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@MackLamoureux
Feb 3, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Gonna be an interesting day.
Well they've arrived in Ottawa apparently. Seems she and a very small contingent of followers are "marching" on parliament as we speak .
Like others have reported, Romana left Victoria in a small convoy on Monday. She's made some stops and has seen a small bit of support along the way (more than you would think someone who claims to be the secret Queen of Canada would get tho).
She's giving a speech near parliament now and while she has a pretty attentive and supportive audience, she's pretty rambly and it's not really going over well.
QAnon Queen of Canada is attempting to burn a Canadian flag on parliament grounds as her followers chant freedom. Plan is to burn this flag and hoist one of hers.

They can't seem to be able to light the flag on fire though.
Romana is talking at length about how she passed a psych evaluation—referring to how RCMP took her for one following her ordering followers to go after people facilitating vaccinations.

I can't imagine how bizzare this must be for the people in the audience not familiar with her
There was one person who seemed to be with the protest pleading with her not to burn the flag but her followers drowned him out saying he didn't understand what was going on.
She seems to be coming to an end of her speech. Her followers give her a chorus of "thank you" at the end.

A lot of her followers believed this would be the big moment for her. Her ascension. That obviously didn't come to be but I assume that won't deter very many of them.
Anyways, that seems to be it for now. If someone you know has been taken in by this movement or if you formerly were a part of it, I would love to talk to you. If you're willing to share your story please get in touch at mack.lamoureux@vice.com or DM me for my number.

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Feb 28
The guillotine finally fell.

After eight years I've been laid off from VICE News alongside a cadre of talented pals. It was a hell of a ride. Thanks so much for reading, watching, and listening to my work there. I hope you’ll be seeing it elsewhere sometime in the future.
It’s hard to articulate exactly what I’m feeling right now.

I’m proud of the work I did and still in awe of the talented people I got to work with. I can't rave enough about the journalists (some I got to share a byline with!), editors, and producers I worked alongside.
I wrote over 1,200 stories for VICE (a few of which are actually good!) so to choose a some to highlight here is hard but I’ll try.
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Aug 13, 2022
A group of conspiracy theorists who follow a woman who has dubbed herself the Queen of Canada has gathered in Peterborough today in the goals of conducting citizen arrests against police officer.

“Citizen arrests today, time for the police to pay for their crimes.”
Surprisingly enough it looks like Romana Didulo, the Queen herself, is there. They were pretty far yesterday and must have don’t quite the drive to get to Peterborough.

The group started out as a QAnon group but has since morphed into something unique.
The man at the heart of the days “action” has been filming himself handing out cease and desists to people, including cops, in town on behalf of didulo for a while now.

If you want to know more about him, @Eatsfood2 is a great follow.
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Feb 19, 2022
Good morning from Ottawa where shit is tense. Huge line of cops and a line of protestors two or three deep. Chants of “Were not going to take it” and “hold the line.” #freedomconvoy22
Police just pushed the protestors back quite a bit to behind another set of trucks. They yelled and pushed back a bit but moved.
Lots of worried faces. Saw some kids with their parents who looked rather scared. Think many die hards realizing this is the end of the occupation.
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Feb 18, 2022
Tensions growing in Ottawa as police move very slowly towards the crowd. #freedomconvoy22

Also I’m here
There is a family with a young boy standing in front of some riot cops “holding the line.” Not gonna tweet the photo of the kid for obvious reasons but here’s the cops.
Shouts of “hold the line” as Quebec cops (shipped in as reinforcement) and protestors show off. Tear gas guns and a couple long rifles are clearly displayed by the cops.

A younger guy behind me just explained to an older woman what kettling is.
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Feb 16, 2022
Two of the three men arrested in Coutts and charged with conspiracy to commit murder are connected to a shit-posting, far-right, anti-government community.

My latest on the arrests and "Diagalon." vice.com/en/article/k7w…
Also worth reading is this story on Sikh Canadians who are a part of the Ottawa protest. A clearly different but likewise important part of Freedom Convoy 2022.

vice.com/en/article/akv…
The de facto leader of the group, who is attempting to convince his followers that the arrests are a false flag went on Infowars this morning. Infowars, all in on the truckers, are happy to help spread this conspiracy (as well as another floated by Ottawa organizers.) Image
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Nov 25, 2021
The QAnon Queen of Canada has told her followers to 'shoot to kill' healthcare workers vaccinating children and arrest those facilitating it.

Her followers are giddy and doing what they can to aid the "duck hunters"—those chosen to carry out the violence.
vice.com/en_ca/article/…
Some of Didulo's thousands of followers have volunteered to be "duck hunters" for her and follow these orders. They've created private chats where they're sharing info of vaccine pop-ups for children.

Like a lot of this stuff, it's goofy until it's not. vice.com/en_ca/article/…
@misterEpete and @AlxnderThaGr8 (both of who you all should follow) were among the first to flag this and both were kind enough to speak to me about it. Here is Peter's story on it. antihate.ca/queen_of_canad…
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