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David Anber, Criminal Lawyer 🇨🇦 Profile picture
@DavidAnber
Apr 26 • 6 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Last year, former MPP Randy Hillier was charged with criminal offences in relation to his support for the #FreedomConvoy. His trial is currently set to be held in Ottawa. Tomorrow we argue a change of venue motion so that he can be tried in a jurisdiction other than #Ottawa.
In Ottawa, the #ArrestRandyHillier hashtag was prominent during the time. Further, the city and other local politicians have demonized the Freedom Convoy. One such example is the creation of @ottpeoplescomm funded largely by the taxpayers of Ottawa.
Another example is when then-mayor @JimWatsonOttawa tweeted his support for #ZexiLi who had received the “city builder” award from the City of Ottawa for her role as the lead plaintiff in a massive class-action lawsuit naming tens of thousands of ottawa residents as defendants.
This of course was a position officially taken by the City.
Local area MPP tweeted support for the #RamRanchResistence and included this support in his Twitter bio. This was referring to the “Battle of Billings Bridge” where counter protesters were portrayed by local politicians including @_MarkSutcliffe as anti-occupation heroes. ImageImageImage
.@randyhillier cannot seriously receive a fair trial with a jury picked from this community.

👀 Stay tuned for updates on our motion as they become available tomorrow onward.

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David Anber, Criminal Lawyer 🇨🇦 Profile picture
Apr 27
Randy Hillier's motion for a change of venue was dismissed today by Justice Kevin Phillips of the Superior Court of Justice. Justice Phillips dismissed the motion "summarily" which means he didn't permit the parties to even have a hearing. Respectfully, he got it wrong. 🪡🧵
Firstly, I'll say that I am not going to lay out all of my criticism for this decision. Judges cannot respond to criticism and so public criticism is not the best way to address a judicial decision. I will, however, make some comments about the worst aspects of his decision.
Summary dismissal is a drastic result. In a situation like this, it can only be issued where there is no chance of success of the motion. To this, Justice Phillips likened Mr. Hillier's motion to the motion brought by James Bauder and Pat King.
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Jun 18, 2022
✍️ PLEASE ADD TO THIS THREAD

Many have contacted me lately asking what to do about dealing with the small fringe minority of businesses that continue to require masks in their establishments.

This thread is to list CANADIAN 🇨🇦businesses that do/don’t have such a requirement.
Of particular interest are businesses in the health or quasi-health field i.e. dentist offices, physiotherapists etc. who no longer require masks. Other than that, any business where you believe sharing the information might be of general interest to the community is welcome.
Also, any details you can include may be helpful. For instance: if a business does not allow a medical exemption to their private mask mandate. I note that there might be a legal avenue to challenging such an unmitigated requirement but THAT IS OUTSIDE MY AREA OF LEGAL EXPERTISE.
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May 28, 2022
🧵I wanted to elaborate a thread on this point for those who were interested.
I wrote “The problem with our present situation — particularly in 🇨🇦 & very particularly in Ontario — is we have some laws which apply to everyone but which are very broad & thus rarely enforced (because to do so would capture tons of conduct) but they can be used selectively.”
Take for example the Trespass to Property Act. There’s all sorts of annoying human conduct which we (properly) put up with. The owner of a property (say a shopping mall) may not care for people with blue hair; ppl who have bad breath; people who talk loudly; ppl in large groups
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May 12, 2022
During the pandemic, between 99.7% & 99.97% of Ont’s pop @ any given time was COV-neg. Of the COV+, many/most of them knew they were sick & isolated. Of the rest you’d need maskless PROLONGED face/face contact & even if transmitted, over 95% of the time it was no worse than flu.
I am tweeting this out because people like @twpiggott, @drmwarner, @maddyeisenberg and others continue to spread the disinformation that just because masks show some slight effectiveness in labs or contrived studies that this translates to any real impact in the real world.
You don’t need to be a statistician to know when you take a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent, that this translates to a statistically insignificant outcome. Almost all large comparative datasets we now have confirm that there is no impact from wide-scale masking.
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Apr 2, 2022
💉AM I VACCINATED❓

For as long as the vaccines have been available, I’ve wrestled with whether or not to publicly reveal my vax status. In this🧵, I decide to publicly indicate if I have been vaccinated or not & the reasons behind my decision & also my decision to reveal it.
First, I’ll say that I have long believed that personal medical decisions are private and people should not be in the habit of talking about them any more than they would any other medical procedure/decision. It should be even more-so taboo for people to ask. I still believe this
For reasons I get into below, I believe it is silly the way that people have turned their vaccination status into some kind of badge of virtue and I believe it’s horrifying how it’s become a club to beat others with. In revealing my status, I do so (notwithstanding above) because
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Mar 21, 2022
As #WearAMask trends, we mustn’t forget how mask mandates arose. Recall in March/April/May of the first wave (2020) masks were not mandatory. Some people who were very scared wore masks. Public health experts like Fauci or @CPHO_Canada reminded us the science didn’t support that.
But the mask wearers became resentful that everybody did not share their paralyzing fear. And this is when suddenly the propaganda arose that masking apparently healthy people was about ‘protecting others’. The purpose of this line of fallacy was to defeat any argument of choice.
We now have ample data from Canada and elsewhere, that COVID is seasonal & mask mandates did little-to-nothing to affect the spread.

But the mask-wearers are just as resentful as they were before—even more so now since the wide-scale abandonment of masks will give us more data.
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