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Great White North
Canada police clear Parliament street in bid to end siege
2022-02-20
Canadian authorities also announced they had used emergency powers to seize 76 bank accounts connected to protesters, totaling roughly $3.2 million ($2.5 million U.S.).
[AlAhram] Police aggressively pushed back protesters in Canada's besieged capital on Saturday, seizing trucks and finally retaking control of the streets in front of the country's Parliament building. Scores of trucks left under the increasing pressure, raising authorities' hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country's COVID-19 restrictions and the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King...
The street in front of Parliament Hill was the heart of the protests. It had been occupied by protesters and their trucks since late last month, turning into a carnival on weekends.

``They are trying to push us all away,'' said one protester, Jeremy Glass of Shelburne, Ontario, as authorities forced the crowds to move further from the Parliament building. ``The main camp is seized now. We're no longer in possession of it.''
Posted by:trailing wife

#23  #18: Ever hear of OPSEC? I didn't think so.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2022-02-20 22:08  

#22  There once trolled a greasy Sardinian
Whose penis fell well below median.
When he opened a can,
That unfortunate man
All too often heard, "Damn, is yo'," etc.

Seriously, though, aren't you also "black is..." and "Birra Ichnusa?"
Posted by: Hupavigum Hupans9177   2022-02-20 21:45  

#21  @18

Not today NSA
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-02-20 21:41  

#20  no Tim Hortons for me, eh?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 21:35  

#19  *these

*which

*eh?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-02-20 21:14  

#18  Reading this comments make me throw up
Instead posting your coward conservative thoughts in here start to prepare and go active.
Go around and take civil servants and policemen addresses …..
This is the bunch that has to go first in the event of a dictatorship in the USA.
Posted by: Conservatives are cowards    2022-02-20 21:08  

#17  smothing smothering
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-02-20 20:43  

#16  Turbo hasn't been very bright in dealing with this. The truckers were not asking for much. This is not about health and controlling a pandemic. It's about control over citizens and trying to institute a globalist agenda. It's about squelching and smothing fteedom. Damn the fascists.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-02-20 18:15  

#15  I can only speak for me. I'm not buying any Canadian products.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 13:07  

#14  It appears as if the Canadian public supports the prime minister.

I keep seeing this message, but I'm skeptical. The PM was already annoying to at least half of Canada already. Overhead shots of the truck convoy and the large, cheerful crowds seem to contradict this. Also a number of provinces have dropped their mask/vax mandate.

As a side note, it is interesting how the government messaging has changed over time. Originally, when the blockade came to Windsor, the mayor was going on about swastikas and Confederate flags (in Canada?) and white supremacy and the general anti-government nature of the loutish protesters. When that did not stick, he switched to the terrible economic impact the blockade was having both on Canada and the US. Now, it is just a small group of malcontents with no general support. OK, sure.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-02-20 12:59  

#13  If they steal the election this fall then we're moving down the slippery slope to USSA. No turning back.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 10:30  

#12  I'll start the trebuchet today and we can full siege mode.
Posted by: Chris   2022-02-20 10:27  

#11  Need a bicoastal (SF-SEA + NYC-BOS) general truckers' STRIKE.

Stop delivering food fuel bottled water to the left-wing blue cities.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 10:23  

#10  ^
Why not, after all they just stole an election (or two)?
Posted by: Xyz   2022-02-20 10:14  

#9  Biden will interpret the same results will occur in the US.

Correct. The kakocracy is desperate for signs they can get away with their monstrous shit.

e.g. Newsom defeating his recall attempt by more than 2:1 after he was down in the polls -- solely by waving the bloody COVID scary-shirt. After that sign, the Brylcreemed dictator doubled down on COVIDian repression. So even as blue states are slowly but steadily backing off of their ridiculous mandates, CA is now talking about forcing kindergartners to participate in their Mengelian experimental gene therapy. Every few months. Forever.

So now Prime Minister Klain, Fauxi, Da Ferret et al. will look to Canada and conclude, Yes, we can mandate whatever the hell we want, and all the tools of oppression -- doxxing, burning their financial lifelines, cracking heads -- will force compliance. Without a whimper.

This is a watershed event.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-20 10:12  

#8  No public support. Only 100’s arrested. You can’t expect change with 100’s of protesters. You need hundreds of thousands. J6 failed for same reason. Like one of our commentators wrote yesterday. Americans have a job and family and will comply with government.
Posted by: Xyz   2022-02-20 10:12  

#7  I don't think this would go over near as well in the U.S..
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
Heinz Guderian
Posted by: Chris   2022-02-20 10:01  

#6  It appears as if the Canadian public supports the prime minister. Biden will interpret the same results will occur in the US.
Posted by: Xyz   2022-02-20 08:19  

#5  Well. We know where Joostin's patronymic came from. His genetic patrimony? That's maybe less clear. Are there any pictures of Pierre with a beard? On his face I mean.

Oh, that still didn't come out quite right...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 06:32  

#4  Or maybe Fed-el...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 06:27  

#3  A face only Fidel could love.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-02-20 06:25  

#2  About half of Canadians have voted for this. As I have said before, it's too bad we can't devise a political system where only the people who vote for bad stuff have to endure the consequences of their ill-informed choices...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-20 06:22  

#1  Smashing windows and tossing flash bangs is more aggressive than anything the protestors have done.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-02-20 00:51  

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