Trudeau calls trucker protest an 'insult to truth'
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"The Almighty says to quit changin' the subject and answer the fockin' question."
--Stephen, Braveheart
Lol you are so funny . If you social distance , wear a diaper , sanitize hands regularly take two jabs and a booster and can still contract and spread the disease something is definitely not working . Is up , down in your world ? Man talk about rose coloured glasses .
Businesses are forced to demand your vax card. It is not their choice. ANd it is only certain businesses. The alternative is to have the Gestapo shut them down.
Here is another good one about government forcing businesses to do their dirty work. Completely unrelated to the Freedom Convoy.
In BC (at least) real estate sales people are required by law to report any purchases they think might be used to launder money to FINTRAC. For the next 5 years after the deal. So, if you pay cash for a house, or drive a new Tesla, expect the government to look really close at your finances.
Yup and in Hitlers Germany you would have worked as a box car stuffer . And I will have a great day , the sun is shining after breakfast a bucket of balls and off to the rally to mingle with a diverse group of Canadian patriots .
That was a cool story , I read about that years ago but had forgotten prior to seeing it last week .
And the economic lockdowns have killed even more people worldwide in two years. Covid-related hunger deaths alone are sitting at around 12,000/day. The peak for Covid deaths was 10,000/day.
You mean like needing papers just to go anywhere within your own country? Oh wait, that was Germany. Oh I know, forced/coerced injections. No wait, that was Germany again. Ummm hold on I know I can think of parallel measures in Canada. Oh that's right, lockdowns. People weren't allowed to go to work during WW2.
You're lying, and like all American and Canadian liars, you reach reflexively for the Nazis.
You know what else kills a lot of people? Traffic accidents. But only in a dictatorship would they require training and qualification and a government-issued card to operate a car you paid for with your own money.
NAAAA-ZEEEES!
You know what else kills a lot of people? Traffic accidents. But only in a dictatorship would they require training and qualification and a government-issued card to operate a car you paid for with your own money.
NAAAA-ZEEEES!
Is that an accurate number , I have seen recently that many countries , Italy for example , are downgrading their death counts . Just asking , I believe America is or is in the process of doing the same .
Still can't do it, can ya? It was a very simple question.
OK, maybe not so simple for you.
Oh clueless one, the vaccines have been proven not to work as advertised. People with three shots are getting COvid. Meanwhile people that require surgeries are dying because surgeries are being cancelled and hospital space is being held in case a few covid cases come in. DO try and read some real news.
He says they are choices . He chooses to let government to run roughshod over people’s life’s , like a good subject .
Raymond J. de Souza: CBC bias on full display in coverage of Freedom Convoy, Coastal GasLink protests
Excerpt from article.Raymond J. de Souza: CBC bias on full display in coverage of Freedom Convoy, Coastal GasLink protests
"Generally, there is nothing newsworthy about the CBC: how it covers the news is as predictable as its vanishing ratings. Yet a faithful reader sent along an article, which he thought bears comment. It does.
“Two key organizers of the so-called Freedom Convoy, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, have been arrested in Ottawa,” reported the CBC on Thursday. “The two have been described as key leaders of the occupation in Ottawa.”
According to the author, the Freedom Convoy is “so-called,” but there is nothing “so-called” about the “occupation.” I don’t demur from calling it an occupation, but the “so-called” business really ought to cut both ways in news reporting.
Why does it matter? Because as the CBC and many other formerly venerable news outlets decried the trucker occupation, they failed to recognize their own role in it. Amongst the multifarious grievances that the truckers brought to Ottawa, they complained that their voices were never heard, their stories never told by the “so-called” mainstream media. They appeared only as objects of disparagement.
A grievance is not justified, much less true, simply for being aired, but over the past three weeks, it was certainly the case that the establishment organs of our national media took a decidedly negative view of the truckers and their supporters. The operating editorial position was to find reasons to discredit them and to highlight discordant notes.
It’s not a novel, nor uniquely Canadian, phenomenon. But the hostility of many in the media is a significant part of what is driving the estrangement that the protesters on the streets of Ottawa feel. When freedom gets modified as “so-called” but occupation does not, there is more than a disagreement at play. Add in other terms presented straight up recently — “sedition,” “treason,” “insurrection” — and you see why so many conclude that the deck is stacked against them.
I wrote earlier in the week that when the Indigenous blockades of February 2020 were rewarded with wholesale concessions by government authorities, many who would come to sympathize with the truckers took note. It turned out that opponents of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern British Columbia were also watching the truckers this week.
After three weeks of examining how the media covered people it did not agree with and did not like, someone calculated that it would be a good time to get violent at the pipeline site. Sympathetic to the cause if not the tactics, the CBC and others would see that it did not become too hot of an issue.
In the early hours of Thursday, some 20 assailants wielding axes and metal grinders overturned heavy equipment and destroyed construction trailers. Millions of dollars in destruction was done, and the workers were terrorized, including an attempt to “set a vehicle on fire while workers were inside,” according to the company.
After three weeks of lamentations about blocked roads, blaring air horns and bouncy castles in broad daylight, what would the national broadcaster have to say about broken bulldozers, barricaded workers and barriers set for police, all done under the cover of night? Nothing.
All day Thursday passed without the story making the CBC’s national website. Late Thursday night, a B.C. bureau story went up, but until late Friday morning, the main CBC news site completely ignored the story. When it finally posted a story about the attack, the quotation marks were back: “acts of violence" were seen to have taken place.
You might think that given the remoteness of the area, in contrast to the proximity of the trucker convoy to the organic salad bars where CBC producers lobby government ministers for a bigger grant, it was difficult to get the story. Not so, as the National Post had the story within hours.
The CBC’s website even had a story on climate change in Nunavut up and ready to go before the one about the confrontation over the pipeline. Apparently, the news from the north moves faster when it confirms the political positions of the producers.
Blaming the messenger is often a technique of distraction. But the messengers here are a part of the story, and they too must account for their part. It is the responsibility that come with freedom of the press. Or should that be the “so-called” freedom of the press?
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