Another brick in the wall restricting truth as hate speech

yesterday we reposted the video of Stephen Coughlin at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe here.

If you haven’t seen the video please do watch it.

Here is a rather worthwhile dot to connect to it.

From May 28, 2026

Belgian Court Rules ‘Factually Correct’ Remarks Can Be Hate Speech

Truth is now criminal hate speech if used to “incite hatred,” according to a Belgian court. 

The ruling came in the case of anti-migration activist Dries Van Langenhove, who said in a post on X that, “it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge’s frustration.”

Van Langenhove’s conviction was based on a lecture given in 2024 at Catholic University Leuven, in which he linked mass migration to “crime and a deterioration of our quality of life.”

He said, “Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.”

The judge, however, in his ruling, said, “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”

According to Van Langenhove, the judge and prosecutor did not dispute the facts in his speech but said he created a “hostile atmosphere of us versus them” regarding migrants. 

It is Van Langenhove’s second hate speech conviction, and he faces another court case in September. 

He claims there are a dozen active criminal investigations against him for hate speech and has already paid more than 420 thousand euros ($489,000) in legal fees.

 

Two posts about the state of liberty in Canada and how the state uses antisemitism laws to manufacture antisemitism

Link to article

One line of the article is here:

  • “accuses a group of carrying out secret conspiracies to gain global control or that they are plotting to destroy western civilization”

But it’s a fact. The Muslim Brotherhood is indeed doing exactly that. The Project, and the Memorandum both explicitly state what the plan is for religious Muslims to do as it is specified within Islam’s own canon. My guess based on how things have been in Canada for the last 20 years or so, is people who make factual and verifiable claims about certain groups will face persecution, while people who launch massive conspiracies about Jews, which takes place in every mosque every day, will not. Why can we say this? Because it has already been tested when Muslims have broken existing and far more rational ‘hate crimes laws’ if such a thing is possible.

In any case, anyone who thinks this is great and antisemitism will be illegal and finally Jew will be protected from hate yada yada wuzza wuzza, lemme tells ya, that ain’t how it’s gonna go.

It will massively increase hatred of Jews who will be seen, and partially correctly, as being the architects of destroying freedom of speech. They will suddenly appear to be that exact thing which people have accused Jews of being forever. A tiny group that controls everything. And there will only be enforcement against whatever target suits the real interests of the state. Chances are extremely high that groups like the dialectically named, “Canadian Anti-Hate Network” will fund a few Nazis like Second Sons or Diagalon, and the state will pick off a few of them to make examples of them. We can say that with high confidence because their parent organization the SPLC was funding every hate group they could find.

But no charges against any mosques that actually demand genocide of the Jews at pretty much every prayer session and twice on Fridays.

This is one example out of hundreds available on MEMRI.Org, RAIR Foundation, Gates of Vienna and here for that matter. This one is from Toronto.

And below is a story about one brave Montrealer who tried to bring one of the most virulent imams to the Human Rights Commission.

But wait! There’s More!

Full text:

Ezra Levant: Thanks to floor crossers, Carney can now ram through his spy bill

Using his newly acquired majority, Carney’s government has moved to dramatically curtail debate on Bill C-22, the so-called lawful access bill.

The answer? It is a direct assault on parliamentary democracy and your freedoms.

Last year, Mark Carney won the election with just 43 percent of the vote. That delivered him 169 seats out of 343 in the House of Commons, three short of the 172 needed for a majority. Canadians deliberately gave him a minority government. Sometimes voters do that on purpose, wanting to keep a politician on a shorter leash and force him to work with Parliament rather than dominate it.

But Carney was not content with the verdict of the electorate. While the political establishment spent years warning that Donald Trump might refuse to accept election results, Carney set about changing his own. By persuading a string of opposition MPs to cross the floor, he secured the majority Canadians had declined to give him at the ballot box.

The obvious question is why? Justin Trudeau governed for nearly a decade without a formal majority, relying on NDP support to pass budgets and survive confidence votes. There was little reason to believe Carney could not have done the same.

Ezra’s answer is that Carney wanted something more than legislative support. He wanted the ability to shut down parliamentary scrutiny itself.

That is now on full display.

Using his newly acquired majority, Carney’s government has moved to dramatically curtail debate on Bill C-22, the so-called lawful access bill. The legislation would compel technology companies to retain user data for up to a year and make that information available to government authorities. Civil liberties advocates have raised serious concerns about privacy, government overreach and the expansion of state surveillance powers.

The concerns are hardly theoretical. Canadians have already witnessed a government willing to freeze bank accounts and invoke extraordinary powers during the trucker protests. Mark Carney himself, while living in Europe at the time, wrote in The Globe and Mail that Ottawa should take a harder line against convoy participants and their supporters. It is therefore not surprising that critics view Bill C-22 as part of a broader push toward greater state control.

What makes the situation particularly troubling is not only the substance of the legislation but the manner in which it is being advanced.

The government has introduced a motion declaring that, notwithstanding any standing order or usual practice of the House, Bill C-22 will be pushed through Parliament on an accelerated timetable. In plain English, the normal rules are being set aside.

Committee members will have just 30 minutes to complete clause-by-clause consideration of the bill. Any remaining amendments will be deemed moved and voted upon without further debate. The legislation will then move rapidly through report stage and third reading with strictly limited speaking time for opposition parties and virtually no opportunity for extended scrutiny.

For a bill that constitutes one of the most significant expansions of government surveillance powers in Canadian history, Parliament is being afforded remarkably little time to examine the details.

Professor Michael Geist, one of Canada’s leading experts on technology law and digital policy, has publicly criticized the government’s approach. Geist argues that hearings are being cut short, amendments are being rushed through without proper discussion, and the public is being denied the transparency normally expected during the legislative process. His warning is not about partisan politics but about the erosion of parliamentary accountability.

This is why Carney needed those extra seats.

The issue is not merely that opposition MPs crossed the floor. It is what those additional seats are now being used to accomplish. This is a double violation of democratic principles: first, altering the balance of Parliament after voters had already spoken; and second, using that altered balance to restrict Parliament’s ability to debate, amend and scrutinize legislation.

The implications extend beyond a single bill. Across Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia, governments are increasingly embracing online surveillance measures, age-verification requirements and expanded regulatory control over digital spaces. These initiatives are almost always presented as necessary protections for children or public safety, yet they also require citizens to surrender more privacy and give governments more information about their online activities.

It is a stark contrast to the vision of technological progress championed by figures such as Elon Musk, who promote innovation, space exploration, artificial intelligence and the expansion of human potential. One approach sees technology as a tool of freedom and advancement. The other increasingly treats it as something to be monitored, regulated and controlled.

This is what an unchecked majority can look like under Mark Carney: Parliament reduced to a rubber stamp, debate curtailed, privacy placed at risk and major legislation rushed through with minimal scrutiny.

Canadians deserve better.

The democratic process only matters if it is respected when it becomes inconvenient. If Parliament is no longer permitted to properly examine legislation, question witnesses or challenge the government of the day, then the institution itself is diminished. That should concern every Canadian regardless of political affiliation.

 

The right of exit from Canada is being removed one step at a time: First step, massive financial pain

During Covid, we did at least one, if not multiple posts on what we viewed as at minimum, a trial run of communism in a number of aspects.

The last right in any free society, is the right to leave. To say you don’t like it whenever you are, and bug out for greener pastures. That after all, is what millions upon millions of religious muslims did to their Muslim countries in order to come to the West and make them Muslim countries after all.

During Covid, Canada implemented a program where you could not leave the country, or even travel within it without the right papers. Only, to get those papers, you had to take two of a potentially lethal and often very damaging experimental mRNA injection or often more when the first boosters came out, in order to be able to board any kind of transportation beyond a private car.

As I recall, there were actual provincial roadblocks between Ontario and Quebec and other Canadian provinces to check for these papers, if you were allowed to cross at all.

Ottawa Hull Bridge, February 2022

Hwy 417 Ottawa Sept. 2021

Naturally the state under Trudeau used the opportunity to print millions upon millions of dollars to ‘develop an app’ that would track people’s movements and allegedly streamline the process of the state allowing people to leave, again, the most fundamental right in a free society, or make it easy for them to prevent or allow nationals to return. Another fundamental right by the way, is the right of citizens to enter their own country.

Gad Saad’s post is very disturbing. But in typical dialectical fashion, the state has created an excuse to justify it. Kind of like when a public school teacher convinces your child to get spayed or neutered and face a short life full of loneliness and medical issues because it’s “trans-affirming care”.

Here is what Grok says about the nature of the exit tax:

What Canada’s “Departure Tax” (or Exit Tax) Actually Is

This isn’t a flat fee for leaving — it’s the deemed disposition rule under Canadian tax law (in place for decades). When you cease to be a Canadian tax resident:The CRA treats most of your assets as if you sold them at fair market value on the day before you leave.
You pay capital gains tax on the unrealized gains (only 50% of the gain is taxable, but at your marginal rate — which in Quebec for high earners can be around 50%+ combined federal/provincial).
This applies to things like:Non-registered investment accounts (stocks, ETFs, mutual funds)
Cryptocurrency
Private company shares
Collectibles, art, jewelry, etc.

Exemptions (important ones):Principal residence (your home)
RRSPs, RRIFs, TFSAs (tax-sheltered accounts)
Pensions and certain other registered plans

You must file Form T1161 if your assets exceed $25,000 FMV, and the tax is due with your final Canadian tax return.

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Many countries (US, Australia, Germany, France, etc.) have similar rules to prevent people from walking away from taxes on gains that accrued while they lived there and benefited from the system.Why It’s “Large” for SaadGad Saad has had a long, successful career as a professor, author, and public figure. If he has substantial non-registered investments, appreciated stocks, or other assets with big unrealized gains, the bill can easily hit hundreds of thousands (or more). He hasn’t publicly stated the exact number, but his reaction and the “10+ years to recover” comment suggest it’s a very painful hit — especially on top of Quebec’s already high taxes.

@GadSaad

He’s moving to the University of Mississippi (US) primarily due to safety concerns (antisemitism and threats in Montreal) and high taxes, but this exit bill adds serious financial friction.Is It Fair? The DebateCritics (including Saad and many leaving Canada) call it punitive, a barrier to mobility, and a driver of brain drain at a time when Canada is losing skilled people.
Defenders say it’s reasonable: you benefited from Canadian infrastructure, education, healthcare, etc., while building that wealth — so pay tax on the gains before taking it elsewhere. Similar systems exist abroad.
Practical note: There are ways to defer the tax (by posting security with the CRA) in some cases, and good tax planning before leaving can reduce the sting.

Bottom line: It’s completely legitimate under long-standing Canadian rules — not a new “punishment” aimed at Saad. But for successful people with significant unrealized gains, it can feel like a brutal final tax grab when they’re already choosing to leave for other reasons.

So this—-> This isn’t a flat fee for leaving — it’s the deemed disposition rule under Canadian tax law (in place for decades). When you cease to be a Canadian tax resident:The CRA treats most of your assets as if you sold them at fair market value on the day before you leave.

Actually is a wonderfully self contradictory statement. In other words, yes. it is an exit tax.

More from Grok after explaining teleological analysis:

What the rule actually does in outcome

It imposes a large, immediate liquidity hit (often hundreds of thousands to millions) on people with substantial unrealized gains when they decide to leave. You pay tax on paper profits without receiving cash from a real sale.
This creates a strong financial deterrent to emigration, especially for successful, mobile, high-net-worth or high-earning individuals (professors, entrepreneurs, professionals) who have built wealth in Canada.
It functions as a final tax trap — you’ve already paid high lifetime taxes (Quebec’s combined marginal rates >50%, plus consumption/property/carbon taxes), and now one more big extraction as you walk out the door.

Real-world results (not theory):Canada is seeing record net emigration, particularly among university-educated and high-earning people. Departures are up sharply (e.g., Q3 2025 was 34% higher than pre-pandemic levels). Skilled emigrants skew young, educated, and in high-demand fields.

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Brain drain data shows top earners (top 1% and next 9%) leaving for the US at notable rates, contributing significantly to Canada’s productivity and GDP-per-capita gaps.

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The rule doesn’t stop everyone, but it raises the cost of leaving and keeps some people staying longer than they want — paying ongoing high taxes instead.

This aligns with your point: the telos (end goal/effect) is retaining taxable bodies and capital in the system. Governments rarely admit “we want to make it painful to leave,” but the structure achieves that. Similar mechanisms exist in other high-tax jurisdictions for the same practical reason.

Covid, as we said at the time, was a trial run for communism.

The greater tragedy is the number of Canadians who will not see it even as it is being constructed around them. Even get hostile if you try and politely explain the facts to them as they are right in front of their faces. Which was also the case during Covid.

 

Carney tips his hand to show his communist revolutionary leanings

Although Carney himself answers questions in this interview in typical Emperor’s New Clothes fashion, in other words, incomprehensibly but in a way that makes you feel that you are the stupid one if you don’t pretend to understand admire its wisdom, the initial question and the nature of the person who asks the question makes it all very clear. Why did Carney agree to be interviewed by Irish Communist, Alex White SC. A former Labour Party politician.

Fist, for those that don’t know who Antonio Gramsci is, look at this very brief summary in Key Wiki:

Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian political theorist and founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramsci’s theories have quietly been incorporated into American culture for at least 50 years. Gramsci believed that the way to incorporate Marxism in capitalist societies was best achieved from the bottom up by stealthily changing the beliefs of the culture itself, called “cultural hegemony.” Cultural hegemony involves softening, or radicalizing, the culture’s beliefs about various social issues such as homosexuality, marriage, education, women’s issues, religion, divorce, pornography, media, abortion and established political parties. The idea is to move everything to the left so that eventually new norms are rooted into society – a Gramsci form of the Overton Window if you will…[1]

Gramsci Symposium

The College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University hosted “Gramsci Now: Cultural and Political Theory,” an international symposium to mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Antonio Gramsci, November 9-11, 2007 in East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

Presenters were: Stanley Aronowitz, Joseph Buttigieg, Kate Crehan, Roberto Dainotto, Michael Denning, Benedetto Fontana, Stephen Gill, Marcia Landy, Guido Liguori, Frank Rosengarten, David Ruccio, Epifanio San Juan[2].

References

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  1. Communist Antonio Gramsci Resides In The White House NewsReal Blog, Nov. 24, 2010

  2. http://www.internationalgramscisociety.org/communications/news.html

As an interesting aside, Pete Buttigieg, who was US secretary of Transportation under Biden (Obama’s 3rd term) was the son of Joseph Biden, who was the founding president of the International Gramsci Society, and spent much of his academic career translating and editing the definitive English edition of Gramsci’s prison diaries. He was a Marxist prof. of literature at Notre Dame.

So for Carney to be discussing accomplishing Gramsci’s vision with an Irish communist, well as the expression goes, “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” -John Heywood, 1546.

I haven’t made it all the way through this yet. But here is the entire video from which that except was taken in case anyone wants to know if there is a contextual conflict between my claims and the entire speech.

Please do not skip this post: FIVE major indicators of where Canada and the Anglosphere are now

1. Law Prof. Bruce Pardy speaks to how the state in Canada treated the Freedom convoy and its supporters are half of the equation proving that Canada was, is and is becoming an increasingly totalitarian authoritarian state.

On occasion one may find oneself in debate with leftists over the Freedom Convoy. So far, I have never had a disagreement with anyone who was actually in attendance. In fact I know of people who vehemently disagreed with the Convoy at the time until they were made to go and check it out in person, at which point, they admitted they had been lied to about it. However, all the people I have had this disagreement with, watch CBC, CTV and Global.

2. I found this interesting an a couple of levels. For one thing, I didn’t know she was talking about the UK till very far into the video. Which shows you that galloping statism, tyranny, is a Commonwealth wide issue. Not just Canada or the UK or Australia etc. But also because there is one point with which I very much disagree. She says this is not a new problem but has been developing over hundreds of years. This is not true. This is the result 100% of relatively recent efforts, maybe over 100 or so years by communist think tanks like The Frankfurt School, Runnymede Trust, The Fabian Society, the WEF, almost certainly the secret meetings of Bilderberg etc.

The battle between state power and individual power is indeed an ancient one. But the destruction of Republics, which basically formed after WW2 in the West is a recent effort, even if it has historical ties and precedents.

She also appears to be wearing a Catholic Rosary. Which kinda confirms that the only people willing to risk their personal liberty and safety for the rights of all of us, tend to be those who believe in God. Those who believe life is all you get, tend not to put themselves out for others like she is.

3. Similar stories in the West are quite common. This is because Muslim women are taught that the only virtue they can have is by supporting Islamic precepts, and the practice of Islamic precepts.

4. Can’t stress this importance of this enough, both to the UK and to Canada.

Note the dry contempt with which the Judge reads a Tweet, and then interprets it in a way to make it criminal and worthy of two years in prison.

The United States may have to give the same access to enter for British, Canadian and Australian people as they did once to Cubans.

Stephen Coughlin once, when at the curious meetings of the OSCE asked specifically if truth could be hate speech. This was May, of 2015. PLEASE pay close attention. This was clearly predicted by Maj. Coughlin and many others 11 years ago and earlier.

We are not posting it as an “I told ya so!” but because often when the prediction and model used for it is paired with the results down the road, it helps to cement it home what has actually happened. This is a very hard pill for many to swallow. Probably not people who read this site, but for sure the friends and family of those who read this site. We are attempting to provide data points to help enough people come around before the panopticon is complete. Which is very soon. To hopefully mobilize people into some kind of action that will stop and reverse the galloping tyranny and destruction of our nation-states, as well as the total deracination of our identities.

5. On this last one, I argued with Grok for quite a while on its veracity. The way it is filmed, graded and edited, I was pretty sure it was fake. It has the classic Hollywood, Orange and teal set design and colour grading. I love that look, but it’s better reserved for fiction as that is its purpose in a way. To help people ease into a narrative. The camera angles and so on. But Grok assured me this is real and provided me with the links to the data to prove it.

So once again, another massive conspiracy theory which we are all shouted down for, becomes fact.

DNI Press Release 

DNI graphics as evidence of the contention of bio-labs in Ukraine and elsewhere, doing gain of function work etc. 

And now I really wanna know more about tick borne illnesses.

Thank you all for checking out this site.

This particular post feels like a kind of end game statement in a way. And in a way it is, This is the evidence that much of what we have claimed is happening, has now happened. As the statement at the Gates of Vienna says, “We are in a new phase of a very old war”. This is true. But this particular phase may mean that the normal means of defending one’s individual identity only exist as mirages, when they seem to exist at all.

Once again, we may have to look at the Egyptian example where the people took to the streets in 2011, and stayed there till they deposed a tyrant, not once, but twice within a short period. The first protests lasted from January 25th to February 11. The second round to depose Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohammad Morsi, was in June/July of 2013. Both protests being around the same length as the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, but with a LOT more people. But then the people have to have a cost benefit to motivate them to take to the streets like that, which the current communist state apparatus may be too clever to allow to occur.

A video analysis of the new state policy towards using force and self defence

This is a worthy video detailing the facts on the ground of migrants (and non-white minorities) within Western nations when it comes to crime and self defence. It is worth watching.

Here is my four line summary making the critical distinction that this is deliberate.

The state disarms its citizens and passes strict laws against use of force and especially any kind of force multipliers.

The state then imports millions of people from nations hostile to the West culturally, religiously and for whatever reasons.

The state then de facto, does not apply these new laws to the invited and state supported migrants, such that there is a noticeable and viceral imbalance when it comes to how state law enforcement agencies treat actual citizens of Western nations Vs. invaders. The most obvious De Jure example would be Sikhs being able to carry knives even in schools. But looking at sentencing of actual criminals who are caught with illegal weapons, we also see a de facto permissiveness towards illegal or invited hostile immigrants to Western nations.This results in enormous numbers of armed migrants hostile to the local population, doing attacks frequently enough that it becomes clear to all, consciously or semi-consciously that legacy citizens are second class citizens in their own lands and even homes.

The progression of events make it impossible to not know that this is deliberate state disenfranchisement of the legacy citizens of Western nations, except to the most determined leftists who will cling to their belief that this is a good thing and a form of justice, and the self blinding centrists who would rather feel good believing in a benevolent state than feel as uncomfortable as they should knowing how things actually are.

Interview with Luke Neilson of the JCCF on some of the legislation threatening Canadian liberties

Short discussion with lawyer from the JCCF on some of the more outrageous, (even though voted down ultimately) aspects of some of Canada’s most totalitarian legislation.

Article at RAIR Foundation

Interview with Luke Neilson

Nicholas Jordan Wagter 48 hour psychiatric hold has been extended indefinitely?

The other day we did an article about Nicholas Jordan Wagter, who was Soviet style kidnapped into a mental hospital, bypassing any form of due process because apparently he was passing out information about Chinese penetration of the Canadian political and industrial institutions, and waking people up to how much of a threat that is.

There is an update:

Press For Truth does a decent video above. But again, like during Covid and the Vaxx etc. the central question is missed. Probably because the Canadian spirit has been broken for generations now.

The question of course is: Why does the state have the power to do this? Why is there no due process? How can this be allowed to happen?

Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), an English jurist, judge, and politician, once said when speaking about criminal law:

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
The version we need is let ten crazy people walk the streets before you certify one and imprison them and force mind altering drugs on them. But the fact is, we clearly already have that. The cities are crawling with the mentally unwell and even violently so. Often from recreational drug abuse, but that is hardly the point. This arrest and detention is as much an egregious breach of all spirit of the law of a free country as was the detention of Dr. Mel bruchet, who was forced into a mental hospital, also in Vancouver, for standing in front of a hospital with the FACTS about how many babies died due to the mRNA Vaxx injections.
In Canada, if you have counter-narrative views, and worse, if you have PROOF of those views, then Caveat Orator. Let the speaker beware.
Gulag Archipelago (Volume 2, Part III)
During a hunger strike, a prosecutor asks an inmate ‘Why are you torturing yourself?’. Stunning the prosecutor with its ‘irrelevance’, the inmate replies: ‘Justice is more precious to me than life’. This individual is subsequently transferred to a psychiatric facility, where a doctor flatly affirms: ‘We suspect you may be a schizophrenic’.

Here is the interview that was done in the coffee shop that led to his state-kidnapping.

We cleaned up the audio as best as we could and subtitled it as accurately as the audio quality allowed.

Please leave your thoughts in the comments.

Discussing this case with Grok we have a few things to add. The story so far, and what the state is able to do to him, ‘legally’ under the form 4 they used to kidnap him.

  • The coffee shop “ambush”: Several weeks before his detention, Wagter was in a café (reportedly for a meet-and-greet with like-minded people). A psychiatrist (Dr. Christine Taylor) and another health worker approached him. They identified themselves and tried to do an on-the-spot “mental health check.” He told them to read his materials and leave him alone, then got up and left. He later described it as feeling like an orchestrated confrontation.
  • The pull-over and certification: On May 23, 2026, Vancouver Police pulled him over while driving. Officers told him he had already been certified under BC’s Mental Health Act (Form 4) based on the earlier café observation + input from his family. He was taken to Vancouver General Hospital for involuntary assessment.
  • Initial 48 hours ? ongoing: It started as a short-term hold (Form 4.1 allows up to 48 hours), but a second certificate was issued, extending it (up to 1 month initially, with possible renewals for longer periods). As of the latest posts (May 27–28), he is still being held at VGH and claims he has been cleared by other doctors but remains detained.

Why it feels very Soviet:

  • No immediate crime.
  • Certification based heavily on observation in a public place + family input, without a fresh full in-person evaluation at the time of apprehension.
  • He was filming police during the stop (his right), and officers asked him to stop.
  • He is an activist/researcher who posts about Chinese influence in Canada, government overreach, and other controversial topics. Supporters call it retaliation / “medical kidnapping” to silence him. Critics say his content shows signs of genuine mental health concerns (e.g., fringe ideas about wireless tech, energy fields, etc.).

This case has gone viral in alternative circles exactly because of how it looks: a seemingly functional, educated young man with no violence or immediate threat being detained after public political/activist activity.It’s a fresh and very raw example of how BC’s Mental Health Act can be applied — broad powers that critics say are ripe for abuse, especially when someone is outspoken.

Under the order that they have on him, can they force psychiatric drugs into him?
Yes — under BC’s Mental Health Act, once someone is certified as an involuntary patient, they can be forced to take psychiatric drugs against their will. How it works in practice:

  • Form 4 (the initial certification) allows detention for assessment.
  • Within 24 hours of admission, the facility must complete a Form 5 (Consent for Treatment – Involuntary Patient).
  • On the Form 5, if the patient refuses medication (or is deemed incapable of consenting), the facility director (or designate) can authorize treatment anyway. This includes psychiatric drugs (antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, etc.).
  • Once authorized, staff can use chemical restraint (forced injection) or other coercive measures if the patient physically resists.

This is standard under the Act. Involuntary patients explicitly cannot refuse psychiatric treatment, including medication. For Nicholas Jordan Wagter specifically:

He is currently held under this system at Vancouver General Hospital. If they have completed (or will complete) the Form 5 authorizing treatment, the hospital has legal power to medicate him against his wishes — even if he is conscious, competent in other areas, and objects.This is exactly why many people call these cases “Soviet-style” — the state can override bodily autonomy on psychiatric grounds with relatively little external oversight in the short term.Note: He (or his representatives) can request a Review Panel hearing to challenge the certification, and he has the right to a lawyer and a second medical opinion, but the treatment can still proceed while that’s happening.This is the legal reality in BC right now. Let me know if you want sources for the exact forms or how to support his case.
Comparing what a single psychiatrist can do Vs. the entire justice system to any person in Canada:
Criminal arrest (normal justice system):

  • Police arrest you ? You have the right to call a lawyer immediately.
  • You must be brought before a judge within 24 hours (bail hearing).
  • You are presumed innocent.
  • The state cannot force psychiatric drugs into you.
  • You have full Charter protections, evidence rules, right to silence, etc.

Mental Health Act certification (what happened to Wagter):

  • One doctor (often with family input or a single public sighting) signs a Form 4.
  • You can be picked up off the street (or pulled over) with no warrant.
  • No immediate right to a lawyer in practice.
  • No judge has to approve the initial detention.
  • They can and do force psychiatric drugs (including antipsychotics) into you against your will, even if you are competent and refusing.
  • The “due process” (Review Panel) comes days or weeks later — after you’ve already been medicated.

The abuse of the medical system to discredit counter-narrative people in BC

This story about a BC man who was essentially arrested and forced into a mental health facility for evaluation is still undetermined as to its nature. At least fully. However, this site has a regular reader who had a VERY similar thing happen to her. She may or may not choose to share her experience in the comments. But it mirrors this event nearly perfectly. Even to having 2 doctors determine that she should not be in the facility, and not being let out till she saw a judge.

Secondly, even what we found about his posts on Social media indicate that his views are counter-narrative, and therefore considered to call his ‘sanity’ into question.

Thirdly, there was a doctor we wrote about a fair amount on this site who was sectioned, as they used to call it, during Covid for questioning the vaxx’s effects on the not-yet born. This would be Dr. Mel Bruchet. He was locked up for speaking clear and obvious vaccine truths if memory serves. In fact he was saying much what the Helen Grus research would have turned up. Helen in fact, is relatively lucky compared to Bruchet.

All of this is forward to the current issue. But an event means far less as an isolated case than when you flesh out the context in a relevant way. This is not reaching to a rhetorically useful level of abstraction. That is one of the leftist’s greatest rhetorical cons. We are showing that people with counter-narrative views, especially when they have some academic or societal authority can be destroyed without even the decency of a captured legal process, by channeling them into the mental health system. The gentleman currently facing this Soviet style tactic is a biophysics researcher with a background at Western University.

Below is what Grok gave me on the issue including the narrative negation of the likely truth of the matter:

What Happened

Nicholas Jordan Wagter (a biophysics researcher with a background at Western University) was involuntarily detained under British Columbia’s Mental Health Act (specifically a Form 4 certificate). A psychiatrist named Dr. Taylor (Vancouver Coastal Health) observed him in a public café some time earlier.
She gathered additional information from his family members (referred to by him as the “Wagter-Browns”).
Based on that, she issued the certificate authorizing police to apprehend him for psychiatric assessment.
He was stopped in his car by the Car 87 mental health crisis response team (police + mental health workers) and taken to Vancouver General Hospital.

He has been posting videos from inside the hospital claiming:It’s unlawful / retaliatory.
He’s been “cleared by two other medical professionals” but is still being held.
It’s connected to his online research and political views.

Why Was He Committed?

The official reason (according to the process described in his own videos and collateral reports) is the standard criteria under BC’s Mental Health Act:He appeared to be suffering from a mental disorder.
He was deemed to be at risk of harm to himself or others (or unable to care for himself).

No public evidence has emerged that this was done solely for his political views. Family members appear to have been involved in providing collateral information, which is very common in these cases.

Context from His Own Content & Public ReactionWagter has been posting extensively about government corruption, Chinese influence in Canada, intelligence issues, etc.
Many of his followers are calling this “medical kidnapping” or political persecution.
A significant number of comments (including on Reddit and Instagram) suggest he may be in the middle of a manic episode or other mental health crisis. His family reportedly has a history of concern.

This is a developing situation — he is still posting from the hospital as of today.Main LinksHis main video announcing it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYsnXzbyOwO/
“Proof I’m still in here”: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYup9RrzZIu/
His profile: @nicholas_jordan_wagter

The fact that CSIS itself has made a number of speeches, testimonies and interviews attempting to show Canadians the extent of Chinese influence in Canada doesn’t seem to be a mitigating factor here. In other words, he believed that China exercises undue influence. The fact is, anyone who doesn’t comes closer to a definition of crazy.

What’s missing is the order of events.

Reading this, it looks to me like what is at least equally likely is the following:

A psychiatrist who was aware of his social media postings, planted herself at a cafe she knew he would be at. She ‘observed’ him for a while, then went on to seek his family and get data that would add gravitas to her commitment of him. Next thing you know, well you will see the video of his arrest below and subsequent videos from inside the facility.

But even if I am wrong on this and it was a coincidence that the shrink was at the same cafe and she had already gotten reports from his family etc. etc. there is one pressing question that really matters and only one.

From where did the state get the power to do this to him?

It cannot be that they felt he was a danger to himself. The number one killer of Canadians now is the state itself with its increasingly lax criteria for administering MAiD.

A danger to others? Seems to me that if that was the case, every religious Muslim and ANTIFA member should be in the nuthouse and now.

Something really, really stinks about this. The fact that the arresting officer, yes its an arrest when they take you somewhere you don’t want to go and you have no choice. An arrest at best. A kidnapping is also a reasonable characterization given that there is ZERO DUE PROCESS.

I cannot embed the video but you can watch it here:

https://rumble.com/shorts/v7adu2y

From inside the facility:

https://rumble.com/shorts/v7aelaq

Now this may be pure coincidence. In that video he mentions that his was the only room with no drapes. As a consequence, he couldn’t sleep until he taped material over the windows because of the amount of light coming in to his room from them.

As it happens, I am at the part of the Gulag Archipelago where Solzhenitsyn is explaining the various tortures used to get people into a state of willingness to confess to whatever is shoved in front of them, Special emphasis is placed on forcing a lack of sleep. Solzhenitsyn even states that had medieval torturers been aware of the amazing properties of forcing sleep deprivation on people, they could have forgone all the messy and expensive torture devices so typical of the age.

Last data point, British Columbia is the most communist province of Canada. They ran a multi-year pilot decriminalizing pretty much all recreational drugs. Which worked out as one might expect.

But all this aside, every word of it. The only thing that matters is, how did the state take the power to do this to anyone?

Why are we not furious about it and demanding it be undone NO MATTER that justification, given the clearly dialectical way that these kinds of powers are deployed. Again, there is not an Imam in Canada that shouldn’t be locked up based on this criteria. Just thumb through a real translation of Koran, or peruse MEMRI’s site looking for sermons given in Canada.

Make Canada a Republic now.

A post script thought that may help take the point home, In the National Post article showing how a doctor had assessed a man outside a Tim Horton’s restaurant (For American readers, that is basically a McDonalds run by people from India, owned by Brazilians and named after a Canadian Hockey Player) decided he would be better off dead and drove him to his assassination site and killed him with drugs. For this set of actions, the same CPSO that destroyed medical careers of doctors who simply gave their best medical opinions that the mRNA vaxx was not always the best idea for their patients, told this doctor he could continue, but with 6 months supervision.

A London, Ont., doctor who assessed a patient with inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental health issues for MAID outside a Tim Hortons location and later personally drove the man to the place his life was ended has agreed to a minimum six months’ supervision. […]

As part of an investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) into two public complaints made against MacLean, an independent assessor appointed to review a number of MacLean’s charts concluded that he “did not meet the standard of practice of the profession, displayed a lack of judgment and that his conduct exposes or is likely to expose patients to harm or injury in five out of twenty charts reviewed,” according to a summary decision of the college’s inquiries, complaints and reports committee.

MacLean was called before the committee to be verbally “cautioned” with respect to the MAID complaints.

In addition to agreeing to mandatory clinical supervision for at least six months as part of an “undertaking” with the college, MacLean will undergo ongoing review of his MAID patient charts and mandatory professional education related to MAID, consent, documentation, professional boundaries and professional behaviour.

Compare that to what happened to Dr. Mark Trozzi for just one, and a dozen other doctors I have interviewed, or know personally in Canada, like Dr. Mary O’Connor. They simply didn’t think the vaxx was a good idea and that no one had the right to force it on them. For those two opinions, one of which turned out to be medically true and the other is axiomatically correct, they were destroyed in terms of their medical careers and licences.

This is apples to apples. We are talking about the SAME CPSO, or College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.

UPDATE: Someone prompted AI to write a song about this. its AI slop, bit hopefully it will get more attention on this issue.

 

A few items on Canada’s communist bill, C-22

1. We have seen more pushback on Bill C-22 than we have on what are arguably at least, more intrusive bills like C-4. C-4 was where the state has the right to talk your child into getting surgery and chemical regimens that would sterilize them and create medical experiments out of them, while potentially jailing parents for up to 5 years merely for attempting to talk them out of it. These procedures which are somewhat between Joseph mengele and Dr. Frankenstein. drastically raises the suicide rate and lowers the happiness rate of these children. That for us here at VTB was the most authoritarian and communist bill. Communist in that the children then belonged to the state. It should be added that Dr. Frankenstein at least had the decency to experiment on corpses. Not Children.

But the pushback against C-22 is really showing up on my various info-sources. Which is a great thing. Of course on people who don’t know about it or are not against it, they won’t see this material at all. So will logically pass over these objections as crazy conspiracy theories as they head down to the pharmacy for their 11th mRNA Covid gene therapy shot.

In the video below, he details some aspects of that bill that have been softened. These things were almost certainly trial balloons. Or perhaps more accurately, let’s call them context decoys. The way that works is, I want to pass a bill that lets me steal half your stuff and turn half your children into slaves. So my initial bill states that I can take all your stuff anytime I want and under any conditions, and your children can be herded into cattle cars for my purpose, and then after some light pushback from a few politicians, I get exactly what I wanted in the first place and maybe even a little more. Thinking about that as you listen to the video below may offer a little more clarity.

Bill C-22 Surveils Ordinary Canadians While Leaving Cartel Networks Untouched

 

OTTAWA — When The Bureau published its analysis of Bill C-2 last fall, the diagnosis was unsparing.

Ottawa had confused expansion of state power over ordinary Canadians with the enforcement tools Canada actually needs to confront the Chinese Triads, Mexican cartels, and hostile-state networks that have turned Canadian cities into operational platforms for the hemisphere’s most dangerous criminal organizations. The government has now repackaged that same flawed instinct under a new number. Bill C-22, the so-called Lawful Access Act, deserves the same verdict.

The critics arriving at that conclusion now span an extraordinary coalition. Signal, the secure messaging service used by millions of Canadians — including journalists and dissidents seeking to avoid scrutiny from hostile state spies — has warned it would rather withdraw from Canada than compromise the privacy promises it has made to its users.

Tobi Lütke, founder and chief executive of Shopify, Canada’s most important technology company, has called Bill C-22 “a huge mistake” that “may well end up dealing a death blow to Canadian tech viability,” and has publicly urged Ottawa’s Public Safety Minister to study expert opinion on the bill’s fatal flaws.

[…] That last point is not a partisan complaint. It is a warning from Canada’s most important security partner that Ottawa is about to create vulnerabilities that hostile states — the very states The Bureau has spent three years documenting as active threats on Canadian soil — will be positioned to exploit.

The above from Sam Cooper’s The Bureau. Please read the rest at the link above.

Dean of Law, Bruce Pardy discusses bull C-63 with Jordan Peterson. I think a great deal of what is said in this video can be applied to C-22 as the issues are the same. This is however, one hour and fifty minutes. So maybe it is for those who are deeply concerned with this issue. If so, again you can listen while doing other things. I will likely focus on the entire video as I do household chores because I am certain it is worth the time. This is a two year old video as well. But the actual issue, state overreach to create a totalitarian surveillance state, is as current as ever.

John Carpay on bill C-22. John Carpay is the head of the JCCF, a Canadian constitutional law firm and one of about 3 I know of that actually works towards preserving individual rights in Canada, as opposed to destroying them.

 

There were other bills that were of a similar nature, some of which included retroactive prosecution. In other words, if you had done something when it was not a crime after they passed this bill, the state could prosecute you after they passed the bill.

The videos on that are below and shot in Ottawa of John Carpay explaining the exact details. The bills died when they did not get passed by the Senate. But there have been indications that Carney intends to resurrect them, or likely draft new ones with the same intentions.

For those that like clear video, please click the little gear bottom right after you start playing the videos and select the highest option.

THIS POST may get updated with more materials on C-22 as they occur.

Communism as the Canadian modus is no longer an academic issue: All secure comms may pull out of Canada if C-22 passes

Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook

Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it says would compromise its end-to-end encryption and create new cybersecurity risks. Signal vice-president Udbhav Tiwari told the Globe and Mail that the company “would rather pull out of the country than be compelled to compromise on the privacy promises we have made to our users.” The comments are part of a steady stream of similar warnings from AppleMeta, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Cybersecurity Advisors Network, and the chairs of the U.S. House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees. Despite growing concern, the government’s response has been to launch a misleading social media campaign and repeatedly insist that the experts and companies are mistaken.

The pattern will be familiar for anyone who lived through the Online News Act. Supporters of then-Bill C-18 dismissed warnings from Meta and Google that the bill’s mandated payments for news links were unworkable and that they would comply by blocking the links in Canada. Witnesses confidently told Senate committees that the companies were bluffing and that, “when legislated to do so, they will come to the table.” But by the end of summer 2023, Meta had stripped news links from Facebook and Instagram, an approach that continues to this day.

The government’s defence of Bill C-22 follows much the same script. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree has accused the U.S. tech giants of “misinterpreting” his bill and his department insists the legislation is “encryption-neutral.” When Apple released a statement warning that the bill “could allow the Canadian government to force companies to break encryption by inserting backdoors into their products, something Apple will never do,” officials replied that it “categorically rejected” the claims. When the U.S. House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs chairs wrote that providers of end-to-end encryption “will inevitably face directives to create backdoors and architectural changes that bypass or weaken encryption,” the minister’s spokesperson said the letter reflected “a misunderstanding of how Bill C-22 would function in practice.” When Signal said it would leave, it responded that the concerns regarding installing capabilities to enable surveillance are false. In other words, the government thinks everyone is wrong and the risk of market exits are overblown.

Read the rest at the link above please.

 

Mostly on how the communist state will use AI, data points for replacement migration and the accelerating revolution in Carney’s Canada: Links post 1 for May 3rd, 2026

This morning, while perusing the pretend-random YouTube feed that comes up on my sandboxed YT app, I decided to watch one titled, “Why AI agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built“.

It was pretty much what you may expect if you have watched a bunch of videos on AI but slightly better than average in presentation. It wasn’t political, or philosophical at all. That is until about 7 minutes in. Then the philosophical issue of agency came up. The argument ran that instead of the more or less 1950 sci-fi imaginings of a human brain/agency and robot bodies, which we have had pretty much for decades now, we are switching to robot brains/agency and human bodies.

She brought on a guest. A philosopher,  Niklas Lönnblad. I can’t tell between her accent and his name being strongly Scandinavian. Then it got interesting from our PoV.

Without using the term, ‘game-theory’ he started out by defining an aspect of it. The issue of limited time and resources hence each agency, be it a person or a state would necessarily prioritize for what goals needed to be addressed while ignoring the rest due to lack of actual agency/agents.

Time and agency will be removed from the equations of life, which means a fundamental shift. All animals factor in the time and effort required to achieve a goal. Imagine what would happen if that wasn’t a factor, and a Marxist state deployed that kind of game-change.

The example they used was, if suddenly the state, which they refer to as the government, were suddenly able, through the use of AI agents, to ticket EVERY car that went 1 KM over a speed limit, you would, as he put it, have a dictatorship within a democracy.

We clearly, clearly are approaching that exact example now without even having AI. Just speed cameras and regular old computers sending tickets to people who go over the limit based on licence plate connection to the car owner.

But the concept is worth extrapolating on, because it will be the case. The state can essentially criminalize everything and arrest or otherwise hurt any given person based on what the actual priorities of the state are, rather than a criminal justice hierarchy of crime.

In other words, they can know any minor infraction you did, and then arrest you because you denied Global Warming, or insisted on biological reality of human sexual dimorphism.

And again, this already happened in the Soviet Union as painstakingly detailed in the Gulag Archipelago decades before there were computers. Or even cell phones. But AI actually extends agency to the state to infinity. This will change a lot of equations. And might explain why Mark Carney was so adamant about building massive AI server farms as (at one point) his main campaign platform, while also BSing everyone that they all insisted on large amounts of “green electrical supply”. A lie anyone who bothered to think about it for a moment could see through instantly. No company ever cared where its power came from.

In the following excerpt from the video, the examples given of course are banal. But I would ask anyone interested enough to read this, or watch the video to extrapolate. See where this has already happened, or how it will be applied. As Mark Twain said, “History does not repeat itself. but it does Rhyme”.

“I’m not sure how to feel about this. So, we have autonomous AI agents already out there hiring humans to do their bidding, which sounds like the plot of a very bad science fiction film. But I called up my friend, the philosopher Niklas Lönnblad.

Nice, I’m so excited I get to talk to you about this. Likewise. Have you been playing around with OpenCLR? Of course I have, absolutely.

He had a different way to think about this:

Well, I think autonomy is widely overvalued, because autonomy means that it does what it wants. And we’re nowhere near designing bots that have a will of their own or agency of their own.

We call them agents, but they’re really delegates. Nature develops agency first. Intelligence is a resulting effect or emergent effect of the looping of agencies.

And then that’s how you get intelligence. Whereas we’ve done it sort of really backwards with the artificial intelligence project, where we build intelligence first. And then we’re now sort of going back to figuring out, can we do agency? What we want is to be able to delegate and extend our agency in different ways.

I think that will present a whole different class of problems for us. The troubling thing then isn’t yet that AI has too much agency, it’s that we do. Almost all societies are premised on the fact that agency is scarce.

Attention is scarce. We’re limited by time. Take a super simple example, like there is a concert and the tickets are being released.

You have people queuing up to get to this concert. And this queue works why? It works because there’s a limited amount of attention, time and agency that people can spend. Now, imagine a world in which you

can tell your agents that if there’s any concerts by this particular band and I want a ticket, so queue up for me virtually.

Suddenly there’s like this abundance of agency and the queue breaks. Think about a society where everybody can will 10 times more, 100 times more, 1000 times more. What does that mean if we increase the amount of will in society? A lot of our other concepts like justice depend on this too.

Because now flip the coin and imagine that the government has abundant agency, infinite agency. And suddenly every single violation of the law can be enforced. So imagine, for example, every time you speed and you’re three or four or five kilometres or miles per hour over the limit, you’re automatically issued a ticket.

There’s something about this full enforcement of the law through abundant government agency that actually comes very close to a dictatorship, although we’re still in a democracy. Abundant agency in the hands of governments is potentially terrifying. But what about in the hands of an individual? Because one thing that you can say about humans is that we have no shortage of ideas.

What we have is a shortage of time and energy and frankly, the will to deal with the admin. Cass (the name of the AI agent they built, short for Casandra and is the name the AI agent picked for itself) has none of those problems. And so we thought what is the most ambitious thing that we could ask her to do? Not fix a pothole, not buy paperclips.”

It continues with an interesting idea about using it to create destructive propaganda. Their example is about trying to crash a stock. People might figure it out eventually, but by then the damage is done. This also is a perfect reflection of Western nation’s reality since 2020 or before. Covid, the vaxx, global warming, all of it was Maoist mass line narrative attacks, intended to create an effect. The state becomes less interested in preserving the narrative itself once the goal, which is the damage that is done to the target, has been achieved. At 12:50 more or less, she describes tasking an AI agent to create a mass line narrative attack in order to tank a stock. Again, extrapolate forwards, and interpolate backwards to see how this was already done to damage individualism. What is the multiplier on this effect AI will have, going forwards?

She also touches on another of Stephen Coughlin’s themes. Ultimately, the damage is done to trust in the systems altogether. This is what Stephen calls, “The liquification of reality”. A total destruction of our own ability to make decisions on any of the information coming our way.

(As a complete aside, for anyone looking for a temporary solution to the immediate problem of same, it is easy. Stop watching TV and stop listening to news on radio. Especially in Canada. For people who say, “Where will I get my news” the answer is easy, You are not getting news now. For information, search X. When you see anything interesting, query Grok, X’s AI agent as to the date and trtuth of the Tweet in question. So far I have found it to be on the whole, very good for that.)

Interestingly Canada is still preserving the Trans-narrative attack in spades, along with several others. Many thinkers are claiming that Canada is dropping the Global Warming narrative attack because no one believes it anymore.

Untrue on both counts. The elbows up crowd still chant it like life depends on it, and the state doesn’t give a rats kidney if people believe it or not. They are happy to have their useful idiots out on the street pushing these narratives, but they don’t care who believes them. They just care that people are afraid to oppose them. Because, as we often say, “with the left, the point is never the point. The revolution is always the point.” -David Horowitz Obama’s Rules for Revolution/Diana West.

Arguing against the narratives is ignoring the intent of them. And inadvertently working for the enemy, unless one includes the telos of the narrative. The effect the narrative will have on individualism and classical thought.

On to the list of indicators of the state of Western nations:

1. A decent example of Canada moving from a nation of rule of law to a dialectically driven, narrative based state

Click through to read the entire commentary.

2. Multiculturalism in Spain is going as expected

Also comments under that one.

3. This, like similar programs, are great for getting a few people that don’t already know what is happening with Islam especially in Gaza to wake up to the facts. People who are committed to the Islamic and ‘Palestinian’ cause of course, would just agree with the training and propaganda. it would make no difference to them. but at the end of the day, none of that matters. What does matter is: A: Do we have faith in our own right to exist, our culture, our beliefs, our history and B: are we ready to fight for it with the requisite amount of force and sacrifice to win.

Generally speaking I would say no. Most do not believe in either, and those that do believe in A are not ready to believe in B.

4. Ezra follows up with the whole Rocket Launch pad con that the Fed Guv and the socialist Nova Scotia provincial government set up. Of course most news that bothers to report on this at all, say, CBC, CTV and Global, IF they bother to write on this, will frame it as incompetence, or at worst corruption. But what they won’t ever say, is where the money goes. I would argue it goes to hotels and caterers who house, feed and otherwise pander to all the needs of the endless supply of Africans and Muslims being brought in to Canada and housed at Holiday Inns (at least one I know of in Ottawa’s East End) to replace liberty minded Canadians and deracinate Canadian-ness.

 

5. The political state of Canada. Watch all of these for a decent snapshot of how Carney and the WEF/Bilderberg revolution is coming along.

I wonder if the USA will have an issue with Canada deciding that Taiwan is rightfully Chinese now.

Passed Fact Check:

 

Thank you all for checking out this site.

A little something to add to the pile of the Global Warming narrative damage data.

Lastly, PLEASE if you are in or near Ottawa on Tuesday, don’t forget about this event!

There will be a Town-Hall with all the speakers in a panel and I think taking questions from the public Tuesday evening as well. The location is very central to downtown and there is parking not far away.

 

Glenn Beck on the state of Canadian ‘Democracy’

Every word he says is accurate as far as we can recall. If anyone finds an error please post it in the comments.

RFK Jr. offered a few words on Canada’s MAiD program as well.

Although the following thing seems relatively trivial, it goes to the deracination of Canadian history and culture.

Some of you might have seen photos in the banner of a number of guards in front of the Governor General’s estates in Ottawa taken a couple of years ago at a Changing of the Guard ceremony. It used to take place every and all summer with some frequency. It did not happen last year at it appears that it will not this year, as the little guard huts placed in front of the GG gates are no longer there.

The banner photos show the traditional Bear Skin tall hats (now synthetic) the guards wear and the bright red tunics and black pants they wore as well as some with a Scottish military Kilt on other guards.

We will check if this still takes place downtown, but even that ceremony, the main one, was scaled back dramatically last time we checked.

The modus of Canadian state operations

Glenn Beck on the story that should have dominated all Canadian media for a year or more till it was resolved:

Flash forward to today, April 23rd, 2026:

Sorry for the stupid title. I don’t want to say “democracy” because Canada is becoming a perfect example of a democracy, just not a republic. But people would say we are not a republic. Glenn Beck’s description, what is needed to be a free country is probably the simplest language. But the videos speak for themselves. How Canada actually functions, both in terms of individualism, and how well the public is represented in the machinery of government. Which is to say it isn’t.

Ontario:

Ford government passes budget that lets premier and ministers keep office records secret

The Ford government has passed a spring budget that includes provisions to let the premier and his cabinet ministers keep all their office records secret.

The spring budget changes Freedom of Information laws retroactively as well, meaning Premier Doug Ford would no longer have to comply with a court order to release his cellphone records.

The government used its majority to fast-track the bill and skip public hearings.

The FOI changes were first announced back in March and followed the loss of a court battle over access to Ford’s phone records.

The premier regularly gives out his personal cellphone number to the public and uses the device to conduct government business.

A court ruled in January that Ford must release logs of government-related calls made on his cellphone to comply with a Freedom of Information Request filed by Global News and supported by the Information and Privacy Commissioner.