Oh my GOD. The protest that had multiple national columnists and the CEO of Shopify declaring Canada’s decline was cleared out in…ten minutes. Ten. Minutes. Brian Lilley was calling for mass deportations of non-citizens over this. VITAL journalism here from my former colleague Kathryn Mannie. - ThreadSky

rachelgilmore.bsky.social • 78 days ago

Oh my GOD.

The protest that had multiple national columnists and the CEO of Shopify declaring Canada’s decline was cleared out in…ten minutes.

Ten. Minutes.

Brian Lilley was calling for mass deportations of non-citizens over this.

VITAL journalism here from my former colleague Kathryn Mannie.

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gr8fuldad.bsky.social•78 days ago

I like when the right says Trudeau overstepped his bounds clearing out the hillbilly protest in Ottawa then say he does nothing about these types of demonstrations. Maybe this would tell them why.

brianwinch.bsky.social•78 days ago

Is this like Rebel Media screaming about The PM and his daughter dancing at the Swift concert while 99% of Montreal was being put to the torch by rioters?

xstompyx.bsky.social•78 days ago

Magically, Montreal rebuilt overnight.

yannijohnny.bsky.social•78 days ago

It wasn’t rebuilt over night. It was rebuilt in hours. If. It in minutes

xstompyx.bsky.social•78 days ago

⬆️ Kind of like how that little old lady who got trampled to death by horses in Ottawa just up & walked away... right? Then she went on to dine & take pictures with a far right German AfD facist who was invited to 🇨🇦 by the CON$ & "freedumb" crowd. Connect those media & political party dots.

yannijohnny.bsky.social•78 days ago

To be honest, I did not see too much of that footage actually not much of any convoy footage

george.borkbork.ca•78 days ago

All you have to know is that he wants to deport folks back to a wasteland that is currently being bombed to smitherings…anyone with that kind of reaction to a protest of this type likely needs to get out and talk to folks who have had to leave the war zone…

radpackclub.bsky.social•78 days ago

When they hate you, it means you're onto something. Im a big fan Rachel, you KEEP BEING YOU!

robsm1951.bsky.social•78 days ago

Rachel: It's Brian Lilley - nuf said one day he might get a brain or not.

lalegault.bsky.social•78 days ago

lol Brian Lilley

danharriscan.bsky.social•78 days ago

But they're cool with Ottawa's downtown being taken over and terrorized for weeks on end...

viridiandragon.bsky.social•78 days ago

It's just so ridiculous of the Canadian media to take a protest that lasted 10 minutes and sell it like the violent 🇺🇲 attempted coup on Jan 6, 2021.

Canadian news in reality is more like, "Old Farmer Billy's flock escapes fence, creates havoc on remote 2-lane highway". 🙄

mikeofmanymikes.bsky.social•78 days ago

Don't pay attention to Lilley so I had no idea he'd expressed a viewpoint. Hadn't seen much hype about it except a bit on CP24 the day of. They did not say it lasted a mere 10m. Of course, it was well caught on camera, the protestors got themselves some airtime, mission accomplished, I guess.

johnroscoe.bsky.social•78 days ago

I had been lead to believe that the end was nigh.

yannijohnny.bsky.social•78 days ago

I think you should have your own show on cpac. I am sure your ratings will be HUGE!
Call it what you want.
Forensic cpac journalist. Based strictly on cpac official government debates. I bet the ratings would be HUGE!

yannijohnny.bsky.social•78 days ago

Today’s cpac program is really good.

https://x.com/johnnyefthimio2/status/1874151772597739933?s=46&t=JsvCZ8Jwb8pSQHXnAspT_w

yannijohnny.bsky.social•78 days ago

I have colleges who were part of the clean up.
The mess was cleaned up just as swiftly. Including the trash outside the property.

danmphotos.bsky.social•78 days ago

Brian Lilley is a hack and mouthpiece for a terrible right-wing agenda. I was quite proud when he blocked me on Twitter(I have since left) after I called him out on his lying.

frank-lee.bsky.social•78 days ago

'Online' is of course where false narrative comes from. Online is also where Pierre Poilievre spends most of his days pitching his disenfranchised from reality crap. Social media is full of lies and deception and false information. And so it is no wonder it is Poilievre's favorite place to be.

rachelgilmore.bsky.social•78 days ago

Full story here.

It has way more mind-blowing examples of the appalling behaviour of some of our largest columnists and fact checks so please read: https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/community-events/palestine-protest-eaton-centre-boxing-day-misinformation-10015287

flyingstronger.bsky.social•77 days ago

This misinformation was perpetuated by the usual suspects including Roman Barber who posted the video on his FB page *(Dec. 27 @ 11:15 a.m.)stating that 'Pierre Poilievre will crack down on the radicalism that Trudeau allowed on Canada's streets."

flyingstronger.bsky.social•77 days ago

*Baber*

davow22.bsky.social•78 days ago

The same Lilley that has a long track record of pointing his finger at what he perceives as identity politics while just in the last few days playing identity politics for Leslyn Lewis. That anyone can deem him or the publication he writes for credible?

citizenvicky.bsky.social•77 days ago

Really egregious behaviour on the part of Newman and Lilley - to me it seems way out-of bounds to embellish and surmise to the extent that the event described really isn't the event that took place, except for the venue. There oughta be a law!

toontowndano.bsky.social•78 days ago

It wasn’t just Lilley. Many of your colleagues at CTV, Global, and CBC let that misinformation persist as well. Though Lilley is by far the biggest fake news blow hard.

rachelgilmore.bsky.social•78 days ago

You’re not wrong about that. It’s disturbing. This level of racism and dishonesty should get you blackisted from having a national media platform. And yet!

djclimenhaga.bsky.social•78 days ago

Blacklisted? Surely racism and dishonesty are mandatory requirements for Pestmedia columnists.

toontowndano.bsky.social•78 days ago

The Palestinians plight has always been ignored. Though I must say it definitely receives greater attention in this new Information Age. Which is why it’s harder to give that racism and dishonesty any benefit of the doubt.

frank-lee.bsky.social•78 days ago

The state of what passes for journalism in this country is abhorrent.

jryerson.bsky.social•78 days ago

We can hardly expect peace in the Middle East if the same, often self serving, fear mongering and disinformation tactics are played out here and in other countries and are fed by social media and "journalists "

ruschelle-1.bsky.social•78 days ago

#CndMediaCrisis

czesco.bsky.social•78 days ago

It’s only because Tobi has an accent and speaks slowly that people think he says “important” things, but if you lister to him you realize that he’s a babbling idiot.

lfriest.bsky.social•78 days ago

Further proof of this completely fabricated "librul media" that troll farms like to repeat

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