Sarah Orvis

Opinions are my own.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Granular knowledge of how the Vancouver Condo Kings are the major supporters of people like Gregor Robertson, Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney was my past reporting beat. I’m not going back to it, other reporters need to pick that up. Read JWR’s chapter about meeting Trudeau in his friend’s pent house to understand who Carney is bailing out. I can say the Chinese money behind all these Liberals makes the story so much worse than a Liberal bail out of slick developers. This is scandalous and nationally ruinous.

[Build Canada @build_canada]

You've likely seen the headlines from bills C-34, C-36, and C-22 in the media.

Each may sound reasonable on their own: protect kids online, modernize privacy, help police catch criminals.

But buried within is an emerging Digital Regulatory Superpower unlike anything Canadians have ever seen.

These bills hand one unelected commission power over what Canadians can say, what stays private, and who the state can watch.

As of today, the Federal Government is rushing to enact massive Internet Surveillance Reform into law without proper debate.

[Sarah Orvis @SarahBuckOrvis]

Canada, take notice. This will be us too if the law restricting social media to 16+yo passes.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

[Chris Warkentin @chriswarkentin]

WATCH: Liberal Minister CONFIRMS his plan to regulate what Canadians can say on social media.

He cites the UK’s censorship regime as an example that Canada should follow.

Do you trust the Liberals to decide what you can say online?

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Last Friday, the Federal Court of Appeal released one of the most significant constitutional decisions in decades.

The Court confirmed that the federal government’s February 14, 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act was unlawful, that statutory thresholds were not met, and that fundamental Charter rights including freedom of expression, protection against unreasonable search and seizure, were violated.

It also held that the freezing of Canadians’ bank accounts was unlawful and occurred without the constitutional safeguards required in a free and democratic society.

This is now the second Canadian court to reach the same conclusion. The rule of law has spoken clearly. Yet there has been no public acknowledgement, apology, or explanation from the federal government.

In a Westminster parliamentary democracy, findings of this gravity engage the constitutional convention of Ministerial Responsibility. That principle holds that when ministers authorize unlawful action or preside over serious failures of governance, they are expected to accept responsibility, including resignation from Cabinet.

Seven members of the current Cabinet participated in the February 14, 2022 decision. Respect for constitutional norms and democratic accountability now requires that they resign from Cabinet:

- Dominic LeBlanc
- Mélanie Joly
- François-Philippe Champagne
- Anita Anand
- Patty Hajdu
- Marc Miller
- Sean Fraser

Canada's democracy depends not only on the exercise of power, but on the willingness to relinquish it when the law has been breached.

[Jordan Kealy @Jordan_Keal]

HORRIBLE NEWS SUPREME COURT DISMISSED CASE!

Overreach, Outdated Policies, Need for Reform, and the Bigger Implications for Food Security and Farming.

The CFIA’s ostrich cull isn’t about health — it’s about control
The Supreme Court of Canada just dismissed the case from Universal Ostrich Farm in BC — meaning the CFIA can now go ahead and kill hundreds of healthy ostriches that have been disease-free for over 270 days.
Let that sink in.
No symptoms. No deaths. No proof of active infection.
But the CFIA refuses to retest and threatens massive fines if anyone else does.
This isn’t about public safety anymore.
It’s about control — and it shows just how much power the CFIA and, by extension, the federal government, have to destroy livelihoods without accountability.
Their policies are decades out of date.
They treat every exposure as a death sentence, even when the animals recover and build natural immunity. Meanwhile, migratory birds keep spreading avian flu every year — something no one can stop.
If our only response is to “kill everything,” then what happens when it’s poultry next time? Or dairy herds? Or any other livestock sector?
At some point, we won’t have enough healthy animals left to rebuild the food supply.
We need new ways to manage disease — focused on resilience, immunity, and balanced biosecurity — not endless destruction.
Our farmers deserve policies based on science and common sense, not fear and bureaucracy.
The CFIA’s actions here prove one thing: the current system isn’t protecting Canadians. It’s protecting power.
And it’s time for that to change.
#StandWithFarmers #CFIAOverreach #FoodSecurity #IndependentFarms #BCPolitics
#KatiePasitney
#SaveOurOstriches
#BCRising
#OdessaOrlewicz
#JeffGaudry
#DanielleKinchella
#DreaHumphrey
#katkanada

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

From across Canada, and back to our final stop in Ottawa.

Change is in the air.

Tomorrow: Vote for Change. Vote Conservative.

[Clint Murphy @IAmClintMurphy]

Please stop.

Talk to the development community.

This is not the answer, it's the problem.

Our biggest challenge is red tape, regulations, burdensome fees and a lack of speed.

All of those have one common denominator - they're under your control. The Government.

Talk to us

Help reduce our challenges

Get out of our way and let us build

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

“The RCMP knows they have no framework within the Criminal Code, no resources, and no support from prosecution services. They just have no ability. And this whole thing with Trudeau saying that only 43 kilos of fentanyl—less than one percent—is coming from Canada is such a joke. It’s the interweaving of trade-based money laundering—if the public knew, it would blow their minds.

[Maxime Bernier @MaximeBernier]

*WARNING*

We’re about to relive the covid economic disaster, thanks to the globalist idiots in Ottawa and the provinces who govern us.

In 2020, instead of taking a rational and measured approach to dealing with the pandemic, they imposed lockdowns, closed most of the economy, and put countless Canadians out of work.

They then spent hundreds of billions of dollars to keep the unemployed and businesses afloat, got the Bank of Canada to print that money out of thin air, provoked massive inflation, destroyed businesses, made everyone poorer, all while the debt skyrocketed.

You heard them this week: Trudeau, Singh, Ford, Eby, Legault, and others are all salivating at the thought of DOING IT AGAIN — with Poilievre’s implicit support.

Instead of taking a rational and measured approach to dealing with Trump’s tariff threats, they want to make the impact doubly worse by retaliating with tariffs of our own, export taxes or an energy export blockade, and starting a futile trade war with the US that Canada cannot win.

And the disastrous impact of this trade war will be the pretext for, you guessed it, a “PANDEMIC-STYLE” multi-billion dollar emergency relief package.

Barely five years after the last one, they are planning to take us into another destructive cycle of unsustainable spending, debt accumulation, money printing and inflation. This at a time when Canada is weaker than ever and faces more economic and geopolitical uncertainty than ever.

You have a choice: Support this suicidal strategy, or support the PPC. It will be too late in five years.

[Shaun Rickard @ShaunRickard67]

BIG NEWS! Justice Kent Horne recently ruled that our Vaccine Travel Mandates Lawsuit can proceed to trial.
After 3 long & arduous years, our 15,000 pages of damning evidence will finally be heard in a public Federal Court hearing - Please repost this announcement widely.

Institute for Freedom & Justice - Our full official press release and all court documents can be reviewed here: https://t.co/Y71D6dF1uE

SUMMARY - Trudeau’s Discriminatory Travel Ban Finally Heads To Trial
In October of 2021 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau imposed upon Canadians a discriminatory and unscientific requirement to be vaccinated for Covid-19 before being able to board planes, trains or ships travelling within or out of Canada.
The restrictions implemented by Trudeau effectively prevented millions of Canadians from moving freely around in their own country and travelling abroad to work or to visit loved ones.

Two months later, in December of 2021, Shaun Rickard and Karl Harrison filed an application in the Federal Court to challenge the restrictions imposed by Trudeau. Inspired by Shaun and Karl three other similar applications were filed subsequently by the Hon Brian Peckford (and others), the Hon Maxime Bernier and a courageous young Quebec attorney, Nabil Ben Naoum. All four cases would be managed by Shaun and Karl’s young and brilliant lawyer, Sam Presvelos.

Over the next 6 months – including 6 weeks of cross examination of as many as 25 witnesses – there were around 15,000 pages of evidence assembled which showed that the Prime Minister had lied to the Canadian people about his so-called ‘health measures’, which had in fact been imposed only to create a ‘wedge issue’ and to aid his general election campaign in the Summer and Fall of 2021.

Faced with the reality of the overwhelming evidence, three of Trudeau’s ministers held a press conference on June 14th 2022 to announce that his travel mandate would be suspended. Immediately afterwards Trudeau’s lawyers filed a motion to strike the legal proceedings on the basis that they were deemed moot.

The Federal Court supported Trudeau’s motion and, whilst Shaun and Karl appealed the decision, the Federal Court of Appeal also decided that the matter was moot and that there would be no trial of this matter despite enormous public interest from the Canadian people. Close to 20,000 people attended the hearing via Zoom.

Brian Peckford and Maxime Bernier appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which refused to hear their appeals.

Shaun and Karl decided instead upon a different strategy, one that they felt had a better chance of a positive outcome.

Earlier in the proceedings in the Federal Court in Ottawa, Sam Presvelos had been successful in getting agreement from the Trudeau lawyers that if Shaun and Karl were to file an action for damages, then the government would not oppose use of the large and valuable evidentiary record from the earlier case.

In November of 2023 Shaun and Karl filed their claim for damages against the Trudeau government. Preliminary proceedings were protracted, and Trudeau’s lawyers filed a motion, in July 2023, to strike the claim entirely.

In November of 2024 Sam Presvelos represented Shaun and Karl in the Federal Court in Toronto to fight the motion to strike the claim. The outcome is perhaps not what Trudeau expected. The case will go to trial!

The claim was made in relation to a breach, by the Trudeau government, of the rights afforded to Shaun and Karl under Sections 6(1), 7, 12 and 15 of the Charter of Rights & Freedoms. The Court’s ruling found as follows:

Section 6(1) - The claim can proceed to trial for Karl but not for Shaun on the basis that Shaun was not a Canadian citizen, but a permanent resident, when the travel mandate was in place. (Canadian permanent residents are not protected under Section 6(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.)

Section 7 - The claim is struck subject to appeal. (Appeal has been filed)

Section 12 - The claim is struck subject to appeal. (Appeal has been filed)

Section 15 - The claim can proceed to trial for both Shaun and Karl

Therefore, the Federal Court has decided that it will hear the case as to whether mobility rights were infringed and whether so called “unvaccinated” Canadians are in fact a protected group against whom Trudeau discriminated.

Shaun and Karl are now pursuing an appeal in relation to the ruling on Sections 7 and 12. Such an appeal is unlikely to be heard for several months. If that appeal is successful then the government lawyers may appeal further to the Supreme Court, and that hearing would take place some months later.

There are also political issues to consider. A federal election will take place in 2025 and a new government may likely take a different view of these legal proceedings.

It has been a long and arduous journey for Shaun Rickard, Karl Harrison, Sam Presvelos and the thousands of Canadians who were also impacted and who have generously supported the case. This fight for justice is enormously important to millions of Canadians and the eventual outcome, if successful, may shape how future governments in Canada are allowed to impose restrictions in relation to public health concerns, and therefore protect generations to come.

The fight ahead may well be long and financially demanding. If you are able to support Shaun and Karl in this final, critical stage of this landmark legal battle against the Trudeau government you can do so by donating to their legal fund through the Institute for Freedom & Justice* here: https://t.co/GpGoQvDY7s

*Institute for Freedom & Justice is a registered Canadian charity (#85481 6162 RR0001), therefore a tax receipt can be issued.

Media enquiries:
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[Sarah Orvis @SarahBuckOrvis]

Impressive desal device developed at Dalhousie. Nice to see a good news story from a Canadian university.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

A floating solar still that can both desalinate water and generate thermoelectricity could help combat water scarcity in developing countries or remote areas | Dalhousie University

A lack of access to clean drinking water is a global problem, but a low-cost, portable water desalination device powered by solar energy developed by Dalhousie University researchers could help combat water scarcity in developing countries or remote areas.

Findings about the testing of a floating solar still that can both desalinate water and generate thermoelectricity were recently published in the open access iScience journal.

There are plenty of factors that make the Dal team’s device unique, but key among them is that its design centres around a far humbler component than competing devices made with precious metals. The secret ingredient: used tires.

The idea for the solar still stemmed from refractory plasmonics, a field that aims to develop thermally and chemically stable nanomaterials that can manipulate light in special ways under harsh conditions.

“Refractory plasmonic nanomaterials are very good at capturing light and converting that light into heat,” says Dr. Mita Dasog, an associate professor of chemistry and Killam Memorial Chair whose research group explores potential applications of this technology.

A device is born

Dr. Dasog was a lead author on the iScience journal paper along with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Matthew Margeson (PhD’24) and former undergraduate lab member Mark Atwood (BSc’23).

As a PhD student, Dr. Margeson conceptualized and developed the floating still prototype with the intention of overcoming challenges faced by previous designs, such as minimizing thermal losses, preventing salt buildup, and withstanding wind, waves, and changing weather conditions.

After placing the device in water, results can be seen almost instantly. A wicking system brings ocean water up to the foam surface of the device, where it’s evaporated by solar-heated plasmonic materials. With the salt left behind, the water recondenses on the clear plastic dome over the top of the device and is funneled down the sides where it’s collected in a sealed bag.

Real-world testing in Halifax Harbour resulted in daily water yields of up to 3.67 litres, a record-breaking amount for a passive floating solar still. The still can simultaneously desalinate, disinfect, and decontaminate the water at a cost of less than one cent per litre, making it incredibly cost efficient.

“Maximizing the use of sunlight means our plasmonic solar still can generate large amounts of water while maintaining a simple design,” says Dr. Margeson. “It’s exciting to showcase the effectiveness of the still on a real-world scale and prove that this type of device has the potential to bring freshwater to places that desperately need it.”

The device can also be modified to generate a small amount of thermoelectricity, which Drs. Dasog and Margeson envision being enough to run on-board water quality sensors.

Turning trash into treasure

The most commonly-used plasmonic materials are precious metals like gold and silver, which are high-performing but expensive. For the solar still to be widely used in developing countries, it would need to be made with earth-abundant materials that would not compromise performance.

“We shouldn’t be making an expensive or very complicated device,” says Dr. Dasog. “It has to be easy to manufacture, last for a long time, and be easy to take apart and move.”

A process known as pyrolysis, which involves heating carbon waste at high temperatures without oxygen, produces pyrolytic char that can be incorporated into plasmonic titanium carbides, effectively replacing expensive precious metals. In the floating desalination unit, a paper-thin layer of this material sits on the device’s foam surface, keeping it away from cold ocean water and helping maximize heat localization.

Different types of carbon waste were sourced and tested, including coffee grounds, lobster shells, and birch wood residue, with tire rubber emerging as the best performer, as detailed in another recent research paper.

Given that tires are non-biodegradable, take hundreds of years to decompose in landfills, and are in abundant supply around the world, they represent a unique upcycling opportunity.

“This research perfectly aligns with the theme of Circular Economy Month by turning used tires into a crucial component of a water desalination device,” adds Dr. Dasog.

Combating water scarcity

Next summer, the researchers plan to conduct further testing in South Asia, with the hope that eventually the device can be made available across the world.

Dr. Dasog, who earlier this year was nominated for the Emerging Leader award at the Water Canada Summit, says that whether because of war or climate change, communities forced to move from place-to-place struggle to access resources, so a portable device that can generate clean drinking water from the ocean could offer a lifeline.

“Water is such a basic requirement for survival, so our hope is to be able to help communities like these.”

Read more:

https://t.co/WbxMALGqcU

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

If
by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

[Shaun Rickard @ShaunRickard67]

Vaccine Travel Ban Lawsuit - Update and call to action - The countdown is on, only 7 days to go until our motion hearing in Toronto Federal Court on November 18th, 2024

We need your assistance in getting the word out to 6+ million Canadians who were victims of Trudeau's unlawful and 100% non-scientific vaccine travel mandates, and/or anyone else who believes that his cruel discriminatory travel ban was nothing more than an abhorrent political strategy designed with the sole purpose of assisting our narcissistic sociopathic Prime Minister in tightening his grip on power and tyrannical control of Canadians.
Please be sure to repost and share this update & call to action far and wide. What Trudeau did can NEVER be allowed to happen in Canada ever again.

In this round we will be challenging/fighting a motion put forward by Trudeau's depraved lackey and Attorney General of Canada (AG), @viraniarif. The AG's 'Motion to strike' is yet another underhanded attempt to silence us and exhaust our finances in order to prevent us making it to a public hearing, which would expose @JustinTrudeau's crimes & lies to the world.

Please chip in if you are able, we still have quite a ways to go with this grueling and financially draining legal battle. Donations to our legal fund can be made through our registered charitable foundation at the link below (tax receipts can be issued), there is also a link to donate in my BIO: https://t.co/GpGoQvDqhU

Our evidentiary record and cross examination testimonies of Trudeau's very own 16 expert witnesses and public health officials is extensive (15,000 pages), it contains irrefutable damning evidence which exposes our PM's fraudulent claims and lies. We will not give up this fight until the Canadian public are permitted to see and hear the truth about all that transpired during those dark times in our country's history.

Follow this link for more information about our landmark lawsuit, it's importance and what we've uncovered over the past 3 years in the courts: https://t.co/Yct5I1CFVw

*Registering to virtually attend the hearing: I will post a link to register and attend the hearing via Zoom if/when the courts provides us with one. We hope to hear back on this on Monday or Tuesday.

@elonmusk

[Matthew Pauly, Whistleblower. Pls press bell @MatthewPauly13]

This a huge win. Realize that if C-293 passes it will make legal the same powers as were imposed during COVID. In clause 3(2)(c) “ensure collaboration between the Minister of Health and provincial governments… to align approaches and address any jurisdictional challenges” which means ALTER provincial jurisdiction. This could very well take away the win announced today depending of the will of the AB premier when, and if, C-293 passes Senate 2nd, 3rd readings. Click https://t.co/6f1OUX289O to send Senators letters to vote no on C-293.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

USA vs. Canada: A Fair And Unbiased Comparison https://t.co/g96e5DlMqP

[Sarah Orvis @SarahBuckOrvis]

@CPHO_Canada As a Canadian, I am not in favour of the proposed IHR amendments and the powers it would grant the WHO over Canadians during times of “emergency”. Urge voting members to vote down these amendments.

[Canada's CPHO @CPHO_Canada]

At #WHA77 I met with @DrTedros. We discussed working together on global health challenges and strengthening health systems to better respond to health emergencies.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

‼️ WHO - IHR amendments are expected to pass tonight

Fridays are slow on social media & will go unreported by MSM.

Pay attention… please! your whole future depends on this, shaped by unelected bureaucrats and paid for by private vested interests.

I’m not kidding … FOCUS ‼️

[Sarah Orvis @SarahBuckOrvis]

Disappointing decision. Not enforcing the Charter by letting governments (federal, provincial or municipal) get away with restricting the movement of citizens within our own country is a dangerous precedent.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

BREAKING: The Federal Court of Appeal has released its decision, dismissing Hon. Brian Peckford and @MaximeBernier's appeal to the declaration of mootness in their constitutional and jurisdictional challenge to the federal gov’s travel vaccine mandate. https://t.co/T5xnKxwI8S

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

What should we do now?

Many things.

One of them: End 'DEI'.

It’s not about diversity, equity, or inclusion. It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens strivers of every race, ethnicity, and class—and ultimately America itself.

https://t.co/smVQahmHu9