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1/8 ๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿšจ YOUR OPINIONS ARE NOW A DIAGNOSIS โ€” Canada Just Soviet-Style โ€œCertifiedโ€ a Biophysicist for an Opinion They Do Not Like โ€” Youโ€™re Witnessing a Medical Kidnapping โ˜ ๏ธ They didnโ€™t charge him with a crime. They didnโ€™t need to. Nicholas Jordan Wagter โ€” 27 years old, Honors Medical Biophysics (Western), Masterโ€™s in Innovation Management (U of T), published peer-reviewed author in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience โ€” was pulled over in Vancouver on May 23, 2026, by police and a CAR 87 mental health crisis team. Heโ€™s been locked in a psychiatric ward ever since. His offense? Handing out a document in coffee shops. The document โ€” titled โ€œCHINA VANCOUVER ATTEMPTโ€ โ€” cites CSIS, RCMP, NSICOP, and the Hogue Commission on foreign interference. It connects dots between CCP influence operations, illegal police stations, UNDRIP sovereignty issues, and federal bills C-8, C-9, C-15, and C-21. Whether you agree with every line or not, heโ€™s citing official Canadian intelligence reports. This isnโ€™t tinfoil-hat territory โ€” these are documents Canadaโ€™s own spy agencies produced. Hereโ€™s where it gets dystopian: A psychiatrist โ€” Dr. Christine Taylor of Vancouver Coastal Health โ€” reportedly spotted Wagter in a cafรฉ. Not in a clinical setting. Not during a scheduled evaluation. In a Tim Hortons. She observed him, consulted his family, and issued a Form 4 certification under BCโ€™s Mental Health Act. Wagter was never notified. Never given a voluntary assessment option. Never even told heโ€™d been certified until police surrounded his vehicle three weeks later. The officerโ€™s own words on bodycam, captured by Wagter: โ€œDr. Taylor saw you in a cafe. She didnโ€™t certify you then. And then she spoke with your family, got some more information, and... youโ€™re going to have to turn that camera off.โ€ Turn the camera off. Of course. When Wagter โ€” calm, compliant, repeatedly offering to come in voluntarily for an appointment โ€” refused to stop filming, Dr. Emery (senior resident, CAR 87) certified him a second time on the spot. Destination: Vancouver General Hospital, involuntary psychiatric ward. No judge. No hearing. No due process. Just a psychiatrist who didnโ€™t like what she saw in a coffee shop. #MedicalKidnapping #FreeNicholasWagter #PsychiatryIsTheNewGulag #CanadaPoliceState #Form4Tyranny #SovietStylePsychiatry #DissentIsNotDiagnosis #CivilLibertiesAreDead #VancouverDetention #CCPInCanada #SluggishSchizophrenia2026 #YourOpinionsAreADiagnosis #MentalHealthActAbuse #InstitutionalOverreach #WakeUpCanada
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Mark Carney says Canada was founded on NOTHING. No race. No creed. No faith. Fact check: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms โ€” the actual supreme law of our land โ€” opens with these words: "Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law." Not "no faith." Not "nothing." The founding fathers invoked the God of the Bible. Dominion from sea to sea. Carney isn't mistaken. He's deliberately rewriting our history to turn Canada into a blank slate for his globalist agenda. This is the man who wants to be Prime Minister. If he can't tell the truth about where we came from, he has no business deciding where we're going. Canadians built this country on real principles โ€” not blank pages and empty slogans. Drop a ๐Ÿ”ฅ if you're tired of the historical gaslighting. #cdnpoli #Carney #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst #Charter
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Paul Halv retweeted
๐’๐‡๐„ ๐–๐„๐๐“ ๐ˆ๐ ๐…๐Ž๐‘ ๐€ ๐Š๐๐„๐„. ๐’๐‡๐„ ๐‚๐€๐Œ๐„ ๐Ž๐”๐“ ๐–๐ˆ๐“๐‡๐Ž๐”๐“ ๐€ ๐‹๐„๐†. ๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐’ ๐ˆ๐’ ๐–๐‡๐€๐“ โ€œ๐…๐‘๐„๐„โ€ ๐‡๐„๐€๐‹๐“๐‡๐‚๐€๐‘๐„ ๐€๐‚๐“๐”๐€๐‹๐‹๐˜ ๐‚๐Ž๐’๐“๐’ Roseanne Milburn, 61, of Winnipeg, had a routine procedure turn into an amputation โ€” not because the surgery failed, but because Canadaโ€™s government-run system couldnโ€™t find her a bed. A surgeon at Winnipegโ€™s Health Sciences Centre removed dead tissue from her knee, then sent her to Concordia Hospital with the plan to bring her back that same day so a specialist could stitch the wound (CBC News). She was never brought back. There was no bed at HSC. So she sat at Concordia with an ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ, waiting for the system to make room. As the video narrator put it: โ€œ๐˜Œ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ข. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜Š๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข, ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ, ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ณ-๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ-๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜บ. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ, ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ, ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ, ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ข.โ€ By the time a bed opened, the wound had rotted past saving. The doctors told her the leg couldnโ€™t be salvaged. On a Friday in December, Roseanne Milburn lost her ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ž๐  โ€” over a missing hospital bed. This is not a freak accident. It is the predictable output of a system that rations care by making people wait. In 2025, the median Canadian waited ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ–.๐Ÿ” ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค๐ฌ from a GP referral to actual treatment (Fraser Institute). For orthopedic surgery โ€” the exact category Milburn needed โ€” the median wait is ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ–.๐Ÿ” ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค๐ฌ. Nearly a full year. By design. That is 222 percent longer than the 9.3-week wait Canadians faced in 1993 (Fraser Institute). The system isnโ€™t getting better. Itโ€™s getting slower โ€” and the waiting list itself becomes the rationing mechanism. Defenders call it โ€œ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆโ€. It is not free. Roseanne Milburn paid for it. She paid with her leg. Every politician selling โ€œ๐˜”๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญโ€ is selling this โ€” the bed that never opens, the specialist who never comes, the wound that turns black while a bureaucrat shuffles a list. ๐€ ๐ฐ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š ๐๐ž๐ง๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ซ ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐.
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Brilliant. ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Eastern Germany just over 30 years ago too
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Paul Halv retweeted
Update video from Canadian Influencer Nicholas Wagter who was thrown into a mental institution against his will after they deemed him "certified". I go through a few of his Instagram videos to paint a picture of what is actually happening to him in Canada. Are they operating like the former USSR "pre-diagnosing" you with schizophrenia and other mental conditions even if you show no sign of it as a means of silencing those who speak up on important topics? Check out my video here and you decide -
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Paul Halv retweeted
WTF is going on in Canada? This man presented some concerns to the school board in a very respectful way. Next thing you know, the cops pull him over and force him to go be evaluated by some liberal psychologist. Is this normal in Canada? Is this how they treat their citizens?
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Paul Halv retweeted
A man was detained under Form 4 in Vancouver for warning people about: *An RCMP-China policing deal *Foreign interference reports *Agreements shifting control in Metro Vancouver He wasnโ€™t rioting. He was handing out documents. Now thereโ€™s a song about it. Pay attention to who gets silenced when they start asking questions. @realsunlight_ca Link: docs.google.com/document/u/0โ€ฆ #accountability #Transparency
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๐Ÿšจ Canadian influencer Nicholas Jordan Wagter says he has been involuntarily detained in a Vancouver psychiatric hospital after posting a series of controversial videos online. In recent social media clips, Wagter claimed he was being targeted by authorities over his political activism and warnings ...
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Paul Halv retweeted
The Speaker invited Reann Gasper, MLA for Abbotsford-Mission, to open the BC Legislature with a โ€œprayer or reflection.โ€ She chose to sing: โ€œPraise God from whom all blessings flow.โ€ Beautiful. The same people who tolerate endless political theatre will somehow melt down over 30 seconds of humility. I donโ€™t care. Faith, gratitude, and prayer built more of this country than bureaucrats ever will. This should become normal again. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™ @ReannGasper
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๐Ÿ’ฅAll roads donโ€™t lead to Brookfield, all roads lead to Mark Carney. To ALL Canadians โ€“ Liberal, Conservative, or NDP: You NEED to Watch This. What It Reveals About OUR Prime Minister Will Shock You.
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Paul Halv retweeted
๐Ÿšจ CANADAโ€™S FARMERS ARE WARNING OF A FOOD SYSTEM TAKEOVER In my latest interview with Ted Kuntz and John Graff from Canadaโ€™s National Citizens Inquiry, we discussed what many farmers now believe is a deliberate dismantling of independent food production. This wasnโ€™t theory. These were firsthand accounts from people inside the farming industry. We covered: โ€ข Mass livestock culling โ€ข Pressure campaigns against farmers โ€ข Fertilizer price explosions โ€ข Government intimidation โ€ข Media censorship โ€ข Lab-grown food expansion โ€ข The push toward centralized food control One statement stood out: โ€œHe who controls the food controls the people.โ€ According to the testimony presented at the National Citizens Inquiry, many farmers now believe traditional agriculture is being systematically replaced by a highly centralized model controlled by governments, corporations, and global institutions. And the warnings are growing louder: โ€ข Independent farmers being pushed out โ€ข Artificial food systems replacing natural production โ€ข Restrictions on self-sufficiency โ€ข Food supply vulnerability increasing globally We also discussed Alberta independence, the legacy of the Canadian trucker movement, and why many rural Canadians feel completely ignored by Ottawa. Whether people agree or disagree with every claim made, one thing is undeniable: Food security is becoming one of the most important issues of our time. Watch the full interview and decide for yourself. @Inquiry_Canada
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Politics stopped a police investigation into a cluster of infant deaths. This is the most important legal case in the history of Canadian policing. Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus, a veteran investigator in the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit, was convicted of Discreditable Conduct under Ontarioโ€™s Police Services Act on March 25, 2025. Incredibly, the internal Tribunal Officer found that Detective Grus should have asked for permission before initiating an investigation into an unusual cluster of infant deaths โ€“ due to the โ€œpolitical and societal ramificationsโ€ of her inquiries, and because she was investigating โ€œpublic officialsโ€. The written decision eliminates the right and duty of Canadian police officers to conduct investigations without political interference โ€“ or to investigate public officials or politicians without prior permission from above. If allowed to stand, the Grus decision will undermine public confidence in the independence of police investigations, and cause serving police officers to look the other way when they suspect wrongdoing by โ€˜public officialsโ€™ or see possible crimes that have โ€˜political ramifications.โ€™ The sentencing hearing against Detective Grus begins May 19, 2026. She could be fired, demoted, or fined. grusjusticeproject.org/grus-โ€ฆ
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I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.
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This is what is possible when โ€œCanadiansโ€ Mobilize instead of sitting at home and fretting over the diabolical and illegal actions of weak and corrupt government officials. We ARE the majority and we have the power to shut down their evil agenda. Letโ€™s activate it en masse.
Cowichan Valley residents gather to protest a proposed bylaw targeting family farms, chickens, bees, horses. The local government officially backed down today, but outraged locals are vowing to vote them out anyways to punish their attack on rural life.
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Litigation Director Josh Dehaas criticizes use of the Emergencies Act: "Regular Canadians were donating to a political causeโ€”not to break the law... They wanted to have their voices heard." "People need to be able to donate without fear of losing access to groceries or rent."
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"fear of legal liability." What fear? How's that worked out for us so far? Let's recapitulate: Billions to Northvolt, Winter GST, $9 million to cricket factories, $9 million to New York condo splurge for his media buddy, Canadaโ€™s longest mischief trial via Tamara Lich, Importing 5,000 Gazan families to bring their hatred J-ws to Canada, $34.8 million for sleeping bags for Canadian Army that wonโ€™t keep them warm, $8 billion Net Zero Accelerator fund, and Green Slush funds. $250 โ€˜working Canadiansโ€™ cheques reneged on, $160000 vacations, $7300 a night hotel rooms, $9300 a night luxury Jamaican villa over Christmas holidays from a Trudeau Foundation donor, offering MAID to disabled and Veterans, spy balloon, Drag Queen TV, hostages, tax payer funded Anti-Semitic liberal bloggers, Russian turbines, political prisoners, rigged elections, not eliminating first past the post system you promised to do as that system got you elected three times, Huawei, used Jets, eliminating Canadian gold reserves, reducing cell phone costs, tampons in menโ€™s washrooms, and no navy ships Threatening to use Military force on unarmed civilians, internet censorship, 2.40 l fuel costs, clean water on reserves, 32% inflation, 70 burned Churches with 0 arrests, 250 pairs of shoes with no bodies found the NDP wants to criminalize thoughts about this, Carbon tax, food shortages, hospital ICU, Vaccine failures, WE bros, SNC, Bernardo, NATO funding, 3 ethics convictions, a non-disclosure agreement with the last school he worked for, fake re-partnered wife going on taxpayer funded luxury vacations you used as a movie prop while she was banging a doctor on the side, $1000 a ticket events to buy crowd adoration you tried to sell your daughter youโ€™re not hated. Two disgraced GGs, Vance, McDonald, JWR, Philpott, Celina, Norman, Veterans, blaming the US for Iran shooting down Jets, pulling out of the Syria Fight, rail blockades, pipelines, failed UN seats, nannies, vacations, cardboard cut outs. Dress up, blackface, peoplekind, elbowgate, gropegate, Creston, sandbagging, NAFTA, and CPP2. Admiration for Chinese dictatorship, Chinese Army on Canadian soil, Chinese agents in our virology lab, Chinese agents in our space agency, Chinese agents interfering in our electoral process, Chinese police stations in major cities and Chinese, Indians and Muslims colonizing Canada at an alarming rate creating a massive shortage of Canadians. Sharing meals with Atwal, Boyle, Khadr, Wei Wei, voting for Mclinitick, Khanโ€™s island, Epsteinโ€™s island, 600 million in media payoffs, stacking the judiciary with Liberal judges, 6 million unemployed, $18 billion to the Indigenous to fight a cold, 638 million to the 15 yr olds, tanker bans, plastic straws and bags bans, gun bans, wood stove bans, natural gas bans, gas car bans, tracking 33 million cell phones, student grant abortion, $3.5B to failed fed payroll PhoenixPay, enacting laws by decree, suspending the elected HOC mid pandemic, media bailouts, barring non-approved media outlets from attending your pressers, Nova Scotia shooting, mandatory minimum sentencing for luring children to participate is sexual acts is unconstitutional, and redacted documents. Travel ban, forced/coerced medical treatments, quarantine hotels, the Emergencies Act, $27.4 billion in suspicious COVID benefit payments, UN Soldiers, name calling and constant lies, labelling Canadians fighting for freedom terrorists, freezing bank accounts, doxxing donators, $300 million for field hospitals sitting unused in storage, $173 million to Medicago that shut down, committing perjury, calling coercion โ€œchoiceโ€, no planes or trains for the unjabbed but planes for uninjected Ukrainians, 99% of Covid ventilators from Quebec contractor endorsed by @NavdeepSBains were junked as scrap. The contract totaled $282M. Not a typo; 99% were immediately scrapped, CERB to keep Canadians in their home and not on the streets, and do we tolerate these 7 million people? Over 32 billion to Ukraine, 10 million to Hamas, $121 million to the Clinton Foundation, nothing for Canadian vets, 11 million on food stamps, $15,000/month grocery bill for Trudeauโ€™s family, $10/day daycare to make oneโ€™s family planning everyoneโ€™s problem, a million a year every year, housing shortages, a billion to an Asian infrastructure bank, refusing to say anything about Uyghurs, giving millions to WEF, $75K to federal employees who think genitals donโ€™t define gender but will affirm gender by cutting them off, allowing a WEF trustee and nazi grandchild to be deputy pm, The Shermans, Indiagate, cocaine on planes, $1 billion for ArriveCAN and three officeless contracting companies, and climbing, fake government contractors, , Winnepeg Lab and Chinese collusion, SNC Lavelin, Nazi in Parliament, accused India of assassinations, broke relationship with India, blamed Hamas hospital hoax on Israel, Bill C18, no more news on Meta, Freeland importing US politics hosting Clinton. Parks Canada exec 4 yrs ago told MPs in committee testimony "one of the big concerns is the dead trees" at Jasper, Drivers tell Depโ€™t of Natural Resources that electric vehicles are costly and unreliable despite $150B sector subsidies with a "decrease in the proportion of Canadians willing to consider purchasing a zero emission vehicle, $600,000 to stand-up comedy in Montreal, 100 soldiers to perform with Punjabi pop star Diljit Dosanjh. Internment camps, Couttsโ€™s Four, Roxham Rd, $11M renovation for Sussex but instead on Trudeauโ€™s cottage, charter violation Coast to coast. 13 liberal HOC seats gained by Chinaโ€™s Cohesion, 16 tons of PPE to China, two billion trees that werenโ€™t, parental rights are far right, tent cities, taking a knee, asking Moms to leave the room to talk to kids on TV, 400 billion blown last yr, no budget in 2 years, carbon tax, $880,000 at Davos, using forest fires set by arsonists as global boiling narrative, $8 million for a barn, karaoke during a national time of mourning at queens funeral, National School Food Program no one asked for, Dental Care no dentists signed up for, Pharmacare, Contraceptives, menstrual bracelets, more ArriveCan scandal, โ€œfairness for every generationโ€ budgets that collateralize children, the unborn, and the future generations with the bill, $220K in airplane food for an Indo-Pacific trip, and 1.225 trillion in debt as of April 2025. I'm sure they fear legal liability.
BREAKING: Ontario Court of Appeal Dismisses Lawsuit Over Teen Sean Hartmanโ€™s Death Following COVID-19 Vaccination. In a significant decision released today, the Hartman v. Canada (Attorney General) ruling was upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal, dismissing a lawsuit brought against the federal government over the death of a teenage boy following a COVID-19 vaccination. The court found that the claim had no reasonable prospect of success and agreed with a lower court decision to strike it in its entirety. The case was brought by Daniel Hartman, whose 17-year-old son, Sean Hartman, died in September 2021. Sean, who had been described as previously healthy, was found dead beside his bed 33 days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Following the vaccination, he had been taken to hospital due to symptoms his father believes were related to the vaccine. Seanโ€™s father, Dan Hartman, says his son chose to get vaccinated so he could continue playing hockey, as vaccination was required for participation in many sports and activities at the time. Hartmanโ€™s lawsuit alleged that federal officials, including the Minister of Health, were negligent in approving, promoting, and monitoring the vaccine, and that they acted with reckless indifference or wilful blindness to potential risks. The Court of Appeal acknowledged the devastating nature of Sean Hartmanโ€™s death, describing it as a tragic loss for his family and community. However, the judges concluded that the legal claims could not succeed. Central to the ruling was the finding that the federal government does not owe a private duty of care to individual members of the public when making broad public health decisions during a pandemic. Instead, such decisions are made in the interest of the population as a whole, often requiring difficult trade-offs that may carry risks for some individuals. The court also determined that the claim failed to establish the necessary elements for misfeasance in public office. Specifically, there were no material facts showing that government officials acted in bad faith or knowingly engaged in unlawful conduct that would likely cause harm to Sean Hartman. The judges noted that the clinical trial data referenced in the lawsuit supported the conclusion that the vaccine was highly effective, undermining the argument that officials knowingly promoted a harmful or ineffective product. In addition, the court found that the public statements cited in the claim were directed broadly at Canadians and did not create a specific relationship or obligation toward Sean Hartman as an individual. As a result, there was no legal basis to establish the proximity or duty of care required for a negligence claim. Shockingly, the court also claimed that allowing Hartmanโ€™s case to proceed could have broader consequences, including discouraging governments from making urgent public health decisions during emergencies due to fear of legal liability. The Court of Appeal further upheld the lower courtโ€™s decision to deny leave to amend the claim, finding that the proposed changes would not have addressed the fundamental legal deficiencies. The judges emphasized that lawsuits must be based on clearly pleaded facts, not on the possibility that supporting evidence might emerge later. Ultimately, the court concluded that while the circumstances surrounding Sean Hartmanโ€™s death are deeply tragic, the law does not support holding the federal government liable under the claims presented. The appeal was dismissed, bringing the case to a close, with no costs awarded to either side. The Canadian Independent spoke with Dan Hartman by phone this evening. He said he is โ€œseriously consideringโ€ taking the case to the Supreme Court and that he and his legal team will evaluate their next steps over the coming week. Hartman noted that the cost of taking the case to the Supreme Court could exceed $20,000. He added that he does not want to ask those who have already donated to his cause to contribute further but said, โ€œWhat other option do I have?โ€ Dan believes the courts are not willing to find the government liable or hold it accountable, as doing so would amount to an admission of wrongdoing. He also argues that such a finding would make his larger lawsuit against Pfizer significantly easier to pursue. If you want to donate to Danโ€™s legal fund, you can do so at the link in the comments section.
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In honour of the 44th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Right and Freedoms, here is a photo of myself and @ChrisBarber1975 last summer with the last living draftee and signatory of the Charter, the Honourable Premier Brian Peckford and his lovely wife, Carol. The second photo is from Feb 14, 2022, when we walked into the Lord Elgin just before 11am and had to tell Premier Peckford that the Liberal government had announced it would be invoking the Emergencies Act and were about to trample all over his Charter. At your behest, if Iโ€™m not mistaken?
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WATCH Poilievre calls out the Liberal Party for debating a "$500,000 exit tax" to stop Canadians from working and opening businesses in the U.S. "Any country that feels it must punish people for fleeing is not a place of hope and optimism."
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The @liberal_party in one short video
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