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Over the holidays, I made the difficult decision to shut down the Iron Wire and Strong and Free Canada. All recurring billing, both donations at Strong and Free Canada and subscriptions at the Iron Wire, have already been turned off. If you have a subscription or recurring donation, you will not see any further charges.
Before I explain my reasons for shutting down, I know that many of you will have two questions you would like immediate answers to. First, what will happen to all of our content? Over the next couple of weeks, my assistant, Sarah, will be removing the paywall at the Iron Wire so that all of our content that we've created over the years will be publicly available. This is only an intermediate step, however.
For some time now, I've been working with a programmer to create a social media posting system that will post our content easily to a number of different platforms, and I expect that system to be in operation very soon. Once it is, my assistant will begin posting that content to Rumble, Liberty, YouTube, Instagram, X, and Facebook. There is an AI filter built into the system, so it will not post some of my interviews to censoring sites such as YouTube and Facebook, content that would get our accounts there shut down.
The second question is whether prorated refunds will be available to annual subscribers at the Iron Wire. The answer is yes, but with some qualifications. I'll explain those in a few minutes.
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I'm shutting down for three reasons. First, despite my best efforts to the contrary, for the past couple of years, memberships and views have been steadily dropping off. I tried to turn it around by providing daily news, but that had no effect.
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I also tried adding other content providers, primarily TruthRx and Homes Squared, but that too did not result in more memberships. I know that other independent media outlets are also struggling, and I believe the reason is something that would not apply to those of you who are watching this right now. Sadly, most people simply don't care about issues that don't directly affect them.
During the COVID lockdowns, our memberships at the Iron Wire, then the Iron Will Report, and donations at SAFC surged, and we had little trouble covering our expenses. However, once the lockdowns ended, our following dwindled rapidly and dramatically, and has continued to do so since. Second, as a result of dwindling interest, our income has fallen steadily as well.
We never did bring in much more than enough to cover our expenses, but for the past six months, that is all we've been able to do. I've said more than once that you don't get into freedom fighting or independent journalism for the money. Since we took up this fight in the summer of 2020, the bulk of the burden to support our own household has fallen largely on my wife, who has taken on that responsibility without a single complaint.
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Valerie has been my constant support throughout all of this, and I could not have done it without her. However, she retired from her teaching career two years ago. Her pension and the extra she's been bringing in from substitute teaching are simply not enough, and for the past six months, I haven't even been able to draw the meagre $1,500 per month that has been my usual pay for the past five years.
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And finally, I'm tired. I turned 60 a few months ago. Aside from the past few months since I stopped doing Daily News, I have worked 80-hour weeks on average since August of 2020.
I simply don't have the energy to do that anymore. In addition, my mental health has suffered. The Daily News got shut down this past summer for two reasons.
One, that it wasn't working, but two, because the day came when I just did not have the energy to do it anymore. The news alone typically required six hours per day to produce, and that was on top of two interviews per weekend, running three websites. It is, quite simply, time for me to move on.
Now, for those of you who may need a prolated refund for your annual subscription to the Iron Wire. If you require a refund for your annual subscription, send an email to refunds at ironwiredaily.com. You'll find a link below this video. You may need to be patient.
As I said, for the past several months, we've brought in just enough to cover expenses. There is very little money in the account, so depending upon how many refund requests I get, some of those will need to come out of my income from my new career as a novelist. As my first book will not be published until the end of this month, it may take a few months before I have the money to pay you.
However, I do understand that some of you are in no better financial shape than I am, so if you need a refund, simply send an email to refunds at ironwiredaily.com, and a prorated refund will be issued as soon as I am able. Also note that your refund will be calculated from the time I receive your request, not from the time it is issued. Please note that we are not offering refunds for monthly subscriptions.
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I'd now like to take this opportunity to thank all of you. Without your support, we could never have achieved all that we've done in the past five years. Despite the fact that the time has come to move on, I'm very proud of what we've achieved.
During the COVID narrative, we not only brought people hope, we saved lives. We know this because we heard from those people. People who had until they found us and knew that they were not alone.
With over 500 interviews behind me, we have also created a library of truth, direct from the experts who are the source, and that library will endure. We also created freedomcoms.org, where we are still building in-person freedom communities across Canada. I will be looking in the coming months for someone to take that over and very much hope that freedom comms will endure.
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As I said before, I could not have done all of this without the constant support and encouragement of my wife, Valerie, without the participation of the many brave people who came on my show over the years to expose the truth, and without all of you who have supported our efforts. You have my deepest gratitude.
Very sad, but I understand. You can definitely keep my annual subscription, your content was well worth the price, and was the best information available anywhere. I wish you well in the future Will, you deserve it. I hope you enjoy this next chapter of your life! God bless.
It is sad to see this show end as it was a source of truth, true news and critical commentary on Canada and the world. But your interviews and articles will be a source of evidence for us that humanity spoke up, rallied to be heard and cared enough to support truth and freedom. Thank you for your efforts Will. Closing doors is never easy but new door open and that will be exciting as you will always have the spirit of truth and the fight for freedom and justice in you. Thank you!
Dear Will, team and family,
Thank you for creating Iron Wire in a time where we were unsure of ourselves and often thought we were crazy. You were a great comfort to us. All your hard work will not be in vain. We will win this fight! All the best in your new endeavors.
Nathalie and Claude
Thank you Irons and your Family for all your works and hope. God Bless you in your new path.
Dear Will, Valerie, and team Iron Wire,
I am so sad to hear that you’ve decided to shut down. I remember the first time I came across your work in 2020. I remember the feeling of elation and optimism it brought me to realize that there were good people willing to stand up, speak up, and pull back the curtain to expose the insanity that was taking over the world. Canada is, and will remain, a better place because of all your hard work. I hope you know that and take pride in it.
On a personal note, I’d also like to thank you for your thoughtful comments and insights on some of the many emails I’ve sent you.
You are a fortunate man to have such a loving and supportive partner. I know many couples whose relationships have not fared so well over the past five years.
Happy New Year 2026 to all of you!
Best wishes for good health, sanity, and success in the years ahead.
Sincerely,
Anne
Will, I am shocked and saddened that I won’t have your “Truthful source of information” to keep me informed on Canadian news and meaningful world events any longer, I did look forward to them. I must thank you for your stimulating interviews, insightful commentary, hilarious perspectives, when I could have cried, you made me laugh. By providing a national pulse, you encouraged us to seek out like minded individuals, reassuring us that we were not alone in our thoughts and deeds. Your content helped kept me sane throughout the BS years. Your program dismantled the disinformation and misinformation monologues that were being shoved down our throats. You instilled courage and gave me the strength to head to Ottawa in February 2022. I will forever be grateful for your good humour, your intellectual insights, your humble approach to the truth. Please keep us, your followers/watchers/listeners/readers posted on your future endeavours. Your friend, non vaxxed, non mask wearing, non sheeple. Open minded, truth seeking friend and True Canadian. The individual person known as Susan
Susan, thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful words. It was a difficult decision, but as my message explained it was also time. It has been my honor to have served my fellow Canadians.
Thank you Will, Valerie & staff for all your dedication to sharing valuable info with all of us during the past years. Truthful , honest reporting and interviews with many great people on various important subjects.
Wishing you the very best with loads of Blessings on your new writing career endeavours. Good luck to you both and thanks a million, you will be missed.
Good health and happiness to you and Valerie.
Take good care, Gloria Tepfenhart
Will
I have been with you since the beginning and I am so sad to see you go! My prayers are with you and your family! Thank you for all that you’ve done in keeping us informed about the Covid narrative and everything else that is going on in the world. Good luck and God’s blessings in your future endeavours. Maybe you can get a job working for one of the other independent news outlets! You have been very effective in helping many during these difficult years!
Sincerely
D Letourneau
Thank you, Darlene. That’s very kind of you, and thank you so much for your loyalty in sticking with us through the years. I am already immensely enjoying my new career as a novelist. Today, I finished the first draft of my fourth novel, with the first one to publish on Amazon on January 28th. These days, writing novels has become a business with the options that are available for self-publishing. The only real question is how many will I need to publish before I’m making a living at it.
Thank you so very much for all your sacrifices and that of your family and team to bring us hope, encouragement and a path forward. Your information helped us and our family navigate the mandates in the job situation, schools and medical unreliability. Your interviews educated us on many valuable different issues. I do not want a refund of my yearly donation. You deserve every cent. All the best in your future endeavours and books.
Cindy, thank you so much for your kind words and your generosity.
So surprised to hear this news of your departure from Independent Media, Will. You were a force to be reckoned with in your forthright truth-telling and excellent interviews of like-minded folk on the front lines…..all very engaging and informative. We shall miss you and your honored guests.
May God bless you and Valerie as you forge ahead in your new calling. Thanks for fighting the good fight with all you’ve got. May the good Lord meet ALL your needs physically, mentally and spiritually….financially too! with your new calling. Now enjoy some well-deserved rest and peace!
Very sorry to hear that you are retiring but understand completely. Trying to run a podcast with little support is impossible.
I agree with your comment that people, in general, only care about events that affect them personally and prefer to stay in the dark trusting governments and doctors. The future is changing and Canada is rapidly heading for government control and once this happens and we are hungry, scared, broke and sick will people cry out in surprise, WHY?. History is just repeating itself.
Will,
It is difficult to properly express how deeply grateful I am for all you have done for Canadians during this unprecedented assault on freedoms everywhere in the world since 2020.
A few years back, you generously wore our TheyLied.ca T-shirt during our interview, after first agreeing to interview me in the first place. Visits to our site spiked afterwards. Our group just passed 200 consecutive Sundays protesting with banners, at a busy Mississauga street corner. So when you say you’re exhausted, I feel ya brother!!
Once we have restored honourable leadership in this country, and meaning to an Order of Canada award, I believe you should get one for the monumental effort and sacrifice you’ve made on our behalf.
Best wishes for a successful launch of your novel, and health and happiness to you and your family.
TY so much, Michael, for your very kind words and for your own efforts. I still have that shirt, and still wear it from time to time. That’s saying a lot as I almost never wear shirts with slogans on them. Even when we produced some in our early days I think I wore one of ours once, during the stand up routine, part of which found its way into the New Year’s Eve special. Please keep up the good work.
Will I’m so sorry to see you leaving this wonderful broadcasting journey however I understand your reasoning. I for one will truly miss you. I look forward to reading your novel and wish you much success on that new venture. All the best to you and your family for the new year.
Just one more voice thanking you and Valerie for all the sacrifices you made and for the volumes of truth you made available. There will be a massive hole in the truth movement now. Your production values kept things real which was one of your greatest appeals – aside from the total truth offering that is. Now to browse the slick overproduced “alternate” media wondering who can be trusted. Losing new productions from both you and Amazing Polly in one year – devastating! I’m looking forward to diving into your first novel and hope it provides the much needed revenue stream you deserve! May God bless you for all you’ve done for all of us, so many more of us than you will ever know!
TY so much, Monica. That is very kind of you.
A sad day but one that should be very good for Will and well earned . You were a shining light in a very dark time when you saved a lot of people . You forged the path for others who all came after you . You were the show to watch with grade A content . Many found they weren’t going crazy . I am very happy for you and your wife . Time to cut the hours and spend some of that time doing what you love to do , writing . A true Canadian hero . Good luck Will !
I am so sad to hear this. Some of the best interviews I have ever listened to came from you Will. Thank you for everything you gave us. I’m sorry it came at such a high cost, and I pray you will find both rest and success in your next endeavours. Looking forward to owning your new book!
Andrea
Well, Will, I really did enjoy your content, you as well as many other independent media outlets in Canada told the truth about our shitty government, the covid scam, the climate change BS, and a few other things. But I have to be honest, when the IDF started leveling Gaza and your one statement – “Israel has a right to defend itself” – that’s where you lost me. Shortly after that I pulled my funding, my financial support for you. I will not support a Zionist. So I don’t know if you’ve come around since then, I stopped watching you. A few other Canadian indy media outlets also love to carry water for “poor” Israel, and I call them out on it as well, but I don’t send them any money. I was a paying member for Northern Perspective but once I found out where they stood with Israel, I withdrew my funding for them as well. I also didn’t like the way you spoke when you presented your news stories, you sounded like a robot, the way you ever so clearly enunciated every single word. Who talks like that? When you were interviewing somebody, you spoke like a normal human being. I had no issues with that. Just when you were talking to the camera and reading, I’m assuming a teleprompter or whatever technology indy media uses. Anyways, like I said, you were great. But I prefer indy media like Redacted, Jimmy Dore, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and others. Even lefties like The Young Turks do a great job with regards to Israel. Up here in Canada I like Frank Vaughan. I’m just really tired of the poor Israel narrative, they are the real terrorists. Good luck in your future, Will.
Will’s newscast was done via AI, but then he did post explaining that. Just thought you’d like to know
AI? I had no idea. I used to watch all his videos, until I couldn’t take his coverage of Israel anymore. He must have announced the AI thing after I quit watching. Thanks for informing me. Don’t get me wrong, his coverage of current events with regards to Canada, and other topics, was bang on. I especially liked when he interviewed Peter MacIsaac. Peter is awesome, I read his book because Will exposed me to him. But it was Will’s apologizing for Israel that did it for me – “Israel has a right to defend itself”. Obliterating Gaza, you call that defence?
Phil, you are spot on.
There are several other right-wing indy news outlets I pay attention to, most of them carry water for Israel. There are a couple that don’t. Frank Vaughan is one of them. There are more in the US that don’t either. Redacted, Jimmy Dore, Candace Owens, Glen Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, just to name a few. Even the late Charlie Kirk was starting to wake up and see how involved Israel has been behind the scenes.
Thank you Will. Best of luck in your new path with good health to accompany you too. You helped carry me through the dark times of covid and kept me informed with the truth. Thanks again.
Wow… I am extremely surprised, yet not surprised, all at the same time. I am so deeply grateful for everything you have done — you truly saved my life and gave me hope during the darkest of times. Your interviews educated me on so many levels and helped prepare me for my retirement in 2025. I think it is incredibly gracious of you to offer refunds; however, I always viewed it as tuition for life lessons, and I would never take a dime back.
My gratitude for you, and for everyone who fought for our freedoms during those dark times, will always be remembered. I wish you and your family nothing but pure happiness for the rest of your lives. I will continue to pass this knowledge on to my grandchildren so they can learn the truth.
TY, Kim, for your very kind words, and for your generosity. I am happy to know that our efforts helped.
Very well said, Kim. I really liked his interviews with Peter McIsaac. That man is a true patriot as well. Because Will introduced me to him, I went and purchased Peter’s book. Fabulous read.
Thank you Will and Valerie for everything that you have done to give people the truth. Your interviews were very informative. Happy New Year to you and your family and I wish you all the best in whatever you do from this day forward.
Will, so very sorry that you are shutting down. You have been my favourite of the many great freedom fighters providing the truth. Wishing you great success in your new career. I am looking forward to reading your novels. Thank you for all you have done.
Naomi
Thank you, Will. All the best to you and your family. I appreciate what you have done for all of us over the years. You will be missed very much. With much love, Teresa
Thank you for all you have done . All your guests and interviews were a
source of information that couldn’t be found anywhere else, and I am all
that much more informed because of it. I hope you will let us know where to connect with you in the future. Blessings.
Hello Will, I am sorry to hear that you have to shut down. You will be missed. But, yes, taking care of yourself, of your health and of your family is what comes first. Thank you for what you have done over these years. You gave us invaluable information we would not have received anywhere else. I wish you a lot of pleasure and success with your writing. All the very best!
Odile
Very Sad
But what you gave us kept us informed and with a sense of some control and hope over a world disappearing into chaos and disaster!
Not for me at 81, but for the loss of the whole world being destroyed!
Myrna Kerr
Thank you Will & Valeri for your years of dedication to each of us and I will really miss you and the wonderful programs and guests you brought to us to open our eyes as to what is happening in our Canada. I will miss you terribly but I look forward to reading your books. Wishing you Gods Blessing and strength you need as you get the rest to recharge. You and your family will continue to be in my heart and prayers much love Renate Glups
Thank you so much for all you’ve done. I’ve learned so much, and have found your interviews and sources to be very informative. I’m really gonna miss your interviews, as you are one of the best out there. Wish you and your family all the best!
I am very sad to see the end of the Iron Will report and Iron Wire Daily. This is a huge loss for all freedom loving Canadians. Will, you literally saved my sanity during Covid and I have benefited greatly from the advice of a number of your guests. This being said, I am glad to hear you are taking steps to take care of yourself and hope you find yourself in a better mental, financial and physical state by this time next year. I will not be asking for a refund for my annual membership, but wish to THANK YOU instead for all you have done for your fellow Canadians.
All the best, Laurie
Laurie, thank you so much for you kind words and your generosity. I am very pleased to hear that our efforts made a difference in your own life.
Thank you Will Dove, for all your dedication to the truth and your hard work.
Wishing you much success in the next chapter of your life.
Truly sad to hear your shutting down the Iron Wire. Totally understand the reasoning. Wanted to personally thank you for all your hard work and enjoyed all of your content. You are a HERO of truth and information. You were also a beacon of bright light through the COVID dark years and helped me navigate that time.
Thank you Will Dove.
Can’t wait to support your books.
Love you brother.
Regards,
Claudio Parise
TY, Claudio. That is very kind of you.
oh i will be interested in your writings!
You can find my books and short stories on my new author website at https://williamtdove.com
i am sorry to hear we found you very informative….
Oh, Will , I am sorry to see the end of your great show . I will miss hearing your voice . You have been a hero since you started SAFC and Iron Will . You should be proud of what you accomplished . You do need a rest and less stress though . I am interested in hearing about your novel ! Bless you !
Carolyn
I am sorry to see the end of this source of truth and light! May you and your wife find rest and restoration as you create a new path forward.Wishing you both peace and success, and financial relief!!
The Iron Wire was AWESOME!
TY, Carolyn. You can find my books and short stories on my new author website at https://williamtdove.com