Here’s the perspective on the convoy from Chris from Alberta’s Whistlestop Cafe. He wants basic support like food for the protestors he says have been “abandoned” on the parkway and is asking people email him to volunteer to coordinate logistics. #littlelate
I don’t have the patience to sit through these two talking but here he is meeting with my MLA Todd Loewen.
Here’s Chris asking people to donate to Adopt a Trucker and offer their homes up so protestors can sleep, eat and shower.
It would be a real shame if the Redditors who’ve been trolling the convoy’s Zello threads volunteered to help him with this “monumental task” using this email and subject line.
Another tidbit: he says #FluTrucksClan protestors were stopped at the Quebec border and walked across the bridge so they’ll need help too. (Also maybe a bit of a Freudian slip there between pressing/depressing.) People tell him to talk to Pat King.
Chris says people will need to decide what to do if cops ask them to leave. The choices? Comply & leave, or hunker down and stay. But listen to the cops though.
The most adorable part of the video comes when he asks if protestors can lay off the horns between 7 pm and 7 am and not vandalize any statues and such because it’ll give people the “wrong impression.” I’m sure his appeals to being decent will work now.
He says it’s a “logistical nightmare” to get food and fuel. Too bad no one actually rented a shuttlebus with all that fundraised $$. I am just gobsmacked at the idea he wants 100s of volunteers to show up NOW via email & care for people’s basic needs.
Oh and he wants to borrow a 2 way radio now because he hasn’t been able to find one on the way. “Trucker” convoy eh. And again, the planning here is just 👏👏👏.
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It's "Ostrichfest" weekend and someone donated 3 tour buses to take people to the ostrich farm. Whether they actually filled them is an open question. They've created a new #ostrichconvoy Fb group.
So far Qweenie & friends are all smiles out there.
Katie Pasitney asks everyone to set aside their "different belief systems," that what they're doing at the ostrich farm will make people proud to be Canadian, and that they're not part of Bill Gates and the WEF.
The #avianflu infected ostrich farm in BC where convoyers have been camping out LOST in court. In a 136 page decision in favor of the CFIA, the judge ruled the cull can go ahead. Bubble bus convoyer Jim Kerr is now begging for support, hoping RFK Jr. or others will intervene.
James Sowery urges all convoyers to go make a stand at the farm. He can't, because he's still on conditions not to leave Alberta for his previous convoy activities at Coutts.
Jim Kerr says the BC ostrich farm is now the front line of the freedom convoy movement. And they are now "in position" to follow their plans to stop the cull. #convoywatch
The avian flu infected ostrich farm in BC says they will not comply to the CFIA order to cull their birds by Feb 1, and CFIA will have to come do it. Katie the ostrich farmer believes the world is watching & the way Canada should solve the crisis is by NOT culling birds. #birdflu
The ostrich farm was featured on Alberta convoyer and antivaxxer Ron Clark's FB livestream after gaining support from his fellow antivaxx convoyer Colin Bigbear Ross.
The avian flu infected ostrich farm in BC has been holding a YouTube panel of alleged experts tonight. Conservative MLA Ian Paton said he's doing everything possible to make the CFIA "back off" from culling the ostriches. #BIRDFLU #convoywatch
Harassment of politicians is part of the overall problem we have taking harassment and stalking seriously as a society. There are too many people who rationalize it or refuse to take it seriously as a threat, even when so many murders start with harassment and stalking.
People who do this, just like the woman who accosted Trudeau, often have a pattern of this inappropriate and threatening behaviour. Yet it's often difficult to even get a restraining order let alone get cops to do anything, even once it's escalated to open threats.
Behaviors that don't break the law and are seemingly harmless when performed separately (e.g., phone calls, gift-giving, texting) can become threatening and traumatic when they escalate in frequency, duration, & intensity. We need to start taking harassment far more seriously.
Loewen is a convoyer who actually went to Ottawa to try to overthrow the government. He employed a Diagolon member who just attended a meeting with an American NeoNazi in Edmonton. Don't ignore all that just because he's being forced to the table with Sajjan due to a crisis.
Minister Loewen has paid this man to be his constituency assistant in Valleyview and to take his official photos. The Leg under the UCP didn't see it as a security problem even though this is the guy who started the Alberta Diagolon telegram group.
Here's who Loewen's good friend and employee just hung out with in Edmonton. Do you really think Loewen respects Ottawa? When is someone going to care that the UCP government is ok with employing NeoNazis to interact with constituents?
It's been over 2 months since the "axe the tax" protests started. But before they started camps in Alberta. Ron Clark & Tyson "George" Billings helped start the convoy camp in Casselman, Ontario. Today one of the property owners posted about the huge mess they left. #convoywatch
It truly does look disgusting. This is the full aftermath of a convoy camp on private land.
Besides leaving a mess that's been taking WEEKS to clean, I've posted before that the convoyers also ran up a huge hydro bill for the property owners. Has that been paid off? Of course not. There's still $3000 owing. How exactly is that "helping Canadians afford their bills"?