This year’s May Day demonstrations saw far-left protestors bring a bloodied guillotine to to the lawn outside of Queen’s Park in an apparent threat against the Ontario government.

The demonstration saw a guillotine covered in fake blood with a masked woman holding a sign saying “May history repeat itself. Chop! Chop!” beside it.

The guillotine is a reference to the French Revolution, where it was used to behead the French ruling class — it was later used to kill anyone who criticized the leaders of the revolution, and some of those leaders themselves all ended up with the same fate in The Reign of Terror.

The killing device was guarded by protestors holding communist flags and signs saying phrases like “F*** Ford.”

May 1, know to some as May Day or International Workers’ Day, is a day used by Socialists and Communists to protest their disgruntlement with most of the hallmarks of Western civilization.

Premier Ford spoke about the issue in the Legislative Assembly, said he believes in the protestors right to demonstrate but that the threat of violence goes too far.

“Any time a politician, no matter what party it is, has a guillotine out there, I think that goes a little too far,” he said. “As a matter of fact, it goes way overboard.”

Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod also gave a condemnation of the protestors and the implied threat against the Ontario government.

“Mass protestors brought a bloodied guillotine to the grounds of Queen’s Park, and you know what they did? They beheaded an effigy of the Premier,” she said. “This is disgusting and it is a sick act.”

MacLeod has been a victim of far left intimidation herself, she and her family spent some time in police protection in February after repeated threats.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath attended a different May Day demonstration on the Queen’s Park lawn denouncing funding changes in the latest budget.

May Day saw far left activists take to the streets all across the city. While one demonstration was happening in Queen’s Park another was blocking major streets before settling in the financial district and camping there overnight.

“Demonstrators plan to occupy the site for 24 hours and transform it into a space for education, conversation, and protest,” Occupy Toronto said in a statement.

The post on Twitter of the guillotine incident was quickly taken down, but not before they were saved and have been shared hundreds of times.

An Iranian human rights lawyer who defended women who removed their headscarves in public has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for allegedly “spreading propaganda” and insulting Iran’s supreme leader.

Nasrin Sotoudeh, who had completed a three-year sentence for similar charges in 2010, found herself arrested again in June of 2018 for alleged crimes against Iran’s fundamentalist dictatorship.

Sotoudeh was the lawyer for many women who had protested Iran’s oppressive laws by removing their headscarves in public — a crime in that country.

The public only knows Sotoudeh’s story because her husband Reza Khandan shared it on Facebook

“Five years of prison for the first case, and 33 years with 148 lashes for the second,” Khandan wrote on Facebook.

A petition for her release has already gotten over 130,000 signatures.

This is the latest in Iran’s brutal crackdown on opposition. Another recent case involved two teenage boys, flogged and executed in secret after being sentenced in allegedly unfair trials.

“The Iranian authorities have once again proved that they are sickeningly prepared to put children to death, in flagrant disregard of international law,” said Philip Luther of Amnesty International.

Over 7,000 people were arrested in 2018 for dissent against Iran’s theocratic leadership, many of which we also tortured and died in police custody.

One more victim of the Iranian government, Shaparak Shajarizadeh, was sentenced to 20 years for protesting the country’s mandatory hijab laws.

In the wake of this increased oppression, the United States backed out of the Iran nuclear deal and increased sanctions to that country.

Canada, on the other hand, has lifted sanctions since 2015 and has considered reopening diplomatic relations with the Islamist regime.

The United States also declared Iran’s elite military force, the Revolutionary Guard to be a terrorist organization in May, given its record of attacks and terror activities across the middle east.

Meanwhile, Canadian parliament passed a motion in 2018 to do the same thing, but so far Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has failed to act on it.

Although they like to pride themselves as advocates of human rights, it seems the Trudeau government is failing to stand up against Iran’s Islamist dictatorship.

BC Supreme Court Justice Francesca Marzari has ruled that a father can’t call his child by their biological sex, but instead must refer to them as a “he” or face a “family violence” conviction.

The father who has objected to his 14-year-old child’s medically sanctioned testosterone injections could be arrested “without warrant” if he refers to his child by their original sex either in public or in private.

Although the child’s father opposes the medically induced transition, both the mother and healthcare practitioners at BC Children’s Hospital have encouraged the testosterone injections as a viable option.

The court has also ordered that the father’s statements to the media constituted family violence and that he no longer persists in calling his child by their biological sex.

“She is a girl. Her DNA will not change through all these experiments that they do,” said the father in a media interview.

According to court documents, the father would be punishable under Section 127 of Canada’s Criminal Code which prohibits anybody from disobeying an order of court.

Furthermore, according to the court order the father is not able to share any court documentation regarding his gag order or risk being imprisoned. The prohibition further extends to denying the father the right to share information about his child’s “sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, mental or physical health, medical status or therapies.”

The child has already begun regular testosterone injections at the hospital for the past two months despite the father’s fear that it would “disrupt her puberty.”

According to BC law, the Infants Act which was originally intended on giving youth the ability to consent to immunization shots without parental consent, was also cited in the original court ruling justifying the child’s consent to testosterone treatment.

Alongside the gag order relating to the child, the judge had also ordered that the doctor’s involved in diagnosing and encouraging the child towards transitioning be removed from the court record.

The next hearing regarding the the original ruling on testosterone treatment will take place on May 14.  

Liberal MP and Canadian army veteran Andrew Leslie will be testifying on behalf of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman in his court battle against the federal government.

Norman is facing a breach of trust charge for allegedly disclosing information about a confidential $700 million shipbuilding contract.

Leslie, who is a lieutenant-general with the Canadian military, announced that he would no longer seek re-election as a Liberal candidate for the 2019 federal election on May 1.

According to sources, the Prime Minister had known about Leslie’s intent to testify on behalf of the beleaguered vice-admiral for over a year.

Leslie has asked for the federal government to cover his legal fees and the request has been granted.

On the other hand, Norman has sought the same coverage but the federal government has insisted that it would not assist with the accused’s $500,000 legal fees.

The case would make Norman one of three people who were refused legal coverage by the Defence Department in the last two years.

Vice-Admiral Norman has denied any wrongdoing in the case and his legal team is alleging that the federal government is withholding evidence, which could prove that the case has been politically interfered with.

The defence has threatened to call members of the Prime Minister’s Office, including former Principal Secretary Gerald Butts, to testify before the court. His lawyers have also cited Michael Wernick’s SNC-Lavalin testimony as justification behind their defence.

It is currently unclear in what capacity Leslie will be testifying on Norman’s behalf or when the trial is set to take place.

The Liberal government’s carbon tax turns out to be nothing other than a gas tax, according to a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO).

Of the $2.63 billion in revenue to the government, $2.43 billion will be from fuel. The rest will come from manufacturers whose carbon output is above a certain level — that means households pay over 90% of the carbon tax.

By 2024, total carbon tax revenue is expected to come to $6.21 billion, but ordinary people will still be paying the vast majority of that cost.

“Households will largely bear the cost of the pricing system through their consumption of energy used for residential and transport purposes, and carbon charges embodied in non-energy products.“ the report reads.

The PBO expects Saskatchewan households will end up paying the most in carbon tax compared to other provinces — $425 this year rising up to $910 in 2023.

The Trudeau government has tried to make the carbon tax more appealing by claiming it will be revenue neutral, even stating that most people will make a modest profit off of the rebates — this however is not the whole story.

Sales taxes like the Goods & Services Tax (GST), and the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) are applied on the after carbon tax amount.

That means Canadians will be paying sales tax on the carbon tax, and these sales taxes are not getting rebated.

The $70 net gain projected by the report for the lowest polluting Saskatchewan households would quickly disappear once sales taxes are factored in.

Premier Scott Moe slammed the report and the federal government for not recognizing the effect indirect factors like tax-on-tax will have.

“In many ways, it looks at direct costs to families but does not include many, many indirect costs that will be impacted to families and industries,” Moe said.

Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick are all challenging the legality of the federally imposed carbon tax in court.

The Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan rules Friday that the law is constitutional in a 3-2 decision. The province’s government has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Canada’s lack of the pipeline capacity to transport crude oil to markets has cost producers over $20 billion in 2018 alone, a new report charges.

The new report from the Fraser Institute highlighted the shocking price differential between Canadian crude and the global average.

“In October 2018, Canadian heavy crude (WCS) traded at only about 40 percent of the US crude (WTI) price, which represented a discount of 60 per cent. In November, the price differential widened even further and reached almost 70 per cent, meaning that WCS was sold at only 30 percent of WTI,” it reads.

This means that for most of 2018 Canadian crude was selling at less than half that of American crude, amounting to a loss of $20.6 billion — equivalent to about 1% of Canada’s entire GDP last year.

Last fall,  Canada produced 400,000 barrels more than pipelines had the capacity for, meaning increased storage costs and lost potential revenue.

Producers have been forced to transport crude by rail in order to get it to markets which are both more expensive and less safe.

Canada has seen multiple pipeline projects, which would have addressed the shortage, get cancelled or postponed — with no end in sight, the energy sector is no haemorrhaging money and losing thousands of jobs.

Rather than fix the situation, the Trudeau government has created laws like Bill C-69 which only deepened the competitiveness crisis with the United States.

The report also recognizes the necessity to new markets for Canadian crude given demand changes in the United States.

“Currently nearly 99 per cent of Canadian heavy crude gets exported to the United States, meaning that the US is essentially still Canada’s only export market for crude oil.

“Given soaring US oil production in recent years and competition from American producers, finding new customers for Canadian heavy crude is critical.”

Seeing that many pipelines to both the United States or the Pacific have been cancelled or left unapproved indefinitely, it appears that low pipeline capacity will continue to be a drag on the Canadian economy.