Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped away from a year-end media interview in Toronto to speak with a man who had been standing across the street, filming with his phone. “Why don’t you come over here?” said Trudeau to the observer during his year-end interview with CTV News senior editor Omar Sachedina at Kensington Market in December. The…

Commentary The quest for “diversity” has become the universal rallying cry for every institution, including universities, government departments, corporations, and even law societies. “Diversity” has been defined as including skin colour, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. However, the one kind of diversity not included on this list—and the one kind that is desperately needed today—is…

Freedom Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller is facing a $2 million defamation lawsuit from public affairs firm Enterprise Canada and one of its senior executives, Brian Fox, following a claim that the latter attended the Convoy protests in Ottawa last winter while carrying a Nazi flag. Enterprise Canada called Miller’s claim “widespread dissemination of false and malicious…

A majority of Canadians now oppose the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act in February to counteract the Freedom Convoy protests, according to a recent poll. Mainstreet Research polled over 1,260 Canadians over the age of 18 between Dec. 6 and Dec. 8 on their political views. One question asked, “Has your mind changed on…

Commentary Across the world, many remember the Freedom Convoy in the early days of 2022, with the crowded overpasses and the Canadian and American flags waving side by side for freedom. The documentary “Trucking for Freedom Chapter Two: Winter Wildfire,” available on EpochTV, shows the inspirational story of a country uniting for liberty and the…

Commentary Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China—the Chinese equivalent of our truckers’ Freedom Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when truckers became convinced that unscientific vaccination mandates, and other lockdown policies, were being…

One of Canada’s largest credit unions allegedly reported depositors to the RCMP whom it suspected of supporting the Freedom Convoy protests last winter. Desjardins Group managers sent an email to the RCMP on Feb. 19 disclosing deposit amounts used to pay credit card bills of several of its customers that it believed were spending to support…

During a phone call in early February with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon voiced her support of the online crowdfunding platform GoFundMe shutting down its Freedom Convoy fundraising campaign, which resulted in most of the $10 million donated being refunded to the original senders. Simon also said she believed the convoy to…

Perrin Beatty, a former Conservative defence minister who helped draft the Emergencies Act in the 1980s, told Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland in February text messages that he was worried about possible “long term issues” that might follow the federal government’s use of the emergency powers. “I certainly hope that we’ll see an early, non-violent end…

Some premiers and an industry executive asked the federal government to end its COVID-19 vaccine mandates that sparked the convoy protests across Canada in winter, with some saying the mandates didn’t prevent the spread of COVID-19. “I know it sucks politically to back down and reverse course but does it really pay to carry on…