CENSORSHIP ON STEROIDS: THE TRUTH ABOUT BILL C-10 AND THE GREAT CANADIAN INTERNET FIREWALL!!!

Press For Truth, 9 min.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/z4Ha5O45R5gI/

This ladies and gentlemen is an emergency broadcast! Independent media is currently on the chopping block, the powers that ought not to be are terrified of their ability to reach the minds of millions of people and they’re going into full blown attack mode with Bill-C10! Bill C-10 was introduced in November of 2020 to amend the broadcasting act and to clarify the CRTC’s ability to regulate TV and movie streaming services, such as Netflix. Previously, the legislation had an exemption for user-generated content, like here at Press For Truth, but last week that exemption was removed by the liberals to include news sites, podcasts, tweets and vlogs! In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth explains how Bill C-10 seeks to censor independent media and control the free flow of information online while also providing a solid solution for how we can all deal with this censorship moving forward!!

Barrie police officer will be charged for violent arrest of skateboarder caught on video

https://www.rebelnews.com/barrie_police_officer_will_be_charged_for_violent_arrest_of_skateboarder_caught_on_video

A Barrie Police Service member has been charged and suspended after a video circulated of a violent downtown Barrie arrest of a 20-year-old man in February. No word on whether the CBC employee who assisted in the illegal arrest will avoid the same consequences.

An Ontario Provincial Police press release on Thursday confirmed Barrie police Const. Jason Stamp was arrested and charged with assault and assault with a weapon following an investigation by the OPP. Stamp is an 18-year veteran of the force.

According to CBC, Barrie police confirmed that in accordance with the Police Services Act, Stamp has been suspended with pay.

The arrest was covered by Rebel News when it happened.

The heavy-handed February 4 arrest, captured on cellphone video, showed Stamp’s very physical arrest on a young man who was skateboarding. Allegedly, the 20-year-old man had skated through a red light. The video shows two officers shoving the man's face into the cold, snowy pavement. At another point, one officer hit the young man with a Taser, threatening to “light [the skateboarder] up.”

In a strange twist, a third man came over to assist the officers in their efforts to restrain the man — while wearing a CBC jacket.

It was later revealed that the CBC employee was also a volunteer auxiliary OPP officer.

"Open these doors, people are dying": Gym owner speaks on importance of fitness

https://www.rebelnews.com/open_these_doors_people_are_dying_gym_owner_speaks_on_importance_of_fitness

Dustin Sutley, owner of Sweat Science Boxing in Calgary, started a campaign called #wearenotclosing, and many other gyms were on board for the initiative.

Unfortunately, most of those gyms have since backed down due to ongoing intimidation efforts that culminated in threats that the City of Calgary might start pulling their business licenses.

Sweat Science Boxing remained open for as long as possible, continuing to offer group and one-on-one training for clients, and Dustin has been an outspoken opponent of the lockdown measures.

This opposition has garnered significant media and social media attention — and if we have learned anything during this lockdown, it is that Alberta Health Services will not tolerate any outspoken dissension.

Faced with unrelenting pressures, Dustin has moved to one-on-one training only for the time being, but he says that this is only a temporary measure.

In this report, Dustin tells us about the devastating economic impact that the lockdowns are having on so many businesses, but he is quick to emphasize that financial concerns would never trump his primary objective, the well-being of his clients.

For Dustin, the primary motivation for refusing to close is simple: exercise is essential for physical and emotional well-being, and the statistically insignificant risk of COVID-19 spreading during a workout does not outweigh the negative health impacts of gym closures.

Katherine Kowalchuk of Lawyers 4 Truth also joins us to discuss the challenges of resisting these restrictions, the failure of the courts to respond to lockdown opposition and the need for civil disobedience in these unprecedented times.

Quebec police continue to target Hasidic community after Sabbath ends

https://www.rebelnews.com/quebec_police_continue_to_target_hasidic_community_after_sabbath_ends

For the past three months, Quebec has had a curfew in place, which the government says is meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19. I have been out covering the curfew and the total police state in Quebec from nearly the beginning.

On Saturday night, the police ramped up their overreach in specifically targeting members of the Hasidic Jewish community with heavy-handed curfew fines — $1,550 for adults and $500 for minors. In many cases, they refuse to accept people's exemption papers, and sometimes won't even look at them, telling them to show it to the judge.

I have witnessed the cops only stopping visibly Jewish people on the street coming or going from work, prayers or just taking a walk to get some fresh air during these stressful times — while ignoring others doing the same things.

Police seem to be enjoying the new powers they have been given and are exercising them to the fullest extent possible. I had a chance to have a little chat with a cop right after he ticketed a man with an exemption note. He seemed very proud of the tickets he'd given out, and took my phone number so he could call me next time he hands out a fine (he hasn't called me yet).

In most cases, the police do not use discretion, and are choosing to fine people just because they can. I have been stopped close to 50 times and been ticketed at least 12, with threats of getting more curfew fines or jaywalking tickets in the mail. They fine me because they don’t want me on the streets filming their misdeeds.

19 Ontario police officers launch court challenge of COVID-19 enforcement powers

https://tnc.news/2021/04/29/19-ontario-police-officers-launch-court-challenge-of-covid-19-enforcement-powers/

19 active and retired Ontario police officers have launched a notice of application with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice challenging the constitutionality of COVID-19 public health orders, particularly those that expand law enforcement powers.

The challengers are represented by lawyer and founder of the Constitutional Rights Centre Rocco Galati.

“Firstly, many of these regulations are not specific enough, they’re too vague and broad and aren’t clear enough to enforce uniformly and their supervisors think often wrongly what the regulations say,” said Galati during a press conference on Thursday.

“The second problem, that goes to the centre of the challenge is that as the applicants see it, many of these COVID measures force these officers to breach their oath. This is an oath that includes upholding the constitution.”

Galati appeared alongside active Toronto Police Service Officer Sgt. Julie Evans and active York Regional Police Officer Christopher Vandenbos at the press conference.

“When I saw this legislation coming into play, I questioned it immediately. There was no doubt in my mind that it was an outright breach of people’s Charter rights and freedoms. I swore an oath, I grew up and had every vision of being passionate about protecting those rights, that has never changed,” said Sgt. Evans.

The notice seeks to address the legality and scope of a number of COVID-19 public health orders including Ontario’s state of emergency declaration, lockdowns and stay at home orders, social distancing and mask wearing.

With regard to lockdowns, the application asks for a declaration that lockdowns and stay-at-home orders “are forms of martial law, the strict and exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Parliament” as well as being “outside the province’s jurisdiction.”

A seperate part of the application seeks to address the enforcement measures police officers are being forced to comply with.

The application goes on to describe recent expansions of police powers by Ontario Premier Doug Ford to stop motorists and Canadians outside of their home as “unconstitutional and of no force and effect” violation the Charter rights to liberty and a right to remain silent.

Provincial border checkpoints are also included in the legal challenge.

True North reached out to the Ford government for comment but did not hear back in time for publication of this article.

On April 7, Premier Ford announced a spat of new lockdown measures meant to handle the province’s growing COVID-19 crisis including the increased police powers and border checkpoints. Soon after the announcement, police agencies across the province and constitutional rights groups slammed the Ford government for the draconian measures.

Eventually Premier Ford was forced to issue an apology for the decision, saying that his government had “got it wrong.”

“We moved fast to put in measures in place to reduce mobility, but we moved too fast,” he said.

“I know that some of those measures, especially around enforcement, they went too far. Simply put, we got it wrong. We made a mistake.”

Ottawa city councillors urge Ford to allow outdoor activities

https://tnc.news/2021/04/29/ottawa-city-councillors-urge-ford-to-allow-outdoor-activities/

A group of Ottawa city councillors are asking the provincial government to reopen parks and outdoor recreational spaces.

In an open letter, sixteen councillors asked Premier Doug Ford to reconsider restrictions on outdoor spaces as residents’ mental and physical health decline.

“The pandemic has stretched on for over a year now, and the residents of Ottawa are looking for safe ways that they can get outdoors to be physically active, and to maintain their mental health and wellbeing,” the statement reads.

“We feel that the benefits to the physical and mental health and well-being of re-opening outdoor recreational activities far outweigh the risks associated with keeping them closed.”

In mid-April, the Ford government announced wide-sweeping restrictions for all Ontarians as cases of COVID-19 increased. Included in the restrictions were bans on outdoor recreational activities.

The Ottawa city councillors noted that many sporting activities have next to no risk of spreading COVID-19. Evidence suggests that the risk of contracting COVID-19 while outdoors is miniscule.

“Activities such as golf, tennis, and pickle ball, all lend themselves to physical distancing. When distancing requirements are adhered to, these types of outdoor activities can be a safe way for people to enjoy public spaces during a pandemic.”

The letter comes as medical experts report Ontario is facing a mental health crisis due to the lockdowns.

Further, Ontario Soccer recently called for outdoor sports to resume, citing evidence that outdoor soccer has proven to not be a source of COVID-19 infections.

Alberta RCMP extremism investigation leads to arrest, firearms and explosives seized

https://tnc.news/2021/04/29/alberta-rcmp-extremism-investigation-leads-to-arrest-firearms-and-explosives-seized/

Alberta RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) revealed on Thursday that 26-year-old Kelvin Gregory Maure was arrested in February following an extremism investigation.

According to a news release on the incident, Maure, who is a Parkland County, Alberta resident, is currently facing 34 criminal charges including:

7 counts of possession of a prohibited firearm or weapon

5 counts of possession of a prohibited firearm in a motor vehicle

5 counts of possession of a prohibited firearm or weapon knowing he was not the holder of a license or registration certificate

3 counts of possession of a loaded prohibited firearm or with readily accessible ammunition

3 counts of making or possessing an explosive substance

2 counts of personation of a peace officer

3 counts of careless storage of a firearm

2 counts of possession of a prohibited firearm without holding a license

1 count of carrying a concealed firearm

1 count of importing a prohibited device

1count of break and enter

1 count of mischief

Maure’s arrest was part of an ongoing investigation conducted by the unit into a “a number of associated individuals” which began in September 2020.

“As experienced in this recent investigation, the accused was interacting online with like-minded individuals in posting extreme views that ultimately escalated towards him engaging in criminal activity that posed a considerable risk to public and police safety, ultimately resulting in his arrest,” said INSET Inspector Scott Isaac in a news release on the matter.

“As the investigation continues, we are attempting to determine whether the accused’s actions were motivated by a specific ideology or if there were broader intentions to his activities.”

The arrest took place during a heavy police operation in Parkland County’s Heatherlea Estates community. Upon searching a number of properties, police discovered and seized numerous firearms and other items.

According to Edmonton Journal justice reporter Jonny Wakefield, court records show that Maure was allegedly in possession of the highly explosive element triacetone triperoxide. Additionally, Maure is accused of damaging a propane tank in a building owned by the oil company Obsidian Energy.

Maure is currently in custody and is set to appear before a court in Stony Plain on May 7, 2021.

Horowitz: Facebook’s ‘independent’ fact checker on vaccines is funded by … you guessed it

FULL ARTICLE HERE:

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-facebooks-independent-fact-checker-on-vaccines-is-funded-by–you-guessed-it

Accurate information about the vaccines and other vital COVID-related topics hinges upon the ability to disseminate the facts on major social media platforms like Facebook. In turn, Facebook relies on FactCheck.org, among other shady organizations, to rule on what information is admissible. FactCheck.org is funded by a grant from an organization run by Obama's former CDC director, whose assets contain Johnson & Johnson stock. In other words, the vaccine companies control the flow of information about vaccines. Welcome to the world of "independent fact checkers."

Over the past year, Facebook has censored nearly every one of my articles and commentaries questioning the science behind lockdowns or mask mandates. More recently, it has placed a blockade on any information raising questions about the vaccines. Facebook has also blocked people from sharing my articles promoting cheap, lifesaving drugs, such as ivermectin, or even studies showing how sufficient doses of vitamin D and zinc can prevent critical illness from SARS-CoV-2.

In each instance of censorship, Facebook has posted a notice misleading anyone who wishes to share the article into thinking that the particular points raised in the article were independently fact-checked and found to be false. First, it's critical to note that almost no article Facebook employees censor is fact-checked by anyone; they merely rely on an initial fact-check of one person's article critical of masks — just to give an example — and then trot out that same fact-check as an excuse for zapping any article questioning the wisdom of mask-wearing, even if the points raised in said article are completely different from the issues addressed in the first fact-check.

However, there is something much more insidious going on with the fact-checking industry. The inmates are running the asylum and the foxes are guarding the henhouse. When the vaccines began to be dispensed to the public in December, FactCheck.org started "SciCheck's COVID-19/Vaccination Project" to specifically focus on the flow of information pertaining to the vaccines. The site has a disclaimer on the top of the website stating: "SciCheck's COVID-19/Vaccination Project is made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation."

Comically, the next sentence reads, "The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation."

In fact, the views expressed almost assuredly do reflect the views of the foundation. FactCheck.org claims, "The goal is to increase exposure to accurate information about COVID-19 and vaccines, while decreasing the impact of misinformation." Yet have you ever seen the organization offer balanced coverage or flag a single post on the other side of this debate as false, no matter how outlandish the claim might be, including articles advocating experimental emergency use authorization vaccines for little children?

Continue…

Chart Showing Annual death rates | 2020 is average over last 30 years = No Extra Deaths Proves No Pandemic Ever Existed

https://truth11.com/2021/04/30/chart-showing-annual-death-rates-2020-is-average-over-last-30-years-no-extra-deaths-proves-no-pandemic-ever-existed/

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Canadian pastor says province makes application to ‘lock the doors’ of his church

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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-pastor-says-province-makes-application-to-lock-the-doors-of-his-church

Ontario's Attorney General ordered the church to be found in civil contempt for holding a service in violation of the province's reopening act.

AYLMER, Ontario, April 29, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian pastor who has kept his Ontario church open contrary to draconian COVID-19 health rules says his province’s Attorney General asked a judge for an “urgent hearing” to “lock the doors” to his place of worship, as a result of a recent Sunday service.

Pastor Henry Hildebrandt of the Church of God located in Aylmer, Ontario, announced the news in a YouTube message posted Wednesday.

In his message, Hildebrandt went over a letter dated April 27 from Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey’s office to the Honourable Mr. Justice Bruce G. Thomas, Regional Senior Justice of the Southwest Region in Ontario.

In the letter, Downey’s office asked the courts to close the Church of God doors because it has been violating the Ontario Reopening Act.

“I have yesterday received instructions from the Attorney General to bring a motion seeking a finding of civil contempt in relation to events on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The Attorney General would then seek, at a subsequent sanctions hearing, fines and an order directing the sheriff to lock the doors of the Respondent church until no gathering size limits apply to the church under the Reopening Ontario Act,” reads a portion of the letter to Justice Thomas from Downey’s office.

“The Attorney General also seeks in the contempt proceeding an interim interlocutory order directing the sheriff to lock the doors of the Respondent church until the determination of any sanctions on any finding of contempt. If this court is unable to schedule a hearing of the contempt motion this week, I respectfully request a hearing of one hour before this Sunday to hear the above motion for interim relief.”

The letter was also copied to Hildebrandt’s lawyers at the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), who are working the case…

Canada: Business Bans COVID Vaccine Recipients from Entering Premises

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Rocky Mountain House, Alberta: Tea Rocks, a metaphysical supply store, posted a new policy stating they will not allow any individual vaccinated for COVID-19 within the last month to enter their store. They stated that they have an employee who is pregnant and do not want to endanger her as there have been numerous claims that people who are vaccinated can “shed” the spiked pathogens from the vaccine onto unvaccinated women, affecting their menstrual cycle or fertility.

A local Rocky Mountain House business is making waves on social media over a new policy they’ve implemented.

Tea Rocks, a metaphysical supply store, posted a new policy Tuesday stating they will not allow any individual vaccinated for COVID-19 within the last month to enter their store.

The reason they’ve given is that they have a pregnant staff member and have implemented it for her and their staff’s safety.

“Hate us if you want, this is our stance and new policy,” the store said in its Facebook post announcing the policy.

HOW EVIL CAUGHT THE WORLD - EUGENICS IS BACK

Amazing Polly, 43 min.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/4jvIoK2etd7G/

Evil has infected our institutions, our government, our systems… our minds. Join me as I explore some mechanisms of Ponerology (The Science of Evil) and wonder if we’re in an era of Eugenics.

Conservative Ontario MPPs call Chinese-Canadian doctor's “Wuhan pneumonia” sign racist

https://www.rebelnews.com/conservative_ontario_mpps_call_chinese_canadian_doctors_wuhan_pneumonia_sign_racist

A doctor's office in the east end of Toronto had a sign posted that referred to COVID-19 by the name “Wuhan pneumonia.” Not in English, mind you, but in Chinese. The doctor, a Chinese-Canadian, had posted the sign in multiple languages, but referred to it in Chinese as the Wuhan pneumonia.

Two Toronto-area MPPs from Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative Party, Vincent Ke and Aris Babikian, decided they would condemn this signage, claiming the message would drum up anti-Asian hatred.

This bizarre choice to condemn the Chinese-Canadian doctor was the topic for Ezra's monologue on yesterday's episode of The Ezra Levant Show.

Wondering how such a sign — posted by a Chinese-Canadian doctor, written in Chinese, likely only read by Chinese-Canadians — could possibly cause a spread of anti-Asian hate, Ezra said

If the only people who can read it [the sign] are Chinese speakers, odds are they are ethnically Chinese. I mean, there are some Caucasian or non-Chinese people who can speak Chinese, but if you're in a Chinese neighbourhood, going to a Chinese doctor, whose door has Chinese writing — odds are you're Chinese too.

What's the likelihood that will whip you up anti-Chinese fervour? You're probably Chinese yourself, and you're going to a Chinese doctor by choice.

Does this make any sense?

Lockdowns are destroying our communities | Derek Sloan with Ezra Levant

https://www.rebelnews.com/lockdowns_are_destroying_our_communities_derek_sloan_with_ezra_levant

Few government officials, on a federal and provincial level, have had the fortitude to speak out against the draconian measures that have been placed on Canadians in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. Those who do dare to share a different opinion are promptly removed from their party affiliation and smeared in the media as some sort of conspiracy theorist.

On yesterday's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, one of those few politicians brave enough to speak out joined Ezra to discuss the negative impact lockdowns are having on society.

Former Conservative Party, now independent, MP Derek Sloan told Ezra why he thought his fellow politicians were so unwilling to oppose these restrictions:

It basically comes down to just sheer cowardice. And you're right [about reopening], we don't have to be the first province or country to open up.

We have examples close to us that are faring well. The data is coming out. You know… I was just reviewing the results of a study that looked at 80 different studies by a Canadian professor and he said that lockdowns are 282x as harmful as their benefits.

The data is out. It's a lack of courage and frankly cowardice on behalf of Canadian politicians.

WATCH: Justice Centre president breaks down your Charter rights

https://www.rebelnews.com/justice_centre_president_breaks_down_your_charter_rights

Recently, I had the great privilege of sitting down with John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, to discuss the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Individuals, families and small businesses are currently seeing the freedoms they’ve come to love and expect as Canadians evaporate before their eyes due to government restrictions. Many feel that something is not quite right, and our Charter rights are often cited in opposition to lockdowns. Now more than ever, it is vital that Canadians understand their rights so that they can articulate their opposition to the current lockdown measures clearly and accurately.

In our interview, John breaks down in practical and legal terms exactly which rights and freedoms are protected by the Canadian Charter. He also discusses which of those rights are currently being infringed upon by the new and problematic government regulations that have emerged due to COVID-19. We also discuss some of the instances in Canadian history when Charter rights have been suspended, and explore whether or not current regulations are at all justifiable. Perhaps most poignantly, John offers his thoughts as to the origins of disproportionate governmental responses that cripple economies and livelihoods.

I wish to extend my sincerest thanks to John Carpay and to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms for serving as one of the strongest voices in the fight for our freedoms. If you want to learn more about their important work, go to JCCF.ca.

If you or anyone you know has received a ticket or fine for exercising your Charter-protected rights and freedoms, you are not alone. Go to FightTheFines.com and tell us your story. We are crowdfunding lawyers to help people fight their fines and stand up for their freedoms.

Canadian Law Suit Filed Against Covid Measures | Download Case And Read | Destroys all Covid measures | This case will end this fraud and set us all free

https://truth11.com/2021/04/30/canadian-law-suit-filed-against-covid-measures-download-case/

This case is huge. This could end the covid lie, and all measures. It shows the fraud and illegality of all of this. Read the case for yourself. Download the PDF and share it!

A step by step legal takedown of all covid lies, from masks to protests. It explains the true power of the Canadian constitution, the charter of rights and is applicable world wide as we all have god given rights that cannot be take away.

Steven Guilbeault says only “extremist element” opposes internet regulation bill

https://tnc.news/2021/04/30/steven-guilbeault-says-only-extremist-element-opposes-internet-regulation-bill/

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault accused the Conservatives of catering to an alleged “extremist element” of the party by opposing the Liberal government’s internet regulation bill, C-10.

In Question Period Thursday, Conservative MP Rachael Harder accused the Liberal government of being “deceptive, sneaky, crafty and wrong” by attempting to argue that Bill C-10 – which would regulate online publishers and even user-generated content – will not threaten free speech.

“We are seeing the current government mimic behaviour that is consistent with a basic dictatorship. It is wrong,” Harder said.

“The Liberals are trying to give themselves the power to control what Canadians can read online, what they post on social media and the videos that they watch on YouTube. Again, it is wrong. Why is the government doing this?”

Guilbeault accused the Conservatives of being too “afraid” to stand up to large technology companies, before going on to claim they are catering to extremism.

“What we are seeing now is that these are big, powerful and, in fact some of the wealthiest corporations on the planet; clearly, the member opposite and her party are just afraid to stand up to them. Again it seems that the members of the Conservative Party are listening to the most extremist element of their party, as they have on very important issues such as climate change or women’s right to choose,” Guilbeault said.

Last week, Liberal MPs on the Commons heritage committee voted to expand Bill C-10’s scope to include regulating content Canadians publish on social media platforms like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

The government has positioned Bill C-10 as a needed update to Canada’s Broadcasting Act to meet the digital and social media environment, but the bill has been derided by civil liberties advocates and internet experts as a sweeping expansion of government power to regulate online content.

Guilbeault has discussed the possibility of using a “kill-switch” to remove content or entire websites the government says contravene the regulations… Guilbeault has repeatedly dismissed concerns about Bill C-10, saying concerns about censorship and licensing have only come from “some on the right.”

CRA hotline gives bad advice up to 13% of the time

https://tnc.news/2021/04/30/cra-hotline-gives-bad-advice-up-to-13-of-the-time/

Canadians who call the Canada Revenue Agency looking for help have up to a 13% chance of receiving inaccurate information, a quality assurance audit found.

The figure was acknowledged by National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled this week, first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

Lebouthillier wrote that an independent team audits approximately 12,000 CRA customer service calls for accuracy each year.

“Each call is assessed for information accuracy by certified listeners,” she wrote.

“For the team to score a call as complete and accurate, the agent’s response must directly address the caller’s enquiry or issue and provide the caller with enough information to enable them to take appropriate actions or make informed decisions.”

The inaccuracy rate varied wildly between different call centres. While the Calgary and St. John’s centres had an inaccuracy rate of 3%, the centre in Toronto gave inaccurate responses 13% of the time.

In a previous statement, CRA Commissioner Bob Hamilton said the agency is not responsible for any financial consequences stemming from bad advice.

The agency has seen a massive increase in calls over the past year as Canadians used a wide variety of pandemic benefits which each have different tax implications.

In February, the CRA reported that the average wait time calling the agency had increased to 25 minutes, with it common to wait hours to speak to an agent at peak hours.

The wait leads to many people simply hanging up. Of the roughly 32 million calls made in an average year, just 12.7 million resulted in the caller speaking with an agent.

The CRA began independent audits following a 2017 auditor general report which found that accuracy rates were up to ten-times higher than what the agency claimed.

Then-auditor general Michael Ferguson said at the time that agents would give incorrect answers to basic questions 30 to 84% of the time.

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Liberals say opponents of their internet regulation bill are “extremist”

https://tnc.news/2021/04/30/liberals-say-opponents-of-their-internet-regulation-bill-are-extremists/

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is accusing the Conservative party of kowtowing to an “extremist element” in the party for criticizing Bill C-10, a Liberal government bill that will regulate online content, including user-generated content shared on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

True North’s Andrew Lawton says the Liberals’ frequent accusations of extremism and “fake news” are precisely why they should not be trusted to regulate the internet.

Toronto COVID-19 enforcement teams issued 230 charges in one week

https://tnc.news/2021/04/30/toronto-covid-19-enforcement-teams-issued-230-charges-in-one-week/

The Toronto Police Services unit dedicated to enforcing Ontario’s lockdown rules and stay-at-home order has issued 230 tickets in their very first week of operation.

According to a Friday afternoon news release, enforcement officers responded to 315 different incidents, which include 105 calls from residents about gatherings since April 22.

“The pandemic presents both public health and public safety risks,” inspector Matt Moyer said in the press release.

“We have an enforcement team in every Division across the city and officers are dispersing large gatherings daily and laying charges against those who are ignoring the emergency order.”

Currently the city has 16 teams dedicated to enforcing the rules in different areas of the city.

“As we head into the weekend, we are discouraging anyone who is thinking of attending or hosting a gathering, and reminding them that, if they do, they may very well expect the police in attendance as well. Please work with us to keep the city safe. Don’t attend parties or large gatherings. Stay home and stay safe,” said Moyer.

According to police, enforcement has been largely targeting indoor events and closed bars and restaurants.

“This is driven by our communities. They generate all these calls for service. They are asking us to go to large gathering calls, parties, beach parties, outdoor events and attend short-term rentals because the community sees that people are compromising pubic safety and putting themselves at risk,” said Moyer.

“They watch people having these events and parties and gatherings and they are asking for police support.”

Similarly, the City of Calgary revealed on Friday that it had issued 380 mask bylaw violation tickets since Calgary’s face coverings bylaw was introduced on August 1st.

Canadian pastor who chased away police, health inspectors served with warrant, could be jailed

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-pastor-who-chased-away-police-health-inspectors-served-with-warrant-could-be-jailed

(LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian Pastor who twice told police and health inspectors, whom he called “Gestapo Nazis,” to get out his church on unannounced COVID-19 visits was served with a warrant which allows government officials to do “anything necessary” to arrest him or anyone else “at the property” should officials not be allowed to inspect the church.

Pastor Artur Pawlowski of The Cave of Adullam church located in Calgary, Alberta, was served with a warrant signed by a judge giving Calgary police and Alberta Health Services (AHS) public health officials virtually unfettered access to his church, even during religious services.

“The Respondent, Artur Pawlowski, together with any other person at the property … to grant access to any Executive Officer (as defined in the Act) in order for him or her to attend at the Property without notice, during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., to allow the Executive Officer to exercise his or her powers under sections 59 of the Act,” reads the warrant which was signed April 23.

“Upon there being reasonable grounds to believe that the Respondent, Artur Pawlowski or any other person has breached any terms of the Court’s Order, any member of Law Enforcement is authorized to forthwith arrest that person, restrain him or her and bring him or her at the earliest possible time before a Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench.”

Section 59 of the Alberta Public Health Act reads: “59(1) An executive officer may inspect any public place for the purpose of determining the presence of a nuisance or determining whether this Act and the regulations are being complied with.”

The warrant goes on to state that if it comes to making an actual arrest of an individual under the “order,” police are “authorized to do anything necessary to carry out the arrest, including the use of as much reasonable force as may be necessary to make the arrest and without warrant to enter any place where on reasonable grounds Law Enforcement believes that the offending person may be found.”

Pawlowski is a well-known street preacher in Calgary and is renowned for feeding the homeless. He has been running Calgary-based Street Church Ministries for over 20 years and has been a vocal opponent to coronavirus lockdowns.

Last Saturday’s visit was the second time this month Calgary Police and Alberta Health Services (AHS) officials have come to Pawlowski’s church on an unannounced coronavirus health visit during worship services.

As a result of the warrant, Rebel News started a website called SaveArtur.com, vowing to help pay for Pawlowski’s legal fees and “do everything we can to Save Pastor Artur.”

Section 176(2) of the “Criminal Code of Canada” bans interrupting or disturbing a religious service. However, according to Rebel News, the warrant issued to Pawlowski and his ministries appears to nullify this section.

Pawlowski fled communist Poland as a youth with his family. He recently told LifeSiteNews that the continued police presence at his church gives him bad memories of growing up behind the Iron Curtain.

He said that while he doesn’t mind talking with authorities, it should not be done during worship services, which he says “intimidates” his parishioners. “You want to come and visit the church — fine, I have no problem letting them in to inspect the place, but not during worship, during the church time, and they heard that from me many times,” said Pawlowski.

The province of Alberta’s COVID health rules enacted under United Conservative Party (UCP) Premier Jason Kenney has capped church attendance size to 15 percent and mandated mask wearing and physical distancing.

Many Alberta churches have resisted the measures, notably Pastor James Coates of Grace Life Church in Spruce Grove, Alberta. He was jailed for over a month for defying COVID-related orders.

“Freedom is never given, it's always taken”: Chris Sky speaks at Kelowna freedom rally

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Last Friday in Stuart Park, Kelowna, B.C. hosted a freedom rally with infamous activist Chris Sky as its headliner. Following on the heels of newly announced travel restrictions by Premier John Horgan and top public health official Dr. Bonnie Henry, nearly 2,000 people from all over the Thompson Okanagan region gathered to protest peacefully and speak out against what they deem to be unlawful measures and government overreach.

Kelowna was the second stop on Sky’s “Freedom Convoy,” tour, the first of which was on April 20 at Vancouver’s Sunset Beach — historically, the site of the city’s 420 pro-cannabis protest festivities. The intention of the convoy is to travel from coast to coast, recruiting vehicles along the way and eventually reaching Montreal on May 1.

According to one of the British Columbia organizers, the convoy will continue, though it is still unclear if Sky, who was arrested after speaking at a Thunder Bay rally on Tuesday night, will be joining for the remainder of the route.

In Kelowna, Sky was received by a crowd more akin to a music festival than a political protest. He shared the stage with local small business owners, concerned parents, people who don’t want to take the COVID vaccines, and maskless shoppers. His intention is to assemble these groups of people in each city he visits, leaving them with blueprints to execute a civil disobedience plan which he calls “united non-compliance.”

“We’re setting up these groups in every city that are going to be taking action and making a difference, and when we do that on a grand scale, we’re going to get our way without any violence,” he said. Sky’s message for the audience was simple: “Just say no.”

“The turnout was fantastic, the energy was spectacular — they have like the happiest, most positive energy here of any city I went to. It's just a whole different world here, it's almost like a different country. We need the rest of Canada to catch up.”

PAPERS PLEASE: Montreal police continue to target Jewish community to show who is boss

https://www.rebelnews.com/papers_please_montreal_police_continue_to_target_jewish_community_to_show_who_is_boss

Night after night, I am out on the streets of Montreal, reporting on the curfew imposed by Quebec Premier Francois Legault, which he says is to stop the spread of COVID-19.

On Sunday night, much like the night before, police targeted the Hasidic Jewish neighbourhood of Outremont to enforce the curfew with $1,550 fines for adults and $500 fines for minors.

The police even ticketed a Jewish man with a dog with the excuse that he was making noise, and ticketed me for “having made noise by operating the motor of a road vehicle at high revolutions.”

I have seen young teenagers put in the back of police cars for the “crime” of playing on the streets past 8:00 p.m., taken home to their houses for ID and ticketed. I have been stopped around 50 times and ticketed at least 12 times for covering police enforcement of the curfew.

Are there any more surprises coming my way via snail mail? Who knows! All for being out there and telling the other side of the story — or in this case, the story. I am the only person out there filming the curfew in Quebec.

Canada sends $2.3 million in foreign aid to China

https://www.rebelnews.com/canada_sends_millions_in_foreign_aid_to_china

While the Chinese government continues to hold two Canadians as political prisoners, Canada has been sending millions in foreign aid to the Communist superpower.

The information comes from an order paper question posed to the Liberal government by Conservative MP for Brantford—Brant, Phil McColeman.

McColeman asked:

With regard to Canada's relationship with the government of China since October 21, 2019, what is the total amount of official development assistance that has been provided to the People's Republic of China?

The response tabled by the government revealed that Global Affairs Canada has sent over $2.3 million in foreign aid to the People's Republic of China. The Quebec government topped up the amount with an additional $508,000 in scholarships to Chinese students.

As part of the funding dispersal, Environment and Climate Change Canada gave $850,000 as part of Canada's contribution to the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, an advisory body that works directly for the Chinese Communist Party and provides the Chinese government with policy recommendations.

The International Development Research Center provided $2,200 to China for the purposes of a study on gender and the future of work. Other grants from the IDRC included funding for school lunch programs in China.

Just $172,000 of the nearly $2.9 million in foreign aid since October 2019 was for COVID relief.

Meanwhile, the Chinese government has been holding two Canadian citizens, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, as political hostages. The two have been detained since December 2018 in response to the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wenzhou at the Vancouver airport on an American warrant for fraud.

Within the same documents, Global Affairs acknowledges the enormous spending by China on both their military and empire-building efforts. Global Affairs estimates China's current annual military budget to be more than $276 billion USD.

The cost of China's imperialistic Belt and Road program was pegged at $1 trillion. That is the program where the Chinese government builds Chinese economic and social infrastructure to expand its footprint and influence around the world.

It's clear: China doesn't need Canadian money.

Perhaps Justin Trudeau is giving it away as a form of submission.

“Freedom is never given, it's always taken”: Chris Sky speaks at Kelowna freedom rally

https://tnc.news/2021/04/30/conservatives-say-government-still-has-no-plan-for-trudeaus-two-billion-tree-pledge/

The Conservatives say the Liberal government’s plan to plant two billion trees by 2030 still lacks details and will likely fall short.

“We’re two years into that commitment, almost two years into it, and they’re still acting like they still have another 10 years,” said Conservative environment critic Dan Albas.

Albas says the government has provided few details on how the government will source approximately 222 million seedlings per year and find viable land to plant them.

In the 2019 election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised Canada would plant two billion trees as a major part of the Liberal environment platform. Two years later, the government has yet to plant a single tree.

“The government made a political promise during the campaign that it had no idea how it would institute and basically handed this over to the bureaucracy,” Albas said.

“It sounds like they don’t know who they’re going to be dealing with either.”

A spokesperson for Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan told the Canadian Press that trees will start being planted this spring, with the government purchasing 5,000 seedlings so far.

The spokesperson added that the government is negotiating with multiple organizations experienced in tree planting, with up to 120 groups applying to be part of the process.

In December, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland earmarked $3.16 billion to fund the tree planting, but in January the Parliamentary Budget Office pegged the actual cost at nearly $6 billion.

Derek Nighbor, the president of the Forest Products Association of Canada, says he has been in contact with the government about the logistics of planting the trees. According to Nighbor, growing and planting seedlings on such a scale requires years of planning.

“You can’t just say, ‘We’re going to plant two billion trees.’ The details here matter,” he said.

BREAKING: Judge denies gov’t request to close Canadian church that has defied coronavirus rules

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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-judge-denies-govt-request-to-close-canadian-church-that-has-defied-coronavirus-rules

'We thank God this morning that the judge ruled, at least until May 13th, that the doors would remain open and that there will be no fines issued,' pastor Henry Hildebrandt said.

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AYLMER, Ontario, April 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian church will for now at least not have its doors closed to its faithful by police and health officials after a judge today denied an Ontario Attorney General’s request to shut the church doors because it has stayed open contrary to draconian COVID-19 health rules.

Pastor Henry Hildebrandt of the Church of God located in Aylmer, Ontario, announced the news in a YouTube message posted today.

“God still is on his throne and prayer and fasting does move his arm. We thank God this morning that the judge ruled, at least until May 13th, that the doors would remain open and that there will be no fines issued,” said Hildebrandt.

“Whatever it takes, God will help us. God is the supreme judge, and what God does, what God allows is, well, it will be the best for his kingdom. May God help us decide if you would pray, especially for May 13th, when this matter will be before the judge again, so that it would be ruled according to what God wants it to be. God bless you. And thank you so very much again for your support and your prayers.”

This past Wednesday, Hildebrandt shared a letter dated April 27 from Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey’s office to the Honourable Mr. Justice Bruce G. Thomas, Regional Senior Justice of the Southwest Region in Ontario.

In the letter, Downey’s office asked the courts to close the Church of God doors because it has been violating the Ontario Reopening Act.

The Attorney General in the letter sought at a “subsequent sanctions hearing, fines and an order directing the sheriff to lock the doors of the Respondent church until no gathering size limits apply to the church under the Reopening Ontario Act.”

The letter was also copied to Hildebrandt’s lawyers at the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), who are working the case.

The JCCF told LifeSiteNews that they will have more to say about today’s ruling soon.

In his video message today, Hildebrandt said they woke this morning with “heavy hearts” expecting bad news, but thanked “God this morning for answering prayer.”

Hildebrandt thanked his legal team and JCCF lawyer Lisa Bildy, saying she spoke in defense of the church with “very strong words.”

“So we are very thankful, very thankful," he said. "And thank you for your support and your prayers, the many, many messages you sent. God bless you for that. Please keep on praying that the Lord will help us. It is my utmost desire to preach the gospel, the good news, and bring sinners to Christ in a critical time like we're living in right now.”

According to an Aylmer Express report, Justice Thomas also found today in contempt the Church of God (Restoration) as a corporation, Hildebrandt, and Peter Wall – who works as an assistant pastor and church director at the church – because they defied a February court injunction on the church.

“I urge the parties to step back from the heated conflict,” said Justice Thomas, according to the Aylmer Express.

At the packed Sunday, April 25 service, Hildebrandt said he was “very ashamed of many, many pastors in this land” for being “noodlebacks” in going along with COVID-19 restrictions limiting church size.

Independent MP Derek Sloan and Independent Ontario MPP Randy Hillier both attended the service at the Church of God and spoke briefly from the pulpit. The pair have been charged by Aylmer Police for attending.

Both Sloan and Hillier noted on social media that they were pleased the judge denied the government’s request to close the Church of God doors.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on April 16 introduced extended “stay at home orders” that placed a 10-person limit on church service attendance size, closed playgrounds, implemented provincial border checks, and gave police the power to stop anyone outside his or her home without cause.

After public backlash, the Ford government walked back some of its coronavirus rules less than a day later. Playgrounds were allowed to stay open, and police had to have “reason to suspect that you are participating in an organized public event or social gathering” in order to question people.

No more oath breaking! Nineteen active and retired police officers take the Province of Ontario to court over Wuhan virus lockdown measures.

https://www.rebelnews.com/no_more_oath_breaking_nineteen_active_and_retired_police_officers_take_the_province_of_ontario_to_court_over_wuhan_virus_lockdown_measures

At a recent press conference, Rocco Galati, a Toronto-based lawyer and the executive director of the Constitutional Rights Centre, announced that 15 active and four former police officers are now in the process of taking the province of Ontario to court regarding the ongoing clampdown on freedoms due to COVID-19.

The notice of application was recently filed in Ontario Superior Court. It names Premier Doug Ford, the attorneys general of Ontario and Canada, and the chiefs of the police services of Toronto, York, Niagara, Ottawa and Hamilton as respondents. The application challenges the province’s COVID-19 measures as being unconstitutional. It also argues that mandating police officers to enforce these rules is a violation of the oath undertaken by Ontario’s sworn officers.

Galati’s press conference was attended by Sgt. Julie Evans of the Toronto Police Service and Const. Christopher Vandenbos of the York Regional Police Service, who could potentially face repercussions or even dismissal for taking such a stand.

Still, Galati blasted the various lockdown regulations as being “too vague” and “too broad,” noting that “many officers are getting their [enforcement] cues not from the regulations but from politicians and superiors.”

Galati stated that enforcing “many of these Covid measures cause the officers to breach their oath” – in which they specifically swear to uphold the Constitution of Canada.

Galati also pointed to police officers stopping citizens with no cause and demanding identification, likening this to “martial law. But the province does not have jurisdiction to impose martial law.”

Indeed, the pandemic, according to the application, does not even meet the criteria for an “emergency” under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection (EMCP) Act.

The applicants also allege that the province lacks the powers to impose lockdowns or stay-at-home orders as per the Constitution Act.

Galati said he is hopeful that the case will be heard sometime in the fall.

The public health deep state is running the show

https://www.rebelnews.com/the_public_health_deep_state_is_running_the_show

Alberta moving from the freest province to the least-free. Jason Kenney announced further lockdown measures, including a curfew, that are going to be implemented in Alberta as well as the hefty punishments for those who don't follow the rules.

Of course there is no science here. Does the virus bite you at 8 p.m. but not 7:59 p.m.? Of course not. It’s conditioning. It’s obedience training.

The public health deep state is running the show. Anonymous bureaucrats you have never heard of or voted for are now unrestrained tyrants. Parliaments are shut down or slowed down; courts the same thing. But these little dictators say and do what they like. They love the celebrity.

On yesterday's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra spoke about how Canada's health bureaucrats are cashing in on this pandemic and what these new rules mean for young, healthy people who are trying to live their lives.

When going through the new set of rules laid out by the Alberta government Ezra said:

Why are you punishing young people? Why are you talking about curfews on young people? How on earth does that help anyone, including people in their 80s and 90s. This is such a disgrace.

"Albertans are going to take an enormous hit" | Michelle Stirling joins Sheila Gunn Reid

https://www.rebelnews.com/_albertans_are_going_to_take_an_enormous_hit_michelle_stirling_joins_sheila_gunn_reid

Is green energy actually as cheap and free as we are told?

That’s what the advocates of wind and solar keep telling us; that green energy is the magical gift that keeps on giving once the expensive infrastructure required to support it is in place. Just a small investment on the front side for big payoffs in the end.

But is that really how it works? Not exactly. When the state of Minnesota — a place with a similar climate to many parts of Canada — proposed moving to 50 per cent renewable energy capacity on the grid from the current 25 per cent, an analysis done by Isaac Orr, a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment on mining and energy issues and a policy advisor for The Heartland Institute, found that the move to a greener grid would cost the state $80.2 billion.

A similar analysis was conducted in Alberta by Friends of Science about the cost of wind and solar here.

Joining Sheila Gunn Reid on this week's episode of The Gunn Show to discuss the findings of their research is Michelle Stirling of Friends of Science Society.

Nurses of the world unite | The only way to give the vaccine = Squirt it on the ground , not into the poor deluded soul that is lining up to be murdered

https://truth11.com/2021/05/01/nurses-of-the-world-unite-the-only-way-to-give-the-vaccine-squirt-it-on-the-ground-not-into-the-poor-deluded-soul-that-is-lining-up-to-be-murdered/

Thank you beautiful angel of life. For saving this person from the Genocide vaccine.

All that is hidden is being revealed: Rising as a new Nation as the old world collapses- A Communique and Update from Kevin Annett-Eagle Strong Voice and the Republic of Kanata on April 30, 2021

https://republicofkanata.ca/2021/05/01/all-that-is-hidden-is-being-revealed-rising-as-a-new-nation-as-the-old-world-collapses-a-communique-and-update-from-kevin-annett-eagle-strong-voice-and-the-republic-of-kanata-on-april-30-2021/

We are at a crossroads moment in our long battle to overcome tyranny. This message is for all of you who are enduring in that fight in the ranks of our sovereign Republic of Kanata, and to our allies at home and abroad.

Years ago, I heard a lecture in Vancouver that speaks to our present situation. The lecture was given by a surviving member of the German resistance movement against Hitler. His name was Wolf-Dieter Zimmerman and he helped found the Confessing Church that united Christian pastors opposed to Nazism at a time when all the German churches were backing Hitler’s totalitarian regime. Zimmerman’s words are especially relevant to us these days as the COVID police state escalates.

At one point during his talk someone asked him how people he knew responded to Hitler’s coming to power. Zimmerman replied, “Many people looked for ways to immediately resist the Nazis, with demonstrations, strikes and pamphleteering. Those people were defeated or died quickly because they did not understand that they faced a new kind of enemy. Instead, a few of us in the Confessing Church withdrew to a small community called Finkewalde to search for the inner clarity and will to sustain our resistance for the years ahead. We knew that Nazism would not disappear overnight because it was not a foreign entity but had emerged from among us. It had to be resisted spiritually as well as politically, but only by us first baring our souls and accepting our complicity and responsibility for it. We could not fight an evil so profound with inner blindfolds on.”

Zimmerman precisely described our situation today. Those who claim to be opposing the COVID tyranny do not understand what it is they are fighting if their words and deeds mean anything. Like the anti-Nazi Germans in 1933, they are waving placards and protesting with their minds in the past, without realizing that they are facing a new evil that has emerged from among them. And that inner blindfold is leading many of them up a blind alley and over a cliff.

Instead, a handful of us have done like Wolf-Dieter Zimmerman and stepped back from knee-jerk responses to oppression by understanding the new tyranny and replacing it in our own minds and hearts. That has been the thrust of our Republic of Kanata and its creation of not only a separate political and legal jurisdiction to a criminal society but a mental and spiritual independence from it as well. For we appreciate the truth of Sun Tzu’s words in The Art of War, that battles are won or lost by armies because of the clarity and the will of their commanders.

We who established the Republic of Kanata in January 2015 have made many mistakes and so have learned many hard lessons, especially over the past year as the COVID tyranny has descended. One of our biggest errors was to over-estimate the minority of self-described “awake” Canadians. We assumed from their words that they were ready and able to be free and exercise the self-governance they spoke about. We learned the hard way that the opposite is true.

Continue…

FUREY: Will society ever return to normal?

https://tnc.news/2021/05/01/furey-will-society-ever-return-to-normal/

As more people get vaccinated and as case numbers decline, will Canadians return to normal or as society been frayed by the pandemic?

For some people, safety measures such as declining handshakes and socially distancing while outside will become the norm going forward.

Anthony Furey discusses in his latest video.

Activists demand Halifax libraries pull “dangerous” book skeptical of transgender ideology

https://tnc.news/2021/05/01/activists-demand-halifax-libraries-pull-dangerous-book-skeptical-of-transgender-ideology/

LGBTQ activists and some concerned parents are hoping to force Halifax Public Libraries to censor a book that’s skeptical of transgender ideology from its shelves because they see it as being “dangerous” and “transphobic.”

The book in question was written by author Abigail Shrier, and is titled “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.”

Since its publication, Shrier’s book has been listed as one of the best books of 2020 by The Economist and has received other similar reviews from mainstream publications.

One parent named Nicole Nascimento claimed in a Facebook post that the book risks “the lives of trans youth simply for the sake of intellectual freedom.”

This week, a petition titled “Transgender Identity is not a choice, a Craze, or a Fad” was launched online demanding that the library censor the book and author for alleged “hateful messages.”

“I don’t believe the library should be a place of neutrality, and it should stand up to hate speech. I would like that book removed because I genuinely think it’s dangerous—which is a complicated thing to talk about when it comes to books,” said the petition creator Mila McKay.

“I’m not talking about censoring books. She can promote her book. She can continue to promote herself. It wouldn’t be silencing her. This isn’t a freedom of expression issue. This is an issue about a very dangerous narrative that can confuse parents by giving them unscientific information, and because of that, it can endanger the lives of trans youth.”

Halifax library’s manager of collections Dace MacNeil addressed McKay’s concerns saying that the book’s contents do not “constitute hate speech” and that the library supports having a wide range of opinions.

“While the author’s arguments and the research methods are questionable, and there is understandable concern that the advice provided in this book is not trans-affirming, the content does not constitute hate speech in the Canadian legal context,” said MacNeil.

“Supporting a collection that reflects a wide range of perspectives, including books that express views many of us take objection to, is the foundation of a public library and foundational to a democratic society.”

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