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Luke LeBrun Profile picture
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Sep 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
A man connected to a far-right group that's been camped out at the War Memorial followed a Radio-Canada journalist down Sparks Street today and physically attempted to place him under "citizen's arrest" as he tried to enter the CBC Ottawa building.
The far-right group that posted the video apparently thought they were attempting to place a Bloc Québécois MP under "citizen's arrest."

(I deleted an earlier tweet that misidentified the journalist in the video as an MP based on the info they posted). Image
Another video posted by the far-right group shows the guy who followed and tried to arrest a Radio-Canada journalist was later released by Ottawa Police.

"You guys didn't steal my doobies, did ya?" he jokes with police, then turns to the camera and says: "Told you so."

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Aug 14
First bots, now fake news:

There appear to be a series of paid ads on X dot com presented as news articles making false statements about NDP leader @theJagmeetSingh.

These look like the same types of scammy ads that were targeting CTV’s Mary Berg and other TV personalities.
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To further underline the integrity problems with this platform, these fake news ads display a @euronews URL but the link redirects to a website called starzbet77 dot com.

(Euronews is one of Europe’s biggest TV news channels) Image
h/t @OpnBrdrsAdvct who found another example of a similar fake news ad targeting Singh with false claims that displays as a link to the National Post.

(It redirects to a dead website called reverblink dot com) Image
Read 5 tweets
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Aug 4
Hundreds of accounts claiming to be located in the United States, France, England, Russia, etc. say they are “still buzzing” after attending Pierre Poilievre’s recent rally in Kirkland Lake, Ontario:


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h/t @The280Times who documented hundreds of weird tweets allegedly from around the world with identical text claiming to have attended a rally in a remote mining town in northern Ontario

A lot of these accounts are also tweeting about climate change and pleading with people to reduce their carbon footprint, which makes me wonder why they would fly across the world to attend one of Poilievre’s anti-carbon tax rallies?


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Apr 27
NEW from me:

The Mexican Embassy contacted me late last night to say they are pulling out of a festival featuring Maxime Bernier, Randy Hillier, Tom Quiggin and True North’s Andrew Lawton.

Multiple organizations listed as corporate sponsors say they never sponsored the event.
PBS-affiliate WCNY in Syracuse, New York told me they are “not a sponsor of this event” and “have never been a sponsor.”

“We emailed the organizer last year and asked for our logo to be removed from their website ... but did not receive a response back.”

pressprogress.ca/ottawa-book-fe…
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Hill Times Publisher Anne Marie Creskey also said they are “not a sponsor of this event” and “will be asking them to remove our logo.”

The newspaper’s logo is displayed on a page selling vendor tables and corporate sponsorships.

#ottnews pressprogress.ca/ottawa-book-fe…
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Feb 18
Some arrests to report from Parliament Hill:

The Parliamentary Protective Service just arrested the convoy guy with the tinfoil hat, Claude Comtois, after he (allegedly) assaulted local activist Deana Sherif: Image
Video from Sherif’s livestream appears to show a different convoy guy repeatedly bumping her with his backpack and aggressively confronting her.

The stream ends with some kind of altercation and the feed going dead. Tinfoil hat guy apparently joined the melee that followed:
Sherif was also arrested after yelling at a guy dressed in yellow pajamas, top hat, steampunk goggles and a Canadian flag cape who was giving a witness statement and refusing to promptly leave Parliament Hill.

I’m told Sherif was released with a trespassing ticket. Image
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Feb 6
So you can send a random PDF from a dodgy polling firm with no names attached to @CTVCalgary and they might publish it:

“NPRC says the polling was not commissioned. The company has no website and said it is a subsidiary of a voter contact firm, which it won’t name.”
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Update:

@CTVCalgary has changed its headline and significantly rewrote its story:

calgary.ctvnews.ca/majority-of-al…

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@CTVCalgary Oh.

PDF metadata of this poll found on another website indicates it was created four days ago on Canva by Alissa Golob, Executive Director of the anti-abortion group Right Now.


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Nov 22, 2023
Witness tells Buffalo’s @WGRZ he saw someone barrel down Main St. in a Bentley at 100+ miles/hr swerve to avoid a car, hit a fence, go airborne 30 ft, then burst into flames.

According to the witness, the Bentley originated on the US-side, not Canada.

If I got this right, it sounds like someone was speeding in Buffalo, lost control of their Bentley, randomly flew into an unrelated border crossing booth and burst into flames.
This appears to be what the witness is describing. He said the Bentley was barrelling down Main St. at high speeds, then hit a fence (red line) and flew 30 ft in the air.

Photos showed flames / debris next to the US Customs building on the other side of the fence. Image
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