May 08

Tahrir Square Revolutionary Questioned By Canadian Border Officials, Cries Out “Racial Profiling!”

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Story from APTN…

On May 3rd a Native American activist from Bismarck North Dakota named Patricia Stein flew into Saskatoon. Like every other passenger on her plane, Stein was required to clear customs/immigration checks with an officer from the Canadian Border Services Agency. After a short interview she was directed to go to the waiting area for a secondary interview.

Stein has claimed she was stopped on the basis of racial profiling- because of her native heritage. According to a report on APTN, the second CBSA officer’s first question was to ask about her race. When she answered Stein says that the officer “literally had a pad of paper in front of him and wrote ‘Native American’ down and circled it.” He then began to question her on her work in the activist community and her connections to Idle No More. Sounds scary, doesn’t it?

Well, the story is scary, but not for the reasons one sees on the surface- if anything, we should be patting the CBSA officers on the back for a job well done. The scary part isn’t that Stein was selected for secondary screening- what should scare all Canadians is the reason why…

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May 06

How The President Of The CUPE 2073 Is A Danger To Society (feat. Rob Chamberland & A Voice For Men)

CUPE 2073 President Rob Chamberland longs for the days of the Haymarket Massacre...

CUPE 2073 President Rob Chamberland longs for the days of the Haymarket Massacre…

Rob Chamberland is the president of the CUPE 2073, a Toronto based local for people who are hearing impaired. He’s an Anarcho-Syndicalist, a branch of anarchism/socialism that believes the future demands a violent revolution after which we should all be led by the unions. For most Canadians, this is the stuff that nightmares are made of.

One of Chamberland’s functions at CUPE (official, or assumed) has been to act as their online defender- put simply, he’s an Internet troll who regularly attacks and smears people who’ve said critical things about his union. Chamberland can be pretty good at it too, people who don’t understand his patterns often fall prey to his attacks.

Rob Chamberland is a very dangerous man- both for his union, and for society at large…

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May 03

May Day Mayhem Part I: How Militant Anarchist Socialists Threaten Our Freedoms… (feat. Toronto, Vancouver & Montreal)

Those of us who've forgotten Haymarket should re-read our history...


If you don’t, it’s time to re-read your history…

Anyone who saw the news about Wednesday night’s incident in Seattle is now aware it was May Day. The violence that occured reminds us that May Day originated out of a terrorist incident. It was 1886 when a group of unionists and police clashed in Chicago’s Haymarket square and someone threw a bomb into the crowd. Seven police officers and at least four civilians died. To many, this event marks the birth of America’s militant unionist movement.

This movement is still alive and well in modern Canada. And, despite over a century of our society’s evolution, there are people in places of power in Canada who look back at Haymarket though warm and (very) fuzzy lenses. May Day has become a magnet for those who want to engage in political violence. Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal have all been hit by this problem. Each has had it’s successes and failures- somewhere in between the three is a path to finding a sustainable solution.

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Apr 30

Hollyhock’s Fake Pulitzer Epidemic (feat. Linda Solomon of the Vancouver Observer, Rex Weyler of Greenpeace & University of the Fraser Valley)

Hollyhock, a New Age retreat with more fake Pulitzer's than any other...

The New Age retreat with the world’s highest concentration of fake Pulitzer nominees…

Hollyhock is arguably Canada’s most controversial New Age retreat. It’s set on a plot of land near the southern tip of Cortes Island in British Columbia, a sparsely populated place with only about 450 people in the off-season that at least doubles during the summer. It’s a mystical island with mind-blowing natural beauty- untouched beaches, grand old forests and a small town atmosphere that’s so hard to find in the modern world. To many (including myself) Cortes is a slice of Heaven on Earth- Hollyhock is a great place to visit. (Check-out my pictures)

There are a number of unique things about Cortes. First, there’s no presence of the police- perhaps connected to the fact there’s been an unsolved murder (and an eerie looking secluded landing strip). Next, and probably most important, Cortes has become a refuge for BC’s (and the world’s) power elite- residents include Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, Eco-Lobbyist Joel Solomon of the TIDES Foundation, and Rex Weyler of Greenpeace.

And, there’s one very unique thing about Hollyhock- the retreat can probably boast having the highest concentration of fake Pulitzer prize nominees of any new age destination in the world…

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Apr 27

BC Election: Sasquatch Endorsement Garners Media Coverage For Esquimalt-Royal Roads Candidate Josh Steffler!

Sasquatches for Josh Steffler!

Sasquatches for Josh Steffler!

BC’s provincial election is coming up next month and the electioneering has begun to hit full swing- politicians are shaking hands, holding babies, raising money and working hard to get their final endorsements. Josh Steffler is an independent candidate for the Esquimalt-Royal Roads who has been following a similar path, with one exception- he’s running an ethical “no money” campaign, so he’s skipped the fundraising part. (We need to take all corporate/union money out of politics, this is good…)

The problem is that, without money, it can be very difficult for a politician to get their name out. So Steffler and his team of campaigners came up with a novel way to get some attention by soliciting an endorsement from the Sasquatch (a.k.a. Big Foot). Well, it didn’t quite go that way- but, they were certainly successful!

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Apr 27

How I’m Learning Not To Take Anonymous So Seriously (feat. @YourAnonNews, @TorontoPolice & Sakura Saunders)

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In (all of) Anonymous we (can’t) trust…

If you’re a regular reader you’ll probably remember my first interaction with Anonymous on February 13th. The genius who runs the @YourAnonNews Twitter account (w/1 million+ followers) tweeted that I like to try to get Canadian activists arrested on false charges. I explained to them they were mistaken, but the person running the account wasn’t up for discussion. This puzzled me, as I’d always been told that the people in Anonymous are in the world to make it a better place- not to be used as a tool for smearing people for political purposes.

I hadn’t thought much about it since then as nothing had come out of it but a nice bump in new readers- so, I looked at it as free publicity. Well, tonight @YourAnonNews has come on the radar once again, and I’m thankful to them for directing new readers in my direction. It appears that my article about Sakura Saunder’s cop baiting Barrick Gold protest has shaken-up a few feathers. It’s also taught me that I can’t automatically take people who self-identify as Anonymous seriously, not even if they have a million followers.

I smell a rat…

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Apr 26

Barrick Gold Protest Degrades Into Cop Baiting Rally (feat. Capt. Yarr, Civilian Media & Sakura Saunders!)

Two stooges and one unfortunate cop...

Two stooges and one unfortunate cop…

Wednesday was Barrick Gold‘s annual general meeting and, like previous years, Sakura Saunders and her merry band of anarchists came to protest. Barrick’s been having a hard time of things lately, between drops in the price of gold and some challenged project schedules their stock hasn’t been satisfying investors. So, it was sure to be a stressful day for Barrick’s executives.

Had only they known the comedic relief waiting outside they’d have had a great opportunity to unwind- there’s always a good laugh to be had when the Activistocrats put on a show. Besides the signs, the giant puppet of Peter Munk (with an uncomfortably large nose), the marching percussion band, and the presence of a prominent religious leader, the protesters were blessed with one of the most comedic of the obedience cult’s characters- Dee Shanger (a.k.a Captain Yarr) a growingly notorious cop baiter who think’s he’s a pirate.

Welcome to the world of the Canadian Socialist Obedience Cult…

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Apr 23

[UPDATED] Toronto Radical Socialists Use 420 Day As Backdrop For Fraudulent Pro-Venezuelan Propaganda!

UPDATE: The guy leading the chants in last weekend’s video (black hat, red jacket) shared a trailer and public address system with Sakura Saunders at last year’s May Day parade as they screamed out anti-capitalist chants. Follow this link for a video.

Sakura Saunds, Watermelon- Green on the outside, red on the inside (but red on the outside on May Day)

Sakura Saunders, Watermelon- Green on the outside, red on the inside (but red on the outside on May Day)

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On Saturday Toronto celebrated 420 Day, one of the city’s most popular and faithfully attended events on the activist calendar. Unlike most of the events led by Toronto’s socialist obedience cults, 420 actually gets a big following- several thousand people came to Dundas Square to light-up joints and bongs together as the clock hit 4:20pm.

Outside of the hippies, the burners and the guy dressed-up as a bong, something strange happened. A small group of about 30-35 people from the socialist obedience cult community showed-up to celebrate the election of Nicolás Maduro, the new president of Venezuela. One guy even had a flag for the Communist Party of Canada. It was puzzling at first- why did they decided to show up to 420? Marijuana is still considered illegal in Venezuela.

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Apr 22

[UPDATED] Twitter Nasties: Vancouver Parks Board Should Censure Sarah Blyth Tonight (But should she be sacked?)

Parks Board Chair Sara Blyth- Refuses to apologise...

Parks Board Chair Sarah Blyth- Half baked apology…

Update: I spoke with the media relations for the Parks Board at 4:30 and they told me that the motion would go ahead as planned. Now, there has been a change, and the proceedings will be held in-camera. This is what the City of Vancouver calls democracy?

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Vancouver’s political Twitterverse has a become an increasingly nasty place. It’s become okay to insult, gang-up on others, and to throw unqualified accusations. Ad-hominem has become the norm. This sort of behaviour is totally unacceptable in real life- most people accept that and act accordingly. So why is this happening online?

A motion slated to be discussed at the Vancouver Parks Board today brings one of the most prominent reasons to light- there are many people in leadership positions who are acting as bad examples to the rest of the community. A city that allows politicians, community leaders and even the head of an anti-bullying campaign to act nasty online will inevitably become a city with a toxic Twitterverse.

Something needs to change…

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Apr 19

[UPDATED] The Pidgin Protest: NDP MLA David Eby’s Downtown Eastside Olympic Legacy…

It all started with these guys...

It all started with these people…

Update: The people of Vancouver-Point Grey have now elected Eby into office, God help us all…

Radical activism in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) has been getting out of hand for several years now- beginning in the early 2000’s with the formation of the infamous (and now defunct) Anti-Poverty Committee. The APC was a militant anarchist organization run by many of the same people who are leading the radicalism today- Ivan Drury and Harsha Walia are two of their most notorious alumni.

David Eby arrived on the scene in 2004- a promising young Dalhousie Law student who turned down opportunities in the corporate world to instead focus on social justice (and a future career in politics). Eby quickly became a legend in the DTES- building a political base including an almost cult like following by the neighbourhood’s anarchist and radical activist community.

It was over the next few years that the DTES activist community began to gradually unravel to what we have today- a dangerous self parody that often crosses the line between peaceful protest to violence and criminality. Welcome to David Eby’s Downtown Eastside Olympic Legacy.

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