3. Pat King is also still in jail having been denied bail, but he seems to think that he has found the magic formula to get himself out... he just needs his supporters to pony up $100,000.
4. Here is a fairly representative sample of comments that were left on his Facebook page.
5. Heading over to Calgary, we see that Dawid Pawlowski, Artur Pawlowski's brother, was arrested today.
6. Like Artur, Dawid Pawlowski has been a regular at anti-mandate protests, has spread dangerous disinformation, and has engaged in illegal behaviour with the belief he is above the law.
Even while arrested by "tyrants" he is treated with kid gloves.
7. The Telegram page "Real Canadian Convoy" has changed it's name.
8. Now in addition to the anti-mandate rhetoric and vaccine conspiracies, we get to be treated to a steady stream of pro-Putin propaganda because, you know, these folks are critical thinkers.
9. Diagolon de facto leader Jeremy MacKenzie, who predicted the fall of Ukraine in less than 72 hours and suggested the West "take the L" lest Russia wipe them out, is whining about out anti-mandate occupiers are the real victims still.
15. Far-right pseudo-journalist Leigh Stewart seems to believe that, despite mandates appearing to be ending in many province, the real purpose was to create a class of complaint drones easy for the government to control in the future.
16. However she too is annoyed that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has resulted in attention being turned away from what she must regard as "real" tyranny.
17. In fact that is sort of the theme among many who I had been covering.
For example, Tyler Russell of the hate group Canada First, currently vacationing in Mexico thanks to the Bank of Mom and Dad, had been celebrating the "success" of Nick Fuentes' event.
20. And yes, here Tyler Russell and Nick Fuentes are hanging out with Proud Boy founder
Gavin McInnes and with Milo Yiannopoulos.
21. However he is angry that it isn't receiving the attention that he feels it deserves.
22. Yeah, hard to believe a major geopolitical crisis would trump a far-right meet and greet.
23. Chris Saccoccia (aka Chris Sky) is in the process of planning another tour of self-promotion (because of course he is).
25. Already becoming increasingly irrelevant, Mr. Teeth doesn't want people talking about Ukraine because, and I have to presume this, it takes attention away from him personally.
27. Former Rebel Media personality and discount Tin Tin Keean Bexte, well, just has to keep on being Keean Bexte and that is tragedy enough.
28. Now, where does this leave us?
As I told journalists who have interviewed me we have to recognize that these people and those they radicalized are not going away.
29. We saw them move from one issue to another so I don't doubt that they will find the next issue, probably the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, in order to mine outrage and grievance.
30. The question is what do WE as Canadians do?
Do we again bury our heads in the sand and pretend this doesn't exist because it doesn't affect us directly?
Or do we come to terms with the reality of the far-right in this country and take steps to actually confront it and deal with it?
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1/ It's been a while since I've done a thread here, but the recent focus on Pat King got me to wondering what was up with his own Salacious Crumb, Tyson "Freedom George" Billings.
2/ Last time I looked at Billings he was a part of the efforts to set up a permenant camp outside Ottawa so there could be daily protests, though the original plan involved surrounding the police and arresting politicians.
Suffice to say it didn't go anywhere.
3/ Billings and Ron Clark soon headed home, but they both soon got involved in other protests including the anti-carbon tax protests occurring in the province. The numbers at these events have been small but that hasn't stopped from politicians from courting the fringes it seems.
1/ Though I'm not especially active these days, I'm still sometimes gobsmacked by some of the ridiculous (though sadly effective) rage farming by some on the right. Harrison Faulkner of "True North" is just a recent example of that.
2/ So a bit of background. Musical artist Karan Aujla won the 2024 TikTok Juno Fan Choice Award at the award ceremony this past weekend.
I think it was this weekend. Truth be told I don't pay a lot of attention to awards shows.
3/ It should be noted that Aujla has been in Canada for years emigrating as an orphan. He graduated from high school in Canada. The album was produced by a Canadian on a Canadian label.
1/ A couple of days ago self-proclaimed leaders of the "freedom movement" held a press conference in Ottawa which was about as unhinged as you might have expected.
2/ Apparently the person who set this up was Derek Noonan who was also one of the speakers.
That would be this guy and I shall get back to him shortly.
3/ Because these "freedom patriot" types are SUPER jealous of anyone getting even a tiny bit of the noteriety they seem to believe they deserve and are entitled to, Gordon Berry was not happy with the press conference.
1. Misinformation has always been a feature on Twitter but prior to Musk's ownership there appeared to be a minimal effort (very minimal) to counter it. Those days are clearly over.
Case in point, Theo Fleury shared this with his 285.8K followers today:
2. Before I go any further, no. This is not in fact true at all and a fact check would indicate that it isn't true.
Pictured here with Chrystia Freeland is her mother and sister.
3. When asked about the photo, the original poster said it was taken in 1967:
2. I am NOT going to post a clip covering every part of the video, but I do think there are a couple that are important.
First, Venne claims that he wasn't able to be himself and had to be careful how he spoke.
3. It appears that for people who complain about controlled narratives, Norm Blanchfield and Gordon Berry are really determined to control the narrative.