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Feb 13, 2022 12 tweets 9 min read Read on X
At Bank and Riveraide, counter protestors have held up a number of cars attempting to join up with the convoy folks.

Here video at the numbers of cars held up, sent to me by a counter protestor #cdnpoli #ottnews
Here’s a look at the crowd that has gathered at Bank and Riverside.

Considerably more counter protestors compared to trucks trying to get through #cdnpoli #ottnews
Police have been trying to negotiate with the counter protestors to get them to move, with no success.

When the crowd said they’re not leaving, One cop just came up to them asked “so how does this end then?”

That did not go over well with the crowd #cdnpoli #ottnews
More dispatched from Bank and Riverside

The counter protestors have taken a page out of the protesters from the hill and brought in some speakers #cdnpoli #ottnews
The counter protestors are still blocking cars from leaving, while police are in the crowd trying to find a solution.

One counter protester gets on the bull horn to encourage the crowd to ignore the protestors, who are honking #cdnpoli #ottnews
Pat King has now told convoy folks to go down to Bank and Riverside to help the protestors stuck there get out #cdnpoli #ottnews
Back at Bank and Riverside, a demand of the counter protesters is to have the cops take any jerry cans with fuel from the protesters in their cars

One counter protestor I spoke to said cops told her they don’t have the authority or legal ability to seize jerry cans on this road
Back to Bank and Riverside, as many other folks have reported, the trucks are being let go one by one, but they can only leave if they take the flags off their cars.

Note the police escort out for the truck #cdnpoli #ottnews
Cars continue to be allowed to leave by counter protestors, but not without a police escort to let them go #cdnpoli #ottnews
A couple protesters got out of their car and an argument broke out.

The protestor says to the counter protesters - “None of us are acting like terrorist or racist or hateful people like you guys are … this is the worst experience I’ve had in my whole entire life” #ottnews
When the protestors got out of their car, the cops also got all the counter protesters to move one side with the protestors on another.

There looks to be only a handful of protestors with lots of cops in between #cdnpoli
While leaving the area, this driver hit this cop with his car.

After that happened, the cop went up and asked the driver “So you’re not going to hit me with your vehicle again?”

“No sir” replies the protestor, before he drives off #cdnpoli #ottnews

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Feb 24, 2023
Liberal MP Han Dong is alleged to have been helped by the Chinese consulate in Toronto during his 2019 nomination race, by bussing in seniors & students to vote for him, according to CSIS docs & sources

CSIS asked the PM's senior staff to rescind Dong's nomination, per sources
Through a combo of CSIS docs and intelligence sources, Global News has learned the consulate allegedly sent 2 busloads of Chinese Canadian Seniors to Liberal nomination meeting, and those seniors knew who to vote for, because Dong’s name was written on their arm #cdnpoli
Sources also say CSIS suspected that Chinese international students with faked addresses were bussed in to Don Valley North and “told by the PRC Consulate” to support Dong, “if they want(ed) to maintain their student visa status,” as per CSIS docs and intelligence sources
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Feb 17, 2023
BREAKING – Justice Paul says the government met the threshold to bring in the Emergencies Act
“There was credible and compelling evidence supporting both subjective and objective reasonable belief in the existence of a public order emergency."
Here are some other key facts from the report.

Rouleau found on multiple league grounds the feds were justified on bringing in the EA. Cabinet had “credible and compelling information” that there was a “threat to the security of Canada” #cdnpoli
“The invocation of the Emergencies Act is a drastic move, but it is not a dictatorial one” said Rouleau. He went on to say, "I concluded that in this case, the very high threshold was met. I have done so with reluctance." #cdnpoli
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Feb 12, 2023
Defence Minister Anita Anand Flying says the unidentified object was shot down at 3:41 PM ET.

It was flying at 40,000 FT and posed a threat to civilian threat. Shot down a 100 KM from the US Canada border over Yukon #cdnpoli
Anand says what was shot down appears to be a small cylindrical object, which was smaller than what was shot down over South Carolina.

Anand adds it was the first time that NORAD has ever downed an arial object. #cdnpoli
Anand says there is "no public concern" with the object flying over Canada, adding that the RCMP will recover and analyze the object

"The importance of this moment should not be understated" #cdnpoli
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Nov 1, 2022
I'm watching the Federal Court hearing where Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones are fighting their summons to testify at the Public Order Emergency Commission looking into the use of the Emergencies Act. I'll tweet out some highlights #cdnpoli #ottnews
The lawyer representing Ford and Jones is arguing they have Parliamentary privileges allowing them not to be compelled to testify while the ON legislature is sitting, which gives them a “lawful excuse to not comply with the summons” from the POEC #cdnpoli #ottnews
The summons has put Ford and Jones in the “intolerable position of having to assert their privilege and potentially be faced with competed proceedings” as per their lawyer, adding that if they could face "irreparable harm" if a stay is not granted #cdnpoli #onpoli
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Oct 24, 2022
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and former Solicitor General Sylvia Jones have been summoned to appear at the Public Order Emergency Commission, looking into the use of the Emergencies Act.

The commission says they will get confirmation later today if they will appear #cdnpoli
Both Jones and Ford have come up repeatedly in testimony

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said Ford didn't want anyone from the province to attend meetings with other levels of government to deal with the Convoy because it would be a "waste of time" #cdnpoli

Ottawa's top civil servant said Jones told him "(the Convoy) was a law enforcement matter, it wasn't for elected officials to get involved with that"

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Aug 29, 2022
Back at St. Bridget's church, a local man went inside and sat on the stage

TUPOC director William Komer said the guy was trespassing and could be arrested by their private security, then the actually Ottawa Police showed up and arrested the guy #ottnews

fb.watch/fcVm3VqSiD/
As I outlined on Friday, the landlord put forward substantial evidence to show that TUPOC is actually trespassing.

Not sure how a random citizen can be arrested at the request of TUPOC members, who are also being accused of trespassing #ottnews

ctvnews.ca/canada/ottawa-…
As for the actual arrest itself, the guy was walking out of the church on his own, when he says to the cops “Nice to see you defend these guys, who shut down the city for a month”

The cop then asks for his name and he replies “you’re a fucking hero”

Then he gets arrested
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