Here’s the location of another base camp at a farm 5 minutes outside Arnprior.
One faction of convoy leaders appear to be broadcasting this info in hopes of luring convoy people away from other base camps to their base camp.
They plan to throw a dance party tomorrow night.
Base camp organizers have authorized livestreamers to broadcast images from inside the base camp in order to show off how cool their base camp is.
Here are some images:
The livestreamer takes us on a tour of the base camp’s parking lot and is eager to show off how many vehicles have shown up so far.
Interestingly, there are not many big rigs – the vehicles are mostly pick-up trucks, RVs and smaller cars.
The base camp has its own “security.”
“Don’t come if you’re not supposed to be here. Don’t be media. Don’t be troublemakers. We don’t have time for you guys.”
(The full livestream suggests a firm ‘in-group/out-group’ mentality is really setting-in with these people)
Some guy who calls himself “Big Bear” explains they are trying to “merge” the base camps and suggests they are preparing to dig in for the long-term:
“We are here til the end ... Until we get our freedoms won back ... That’s the goal.”
This appears to be convoy leader Daniel Bulford at the Arnprior base camp this evening.
Bulford turned himself into police on Friday but, according to his wife, was released without charges. He was back at a police line Sunday and is now back to organizing at a base camp.
The livestreamer who was authorized by base camp leaders to produce this video is very eager to impress upon viewers how well-stocked it is with food and supplies and other “random stuff”:
They also have “lots of portapotties”:
They all seem to be hanging out watching replays of themselves getting arrested by police on their phones.
This one guy is convinced that the United Nations sent its own secret police force to Canada on planes (he is actually pointing at officers with the Sûreté du Québec).
Anyway, we now have rural base camps confirmed in the following locations just outside Ottawa:
• Arnprior
• Embrun
• Greely
• Vankleek Hill
Here’s my earlier thread on this from this afternoon:
There appear to be a series of paid ads on X dot com presented as news articles making false statements about NDP leader @theJagmeetSingh.
These look like the same types of scammy ads that were targeting CTV’s Mary Berg and other TV personalities.
To further underline the integrity problems with this platform, these fake news ads display a @euronews URL but the link redirects to a website called starzbet77 dot com.
(Euronews is one of Europe’s biggest TV news channels)
h/t @OpnBrdrsAdvct who found another example of a similar fake news ad targeting Singh with false claims that displays as a link to the National Post.
(It redirects to a dead website called reverblink dot com)
Hundreds of accounts claiming to be located in the United States, France, England, Russia, etc. say they are “still buzzing” after attending Pierre Poilievre’s recent rally in Kirkland Lake, Ontario:
h/t @The280Times who documented hundreds of weird tweets allegedly from around the world with identical text claiming to have attended a rally in a remote mining town in northern Ontario
A lot of these accounts are also tweeting about climate change and pleading with people to reduce their carbon footprint, which makes me wonder why they would fly across the world to attend one of Poilievre’s anti-carbon tax rallies?
The Mexican Embassy contacted me late last night to say they are pulling out of a festival featuring Maxime Bernier, Randy Hillier, Tom Quiggin and True North’s Andrew Lawton.
Multiple organizations listed as corporate sponsors say they never sponsored the event.
The Parliamentary Protective Service just arrested the convoy guy with the tinfoil hat, Claude Comtois, after he (allegedly) assaulted local activist Deana Sherif:
Video from Sherif’s livestream appears to show a different convoy guy repeatedly bumping her with his backpack and aggressively confronting her.
The stream ends with some kind of altercation and the feed going dead. Tinfoil hat guy apparently joined the melee that followed:
Sherif was also arrested after yelling at a guy dressed in yellow pajamas, top hat, steampunk goggles and a Canadian flag cape who was giving a witness statement and refusing to promptly leave Parliament Hill.
I’m told Sherif was released with a trespassing ticket.
PDF metadata of this poll found on another website indicates it was created four days ago on Canva by Alissa Golob, Executive Director of the anti-abortion group Right Now.
Witness tells Buffalo’s @WGRZ he saw someone barrel down Main St. in a Bentley at 100+ miles/hr swerve to avoid a car, hit a fence, go airborne 30 ft, then burst into flames.
According to the witness, the Bentley originated on the US-side, not Canada.
If I got this right, it sounds like someone was speeding in Buffalo, lost control of their Bentley, randomly flew into an unrelated border crossing booth and burst into flames.
This appears to be what the witness is describing. He said the Bentley was barrelling down Main St. at high speeds, then hit a fence (red line) and flew 30 ft in the air.
Photos showed flames / debris next to the US Customs building on the other side of the fence.