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Feb 19 5 tweets 3 min read
Yeah, that was the Church of Bubbles guy.

He’s throwing a dance party down at Metcalfe and Slater.
Jim Kerr (aka “Church of Bubbles”) was featured in our comprehensive round-up of extremists and social media influencers behind the occupation.

He drives around in a school bus that looks like the creative byproduct of an LSD trip.

pressprogress.ca/meet-the-extre… #cdnpoli #ottnews
Oh, interesting – I actually wasn’t that far off.

The origin story of the Church of Bubbles bus is that someone at a Burning Man town hall said they wanted to “make Toronto more like an acid trip.”
Anyway, Kerr is an aging raver who appears to have radicalized after COVID shut down nightclubs.

He has been a familiar sight at anti-lockdown events going back to the early days of the pandemic.
Either way, he’s having the time of his life tonight:

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More from @_llebrun

Feb 13
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.

#ottnews
For those unfamiliar with the Ottawa Valley and Eastern Ontario, this is where it is located on a map:

#ottnews
Here is the aft-view of the Embrun base camp as of this morning:

#ottnews
Read 6 tweets
Feb 12
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:

ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new… #ottnews
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).

#ottnews
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.”

#ottnews
Read 4 tweets
Feb 6
Here’s the view of the illegal base camp at Ottawa’s baseball stadium, which appears to be growing – easily 100 vehicles.

One protester told me a “rich man from Ottawa” dropped off 3 months worth of food (they didn’t know his name, just that he “owns a lot of land”).

#ottnews
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.”

The saunas are next to the tent.

#ottnews
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.

#ottnews
Read 4 tweets
Jan 3
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.”

Sounds like one less headache for CBC HR. Image
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 ImageImageImageImage
Speaking of “political agendas”…

The National Post managed to publish an “adaptation” of her Substack article only a few hours after it went live: Image
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Aug 15, 2021
So, Canada’s having an election.

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.

Here’s what @pressprogress does to fill those gaps:
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:
Read 8 tweets
Mar 30, 2021
Jason Kenney’s government wants 2nd graders to ask critical questions about “Robin Hood”
I feel like whoever designed this curriculum has never actually spoken to a 2nd grader before
This is a really weird exercise to ask a group of 7-year-olds to do
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