New firearms documentary Assaulted premieres Monday

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A new True North documentary is set to disrupt the mainstream media narrative on firearms.

Assaulted: Justin Trudeau’s War on Gun Owners, a four-part documentary series on Canadian gun owners, premieres Monday.

In Assaulted, True North’s Andrew Lawton speaks to real Canadians across the country affected by the Trudeau government’s gun ban.

“Gun owners in Canada make up a passionate and safe group that contributes billions to the Canadian economy – yet that apparently doesn’t protect them from being vilified by the government,” Assaulted host and executive producer Andrew Lawton said.

“Their stories haven’t been told in the narrative surrounding firearms laws in Canada, until now.”

On May 1, 2020, the Trudeau government announced a ban on 1,500 kinds of rifles and firearms, immediately stopping the sale and transport of many commonly used guns.

Rather than sympathy and respect, Canadian gun owners have been treated with derision by the Trudeau government, such as when Public Safety Minister Bill Blair tried to link gun advocacy with political extremism.

While the Trudeau government has promised a buyback program for banned firearms, details are nowhere to be seen. For over a year, business owners have been left with unsellable inventory and gun owners have been saddled with now-prohibited firearms and no means of legally disposing of them.

In four episodes, this crowd-funded documentary will speak to the diverse range of Canadians that own firearms and learn just how poor gun control policies have hurt their livelihoods.

“The Trudeau government’s ridiculous gun ban has hurt law abiding gun-owners across Canada. Assaulted shows just how disastrous big government policies like gun control can be,“ said True North founder Candice Malcolm.

“Assaulted shows the other side of the story that the mainstream media ignores.”

Assaulted’s first two episodes premiere this week, starting Monday, with episodes three and four premiering next week.

Court finds Trudeau government unfairly denied grant to Christian university

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A federal judge chastised the Trudeau government for unfairly denying a Christian university access to the Canada Summer Jobs program, according to the National Post.

In 2019, the Liberal government denied Redeemer University its application for $104,187 in funds from the program despite having participated in the initiative since 2006.

The Trudeau government claimed that the University had not demonstrated “that measures have been implemented to provide a workplace free of harassment and discrimination.”

According to Redeemer’s policy at the time, students were being asked to avoid “sexual intimacies which occur outside of a heterosexual marriage.” However, the policy did not apply to the 11 positions Redeemer had hoped to fund through the program.

Although Redemer had submitted a 35-page Anti-Discrimination Policy, the Liberal government maintained its position and rejected the school’s application.

Justice Richard Mosely accused the Liberal government of having no evidence to support its claim that the university discriminated based on sexual orientation and that the school was denied funding simply because of its Christian beliefs.

“If the concern of (Service Canada) was that Redeemer discriminated based on sexual orientation, there was no contemporaneous evidence of that in the file,” wrote Justice Mosely.

The court also ruled that the federal government did not “make any overt attempt to consider Redeemer’s rights to freedom of religion, freedom of expression or freedom of association in considering its application.”

Lawyers representing Redeemer called that judge’s decision against the Liberal government “punitive” and unprecedented. The federal government was also ordered to pay Redeemer’s legal fees as a result of the ruling.

“I have never seen that in any court, let alone the federal court,” lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos told the National Post.

Critics have accused the Liberal government of politicizing the Canada Summer Jobs Program. In 2019, it was revealed that grants awarded under the program were more biased towards Liberal ridings with Liberal constituencies receiving 24% more approvals than Conservative ridings.

Majority in Ontario Oppose the Crux of Bill C-10

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More than half the people in Ontario oppose the major aspect of Bill C-10 — the federal government’s ability to meddle in internet searches — according to a recent poll.

When asked whether they support a federal government bill to promote and demote content in the results of search functions on social media sites like YouTube and Facebook, 62% of Ontario residents said they oppose this initiative. Of those, 41% said they strongly oppose the government having this power, while only 6% strongly support it.

Young Ontarian men and women, those aged 18 to 34, were most likely to oppose the new sweeping powers introduced in Bill C-10, according to the results of the survey commissioned by True North and conducted by One Research.

Bill C-10 was a controversial bill proposed by the Trudeau Liberals to expand the mandate of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and apply it to the internet. This would give the federal government sweeping new powers to regulate content online, including the ability to meddle in the search results for social media sites like Facebook and YouTube.

This bill was rushed through the House of Commons, but failed to make its way through the Senate before summer recess. If there is an election this summer or fall, Bill C-10 will die and a future government would have to start from scratch to reintroduce this legislation.

While this unpopular bill has been put to a halt, the Trudeau government has continued to push for more online regulation. Bill C-36, a bill which would give the Canadian Human Rights Commission the power to compel citizens to cease online communication or pay a monetary fine, was tabled last-minute prior to the House rising for the summer.

According to the poll, only 4% of young women in Ontario said they strongly support these proposed new powers, with 18% giving moderate support, 21% moderately opposing these powers and a staggering 45% strongly opposing them.

When it comes to young men in Ontario, 5% say they strongly support the powers laid out in Bill C-10 and 18% moderately support it, while 28% say they moderately oppose them and 36% strongly oppose these new proposed powers.

The strongest support for Bill C-10 came in the Toronto region, even though more than half of respondents (55%) opposed them. In Toronto, 9% of respondents said they strongly support the initiative and 25% moderately support it. Likewise, when divided by previous partisan support, 9% of those who previously supported Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Liberal Party said they strongly support C-10 and 33% give moderate approval.

Of those surveyed who voted for Doug Ford’s Conservatives in Ontario, 73% oppose granting the feds these new powers, while only 3% strongly support it.

The survey was conducted from June 22 to 24, 2021, and 1,002 Ontarian adults were surveyed online using a representative panel. The results have been weighted for accuracy by age, gender, region and past provincial vote using the most recent census data from Statistics Canada.

Majority in Ontario Oppose the Crux of Bill C-10 by True North on Scribd

Calgary votes to repeal mask mandate following public pushback

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On Monday, Calgary city councillors voted to repeal their local mask bylaw after pushback from residents.

The decision to repeal Calgary’s mask bylaw passed in a 10-4 vote by City Council, however, it will likely not go into effect for some time after Councillor Druh Farrell withheld his consent for a third reading of the bylaw.

Once the bylaw inevitably gets repealed after a third reading, Calgarians will only be required to wear masks on public transit, while ride-sharing or riding in a taxi and in city facilities.

Originally, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi declared that masks would be mandatory in the city until at least the end of 2021 flouting provincial health guidelines which lifted mask requirements for the entire province of Alberta on Canada Day.

At the time, city officials claimed that the provincial guidance “does not eliminate the need for a municipal bylaw.”

“We here at the City of Calgary have to make a decision for Calgary, based on the very local issues here and based on the outbreaks, variants and neighbourhoods here,” said Nenshi at the time.

“As far as I’m concerned we are independent of the province and we will do what’s right for citizens and what’s right for the economy.”

Earlier this month Calgary city councillors voted 7-7 to keep Calgarians masked after the provincial mandate was repealed.

A petition by the Alberta Institute calling for Calgary to end its mask mandate in line with provincial regulations received a total of 12,800 signatures from local residents.

“Governments have massive powers to impinge on citizens’ freedoms, but to do so they must be able to provide evidence that any intervention is justified. That is simply not the case anymore,” the Alberta Institute wrote.

“The vulnerable have received both doses, most Calgarians have received a first dose (a higher percentage than elsewhere in the province, in fact), and cases and hospitalizations have plummeted.”

As of July 5, 73.1% of Alberta’s eligible population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 44.8% of eligible people have been fully vaccinated against the virus.

Company Behind Keystone XL Pipeline Seeks $15 Billion in Damages From US Government After Biden Revokes Permit

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The company behind Keystone XL Pipeline is seeking $15 billion in damages from the US government after Joe Biden revoked its permit in January.

TC Energy announced it filed a Notice of Intent to initiate a NAFTA claim to recover “economic damages” caused by Biden’s move to cancel permits previously approved by Trump.

“TC Energy will be seeking to recover more than US$15 billion in damages that it has suffered as a result of the U.S. Government’s breach of its NAFTA obligations,” the company said in a press release.

Joe Biden’s first order of business was to kill tens of thousands of jobs.

On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order canceling construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline which would have carried oil from Canada to the United States.

21 states, with Texas and Montana leading the charge, sued Joe Biden earlier this year over his decision to revoke the Keystone Pipeline XL permit.

A coalition of 21 states with Republican attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Biden and argued that revoking the cross-border permit is a “regulation of interstate and international commerce” and that only Congress can make the decision.

Thousands of Canadians died in 2020 awaiting surgery amid COVID-related healthcare restrictions

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At the onset of surgical restrictions in March of 2020, all ten Canadian provinces and three territories confirmed that, despite elective surgeries being pushed back, abortions would continue without any restrictions or impediments in place.

July 5, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Over 2,300 people placed on surgical waiting lists during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Canada died between January 2020 and December 2020, a report from Canadian thinktank SecondStreet.org confirmed last month.

Within Canada, some 353,000 surgeries, procedures, and clinical consultations were postponed or cancelled owing to lockdown measures implemented as part of the government response to COVID-19. The impetus behind the postponement of non-essential treatments was to free up bed space in preparation for a surge in COVID-19 admissions, and to maintain physical distancing between patients in wards.

SecondStreet.org were able to confirm 2,367 deaths by filing freedom of information requests with numerous health authorities across the country, obtaining the number of patients removed from surgical waiting lists due to dying before being able to attend their appointment. The thinktank warned that the number may be suppressed as the relevant “data from Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, two major health regions in British Columbia, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and several hospitals in Ontario” were not tracked and thus could not be added to the tally.

In addition to the lack of transparent information from all provinces, the report notes that “cases where a patient did receive surgery but died during or shortly thereafter due to conditions worsened by the wait” were not counted, likely contributing to underreporting.

The report provided figures from most Canadian health authorities from the 2019-2020 fiscal year, as well as the 2020 calendar year, meaning there are three months of crossover reports. However, some authorities did not provide figures for the period of the coronavirus outbreak, making a direct comparison impossible without first adjusting for the discrepancy, the report said. Despite dealing with fewer reports, the figures obtained since the start of the COVID crisis were 111 deaths higher than those recorded between April 2019 and March 2020.

The report also documented patients who had died whilst waiting for “Diagnostic scans/Appointments with specialists,” showing that 6,202 patients had died before consultation. “These cancellations ranged from CT scans and ultrasounds to urology consultations and coagulation follow-ups,” the reports states, adding that the “vast majority of data provided concerned diagnostic scans rather than information on appointments with specialists.” Continue…