Statement from GoFundMe to CTV News about the fundraiser for #TruckersForFreedom Freedom Convoy 2022 that has raised $2.5 million.
In a Facebook Live, event organizer said they are working with GoFundMe and told supporters not to worry. She also said they are taking donations via e-mail transfer to a Protonmail account.
(She says she expects to hear back from GoFundMe on Monday morning.)
When you prepare to send money to the Protonmail account, the organizer’s name is returned as the recipient:
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Key figures today. Two doses of vaccine give: 25% reduction in chance of infection vs. unvaxxed; 77% reduction in chance of hospitalization; and 91% reduction in chance of ICU admission. Source: covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashbo…
Notably, these figures are based on estimate that 97% of infections in Ontario are omicron variant.
Some good news: test positivity rate *seems* to be trending downward and 66,000 people went to get their first shots in last week.
A thread on attempted election fraud in Canada: First, most breaches of election law here are related to financing, not illegal voting or ballot-box stuffing. And most are minor. That’s because our elxn finance laws are extremely tight and contribution/spending limits low. 1/
I covered two of the best-known cases in recent years: “robocalls” in 2011 election and the “in-and-out” affair of 2006. You probably heard a lot about the former and maybe nothing of the latter. Both were important for different reasons. 2/
In robocalls, the Conservative party’s voter-tracking database, CIMS, was used to make fraudulent automated calls to about 7,000 identified Liberal voters in Guelph, Ontario, directing them to the wrong polling location. The scheme didn’t work. The Liberals won the riding. 3/