horrified at the padlocking of defiant Christian churches as has happened to Pastor Henry Hildebrandt’s in Aylmer and Pastor James Coates’ in Edmonton.

            The essential spirit of the END THE LOCKDOWN rallies was captured at a mass protest on a scorching July 1, Canada Day, on Parliament Hill. A sea of Canadian flags and some old Red Ensigns is one section set up a booming chant of “Freedom, Freedom” to be answered by a sea of Quebec Fleur de lys flags and a few flags from the Revolution of 1837 in another section and their chant “liberte, liberte”. — Paul Fromm

groups participating in many rallies is called Hugs Over Masks. In Toronto, a Chinese lady circulates through the crowd offering a tray of her home-baked treats free to fellow “freedom fighters.” Sadly, this elegant lady was handcuffed and arrested on May 8 for being in possession of a megaphone.

            The END THE LOCKDOWN rallies are a political protest unseen since World War II. They started in Vancouver in mid-March 2020 The next weekend, they spread to Toronto. Those calling for an end to the crippling lockdown were sniffily dismissed by Premier Ford as “a bunch of yahoos”. Ironically, many of these people had been part of his Ford Nation.

            Since then, the rallies have spread right across the country. The remarkable fact about these protests is their regularity and consistency. They occur weekly in cities large and small. Movements in the past have staged mass rallies but not weekly and right across the country. In the late ’60s, the left staged large anti-war demonstrations in major cities opposing the war in Vietnam twice a year. Similarly, in the mid-80s, the left staged large demonstrations against President Reagan’s star wars programme. Although these demonstrations were large, they were not weekly. Other groups have staged large protests but only on occasion like Right to Life’s annual pro-life rally in Ottawa  and demonstrations against specific legislation like more stringent gun control.

            The consistency and persistence of the END THE LOCKDOWN rallies are remarkable and they have spread and become a weekly occurrence from Kelowna to Penticton to Kamloops to Calgary to Edmonton to Fort McMurray to Saskatoon to Brantford and many other places. These rallies are really like ’60s “happenings.” The word goes out, usually over the Internet and concerned people show up, often with little advance notice and usually with little media attention. For instance, on May  14, over an estimated 50,000 END THE LOCKDOWN supporters gathered in Queen’s Park and heard speakers like Maxime Bernier. The rally and Mr. Bernier’s message went all but uncovered in the mainstream media. That evening, a smaller demonstration estimated at about 5,000  people supporting Palestine had sporadic clashes with a smaller group supporting Israel at Nathan Phillips Square. That was the event that got all the media attention.

            Participants hail from a wide range of backgrounds. I have talked to participants who voted Liberal, NDP, Green, Conservative or People’s Party in the last election. Mr. Farber, who, I suspect, has never attended an END THE LOCKDOWN rally, alleges participants are dedicated to “an anti-public health agenda aimed at undermining the Canadian economy and the health and well-being of Canadians”.

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            What unites these people, young and old, working class, middle-class, rural, urban, is a passionate attachment to freedoms they see being vacuumed away in government lockdowns and restrictions. Far from undermining the economy, they want the economy re-opened and the job and business crippling lockdowns ended, perhaps like the state of Florida which is wide open, with businesses open and no enforced mask mandate and an infection rate slightly lower than locked down Ontario.

            Some from the start some feared that enforced masking was a dry run for forced vaccination. Now, there is widespread talk of some sort of proof of vaccination being a requirement for air travel, attendance at sporting event or entry to certain jobs.

            Many are appalled by the loss of religious freedom. Three Alberta pastors have been handcuffed and jailed for holding Sunday services. Yes, in Alberta, not North Korea. A ban or severe limitation on gatherings essentially cancelled Christmas and Easter worship. Religious folk and many civil libertarians are horrified at the padlocking of defiant Christian churches as has happened to Pastor Henry Hildebrandt in Aylmer and Pastor James Coates in Edmonton.

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            The essential spirit of the END THE LOCKDOWN rallies was captured at a mass protest on a scorching July 1, Canada Day, on Parliament Hill. A sea of Canadian flags and some old Red Ensigns is one section set up a booming chant of “Freedom, Freedom” to be answered by a sea of Quebec Fleur de lys flags and a few flags from the Revolution of 1837 in another section and their chant “liberte, liberte”. — Paul Fromm

You May Not Have to Believe in Buddha, but You’d Better Not Question the Holocaust: Videographer & Longtime Buddhist Brian Ruhe Banned from Vancouver Buddhist Centre

On Feb. 29, 2020 the Vancouver Shambhala Centre told me to leave and not come back. The whole story is on my Blog at: https://www.brianruhe.ca/shambhala-centre-kicks-out-brian-ruhe-for-being-an-antisemitic-holocaust-denier/

They are a Tibetan Buddhist organization and I started my Buddhist life with them almost 30 years ago. You can file a complaint with them or ask questions, by contacting

International Care and Conduct Panel

Dan Peterson, Desung Care and Conduct Officer – peterhana.dan@gmail.com

On Feb. 14th at 1:43 pm Sandy Brooks phoned me using Victor Nicolle’s cell phone. I’ve always been particularly fond of Victor since my earliest days in 1991 so maybe that’s why Sandy asked to use his phone. Sandy said that her and Jan Russell have asked that I not attend the Sunday morning meetings because I have posted some pod casts which are antisemitic and some people feel uncomfortable. I think she meant the Jewish man Lawrence. At one of Acharya Susan Chapman’s courses he said that his Jewish family in England was harassed by Nazi’s after WWII, which seems odd since the Germans lost. I think he is the one who complained to Sandy.

I said, “OK, I won’t go on the Sunday mornings if that’s what they want”. I explained, “I was objecting to the elite Jews, like the Rothschilds and I was objecting to their conduct, not their race. I’m not against ordinary Jewish people but I’m opposed to the elite”. I said, “I’m acting out the Bodhisattva vow of compassion for the world as the Rothschilds endanger the whole world and I’m following Chogyam Trungpa’s teaching to be genuine and authentic. The Rothschild bankers control almost every country in the world and they control Canada and I’m speaking out against that, out of compassion”. Sandy said that she appreciated how I felt but I make some people uncomfortable going there on Sunday mornings.

I responded, “But I’m pleasant to everyone there. I treat Jews fine when I’m there, like Dr. Ron Greenberg, who was my doctor.” I asked, “What do the Jews have to do with Buddhism?” Sandy said, “You’ve also denied the Holocaust.” I asked, “What does the Holocaust have to do with this?’ She said, “Some members had family who they lost in the war.” She couldn’t justify her position.

On Shambhala Day, Feb. 29, 2020 I went there and Shastri John Fox kicked me out. He said I was told I can’t come back at all but he was wrong. He said they even checked with the police. That really hurt, of course, as I’ve gone there over the past 30 years. How would you feel if you were banished from your spiritual community?

I kept this away from the public until this Sept. 2nd blog. This is much bigger now. This affects all 140 Shambhala centres worldwide because the issue is Jewish control over Shambhala has betrayed their religion. I am now working with others to “Make Shambhala Buddhist Again”. This is also the first time I am going public with an open higher realm battle to topple Jewish control from Shambhala. Both sides are above the law as there are no laws regarding the use of higher realm powers. The fight is on… read more at the link https://www.brianruhe.ca/shambhala-centre-kicks-out-brian-ruhe-for-being-an-antisemitic-holocaust-denier/