"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Towards neither forgetting nor repeating January 2022.
"Toronto police advise hospital workers not to wear scrubs to work this weekend ahead of planned anti-vaccine trucker protest in downtown"
Meanwhile, Ottawa's Mayor and Police Chief for the past week, dealing with the "trucker" protest, er occupation, in the nation's capital city.
With a Lego lag, it's getting hard to keep up with all the ridiculous stuff going on this week:
"Police are escorting this structure to the parking lot on Coventry Road beside the baseball stadium. It was built by convoy supporters..in Confederate Park.."
An out-of-lane way to remove disabled vehicles in Ottawa: Offer to scrap metal dealers.
Idea credit for "Jawas":
Ottawa Mayor: "Emergency!" and Police Chief: "We are arresting and seizing and interdicting fuel going into the demonstrations"
Vs. what's been reported on the ground: "they've been told not to enforce" @danrueck
What's going on, Ottawa Police Services?
I wonder what was discussed at dinner.
Do not under-estimate – he's not just some rando taking shirtless selfies.
Ontario's premier "working 24/7" with Ottawa under siege, on the day Toronto streets were closed to avoid similar fate.
What it takes to get laws enacted/enforced in Ontario...
USA: Hey, y'all need help up there?
What is going on in Ottawa?
Children need freedom from being used as 1) human shields by parents, and 2) excuses to not act by police and politicians.
Mayor of Ottawa negotiates with representative of seditionists, laying out welcome mat and hands over key to city.
GiveSendGo, the Freedom Convoy's crowdfunding website, was hacked to play a "Frozen" video along a manifesto condemning the website and the Freedom Convoy.
In other news, Happy Valentine's Day from Ontario's Minister of Education, upping his selfie game by starring in Vaughan’s version of The Bachelor with seniors.
Retweet if you're in as much awe as I am of Canada's Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland @cafreeland: "If your truck is at the blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen, your insurance will suspended. Send your rigs home." #IStandWithTrudeau
Introducing Candice (not Murphy Brown) Bergen, the interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Opposition, currently trending on twitter as entertainment.
Meanwhile, the RAT race continues in Ontario.
Heroes of Ottawa: Zexi Li and lawyer Paul Champ, for filing class action with Ontario Superior Court of Justice to silence incessant honking during occupation.
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Memories of Ottawa Occupation: Pot-banging guy on street corner disturbs occupants of nearby trucks.
"It still shocks and surprises me that we are seeing children put in harms way," Steve Bell, interim chief of the Ottawa Police Service, said.
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