How is this not a national story in Canada? Why have people barely heard about this? and why are his charges so seemingly insignificant given the incident and likely terroristic-inspired attack?

Pictured: 28-year-old Bezhani Sarvar on Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Charges (or lack thereof):
- reckless discharge of a firearm,
- using/placing/throwing an explosive substance,
- arson,
- possession of incendiary material,
- using a firearm while committing an offence and,
- careless use of a firearm

Incident:
A crazed man with a taped manifesto walks into Edmonton, Alberta City Hall heavily armed, lit several handheld incendiary devices and then starts shooting several rounds while inside city hall.

Luckily, the security guard on duty got the gunman to surrender and detained him until police arrived at the scene Before the attack at Edmonton City Hall, Bezhani Sarvar recorded a video before the attack discusses the need to "rise against" those contributing to the "genocide in Gaza".

In the video, Sarvar says "inshallah (‘if God wills’ in Arabic), we will rise against you guys, and we’ll put you on trial."

https://x.com/Joe_Roberts01/status/1750296328821780483?s=20

Politicians are absolute grifters.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said on a phone call with Liz Cheney that Trump should resign over Jan. 6

Recently, McCarthy tried to argue that this wasn't true and the New York Times was lying. Now an audiotape has dropped. Before the audio recording dropped, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted calling this false and saying the NYT’s was lying. In response, the reporters dropped the recordings.

https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1517164322782433287?s=20&t=ypwZsTV_WE8nSbPLwnjnnw

BREAKING: Justin Trudeau says "change happens" by voting and running for office, not protesting like we have seen in Ottawa the last few weeks. Justin Trudeau says "We don't know when the pandemic will finally end".

For all the Canadian legacy media journalists trying to claim the NYT’s is wrong and police never pointed their guns.

Wrong. It was caught on camera at least two times.

Reminder to those journalists as well that police blocked your ability to capture those police interactions. When police interactions took place with truckers, the police blocked the majority of the media from entering the zone during the time.

Selective memory?

BREAKING: Ottawa Police Chief says the protesters were aggressive with the officers and that is why they needed to use horses yesterday and why police had batons today. Ottawa Police Chief says that today they have arrested 47 people, bringing arrests to over 170 people in the last two days.

BREAKING: Ottawa Police Chief says at least 70 people have been arrested so far. Ottawa Police Chief says this will be an around the clock operation.

From April 18, 2021, when I was covering the Montreal police targeting unmasked individuals at parks in Montreal:

https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1383900013579825153

https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1383891538468429824?s=20&t=gSSJ9UF1o165zW7TeeS8fA

If you want to ruin your night, this is happening. I only lasted a few minutes.

The narcissism.

“The hatred of journalists.”

Personally, I hold journalists to a high-regard, but not when they say “they cover things fairly” and then push government narratives.

Another convoy in Surrey, British Columbia is making it’s way to the pacific Highway Canada/U.S. border to protest against all mandates and restrictions.

The convoy is being greeted by hundreds of people along the highway. The convoy headed to the Pacific Highway Canada/U.S. border crossing in Surrey, British Columbia started this morning in Chilliwack, British Columbia.

The convoy has had support all along the way to the border by people on the sides of the highway and on overpasses.

Canadian media personnel want the Canadian police to be as brutal as the Paris police.

(anyone who knows much about protests knows the Paris police to be some of the most brutal)

https://twitter.com/grahamctv/status/1492540202711228416

https://twitter.com/themarieoakes/status/1492538350489817088

EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE: Students at a Chicago suburb Stevenson High School staged a walkout against the mask mandate school policy this morning.

Recently, an Illinois judge struck down the Governor's executive order that mandated wearing masks in Illinois schools. Regardless of the ruling, several Illinois school districts have kept the mask mandate in place which has led to students staging walkouts and protests all across the state this week.

BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced a state-of-emergency for Ontario due to the protests in Ottawa and the blockades on the Canada/U.S. border. Ontario Premier Doug Ford added that they intend to put some of these new powers into law, the government has “every intention to bring new legislation forward that will make these measures permanent in law.”

Lightbound taking shots at Trudeau:

“When it comes to the broader demonstrations we've seen in Ottawa and Quebec City and all across the country, I will abstain from the kind of generalizations that were heard these last few days,”, Quebec Liberal MP Joël Lightbound said. LIGHTBOUND: “I’ve seen on Radio-Canada, an interview with what seemed to be a very kind grandmother who demonstrated for her grandkids. She looked & sounded nothing like white supremacists nor did the black, Sikh, indigenous Canadians I saw demonstrating on my way to parliament"

You make journalism look like garbage.

It's pretty upsetting.

https://twitter.com/Gray_Mackenzie/status/1490441156139880449

I genuinely respected Mackenzie Gray prior to all of his recent coverage.

Oh my, my, my. twitter.com/i/spaces/1yoJM… The lawyer suing the convoy protesters, Paul Champ, says they will “seize” the truckers trucks for damages.

Freedom Convoy protester hit by a car in a hit-and-run last night during the protest in front of Manitoba’s Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. SOURCE:

BREAKING: GoFundMe will return donations to Freedom Convoy donors

GoFundMe says they ”now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation, with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity"
westphaliantimes.com/gofundme-retur… The organizers of the Freedom Convoy 2022 are trying to restart efforts on another platform called "GiveSendGo".

givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2…

The spokesperson of Québec Solidaire, a a democratic socialist provincial party, said of the convoy protest making it’s way to Quebec City (translated):

“Protesting against health measures is to protest against solidarity and that goes against our Québec Solidaire party” Original comments in French: "Manifester contre les mesures sanitaires, c'est manifester contre la solidarité et c'est contre notre parti Québec Solidaire" -@GNadeauDubois

City of Ottawa operational update on the trucker protest starting now:

Mayor of Ottawa Jim Watson says "the protests have been incredibly disruptive and continue to impact the safety and wellbeing of our residents.

People have had the opportunity to voice their frustration against government policy, but ...'they've worn out their welcome'"

Justin Trudeau speaking to the media right now: Trudeau says "the pandemic is not over"

Ottawa City Councillor wants the city to ask the courts to seize funds from the freedom trucker convoy GoFundMe account.

Some activities he seeks to use the convoy funds for are to promote the city and PR campaign "messaging to support downtown residents,"

https://twitter.com/MathieuFleury/status/1488176945808527360

Thanks @crabcrawler1 for bringing to my attention.