“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Protests’
February 7th, 2022 - 3:13 pm § in News Media
Who’s telling the truth about Ottawa truck protesters?
Here’s how U.K.-based tabloid newspaper Daily Mail describes the ongoing trucker protests against Canada’s border vaccine mandate: “Since DailyMail.com arrived in Ottawa last week we have seen no indication of violence or vandalism or any extremist political agenda. In fact, the d[...]
February 2nd, 2022 - 12:16 pm § in Law and Courts
Cop gets 2 years in prison for clubbing protester
It was May 3, 2020, a few weeks after Breonna Taylor, an innocent black woman, was killed by police shooting into her apartment. Protests against her death, and other killings of black people by police, were occurring. In Louisville, Kentucky, where Taylor was killed, a protester “was kneeling[...]
Truckers behaving badly
“What started as a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates has snowballed into a blockade in the Canadian capital and the obstruction of a US-Canadian border crossing,” CNN reported on Monday, January 31, 2022. But that’s not the half of it. Their behavior has been unruly a[...]
A reminder that Hong Kong’s freedom is gone
The “Pillar of Shame,” 26 feet high, had stood on the University of Hong Kong grounds since 1997 “as a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.” The sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt included an inscription that said, “The [...]
Why the right targets BLM and “critical race theory”
It’s simply about white supremacy. Conservatives like a status quo that puts white people in charge, gives white people preferential treatment, and keeps black people “in their place.” After George Floyd became yet another black man murdered by a white cop, millions of Americans pa[...]
November 19th, 2021 - 6:57 pm § in Law and Courts
Kenosha vigilante acquitted
A Kenosha jury let a killer off the hook. The facts of the case are fraught, and Wisconsin law favors self-defense. But stripped to basics, the jury let an immature teenager come to their community from out-of-state, shoot at four people no one else considered a threat, and kill two and wound one wi[...]
November 18th, 2021 - 7:53 pm § in Politics
Fired Ferguson cop shows up in Kenosha with AR-15
Jesse Kline was a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, from 2015 until 2018, when he was fired for “allegedly following an ex-girlfriend to another man’s home and poking the man’s chest with the barrel of his gun” (see story here). Further details of that incident are recounted here[...]
November 13th, 2021 - 12:16 pm § in Law and Courts
Were the Kenosha vigilante’s courtroom tears fake?
Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for killing two men and wounding a third with a gun he was too young to possess at an anti-racism protest he crossed state lines in order to mix it up with protesters. On the witness stand, testifying in hopes of bolstering his self-defense claim, he let [...]
November 7th, 2021 - 8:19 pm § in Politics
Some people like to fight and cops should let them
“Are you ready to rumble?” As I recall that how the W.W.E. announcer introduced wrestlers to fans. Everyone knows professional wrestling is fake. People pay money to watch it, because it’s entertaining. I wonder when Portland — long a scene of slugfests between freaks of the [...]