NEW YORK—On the rainswept afternoon of Feb. 22, about 75 New Yorkers rallied in front of the Canadian Consulate’s building in midtown Manhattan in support of the Canadian truckers. In attendance was Dominick Talio, a former operating room nurse from Valley Stream, Long Island, who refused to be vaccinated. He called what’s going on in Canada “a terrible infringement on people’s personal freedom [and] civil liberties.” “We’re seeing the beginning of that happening here,” he told The Epoch Times. The rally was organized by NYC teacher Michael Kane, who also runs Teachers for Choice. Kane was recently terminated. “I was just, a couple of days ago, officially fired by Eric Adams,” he told The Epoch Times. “I loved my job, I loved everyone I worked with, and the city really didn’t care about all that stuff. They just cared about this injection.” Kane taught special education for over 14 years, …