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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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"?
Miranda Courts went live last night from the Lloyminster convoy camp because she's so angry more people aren't showing up. Throughout the live she struggles with why they don't have the millions she believes supported the convoy behind them now. #convoywatch
Miranda is upset & jealous that the "big names" like Ron & George can pull more people to their carbon tax protest events by Lacombe than she can to Lloydminster. Even her followers are starting to wonder if they're "missing" something.
Sitting by herself for hours at the carbon tax protest site, Miranda Courts has concluded the problem is "non-Canadians" & that white blue collar people are the ones being oppressed. She knows that sounds racist & doesn't care. (White nationalism alert.) #convoywatch
People wonder why I'm personally invested in following the convoy drama. A big reason is I started off reporting on some of them during covid while stringing for the Smoky River Express, covering High Prairie to Peace River. Freedom George is from High Prairie. A local.
Bob Blayone, another fixture on the Alberta anti-vaxx scene, is from Peace River. My longtime hometown now. I had to cover his failed attempts to decide the fate of our airport, which morphed into anti-mandate rallies, a failed run for council, & the "freedom" movement.
One of Bob's personal friends & a woman he has consistently platformed is Nancy O'Neill, who George interviews here on his latest live from Cochrane. Nancy is infamous in Peace River bec she was convicted of child abuse - of her own kid. Sometimes I see her at the grocery store.
So today Grande Prairie's angriest son Elliot "Moose" McDavid & his cronies were supposed to storm council again with their concerns about 15 minute cities after finally figuring out how to get added to the agenda and speak.
As you can see from this video McDavid posted to Meta, they had hundreds of upset people out to a pre-meeting - but oddly there's no word yet how many attended GP County Council's meeting today at 10 am. m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…
However, you can check out the county's responses to their concerns in the agenda for today - and they're kind of hilarious. Elliot McDavid was ANGRY they were changing the Reeve into a Mayor and making the county a 15 minute city. Not happening:
Nancy O'Neill of Peace River was sentenced today for the two counts of assault she was found guilty of Jan. 30. Judge Thietke granted her conditional discharge. O'Neill will be on probation for a year & must complete parenting courses & community service.
O'Neill showed up in court today with a red handprint painted on her mouth. She is not indigenous. She is married to an indigenous man & has been living on reserve. She had put cards with an image of herself with the same paint on local cars.
O'Neill has previously held "press conferences" with Bob Blayone & the Independence Party. She was accompanied in court today by a handful of local "freedom convoy" supporters who are also supporters of the Independence Party.