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CDN exports up…

In a unpredictable development, an upsurge in exports of the Freedom Truckers Convoy model is trending worldwide . The Canadian export of this brand is catching on internationally. Observers are commenting that they didn’t think Canadians had it in them to have such a home grown bunch of disruptive unapologetic bullies capable of attracting like minded far right tacticians around the globe.

Another successful Canadian export product that was deemed a terrorist organization and outlawed by the Great Dominion: The Proud Boys is doing extremely well on the international far right stage of their own hateful volition with style conscious macho threads.

Many are surprised by this market appeal, more than a few are not.

Following text source: Excerpted from POLITICO Feb 6/22

First Canada, next the world It’s not every day that Canada becomes the red-hot center of a global protest movement.

But what started as a rally of Canadian truckers angry at cross-border vaccine mandates has fast become a magnet for far-right grievances around the world.

Similar “convoys” are now being organized across the U.S.

Since early February, similar protests have also sprouted up across Europe — often using encrypted Telegram channels and country-specific hashtags under which supporters can rally.

Far-right groups have taken advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to tap into the anti-government rhetoric of the anti-vaccine movement, repeatedly posting claims in these social media channels in favor of their extremist beliefs, based on POLITICO’s analysis of six months of social media activity.

Upcoming convoys are being planned in all 27 European Union countries. Organizers are also preparing to descend on Brussels — home to the EU’s main institutions — in force on Feb. 14.

caught in the headlights…

UPDATE: On April 25, 2022, the Government of Canada established the Public Order Emergency Commission to inquire into the circumstances that led to the declaration of emergency that was in place from February 14-23, 2022, and the measures taken for dealing with the emergency. Justice Paul Rouleau was appointed Commissioner.

The inquiry is now underway.

Original post issued February 7,2022

Who can citizens depend on when the Police Chief, Mayor, Premier and Prime Minister are blinded by the headlights of the bully’s truck?

Ottawa Police Chief
Premier of Ontario
Prime Minister of Canada
Mayor of Ottawa

Maybe they will be outwitted by an Ottawa MP who knows the ways of the bully best…our favourite parliamentary loud mouth and candidate for leadership of the right leaning Conservative Party of Canada. ..Pierre Poilievre!

Surely his applied knowledge of intolerance and bully tactics, crown him most likely to play the role of the Pied Piper and play the right tune to lead the Honkers out of town. Meanwhile the nobody is above the law gang pass the hot potato of responsibility from paw to paw!

Breaking.. just in …the nobody is above the law authorities just found the rule book and a spine and Ottawa Police are reportedly dismantling Convoy protestors logistics camp on Coventry Road.

Ottawa mayor Jim Watson declares state of emergency over trucker convoy, citing ‘serious danger’ from protesters

Nice hat Candice…

Candice Bergen Interim Conservative Leader sporting a Make America Great Again hat

OTTAWA — Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen pushed predecessor Erin O’Toole to show support for the Freedom Convoy protest, arguing last week there are “good people on both sides,” an echo of the phrase made infamous by former U.S. president Donald Trump after a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.

Bergen also told O’Toole and other members of the Conservative shadow cabinet that there were “reasonable people” at the truckers’ protest, just as there were in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

In an email Bergen sent Monday, obtained by CTV News, she told other MPs “I don’t think we should be asking them to go home” and proposed that the party “turn this into the PM’s problem.”

She also shared pictures of herself visiting on the Hill with protesters from her home province of Manitoba, tweeting that, “They deserve to be heard and they deserve respect.”

Trump’s phrase – “very fine people on both sides” – drew heavy criticism when he used it to characterize the Charlottesville protest, where white supremacists marched with torches and Nazi and Confederate flags, chanting anti-Semitic slurs. One counter-protester was killed at Charlottesville.

Excerpts Source: CTV News Feb 4/22

Pick me…

Erin O’Toole is out as leader of the federal Conservatives

Erin O’Toole made a last-ditch effort to save his job Wednesday morning in a heated meeting with a single item on the agenda: a vote by MPs on whether or not he should stay on. He lost. ( photo was not available)

Pundits wonder who will throw their hats in the ring of righteous fire this time?

Seems the Conservative Party are no doubt seeking a new type leader…
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largest legal unregulated industry…

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In the course of our months of Pandora Papers reporting, one secretive industry kept popping up again and again. From politicians to power couples to alleged criminals, a particular kind of asset emerged as a go-to for the rich and powerful to store wealth: ARTWORK.

For longtime ICIJ readers, this may not come as a surprise. Investigations like the Panama Papers and FinCEN Files showed how anonymously trading expensive art and antiquities — which are portable, increase in value over time, and can be bought with little anti-money laundering oversight — has become a widespread phenomenon.

But one surprise for ICIJ reporter Scilla Alecci was finding a number of pieces by street artist Banksy in the Pandora Papers documents. Banksy’s work rebukes consumer culture, capitalism, and the art world itself. But it has been swept up into a parallel financial system that many experts say represents the worst of what his art often critiques.

“It’s terribly ironic,” John Zarobell, a San Francisco University associate professor and author of “Art and the Global Economy” told ICIJ. “When you become a famous artist, like Banksy has, your work gains lots of value, and then it can become a tool in these kinds of schemes by the ultra wealthy, in order to hide their wealth.”

Scilla’s latest investigation digs into London financial broker and former car racer Maurizio Fabris, who used an offshore trust to buy more than a dozen Banksy pieces — and sold some off to a London gallery managed by Banksy’s former agent when he came under criminal investigation for alleged tax fraud in Italy.

The pieces were among more than 1,600 works of art by about 400 artists from all over the world that ICIJ identified in the Pandora Papers. These offshore dealings are emblematic of how the booming ART MARKET has become “the largest, legal unregulated industry,” in the words of American lawmakers, where dealers largely aren’t subject to know-your-customer rules meant to stop suspicious transactions and financial crime — and reforms have been uneven and slow coming.

Court Painter has heard of the art market and is anxious to join.

need a little hint my friends?…

Court Painter in a paroxysm of generosity sent paintings of Lego Heavy Duty Tow Trucks as gifts to Ottawa Mayor Watson and Premier Jason Kenney of Alberta. A note accompanying these magnanimous hand crafted gifts asked the Mayor to share with the Ottawa Police Chief and Premier Kenney to share with the Coutts RCMP.

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Court Painter, a man of few words also scribbled accompanying notes that simply said :

Protest Expressed! Times Up! Lard Asses and their Toys Must Go!

An independent Great Dominion poll of this citizen action by Court Painter showed a number of Canadians who agreed and a number who disagreed. Others had no opinion .The cumulative results showed a stunning 100%.