Bill Blair, the Minister for Emergency Preparedness, is the first in a string of Cabinet Ministers to testify to the Public Order Emergency Commission. You may need some strong (but legal) stimulant to stick with his hours-long testimony. For some reason, Commission counsel, Gordon Cameron again, decided to spend a lot of time going over Bill Blair’s past history as the Police Chief of the City of Toronto, (2005-2015), including his views on the handling of demonstrations and on police oversight. An interesting history lesson—but not for today. That took an hour.
Re: "someone seen displaying a swastika at the Ottawa protest"
I heard this back when the protest was occurring and scoured all the web locations I could think of for evidence of that. I found a picture of a few people with a Nazi flag on the steps to the Chateau Laurier and the same group again at the canal. Are there ANY pictures of those people and their flag at the actual convoy? Even one? Surprising with the thousands of cameras and cellphones in attendance.
Given the media attention, I'd have thought that a Nazi flag at the convoy would make the news.
To tar all the convoy people with the Nazi label based on a Nazi flag near, but not at, the convoy is a stretch.
It's far too easy (and lazy) these days to accuse those you dislike with labels like: Nazi, racist, homophobe, and so on.
I'm getting tired of it, and saddened at what crap passes as journalism these days.
*note that I'm not criticizing this newsletter, just the media sources that promulgate unsubstantiated rumours to fit the narrative de jour
Re: "someone seen displaying a swastika at the Ottawa protest"
I heard this back when the protest was occurring and scoured all the web locations I could think of for evidence of that. I found a picture of a few people with a Nazi flag on the steps to the Chateau Laurier and the same group again at the canal. Are there ANY pictures of those people and their flag at the actual convoy? Even one? Surprising with the thousands of cameras and cellphones in attendance.
Given the media attention, I'd have thought that a Nazi flag at the convoy would make the news.
To tar all the convoy people with the Nazi label based on a Nazi flag near, but not at, the convoy is a stretch.
It's far too easy (and lazy) these days to accuse those you dislike with labels like: Nazi, racist, homophobe, and so on.
I'm getting tired of it, and saddened at what crap passes as journalism these days.
*note that I'm not criticizing this newsletter, just the media sources that promulgate unsubstantiated rumours to fit the narrative de jour