Persecution
Proceedings at the Canadian Parliament are beginning to feel like a zombie film: a monster was killed, it came back, was killed again and yet returns a third time. But this isn’t your typical horror flick. This one involves a group of government bureaucrats investigating complaints about your speech, prosecuting you at their own tribunal and ordering you to pay tens of thousands of dollars to people who don’t like what you say or write. The undead antagonist at the centre of it all is the civil penalty for hate speech, proposed last week in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s newly tabled Bill C-63.
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Read MoreThe appeal of a Windsor police officer disciplined for donating $50 to the Freedom Convoy in 2022 has been dismissed by the Ontario Civilian Police Commission.
Constable Michael Brisco, who had no prior disciplinary record, was found guilty of discreditable conduct and ordered to forfeit 80 hours in pay following a four-day hearing in March 2023. He filed a Notice of Appeal with the Ontario Civilian Police Commission (OCPC) last June seeking to challenge the conviction and penalty.
Const. Brisco said there was no “clear and compelling evidence” of discreditable conduct, that the investigation of the donation was an abuse of process, and that the penalty was “unreasonable and unduly harsh,” during the Nov. 21, 2023, appeal hearing. While the Ontario Civilian Police Commission agreed the penalty was “significant,” it determined the discipline was not unreasonable.
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Read MoreIt’s been two years since Canada’s Freedom Convoy protests. I have spent them in a Canadian jail. My name is Tony Olienick and I am a political prisoner.
I’m from a small town in southern Alberta called Claresholm. I’m the only son to my late father George and my mom Tessie, who is approaching her 81st birthday. Before I participated in the Freedom Convoy and was arrested, I helped my mom at our small hobby farm, among other things. After high school I became a journeyman plumber and gas fitter, but I eventually pursued what every little boy loves the most—playing with Tonka Toys in the sandbox. Starting with one backhoe, I grew a gravel quarrying and trucking business into an operation that employed two dozen people at times. I had multiple pieces of heavy equipment, trucks, and trailers.
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Read More“We’re in a crisis of trust” brought on by “newspapers and … social media companies and the government,” according to investigative journalist Lee Fang.
Fang appeared last week with Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., on Bhattacharya’s “Illusion of Consensus” podcast. The two discussed the latest revelations of collusion and deception involving the healthcare industry, the technology sector and government agencies.
The hour-long discussion centered on documented cases of censorship campaigns targeting academics and journalists for speaking scientifically validated truths that threaten powerful special interests.
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Read MoreHERE in the West we Christians get ourselves hot and bothered about such matters of concern as whether we should attend same-sex weddings, women in leadership positions or the type of worship music we use. Elsewhere in the world church life is dominated by different concerns. In Nigeria, a member of the Commonwealth and the country with the largest mixed Christian/Muslim population in the world, the main concern of Christians is how to avoid being murdered for their faith.
At least 52,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2009, reports the International Society for Human Rights and the Rule of Law (Intersociety). Seventeen Christians a day were murdered for reasons related to their faith during the first half of 2020. According to Intersociety, roughly five million Christians have been displaced and forced into Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps within Nigeria and refugee camps at regional and sub-regional borders.
The church in Nigeria is facing what many there describe as a genocide. Open Doors records that more than 365million Christians in the world, that is one in seven, faced high levels of persecution for their faith as of late 2023. Amongst these, Nigeria accounts for almost 90 per cent of all Christians martyred for their faith worldwide. In their latest report, Aid to the Church in Need indicated that more than 7,600 Nigerians had been murdered because they were Christians between January 2021 and June 2022.
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Read MoreData compiled by the medical freedom group No College Mandates includes Harvard University and prestigious medical school Johns Hopkins University among the 68 institutions of higher learning.
Exactly how stringent those mandates may be can vary from school to school. Harvard says it is required for “all students who will be on campus” and that “registration holds [for classes] will be automatically applied” who “fall[s] out of compliance at any time for any of the required immunizations.” (Students can apply for medical or religious exemptions, however.)
Johns Hopkins requires vaccination of anyone studying or working on-site, and those who do not comply “may be denied access to Johns Hopkins property and electronic resources” or “subject[ed] to disciplinary action under the Student Conduct Code or the appropriate procedures applicable to faculty and staff.” Fully-remote students or employees are exempt, and there is an application process for medical and religious exemptions.
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Read MoreAn Open Letter to Canadian Ministers
An Open Letter to the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and the Honourable Dan Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs, Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Cc: His Holiness Pope Francis, Vatican City
Your Holiness and Honorable Ministers,
Re: Denounce Church Burnings and Stop the On-going Desecration of Graves in Historic Catholic Community Graveyard at Blue Quills First Nation
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Read MoreCanada has placed third on a list that tracks the level of rights violations against Christians in Western countries, according to a new report.
The United States topped the list with 58 incidents, followed by the UK with 43 incidents. Canada had 36 cited incidents of rights violations against Christians, according to the report by the Washington-based Family Research Council (FRC).
The report was compiled based on an analysis of open-source documents, reports, and media articles from 34 countries.
“It is shocking to see Western countries—the same ones we think of as free and open societies—take authoritarian measures against Christians simply trying to live out their faith. Hostility toward Bible-believing Christians is clearly and steadily rising in the West,” FRC president Tony Perkins said in the report.
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Read MoreLawyer Dr. Reiner Füllmich who led the Corona Committee investigative team, is still being detained in a German prison accused of embezzlement. In the past couple of days there have been video updates and discussions – “The Illegal Kidnapping and Persecution of Reiner Füllmich” from Infowars Greg Reese in collaboration with Celia Faber and also “Legal Expert Panel Reveals All” from Maria Zeee of Zeee Media who is joined by a panel of legal experts and associates of Reiner who discuss Reiner’s “kidnapping, imprisonment without due process and potential government operation responsible for his situation.”
I have republished both of these videos below, but first of all, there is also videotaped audio from Dr Füllmich himself has who has recorded an update regarding his current situation.
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Read MoreWhen did it become acceptable to hound Jewish audience members out of a comedy show?
On Saturday night, at London’s fashionable Soho Theatre, Northern Irish comedian Paul Currie performed a largely non-verbal hour involving mime, slapstick, prop work and audience participation. Towards the end, he produced two final props – two flags, one Ukrainian, one Palestinian. He encouraged support for their respective causes. He then gestured to the audience to get on their feet for a comically contrived standing ovation.
Most of the audience played along. But a few did not. When Currie asked them if they didn’t enjoy the show, one of them said that he was enjoying it, until the flags emerged. He was Israeli.
Accounts vary as to exactly what happened next. According to a report on Chortle, Currie then ordered the man out of the theatre. ‘Leave my fucking show now’, he reportedly shouted. ‘Get out… get the fuck out of my show!’, he repeated. The Israeli audience members did indeed leave. And as they did, the crowd chanted ‘Get out’, ‘Ceasefire now’ and ‘Free Palestine’ at them. In a complaint to the theatre, the Israelis said they felt physically unsafe after crossing the stage under a barrage of abuse.
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