{"id":5521,"date":"2021-01-15T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2021-01-15T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:14:23","slug":"shocking-city-of-toronto-employees-surveille-compile-a-dossier-on-rebel-media-for-covering-lawless-occupation-of-city-hall-square-http-cafe-nfshost-com-p5521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5521","title":{"rendered":"Shocking City of Toronto Employees Surveille &#038; Compile a Dossier on Rebel Media for Covering Lawless Occupation of City Hall Square http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5521"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toronto Mayor John Tory caught spying on Rebel News\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uEJ1zP9FBRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Shocking City of Toronto Employees Surveille &amp; Compile a Dossier on Rebel Media for Covering Lawless Occupation of City Hall Square<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/occupied_toronto_mayor_surrenders_public_square_to_thugs\" target=\"_blank\">that delightful encounter<\/a>\u00a0we had with those \u201cpeaceful\u201d protesters that occurred back in June?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/tags\/nathan_phillips_square\">In case you don\u2019t recall<\/a>, here\u2019s an abbreviated backstory: Toronto\u2019s Nathan Phillips Square had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/showdown_rebel_news_takes_on_antifa_mob_mall_cops_and_politically_correct_police\">taken over<\/a> by a collective of ne\u2019er-do-wells known as Afro Indigenous Rising. And I do mean taken over. Think of this group as a poor man\u2019s version of Antifa and\/or Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Par for the course, they were vulgar and violent and their makeshift tent city was filthy. Oh, and they were also breaking some 11 sections of the Trespass to Property Act. (Even though it took authorities weeks to enforce it\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When <em>Rebel News<\/em> went to the square to report, given that it was clear the mainstream media would be sitting this one out due to political correctness, our staff were physically assaulted. But even worse, City Hall security sided with the lawbreakers, actually charging us with trespassing. Yes\u2026 trespassing on the public square\u2026 a public square that had been surrendered to thugs\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We never did bend the knee. And even though the squatters didn\u2019t want us there, nor the security guards, nor the police, we stood our ground and reported on the chaos at City Hall nevertheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But get a load of this: we recently issued a Freedom of Information request regarding this shameful story, and we were shocked to find out that the city had compiled an almost 300-page long dossier \u2014 not on the thugs, but on <em>Rebel News<\/em> staff, complete with bios, spy photographs, and personal information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emails that city employees sent back and forth regarding our reporting were astonishing. You see, it became clear that the goal from the get-go was not to remove the violent squatters (who the bureaucrats continually refer to as \u201cpeaceful protesters\u201d), but rather to come up with schemes that would limit freedom of the press!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that\u2019s how they roll in John Tory\u2019s sanctuary city \u2014 reward the takers; penalize the makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, the question arises: why was the city compiling such a database on journalists who were simply practicing journalism? Who has access to this database? And what will it be used for in the future?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like we\u2019ll have to issue yet more Freedom of Information requests to find out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking City of Toronto Employees Surveille &amp; Compile a Dossier on Rebel Media for Covering Lawless Occupation of City Hall Square Remember\u00a0that delightful encounter\u00a0we had with those \u201cpeaceful\u201d protesters that occurred back in June? In case you don\u2019t recall, here\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842,3008,3010,1046,1990,3011],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}