Ottawa Councillor Rick Chiarelli, who is the subject of numerous controversies re: allegations of sexual harassment, went on a video stream run by Laura Lynn-Tyler Thompson, a well-known figure in the anti-lockdown / COVID conspiracy movement:
Here are a few highlights from Rick Chiarelli and Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson’s listening tour:
Asked if he has anything to say to an Ottawa councillor, one convoy member asks Chiarelli if he’s heard of the “Great Reset” or “the 2030 Agenda” (Chiarelli says he has not).
This other guy tells Chiarelli the Holiday Inn in Gatineau is discriminating against the unvaccinated.
He shows him photos he claims proves vaccinated guests are getting eggs, bacon, sausages and toast for breakfast whereas unvaxxed guests get “an apple and whatever.”
This hasn’t gotten as much attention as the one at the baseball stadium or the one briefly at Confederation Park, but there is a base camp located 30 minutes outside Ottawa in a farm field near Embrun.
This morning, there were 50 or so vehicles at the Embrun base camp.
They’re storing all their food and supplies in these tents.
They described it as kind of like a potluck, where people bring over whatever they can. But they said there are growing fears in the camp donated food could contain “poison.”
They’re pretty rattled by the reaction of local residents. They understand the nuisance they’re causing, but seemed to believe they would be welcomed as liberators.
They don’t see how this stalemate will end – their goal was to force Trudeau to negotiate with them.
CBC employee says she quit her job in protest of CBC’s “radical political agenda” to promote “the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others.”
Not clear how her “journalistic integrity” was compromised by CBC’s “radical political agenda.”
Her most recent bylines were in 2018 (years before CBC brought in policies re: systemic racism). They’re breezy lifestyle / personal finance articles + a paid advertorial for Whistler
Speaking of “political agendas”…
The National Post managed to publish an “adaptation” of her Substack article only a few hours after it went live:
One of my beefs with how Canada’s legacy media covers elections is they can be very superficial: Lots of commentary about horse race polls and staged events, not much focus on issues and ideas.
The reason something like @pressprogress exists is because bigger outlets keep missing important stories.
We focus on stories on underreported issues like social and economic inequality, big business and labour, right-wing politics and extremism, civic institutions, etc.
That’s our editorial mission. Those are our perameters. We basically spend our time looking for original stories inside those areas of coverage.
During this election, @pressprogress is going to keep doing what we always do, but we want to emphasize a few other things too:
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).