Dozens have been arrested throughout B.C. as climate protesters occupy ports and railways in a dispute over the proposed Coastal GasLink LNG pipeline.
Police arrested 43 on Monday as protesters occupied the entrances to the Port of Vancouver.
At 5:30 a.m. Monday, protesters blocked access to the Port of Vancouver at the intersection of Hastings and Clark streets. Shortly after a fire was started in the middle of the street.
By 8:00 a.m. police had cleared the demonstrators from the road and made arrests, by mid-morning the access to vehicles was restored.
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“Forty-three people were arrested after they refused to abide by the court order and did not clear access to the Port after requested by police. All 43 people have been released with conditions to abide by the injunction,” Vancouver Police Sgt. Aaron Roed said in a statement.
“The entrances were cleared without any major incidents.”
The Port of Vancouver is the largest port in Canada and the third-largest in North America.
The same morning, police broke up a blockade set up by protesters at the Port of Delta, arresting 14. Protesters had been occupying the port since Saturday.
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Since Saturday, protesters have been blockading the railways in New Hazelton, stopping all rail access to Prince Rupert and Kitimat. CN Rail says that nearly 200 trains have been affected by the disruption.
CN Rail Vice-President Sean Finn says that by protesting on the train tracks, the demonstrators are posing a significant safety concern.
“We recognize the right for our First Nation partners to protest, but we think occupying the main line is not a safe thing to do,” he said.
The protesters are allegedly acting in solidarity with a handful of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs protesting the construction of the Coastal GasLink LNG pipeline in northern B.C.
Both elected and hereditary First Nation chiefs have said the Coastal GasLink will bring jobs to their community and the project has the support of most Wet’suwet’en.
Convicted terrorist Omar Khadr was introduced as a “magnificent gentleman” Monday night at a Dalhousie University forum dedicated to understanding child soldiers.
The event, Children’s Rights Upfront: Preventing the Recruitment and Use of Children in Violence, was hosted by Dalhousie University and the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative. Khadr appeared alongside former Sierra Leone child soldier Ishmael Beah and retired lieutenant-general and former Liberal senator Romeo Dallaire.
True North’s Andrew Lawton was on-site to cover the event.
As attendees entered the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium dozens of veterans were outside the venue protesting peacefully.
There was a delegation of high school students in attendance, who were acknowledged by a Dalhousie dean who was emceeing the evening.
So far not a single question about extremism, the Khadr family, Sgt. Christopher Speer, IEDs, or anything like the “tough,” “challenging” questions we were told were coming.
Khadr was presented as a former “child soldier,” with no debate or discussion about whether that term accurately describes his past.
In 2002 Khadr, then 15, killed American Sgt. Christopher Speer with a grenade while fighting for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Khadr spent ten years in Guantanamo Bay before being repatriated to Canada.
While audience members could submit questions through an app, there were limitations on what could be asked.
Questions about “the incident that happened in Afghanistan” were off-limits, moderator Shelly Whitman said. Questions about Khadr’s $10.5 million settlement from the federal government were also not allowed.
Despite the fact that Khadr confessed, the Dalhousie event’s moderator said only that Khadr “allegedly” threw the grenade that killed Speer.
“We want you to ask hard questions,” Whitman said.
Questions posed to Khadr included how he likes living in Edmonton and how he is dealing with the cold in Halifax.
One question was about Khadr how he handled life in Guantanamo Bay. He responded by talking about his faith.
Khadr added that the fan mail he received while in prison was helpful.
Despite now living as a free man and a multi-millionaire in Canada, Khadr is currently attempting to appeal his conviction for Speer’s murder in a US military court.
Speer’s family has won a US$134 million judgment from Khar in a wrongful death case in Utah, though Khadr has not paid. He has so far refused to answer their lawyers’ questions.
A record number of veterans are waiting to receive benefits as the Trudeau government fails to make progress on the backlog of applications.
At the end of September, more than 44,000 applications from veterans applying for benefits were sitting in Veterans Affairs Canada’s queue, an increase of 10% from six months earlier.
While a number of these applications are in the queue because they were incomplete, since March 2019 the number of complete applications waiting for review rose to 6,300 or 37%.
Over a third of the applications in the queue have been waiting for four months or longer.
“The fact of the matter is veterans deserve to receive their benefits in a timely manner and the backlog is not acceptable,” Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay said in an interview.
Since elected in 2015, the Liberal government has hired hundreds of new employees at Veterans Affairs and promised hundreds of millions in funding for veterans.
These additional measures appear to have not made a difference in the lives of veterans.
In 2019, veterans did not see a penny of the $105 million promised to them by Justin Trudeau. The sum remained untouched, despite being earmarked for Veterans Affairs Canada.
In 2018, Global News reported that the Liberals allowed $372 million they had promised to veterans to go unspent during their first three years in office.
In a town hall in 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a veteran that his government was fighting a veterans’ rights group in court because they were asking for too much money.
“Why are we still fighting against certain veterans’ groups in court? Because they are asking for more than we are able to give right now,” Trudeau said.
MacAulay says Veterans Affairs will have to work through the backlog without new assistance.
“Of course I always want more money,” MacAulay said.
“But what we have to do is deal with the money that we have and make sure we put the system together as efficiently as possible. … I certainly couldn’t indicate what we asked for — or what we’re going to get — in the budget.”
In 2018, Veterans Affairs Canada failed to meet 15 out of their 24 service standard targets.
A Canadian natural resource company Teck Resources Limited is proposing a $20 billion oilsands mine in Northern Alberta. The project has been under review for nearly a decade.
The Liberal government has until the end of February to make a final decision on the project.
It was reported last week that some Liberal MPs are pressuring cabinet to deny approval for the project, claiming the project will be detrimental to the government’s pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Citing unnamed sources, Reuters reported that the Liberals are preparing an aid package for Alberta as compensation for rejecting the Teck Frontier oilsands mine.
While sparse on details, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says Alberta’s current efforts to fight climate change will be “considered” in the federal government’s decision.
While climate alarmists and the Liberals hysterically obsess about climate change, many Canadians are more interested to hear about the potential benefits the project would have for them and their families.
Here is what the Teck Frontier oilsands mine would mean for Canada:
The project is expected to create 7000 jobs during construction, and a minimum of 2,500 people will remain employed at the mine during its life.
The Teck Frontier mine is expected to remain in operation for over 40 years, creating a source of multi-generational prosperity in Northern Alberta.
Over a 40 year period, the government is expected to receive $70 billion in tax revenues from the project, enough to pay off the entirety of Alberta’s current debt.
The project will not cost taxpayers a dime.
The initial construction of the mine and its infrastructure would be a major economic boost at a time when many Albertans are struggling to find a job.
The project has the backing of all 14 First Nations communities in the area affected by the mine.
Teck Resources Limited has been praised by local Metis leaders for their level of engagement with the Metis community.
Teck Resources Limited is a company which has already made a strong environmental impact.
Since 2011, they cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 289,000 tonnes, the same taking 88,000 cars off the road.
They have committed to being a net-zero emissions company by 2050.
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An ISIS sympathizer and terrorist from Ottawa is living freely at a halfway house in Calgary despite being considered a high risk to public safety.
Carlos Larmond was sent to jail in 2016 after trying to leave Canada to fight for ISIS. He was arrested in 2015 while he was trying to get on a plane to join the terror group.
While in prison, Larmond was also accused of trying to radicalize other inmates.
He was eventually sent to the Special Handling Unit, a super-maximum security prison, because of the danger he posed to others.
One parole member described Larmond’s threat level as “exceptional.”
“You have not shown significant indications of change since incarceration, with you attempting to radicalize others and threatening authority figures,” said a parole board member about Larmond in November 2019.
“Had you followed through with these plans, you would likely have been directly or indirectly involved in the killing and injuring of many people.”
Carlos Larmond was arrested alongside his twin brother Ashton. The two were believed to have taken part in an Ottawa-born terror cell which was sending fighters to fight for ISIS.
Larmond is currently required to have his phone searched regularly and abide by a curfew while in Calgary. If he abides by these conditions without incident he will be a free man by next year.
Prior to his arrest, an investigation into Larmond revealed disturbing and extremely violent plans to kill Canadians in the name of jihad.
Larmond expressed a desire to slit the throat of a Canadian soldier and had a hatred for Imams who didn’t subscribe to his violent interpretation of Islam.
According to official Public Safety Canada statistics, approximately 180 people have left Canada to participate in extremism abroad. The government estimates approximately 60 terrorists have already returned to Canada.
Recently, local Kurdish authorities announced that foreign fighters will be put on trial for crimes against humanity and other charges. Among those imprisoned are a number of Canadians who fought for the terror group in Syria and other parts of the group’s former territories.
The Canadian military has warned the government that allowing Huawei on Canada’s 5G network would compromise national security.
A senior official has told the Globe and Mail that military top brass, including Canadian Forces chief of defence staff General Jonathan Vance, advised Trudeau to implement a total ban on the company’s technology.
The prime minister is expected to make a decision on whether or not Huawei will be allowed to operate on the network in the near future.
The US, New Zealand and Australia have already announced a ban on the company. The UK has stated that Huawei will play a limited role in its 5G network.
The military’s concerns echo Canadian and US officials who have gone on record by warning that it would give the Chinese government unprecedented access to information and infrastructure while also threatening the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
Among those who have voiced concerns about the Chinese company is former national security advisor Richard Fadden.
“Huawei claims that it is a private company—similar to Apple or Google—and is being unfairly treated by the United States and its allies. But the reality remains that Huawei is a company beholden to higher laws that could—and most likely would—make it a tool for state-sponsored espionage,” said Fadden.
Last year at the Halifax International Security Forum, visiting US lawmakers also advised Canada to implement a ban.
“It would make it very difficult to have a full intelligence-sharing [relationship] with a partner who has installed a direct line to Beijing,” said Senator Angus King.
The White House’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien also painted a grim picture of the abilities China could gain by being given access to Canada’s domestic network.
“The technology allows China to put together profiles of the most intimate details, intimate personal details, of every single man, woman and child in China. When they get Huawei into Canada or other Western countries, they’re going to know every health record, every banking record, every social media post; they’re going to know everything about every single Canadian,” said O’Brien.
Trudeau’s imminent decision on whether or not to give Huawei access is further complicated by the arrest of company CFO Meng Wanzhou, who is wanted by the US for breaking sanctions on Iran and various fraud charges.
The Chinese have called on the Canadian government to release Wanzhou and have imprisoned two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
In order to get approval for their bid, Huawei officials have been aggressively lobbying Liberal ministers and government officials.
As exclusively reported by True North, company representatives lobbied two Liberal MPs and the Privy Council Office (PCO) in December. Liberal MPs Chandra Arya and Alexandra Mendes, as well as the PCO’s assistant secretary to the cabinet Paul Halucha, met with Huawei officials on three separate occasions.
Jordan Peterson clearly wishes the best for everyone. We should wish the best for him, and offer him thanks for all the good that he’s done.
You don’t have to agree with every line the man has said or the diets his family adopts to see that this is a person who thinks deeply about what ails us today at a time when too many people are content to turn a blind eye or even pour gas on the fire. We need more people like Jordan Peterson.
On Friday, the City of Regina announced they were cancelling a keynote presentation by climate skeptic Patrick Moore, effectively caving to pressure from climate activists who don’t believe there’s room to question anthropogenic climate change.
The de-platforming of Moore is not a total outlier – environmental writers and researchers who do not parrot the usual climate change talking points have been cancelled a handful of times in the recent past.
Patrick Moore de-platformed by City of Regina
Patrick Moore, a founding member of Greenpeace, has a PhD in Ecology and brands himself a “Sensible Environmentalist.” He denies that climate change is primarily caused by human activity, and maintains that carbon dioxide is not a toxic pollutant, but a “life-giving substance” that should be celebrated.
Moore was invited by the City of Regina to deliver a keynote presentation at their Reimagine Conference in May 2020. His scheduled talk was titled “Fake, Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom.”
However, Regina Mayor Michael Fougere claimed that Moore’s views were “problematic,” and an online petition calling for Moore to be disinvited collected over 2,250 signatures.
On Friday, it was announced that Moore was uninvited from the sustainability conference.
“I have been de-platformed, cancelled, and round-filed by the great City of Regina for daring to question the God-Given wisdom of the catastrophists. Actually, I don’t want to be part of such a stupid exercise. It’s impossible to make a city 100% renewable,” Moore stated on social media, in response to being cancelled.
Keynote presentation by Vivian Krause cancelled by professional association
In October 2019, independent researcher and writer Vivian Krause was set to be the keynote speaker at an International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) conference in Banff.
Krause researches the foreign funding of anti-pipeline activism in Canada. She was to deliver a presentation on how to “communicate effectively in high-stakes, emotionally charged situations.”
IABC organizers told the Star Edmonton that they were having trouble connecting with Krause “despite repeated efforts,” though Krause proved this false in a blog post. It turns out IABC member Jody Macpherson was publicly advocating for Krause to be de-platformed.
Macpherson took to Twitter to call Krause a “conspiracy theorist” and “climate change denier,” saying she has requested the IABC perform an ethics review of Krause’s work. She wrote, “When we give a platform to conspiracy theorists & those who discredit respected charitable organizations for political gain, when we allow climate change deniers to be held up unchallenged as examples of our profession, we do the communications profession a grave disservice.”
Despite being cancelled, Krause was graceful. She posted on social media that she wishes the IABC “a successful conference & all the very best with its important work”, and that she hopes “the IABC learns from this situation and that it does not happen to anyone else.”
Dr. Susan Crockford purged from from the University of Victoria over polar bear research
Zoologist Dr. Susan Crockford is an accomplished scholar who specializes in animal bone identification, and has written five books about polar bears. Although environmental activists claim polar bear populations are at risk due to climate change-induced melting of sea ice, Crockford counters that polar bears are not threatened with extinction and that they are in fact thriving.
Crockford, who had been an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria for 15 years, was advised in May 2019 that her time as an adjunct professor had ended, as an internal committee had voted against the renewal of her status.
No reasons were provided, leading Crockford to conclude she was purged “in order to suppress views on polar bears and related climate change issues.”
There was an earlier sign that the university was uncomfortable with Crockford’s research. She had been part of the UVic Speakers Bureau for several years, delivering lectures to schools and community groups. One of her presentations was about the origins of domestic dogs, and the other was titled “Polar Bears: Outstanding Survivors of Climate Change.” But in 2017, she was banned from the Speakers Bureau for not confirming she could “represent the university.”
Crockford told the Financial Post the revocation of her position was “an academic hanging without a trial, conducted behind closed doors.”
A hereditary chief in B.C. said that the few people protesting an LNG pipeline on their territory are not from her community and that her community fully supports the pipeline.
The Hereditary Chief of the Skin Tyee First Nation Helen Michelle said in a video that she is not sure why people are protesting the Coastal GasLink LNG pipeline given that the project has overwhelming local support.
“I don’t know why they’re protesting,” she said.
“A lot of the protesters are not even Wet’suwet’en people, you see the young man falling trees he’s not Wet’suwet’en people.”
Hereditary Chief Helen Michelle of Skin Tyee Nation, Wet'suwet'en
RCMP recently opened investigations into felled trees, fuel-soaked rags, and various traps set near the Coastal GasLink construction site.
Coastal GasLink is the cornerstone of a $40 billion liquified natural gas (LNG) project connecting Northern B.C. and a proposed plant in Kitimat.
Prior to construction, the company secured the support of 20 First Nations along the pipeline’s proposed path, including all elected chiefs.
Michelle says that only one hereditary clan opposes the pipeline, with all others siding with the democratically elected chiefs.
Michelle says she is confident that the pipeline also has the support of the Wet’suwet’en people.
“Our own people said go ahead,” she said.
In January, the dissident hereditary chiefs and other protesters issued an “eviction notice” to Coastal GasLink, ordering their employees to leave the construction site.
The BC supreme court ordered the protestors to stop blocking access to the site. The RCMP has arrested multiple protestors in recent days as police are making a renewed effort to enforce the injunction.
In January, the United Nations Committee to End Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) condemned Canada for approving the project without proper consent from Indigenous people.
