Toronto Manhunt, Montréal Chaos, & Canada’s Censorship Bills

[00:00:00]We see issues with policing. We see foreign conflict activism, loss of public trust. And instead of confronting the causes honestly, they're shifting into narrative management and censorship.

[00:00:16]Tonight is about Canada losing control in real time.

[00:00:22]In Montreal, city hall is fighting over Israel while foreign conflict spills into our streets. PJ Montreal is pushing the anti-Israel motion.

[00:00:33]Ensemble Montreal and Mayor Sarah are trying to reframe the issue with a civil peace viv uh DEI declaration.

[00:00:44]on the streets. Attacks on synagogues and pro- Palestinian activism, which sometimes veers into pro- Hamas activism, is occupying public space and pressuring municipal politics.

[00:00:58]In Montreal North, the SPVM is facing allegations that officers took hair from people. They intercepted and kept the locks of hairike trophies. In Toronto, a police officer is dead.

[00:01:16]We have synagogue shootings and a US consulate shooting.

[00:01:22]And Zarah Jabi remains at large and wanted in connection with the consulate shooting. And while the public is watching all of this, Canada is building new speech control and digital control machinery.

[00:01:38]Here's the pattern. There's chaos on our streets. the public notices and the state tries to control our speech.

[00:01:45]The pattern is the same all over the West.

[00:01:50]So now I'm going to bring up some footage from earlier today from Alexandre Lavois from Rebel News.

[00:02:01]One moment.

[00:02:08]All right.

[00:02:23]Hallelujah.

[00:02:32]Hallelujah.

[00:02:53]You may remember this woman, Samar Alur from her infamous rant against white people, Halloween, Canada, uh, pretty much everybody under the sun.

[00:03:06]Um, you know, so the caption says, "In front of Montreal City Hall, anti-Israel protesters are demonstrating to pressure elected officials to adopt a motion recognizing what they describe as a genocide in Gaza. Many familiar faces are present, including regular weekend protesters such as Simal Aldor, Zam Moafi, Hadti Dagger, Eve Angler, and others. We also saw Alex Tierrell there.

[00:03:32]I'm going to bring up the response of Sariah Maras Sariah before it was tabled. So what happened was there was this motion tabled you know um uh Montreal tabled a motion at Israel using apartheid and genocide language and saying that they wanted Montreal to cut ties uh with Israel. you know, even though this is municipal politics, it's mayoral politics.

[00:04:06]So, um, Mayor Sarah's ensemble Montreal declaration sidesteps that framing.

[00:04:14]So, it wasn't a rejection of it. It's basically a softer institutional response with the usual diversity, equity, and inclusion language. civil peace, dialogue, anti-semitism, islamophobia, racism, security, communities not responsible for foreign governments or terror groups living together peacefully.

[00:04:35]So Sariah with this was trying to reframe the fight before the motion was tabled today. So let's have a look at uh some of what she wrote so I can do the translation. Living together is one of our greatest strengths. We have the collective responsibility to defend it.

[00:04:52]is together that we succeed.

[00:04:55]And if you read over this um it's basically was what I just uh surmised before summarized rather.

[00:05:08]So this is an important part Then it talks about the isms.

[00:05:29]Anyway, you can read uh the entire the entire statement or uh motion, the counter motion, I guess. I'm not sure the technical term.

[00:05:42]Some of it is reasonable.

[00:05:45]Obviously, Jewish Montrealers should not be blamed for what happens in Israel, and Israelis should not be treated as war criminals in Montreal. But the existence of the declaration proves the bigger point. Foreign conflicts are now entrenched in Montreal civil life. If city hall needs a formal declaration telling people not to import Middle Eastern conflicts into the city of Montreal, then the conflict has already been imported.

[00:06:18]Now, I'm going to show you some protest footage which collaborates what I'm saying here and it shows that it's not just a debate in council, but that this is unfolding on our streets.

[00:06:34]So, first we have this is footage I believe from yesterday from Rebel and I'll play it. It's um a homeless man screaming Alahu Akbar at one of these protests.

[00:07:09]I mean, it's unclear to me if that's what he's yelling. There's there's a mention of Allah. So, we have this individual um this is unfolding on our streets. And then we have this footage from Guiama.

[00:07:43]So, for people who may not know, it's important to realize that we have a new law in Montreal that went into effect just before Easter weekend that was supposed to ban public prayers that hadn't already been planned prior to the law. and various journalists, myself included, filmed Montreal for Palestine activists that weekend following the law. And what we saw was this. It's called a dua. It's not the same as a salah, which is the prostration that you're probably associate with Islam and the public prayers that have been performed in Montreal over the past several years.

[00:08:35]This is a standing invocation.

[00:08:38]Um, and so that's what's being filmed yesterday. So, as you can see, the laws are being flouted and they aren't being applied by the police who are always covering these protests and indeed tend to act as the private paid escorts of these individuals.

[00:09:24]So as you can see people are trying to block the journalists from filming with flags and with umbrellas.

[00:09:46]Oh Allah, we ask us, we ask you to make it easy on our people. Oh Allah, we ask you to support them. Oh Allah, we ask you to protect them.

[00:09:57]>> So this continues. Raise up your hands. We want TO GIVE A PLEDGE, A PROMISE.

[00:10:05]Raise up your hands.

[00:10:13]>> As you can see, the journalists are being blocked from filming.

[00:10:28]You get the picture. So the journalists are trying to cover the story. They are being blocked. We have pro- Hamas protesters in the streets who are not following the laws. So far the anti- prayer laws have only being applied to Christians, which was entirely predictable.

[00:10:51]So the public space is being shaped by organized foreign conflict activism.

[00:10:57]I think the questions at this point that we need to be asking our elected officials are who controls the city?

[00:11:06]Do elected officials, do the police, do the residents, do activist networks?

[00:11:12]City Hall is using this language of dialogue, but the streets show the cracks. Our institutions are now pretending that this is normal everyday politics. It's been going on for almost three years, closing in on three years now in October. But we see daily evidence that foreign conflicts are being absorbed into Canadian civic institutions just by what happened today. And now we're going to switch it up. And the theme today is looking at institutions through specific examples and some of the breakdown. So you may have heard the breaking news on Friday night about the SPVM Montreal North Station 39.

[00:12:03]Internal reports from other police officers led to 16 officers being put under investigation. to have been recommended for criminal charges as reports of hair like dreadlocks allegedly being taken from people and kept like trophies. The mayor has called for an independent observer of the process and somebody has been appointed to observe the investigation and it's possible that it will later be transferred to a different police service but currently my understanding is that it is being handled uh like a an an internal investigation and I think that if this ends up being true that it has to be criminally investigated But I still would like to have the full story because we haven't been given enough information so far. I have more questions than answers at this point. So, I'd like to know who the officers were, who the people were who were targeted, if this was happening during lawful arrests or interventions or street checks or random stops. There are reports that black and Arabic citizens were specifically targeted and also ticketed.

[00:13:25]So, who knew this? How long was it going on for? Why did they break the story late on Friday night? Because that's usually what happens when they want to bury something and then they can say that they were transparent and the information got out, but oftentimes it's not picked up by the media. But in the case this was, why is an independent observer enough for now? If 16 police officers in one precinct um were involved in this, why not immediately send it outside the SPVM so that there can be an expedient investigation?

[00:14:00]In my opinion, this is trust collapse in all directions because if the police abused the citizens, the trust collapses. And if officials are dripping out partial facts knowing that the police abused the citizens in order to manage the story, trust collapses. So either way, we have trust collapse surrounding this story. And either way, the institutions are failing.

[00:14:27]Now I'm going to pivot over to the Toronto shootings.

[00:14:35]It's very sad. I imagine that most people heard about the victim, Constable Mark Pinazato.

[00:14:45]I'm going to bring up a picture of him with his family.

[00:14:52]So this is Constable Mark Pin Zatoto with his children, his beautiful wife, beautiful family.

[00:15:05]So the background to this story is that several Toronto area synagogues were shot at, including the temple Emmanuel by uh Shai Sha Shamim.

[00:15:20]Excuse me if I'm butchering the pronunciations for my notes. Um, two unnamed miners were later charged in relation to uh buy it to the share shamayam.

[00:15:35]Then on March 10th, the US consulate was shot at. Two people fired and fled the scene.

[00:15:44]There were no injuries.

[00:15:47]Zarah Jabi was later declared as wanted in connection with this shooting. and Sheldon Tracy Stewart was later arrested and charged in that shooting.

[00:16:00]March 25th and 26th, Nicholas Bennett was wanted in connection with two separate shootings.

[00:16:09]One near Eg Markham Road and one at a Brazilian jiu-jitsu studio near Islington and Lakeshore. There were no injuries in either shooting.

[00:16:22]Then in May, US prosecutors alleged that Mohamad Backer Sad al-Sadi who is tied to an Iranianbacked network.

[00:16:36]So this man was an Iraqi Iranian is my understanding and he is tied to an IRGC funded network was connected to attacks in Europe as well as Canada including the Toronto US consulate attack and one of the synagogue related attacks.

[00:17:01]June 11th, the Toronto police executed five high-risk warrants tied to multiple shootings, including the US consulate case. And it was reported by um one reporter as well that it was tied, it was reported at the time that it was also tied to synagogue shootings.

[00:17:25]And this is when Constable Mark Pinizoto comes in because he was killed during one of these high stakes um one of these high stakes operations.

[00:17:41]Nicholas Bennett was shot after allegedly shooting fatally um Mark and he is being charged with first-degree murder. He's in hospital with serious injuries, but he has been in court apparently.

[00:18:03]So, it's very complex trying to piece together what happened during this operation because Jabby and Tracy Stewart are directly tied to the US consulate shooting according to the police.

[00:18:22]However, Bennett is tied to the raid and separate March shootings that weren't related, to my understanding, to the US consulate or to the synagogues.

[00:18:34]Now, Global reportedly says that court documents do not allege that Bennett was involved in the consulate shooting or the synagogue shootings. So, the public needs a clear map.

[00:18:47]Are these local criminals? Are they proxies?

[00:18:52]Are they ideological actors? Are they organized crime? Is this indeed foreign directed? Are these overlapping networks?

[00:19:01]Are they the same weapons, vehicles, handlers, or social cir circles? Because it was put out in a very confusing manner. And there are still news organizations that are alleging that Zarah Jabi was wanted in connection with the shooting of the police officer, but the more that I've looked into it, the less that that seems to be the case. It isn't even clear to me that he was there when the search warrants were being executed. So, I think that if he was, from what I understand from the many, many reports that I've looked at, if he was involved, then he was involved in an associated manner for the broader overreaching investigation, but not necessarily for the shooting itself.

[00:19:50]So, I have questions about that and we need clarity. And I did reach out to the TPS on Friday. I called them or Thursday. I I'd have to look at my notes and I also emailed them but of course they haven't responded. So it would be nice if they did because the reports that are being published by most news but not global imply that Jabby is wanted and armed and on the loose and that he was associated with this uh cop murder. But the more I look at it, the more I think that he wasn't he wasn't there from what I understand. So clarity would be important. And there's also the fact that his image was put up. I published it myself. But there's a publication ban after 5 days. So we have somebody who has been on the loose at the very least in a shooting and the police haven't located him in five days. So it's uh it's confusing and it's also worrying. So [sighs] in my opinion the strongest state capacity point is a police officer is dead, synagogues have been shot at, the US consulate has shot at has been shot at. An Iranian linked international ring allegation exists and a man wanted in connection with the consulate shooting remains at large. So the public is getting fragments. We're not getting the big picture. And it seems like it's not just a crime story. It's a national security failure. According to the court documents that were obtained by Global, when Sheldon Tracy Stewart was arrested in connection with the US consulate shooting, he was already bound by a release order, meaning he was released and he was charged with failing to comply with the terms of the release specifically specifically in a weapons related condition. So, how many times are we going to have violent criminals unleashed on us who have already been charged? It is unbelievable. And it is implied that he was at the building when the police officer was shot. The press haven't come out directly to tie him to the shooting, but that will be big news if it indeed is confirmed by the police.

[00:22:22]And it would be it would be good to know. I also wanted to bring this aspect up.

[00:22:31]Um here we go.

[00:22:34]So this was published by the exac account Mrant 75 and he believes that Zarah Jabi was part of this police Muslim outreach program um because of the timeline adding up.

[00:22:55]He's 19 now. He would have been six uh when it was published which would make sense. And so you can have a look at this story. It would be a a terrible example of lack of, you know, successful outreach if if that ends up being true. You can see here um nearby six-year-old Sarah Jabby talks excitedly about seeing the police cars.

[00:23:26]So, I obviously can't confirm that from an archived newspaper claim, but it certainly makes sense and is concerning.

[00:23:40]So, the public is watching chaos on the streets, foreign conflict inside municipal politics. Now, a police scandal in Montreal North, synagogue shootings, a US consulate shooting, a dead Toronto police officer, a suspect still at large.

[00:24:00]And at the same time that all of this is happening, Ottawa is building an entire architecture of speech control, digital control, lawful access, hate law expansions, cyber security, authority and expansions, and online harms regulation.

[00:24:23]So, I'm just going to pull something up.

[00:24:29]I might have closed it.

[00:24:32]Okay, we'll look at it after. That's okay. So, to go through an overview of these laws because it's confusing because some some were started and stopped in the last session. So, bill C22 is the lawful access act and the government frames it as giving more uh the police more timely access to information including subscriber information linked to an account. So like the name, the phone number, the address, email, etc. And it it's at first glance these laws to the untrained eye always seem to make sense because of course we want the state to have faster pathways to stopping say child predators online or um hackers that are getting into people's bank accounts, right? But the thing is this is it's like a pre-rime where it creates a pathway ahead of time into people's digital lives where the companies will be required to have all of that information. So it won't only be used for the worst criminals. It's really what the state is doing is they're creating a a broad expectation that service providers and platforms and digital companies have to produce user information for the state on command. Then we have bill C34 which is trending a lot in the news right now.

[00:26:03]The Safe Social Media Act. Every time you hear safe, you've got to raise an eyebrow. So it's sold as child protection with restrictions on social media accounts for children but only certain companies of course always the right leaning ones for children under 16 different regulations uh with regards to AI chat bots new platform duties and responsibilities a digital regulator and large fines for non-compliance.

[00:26:35]Everybody agrees that children should be protected.

[00:26:39]That's why children have parents who can control their access to devices and their internet access as well. And the state could, for example, ban pornography online, but it's obviously not going to do that. So instead, we have age restrictions being put in. And age restrictions mean age verification.

[00:27:02]And age verification means identity systems, data collection, platform surveillance, and state approved access to the internet and to various social media companies. Then we have bill C9.

[00:27:18]It's the combating hate act. It's framed around uh hate propaganda, hate crimes, and protecting access to religious and cultural places.

[00:27:30]So again, instead of the state applying laws that we already had which would cover um intimidation, harassment, criminal threats, um blocking access to religious sites, people getting like breaking into religious sites and um property destruction, this type of thing. instead of applying laws that we had already in existence, they're creating new laws and not dealing with uh a pre-existing framework.

[00:28:08]So now we have this uh like elastic use of the word hate which is really nebulous.

[00:28:14]And in Canada, the term seems to be a smear against people who are highly critical of the state. or people who notice obvious public safety failures and policing failures.

[00:28:31]Then we have bill C8 which is the cyber security bill. It amends telecoms and it gives the state more authority around um critical cyber systems and various infrastructure.

[00:28:47]On paper that makes sense. It sounds reasonable. We don't want the, you know, the military being hacked into, right? But in practice, it goes always in exactly the same direction of travel. More federal authority over communication systems, telecom, infrastructure, and compliance.

[00:29:10]Then we have the ghost of Bill C63. I did an entire like in front of a just a I put my phone on on a tripod and I did an entire episode about that before I was doing a more formal podcast just going through um the online harms framework that's now being repurposed.

[00:29:32]So, the specific bill died, but the project did not die, of course, and it's being reassembled through child safety, hate, uh, lawful access, platform duties, um, digital infrastructure, regulations, cyber security. So, it's just different labels of the same flawed bills and um it's being repackaged, you know, with child safety, public order, online harms. So it just always goes in the same direction um towards increased state power over its critics and um increased access to lawful users of social media and the internet.

[00:30:20]So I think that the question is what machinery is being built? Who will it be used against? How will it be applied once it exists? the state fails, the public notices. So, the state calls the public dangerous and then the state gives itself new powers to clamp down on what the public and its critics can say.

[00:30:44]So, I want to show you a few interesting comments.

[00:30:56]So, here we have Okay, here we have Mark Miller saying, "Canada may get the strongest digital online safety framework in the world."

[00:31:10]And I reply, "Canada may get the strongest online censorship framework in the world." X is the last bastion of independent journalism and the only site where your traitor's party is criticized. We can't have that now, can we, Mark? In the beef between you and Kermit Aldor, I was neutral. That was a little joke reference, but I thought this was a very interesting comment from Mark F. Proudman.

[00:31:34]He wrote Taylor Owen Brever Beaverbrook Chair, that's a mouthful, at McGill and director of the Center for Media Technology and Democracy, CMTD, publishes in the Globe an article in support of government censorship policy and is retweeted by the responsible cabinet minister. It sounds very reputable, but the CMTD, this should all say CMTD, just made a mistake in the acronym, is funded by the Liberal government through Global Affairs Canada and Heritage Canada. The CMTD is closely associated with the Media Ecosystem Observatory, quoted in the story, and the Canadian Digital Media Research Network, also funded by the Liberal Government. Nor does it stop there. Owen also works for G0ero Media, chaired by Ian Bremer of the Eurasia Group, employer of Car's wife and of Trudeau aid Jerry Buts and in the past of the current AI minister Evan Solomon.

[00:32:38]It's not a conspiracy so much as a network, a system of interlocking companies, university departments, and research centers. It sounds disinterested and authoritative, but it's all funded by an increasingly intrusive state. The Globe publishes a brief bio of Owen full of positions and credentials, but omitting the key fact of state funding. The Globe itself is itself a quasi autonomous part of the state complex, itself significantly statef funded. The grand abstractions in their titles usually mention democracy, but this is an oligarchy rather than a democracy and they want to control what we can say.

[00:33:20]Owen's globe column is the opposite of independent disinterested commentary. It is dependent and highly interested.

[00:33:27]Links below. So have a look at this.

[00:33:33]This is a grant to the Canadian Digital Media Research Network for $4 million.

[00:33:42]The Digital Citizen Contribution Program, Canadian Digital Media Research Network from Canadian Heritage.

[00:33:52]So, I looked up the company, the center or whatever. I don't know if it's not for Pratt. Who knows? Center for Media Technology and Democracy.

[00:34:06]Projects at the Center for Media Technology and Democracy are currently funded by generous support from Faculty of Arts, Miguel University, Global Affairs, Heritage Canada, Reset, the Beaverbrook Foundation, various foundations. I haven't looked into those. the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, TVO, the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, Canadian Internet Registration Authority. So, you get the picture.

[00:34:35]So we have the not forprofits and this whole like NGO GO complex that is heavily funded by the state and then they're used as the experts to give an air of respectability to the authoritarian measures that are being implemented against Canadians.

[00:35:05]So, I think that that's quite worrying.

[00:35:08]And this was another post that I thought was interesting because it addresses the issue of exactly what is going to happen with Bill C34. So, this is from Vladep blog and he Oh, one second. It's not coming up. He wrote, "Canada is set to pass Orwellian bill C34, allowing the state massive powers of arrest for fermenting hatred. It will be used for posting truths that make people dislike groups who commit antisocial acts. Likely, it will never be applied to anything like this.

[00:36:00]Thank you.

[00:36:01]>> Hello.

[00:36:02]>> Uh just one note for people who may not uh understand when it's said in various Islamic um procilitization and speeches to humiliate polytheists and polytheism.

[00:36:17]That's a reference to Christians because they consider that our concept of uh the father, the son, and the holy spirit is polytheism. So it's not just a reference to Hindus.

[00:36:56]For people who may not see the subtitles, it says, "Oh Allah, count their number. Slay them one by one and spare not one of them."

[00:37:05]Eggs.

[00:37:13]Aala purify Alexa mosque from the filth of the Jews. I'm reading from the translation.

[00:37:29]So indeed I think as the post indicates this is not the type of publication that would be um that that would be shut down according to Bill C34. it would more likely be criticism of that type of prayer. I think that would be shut down.

[00:37:59]So to circle back, we had at the beginning Montreal City Hall and I I don't know the outcome yet because they're currently still in session. So they're managing an imported conflict.

[00:38:14]Montreal streets are increasingly disharmonious and it's not once in a while, it's pretty much every day. We have the SPVM hair scandal coupled with the lack of action on pro- Hamas activism. That's very worrying. Toronto has synagogue shootings, a US consulate shooting, a dead police officer, a suspect still at large. And instead of restoring trust with clarity, transparency, border control, imposed integration of foreigners, public safety, and the equal application of our laws, Canada is building speech control machinery and criminalizing more speech every day. A failing government silences citizens while manufacturing narratives.

[00:39:07]So that's it for tonight. It is a quick episode because um I had a lot of technical issues. So, thanks for bearing with me if you were here. And it's also because I decided to break the episode up into two parts. So, the next show where I film, I'm going to cover the UK aspect because the UK is further along in the same process that Canada and many Western countries already have underway. So, we're going to look at the Belfast riots and the attack on the poor victim who's still in the hospital. The girls in Dundee, like the Lola iconic case, what's going on with that?

[00:40:01]The Henry Novak murder that I think most people have heard about. We're going to look at nudge units after crimes. So, that's the RIU in the UK. the fact that Tommy Robinson was detained again and billboard Chris was arrested. He's, you know, since being released and we're going to look at the criminalization of public reaction to all of this.

[00:40:30]I hope everybody has a very good night and that you share widely and um comment and help me to get the information out.