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2025-04-29 Charter Rights: Ontario backs down, admits that roadside billboard does not promote hatred

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George Katerberg on top of his original billboard (Courtesy of George Katerberg)

SUDBURY, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased that the Ontario Ministry of Transportation has reversed its decision to ban a proposed roadside billboard that criticized politicians and health officials for Covid vaccine mandates.

George Katerberg is a retired HVAC technician and business owner. After the era of Covid lockdowns, he decided to close his business, sell his home and move to Thessalon, Ontario, along the shores of Lake Huron.

On March 1, 2024, Mr. Katerberg rented a billboard along Highway 17 near Thessalon.

The billboard displayed the faces of various Government of Canada officials, including former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Deputy Prime Minister, the leader of the federal NDP party, the Ontario Premier, the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, and the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The sign read, “They knowingly lied about safety and stopping [transmission],” and “Canadians demand accountability.” The sign also featured an image of two hammers behind a Canadian flag. Mr. Katerberg said the design was inspired by a symbol from the 1979 Pink Floyd album, The Wall, which addressed government overreach.

Shortly after the billboard was erected, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation ordered that the billboard be removed, claiming that the image of the two hammers represented white supremacist ideology. This was news to Mr. Katerberg.

The Ministry also ordered that Mr. Katerberg contact them in advance for pre-approval of any future signs he might wish to display.

Mr. Katerberg immediately removed the billboard. He then prepared a new billboard with the same message, but he replaced the image of the two hammers behind a Canadian flag with an image of the Canadian flag alone. Mr. Katerberg submitted the billboard to the Ministry for approval on June 18, 2024.

On June 28, 2024, the Ministry denied Mr. Katerberg’s modified billboard, advising him that “[t]he message on the billboard may be seen as promoting hatred or contempt for the individuals pictured on the billboard, which may violate certain policies regarding advertising.”

“Any other billboards that you wish to erect on the highway must be pre-approved by the [Ministry],” an email advised.

With help from the Justice Centre, Mr. Katerberg stood up for freedom of expression and the right to hold the government to account.

Mr. Katerberg asked the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario to review the decision of the Ministry. (In a judicial review, a court ensures that the decisions of administrative bodies, like the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, are fair, reasonable, and lawful.)

Mr. Katerberg argued that the Ministry’s decision was unreasonable and that it did not balance his Charter right to freedom of expression with the purposes of relevant legislation.

In his application to the Court, Mr. Katerberg noted, “The Sign does not promote violence, hatred, or contempt…Further, the Sign does not target any ‘identifiable group’… To the extent that the six well-known public figures featured on the Sign form a group at all, it is on the basis of their collective response to the Covid-19 pandemic in their political and/or professional capacity.”

Six days before the federal election in Canada, on April 23, 2025, the Ministry reversed its position and agreed that the sign did not promote hatred. The Ministry will now consider Mr. Katerberg’s billboard.

Mr. Katerberg says the sign has always been about providing hope to Canadians. “I knew if people saw my sign, they would not be scared to talk about the mandates,” he remarked. “I knew there was nothing wrong with my sign.”

He also thanked the Justice Centre donors. “I’m self-employed and worked hard all my life. I wouldn’t of been able to take on this case myself. I’m glad the Justice Centre was able to support me,” Mr. Katerberg concluded.

Constitutional lawyer Chris Fleury stated, “Mr. Katerberg’s proposed sign was a matter of legitimate expression protected by the Charter. In a functioning democracy, individuals like Mr. Katerberg need to be able to express their dissatisfaction with public officials. We are pleased that Ontario has agreed that the billboard does not promote hatred and will reconsider its decision.”

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2025-05-02 Update: Challenging British Columbia’s Covid vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. Thanks to JCCF

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May 282025
 

Tatlock, Koop, et al. v. BC and Dr. Bonnie Henry

Dr. Bonnie Henry forces healthcare workers to choose between vaccination and termination  

In October and November 2021, BC Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry issued a series of Orders applying to all BC healthcare personnel working for BC Health Authorities, care facilities, and other designated facilities across the province. As a result of these Orders, healthcare workers who did not show proof of receiving all doses of an approved Covid vaccine would be terminated.  

Over the next two years, these public health orders were modified and expanded by the BC Government, capturing more and more healthcare workers.  

  • Orders issued between August 2021 and February 2022 allowed employers, operators, and contractors to obtain personal information, including Covid vaccination status, from healthcare practitioners and staff. Across BC, healthcare personnel were compelled to provide their legal name, date of birth, personal health number, and vaccination status to employers upon request. Employers and contractors were then compelled to report that personal information to the BC Government.  
  • A June 2022 Order required registrants of various medical colleges to disclose their Covid vaccination status to their respective medical colleges, who would report that information to Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.
  • September 2022 Orders expanded the scope of previous Orders, requiring students applying to post-secondary medical programs, post-secondary staff working in care locations, and post-secondary administrative and managerial staff working in health services facilities to disclose their Covid vaccination status to their institutions, who would report that information to the Provincial Health Officer.
  • April 2023 Orders expanded the scope yet again, requiring staff construction workers to be vaccinated for Covid in order to work at hospitals and other medical facilities. Previously, constructions workers, whether staff members or working under contract, as well as other outside service providers working on projects within the BC healthcare system, did not need to show proof of vaccination if they followed protocols set out in the Orders. The April 2023 Orders were silent regarding outside service providers, and specifically exempted construction services working under contract, meaning these groups of workers no longer needed to follow personal protective equipment protocols.
  • A June 2023 Order cancelled the June 2022 Order. Registrants of medical colleges would no longer be required to report their vaccination status to their respective college, and colleges would no longer be required to report that data to the Provincial Health Office. However, healthcare workers of any Provincial Health Authority in British Columbia, including workers who did not have in-person contact with patients, would still be required to show proof of vaccination in order to work.
  • An October 5, 2023 Order required any unvaccinated new hires to receive the requisite number of doses of the new XBB.1.5-containing formulation of the Covid vaccine to be allowed to work, making it impossible for many doctors, nurses, administrators, other healthcare workers, and non-healthcare workers to work in BC’s healthcare system. 

These Orders saw approximately 2,500 BC healthcare workers terminated, causing critical shortages in the healthcare system across the province.  

  

BC healthcare workers challenge Covid vaccine mandate at Supreme Court of British Columbia 

On March 16, 2022, with help from the Justice Centre, 11 BC healthcare workers filed a constitutional challenge to the vaccine mandate for specified groups of healthcare workers. Here are a few of their stories.  

Resident of Prince George, Phyllis Tatlock had held many senior healthcare positions in Alberta and BC in her twenty year career, and served as Director of Operations for BC Cancer since 2021. The Provincial Health Services Authority terminated her employment because she refused to be vaccinated for Covid for religious reasons.  

Laura Koop lives in Canyon and had served her community since 2014 as a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, focusing on high-risk populations, such as those with mental health and substance abuse problems. She refused to be vaccinated for Covid for reasons of conscience and, as a consequence, her position was terminated. She expressed concern about the lack of informed consent, the lack of transparency of pharmaceutical corporations and all levels of Canadian (and international) governments, and the constantly changing goals and directives regarding Covid vaccination programs.  

Monika Bielecki had worked in Kelowna as an Employee Health and Wellness Advisor since 2015. She has extensive experience in claims adjudication, rehabilitation services, disability management, and workplace accommodation processes. Ms. Bielecki had worked remotely since 2016 but was terminated because she refused to be vaccinated for Covid for reasons of conscience. At the time, she stated that the acceptance of any medical intervention should be a personal choice based on her own assessment of her health and risk factors. She felt that the Covid vaccine did not effectively prevent transmission and was associated with serious adverse reactions.  

Lori Nelson resides in Surrey and had served as a Provider Engagement Lead, Clinical Informatics for the British Columbia Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA). She worked remotely and had a work-from-home agreement with her employer. An employee of PHSA for 25 years, Ms. Nelson was nonetheless terminated because she refused to be vaccinated for Covid for medical reasons. She has severe allergies and has experienced multiple systemic and anaphylactic reactions to injections in the past. 

Ingeborg Keyser had served Interior Health as a Communications Advisor in Kelowna since 2017. She was not a healthcare worker and had not contact with patients. She worked entirely from home but was terminated because she refused to be vaccinated for Covid. At the time, she was pregnant and expressed concerns about the lack of long-term safety data regarding Covid vaccines administered during pregnancy.  

British Columbia’s mandatory vaccination policy saw thousands of British Columbia healthcare workers like Phyllis, Laura, Monika, Lori, and Ingeborg terminated from their in-person and remote positions within the BC healthcare system.  

 

Exemptions from Covid vaccine mandate not a viable option for most healthcare workers 

Exemptions to the vaccine mandate were available for only limited medical reasons as determined by government authorities, not by physicians. To be considered for an exemption or deferral, healthcare workers were required to have (a) taken one dose of an approved Covid vaccine and be able to prove having experienced a serious adverse reaction or (b) have been diagnosed with myocarditis or pericarditis. No exemptions were granted for reasons of conscience or religion, or to account for other medical concerns.  

The Orders made no provision for natural immunity to Covid. Nor did the Orders make any provision for healthcare workers who worked remotely.  

Healthcare workers were not permitted to seek reconsideration of the Orders under the Public Health Act, which is a remedy contained in that legislation.   

 

Supreme Court orders Dr. Bonnie Henry to reconsider vaccine mandate for remote healthcare workers 

On November 10, 2023, in a 10-day hearing at the Supreme Court of British Columbia, our lawyers argued that the Order continue to violate the freedom of conscience and religion, right to security, and right to equality of thousands of British Columbia healthcare workers.  

In addition to asserting that vaccines have in some cases proven ineffective in preventing the transmission of Covid and as well have caused some serious adverse reactions, lawyers for the 11 healthcare workers argued that ordering vaccination as a condition of employment interferes with the right to medical self-determination – protected by Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Further, our lawyers pointed out that the mandates failed to provide opportunities for religious and conscientious objections – protected by Section 2 of the Charter. While healthcare workers had their employment terminated for being unvaccinated, the BC government hired remote contractors and did not enforce any vaccination requirements on them, generating a concern about equality – protected by Section 15 of the Charter. 

Lawyer Charlene LeBeau stated, “The rights of healthcare workers must not be disregarded, even when the goal is to protect public health. This is especially true in relation to mandating a new medical treatment that has a terrible track record for adverse reactions and, in any event, has proven to be ineffective in stopping infection or transmission.” 

On December 18, 2023, our lawyers presented their arguments to the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Further written submissions were made on behalf of the 11 healthcare workers on January 22, 2024, in response to submissions made the previous week by the BC Attorney General .  

On May 10, in a partial victory for BC healthcare workers, Justice Simon Coval of the Supreme Court of British Columbia released a decision, ordering Dr. Bonnie Henry to reconsider the Covid vaccine exemption requests of remote-working and administrative healthcare workers. While the Justice Centre is disappointed that the Court upheld the vaccine mandate on BC healthcare workers, this decision is a substantial victory for the remote-working and administrative workers who were terminated due to an unfair and unscientific mandate.  

Charlene Le Beau stated, “This case was a judicial review, which means the court had to determine whether Dr. Bonnie Henry acted reasonably in making the Covid vaccine a condition of employment. We are disappointed with the court finding that Dr. Henry acted reasonably, but pleased with the court also finding that the application of the Orders to remote-working and administrative workers went too far. As a result, the court remitted the issue back to Dr. Henry so that, in light of the reasons for judgment, she can consider whether to accept requests for exemption to the vaccine for those groups of workers. This is a positive result for BC nurses, doctors and other health care workers.” 

It is important that we continue to push beyond this partial victory. Thousands of healthcare workers and their patients are still being impacted by these Orders. Most importantly, these Orders continue to violate the freedom of conscience and religion, right to life, liberty, and security, and right to equality of thousands of healthcare workers in BC. On June 10, 2024, our lawyers filed a Notice of Appeal in the British Columbia Court of Appeal. 

On July 26, 2024, Dr. Henry announced the end of the COVID public health emergency in BC, ending the vaccine mandate. Then, on August 28, 2024, Dr. Henry issued a reconsideration decision, reaffirming her refusal to consider exemption requests for remote and administrative healthcare workers. 

Undeterred, the workers continue with their appeal. They submitted a brief on September 16, 2024, arguing that the judge misunderstood their claim. They were asserting the right to make personal medical decisions without state interference, not a right-to-work under the vaccine mandate, as the judge concluded. We’re now waiting for the province’s response. 

BC healthcare workers face another hurdle in Covid vaccine mandate challenge

The BC Court of Appeal will hear a Charter challenge against Dr. Bonnie Henry’s Covid vaccine mandates on May 6 and 7, 2025 — but first, lawyers must defeat the government’s claim that the case is “moot” (or no longer relevant) since the mandates were rescinded in 2024. If successful, the appeal will proceed on May 6.

The workers argue the October 2023 mandate violated their freedoms of conscience and religion, and their right to bodily autonomy.

The constitutional challenge follows a decision on May 10, 2024, where the Supreme Court of British Columbia decided that workers’ Charter rights had not been unreasonably violated.

On May 6, the public will be able to access the proceedings via Zoom at this link.

Legal challenge ends without ruling on constitutionality of vaccine mandates

On May 7, 2025, the British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed this case brought by 11 healthcare workers, ruling that the challenge was “moot” because the provincial vaccine mandates had been rescinded in 2024.

As a result, the Court declined to hear arguments about whether the mandates had violated Charter rights, leaving unresolved questions about freedom of conscience, bodily autonomy, and equality for thousands of workers who lost their jobs under the now-repealed orders.

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2025-05-20 COVID: The trial of Chris Barber and Tamara Lich. Update. With thanks to JCCF

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May 282025
 

R. v. Christopher Barber

A pandemic of fear met with resistance

In January and February 2022, thousands of Canadians travelled from all corners of the country to the nation’s capital to protest mandatory vaccination policies, which turned millions of Canadians into second-class citizens if they did not get injected with the Covid vaccine. 

In British Columbia, dissenting healthcare workers and firefighters were fired. In Nova Scotia, judges were pressured into getting injected and threatened with consequences for choosing not to do so. In Quebec, government officials threatened a tax on the unvaccinated. Across Canada, conscientious objectors were fired from their jobs, suspended from their university programs, and prevented from travelling. Cross-border Covid vaccine mandates particularly affected Canadian truckers. 

 

Canadian truckers and the Freedom Convoy protest 

The pressures being applied by governments across Canada to get citizens to bend to their will resulted in what became known as the Freedom Convoy protest. Truckers across the country drove to Ottawa to try to meet with federal politicians and air their grievances. The Justice Centre sent lawyers to the protest to advise protestors of their constitutional rights. 

 

Chris Barber and Tamara Lich arrested at Ottawa protest 

Chris Barber and Tamara Lich were arrested in Ottawa on February 17, 2022–one day before the brutal police crackdown on Freedom Convoy protestors – and after the federal government illegally invoked the Emergencies Act on February 14, 2022. 

This was the first time the Act had ever been invoked to clear the protest. Chris Barber and Tamara Lich were both criminally charged with mischief, intimidation, obstructing a highway, obstructing a police officer, and counselling others to commit the same offences. They have asserted they were peacefully exercising their Charter freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly during the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa.  

 

Barber and Lich’s trial originally scheduled to last 16 days

The Justice Centre has been supporting the defence of Chris Barber. Mr. Barber, a trucker and trucking company owner from Swift Current, Saskatchewan, pleaded not guilty to all charges on April 23, 2023. Diane Magas, his defence counsel, has consistently argued that he acted peacefully and lawfully throughout his time in Ottawa. Note: the Justice Centre is also providing legal support in a separate action for Mr. Barber, Ms. Lich and Freedom Convoy members who are being sued by Ottawa residents for $290 million.  

The criminal trial began on September 5, 2023, and was originally scheduled to last 16 days. Nearly one year later, the trial of Mr. Barber and Ms. Lich is nearing 40 days of court time. 

“Crown prosecutors in Ontario claim that they do not have enough resources to prosecute people accused of sexual assault and other serious crimes. People accused of serious crimes are walking away without facing trial because of extreme delays, supposedly caused by the Crown lacking adequate resources. Yet the Crown has devoted massive amounts of its limited time and energy to prosecuting peaceful protesters who exercised their fundamental Charter freedoms,” stated John Carpay, President of the Justice Centre. 

 

Final arguments include reference to DeCaire decision 

Lawyer Diane Magas was back in court with Mr. Barber the morning of Friday, September 13, 2024, to hear the Crown’s closing submissions. You can read the Crown’s final arguments here. The Final Submissions for Chris Barber are here. 

Ms. Magas said she will address the court referencing the R. v. DeCaire Appeal decision. She successfully defended Christine DeCaire when the Crown appealed Ms. DeCaire’s dismissal on charges of mischief for being at the Freedom Convoy protest. Ms. Magas hopes the court will use that decision as guidance when considering the current case. She will draw attention to paragraphs 30-31, where the Appeal Court noted the Crown still needed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person actually engaged in mischief, and that merely being in the vicinity of where someone else might be causing mischief was not enough to convict. 

A date for the verdict was set for March 12, 2025. That date was postponed until April 3, 2025. 

John Carpay says, “Thanks to the generosity of donors, the Justice Centre has provided criminal defence lawyers for Chris Barber, Tamara Lich and other Canadians who were criminally charged in February 2022 for having peacefully exercised their Charter freedoms of expression, association, and assembly during the peaceful Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa. More than 30 months ago, they were charged with mischief, intimidation, obstructing a highway, obstructing a police officer, and counselling others to commit the same offences. We have secured favourable outcomes for many individuals who were wrongfully charged, including acquittals at trial, the dropping of charges, as well as negotiated agreements with the consent of clients.” 

Court finds Chris Barber guilty of mischief

We are disappointed that the Ontario Court of Justice found Chris Barber and Tamara Lich guilty of mischief for their involvement in the peaceful Freedom Convoy protest.

The decision, released on April 3, 2025, follows upon 45 days of hearings in a criminal trial stretching from September 2023 to September 2024.

Justice Heather Perkins-McVey delivered the decision in the Ontario Court of Justice at the Ottawa Courthouse.

Counsel will carefully review the decision and confer with Mr. Barber to determine any next steps.

Chris Barber asks Court to stay proceedings against him

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that Chris Barber has asked the Ontario Court of Justice for a stay of proceedings against him. He argues that the legal advice given to him by police officers, lawyers, and a Superior Court judge during the Freedom Convoy was erroneous and that, as a result, the Crown is not entitled to convict him.

On April 3, 2025, Justice Heather Perkins-McVey of the Ontario Court of Justice found Mr. Barber guilty of mischief and of counselling others to breach a court order. That decision followed upon a lengthy 45-day trial stretching from September 2023 to September 2024.

Diane Magas, Chris Barber’s lawyer, filed a Stay of Proceedings Application with the Court on April 16, 2025. In that Application, Mr. Barber and his legal team argue that he did, in fact, seek legal advice regarding his actions during the Freedom Convoy protest.

For example, he followed Ottawa Police Services directions on where to park trucks in downtown Ottawa. When an officer asked him to move his truck, “Big Red,” from downtown Ottawa, he moved it. On February 7 and 16, 2022, his lawyer at the time advised him that Justice Maclean of the Superior Court had confirmed that the protest could continue so long as it continued to be peaceful and safe.

In essence, Chris Barber and his legal team are now arguing that he followed all legal advice that was given to him in 2022, but that some of the legal advice he was given turned out to be erroneous.

Judge asked to set aside crown’s recommended sentence

Barber’s Application argues for a stay of proceedings against him on the grounds that “he sought advice from lawyers, police officers, and a Superior Court Judge on the legality of the protest he was involved in.”

This Application was filed one day after Chris Barber was informed that the Crown was pursuing a two-year prison sentence against him. In an April 15 Facebook post, Mr. Barber wrote, “My family got bad news today. The Crown prosecutor wants to lock Tamara Lich and me in prison for two years-for standing up for freedom. They also want to [seize] my truck, Big Red, and crush her like she’s just scrap metal or sell it at auction.”

If the Application is successful, Mr. Barber would not see prison time, nor would his truck be seized.

“Throughout the peaceful Freedom Convoy, Chris Barber did what any law-abiding Canadian would do: seeking out and acting upon the best legal advice available to him,” stated John Carpay, President of the Justice Centre. “Chris Barber consistently followed the legal advice that he received from police officers, lawyers, and a Superior Court judge.”

“To hold a well-meaning man behind bars for two years and to confiscate his property, as is now demanded by the Crown, would bring the administration of justice into disrepute,” Mr. Carpay continued. “Crown prosecutors are painting a portrait of a dangerous criminal, even while Chris Barber sought out and followed legal advice when participating in the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa in 2022. Chris worked within the law when peacefully exercising his Charter freedoms of expression, assembly and association.”

Stay of Proceedings hearing confirmed for Wednesday to Friday, May 21–23, 2025

Chris Barber’s Stay of Proceedings Application will be heard in person at the Ottawa courthouse from Wednesday to Friday, May 21–23, 2025, starting at 10:00 a.m. in Room 5 on May 21.

Members of the public are welcome to attend in person; virtual attendance is not available.

The court will consider whether to set aside the Crown’s request for a two-year prison sentence and the seizure of Mr. Barber’s truck, based on arguments that he acted in good faith by following official advice during the 2022 Freedom Convoy.

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2025-05-20 Covid: Targeted for protesting, acquitted with honour: The case of Harold Jonker. With thanks to JCCF

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May 282025
 

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Targeted for protesting, acquitted with honour: The case of Harold Jonker

 

Harold Jonker v. The Township of West Lincoln

Judge rules Crown did not prove any criminal wrongdoing by Niagara business owner Harold Jonker

From trucker to target: Harold Jonker joins the Freedom Convoy

Harold Jonker owns a trucking company based in the Township of West Lincoln in the Niagara region of Ontario. At the beginning of 2022, he was also an elected, part-time town councillor for the Township.

On January 15, 2022, the Government of Canada mandated that Canadians who had not received two doses of an approved Covid vaccine would not be permitted to travel across the border between Canada and the United States. This mandate effectively put unvaccinated truckers out of business. In response, thousands of truckers and concerned Canadians travelled to the nation’s capital in January and February 2022 to protest vaccine mandates.

Mr. Jonker joined the protest as a “route captain” for the Niagara portion of the Freedom Convoy, arriving in Ottawa on January 28. He stayed in the capital for three weeks. While there, he did not park his truck downtown, parking instead along Coventry Road some distance away. During that time, he was not fined or charged with any criminal offence.

On February 14, the Government of Canada declared a “public order emergency” and invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history. Successor to the War Measures Act, the Emergencies Act grants the federal government unprecedented executive powers to handle threats to the security of Canada.

The invocation of the Emergencies Act transformed the peaceful atmosphere of the Freedom Convoy protest into a tactical operation as hundreds of armed officers descended on protestors and passersby. The police crackdown began in earnest on February 18. Within three days, the streets of downtown Ottawa were empty. But social media platforms were full of scenes of brutal police action. More than 400 charges were laid during the suppression of the protest. More than 257 bank accounts associated with the Freedom Convoy were also frozen, making it difficult for some Canadians to travel home or meet expenses.

Mr. Jonker returned to the Niagara region on February 21, 2022.

Several councillors of the Township of West Lincoln were openly opposed to the Freedom Convoy and to any protests against the government’s response to Covid.  

 

Township of West Lincoln punishes Harold Jonker for participating in the Freedom Convoy

On February 28, 2022, a complaint was filed against Mr. Jonker, claiming that he had breached the Township’s Code of Conduct by attending the Freedom Convoy protest. The Township launched an investigation, determining that Freedom Convoy was an illegal protest and that Mr. Jonker had violated the Code of Conduct by joining it.

On July 18, 2022, the Township fined Mr. Jonker 30-days’ pay and demanded that he repay the value of any food and gasoline donated to him by Canadians during his involvement with the protest.

“The Integrity Commissioner’s report relies on many allegations about the Freedom Convoy, none of which have been proven in a court of law,” Mr. Jonker said at the Council meeting. He stated, “I went to the protest as a truck driver and as a company owner to support what I believe was a peaceful, lawful demonstration.”

 

Justice Centre helps Harold Jonker file lawsuit against Township of West Lincoln

On September 23, 2022, our lawyers launched a lawsuit on behalf of Mr. Jonker, seeking to strike down the Township’s decision to financially punish Mr. Jonker for his participation in the Freedom Convoy. Our lawyers argue that their decision is invalid due to procedural irregularities, factual errors, and flawed findings in the investigative report. Notably, our lawyers challenge the finding that Mr. Jonker had participated in an illegal activity. The lawsuit also claims that the Township’s decision violated his freedom of expression – protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 

“The claim that Mr. Jonker participated in an illegal activity is a suggestion that is not supported by facts. It is also bewildering that the Integrity Commissioner found that Mr. Jonker, who is a trucker, was in Ottawa in connection with his duties as a town councillor rather than as a trucker and a Canadian citizen peacefully protesting federal and provincial Covid mandates,” stated lawyer Jorge Pineda. 

“The sad truth is that Mr. Jonker has been punished for his political position, in the context of an ongoing dispute with other councillors. In Canada, we must tolerate strong differences in political opinion. Elected politicians should not be permitted to weaponize codes of conduct to silence and intimidate their political opponents. The Charter is intended to guarantee free expression. Canadian democratic institutions cannot survive if such guarantees can be easily ignored through these kinds of tactics.”

 

Police charge Harold Jonker with mischief and obstructing a roadway

Fifteen months after the Freedom Convoy protest, in May 2023, police charged Mr. Jonker with mischief, counselling mischief, obstructing a roadway, and counselling others to obstruct a roadway. Police allege that Mr. Jonker had been a “road captain” during the Freedom Convoy, that he led the Niagara contingent from the Niagara region to Ottawa, that he co-owns a trucking company, and that he brought 10 Jonker Trucking trucks to Ottawa with him. 

Why was there such a significant delay in bringing these charges? The Crown did not disclose the reason. 

Mr. Jonker’s 10-day criminal trial is scheduled for May 12 to 26, 2025, at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Ottawa. He has chosen to be judged by a jury of his peers. Mr. Jonker’s defence will argue that his prosecution is an abuse of process due to the lengthy and unexplained pre-charge delay. They will argue that this significant delay has unfairly compromised Mr. Jonker’s ability to make a full answer and defence to his charges.

Lawyer Chris Fleury stated, “Mr. Jonker and I are looking forward to defending these charges at trial and fervently asserting his innocence. We are also looking forward to cross-examining the Crown witnesses and discovering the reason for the significant and unexplained delay in charging Mr. Jonker.”

In May 2023, Mr. Jonker was also named as a defendant in the cases Zexi Li et al. v. Chris Barber et al. Zexi Li and other Ottawa residents are suing Mr. Jonker and other Freedom Convoy participants for $290 million, seeking damages against peaceful protesters for allegedly causing a nuisance through honking or idling of vehicle engines in downtown Ottawa.

The trial resumes in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 13, 2025

On Monday, May 12, 2025, the judge in the Jonker trial rejected the Crown’s last-minute attempt to have a witness testify remotely over vague “safety concerns” and required the witness to appear in person for full testimony and cross-examination.

Defence lawyers also gained key admissions from Crown witnesses, including that emergency routes remained accessible throughout the Freedom Convoy.

Freedom Convoy trucker acquitted of all charges in Ontario court

Harold Jonker, a trucker and business owner from West Lincoln, Ontario, has been acquitted on all charges stemming from his peaceful participation in the 2022 Freedom Convoy.

After facing allegations of mischief and intimidation—filed more than a year after the protest—Mr. Jonker stood trial in May 2025. Justice Kevin B. Phillips of the Ontario Superior Court found that the Crown failed to prove any of the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.

The judge ruled that Mr. Jonker’s public statements did not amount to incitement, and that there was insufficient evidence linking him to trucks observed downtown.

The Justice Centre is also supporting Mr. Jonker in a separate lawsuit against the Township of West Lincoln, which financially penalized him for exercising his Charter–protected freedom of expression during the Convoy.

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2025-05-22 Canadians challenge Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament. JCCF

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May 282025
 

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Canadians seek a declaration that a prorogued Parliament is illegal 

On January 7, 2025, Justice Centre lawyers filed an application with the Federal Court, seeking a declaration that the proroguing of Parliament by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “incorrect, unreasonable or both.” The court application contends that the Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue “was not made in furtherance of Parliamentary business or the business of government, but in service of the interests of the LPC [Liberal Party of Canada].” 

Our lawyers are working on behalf of two applicants, Canadians David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos. They seek a Federal Court declaration that Prime Minister Trudeau’s recent prorogation of Parliament is unreasonable and must be set aside. 

When Parliament is prorogued, the parliamentary session is terminated, and all parliamentary activity, including work on bills and in committees, immediately stops. 

Applicants argue that a prorogued Parliament only serves the interests of the Liberal Party 

Among its many grounds arguing that Trudeau’s decision to advise the Governor General to exercise her prerogative power to prorogue Parliament to March 24, 2025, this application argues that the decision to prorogue Parliament was “incorrect, unreasonable or both.” 

At his January 6 press conference, the Prime Minister’s stated that the justification for the prorogation was (1) to “reset” Parliament and (2) to permit the Liberal Party of Canada time to select a new party leader. No explanation was provided as to why Parliament could not recess instead. No explanation was provided as to why Members of Parliaments could not immediately exercise their right to vote on a motion of non-confidence in the government. A majority of MPs have now repeatedly promised to do just that, which would trigger an election and provide the needed “reset” in a democratic and legitimate way. 

No explanation was provided as to why a prorogation of almost three months is needed. No explanation was provided as to why the Liberal Party of Canada ought to be entitled to such a lengthy prorogation simply so it can hold an internal leadership race. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried the same thing. It was found to be illegal.  

This Federal Court application includes language taken from a decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which ruled in 2019 that then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson had prorogued Parliament unlawfully, as a means of avoiding Parliamentary scrutiny amidst heated democratic discussions about “Brexit” – the U.K.’s departure from the European Union.  

The application contends, among other things, that “in all of the circumstances surrounding it, the [prorogation] has the effect of frustrating or preventing, without reasonable justification, the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions as a legislature and as the body responsible for the supervision of the executive, particularly insofar as it relates to Parliament’s ability to deal quickly and decisively with especially pressing issues, such as the situation caused by President-Elect Trump’s stated intention to impose a 25% tariff on all goods entering the United States from Canada.” 

Applicant MacKinnon calls on Canadians to remember their history and common law 

Lawyer James Manson, acting on behalf of David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos, stated, “This prorogation stymies the publicly stated intent of a majority of MPs to bring a motion for non-confidence in the government and trigger an election. Prorogation serves the interests of the Liberal Party, but it does not further Parliamentary business or the business of government. It violates the constitutional principles of Parliamentary sovereignty and Parliamentary accountability,” stated .  

Mr. Manson continued, “We will invite the Court to conclude that the Prime Minister’s decision to advise the Governor General to prorogue Parliament was without reasonable justification.” 

Applicant David MacKinnon feels strongly about this case. He stated, “This case concerns a living tree – our Constitution – and how that living tree withers without proper care. If we are to fight tyranny – for it is tyranny that confronts us – we must find the answer within the memory of our historical past. We call this memory ‘the common law.’ It is enshrined in the preamble of our constitution.”  

On the importance of the rule of law in Canada, Mr. MacKinnon continued, “The common law is the repository and guarantor of our justice and our wealth and happiness. Had we nurtured our living tree, and looked to our past, we would have read Lord Denning’s admonishment to the Attorney General of an earlier time: ‘Be ye never so high, the law is above you.’” 

Chief Justice Paul S. Crampton grants motion for expedited hearing

On Saturday, January 18, 2025, the Federal Court granted the Applicants’ Motion to expedite the case. The hearing is scheduled to take place Thursday and Friday, February 13-14, 2025, in the Supreme Court Building in Ottawa. In his decision, Chief Justice Paul S. Crampton of the Federal Court set the accelerated timeline. The Applicants were given until February 3, 2025, to file their arguments. The government had to file by February 7, 2025.  

 

Applicants submit their Memorandum of Fact and Law to the Federal Court

Lawyers for the Applicants filed their Memorandum of Fact and Law with the Federal Court on February 3, 2025.

Lawyers for the government filed their Memorandum of Fact and Law of the Respondent on February 7, 2025.

Federal Court hears arguments on February 13 and 14

Over the course of two days, our lawyers argued that the decision to advise prorogation engaged section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which, according to the Supreme Court of Canada, protects citizens’ right to “effective representation” in Parliament and that section 3 should be considered in determining the scope of the power to prorogue Parliament. They also argued that the scope of the power to prorogue Parliament  should have regard for   constitutional principles of parliamentary sovereignty, responsible government, the rule of law and democracy, and the separation of powers. As constitutional lawyer James Manson put it, “It is for Parliament to oversee and supervise the government; it is not for the government to oversee and supervise Parliament.”

Our lawyers also argued that Parliament should have a meaningful opportunity to respond to threats of tariffs and annexation from U.S. President Trump. Ultimately, the applicants asked the Federal Court to rule that the decision to advise prorogation was unlawful and, as a result, that the 44th session of Parliament had not been prorogued. They were the first in Canadian history to invite a court to define the scope of a Prime Minister’s power to advise prorogation.

The lawyers for the government tried to convince Chief Justice Crampton to dismiss the case at every point, arguing that the applicants had no standing in the case, that the Federal Court had no jurisdiction to hear the matter, that the issues raised in the case were not the types of issues to be determined by the Court because prorogation is a purely political and unreviewable process, that section 3 of the Charter does not apply to prorogation, and that the constitutional principles raised by the applicants could not be applied to the case to limit prorogation.

Justice Crampton dismisses the case

On March 6, 2025, the Federal Court dismissed the constitutional challenge to the Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament.

The decision is being appealed

On April 5 2025, lawyers filed a Notice of Appeal.

Applicants David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos are asking the Federal Court of Appeal to consider the heart of their original challenge: Shutting down Parliament for 11 weeks for partisan reasons is beyond the scope of a Prime Minister’s power.

Constitutional lawyer James Manson remarked, “After careful review of Chief Justice Crampton’s decision, our clients have concluded that the Court ruled correctly on several of the issues raised in this matter. Nonetheless, other important legal questions raised in this case, particularly concerning the limits of a prime minister’s authority to prorogue Parliament, remain unanswered.”

“Our clients accordingly believe that those important questions affecting all Canadians should now be raised in the Federal Court of Appeal for further debate,” concluded Mr. Manson.

In their appeal, the applicants invite the Federal Court of Appeal to consider the main questions raised in their January 7 Application:

  1. What is the scope of a prime minister’s power to advise prorogation?
  2. Did the Prime Minister’s January 6 decision fall within that scope or not?

Since January 6, many Canadians have wondered: what are legitimate reasons for advising prorogation? Is any reason “good enough”? In this appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal has an opportunity to determine whether shoring up the fortunes of one federal party is a legitimate reason for shutting down a session of Parliament.

Constitutional lawyer Andre Memauri remarked, “Although the prorogation has now concluded, review of this decision is very important for clarity surrounding the lawful exercise of this extremely consequential prerogative power.”

Federal Court of Appeal Allows Prorogation Challenge to Proceed Despite Mootness Concerns

Justice Stratas issued a direction on May 22, 2025, regarding the appeal in David Joseph MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos v. Canada (Attorney General). The appeal challenges a March 6, 2025, Federal Court decision that dismissed an application for judicial review of Prime Minister Trudeau’s January 2025 advice to prorogue Parliament.

Although the Court raised concerns that the case might be moot—since the Parliament in question has already been dissolved—it decided that the mootness issue should be addressed by the appeal panel, not at the preliminary stage. The appeal will proceed, and the next steps will follow the Federal Courts Rules, starting from May 22, 2025.

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2025-05-31 For Your Selection JUNE #2 2025

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May 272025
 

The PREVIOUS SELECTION  was:     2025-05-16 For Your Selection JUNE 2025

 

INSERT new posting:

If I had time for only one,  I’d choose Simpsonwood:     2025-06-06   Simpsonwood. CHD

– – – – – –

I don’t fit.  I have to keep dancing,  changing my feet to stay with the beat.

I have a new theory, for me.   See if it can fit me in:

Each one of us comes from a lengthy line of human success at

  1.  making babies and
  2.  adapting to killers

“Survivalist” is our surname.

Aaah.   There’s the divide.

Left and Right is phantom.

If you want your line to continue.

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

For Your Selection JUNE 2025, second one

VACCINATIONS

  1. 2025-05-29 AN  UPDATE: Includes the inspirational ‘Moms Across America’ Plus the Update on ‘Double Tragedy’: Twins’ Deaths Likely Caused by Vaccines, Not Parents.   

On May 1, Dallas and Tyson, fraternal 18-month-old twins, were found dead by their mother after receiving the Hepatitis A, flu and DTaP vaccines on April 23.  Police are investigating the parents, but Dr. Pierre Kory, who reviewed the twins’ medical records, told CHD.TV that, unfortunately, vaccine-related sudden infant deaths are “as common as the day is long.” by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

2.   25-05-27    CDC Removes COVID Vaccines for Kids, and for Healthy Pregnant Women From Schedule of ‘Recommended’ Shots. , Brenda Baletti, CHD

A week ago there was a similar announcement.   (2025-05-20   This is a big HALLELUJAH! – –    )    This new one is water tight.  I think the CHD under RFK’s leadership is determined to see things through to a just end.   Leave no loose ends.

After putting together such things as the SIDS deaths connection to vaccinations and the Helen Grus story  (Sgt-detective,  Ottawa Police,  disciplined for daring to question 7 to 9  SIDS deaths during covid)  I am  thankful beyond measure to the CHD and to RFK.)

 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

3.

Simpsonwood 2025

4.   2025-05-24 Vaccine Zealotry + Don’t Fear Disease. Dr Suzanne Humphries.

Dr Humphries interviewed by retired Pediatrician Paul Thomas.

The world is changing.   AGAIN.   The flat earth idea is almost extinct.  Some medical ideas are going the way of the dodo bird. I have not yet read Suzanne’s book – am looking forward to it.   Have a listen to the video.

5.    2025-05-26 Informative discussion with a Doctor. Covid is a VASCULAR problem, not a respiratory problem. Also about the role of fibrin.

6.   2025-05-15 “Follow the Silenced”,  film  by  Mikki Willis, TFVC, Reaact 10, and Brett Weinstein. Dark Horse

7.   2024- Gary Null film “Deadly Deception”      Comprehensive.

 

THE LAW.   PLUS COURT CASES CONTINUE.

8.  2025-04-29 Charter Rights: Ontario backs down, admits that roadside billboard does not promote hatred

9.   2025-05-02 Update: Challenging British Columbia’s Covid vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. Thanks to JCCF

10.  2025-05-20 Covid: Targeted for protesting, acquitted with honour: The case of Harold Jonker. With thanks to JCCF

11.  2025-05-22 Canadians’ court challenge Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament. JCCF

12,  2025-05-22 President of JCCF Talks Prorogation, Carney’s poor Decisions & What Was SO DANGEROUS About Bill C-63

13.  2025-05-20 COVID: The trial of Chris Barber and Tamara Lich. Update. With thanks to JCCF

14.  2025-06-03 posted. Covid. Ron Johnson on Bret Weinstein (DarkHorse)

This morning I flipped on CBC Radio to see what they’re saying these days.

Geez!   They’re doing a little feature on the covid booster shots.

“Survivalist” is our surname.

Do you want your line to continue?   (I do!)

SO   The above posting,  U.S. Senator Ron Johnson in discussion with scientist Bret Weinstein – –  might help convince a few people  (don’t forward the link to people you don’t like!   ha ha!)

 

OSTRICHES   AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS

14.   2025-05-24 RFK Jr Sends Letter to Head of CFIA: “Let’s Cooperate, Study, but Not Kill the Ostriches in BC!” PLUS thanks to James Roguski & Dr Rima

15.   2025-05-26 Ostriches – culling/killing update

 16.   2025-05- Ostriches – Authorities on site

17.   2025-05- Ostriches – Authorities on site

18.   2025-04-23 Serendipity.  About Immune Systems. And that recent topic – – Ostriches.

Repeat from the April Selection.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

18.    2024-04-24 Kurt Shore, Musician, Warrior, Worrier. His Song We are Warriors, sung with South African artist “The One Who Sings”

 

Best wishes,

/Sandra

 

 

2025-05-24 RFK Jr Sends Letter to Head of CFIA: “Let’s Cooperate, Study, but Not Kill the Ostriches in BC!” PLUS thanks to James Roguski & Dr Rima

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Subject:  RFK, Jr., Sends Letter to Head of CFIA: “Let’s Cooperate, Study, but Not Kill the Ostriches in BC!”

Susanne!    The response is awesome!

Thank-you so much for sending this compilation.    I’ll  get it posted and circulated further.

It is amazing what can be accomplished, under the right leadership.💃

/Sandra

From: James Roguski <jamesroguski@substack.com>
Sent: May 24, 2025

James Roguski cross-posted a post from Dr Rima Truth Reports Substack
James RoguskiMay 24 · James Roguski
Thank you to RFK Jr. for sending this letter in support of the Canadian ostriches and thank you to Dr. Rima Laibow and everyone else around the world who have pushed back against the tyrannical actions of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. This battle is not yet over, but RFK’s letter is a welcome development. https://CullingIsMURDER.com

Breaking: RFK, Jr., Sends Letter to Head of CFIA: “Let’s Cooperate, Study, but Not Kill the Ostriches in BC!”

RFK, Jr., referenced a conversation between himself and CFIA, suggesting cooperation to study, understand and use the ostriches’ ability to produce robust antibodies in their eggs.

Rima E Laibow
May 24
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has, to my mind, appropriately used the power of his position as Secretary of Health and Human Services, home to CDC, NIH, FDA and other powerful and influential units of science in the service of governance, to reach out to Mr. Paul MacKinnon, the President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)

and signal that the research ostriches slated for destruction by CFIA should not be killed, and that Canada and the US should cooperate on studying, understanding and using what they can teach us.
Moreover, their deaths make no sense because they have been healthy long enough that no matter what they might have had in the flock, they don’t have it now.

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Here is Secretary Kennedy’s 2-page letter to the President of CFIA, which is also signed by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PHD and FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH:

The issue here is not just the pandemic agenda and narrative, which is, of course, directly linked to global tyranny and massive depopulation. It is also linked to the installation of the wildly destructive One Health Agenda, which gives WHO, of which the US is no longer part, absolute and utter control of everything that touches life and everything that life touches:

Among the things to be controlled and eliminated, of course, is food. Here is a carefully placed, utterly horrifying propaganda piece (just one of many) from 2020 laying the academic bricks for the malevolent globalist goal’s foundation of total destruction of food production outside of labs:

¹

It is important to note that 1. The Universal Ostrich Farms ostriches are RESEASRCH, not FOOD animals, part of an international ostrich research effort and 2. The “Stamping Out” policy advocated by the World Organization of Animal Health (WOAH) which WHO/One Health/CFIA rely upon specifies that it is carried out for the comfort of TRADE partners, regardless of the health of the animals, but these animals are not part of food or other trade activities.

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Revealed recently, we learn that CFIA began looking in November 2024 for a site in British Columbia that would accept and bury a significant number of large dead animals. They made inquiries about doing so at a regional landfill.

\When asked when the first contact on this matter with CFIA was, the regional landfill shared the November contact data. Encouragingly, last week, following a public hearing on the matter, this regional landfill refused to accept the bodies of healthy birds for burial.

In November 2024, there were no large animals that needed burying. Ostriches are large birds: they weigh 300-400 lbs. each. 400 dead birds would require quite a lot of space to bury. Someone was preparing the death march for those birds.

In December 2024, a supposed anonymous tip alerted CFIA to the presence of one or more dead birds at the Universal Ostrich Farm, Edgewood, BC. Many hours after two birds had died, two swabs for PCR testing were taken from the carcasses by CFIA without adequate Chain-of-Custody documentation.

Within 41 minutes of the test results supposedly coming back “Positive” from the highly unreliable PCR test (run at an unknown number of cycles) a “kill” order was issued for the entire herd of 400 healthy birds.

Can you spell “Put Up Job”?

That kill order has been the subject of massive opposition not only from the owners of Universal Ostrich Farm, a small family farm, but from scientists and activists around the world

PreventGenocide2020.org

https://PreventGenocide2030.org/Save-Our-Ostriches

I am one of those people opposing the murder of 400 healthy birds, research, food or otherwise. I am one of those people opposed to globalists determining what happens to our property, our rights, our health, our food, our farms, our homes, our businesses, our lives, our fertility, or anything else. But sticking just to the ostriches, these are dangerous birds.

Deadly, if you are a globalist destructocrat and a controligarch. Their natural immunity could unravel the entire pandemic/depopulation/bioweapon shroud the globalists have been knitting for us all for so many decades.

Why, you might ask, would a kill order be issued just 41 minutes after the test results supposedly arrived? My speculation, based on all of the information to which I have been privy in this case, leads me to conclude that the reason is abundantly clear although I have no absolutely incontrovertible confirmation. However, I believe the vicious determination to kill this flock of birds has nothing to do with Avian Flu, disease or trade. I believe firmly that CFIA, a One Health, Globalist Tool of the United Nations, is determined to kill the flock because those birds, and their documented and verified ability to produce neutralizing antibodies to viruses and bacteria, could knock both the deadly pandemic scam and toxic vaccine industry out at the same time.

The antibodies are neutralizing (that is, effective at stopping the pathogen), robust (that is, they stand up to heat and other adverse conditions), cross species (that is, they are effective in many different animals, including humans, do not have to be injected (that is, they can be offered as a pill, a nasal spray or a skin cream). In short, the antibodies are a MASSIVE threat to the vaccine narrative, the “necessity” for bioweapon mRNA or any other injections, capable of derailing the entire “pandemic” narrative and very, very bad for Big Pharma in quite a number of different ways.

Oh, and if you are looking for depopulation through the use of the bioweapon injections, that gets knocked into a

cocked hat pretty quickly when the threat of the pandemic vaporizes and the urgent need for bioweapons disguised as gene therapy disguised as vaccines

goes up in smoke.

Secretary Kennedy has been made aware of the ostrich situation through personal communications since February 23, 2025. I know, because I was given the opportunity to provide the information to several of his close personal contacts and did so. Then, when asked for them, I provided critical updates. I have never spoken directly to the Secretary but was assured that he had gotten the information. It would appear that was true.

On April 20, Secretary Kennedy, on an interview with John Catsimatidis, said that the ostriches were important and should not be killed. We, the support team of scientists, activists, and just plain folk outraged by the stupidity and deceit of the kill plan, were jubilant.

We heard nothing more from Secretary Kennedy until today when one of our correspondents shared the letter with us.

And today I urge you to visit PreventGenocide2030.org and take the actions there, including PreventGenocide2030.org/Save-Our-Ostriches in your time there. Then share the links so that as many people as possible can join us, thousands of others, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary in saving not only these valuable research resources, which happen to be spectacular animals, but rational policy options, pushing back the globalists from our bodies and our lives.

One of those actions, by the way, is an email to Secretary Kennedy urging him to purge the agency he heads, which happens to be the second largest agency in the United States Government, twice as large as the Department of Defense (!), of all WHO policies, programs, protocols and partnerships since we are no longer part of that destructive and dangerous organization, following a January 20, 2025 Executive Order making that clear.

Unless and until we rid ourselves of UN/WHO/etc., controls, membership in the organizations is beside the point.
And while you are on the PreventGenocide2030.org site, you can tell the Members of Congress to pass the Disengaging Entirely From the United Nations Debacle Act of 2025. Sounds like a plan to me!

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2025-05-26 Ostriches – culling/killing update

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May 272025
 

Subject: RFK, Jr. Sends Letter to Head of CFIA: “Let’s Cooperate, Study, but Not Kill the Ostriches in BC!”

Susanne!    The response is awesome!

Thank-you so much for sending this compilation.    I’ll  get it posted and circulated further.

It is amazing what can be accomplished, under the right leadership.💃

/Sandra

From: Susanne
Sent: May 24, 2025
To: Sandra Finley

From: James Roguski <jamesroguski@substack.com>
Sent: May 24, 2025 1:57 PM
Subject: Breaking: RFK, Jr., Sends Letter to Head of CFIA: “Let’s Cooperate, Study, but Not Kill the Ostriches in BC!”

 

James Roguski cross-posted a post from Dr Rima Truth Reports Substack
James RoguskiMay 24 · James Roguski
Thank you to RFK Jr. for sending this letter in support of the Canadian ostriches and thank you to Dr. Rima Laibow and everyone else around the world who have pushed back against the tyrannical actions of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. This battle is not yet over, but RFK’s letter is a welcome development. https://CullingIsMURDER.com

Breaking: RFK, Jr., Sends Letter to Head of CFIA: “Let’s Cooperate, Study, but Not Kill the Ostriches in BC!”

RFK, Jr., referenced a conversation between himself and CFIA, suggesting cooperation to study, understand and use the ostriches’ ability to produce robust antibodies in their eggs.

Rima E Laibow MD
May 24
READ IN APP

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has, to my mind, appropriately used the power of his position as Secretary of Health and Human Services, home to CDC, NIH, FDA and other powerful and influential units of science in the service of governance, to reach out to Mr. Paul MacKinnon, the President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)

and signal that the research ostriches slated for destruction by CFIA should not be killed, and that Canada and the US should cooperate on studying, understanding and using what they can teach us.
Moreover, their deaths make no sense because they have been healthy long enough that no matter what they might have had in the flock, they don’t have it now.

Share

Bravo, Secretary Kennedy! While I have been sharply critical of many of your actions since taking office, and many more of your inactions, Health Freedom advocates around the world applaud you and your team in your outreach on behalf of both science and sense.

Dr Rima Truth Reports Substack is a paywall-free reader-supported publication. Support your health and our work: buy your professional quality supplements at discount from my dispensary: US.Fullscript.com/welcome/RLaibow

Upgrade to paid

Here is Secretary Kennedy’s 2-page letter to the President of CFIA, which is also signed by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PHD and FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH:

The issue here is not just the pandemic agenda and narrative, which is, of course, directly linked to global tyranny and massive depopulation. It is also linked to the installation of the wildly destructive One Health Agenda, which gives WHO, of which the US is no longer part, absolute and utter control of everything that touches life and everything that life touches:

Among the things to be controlled and eliminated, of course, is food. Here is a carefully placed, utterly horrifying propaganda piece (just one of many) from 2020 laying the academic bricks for the malevolent globalist goal’s foundation of total destruction of food production outside of labs:

¹

It is important to note that 1. The Universal Ostrich Farms ostriches are RESEASRCH, not FOOD animals, part of an international ostrich research effort and 2. The “Stamping Out” policy advocated by the World Organization of Animal Health (WOAH) which WHO/One Health/CFIA rely upon specifies that it is carried out for the comfort of TRADE partners, regardless of the health of the animals, but these animals are not part of food or other trade activities.

Leave a comment

Revealed recently, we learn that CFIA began looking in November 2024 for a site in British Columbia that would accept and bury a significant number of large dead animals. They made inquiries about doing so at a regional landfill.

\When asked when the first contact on this matter with CFIA was, the regional landfill shared the November contact data. Encouragingly, last week, following a public hearing on the matter, this regional landfill refused to accept the bodies of healthy birds for burial.

In November 2024, there were no large animals that needed burying. Ostriches are large birds: they weigh 300-400 lbs. each. 400 dead birds would require quite a lot of space to bury. Someone was preparing the death march for those birds.

In December 2024, a supposed anonymous tip alerted CFIA to the presence of one or more dead birds at the Universal Ostrich Farm, Edgewood, BC. Many hours after two birds had died, two swabs for PCR testing were taken from the carcasses by CFIA without adequate Chain-of-Custody documentation.

Within 41 minutes of the test results supposedly coming back “Positive” from the highly unreliable PCR test (run at an unknown number of cycles) a “kill” order was issued for the entire herd of 400 healthy birds.

Can you spell “Put Up Job”?

That kill order has been the subject of massive opposition not only from the owners of Universal Ostrich Farm, a small family farm, but from scientists and activists around the world

PreventGenocide2020.org

https://PreventGenocide2030.org/Save-Our-Ostriches

I am one of those people opposing the murder of 400 healthy birds, research, food or otherwise. I am one of those people opposed to globalists determining what happens to our property, our rights, our health, our food, our farms, our homes, our businesses, our lives, our fertility, or anything else. But sticking just to the ostriches, these are dangerous birds.

Deadly, if you are a globalist destructocrat and a controligarch. Their natural immunity could unravel the entire pandemic/depopulation/bioweapon shroud the globalists have been knitting for us all for so many decades.

Why, you might ask, would a kill order be issued just 41 minutes after the test results supposedly arrived? My speculation, based on all of the information to which I have been privy in this case, leads me to conclude that the reason is abundantly clear although I have no absolutely incontrovertible confirmation. However, I believe the vicious determination to kill this flock of birds has nothing to do with Avian Flu, disease or trade. I believe firmly that CFIA, a One Health, Globalist Tool of the United Nations, is determined to kill the flock because those birds, and their documented and verified ability to produce neutralizing antibodies to viruses and bacteria, could knock both the deadly pandemic scam and toxic vaccine industry out at the same time.

The antibodies are neutralizing (that is, effective at stopping the pathogen), robust (that is, they stand up to heat and other adverse conditions), cross species (that is, they are effective in many different animals, including humans, do not have to be injected (that is, they can be offered as a pill, a nasal spray or a skin cream). In short, the antibodies are a MASSIVE threat to the vaccine narrative, the “necessity” for bioweapon mRNA or any other injections, capable of derailing the entire “pandemic” narrative and very, very bad for Big Pharma in quite a number of different ways.

Oh, and if you are looking for depopulation through the use of the bioweapon injections, that gets knocked into a

cocked hat pretty quickly when the threat of the pandemic vaporizes and the urgent need for bioweapons disguised as gene therapy disguised as vaccines

goes up in smoke.

Secretary Kennedy has been made aware of the ostrich situation through personal communications since February 23, 2025. I know, because I was given the opportunity to provide the information to several of his close personal contacts and did so. Then, when asked for them, I provided critical updates. I have never spoken directly to the Secretary but was assured that he had gotten the information. It would appear that was true.

On April 20, Secretary Kennedy, on an interview with John Catsimatidis, said that the ostriches were important and should not be killed. We, the support team of scientists, activists, and just plain folk outraged by the stupidity and deceit of the kill plan, were jubilant.

We heard nothing more from Secretary Kennedy until today when one of our correspondents shared the letter with us.

And today I urge you to visit PreventGenocide2030.org and take the actions there, including PreventGenocide2030.org/Save-Our-Ostriches in your time there. Then share the links so that as many people as possible can join us, thousands of others, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary in saving not only these valuable research resources, which happen to be spectacular animals, but rational policy options, pushing back the globalists from our bodies and our lives.

One of those actions, by the way, is an email to Secretary Kennedy urging him to purge the agency he heads, which happens to be the second largest agency in the United States Government, twice as large as the Department of Defense (!), of all WHO policies, programs, protocols and partnerships since we are no longer part of that destructive and dangerous organization, following a January 20, 2025 Executive Order making that clear.

Unless and until we rid ourselves of UN/WHO/etc., controls, membership in the organizations is beside the point.
And while you are on the PreventGenocide2030.org site, you can tell the Members of Congress to pass the Disengaging Entirely From the United Nations Debacle Act of 2025. Sounds like a plan to me!

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2025-05-27 Breaking: CDC Removes COVID Vaccines for Kids, and for Healthy Pregnant Women From Schedule of ‘Recommended’ Shots. , Brenda Baletti, CHD

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NOTE:   there was an earlier similar announcement.  And still there were hold-outs trying to thwart robust implementation.  This announcement SHOULD seal the coffin – – schools, hospitals, healthcare professionals,  cannot  push covid vaccines on kids and pregnant women.    The COVID VACCINES  are NOT ON THE SCHEDULE OF RECOMMENDED VACCINES.

We are blessed by the intelligence, the tenacity, and the dedication to children’s health of the people who make this announcement happen.

Simultaneously,  we need to assume responsibility for filling the information void in Canada.  I STILL hear people who do not question the Government – Industry narrative.  It boggles my mind.  Since when did we not know how corrupt and corrupting is Big Pharma?

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As of today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for children and healthy pregnant women, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this morning.

In a video posted on X, Kennedy was flanked by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Marty Makary, U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner, as he made the announcement.

“I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule,” he said.

 

Kennedy said the Biden administration had recommended the boosters, even though it had no clinical data to support the recommendation.

“That ends today. It’s common sense and it’s good science,” Bhattacharya added.

Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense (CHD) — which early on urged the CDC not to recommend the vaccines for children, and challenged the agency after it did, celebrated the news.

“Hallelujah!” Holland said. She added:

“These dangerous, poorly tested shots have caused injuries and death to far too many children. And many of the vaccines’ long-term side effects remain unknown. This is a major step in the right direction.

“CHD urged the CDC not to add these dangerous vaccines to the childhood schedule. When we were ignored, we fought relentlessly to get them removed. This is a victory for all children and pregnant women.”

In 2022, CHD sued the FDA for granting emergency use authorization of the COVID-19 shots for children and babies. The lawsuit alleged the FDA misused emergency power to push dangerous biologics on minors. The organization appealed the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear it.

Even at the height of the pandemic, experts agreed that children were at extremely low risk from COVID-19. Soon after the shots were authorized, vaccine injury reports and peer-reviewed studies showed the vaccines were linked to myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly for young people, in addition to many other risks.

Yet, the public health agencies authorized the shot for people ages 16 and up from the start, and expanded that authorization to 12-year-olds by May of 2021. The FDA authorized the drug for children ages 5 and up in October 2021, and for babies 6 months and older in June 2022.

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The COVID-19 vaccine never received FDA approval for children under age 12 — it remains under emergency use authorization.

Yet, the CDC added COVID-19 vaccination in February 2023 to its routine immunization schedule for children and adults, the agency’s vaccine advisers unanimously recommended it. The CDC has continued to recommend annual boosters for children.

The schedule is the basis for vaccine recommendations made by most physicians.

The CDC’s immunization schedule also provides formal guidance for state and local public health officials who set the rules for which vaccines are required to attend school. Children typically must receive all of the vaccines on the schedule to be considered “up to date” on their vaccinations.

Vaccines included on the childhood schedule are also paid for by the Vaccines for Children Program, which distributes cost-free vaccines to children whose families cannot afford to pay for them. More than 50% of children have their vaccine costs covered by the program, according to the CDC.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported earlier this month, citing anonymous inside sources,  that HHS was working on an imminent plan to stop recommending the shots. However, the agency never confirmed the WSJ report, which said an announcement was expected “in the coming days.”

Last week the FDA announced plans to limit approvals for updated COVID-19 vaccines to people over age 65 and people with one or more health conditions that put them at high risk for the virus.

According to the announcement, new COVID-19 shots for healthy children and adults must go through placebo-controlled clinical trials before they can be approved.

The announcement generated criticism from those who noted that because the approval plan would make the shots available to anyone in a high-risk group, many children and all pregnant women would still be eligible for the shots.

Today’s announcement appears to address the concern about pregnant women.

No one from the CDC was present at the announcement. The acting director, Susan Monarez, Ph.D., stepped down in March when she was nominated permanently to the position. Kennedy has reported that attorney Matthew Buzzelli is currently acting director.

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., is a senior reporter for The Defender. She wrote and taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

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