CANADIAN-MADE armoured vehicle spotted on Minneapolis street just after Alex Pretti was murdered
That armoured vehicle was made in Brampton, Ontario.
In December Roshel had secured a $10 million contract with ICE to ship them the vehicles. Many already had raised concerns about how ICE had been treating protesters.
The government, however, kept quiet about the deal. Ontario Premier Doug Ford went a step further, calling the contract “fantastic news.”
That’s not all.
The world reeled when an ICE agent shot Renee Good on the streets of Minneapolis. Calls for accountability and action rang out, and anger with ICE reached a fever pitch.
Six days later, the Canadian government brought the CEO of Roshel on a trade mission to Saudi Arabia.
Charlie, I came across this paragraph while reading "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk MD. The idea of a massive number of voices joined by song could, I hope, bring a cohesiveness to our protests, nation- wide. It might also provide an incentive for those not sure what to do at a protest and uncomfortable with constant whistle blowing and uncoordinated action. I am passing this to a number of my substack podcasters in hopes that this idea is sound and that they might take it up.
"Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, who was born in the tiny Baltic country of Estonia, told me the remarkable story of Estonia’s “Singing Revolution.” In June 1987, on one of those endless sub-Arctic summer evenings, more than ten thousand concertgoers at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds linked hands and began to sing patriotic songs that had been forbidden during half a century of Soviet occupation. These songfests and protests continued, and on September 11, 1988, three hundred thousand people, about a quarter of the population of Estonia, gathered to sing and make a public demand for independence. By August 1991 the Congress of Estonia had proclaimed the restoration of the Estonian state, and when Soviet tanks attempted to intervene, people acted as human shields to protect Tallinn’s radio and TV stations. As a columnist noted in the New York Times: “Imagine the scene in Casablanca in which the French patrons sing “La Marseillaise” in defiance of the Germans, then multiply its power by a factor of thousands, and you’ve only begun to imagine the force of the Singing Revolution.”
Well said Charlie for your well written summation of what has happened and what will happen unless, as you say, people stand up to the tyranny. What makes this so predictable is that this tyranny has played out almost precisely as before, in Germany. There are so many parallels to Hitlers rise to power it is as though the President is using the Hitler playbook.
Over the top. This kind of drivel is not helpful Charlie stick to facts and the truth. You are starting to sound like Trump. That's not a good look for you
The letter from AG Bondi reportedly holds three requests to Walz, which Bondi states would “restore the rule of law, support ICE officers, and bring an end to the chaos in Minnesota.” The third request in the letter was to allow the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to access Minnesota’s “voter rolls.”
Food for thought: for every American, there are 3 guns, which is actually obscene. The original colonists fought against The Mad King, King George III, who had THE most powerful army in the world, and they eventually were victorious. Also look at Ukraine vs Russia, a superpower. With help, they are holding their own. Now, I’m not an advocate of violence- I’m more along the line of the approach of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr- passive resistance, strikes, boycotts. Nonviolence works better. But I could see this pot boiling over and violence show it’s ugly head. This could be Trump’s plan. I hope we don’t take the bait.
I watch all the goings on down in Minneapolis and wonder how can the gop in the house and the senate stand for the violence of ICE, by voting to fund them the government is just as much guilty of the violence and murders as the thugs that are working for Trump. This is just as bad as Netanyehus genocide of Palistiniens and the Israelie people turning a blind eye to the crimes of their government, but if you look at the two situations the main characters are both have the one thought in mind, and that is greed and power. Ilook at the things that Trump is trying to do like taking over other countries as if he can just annex who ever he wants and they will bow down to him well I say instead of kissing his ass WE THE PEOPLE need to kick his ass, so here is a thought, why don't us Canadians give an offer like Tod Maffin did with American health care workers to come and work in Canada, and make an offer to Minnesota to annex them and make them the 11 province of Canada, and maybe float the invitation to all the boarder states that Trump and ICE are targeting. let us look at it in a geographic sense, there is already a part of Minnesota that you can only reach by traveling through Manitoba, and the same as Washington state , they have a town that the only access is through British Columbia, so if you Trump logic they already are part of Canada. Now all kidding aside this world with all of its want for greed and power is going to hell in a hand basket, the only hope that I heard was Prime Minister Carnys Davos speech his rebuttle to Trumps garbage that he spewed, and an interview wit a Greenland official who said the people of Greenland are not interested in money and that they liked their way of life and why would they want to give up free health care and education, now that is another incentive for Minnesota to consider LOL, but hearing the words not interested in money gave this Canadian who grew up poor, a warm feeling that the people of Greenland can tell the rich and powerful in a polite way to FUCK OFF. My rant is done now and to all the free living people around the world, " GET UP AN STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS". To Charlie and my brothers and sisters in Canada and around the world, have a great and safe day, Manitoba out.
The more the US spirals into chaos, the more Canada is at threat. By now it should be obvious that a significant proportion of the American population has been radicalized by the US MAGA fascist post-truth machine. They are determined, uncompromising and will not easily relinquish power; rather, they will burn their house down before they surrender. And that also includes destabilizing Canada, or worse. Canada needs to recognize that US MAGA has entered our political bloodstream (CPC Maple MAGA, Albertan separatists). The US fascists have a clear plan for Canada, and there are dupes and/or collaborators here, no question. Stay united, stay strong, take courage and gird yourselves.
I'm reading Hannah Arendt's THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM just now, and wish I'd studied her earlier. She describes the conditions in Europe prior to and between the two wars, and there are a lot of similarities.
One that she dwells on is the degree of stateless people created at the end of WWI........and the intolerance nation states had for them. Sounds like Amerika now, willing to trash everything to beat up on refugees, many of them coming from American regime change militarism in Latin America.
The other is the degree of isolation/loneliness that many people were experiencing, a condition that made strong men, and absolute ideas attractive........and nonsense about superior national races satisfying.
The problems America is facing took a few decades to put in place, just as global free markets and export trade had to be consolidated over the last 45 years or so.
But now here we are....a warming world with people on the move looking for a better life, isolated individualism running up against growing unaffordability, and a moron at the helm of the most powerful......and stupid, country on earth.
The Inconvenient Truth for me, and I think all Canadians:: WE SIGNED ON TO THEIR EMPIRE, ARE ENTANGLED WITH THEM TO A GREATER DEGREE THAN IS HEALTHY.....and neither more bitumen pipes......or a few thousand good EV's from China, are going to get us free in the short term.
It's an abusive relationship...and Trump says there will be no divorce. Whatever we do, big changes are coming. We could handle those changes as Canadians, and determine to leave no one behind...but I'm not hopeful
"...to beat up on refugees, many of them coming from American regime change militarism..." is a very important reminder in this upside-down world. In the past, I used the term 'co-dependent' to describe our relationship with the US, but it is abusive and becoming increasingly dangerous, on many levels.
Those of us who opposed NAFTA did so for these very reasons. Having lived and studied in the USA, I knew what their precious sense of themselves amounted to. Young Viet Cong boys thrown out of helicopters with their hands tied behind their backs......a direct line from young black boys hung from trees in the south.
You don't commit those kind of acts and get anywhere close to me and mine.
Just today I listened to an interview with James Baldwin entitled "those who can't make love, make money'.......and it seems true, given the big difference between the cost of American F-35's and the Swedish plane.
Still I fear we'll go with central banking values.........and try to convince the public buying an American fighter jet, and building more bitumen pipelines to all our warming oceans is a sure fire plan to get free from American domination.
Real ELBOWS UP would see through that kind of phoney Canadian nationalism.
Charlie what you seem not to know is that Minnesota has tried all the nonviolent things you have suggested, it bolsters the people of MN but makes no effect on the regime.
Waltz has no choice but try and protect his people and he would be derelict in his duty if he did not call in the Natl Guard.
Charlie, you should not put blame on Walz for doing what people elected him to do ..watch out for their state. Instead, you should point your finger at the regime that will be stopped by no one or nothing. Don't blame the victim for its self defense.
Charlie what you seem not to know is that Minnesota has tried all the nonviolent things you have suggested, it bolsters the people of MN but makes no effect on the regime.
Waltz has no choice but try and protect his people and he would be derelict in his duty if he did not call in the Natl Guard.
Charlie, you should not put blame on Walz for doing what people elected him to do ..watch out for their state. Instead, you should point your finger at the regime that will be stopped by no one or nothing. Don't blame the victim for its self defense.
CANADIAN-MADE armoured vehicle spotted on Minneapolis street just after Alex Pretti was murdered
That armoured vehicle was made in Brampton, Ontario.
In December Roshel had secured a $10 million contract with ICE to ship them the vehicles. Many already had raised concerns about how ICE had been treating protesters.
The government, however, kept quiet about the deal. Ontario Premier Doug Ford went a step further, calling the contract “fantastic news.”
That’s not all.
The world reeled when an ICE agent shot Renee Good on the streets of Minneapolis. Calls for accountability and action rang out, and anger with ICE reached a fever pitch.
Six days later, the Canadian government brought the CEO of Roshel on a trade mission to Saudi Arabia.
Charlie, I came across this paragraph while reading "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk MD. The idea of a massive number of voices joined by song could, I hope, bring a cohesiveness to our protests, nation- wide. It might also provide an incentive for those not sure what to do at a protest and uncomfortable with constant whistle blowing and uncoordinated action. I am passing this to a number of my substack podcasters in hopes that this idea is sound and that they might take it up.
"Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, who was born in the tiny Baltic country of Estonia, told me the remarkable story of Estonia’s “Singing Revolution.” In June 1987, on one of those endless sub-Arctic summer evenings, more than ten thousand concertgoers at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds linked hands and began to sing patriotic songs that had been forbidden during half a century of Soviet occupation. These songfests and protests continued, and on September 11, 1988, three hundred thousand people, about a quarter of the population of Estonia, gathered to sing and make a public demand for independence. By August 1991 the Congress of Estonia had proclaimed the restoration of the Estonian state, and when Soviet tanks attempted to intervene, people acted as human shields to protect Tallinn’s radio and TV stations. As a columnist noted in the New York Times: “Imagine the scene in Casablanca in which the French patrons sing “La Marseillaise” in defiance of the Germans, then multiply its power by a factor of thousands, and you’ve only begun to imagine the force of the Singing Revolution.”
Well said Charlie for your well written summation of what has happened and what will happen unless, as you say, people stand up to the tyranny. What makes this so predictable is that this tyranny has played out almost precisely as before, in Germany. There are so many parallels to Hitlers rise to power it is as though the President is using the Hitler playbook.
Over the top. This kind of drivel is not helpful Charlie stick to facts and the truth. You are starting to sound like Trump. That's not a good look for you
Take a look at what the national guard has actually done so far.
Canada Proud!!!!!
Canadian ambassador to USA, Kristen Hillman was on CBS Face the Nation today.
She was absolutly brilliant, articulate and class A!!!
From coast to coast we should celebarate how lucky we are!!!
Elbows UP!!!
NEVER 51!!
I am appalled at what Trump is willing to do to stop the Epstein Files from being released. It seems there is nothing he wouldn't do.
Well, there's that. But they're also trying to mess with the elections there.
Have you heard about the letter Pam Bondi sent them?
https://www.kttc.com/2026/01/25/minnesota-secretary-state-steve-simon-releases-statement-response-us-ag-pam-bondi-letter/
The letter from AG Bondi reportedly holds three requests to Walz, which Bondi states would “restore the rule of law, support ICE officers, and bring an end to the chaos in Minnesota.” The third request in the letter was to allow the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to access Minnesota’s “voter rolls.”
Food for thought: for every American, there are 3 guns, which is actually obscene. The original colonists fought against The Mad King, King George III, who had THE most powerful army in the world, and they eventually were victorious. Also look at Ukraine vs Russia, a superpower. With help, they are holding their own. Now, I’m not an advocate of violence- I’m more along the line of the approach of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr- passive resistance, strikes, boycotts. Nonviolence works better. But I could see this pot boiling over and violence show it’s ugly head. This could be Trump’s plan. I hope we don’t take the bait.
I watch all the goings on down in Minneapolis and wonder how can the gop in the house and the senate stand for the violence of ICE, by voting to fund them the government is just as much guilty of the violence and murders as the thugs that are working for Trump. This is just as bad as Netanyehus genocide of Palistiniens and the Israelie people turning a blind eye to the crimes of their government, but if you look at the two situations the main characters are both have the one thought in mind, and that is greed and power. Ilook at the things that Trump is trying to do like taking over other countries as if he can just annex who ever he wants and they will bow down to him well I say instead of kissing his ass WE THE PEOPLE need to kick his ass, so here is a thought, why don't us Canadians give an offer like Tod Maffin did with American health care workers to come and work in Canada, and make an offer to Minnesota to annex them and make them the 11 province of Canada, and maybe float the invitation to all the boarder states that Trump and ICE are targeting. let us look at it in a geographic sense, there is already a part of Minnesota that you can only reach by traveling through Manitoba, and the same as Washington state , they have a town that the only access is through British Columbia, so if you Trump logic they already are part of Canada. Now all kidding aside this world with all of its want for greed and power is going to hell in a hand basket, the only hope that I heard was Prime Minister Carnys Davos speech his rebuttle to Trumps garbage that he spewed, and an interview wit a Greenland official who said the people of Greenland are not interested in money and that they liked their way of life and why would they want to give up free health care and education, now that is another incentive for Minnesota to consider LOL, but hearing the words not interested in money gave this Canadian who grew up poor, a warm feeling that the people of Greenland can tell the rich and powerful in a polite way to FUCK OFF. My rant is done now and to all the free living people around the world, " GET UP AN STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS". To Charlie and my brothers and sisters in Canada and around the world, have a great and safe day, Manitoba out.
Such a far cry from Netherland, but so incisive.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
--Neil Young "Ohio"
The more the US spirals into chaos, the more Canada is at threat. By now it should be obvious that a significant proportion of the American population has been radicalized by the US MAGA fascist post-truth machine. They are determined, uncompromising and will not easily relinquish power; rather, they will burn their house down before they surrender. And that also includes destabilizing Canada, or worse. Canada needs to recognize that US MAGA has entered our political bloodstream (CPC Maple MAGA, Albertan separatists). The US fascists have a clear plan for Canada, and there are dupes and/or collaborators here, no question. Stay united, stay strong, take courage and gird yourselves.
I'm reading Hannah Arendt's THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM just now, and wish I'd studied her earlier. She describes the conditions in Europe prior to and between the two wars, and there are a lot of similarities.
One that she dwells on is the degree of stateless people created at the end of WWI........and the intolerance nation states had for them. Sounds like Amerika now, willing to trash everything to beat up on refugees, many of them coming from American regime change militarism in Latin America.
The other is the degree of isolation/loneliness that many people were experiencing, a condition that made strong men, and absolute ideas attractive........and nonsense about superior national races satisfying.
The problems America is facing took a few decades to put in place, just as global free markets and export trade had to be consolidated over the last 45 years or so.
But now here we are....a warming world with people on the move looking for a better life, isolated individualism running up against growing unaffordability, and a moron at the helm of the most powerful......and stupid, country on earth.
The Inconvenient Truth for me, and I think all Canadians:: WE SIGNED ON TO THEIR EMPIRE, ARE ENTANGLED WITH THEM TO A GREATER DEGREE THAN IS HEALTHY.....and neither more bitumen pipes......or a few thousand good EV's from China, are going to get us free in the short term.
It's an abusive relationship...and Trump says there will be no divorce. Whatever we do, big changes are coming. We could handle those changes as Canadians, and determine to leave no one behind...but I'm not hopeful
"...to beat up on refugees, many of them coming from American regime change militarism..." is a very important reminder in this upside-down world. In the past, I used the term 'co-dependent' to describe our relationship with the US, but it is abusive and becoming increasingly dangerous, on many levels.
Those of us who opposed NAFTA did so for these very reasons. Having lived and studied in the USA, I knew what their precious sense of themselves amounted to. Young Viet Cong boys thrown out of helicopters with their hands tied behind their backs......a direct line from young black boys hung from trees in the south.
You don't commit those kind of acts and get anywhere close to me and mine.
Just today I listened to an interview with James Baldwin entitled "those who can't make love, make money'.......and it seems true, given the big difference between the cost of American F-35's and the Swedish plane.
Still I fear we'll go with central banking values.........and try to convince the public buying an American fighter jet, and building more bitumen pipelines to all our warming oceans is a sure fire plan to get free from American domination.
Real ELBOWS UP would see through that kind of phoney Canadian nationalism.
Charlie what you seem not to know is that Minnesota has tried all the nonviolent things you have suggested, it bolsters the people of MN but makes no effect on the regime.
Waltz has no choice but try and protect his people and he would be derelict in his duty if he did not call in the Natl Guard.
Charlie, you should not put blame on Walz for doing what people elected him to do ..watch out for their state. Instead, you should point your finger at the regime that will be stopped by no one or nothing. Don't blame the victim for its self defense.
Charlie what you seem not to know is that Minnesota has tried all the nonviolent things you have suggested, it bolsters the people of MN but makes no effect on the regime.
Waltz has no choice but try and protect his people and he would be derelict in his duty if he did not call in the Natl Guard.
Charlie, you should not put blame on Walz for doing what people elected him to do ..watch out for their state. Instead, you should point your finger at the regime that will be stopped by no one or nothing. Don't blame the victim for its self defense.
A nurse shot ten times - in the back - by the U.S. government.
Yeah, the same government that's establishing a Board of Peace.