Meanwhile, in Canada

[Signtist]

do you know anything about whether those imprisoned have been released, and what terms? funding/banking?
reports+videos reinstated??

Trudeau revoked the Emergencies Act. What are terms? How are people getting along?

Some were denied bail, waiting for trial. Many have been charged with very minor violations and have gotten their trucks back. Some were not even charged, but had vehicles impounded for 7 days.

FINTRAC has ruled that there were no terrorist activities/accounts funding the convoy. Trudeau? Not sure what happened there. He dropped it suddenly, probably over concerns of the (In)stability of financial institutions.

How are people getting along? Same as always. Some try to divide, others to unite, still others seem to love everyone.

[temporal1]

do you know anything about whether those imprisoned have been released, and what terms? funding/banking?
reports+videos reinstated??

Trudeau revoked the Emergencies Act. What are terms? How are people getting along?

Some were denied bail, waiting for trial. Many have been charged with very minor violations and have gotten their trucks back. Some were not even charged, but had vehicles impounded for 7 days.

FINTRAC has ruled that there were no terrorist activities/accounts funding the convoy.

Trudeau?
Not sure what happened there.
He dropped it suddenly, probably over concerns of the (In)stability of financial institutions.

How are people getting along? Same as always. Some try to divide, others to unite, still others seem to love everyone.

Trudeau made a big-big mistake in removing all doubt about how intolerant, and even vicious, he+his ilk are, just under the surface.
The things said+done in response to the convoy, by the elected and by supporters, including some on this forum, were chilling.

i’m not sure who it was, i think someone in Canada’s political office, called for the government to CONFISCATE trucks (men’s businesses) and sell them. In addition to the draconian measures they actually acted on. Similar was suggested on this forum.

i mean, this is not only intolerant, but vicious. against unarmed, responsible tax-paying citizens.

i pray folks in Canada and all over the world take this very seriously. an important warning.
there may not be a better one.

i don’t believe the truckers had any idea what they were about to expose.

[Signtist]

i don’t believe the truckers had any idea what they were about to expose.

Correct.

[JimFoxvog]

The trucker's protest got most of the coverage here, but some might be interested in reading about the response it generated.

https://truthout.org/articles/trucker-c ... t-movement

An exerpt:

...
As the trucks headed into downtown Ottawa at the end of January, local organizer Dan Sawyer saw that these protesters were laying siege to people’s actual neighborhoods. Thousands had joined the anti-vaccine protesters and the diesel fumes were overwhelming people’s homes, making it nearly unlivable, while at the same time the occupiers were doing things like jamming the 911 emergency lines.

“The combination of the vehicles and the fact that they were so dug in at their encampment downtown made it seem really overwhelming,” Sawyer said, noting that the ability of the far-right demonstrators’ interference was heightened by the trucks clogging up their roads. The occupiers were themselves well organized, creating a pathway to funnel in fuel and resources on a 24-hour timeline, essentially using a type of mutual aid to keep their protests going.

Left-wing organizers looking to defend their cities from a right-wing incursion were unprepared for a coordinated gathering of this size. But they soon launched mutual aid efforts of their own, helping people in the city who were unable to get normal resources. This included building on networks that had already existed and were exercised during the pandemic.

Sawyer’s group, the Punch Up Collective, began supporting these efforts, as well as the planning for a large demonstration against the occupation. There was a small rally on Feb. 5, but this was just a lead up to the much larger march that happened on Feb.12, led by a series of community groups and public sector unions that coalesced into the new group Community Solidarity Ottawa.

“There was a really huge interest in doing something public, showing public opposition,” said Sam Hersh, an organizer with the progressive group Horizon Ottawa, which joined the loose Community Solidarity Ottawa coalition. “There was such a palpable air of anger and frustration in the city. There were people engaging in things like direct action that never would have happened.”

Many in town were scared to leave their home, particularly given the reports of violence against marginalized people. “Strategically, the most important thing was to engage as many people as possible, so we chose a march route that would avoid the downtown occupation,” said James Hutt, an organizer with the Canadian Association of University Teachers who helped organize the mass march on Feb. 12.

They trained 50 marshals and got people ready for the mass demonstration, which drew a crowd of 4,000 participants, united by many of the same workers who were being impacted by the aggressive occupation. Unions were a key constituency, particularly given their resources. Instead of keeping the messaging just on vaccine mandates they wanted to shift the conversation to real solutions for working-class Canadians, such as paid sick leave, a living minimum wage and career protection for truckers....

[Sudsy]

Some praise for what Canada has done for Ukraine - https://www.international.gc.ca/world-m ... x?lang=eng

Things of a 'good report' - Philippians 4:8

[Robert]

https://www.theblaze.com/news/freedom-c ... l-decision

Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich has been released from custody after a justice in Ottawa, Canada, overturned a previous justice's ruling.

The justice said that the previous justice who controversially denied Lich bail made several errors in law, according to CTV News Ottawa.

Lich, a resident of Alberta, has been released on CA$25,000 bond and has been ordered to leave Ottawa within 24 hours and Ontario within 72 hours. She may not return to the province except to attend court or to meet with her lawyers.

She was arrested Feb. 17 and charged with counseling to commit mischief for her role in the trucker protests against Canada's vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Lich organized a GoFundMe campaign that raised more than $10 million to support the demonstrators, who had camped in downtown Ottawa for weeks, disrupting traffic and refusing to leave the city until the mandates were lifted.

[temporal1]

https://www.theblaze.com/news/freedom-c ... l-decision

Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich has been released from custody after a justice in Ottawa, Canada, overturned a previous justice's ruling.

The justice said that the previous justice who controversially denied Lich bail made several errors in law, according to CTV News Ottawa.

Lich, a resident of Alberta, has been released on CA$25,000 bond and has been ordered to leave Ottawa within 24 hours and Ontario within 72 hours. She may not return to the province except to attend court or to meet with her lawyers.

She was arrested Feb. 17 and charged with counseling to commit mischief for her role in the trucker protests against Canada's vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Lich organized a GoFundMe campaign that raised more than $10 million to support the demonstrators, who had camped in downtown Ottawa for weeks, disrupting traffic and refusing to leave the city until the mandates were lifted.

Brian Peckford’s response?
Any word on status of GFM funds?

[silentreader]

Postmedia is saying that CBC is retracting some of its statements about the Ottawa Convoy

[temporal1]

Postmedia is saying that CBC is retracting some of its statements about the Ottawa Convoy

Now Ukraine.

[Sudsy]

More of the 'good news' kind here in Canada -