56 Replies to “March 12, 2021: Reader Tips”

  2. I wrote this letter to Albertans a few days ago. Wouldn’t you guess: of the nine or so newspapers and outlets I contacted only one even bothered getting back to me, to say it was too long to print. This isn’t a tip or news, just a hurtin Albertan who dares interpret the law.
    ***
    The strange events of the past year have taken their toll on all of us. Many have suffered physically, many more have suffered financially, and many more again have suffered spiritually and emotionally. But while the physical suffering of Covid-19 is due to the coronavirus, a thing outside our control, the financial suffering of closed businesses and the emotional suffering of closed homes is due to the government’s response to coronavirus—a thing we should be able to control. Let this be clear: it is not the threat of any virus that keeps so many from their employment and pay, but the threat of government fines. It is not for fear of a pathogen that friends have gone without visiting each other for so long, but for fear of the government’s lockdown.

    We can argue till we keel over about whether the choices by the Government is effective. We can bring up this or that study about masks, this or that statistic about social distancing and we may or may not be right. Questions of effectiveness are scientific questions, and like any scientific question, they are open to debate. And though these questions are important and should be debated, there is a question still more important. A question that makes all the scientific ones moot: a question that absolutely everybody under lockdown should be thinking about, but almost no one is. The question is: is the lockdown legal?

    Many will say to this, “Of course it’s legal! The government’s doing it. The government makes the laws, so how can what it’s doing be illegal?” and at first that seems correct: the government does indeed make the law. But can the government make any law? Can it make a law that forces you to deny your religion, or a law that calls for you to be killed? No, it cannot. As Canadians, we have constitutional rights, and the constitution, messy as it may be, is the supreme law of Canada. We have the right to freedom of religion and the right to life, and for that reason the Government of Alberta cannot simply end our faiths or our lives. We also have the constitutional right to “freedom of peaceful assembly, and freedom of association.”1 and also “the right to life, liberty, and security of the person”.2 But in response to this, some people might point to Alberta’s Public Health Act, which says that the medical officer of health may “take whatever other steps are, in the medical officer of health’s opinion, necessary to lessen the public health emergency.”3 This is what Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, has done. The Public Health Act makes it clear that the CMOH can do anything she wants to if she thinks it will help the coronavirus situation.

    But look again at the constitution: “The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada, and any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, of no force or effect.”4 The Constitution is supreme. The Constitution that guarantees our right to assemble and associate is supreme. It’s very clear to see that when you take the Health Act saying that the CMOH can do whatever she chooses and put it together with Dr. Hinshaw choosing to ban assembly and association, what you get is a law that is inconsistent with this supreme law. What you get is a law that is of no force or effect. The lockdown law is simply not law, and we as Albertans should not treat it as if it were. The business owners who want to reopen their business should go ahead and open up; they’re not doing anything wrong. The friends who want to get together and have a skate should do exactly that; it’s against no laws. The law enforcement personnel who don’t want to enforce the lockdown law shouldn’t enforce it; it’s not actually the law. In fact, enforcing a law that violates our constitutional rights is itself a violation of our rights: a crime. Can anyone that understands this support or enforce the lockdown in good conscience?

    It’s fair to wonder why, if the constitution makes the lockdown invalid, the lockdown persists. What is this “supreme law” worth if the premier’s administration can contradict it and continue to contradict it without any repercussions? Unfortunately, the Constitution alone is not enough to protect us. By itself, it’s just a piece of paper with too much ink on it. Only if we uphold the Constitution by our own actions does it have meaning. Only if we give it supremacy does it reign supreme. We must stand up for our freedom, and stand up with the confidence that we are on the side of what is right and lawful, if we are to enjoy that freedom again. I humbly ask all of my fellow Albertans to live freely and without fear, for just as the constitution only has power to free us if we choose to give it that power, the lockdown only has power to oppress us if we choose to let it. If we all choose to live freely today, the lockdown will end today.

    What I have said here is not, or rather shouldn’t be, controversial in the slightest. I am not calling for revolution or crimes of any kind to be permitted. I am not advocating for anything reckless. I am not advising anyone to do anything to put their health or anyone else’s at risk. Rather, all I have called for is for the law to be recognised and upheld: the real law of our land. But I am not naïve—I know that all or most newspapers and mainstream media outlets will refuse to print or publish this letter. I therefore also ask that anyone who sees this letter will copy it for themselves and share it with other Albertans.

    Your fellow concerned Albertan,
    Patrick Benoit.

    1 Constitution Act, 1982, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 2, Subsections c and d. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html
    2 Ibid., Section 7.
    3 Public Health Act, Section 29 (2.1). https://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Acts/A19P5.pdf
    4 Constitution Act, 1982, Part VII, Section 1.

    1. I think all Canadians could learn something from the UK’s Reclaim Party. Their slogan is …

      It’s your life, your freedom. Reclaim it.

    2. Canadian MSM outlets are all in on the feet mongering. Thus, I cancelled my Calgary Sun subscription.

    3. Canada is a joke country populated by joke people, so obviously it has a joke constitution.

      Right at the beginning they let you know how it’s going to work.
      1A.
      Most recently used to counter that nasty freedom in New Brunswick of crossing the Quebec border for cheaper beer.
      Cause taxes are more important than rights.
      Your Liberal Party’s Supreme Court says so.
      But then don’t they always.
      1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. – The Swamp’s veto.

  3. Prime Minister Trudeau must stop funding the National Post and give that money to real news sources, like the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail.
    How dare they print an article from some female Nazi “journalist” condemning the Ryerson School of Journalism for teaching The Truth–white men should be hated!
    They SHOULD be hated. White males have caused all the misery in this world!

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-traumatized-student-snowflakes-behind-ryerson-controversy-will-never-make-it-as-journalists

    1. *
      my favorite rye-high story (and for the record
      neophyte is a graduate of same      )… is how
      they, and i’m not making this up, spiked a
      free-speech event.

      *

  4. Troll Level: Master

    Colorado Oil & Gas Taunts The North Face At Mock Award Ceremony
    https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/03/05/colorado-oil-gas-the-north-face-award/

    “The North Face is being celebrated by the very industry it snubbed. The Colorado-based company recently rejected an order for 400 jackets from a Texas oil and gas company because it reportedly didn’t want to be associated with an industry that doesn’t meet its brand standards.
    …
    So, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association decided to have some fun with the situation. It bestowed its first-ever “Extraordinary Customer Award” on The North Face, saying it appreciates the company for its abundant use of oil and gas.”

  5. Re: Today’s Video:
    The amusement park featured in today’s video link, Belmont Park, in Montreal, was partially owned by Justin Trudeau grandfather, Charles (1887-1935), who was a mover and shaker back in the day. He had a stake in other things like mining, oil and gas, the Montreal Royals Baseball farm team, etc. See mini-bio below. Interestingly, Charles Trudeau was a Conservative, unlike his son and grandson.

    Note in the video from the Gazette, back in 1960, all the signs in Belmont Park were posted in the English language, it was the international language of business. As a native of that city, I remember walking into any place of business and there were no hassles getting service in English. Everyone spoke English. I wouldn’t try that today, incidentally, “Bonjour-Hi” as a greeting is now forbidden!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-%C3%89mile_Trudeau

    https://montrealgazette.com/sponsored/mtl-375th/belmont-park-nostalgia-cartierville-invites-us-along-for-the-ride

    P.S. Wasn’t born when that vid was made nor were parents married yet. But, visited Belmont Park once, it was a scary place yet exciting.

    Thanks for the topic in today’s Reader Tips, Robert.

    1. To my surprise, I have a couple heavy turquoise cigar ashtrays that his company made in 1920’s. It has a smal gold sticker with the Trudeau company on the bottoms. Nothing special, just a rounded hunk of turquoise rock with the center rounded and to groves for cigars.
      I don’t think it’s worth much but is interesting what they thought was quality with semi precious stone. Would have been far nicer had they carved something special on it.

    2. Nancy! Speaking of Trudeau, has anyone at SDA posted this excellent grilling that Poilievre gave him? Poilievre at his best.

      ‘Nobody believes you’: Poilievre grills Trudeau as he testifies over WE Charity controversy

      Funny part: Liberal MP Sean Fraser tries to suspend the grilling by saying the Chairperson’s power has suddenly gone out. “The general process is, the Vice Chair assumes the chairing of the meeting” says NDP MP Peter Julian. Pierre Poilievre: “That would be me”.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bGVNPw9R8o

    4. My father spent time in Montreal in WW2. One of his jobs was guarding a German pilot at the Montreal Neurological Institute. He always said it was an English city. He hadn’t heard anyone speak French in Montreal.

      1. I grew up in Montreal and can assure you it was an English city through and through, don’t believe the propaganda. Peeair Turdhole’s Grandfather was a Canadian who flew a Red Ensign on his property, he is the reason for crazy Peeair’s trust fund.
        The french language supremacist revolution has distorted the history and culture of Quebec to the point of utter fantasy.
        Quebec was just like all British Crown Colonies and they spoke English with some of the oldest English institutions in North America.
        The french supremacist takeover of Queefbek was a violent distortion of historical fact that transformed the Colony into a carpet baggers paradise where everyone is forced to speak the Queerbek language of horse french.
        The English speakers that built Queerbek did a nice job building the Province, unfortunately the bigots and fascists took over and now its an intolerant historically amnesic mafia ridden shit hole run by insular bigots who’s bigotry is either ignored or supported because, french.
        Lord Durham was a smart man and entirely correct… too bad his wise advise was ignored.

  7. This is Blackie’s Canada. The emotionally distraught leader of the provincial Green Party, cries before the cameras yesterday because mean old Ford said something negative to an Indian MPP.

    1. He’s such a disgrace to man hood.
      Whimpering like he lost his dog when it’s just a simple comment of no importance.
      And this is our leadership?
      Man up you assholes!

    1. A basic over the shelf anti-inflammatory and an immunity booster.

      Yep that’s also a good deterrent for the flu …… oh wait.

      1. Apparently reading isn’t your forte! Go ahead, get your shot of gene altering RNA…for the flu.
        I’ll stick with not getting flu shots and trust in the natural immunity I’ve built up by getting a real flu every once in a while.

  13. Adolf The Gay Pirate continues his election campaign today. His loyal Bell Media is excited to have him on their CTV morning show this morning. Ben Mulroney and the bubble head female hosts will ask him how wonderful he is. And then before he heads for a relaxing weekend at Harrington Lake, he will spew his usual horseshit to his bought and paid for media.

  14. The headline on the front page of the print edition of today’s Ottawa Citizen:

    “Inuit clinic ‘discouraged’ to face questions about queue jumping”

    When you are entitled to your entitlements, how dare anyone ask you why.

    “The executive director of the health clinic that serves much of Ottawa’s Inuit community says she has faced numerous questions — including from within the health sector — about why Indigenous Canadians are a top priority for COVID-19 vaccinations.”

    https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/inuit-clinic-discouraged-to-face-questions-about-queue-jumping

  15. Read this story before it is cancelled (again) – more inconvenient facts that categorically demonstrate that the official narrative is a lie:

    “In response to the assertion that Blacks are “systematically targeted for demise,” every recent compilation of crime statistics in the United States shows this statement to be categorically false (Canada has no comparable robust reporting on race-specific crime statistics). In fact, per the 2018 US National Crime Victimization Survey, the only group of people systematically killing Black people are other Black people and overwhelmingly so.”

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sonia-orlu-research-fails-to-prove-racism-behind-police-shootings-of-black-men

  17. Trudeau needs to stop over-promising vaccines he can’t deliver. Every time he pops out of the cottage to blow off it amounts to patting himself on the back. I’m sure he checks the polls after each BS session.

  18. L – The body count, the unnecessary human suffering and deaths from go’vt. lockdowns are ignored by federal and provincial politicians.

    A growing number of Cdn. Doctors/nurses are losing both their patients and their patience.

    Frontline doctors/nurses, loyal to their oath, Primum Non Nocere(First do no harm) rally
    to defeat the brain pathogen of Marxist Medicine infecting the body politic.

    Moral courage is contagious. Make it so.
    ————————————————————–
    Meet the Toronto nurse who REFUSED a COVID test and quarantine
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRICJKu2nME&ab_channel=RebelNews

    1. After reading that article, I’m glad I never got a university faculty position. Who, in their right mind, would want to put up with all that nonsense?

      One of the commenters said that academics are sociopaths who are hungry for power, non-conforming misfits, or cowards. I think the latter can be divided into genuine cowards, those afraid to say anything lest their chances at tenure be jeopardized, and those who don’t want to leave because they’d have to give up their seats at academe’s golden hog trough.

      I noticed much of the same mentality nearly 30 years ago when Armpit College changed its way of doing things. On that day, we no longer had students but “customers”. Instead of fanatical adherents to “woke” ideology, we had equally zealous followers of the “student as customer” and “learning quality” doctrines.

      They used their zeal to solidify their jobs by attending all sorts of indoctrination sessions (euphemistically called “training”), letting it permeate their existences and behaviours to the point that they even spoke in those terms using the same buzzwords. Many of them recognized the value of that and used their status as a means of worming their way into positions of authority.

      Of course, there were dissenters, including me. Most of them were tolerated by the institution as they were regarded as mostly harmless. However, since my department head was the one who was responsible for inflicting that bullcrap onto the institution (as a way of hoping that he’d be promoted to dean or even higher), he made a great effort to make my life miserable. My open defiance was a black mark on his claim that our department was fully indoctrinated and dedicated to the holy cause.

      Many of my department colleagues didn’t think much of all that, but they, being the chickensh*ts they were, went along with it. However, most were silent about my department head’s persecution of me. He was doing to me what they themselves would have liked to have done because I wasn’t “one of them” (too educated and too independent for their liking).

      I’m sure the current “woke” baloney is applied the same way for the similar purposes. It provides a convenient excuse to exact revenge on one’s enemies with adherence to the prevailing doctrine being the justification.

      All I can say is that I’m glad I’m no longer in that business. I’m worth far more now than I would have been had I stayed at AC for much longer.

  20. Thinking of the wasted millions spent for Oprah’s two hour tabloid to reveal Meghan and Harry’s boohoo sob story on how they were so badly treated while living within the royal fold.
    The more one thinks about it the more you realize just how ridiculous it all is. Mean old Kate made Meghan cry and Harry lost his free security and “someone” wondered what skin colour their children would have.
    Pathetic.

  21. Staying with crazed, politically-correct education, this piece in the City Journal describes the appalling education at elite prep schools in the United States, where rich families pay $50,000-odd dollars to send a kind to one of these:
    https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites

    True, it is hard to sympathize with rich parents who are able to fork over $50,000 for a kiddie to go to school, as if they have problems. But then again, the PC behemoth culture picks off dissidents one by one, since dissidents with conservative instincts are slow to organize themselves effectively. Here, if I was a rich family with a 14-year-old kid, I would bundle him off to a good, Bible-oriented Christian school for a solid, no-nonsense STEM education. And why pay $50,000 to a leftist school? Then pick a good, high-quality university with little woke culture, and have the student major in a STEM field.

    1. On the checklist for suitable universities should be whether the school adheres to the same principles of free speech as the University of Chicago.

      “Because the University is committed to free and open inquiry in all matters, it guarantees all members of the University community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn . . . . [I]t is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.”

      https://www.thefire.org/get-involved/student-network/take-action/adopting-the-chicago-statement/

  23. Borat has hurt feelings:

    “TRIGGERED: Sacha Baron Cohen falls for obvious satire on Instagram, calls for its censorship”

    “The artist, Lushsux, is famous for his edgy sense of humor—something Cohen used to be widely known for. But Cohen, once celebrated as an edgy comedian, is now demanding that other comedians be exiled from social media because he finds their art harmful.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/triggered-sacha-baron-cohen-falls-for-obvious-satire-calls-for-its-censorship

    1. BADR:

      Seems to moi that it is the Right that is disconnected with reality these days.
      Still stuck in some 1950’s rose colored view of a left vs right debate club.
      Seemingly completely unaware that there is a real war going on, a war with your Freedom at stake.
      A war the Right is not only losing decisively, but so completely that their plan(there isn’t one) seems to entirely involve throwing themselves on the mercy of their totalitarian masters at some near future date.
      Wailing and great lamentations to follow.

  25. Wonder what the odds are for when they finally get Dead Man Walking Tucker Carlson.
    You have to know they can’t wait.
    And they will get him.
    And he will realize that he is on the side that doesn’t fight back.
    The losing side.

  27. Big Chief Gay Eagle With No Balls just gave his weekly campaign speech to his loyal bought and paid for media. He of course explained what a wonderful job he is doing. And he announced more free stuff for Indians and four hundred million dollars to build bicycle trails across the country.

  30. And now your diversity is our strength story for today. National Post reports that the federal NDP leader’s brother in law has been formally charged with assault.

    1. Yes definetly worth the read!
      Change the American references to Canada, and we unfortunately are in the same boat.

  36. Thanks for the video!! Very educational.

    That was when Montreal was still ours!!

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