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I'm Will Dove. And I'm Hannah Bern, and these are the top stories for today, Friday, June 27th. In today's news, lawyers for the JCCF plan to file suit compelling the RCMP and banks to explain why they froze the bank accounts of Canadian citizens.
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A similar legal challenge is being brought against a city council which has banned public recordings of their meetings. And yet another doctor has come forth with evidence that a common end-of-life drug used in Canada was responsible for a large number of COVID deaths. Lawyers acting for Evan Blackman have formally demanded that the RCMP and Toronto Dominion Bank produce detailed records explaining the freezing of his personal bank accounts.
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This request comes in connection with Blackman's ongoing legal proceedings following his involvement in the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa. Blackman, a self-employed individual, was arrested on February 18th, 2022 during police actions that followed the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act. Although he was released the same day, he soon discovered that three of his personal accounts held at the Toronto Dominion Bank had been frozen without prior notice.
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Blackman was unable to access funds for his family or pay his employees. Despite being charged with mischief and obstruction of a police officer, Blackman pleaded not guilty at his original trial on October 23rd, 2023. The Crown's main evidence was a 14-minute drone video, lacking audio, capturing Blackman at the protests, as well as the testimony of a single police officer.
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The video reportedly showed Blackman attempting to de-escalate tensions among protesters by restraining others, raising his hand to prevent confrontation, and even kneeling before police while singing O Canada. The trial judge acquitted Blackman of all charges, citing the limited evidence and the police officer's poor memory on key details. Nevertheless, the Crown appealed the acquittal, and a retrial is now scheduled for August 14th of this year.
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If Blackman is convicted during this retrial, his legal team, provided by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, intends to file an application under Section 24.1 of the Charter. They will argue that freezing Blackman's bank accounts violated his constitutional rights and that a stay of proceedings should be granted as a remedy. Constitutional lawyer Chris Fleury, who is representing Blackman, expressed hope that the court will compel both the RCMP and TD Bank to disclose all relevant records clarifying the rationale and process behind the account freezes.
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A number of municipal councils across Canada have now banned public recordings of chamber proceedings in an attempt to hide the globalist 15-minute city's agenda that many of them are cooperating with. Four residents of Springfield, Manitoba, represented by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, have filed a court application at the Manitoba Court of King's Bench in Winnipeg, challenging this controversial policy that bans the recording of public council meetings there. The controversy began at a February 4th meeting of the Rural Municipality of Springfield Council when a resident was told by Mayor Therrien to stop recording the proceedings.
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The mayor cited a local policy that reserves recording privileges exclusively for media, and only if such media obtain permission from the Chief Administrative Officer 48 hours in advance. According to Mayor Therrien's interpretation, ordinary citizens are not considered media and are thus barred from recording meetings entirely. On March 20th, constitutional lawyer Darren Leung sent a formal warning letter to the Springfield Council, arguing that the municipal act does not grant the mayor authority to unilaterally prohibit recording at public meetings.
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Leung pointed out that no bylaw or council resolution specifically prohibits recording, and contended that a blanket ban undermines the freedoms of expression and communication guaranteed under Section 2B of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Despite this legal challenge, the council maintained its policy, prompting the current court application. The court filing argues that the mayor lacks legal authority to enforce such a ban, absent a valid bylaw, and even if a bylaw exists, that it unjustifiably infringes on residents' rights.
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This is an extremely important case. The outcome will set a precedent for municipal councils across Canada. We will keep you updated as new information comes available.
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A former UK NHS General Practitioner, Dr. David Cartland, has drawn attention to what he calls a damning correlation between the peak of COVID deaths in 2020 and the administration of midazolam and other end-of-life medications in care settings. Cartland, who previously worked in urgent care and at a large GP federation, made these assertions in a recent interview with The Light magazine. Cartland described a situation in the UK's National Health Service where the labelling of deaths as due to COVID became widespread, even for patients without respiratory symptoms or evident disease.
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He noted that testing policies often led to individuals being coded as COVID positive upon hospital entry, regardless of the actual cause of their illness or death. This, he claimed, contributed to inflated COVID death statistics during the pandemic's initial wave. Central to Cartland's criticism is the use of midazolam, a sedative commonly used in palliative care to manage anxiety, breathlessness and agitation, and diamorphine, an opioid painkiller.
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Midazolam is the first of three drugs administered in assisted suicides in Canada and was also used on COVID patients in Canadian hospitals. Cartland asserted that these drugs were frequently prescribed prematurely and without clear justification for patients who were not in the dying phase of illness. Some patients, he said, received these medications shortly after being admitted and were subject to sealing-of-care decisions, meaning further treatment or escalation of care was not pursued.
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Cartland described the rapid titration, dose adjustment, and high-dose use of these drugs as unusually aggressive for standard palliative protocols. Furthermore, Cartland highlighted concerns over blanket do-not-attempt-resuscitation orders issued without adequate discussion with patients or their families. He also pointed to mass discharges of patients who were not medically fit for release, which he said was done to clear hospitals for an anticipated surge in COVID cases that did not materialize as predicted.
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Cartland described witnessing what he called theatrogenic harm—harm caused by medical intervention—due to the premature use of end-of-life medications, pre-emptive invasive ventilation, and the denial of basic care or nutrition to some patients. He emphasized that these practices, alongside the administration of drugs like remdesivir and dexamethasone, exacerbated mortality during the pandemic period. The correlation between COVID death peak and midazolam is truly damning, Cartland reiterated.
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While we have no data on how midazolam was administered to Canadian COVID patients, we do know that in 2020, the Government of Canada ordered record amounts of the drug. I'm Will Dove. And I'm Hannah Bern, and those are the top stories for today.
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