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Is Canada Becoming a Police State?
Is Canada becoming a police state? Prior to 2020 there were signs: evolving censorship; proposals for snitch lines (article, article); centralization, standardization and militarization of local police forces (equipping local police with tanks, automatic weapons); installation of remote camera technology (see AO News – Surveillance Technology); intimidation (carding); control by humiliation; riot response to peaceful protests (2010 G20 Summit, 2013 Elsipogtog), and attempts to arrest and silence journalists (#JournalismIsNotACrime).
In 2020, the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic response saw the demand for emergency powers by “democratic” governments across the world. The following year witnessed ramped up police and military powers, unscientific mandates (masks, social distancing), new technology rollout and implementation (5G IoT), increased attempts at control (article), a war against small business/independence (i.e. Adam Skelly), and the establishment of quarantine/isolation/internment “concentration” camps. (AO News – COVID-19).
In the online world, content creators had been challenged for the prior 5 years or so by the major social media information distributors (Facebook, Google, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, Redit, LinkedIn) and revenue generators (Youtube, GoFundMe, Amazon) to confine their content to mainstream thinking or find their work demonetized, shadow banned (hiding content from other users), silenced or labeled as dangerous, manipulative, misleading or fake. The onslaught of censorship due to the pandemic response encouraged many content creators and users to switch to alternate uncensored media sites (Flote.app, Bitchute.com, open.lbry.com, altcensored.com) and/or take control of their own technology.
Mainstream media and the major social media information distributors (all controlled by a handful of wealthy individuals) forced a particular narrative (World Health Organization, pro-vaccine, pro-5G, anti-“plandemic”, casedemic). Non-conforming articles, images and videos were labeled “conspiracy theories” and subjected to blatantly fake fact-checking, where “fact-checkers” did not check facts of the message but attacked the messenger with lies, libel and insinuation begging the question: Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? (video (30 mins)) (article)
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
"Is COVID being used to usher in a police authoritarian state in which the voices of dissenters are silenced?" Russell Brand (10 mins)
Link to Sir Robert Peel’s Policing Principles
For other countries: AO News – Technocracy
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states:
Fundamental Freedoms
Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law: (1) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. (2) Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association.
2 (a) freedom of conscience and religion
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Pastor arrested
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2 (b) Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression / Censorship
There are many ways to censor people: social mores, religion, laws, rules, regulations, oppression through sheer might and/or technology.
Today, having thrown off for the most part, the yoke of organized religion, we find ourselves increasingly controlled and censored in our day-to-day lives by government.
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2021-01-12 |
Youtube / Glenn Beck |
This list shows American censorship is OUT OF CONTROL (15 mins)
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Glenn Beck |
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2020-12-19 |
American Institute for Economic Research |
Pornhub: Victim of Visa and Mastercard Censorship or Money Laundering Risk? |
J.P. Koning [danger of digital currency] |
2 (b) Freedom of the Press / Journalism is Not a Crime
“The criminalization of journalism is one manifestation of the criminalization of dissent, and in North America it is of particular concern where Indigenous peoples are defending their lands. We see this in North Dakota, where mass arrests of the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies have been accompanied by absurd charges against Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and other journalists reporting on this anti-pipeline struggle.” (article)
Julian Assange - AO News – Whistleblowers & Activists
Justin Brake - AO News – Whistleblowers & Activists
Barrett Brown - AO News – Whistleblowers & Activists
Karl Dockstader - AO News – Whistleblowers & Activists
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2020-08-15 |
Bitchute/Spiro Skouras |
Infowars Reporter Millie Weaver Arrested on Secret Indictment |
Spiro Skouras Coinciding with her release of Shadowgate 2020 / Alternate link |
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2020-08-14 |
Bitchute/ TheConsciousResistance |
Ben Swann: The Truth is Being Systematically Erased (30 mins)
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Derrick Broze / Ben Swann |
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2016-10-25 |
Ricochet.media |
Court order to arrest reporter covering Muskrat Falls is unacceptable
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- Justin Brake |
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2016-10-13 |
EcoWatch / Josh Fox |
Outrageous! Felony Charges Given to Journalist Filming Anti-Pipeline Protest
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Josh Fox - not DAPL pipelines - Petition |
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2016-10-13 |
Trofire.com |
Documentary Filmmaker Faces Up to 45 Years in Prison for Covering Pipeline Protest
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Sydney Robinson - Deia Schlosberg |
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2016-09-22 |
Globe and Mail |
Police seize Montreal reporter’s computer to find source for story
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Pierre Saint-Arnaud |
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2016-09-10 |
Bsnorrell.blogspot.ca |
Blog: Warrant issued for Amy Goodman, Cody Hall arrested: Standing Rock defends the sacred |
Brenda Norrell |
2 (c) Freedom of Peaceful Assembly / Protestors
"Is COVID being used to usher in a police authoritarian state in which the voices of dissenters are silenced?" Russell Brand (video 10 mins)
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2021-04-17 |
Post Millennial |
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2021-03-21 |
Youtube / Russell Brand |
New Covid Protest Laws - To Protect You Or SHUT YOU UP? (10 mins)
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Russell Brand |
Mobility Rights
6.(1) Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in and leave Canada.
(2) Every citizen of Canada and every person who has the status of a permanent resident of Canada has the right:
a. to move to and take up residence in any province; and
b. to pursue the gaining of a livelihood in any province.
(3) The rights specified in section (2) are subject to:
a. any laws or practices of general application in force in a province other than those that discriminate among persons primarily on the basis of province of present or previous residence; and
b. any laws providing for reasonable residency requirements as a qualification for the receipt of publicly provided social services.
(4) Sections (2) and (3) do not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration in a province of conditions of individuals in that province who are socially or economically disadvantaged if the rate of employment in that province is below the rate of employment in Canada.
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2021-06-17 |
CBC News |
First phase of vaccine certification going live in July for travellers entering Canada
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Ashley Burke - ArriveCan app - “all the premiers agreed that being fully vaccinated was the key” - Same as Canada’s e-passport technology |
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Required to stay in hotel for quarantine period |
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Other Canadian Issues
Gun Control
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2020-06-19 |
Rebel News |
Justin Trudeau is sneaking more legal firearms onto his ban list
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Sheila Gunn Reid |
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2020-06-02 |
Daily Caller |
Lawsuits Begin Over Trudeau’s “Assault Weapon” Ban
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2020-05-01 |
Globe and Mail |
Opinion: Trudeau’s hurried assault-rifle ban is a weak half-measure |
- owners of the newly banned weapons won’t be allowed to use them for any purpose, and won’t be allowed to transport them unless it is to return them to the manufacturer, or to have them deactivated or destroyed. |
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2020-05-01 |
CBC.ca |
Trudeau announces ban on 1,500 types of 'assault-style' firearms — effective immediately |
John Paul Tasker - Law effective May 1, 2020 - Two-year amnesty period - Buyback |
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2019-10-08 |
(e-mail) |
Rifle clubs inform their members of federal governments plan to buyback guns with magazines. Handguns to be authorized at the municipal level. |
Mandatory buyback, no grandfathering modeled after New Zealand
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2019-10-01 |
cpac |
Justin Trudeau speaks with reporters after meeting with GTA mayors (28 mins) |
Stronger gun control |
Military
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2020-12-11 |
Calgary Herald |
Smith: If only Alberta had put the military in charge of our pandemic response
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Danielle Smith |
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2020-12-09 |
ThePostMillennial.com |
Trudeau invited Chinese military to train in Canada
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Roberto-Wakerell-Cruz |
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2020-12-08 |
OttawaCitizen.com |
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David Pugliese - Operation Vector
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2020-10-07 |
Rumormillnews.com |
Chinese Troops Spotted In Remote Areas Across Canada By The Thousands (video)
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GeorgeEaton |
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2020-08-31 |
TheCommonsenseShow.com |
More Reports Confirm that the CHICOMS Are Amassing Thousands of Troops on the Canadian-US Border |
Dave Hodges |
Chinese military deployed in Brockville and B.C.? <confirm> (article) / AO News - China
Government of Canada (page)
Individual Cases
Dr. Simona Tibu, Edmonton, Alberta
Tibu was on her way to see patients in Edmonton that morning, when she was pulled over by an Alberta sheriff for speeding.
Tibu claims the sheriff violently hit her window. When she opened it, he asked her to hand over her drivers license and insurance information.
“I advised him I would do so if he stopped hitting my car.”
Tibu also told him that if he didn’t, she would record him on her phone.
“At that moment, he became very violent. He took his hands through my window, hit my right hand, where I have bruises on it, smashed my cell phone out of my hands, and told me… ‘Get out of your car now.'”
She says she listened to the sheriff, who handcuffed her. With her arms behind her back, Tibu says the sheriff then began hitting her breasts.
Fearing for her life, she began to scream, hoping someone would hear her and help.
Tibu says that only made the sheriff even more aggressive. She claims he pressed his knees into hers until they were bruised, and pushed his pelvis into her back.
“I felt a hit in my head then he smashed my head on the pavement on the road until I was full of blood. Then he told me, ‘Now I’m going to walk all over you.'”
Witnesses did stop at the scene, one called 911, another took pictures.
Aug-2013: Dr. Tibu charged with assaulting a peace officer
Feb-2014: Dr. Tibu launches plea to have sheriff charged. Officer is identified as Sheriff Behiels.
Aug-2014: Crown prosecutor, Doug Taylor, moves to disallow all evidence indicating the sheriff’s behaviour including visual dashcam showing beating and witness statements.
Sep-2014: A hearing asking to overturn the previous decision where the case against the sheriff was dismissed without review of any evidence. (event link)
News - Dr. Simona Tibu, Edmonton, Alberta
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2014-04-14 |
Care2 Petition |
Justice for Simona Tibu. Stop Police Brutality.
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2014-02-09 |
Edmonton Sun |
Allison Salz - Dr. Simona Tibu |
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2013-08-17 |
Huffington Post |
Simona Tibu, Camrose Dentist, Charged With Assaulting Peace Officer
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- Dr. Simona Tibu |
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2013-08-16 |
Global New Brunswick |
Update: Camrose dentist charged with assaulting a peace officer |
Patricia Kozicka and Emily Mertz - Dr. Simona Tibu was stopped by a Sheriff on August 3, 2013. |
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