I went down to the Old Island Hwy this morning (Sunday). The Trucker Cavalcade hit town about 10:30 AM. A rousing event. People were out in support in various pods along the route. Lots of waving, honking, some Canada flags, some upside down (the protest sign against mandates). (All this in a community that is small c conservative!)
Word travelled back from Parksville: there were large gatherings waiting ahead, in particular a very large one at the mall, in front of the Canadian Tire Store.
People newly met were sharing information. The “in-the-know” (social media) knew:
the GoFindMe account to help pay for the cost of gas & travel of Truckers in the Cavalcade to Ottawa had climbed from $1.2 million yesterday to $2 million by this morning (Jan 23). (Feb 1, it’s $9.9 million.)
A fellow had stayed home yesterday while his wife went to Victoria. He wanted to see how things were going. He watched Chek News at 5:00 (yesterday, Saturday).
Tell me this was not staged:
Yesterday was simultaneously a day of protest in support of the Ukraine vs Russia, at the same location as the Mandates protest, at the Legislature in Victoria.
Chek News interviewed some protestors, with the thousands of protesters in the background.
All the interviewees spoke to the Ukraine issue. I was there; I didn’t observe even one person there for that issue. I, of course, didn’t see all the 4 thousand people at the Rally. But we circulated around.
Doesn’t matter. We are effective communicators ourselves. This regime is coming down.
Maybe I’ll see you next weekend (the 29th). We’ll be there!
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DAN: (Sunday, Jan 23rd)
Sandra, thanks for the update.
Noticed the legacy media desperately trying to downplay and muddy the trucker event. Typical. But every time they allow comments, it seems to be 90% in favor of the truckers and the rest mostly ignorable comments by obviously misinformed people. I think people are wise to the irrelevance of CTV and CBC.
Yes, I plan to be there next week and hopefully get a few more people from work involved.
Power to the people!
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DAN: (Victoria, Saturday, Jan 22)
Some pictures and video I took today
There is indeed hope that the tide has turned. On the 29th the crowd may be even greater. Interestingly, didn’t see a single identifiable legacy media crew there today. The revolution won’t be televised.