OTTAWA'S CANCEL-CULTURE COUNCILLOR

   An Ottawa city councillor is trying to get a venue to cancel a Jordan Peterson event happening Monday night.
   On Friday, Coun. Ariel Troster wrote to the Canadian Tire Centre, asking the venue to reconsider hosting the Ottawa stop of the Canadian psychologist’s Beyond Order tour.
  “His hateful rhetoric has no place in our city,” she wrote.

  Did Peterson's presentation proceed?:   “Thirty-six organizations (calling for the talk’s cancellation,) and not one protestor,” Peterson said at the top of the talk, which was met by roars from the nearly full hockey arena.

MEMORIES OF THE FREEDOM CONVOY

   Last weekend marked the first anniversary of the monumental Freedom Convoy and events were held across Canada to commemorate the protest – including in the nation’s capital.
   The Convoy was a historic protest as Canadians from all walks of life demanded the government put an end to its extreme Covid measures.
   True North’s Elie Cantin-Nantel was on the ground in Ottawa over the weekend and asked people what their favourite memories from the Freedom Convoy were.

ABOUT THAT COLD DAY IN HELL....

   As a medical student and researcher, I staunchly supported the efforts of the public health authorities when it came to COVID-19. I believed that the authorities responded to the largest public health crisis of our lives with compassion, diligence, and scientific expertise. I was with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and boosters
   I was wrong. We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives.
   I can see now that the scientific community from the CDC to the WHO to the FDA and their representatives, repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public about its own views and policies, including on natural vs. artificial immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially among the young. All of these were scientific mistakes at the time, not in hindsight. Amazingly, some of these obfuscations continue to the present day.

REQUIRED READING: THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI

   Pharma-funded mainstream media has convinced millions of Americans that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a hero. He is anything but.
   As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci dispenses $6.1 billion in annual taxpayer-provided funding for scientific research, allowing him to dictate the subject, content, and outcome of scientific health research across the globe. Fauci uses the financial clout at his disposal to wield extraordinary influence over hospitals, universities, journals, and thousands of influential doctors and scientists - whose careers and institutions he has the power to ruin, advance, or reward.
   During more than a year of painstaking and meticulous research, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unearthed a shocking story that obliterates media spin on Dr. Fauci...and that will alarm every American - Democrat or Republican - who cares about democracy, our Constitution, and the future of our children’s health.
    The Real Anthony Fauci reveals how “America’s Doctor” launched his career during the early AIDS crisis by partnering with pharmaceutical companies to sabotage safe and effective off-patent therapeutic treatments for AIDS. Fauci orchestrated fraudulent studies and then pressured US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators into approving a deadly chemotherapy treatment he had good reason to know was worthless against AIDS. Fauci repeatedly violated federal laws to allow his Pharma partners to use impoverished and dark-skinned children as lab rats in deadly experiments with toxic AIDS and cancer chemotherapies.

CANADA FALLS FROM FREEDOM INDEX TOP 10

   Lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic helped Canada fall out of the top 10 in an annual study on worldwide freedom.
   Released Thursday by the Fraser Institute and the U.S.-based Cato Institute, the 2022 edition of the Human Freedom Index lists Canada as the world’s 13th most free nation — down from No. 6 last year and the first time in over a decade that Canada didn’t make the top 10.
   “Canada’s COVID response was much stricter than many in 2020,” said study co-author and Fraser Institute Fellow Fred McMahon.
   “There have also been some bumps in our legal system, and given various scandals and political interference,” he said.

AMERICA IS FIGHTING A MODERN WORLD WAR

   What does a modern world war between nuclear powers look like?
   Take a good look around. We’ve been in one for a number of years, and unlike ‘old school’ wars, it is difficult to pinpoint the start. Was it the introduction of Covid-19, or 9/11? The Federal Government could answer that question, but they aren’t going to tell us as our Federal Government is on the other side of this war.
   The war is distributed. The enemy is fighting against Russia in Ukraine, using Ukrainian soldiers to fight with NATO (primarily American) money and weapons. Much of the money going to Ukraine is not staying there, but is instead laundered back to the United States, where it ends up in the pockets and campaign funds of those politicians who are responsible for fighting that war.
   The war is informational, with news organizations telling us what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) want us to hear. Quite literally, everything you see or hear in the mainstream media is propaganda, from CNN, FOX News, and MSNBC right up to your favorite shows, movies, and video games. Propaganda is everywhere, and most of it is false.

TRUDEAU SWARMED BY PROTESTERS IN HAMILTON

   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came face-to-face with hundreds of protesters on Tuesday night in Hamilton, Ontario when his security team escorted him across the street from the restaurant he and members of his cabinet had gathered at for dinner.
   The federal cabinet is currently in Hamilton for a multi-day retreat.
   A large group of protesters quickly assembled outside the Bread Bar, a downtown Hamilton restaurant, when they became aware that Trudeau and his cabinet were all inside.
   Protesters can be heard calling the Prime Minister a “tyrant” and a “traitor”.

VITRIOLIC LETTER POSTED BY WOKE SCHOOL TRUSTEES

   At a Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) meeting earlier this week, the board’s non-woke trustees expressed concern with the vitriolic and defensive letter posted last Friday evening.
   The anonymous and unsigned open letter was a response to a scathing but entirely accurate speech by concerned parent David Todor a week earlier addressing the board’s obsession with gender identity and sexual orientation.
   Trustee Mike Ramsay called out education director Jeewan Chanicka for issuing the “disrespectful” letter without coming back to the board for approval – adding that certain board members may have signed off on the letter in secret.
   The subsequent responses from Chanicka and his sycophant trustees proved to me that most of those on the board are part of a cult that has nothing to do with teaching students academics.

ABOUT THOSE SUSTAINABLE WELL-PAYING JOBS IN THE JUST TRANSITION

     Jack Mintz:  That’s over 2.7 million jobs — almost 14 per cent of all jobs in Canada. Seamus O’Regan, the federal labour minister, struggles to put job-killing in a better light as “ensuring an equitable and prosperous future for workers and communities to take full advantage of the transition to a net-zero future.”
    The leaked federal document’s agenda is to replace lost jobs with jobs that are sustainable jobs, but not necessarily well-paying. Oil and gas workers earn salary and benefits equal to $98 per hour in the oilsands or $78/hr in petroleum and coal manufacturing (based on 2021 data ). Replacing those with anything similar will be hard. Jobs in the critical minerals sector are closer to the mark, at $65/hr, but still represent a big income hit for oil and gas workers. The federal government extolls the virtues of clean-tech jobs but they average only $48/hr, not much more than the average Canadian worker earns ($41/hr).
   When lost in a just transition fog, politicians in some countries feather-bed their own public service with laid-off workers whether they’re needed or not. Canada’s non-military federal employees averaged an extraordinary $75/hr in 2021, so the income would at least be in the ballpark. But in the long run being paid handsomely for zero-value “work” isn’t even good for the “workers.”

SENDING TANKS TO UKRAINE

   The West is poised to send nearly 200 battle tanks to Ukraine in a potential hammer blow that could help Kyiv win its war against Vladimir Putin.
   It came after Germany last night succumbed to weeks of international pressure and agreed to donate some of its Leopard 2 tanks.
   Berlin also relented on allowing other countries such as Poland to re-export German-made Leopard 2s, which could happen within days.
   Meanwhile, the United States dropped its opposition to sending M1 Abrams tanks, potentially dozens of them, in an escalation of its involvement.

GERMAN FREEDOM CONVOY SUPPORTER TO TOUR CANADA

   A European politician who rebuked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in front of the European Union Parliament last year has announced a Canadian tour to meet the people she says are the bravest in the world.
   German MEP Christine Anderson has booked tour venues in Alberta, Quebec and Ontario this February because she says she has grown fond of Canadians since seeing their resistance to what she describes as a totalitarian regime in Canada.
   “Canadian truckers, they just stood up,” she said in an interview with Rebel News on Friday. “And they just said ‘No, we’re not going to put up with this. We will fight for […] our freedom.’ That takes a lot of courage, and a lot of bravery. I was so impressed by that.”

CANADA COULD BE GREEN AND WEALTHY

   Driving the streets of Doha in Qatar, a country soon to become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the words “there has never been a strong business case for LNG” rang in my ears.
   For a country that had struggled to economically survive for 60 years after the collapse of the pearl-diving industry in the 1940s, the contrast today is astounding. In only 20 years, due exclusively to its vast natural gas reserves and ability to commercialize them via liquefaction, Qatar has grown its gross domestic product tenfold, amassed a sovereign wealth fund worth more than US$450 billion, and used its LNG revenue to build brand new cities with infrastructure that is the envy of the world, or at least most Western nations.
   With the Government of Canada set to release details of its long-term vision for its oil and gas sector, impacting its 202,000 workers and investors alike, are there any lessons that we can learn from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries? Rather than vilifying their oil and natural gas sectors, these countries are championing them, using their resource wealth to grow their economies, and slowly diversify away from hydrocarbon reliance while significantly investing in alternative energy. Could Canada and the environment be better off adopting a similar all-of-the-above strategy instead of its current either/or approach?

NO EVIDENCE OF CLAIMS MADE IN CBC NEWS STORY

   The Alberta government says there’s no evidence of emails between the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s office.
   The government initiated the review after the CBC published a story on Thursday alleging that staff in Smith’s office emailed Crown prosecutors challenging their assessment and direction on cases stemming from the Coutts border blockades and protests. The story cited anonymous sources.
   The CBC story alleged that staff in Smith’s office sent emails to Crown prosecutors in the fall. The CBC agreed not to identify because they fear they could lose their jobs.
   The CBC later updated its story with an editor’s note saying the original version of the story neglected to note that CBC News has not seen the emails in question.

TRUDEAU'S SHAMEFUL USE OF RACE-BASED POLITICS

   Rex Murphy:  In a recent interview, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put that phrase in the past tense — a “time when men were men” — but, may I suggest, ever so mildly, that the axiom is still sound.
   But that phrase wasn’t the only thing that caught my attention in Trudeau’s interview with the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt. It was when he alleged that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was yearning for the days when “white men ruled.”  
     To be just, here’s the whole quote: “What is he actually proposing? He’s saying everything’s broken.… He’s playing and preying on the kinds of anger and anxieties about some Canada that used to be — where men were men and white men ruled.”
   Still, even in context, that last phrase bothers me. I don’t like the attention to skin colour, specifically “white.” I cannot see, of all people, this particular prime minister calling out a “skin colour” epithet in any other context, or — to be sure — any other epidermal shade than white.

TRUDEAU MAKES NO SENSE

 Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave an exclusive interview to the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt, in which he shared his thoughts on a wide range of topics, including dismissing Pierre Poilievre’s charge that Canada is broken by claiming the Opposition leader is merely pining for a time “where men were men and white men ruled.” This, despite the fact that he is a white man who currently leads the country. “What’s clear to me is that Justin Trudeau no longer makes any sense,” says Jamil Jivani in this NP Comment video.

PERSECUTED FOR BELIEVING IN BIOLOGY

In Canada right now you could probably put up a sign that said, “I love Satan,” and nothing would happen.

 But put up a sign saying “I (heart) J. K. Rowling” and then, like nurse Amy Hamm, you face a trial before a disciplinary body and the loss of your livelihood.

Hamm’s crime is that she believes biological sex is real, that men are men and women are women. And for that she is being persecuted.

STANDING UP TO THE THOUGHT POLICE

 The College of Psychologists of Ontario wants to re-educate Jordan Peterson for criticizing Justin Trudeau on social media. Nurse Amy Hamm is presently before a disciplinary panel of the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives for saying that biological sex is real. Numerous doctors have been sanctioned for expressing medical views contrary to official government COVID policies. Across the country, regulators are censoring, disciplining or ousting members of their professions who fail to comport with their political imperatives. A new standard of practice is emerging for Canadian professionals: be woke, be quiet, or be accused of professional misconduct.

THE "WORKING WITH MILLENNIALS" COURSE

 One of Canada's oldest institutions is grappling with how best to manage some of its youngest workers — and the negative perceptions some staff members have of them.

The Senate of Canada has a training course on offer titled "Working with Millennials." It's a webinar aimed at getting older Senate employees to confront their stereotypes about this age cohort — especially the belief that, according to the wording on the Senate website, millennials are "entitled praise-seekers who are easily distracted by technology."

The one-hour course, which was offered as recently as last month, is designed to manage what the Senate calls one of the "greatest challenges" in the workplace — "negative stereotyping in multi-generational teams" — according to the description posted on the Senate's human resources portal.

LOSING THOUSANDS OF JOBS AND $BILLIONS IN WAGES

   President Joe Biden’s Energy Department quietly published a congressionally mandated report in December showing the president revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline federal permits cost thousands of jobs and billions of dollars.
    The report — Keystone XL Extension Permit Revocation: Energy Costs and Job Impacts — brought attention to the positive economic benefits the Keystone XL Pipeline could have had if Biden did not revoke the federal permits for it hours after being sworn into office.
     Energy’s report indicated the Keystone XL project would have created between 16,149 and 59,468 jobs annually for a two-year period, which is up from a 2014 report sponsored by the department that showed it would have only created 3,900 direct jobs and 21,050 total jobs over a two-year construction.
     The Keystone XL would have delivered roughly 830,000 barrels of crude oil from Canada to the U.S. through the pipeline. Additionally, a labor agreement signed by four unions with TC Energy in August 2020 promised the project would have created 42,000 American jobs and 2 billion in total wages.

HEALTH CANADA SAYS 400 DEATHS AFTER COVID JAB IS LOW

    Canada now has 400 reported deaths and more than 10,000 serious injuries following people receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, but Health Canada indicates it has confidence in vaccinations to battle coronavirus variants.
     However, for families behind those numbers, it’s not about statistics.
    “Evidence indicates that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines continue to outweigh the risks of the disease,” Health Canada states in its new adverse reaction update. “Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the provinces and territories, and manufacturers continue to closely monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.”