Vaccine mandates for the general population are neither ethically nor (in the case of COVID-19) scientifically justifiable. Once we remove agency over their own bodies from citizens via forced vaccinations where does this path lead? Vaccines save lives and are useful tools. The risk/benefit decision on whether to get vaccinated needs to remain with the individual taking said risk, NOT the government. Very surprised that this issue proves so divisive but suspect that the undue influence of the giant Pharmaceutical Industry lobby is not completely uninvolved here. Trudeau's current hardline path and silly, divisive rhetoric shows a lack of wisdom required to govern.
Well-said. If they (the powers) that be could let go of the idea of imposing vaccines on people who are perfectly capable for themselves of deciding what they are comfortable putting it their own bodies, much of this polarization would dissolve as unvaccinated people would no longer feel like second-class citizens. Yet they (not all) cling to it relentlessly, and the mask hiding the influences (e.g, Big Pharma, etc.) on this positioning needs to be clearly and rationally unveiled, so we know what we’re really dealing with here. How, for example, does the pharmaceutical industry affect governments to stick to this stance so as to promote continual vaccinations. I’m interested in knowing the actual state mechanisms behind this seemingly fixed ideology around vaccination that is causing such enormous antagonism and division in Canada and societies around the world.
You need look no further than the WHO, which is financed and controlled by Bill Gates, Big Pharma and China. The head of the WHO met with the head of the WEF two weeks before he declared a "pandemic": a coincidence? But the global planning for this "fixed ideology" goes back for at least ten years, through multiple instances of detailed pandemic 'gaming' played out to get everyone (including Canada) singing from the same songbook. The last practise run was held mere months before the start of the 'pandemic'. I can recommend RFK Jr's book, "The Real Anthony Fauci" for a full and historically accurate account of how the world, and Canada, was brought to this point. It ain't a pretty story.
Everyone yelling about their Charter rights always forgets Clause 1: "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." The federal and provincial governments are not in violation of the Charter as the planet is still dealing with a pandemic. The "reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society" imposed by both the provincial and federal levels of government are well within the scope of the Charter's limitations. Being barred from a restaurant or a theatre because you aren't vaccinated falls within the scope of the rights of private businesses to restrict their premises to only those patrons whom they wish to serve.
Agreed and I have NEVER been political. Ever. I was happy to mind my business, pay my taxes, take care of my family and watch the National at night before retiring for the evening. What a 180 the last two years has made on me. I will never trust mainstream media or government ever again in my lifetime. My kids now know better as well. "I hate that mother fucker Trudeau more than I have hated anything else, ever, in my life."-100000%
The vaccine mandates are just one of several means being used to push profits for Big pharma. Virtually every level of government has been constantly encouraging (and manipulating) people to accept the Covid vaccines. Despite many reports of dangerous side effects for the vaccines, there is no suggestion that harms are worthy of consideration. For a full accounting of how this broad arm twisting has been generated, I suggest everyone should read the explosive information in Robert Kennedy Jr's book on Dr. Fauci. I guarantee you will be shocked and incensed.
Currently reading RKJr’s book and one fact check that says it all is “Fauci on the Couchy” is sitting pretty as the highest paid Gov’t employee of the roughly 4 million our taxes pay for their services. This includes the President, yes that’s right he’s paid more than the leader of the free world
Leader of the Free World? I think that phrase has had its day. You can just say "President of X Country." Not syre what 4 million means (Fauci earned about $417K last year) And sure, some bureaucrats are paid more highly than elected officials, with good reason. This means little. Is Fauci good at his job? I'd say undoubtedly. He has put in decades in Public Health, takes no prisoners, and knows what he's talking about. Not perfect by any stretch, but the fact you would listen to renowned antivaxxer RFKJ, spout his nonsense over a life-long public health scientist makes me worry that you were ever an RN. Thankfully now retired.
Then you'll be even more incensed when you read all the gory details, laid out like an autopsy, with sources and annotations. It's one of the most important books of our era, imho.
If I had the time--but I don't really--I would explain why I think other words and emotions are more accurate. I will say that I AM horribly frustrated and sad. Having worked in all levels of education, I think our education system sucks--it's no longer giving young people what they need to equip them to ponder and discuss and weigh.
Your response to me reveals exactly where we are at--name-calling and not caring to take the time to discuss and build something with any meaning. Flying off the handle. In the last 7 years of my life I have lost so much that that has given me perspective. I'm 57. I've caregiven a spouse through ALS, a disease that pharma has no answers for, and been betrayed by a workplace--as many have in these "woke" times. I've walked away from that position, and paid financial consequences. I have grown up with 3 brothers and raised 3 sons, and that causes me to see things in certain ways, too.
I want to see a world where people are respected. Bottom line. But we have to start listening to each other. Not in some self-righteous, soap-box way. But in some way that really says we give a shit. Yes, I have been paying close attention. I am grieving for so much in so many ways. I'm just done with shouting; we need to dig into the work of this.
Honestly, this just makes me want to bawl--the whole mess. I just keep writing my stories. It's all I know how to do.
Look, all the powers-that-be want to do is to divide us. It's the old, 'divide and conquer' strategy updated for the 21st century with the power of electronic propaganda and concentrated wealth. It's not about "respect" or "listening to each other", poor education or name calling, 'woke-ism' or right vs. left. It's about us against them, democracy vs. the oligarchy, the elites vs. the working people, proud Canadians vs. the global aristocracy of wealth, the 0.001% vs the rest of us. It's not about the 'pandemic'; nothing we've gone through over the past two years makes any sense from a scientific or medical perspective. It's all been about power, control, and $$$, just like it always has, except on steroids. Has the global oligarchy overplayed its hand? Only time will tell, but thankfully there's been lots of scientists and physicians who have retained their moral integrity, and a significant number of Canadians with awareness and backbones who are finally fighting back, with gusto! Go truckers!
Totally agree with you! Casino real estate OMFG YES! and opioids affecting first nations and crosses through all classes, largely white men....as poverty increases with the facilitated wealth transfer by politicians, puppets for the elite. However, I think even WE need to turn down the hate and hateful words. A struggle like this will never be easy. And I'm angry too. Same age as you and enduring the same conditions. Raging division is part of the master plan
We truly have more in common than otherwise, Jason... yes. (I move beyond Bitch quickly... no time for grudges!) As hard as the writing life is (I've lost at least one contract over this time), the performing artists have a whole other challenge. I've been trying to support musicians as much as possible. And stand-up comics... and others. (Thank God for comedians!!) Can you please provide a link to your book?
Another brilliant (and timely!!!) interview, Tara. With one quality piece after another, you've finally convinced me to subscribe. No more free-loading for me. Well done!
"A revolutionary civil war is not an ordinary political contest, but a conflict of ultimates about society, religion, and culture perceived to demand a total and uncompromising solution."
Tara, if you find this polarization "dangerous and destructive", may I observe that any struggle against tyranny and for civil and human rights is always a dangerous one. Sometimes, the old, tyrannical order must be first be destroyed in order for civil rights and a fair, inclusive democracy to prevail.
Finally, it seems we are starting to have a discussion about the prevailing neoliberal, globalist, oligarchic agenda that has been steadily going about the destruction of Canadian democracy, autonomy and the public good for decades. This discussion must necessarily be divisive, given there are two opposing views of Canada's future: that of a "post national", subservient state (Trudeau), or a "true north strong and free".
As many have noted, this 'discussion' may also be framed as a class one: the "elites" vs. the "working class". The last two years has seen a massive wealth transfer to the wealthy few from the rest of us under the guise of COVID mandates and lockdowns, which added to an already unprecedented wealth and income gap.
"Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold", W. B. Yates once wrote. Sometimes, that's not such a bad thing.
What frightens credentialed urbanites about "polarization" is that DoorDash might go bankrupt. Worse, they might have to interact with a working class white male without an N95.
Such a good interview. I would love to hear Tara’s take on what’s happening in Canada. I am a Canadian (all my family lives there as well) and an American where I live and am so curious as to what it really going on. I will say unequivocally I am beyond disheartened that Trudeau is displaying such cowardice in not meeting with people. Even if there is little threat to his power, if he was a leader of character he would acknowledge their concerns and talk to them.
The majority of Canadians are invertebrates. Hence Trudeau. When he's gone, they'll elect another one. Canada deserves all the ugliness that's coming its way.
With all due respect I hope you are wrong. I don’t know if there has ever been anything like this uprising that I recall so I’m taking it as a hopeful sign.
Sometimes the priority is to drive out evil so that it can find healing without doing anymore harm. Democidal Trudeau has got to go. Even his brother, Kyle Kemper, says so.
Oh how I wish it were merely a matter of deposing Mr Dressup. He's just a figurehead after all. And be careful what you wish for. Ms Freeland, our dear Deputy Fuhrer, has been keeping a pretty low profile throughout all this, no doubt to position herself as Mr Dressup's replacement. Freeland is a globalist neoliberal on steroids. She's actually a director of the WEF's 'Young Global Leaders' indoctrination program which has produced Trudeau, Macron, Ahern, Merkel, all the monsters we see in high places today. The problem, I'm afraid, is much, much larger than any one person, party or institution.
The irony of the deputy PM's last name is gob smacking. Hopefully this is a bit of light humour from higher beings.
Other Young World Leader types include Bill Gates, Vladimir Putin, Jagmeet Singh, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Buttigieg - on and on. So much for individual nations.
Oh yes, and let's not forget Michelle Rempel - just in case we thought the Cons had not yet been visited by the Schwab cult recruiters.
Yes, I think most of us realize that Trudeau is only part of the problem. Nevertheless, his departure would be significant at many levels. He is evidently the favourite of Uncle Klaus - and were Schwab to lose him, he might die of a broken heart. See what I mean by "many levels"?
Maybe. But seeing how Chrystia Freeland, who is in line as Mr Dressup's replacement, is not only a graduate of the WEF's 'Young World Leaders' program but also a Director of same, I'd say she's probably pretty high up on Klaus Schwab's approved puppet list.
For those that haven't seen the recent press conference with the organizers of the trucker convoy, here it is. It is helpful to hear their sane and rational voices with so much misinformation circulating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fBFdLGUZw
Thanks for this. All along I’ve been asking people to keep an open mind, and to put kindness first, and I’ve been called a Trump supporter for my efforts - among other unsavoury names. These are strange and sad times.
Yes, you are so correct in your introspection comment. BC (before covid) I used to dismiss comments disparaging the UN as the centre for a new World Government under the control of a cabal of international financiers as just more loony ravings of the far-right fringe (there's that word again!). No more. Like many others, I've had a pretty rude awakening these past two years. Not that I was previously unaware of the political and economic influence of the WEF and the effects of concentrated global capital on our lives, mind you, but there's nothing like a direct, sustained assault on one's basic civil rights and a massive propaganda campaign to bring home the truth of those "far right" opinions. Clearly, we are in a dire situation. The oligarchs think they are now so entrenched they can asset a direct political control, and have done with the pretence of democratic forms. Both the 'far right' and the 'far left' must now realize nothing less than our fundamental rights and freedoms are at stake in this fight, and that we need to forget the labels, bury our other, superficial differences, and form a united front against the powers of tyranny. The truckers' Freedom Convoy has done just that.
Sadly, I quite agree with your analysis. Several years ago, John Raulston Saul opined that the struggle for a functional democracy was over: the global corporatists had won. For a few years now, Saul's American friend and colleague, Chris Hedges, has been documenting the corporate takeover of our lives, complete with dire predictions for the future. Well, that future is now here.
I wish I could share your optimism, but I fear that light at the end of the tunnel may be another train coming. The Freedom Convoy has definitely lit a fuse under many Canadians, for which we can be thankful. For the first time in two years, we have seen a popular pushback against the propaganda and the lies. However, given the debilitated state of our party politics and the mass formation that has captured so many, it remains to be seen whether this quite amazing, positive spirit of protest can not only stay the course but translate into real, permanent change.
Great pertinent article. I applaud all groups working at bringing people together. Come together we save ourselves and the world we love, break apart and our lives and the world suffer imeasurably. I think we have seen this play before. 🤔
Just wasted 4 1/2 minutes reading this... whatever you want to call it... And another 30 seconds to tell you about my horrible experience. 5 minutes of my life totally wasted. Never again... ha!
Check out the link in Tara's piece to the NP piece by Rupa Subramanya. Rupa does a great job of expressing the issue from the Trucker's point of view. Something that you may not see again in the mainstream media. Kudos to Tara for having the balance to provide the link.
The divisiveness we seem to be experiencing, in my eyes seems to stem from our government and their control of our main stream media. Like Shar below I don't trust either one of them anymore. We need the media to get back to doing investigative reporting. Reporting both sides of the story regardless of political views. Tell the truth and let people draw their own conclusions. Hard to do when Trudeau is financing our media. Once again, (like the vaccine's and mandate issue) it should be a personal choice. Given unbiased information on which to from that opinion.
I was thinking today about 1983. I moved to BC in '82, and the next year the Social Credit government brought in legislation to cut the size of government. The response was dramatic, it was winding up to a General Strike. Jack Munro, a big burly blustery union guy who swore like a sailor, and Bill Bennett a buttoned down conservative, neither of them with anything in common except the province that they loved sat down in a room in Kamloops and hammered out something that averted the General Strike. Neither got what they wanted, but we all got some stability and peace.
Nothing, absolutely nothing right now matches what was at stake then. These two rose above the occasion, to their credit.
Good post, but can't say I agree with your assessment of the severity of the situation at hand. Theirs was mostly an economic rights disagreement back then. Those were the good old days. Today, we are fighting for our most basic civil and human rights. It doesn't get any more dire than that. As a trucker recently said, "If you don't own your body, you don't own anything".
On that day, if either of those men hadn't shown up, the province would have been shut down, there would have been violence. But they did. They didn't call each other terrorists, or enemies of democracy.
This issue is so pathetically small for the government. There are no competing interests. The course of the pandemic does not hinge upon this issue.
It could be solved in a moment. People have risen to the occasion in other circumstances and found solutions.
Except, this issue is immensely important for the government, which exists solely to serve the interests of the global plutocrats. The interests of the global plutocrats are those of Big Pharma and, ultimately, the control of the political and social agenda for the corporatists' ends. The government isn't seeking solutions, they are seeking control.
Vaccine mandates for the general population are neither ethically nor (in the case of COVID-19) scientifically justifiable. Once we remove agency over their own bodies from citizens via forced vaccinations where does this path lead? Vaccines save lives and are useful tools. The risk/benefit decision on whether to get vaccinated needs to remain with the individual taking said risk, NOT the government. Very surprised that this issue proves so divisive but suspect that the undue influence of the giant Pharmaceutical Industry lobby is not completely uninvolved here. Trudeau's current hardline path and silly, divisive rhetoric shows a lack of wisdom required to govern.
Well-said. If they (the powers) that be could let go of the idea of imposing vaccines on people who are perfectly capable for themselves of deciding what they are comfortable putting it their own bodies, much of this polarization would dissolve as unvaccinated people would no longer feel like second-class citizens. Yet they (not all) cling to it relentlessly, and the mask hiding the influences (e.g, Big Pharma, etc.) on this positioning needs to be clearly and rationally unveiled, so we know what we’re really dealing with here. How, for example, does the pharmaceutical industry affect governments to stick to this stance so as to promote continual vaccinations. I’m interested in knowing the actual state mechanisms behind this seemingly fixed ideology around vaccination that is causing such enormous antagonism and division in Canada and societies around the world.
You need look no further than the WHO, which is financed and controlled by Bill Gates, Big Pharma and China. The head of the WHO met with the head of the WEF two weeks before he declared a "pandemic": a coincidence? But the global planning for this "fixed ideology" goes back for at least ten years, through multiple instances of detailed pandemic 'gaming' played out to get everyone (including Canada) singing from the same songbook. The last practise run was held mere months before the start of the 'pandemic'. I can recommend RFK Jr's book, "The Real Anthony Fauci" for a full and historically accurate account of how the world, and Canada, was brought to this point. It ain't a pretty story.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/pfizer-pandemic-profiteering/
Pfizer makes one million every hour from vaccine sales!
And then there’s the Charter issue. Brian Peckford, former Nfld premier and last surviving architect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, has filed a lawsuit against the government through the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. You have to dig deep to find this in the news. It doesn’t conform to the mainstream media narrative. https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/former-newfoundland-premier-sues-feds-over-vaccine-mandate-for-travel-5023202
Everyone yelling about their Charter rights always forgets Clause 1: "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." The federal and provincial governments are not in violation of the Charter as the planet is still dealing with a pandemic. The "reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society" imposed by both the provincial and federal levels of government are well within the scope of the Charter's limitations. Being barred from a restaurant or a theatre because you aren't vaccinated falls within the scope of the rights of private businesses to restrict their premises to only those patrons whom they wish to serve.
Agreed and I have NEVER been political. Ever. I was happy to mind my business, pay my taxes, take care of my family and watch the National at night before retiring for the evening. What a 180 the last two years has made on me. I will never trust mainstream media or government ever again in my lifetime. My kids now know better as well. "I hate that mother fucker Trudeau more than I have hated anything else, ever, in my life."-100000%
So true.
The vaccine mandates are just one of several means being used to push profits for Big pharma. Virtually every level of government has been constantly encouraging (and manipulating) people to accept the Covid vaccines. Despite many reports of dangerous side effects for the vaccines, there is no suggestion that harms are worthy of consideration. For a full accounting of how this broad arm twisting has been generated, I suggest everyone should read the explosive information in Robert Kennedy Jr's book on Dr. Fauci. I guarantee you will be shocked and incensed.
Currently reading RKJr’s book and one fact check that says it all is “Fauci on the Couchy” is sitting pretty as the highest paid Gov’t employee of the roughly 4 million our taxes pay for their services. This includes the President, yes that’s right he’s paid more than the leader of the free world
Leader of the Free World? I think that phrase has had its day. You can just say "President of X Country." Not syre what 4 million means (Fauci earned about $417K last year) And sure, some bureaucrats are paid more highly than elected officials, with good reason. This means little. Is Fauci good at his job? I'd say undoubtedly. He has put in decades in Public Health, takes no prisoners, and knows what he's talking about. Not perfect by any stretch, but the fact you would listen to renowned antivaxxer RFKJ, spout his nonsense over a life-long public health scientist makes me worry that you were ever an RN. Thankfully now retired.
Too many are unaware of the real forces behind this bullshit. Those who are aware are definitely incensed already.
Then you'll be even more incensed when you read all the gory details, laid out like an autopsy, with sources and annotations. It's one of the most important books of our era, imho.
Wow... and the comments are almost all falling into two camps. Why why are we so angry?
This is important discussion. Thank you--again--for this post, Tara.
If you have to ask ...
If I had the time--but I don't really--I would explain why I think other words and emotions are more accurate. I will say that I AM horribly frustrated and sad. Having worked in all levels of education, I think our education system sucks--it's no longer giving young people what they need to equip them to ponder and discuss and weigh.
Your response to me reveals exactly where we are at--name-calling and not caring to take the time to discuss and build something with any meaning. Flying off the handle. In the last 7 years of my life I have lost so much that that has given me perspective. I'm 57. I've caregiven a spouse through ALS, a disease that pharma has no answers for, and been betrayed by a workplace--as many have in these "woke" times. I've walked away from that position, and paid financial consequences. I have grown up with 3 brothers and raised 3 sons, and that causes me to see things in certain ways, too.
I want to see a world where people are respected. Bottom line. But we have to start listening to each other. Not in some self-righteous, soap-box way. But in some way that really says we give a shit. Yes, I have been paying close attention. I am grieving for so much in so many ways. I'm just done with shouting; we need to dig into the work of this.
Honestly, this just makes me want to bawl--the whole mess. I just keep writing my stories. It's all I know how to do.
Look, all the powers-that-be want to do is to divide us. It's the old, 'divide and conquer' strategy updated for the 21st century with the power of electronic propaganda and concentrated wealth. It's not about "respect" or "listening to each other", poor education or name calling, 'woke-ism' or right vs. left. It's about us against them, democracy vs. the oligarchy, the elites vs. the working people, proud Canadians vs. the global aristocracy of wealth, the 0.001% vs the rest of us. It's not about the 'pandemic'; nothing we've gone through over the past two years makes any sense from a scientific or medical perspective. It's all been about power, control, and $$$, just like it always has, except on steroids. Has the global oligarchy overplayed its hand? Only time will tell, but thankfully there's been lots of scientists and physicians who have retained their moral integrity, and a significant number of Canadians with awareness and backbones who are finally fighting back, with gusto! Go truckers!
I TOTALLY understand your anger, but I don't think Alison's a bitch. I think she's just participating in the conversation like the rest of us. :)
Totally agree with you! Casino real estate OMFG YES! and opioids affecting first nations and crosses through all classes, largely white men....as poverty increases with the facilitated wealth transfer by politicians, puppets for the elite. However, I think even WE need to turn down the hate and hateful words. A struggle like this will never be easy. And I'm angry too. Same age as you and enduring the same conditions. Raging division is part of the master plan
I feel your pain. Im so sorry. Im ashamed of being Canadian ( except the truckers).
We truly have more in common than otherwise, Jason... yes. (I move beyond Bitch quickly... no time for grudges!) As hard as the writing life is (I've lost at least one contract over this time), the performing artists have a whole other challenge. I've been trying to support musicians as much as possible. And stand-up comics... and others. (Thank God for comedians!!) Can you please provide a link to your book?
And you! Thanks for the link.
Another brilliant (and timely!!!) interview, Tara. With one quality piece after another, you've finally convinced me to subscribe. No more free-loading for me. Well done!
Buckle up. It's only just started.
"A revolutionary civil war is not an ordinary political contest, but a conflict of ultimates about society, religion, and culture perceived to demand a total and uncompromising solution."
Payne: Spanish Civil War
Tara, if you find this polarization "dangerous and destructive", may I observe that any struggle against tyranny and for civil and human rights is always a dangerous one. Sometimes, the old, tyrannical order must be first be destroyed in order for civil rights and a fair, inclusive democracy to prevail.
Finally, it seems we are starting to have a discussion about the prevailing neoliberal, globalist, oligarchic agenda that has been steadily going about the destruction of Canadian democracy, autonomy and the public good for decades. This discussion must necessarily be divisive, given there are two opposing views of Canada's future: that of a "post national", subservient state (Trudeau), or a "true north strong and free".
As many have noted, this 'discussion' may also be framed as a class one: the "elites" vs. the "working class". The last two years has seen a massive wealth transfer to the wealthy few from the rest of us under the guise of COVID mandates and lockdowns, which added to an already unprecedented wealth and income gap.
"Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold", W. B. Yates once wrote. Sometimes, that's not such a bad thing.
What frightens credentialed urbanites about "polarization" is that DoorDash might go bankrupt. Worse, they might have to interact with a working class white male without an N95.
Ha! So true.
Such a good interview. I would love to hear Tara’s take on what’s happening in Canada. I am a Canadian (all my family lives there as well) and an American where I live and am so curious as to what it really going on. I will say unequivocally I am beyond disheartened that Trudeau is displaying such cowardice in not meeting with people. Even if there is little threat to his power, if he was a leader of character he would acknowledge their concerns and talk to them.
The majority of Canadians are invertebrates. Hence Trudeau. When he's gone, they'll elect another one. Canada deserves all the ugliness that's coming its way.
With all due respect I hope you are wrong. I don’t know if there has ever been anything like this uprising that I recall so I’m taking it as a hopeful sign.
Up till a couple of weeks ago I'd have agreed. The Freedom Convoy has restored some hope that the cycle can be broken.
I pray. ( and ive Neve been religious....no atheists on a sinking ship or crashing plane I guess)
Sadly, I agree.
Sometimes the priority is to drive out evil so that it can find healing without doing anymore harm. Democidal Trudeau has got to go. Even his brother, Kyle Kemper, says so.
Oh how I wish it were merely a matter of deposing Mr Dressup. He's just a figurehead after all. And be careful what you wish for. Ms Freeland, our dear Deputy Fuhrer, has been keeping a pretty low profile throughout all this, no doubt to position herself as Mr Dressup's replacement. Freeland is a globalist neoliberal on steroids. She's actually a director of the WEF's 'Young Global Leaders' indoctrination program which has produced Trudeau, Macron, Ahern, Merkel, all the monsters we see in high places today. The problem, I'm afraid, is much, much larger than any one person, party or institution.
"Monsters in high places" - love that.
The irony of the deputy PM's last name is gob smacking. Hopefully this is a bit of light humour from higher beings.
Other Young World Leader types include Bill Gates, Vladimir Putin, Jagmeet Singh, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Buttigieg - on and on. So much for individual nations.
Oh yes, and let's not forget Michelle Rempel - just in case we thought the Cons had not yet been visited by the Schwab cult recruiters.
Yeah, her last name is a real cosmic joke. But so is JUSTin's. Lots of black humour to go around, these days.
Yes, I think most of us realize that Trudeau is only part of the problem. Nevertheless, his departure would be significant at many levels. He is evidently the favourite of Uncle Klaus - and were Schwab to lose him, he might die of a broken heart. See what I mean by "many levels"?
Maybe. But seeing how Chrystia Freeland, who is in line as Mr Dressup's replacement, is not only a graduate of the WEF's 'Young World Leaders' program but also a Director of same, I'd say she's probably pretty high up on Klaus Schwab's approved puppet list.
For those that haven't seen the recent press conference with the organizers of the trucker convoy, here it is. It is helpful to hear their sane and rational voices with so much misinformation circulating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fBFdLGUZw
Thanks for this. All along I’ve been asking people to keep an open mind, and to put kindness first, and I’ve been called a Trump supporter for my efforts - among other unsavoury names. These are strange and sad times.
Yes, you are so correct in your introspection comment. BC (before covid) I used to dismiss comments disparaging the UN as the centre for a new World Government under the control of a cabal of international financiers as just more loony ravings of the far-right fringe (there's that word again!). No more. Like many others, I've had a pretty rude awakening these past two years. Not that I was previously unaware of the political and economic influence of the WEF and the effects of concentrated global capital on our lives, mind you, but there's nothing like a direct, sustained assault on one's basic civil rights and a massive propaganda campaign to bring home the truth of those "far right" opinions. Clearly, we are in a dire situation. The oligarchs think they are now so entrenched they can asset a direct political control, and have done with the pretence of democratic forms. Both the 'far right' and the 'far left' must now realize nothing less than our fundamental rights and freedoms are at stake in this fight, and that we need to forget the labels, bury our other, superficial differences, and form a united front against the powers of tyranny. The truckers' Freedom Convoy has done just that.
No. If we had those people, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07w9K2XR3f0
Well said. If you say war, then I know we are on the same page. I'll respectfully posit that what is happening is far deeper than society.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/futblo
Enjoy your comments. I hope we can have some good back-and-forths.
Sadly, I quite agree with your analysis. Several years ago, John Raulston Saul opined that the struggle for a functional democracy was over: the global corporatists had won. For a few years now, Saul's American friend and colleague, Chris Hedges, has been documenting the corporate takeover of our lives, complete with dire predictions for the future. Well, that future is now here.
I wish I could share your optimism, but I fear that light at the end of the tunnel may be another train coming. The Freedom Convoy has definitely lit a fuse under many Canadians, for which we can be thankful. For the first time in two years, we have seen a popular pushback against the propaganda and the lies. However, given the debilitated state of our party politics and the mass formation that has captured so many, it remains to be seen whether this quite amazing, positive spirit of protest can not only stay the course but translate into real, permanent change.
Great pertinent article. I applaud all groups working at bringing people together. Come together we save ourselves and the world we love, break apart and our lives and the world suffer imeasurably. I think we have seen this play before. 🤔
Just wasted 4 1/2 minutes reading this... whatever you want to call it... And another 30 seconds to tell you about my horrible experience. 5 minutes of my life totally wasted. Never again... ha!
Check out the link in Tara's piece to the NP piece by Rupa Subramanya. Rupa does a great job of expressing the issue from the Trucker's point of view. Something that you may not see again in the mainstream media. Kudos to Tara for having the balance to provide the link.
Good topic but please, we need CANADIAN content!
Canada is a racist, sexist, misogynistic abomination according to its government and %50 of the popular vote. The content here reflects that. Enjoy!
If you are "challenged by how much I love my parents" then this is not very good
The divisiveness we seem to be experiencing, in my eyes seems to stem from our government and their control of our main stream media. Like Shar below I don't trust either one of them anymore. We need the media to get back to doing investigative reporting. Reporting both sides of the story regardless of political views. Tell the truth and let people draw their own conclusions. Hard to do when Trudeau is financing our media. Once again, (like the vaccine's and mandate issue) it should be a personal choice. Given unbiased information on which to from that opinion.
I was thinking today about 1983. I moved to BC in '82, and the next year the Social Credit government brought in legislation to cut the size of government. The response was dramatic, it was winding up to a General Strike. Jack Munro, a big burly blustery union guy who swore like a sailor, and Bill Bennett a buttoned down conservative, neither of them with anything in common except the province that they loved sat down in a room in Kamloops and hammered out something that averted the General Strike. Neither got what they wanted, but we all got some stability and peace.
Nothing, absolutely nothing right now matches what was at stake then. These two rose above the occasion, to their credit.
Good post, but can't say I agree with your assessment of the severity of the situation at hand. Theirs was mostly an economic rights disagreement back then. Those were the good old days. Today, we are fighting for our most basic civil and human rights. It doesn't get any more dire than that. As a trucker recently said, "If you don't own your body, you don't own anything".
On that day, if either of those men hadn't shown up, the province would have been shut down, there would have been violence. But they did. They didn't call each other terrorists, or enemies of democracy.
This issue is so pathetically small for the government. There are no competing interests. The course of the pandemic does not hinge upon this issue.
It could be solved in a moment. People have risen to the occasion in other circumstances and found solutions.
Except, this issue is immensely important for the government, which exists solely to serve the interests of the global plutocrats. The interests of the global plutocrats are those of Big Pharma and, ultimately, the control of the political and social agenda for the corporatists' ends. The government isn't seeking solutions, they are seeking control.