Sadly, popsicles eventually do melt and those bunch of popsicle head commie troublemakers will be right back at it again. Sadly, here in the lower mainland of BC it is to mild here for trying to freeze anyone with a water cannon. But we can use those water cannons to try and hose and flush them all down into the sewer. I know that it will probably cause great harm and damage to the environment, but I think that it will be worth it in the end. Just saying.
B.C. pipeline protests continue to halt Ontario trains for 5th day in a row
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Sadly, popsicles eventually do melt and those bunch of popsicle head commie troublemakers will be right back at it again. Sadly, here in the lower mainland of BC it is to mild here for trying to freeze anyone with a water cannon. But we can use those water cannons to try and hose and flush them all down into the sewer. I know that it will probably cause great harm and damage to the environment, but I think that it will be worth it in the end. Just saying.
http://globalnews.ca/news/6578329/rail-blockade-protest-wetsuweten/
It is lamentably inconsistent to insist that Canada is a nation of laws, while simultaneously publicly engaging in the appeasement of those defying court orders.
This nation’s justice system, through the British Columbia Supreme Court, has empowered its law enforcement arm to remove both obstructionists and their obstructions from blockading Canada’s national infrastructure. Enforcing that order has been another matter.
No doubt there is strong support among Indigenous peoples for the position taken by five hereditary British Columbia chiefs against the Coastal GasLink pipeline project. There is also strong and signed support among First Nations along the route of the pipeline, for its construction service implementation.
Meanwhile, this crisis isn’t solely resting on Indigenous blockades of rail lines and interference with daily Canadian commerce and life. Anarchists are seizing the opportunity to cause disruption, not in support of Aboriginals but rather as a rally to their battle cry to shut down Canada.
What’s the nature of the timid argument against arresting and charging these individuals who are costing Canada dearly?
It is entirely fair to question Trudeau’s commitment to finding a resolution to the crisis. After all, as the unrest was developing, the prime minister’s focus was the pursuit of securing Canada’s temporary presence on the United Nations Security Council, limiting his direct engagement at home to long-distance missives from Africa and Munich.
Furthermore, Trudeau’s churlish exclusion of Andrew Scheer from a meeting of federal party leaders — a meeting supposedly to work toward a peaceful conclusion of the national disruption — demonstrated a small-minded and petulant man at his politically most malevolent.
Canada is a nation of laws? Then enforce them.
Failure to do so does not demonstrate strength and resolve. Rather, it timidly green-lights even more disruptive and harming future behaviours.
Great post. This prime mistake of Khanukistan does not give a dam about Canada. The rest of the world is more important to this buffoon of a so called leader. Trudeau does take his orders from the UN and George Soros. Both Trudeau's have done more to try and destroy this once great nation and both have and are still trying to turn Canada into a third world hell hole. Old man Trudeau admired Castro. His punk son said that he admires communist China. What does that say about this guy? Very simple. The guy is a communist and pretty much close to becoming a dictator in Canada.
All this fool wants to do about these blockades is to once again say let's all just sit down some more and talk. We won't try to solve anything, just try and make it appear as though we are trying to do something about the blockades. And after that, lunch will be on me(taxpayer's). This guy has been caught in scandals, ethics violations, and plenty of lies, and yet there was enough morons out there to give this fool his PM job back.
This country is now indeed being run and taken over by a bunch of no mind zombies. And the more new hundreds of thousands of new immigrants that he can keep bringing into Canada from all of those third world countries, the more voters he will be counting on to put him back in power in the next election. To become a citizen of Canada all one has to do is to live in Canada for three years, and voila, they are now Canadian citizen's. What a deal for them, eh?
Canada has become one hell of a phuc-ed mess and there appears to be that things will only get worse. But ask any Canadian politician if they really give a dam. By the looks of things these days, they appear to only give a dam about themselves and enjoy being looked at and treated like a bunch of pampered pooches. Our politicians wil say to us all that we are the bosses here, and you will do as you are told to do and just shut the hell up or else. We have no time to listen to you and your concerns. We are on a mission to destroy Canada, so leave us be. Now go away.
http://globalnews.ca/news/6578329/rail-blockade-protest-wetsuweten/
It is lamentably inconsistent to insist that Canada is a nation of laws, while simultaneously publicly engaging in the appeasement of those defying court orders.
This nation’s justice system, through the British Columbia Supreme Court, has empowered its law enforcement arm to remove both obstructionists and their obstructions from blockading Canada’s national infrastructure. Enforcing that order has been another matter.
No doubt there is strong support among Indigenous peoples for the position taken by five hereditary British Columbia chiefs against the Coastal GasLink pipeline project. There is also strong and signed support among First Nations along the route of the pipeline, for its construction service implementation.
Meanwhile, this crisis isn’t solely resting on Indigenous blockades of rail lines and interference with daily Canadian commerce and life. Anarchists are seizing the opportunity to cause disruption, not in support of Aboriginals but rather as a rally to their battle cry to shut down Canada.
What’s the nature of the timid argument against arresting and charging these individuals who are costing Canada dearly?
It is entirely fair to question Trudeau’s commitment to finding a resolution to the crisis. After all, as the unrest was developing, the prime minister’s focus was the pursuit of securing Canada’s temporary presence on the United Nations Security Council, limiting his direct engagement at home to long-distance missives from Africa and Munich.
Furthermore, Trudeau’s churlish exclusion of Andrew Scheer from a meeting of federal party leaders — a meeting supposedly to work toward a peaceful conclusion of the national disruption — demonstrated a small-minded and petulant man at his politically most malevolent.
Canada is a nation of laws? Then enforce them.
Failure to do so does not demonstrate strength and resolve. Rather, it timidly green-lights even more disruptive and harming future behaviours.
Ron, I deleted the photos of the thugs on the barricades as I refuse to give them even a second more of face time. Great post and comments, Ron.
Unfortunately, I have little doubt that rather than face any consequences for their illegal....bordering on terrorist actions - the perps will be bought off by the spineless little twerp. It is his default position when dealing with any FN issues.
They most generally are covered, Boomer - cowards that they are. I get your point but will continue to delete any photo of the thugs.
The maritimes uses trains to deliver propane for home heatings. I guess the next time they have to replace their furnace they should upgrade to a fuel that requires a pipeline.
Congratulations protestors! You didnt think things through when you chose to block trains instead of pipelines.
Congratulations protestors! You didnt think things through when you chose to block trains instead of pipelines.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-in-canada-the-bad-guys-are-winning
In the battle between the tolerant and intolerant in Canada, the intolerant are winning.
They’re winning because of the willingness of our governments and police to bow to those who break our laws, to the detriment of those who obey them.
A small group of Indigenous and environmental radicals has paralyzed much of the country’s railway system, resulting in hundreds of layoffs and enormous damage to our economy, by throwing up illegal blockades to protest a natural gas pipeline project in northern British Columbia.
A pipeline most of the Indigenous community there supports in return for compensation, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, genuflect before the radicals.
In Ontario, a court injunction to end a solidarity blockade of the rail line near Belleville was essentially ignored by Ontario Provincial Police and Premier Doug Ford’s government.
That recalls the dismal performance of former premier Dalton McGuinty and the OPP during the occupation of Caledonia by a small group of Indigenous radicals in 2006.
Local residents were held hostage for more than two years over a land dispute, court-issued injunctions to remove the radicals were ignored, the cost to taxpayers soared to tens of millions of dollars and the government sat on its hands, with the police basically siding with the radicals.
This paralysis of governments and police when facing Indigenous protests began with the Oka crisis in 1990 — another land dispute.
Quebec police officer Corporal Marcel Lemay was fatally shot by a bullet a coroner later determined was fired from a Mohawk Warrior position, but no one was ever charged.
In 1995, Indigenous protester Dudley George was fatally shot in the Ipperwash crisis — another land dispute.
In 1997, former OPP acting-sergeant Kenneth Deane (later killed in a highway accident) was convicted of criminal negligence causing death, for gunning down an unarmed George.
Since then, governments and police have been terrified of taking action in Indigenous protests or enforcing legally-obtained injunctions.
Canadians are sympathetic to First Nations. They want land claims resolved and for governments to address issues such as contaminated drinking water, mercury poisoning, poverty, substance abuse and high incarceration and suicide rates.
But kowtowing to law-breaking isn’t the way to do it.
Similarly, in Toronto, gang and gun violence skyrocketed after 2014, when Mayor John Tory, City Council, former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne (and now, Ford) banned street checks — a key tool of police intelligence gathering — over allegations of racism by anti-police radicals.
Street checks (aka carding) weren’t supposed to be scrapped, but a new regulation drafted by the previous Liberal government, ostensibly to prevent racial bias, was so unworkable street checks were abandoned with predictable results.
Since 2017, even uniformed LGBTQ police officers have been banned from marching in Toronto’s Pride parade, because of pressure by anti-police radicals, while governments continue pouring tax dollars into Pride, despite this blatant discrimination.
In 2017, the Toronto public school board bowed to pressure from anti-police radicals, removing school resource officers from 45 high schools, despite surveys showing they were overwhelmingly supported by students, teachers and parents.
This program had been agreed to by the police and the board in 2008, a year after 15-year-old student Jordan Manners was gunned down inside C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute in broad daylight, for which no one has ever been convicted.
Clearly, the bad guys are winning, which is why it’s happening over and over again.
They have been ever since the lawyers and judges got ahold of PET’s Charter of Rights and No Responsibility.
Well, Saskatchewan has now had it's first rail line blockade (since UNIFOR at the UpGrader in Regina a few weeks ago)..
A tense situation unfolded at a set of Saskatoon railroad tracks on Saturday as demonstrators and counter protesters clashed following Wet'suwet'en Nations hereditary chiefs opposition to a natural gas pipeline in northern B.C.
The blockade demonstration at the railroad tracks in Pleasant Hill between 20th Street West and 21st Street West on Avenue I began around noon.
The peaceful demonstration took a turn when counter protesters in support of the pipeline - originally gathered in front of City Hall - arrived and demanded an end to the blockade.
“We’re wondering what you’re protesting. Do you know what you’re protesting?” one man shouted as he moved towards the track.
A group of roughly 20 people carrying Canadian flags, with signs in support of the oil and gas industry, in addition to signs criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gathered along the tracks opposite the Wet’suwet’en supporters and began shouting and screaming while asking to open a dialogue.
Now counter protesters have showed up.
“I don’t even think they know what they’re here for,” Arley Laroque said of the blockade demonstration. “Why are they here? That’s all I can say. What Canada do they want to see?”
The blockade organized by the Indigenous Joint Action Coalition (IJAC) described the activism as a “peaceful ceremonial action” in a news release on Saturday. Erica Violet Lee was one of the demonstrators hoping the show of solidarity with Wet'suwet'en people could strengthen Indigenous land claims in the future.
As far as the screaming and shouting from boisterous counter protesters, Lee said those actions don’t hurt her resolve - they strengthen it.
“I don’t think counter protesters will stop anything we’ve planned already,” she said. “It’s just a peaceful demonstration.”
“We’ll just stay as long as we can and won’t let them deter us.”
Mark Friesen, a former People’s Party of Canada candidate in the recent federal election, organized and spoke at the counter group’s rally in downtown before relocating to the tracks in Pleasant Hill.
“Canadians are frustrated, they’re really angry at essentially the shutting down of our economy,” Friesen said before sharing his thoughts on the pipeline in northern B.C.
“Twenty Indian bands were consulted and approved this project. This project should be going forward.”
Police have now stepped in to keep the peace. In the middle of the two groups were more than a dozen Saskatoon police officers attempting to calm the crowd and keep the demonstration peaceful.
Lee said she knew a “threat” (???) would arise when she heard that counter protesters were en route, but never felt actions would turn violent. “The amount of vitriol we’re facing right now is really hard to take,” she said. “I think that we’re always afraid for our safety as Indigenous peoples here in Saskatchewan.” (???)
Blockades began appearing on railways across the country in response to RCMP action to move people who were blocking a worksite on the Wet'suwet'en traditional territory for Coastal GasLink to build a natural gas pipeline.
Many of the demonstrators in Saskatoon remained silent, not wanting to engage with counter protesters. At one point, one of the counter protesters moved across the tracks to defend his argument with police surrounding him. After tensions seemed to settle, this man crossed to the other side of the tracks.
After roughly two hours of back and forth, chanting and shouting from both sides, police officers and a Canadian Pacific Railway employee warned people to move away from the tracks so an incoming train could move through.
That decision seemed to diffuse the situation with some of the counter protesters thanking their counterparts for allowing the train to pass through before leaving the area.
Protesters said they plan to remain at the site for multiple days.
A tense situation unfolded at a set of Saskatoon railroad tracks on Saturday as demonstrators and counter protesters clashed following Wet'suwet'en Nations hereditary chiefs opposition to a natural gas pipeline in northern B.C.
The blockade demonstration at the railroad tracks in Pleasant Hill between 20th Street West and 21st Street West on Avenue I began around noon.
The peaceful demonstration took a turn when counter protesters in support of the pipeline - originally gathered in front of City Hall - arrived and demanded an end to the blockade.
“We’re wondering what you’re protesting. Do you know what you’re protesting?” one man shouted as he moved towards the track.
A group of roughly 20 people carrying Canadian flags, with signs in support of the oil and gas industry, in addition to signs criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gathered along the tracks opposite the Wet’suwet’en supporters and began shouting and screaming while asking to open a dialogue.
Now counter protesters have showed up.
“I don’t even think they know what they’re here for,” Arley Laroque said of the blockade demonstration. “Why are they here? That’s all I can say. What Canada do they want to see?”
The blockade organized by the Indigenous Joint Action Coalition (IJAC) described the activism as a “peaceful ceremonial action” in a news release on Saturday. Erica Violet Lee was one of the demonstrators hoping the show of solidarity with Wet'suwet'en people could strengthen Indigenous land claims in the future.
As far as the screaming and shouting from boisterous counter protesters, Lee said those actions don’t hurt her resolve - they strengthen it.
“I don’t think counter protesters will stop anything we’ve planned already,” she said. “It’s just a peaceful demonstration.”
“We’ll just stay as long as we can and won’t let them deter us.”
Mark Friesen, a former People’s Party of Canada candidate in the recent federal election, organized and spoke at the counter group’s rally in downtown before relocating to the tracks in Pleasant Hill.
“Canadians are frustrated, they’re really angry at essentially the shutting down of our economy,” Friesen said before sharing his thoughts on the pipeline in northern B.C.
“Twenty Indian bands were consulted and approved this project. This project should be going forward.”
Police have now stepped in to keep the peace. In the middle of the two groups were more than a dozen Saskatoon police officers attempting to calm the crowd and keep the demonstration peaceful.
Lee said she knew a “threat” (???) would arise when she heard that counter protesters were en route, but never felt actions would turn violent. “The amount of vitriol we’re facing right now is really hard to take,” she said. “I think that we’re always afraid for our safety as Indigenous peoples here in Saskatchewan.” (???)
Blockades began appearing on railways across the country in response to RCMP action to move people who were blocking a worksite on the Wet'suwet'en traditional territory for Coastal GasLink to build a natural gas pipeline.
Many of the demonstrators in Saskatoon remained silent, not wanting to engage with counter protesters. At one point, one of the counter protesters moved across the tracks to defend his argument with police surrounding him. After tensions seemed to settle, this man crossed to the other side of the tracks.
After roughly two hours of back and forth, chanting and shouting from both sides, police officers and a Canadian Pacific Railway employee warned people to move away from the tracks so an incoming train could move through.
That decision seemed to diffuse the situation with some of the counter protesters thanking their counterparts for allowing the train to pass through before leaving the area.
Protesters said they plan to remain at the site for multiple days.
If the police did the job they were hired and paid for there would be no demonstration or blockages anywhere besides praliment buildings.
Yep, I concur with your assessment of the situation, but in this case protestors from both sides got to engage, then got the Hell out'a the way for the train that went through.
Saskatoon protest springs up, even after Trudeau orders blockades torn down
RCMP ‘temporarily’ close office on Wet’suwet’en land, chiefs says more talks next week
Regina protesters tell Andrew Scheer to check his privilege in latest Wet’suwet’en rally
This CBC article is mostly about the protest but it does mention the counter protest at the end
Teach-in, counter protest take place in Regina
RCMP ‘temporarily’ close office on Wet’suwet’en land, chiefs says more talks next week
Regina protesters tell Andrew Scheer to check his privilege in latest Wet’suwet’en rally
This CBC article is mostly about the protest but it does mention the counter protest at the end
Teach-in, counter protest take place in Regina
I'm working on a country song. Here's what I got so far. . .
Wet'suwet'en, Wet'suwet'en
Wet and sued is what we're gettin'
Redcoats watch and don't do squat
If they lose patience, we'll get shot
Wet'suwet'en, Wet'suwet'en
Wet and sued is what we're gettin'
Redcoats watch and don't do squat
If they lose patience, we'll get shot
I find it hilarious that morons who say they're protesting in support of the Wet'suwet'en seem utterly clueless that the VAST majority of the Wet'suwet'en support the project. One would have to be pretty goddam stupid to suggest these "protestors" are in any way in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en.
As for the non-Native protestors, they're just racists dude. The eco-colonialists don't give a shit about the Native people in Canada. They're just using them to further their own ALT-left agenda. Period!
There's several reserves in Canada that don't have access to clean drinking water. At least two of them haven't had access for over 20 years
But nah, the "ultra-woke" ALT-left shit bags (and the UN) would rather focus their efforts on denying a group of Native people the opportunity to enjoy the economic benefits of our natural resources instead of actually protesting a real problem.