Tabitha Peters

JUDGEMENT DAY: @EzraLevant is in the Ottawa Courthouse for Tamara Lich’s verdict More than three years after the Freedom Convoy was brought to a violent end, two of the protest's organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, are set to receive their verdicts. I’m sitting in Courtroom Five of the Ottawa Courthouse. A few feet away from me is Tamara Lich, and her co-accused Chris Barber. They have been on trial for “mischief” — that’s what the government has called the trucker convoy. But it’s turned into the longest-running mischief trial in Canadian history. The process has become the punishment. Tamara Lich was the positive, peaceful, loving face of the convoy. She personified its spirit — a place of bouncy castles and hot-tubs, of people singing O Canada and waving the flag. She set the mood and spirit for the most important peaceful civil liberties protest in Canadian history. What a contrast to Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland — scowling, denouncing, sending in riot police, and seizing bank accounts. That’s why they had to prosecute her: they had to knock her down a peg. They know that if she is convicted of a crime, the entire convoy would be besmirched. But I know that the reverse is true: if Tamara Lich is acquitted today, that will vindicate everything the convoy did, and put the government in its place. I’m going to be live-tweeting the results today — the ruling is expected to be over 100 pages long, and the judge intends to read most of it out loud. Follow along on my Twitter account, and I’ll also make occasional video updates during breaks. And: if you’re able to, please help chip in to cover Tamara Lich’s legal fees. The Democracy Fund has been paying the enormous bills of Tamara’s top-flight lawyers. If you can help, please click here, or go to HelpTamara.com. The Democracy Fund is a charity, so you’ll get a charitable tax receipt for your gift. The government has spent more than $10 million in their witch-hunt, between the police and the prosecution. We’ve got to help Tamara fight back. Thanks for your support — and please follow my live-tweeting throughout the day!

🚨SAVE THE OSTRICHES! Help stop the Canadian government's cruel killing order Hundreds of healthy, immune ostriches are set to be slaughtered by government mandate while groundbreaking research and a family farm’s livelihood hang in the balance. Just over one week! That's all the time ostrich farmers in Edgewood, British Columbia, have to save their flock of 400 ostriches. February 1 isn’t just the deadline for the slaughter of these exotic birds, which their farmers insist are healthy, it’s also the date they’re required to dispose of the bodies. Why? Because the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued a culling order after an anonymous tip led them to the secluded farm and claimed that the PCR test results they ran on two diseased birds came back positive for H5N1 avian flu weeks ago. Yet as you’ll learn in an upcoming report, the farmers have good reason to believe that their 400 remaining long-necked friends have already achieved natural immunity for the avian flu and it’s possible that the younger ones who did get sick were not sick with H5N1 at all. Even worse, the ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms are not even used for human consumption. Instead, they’ve been crucial to a groundbreaking collaboration with Japan’s Kyoto Prefectural University. Through this partnership, scientists and the university’s president, Dr. Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, have been successfully extracting antibodies from the birds robust eggs in an effort to further interventions to the avian flu that's supposedly the reason for ordering the killing of the birds and millions upon millions of others like them. But such progress doesn’t align with the $590 million grant Moderna just received to develop mRNA vaccines for bird flu, does it? Visit SaveTheOstriches.com and sign the petition! Click "EDIT AND SEND EMAIL" to directly email all officials to demand the CIFA and Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-Food to reverse this scheduled massacre! By @DreaHumphrey.