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Ex-NHL player who refused COVID jabs recounts ‘escaping’ Canada to play hockey again in US

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By Anthony Murdoch

Ian White recounted how he walked across the Canada-U.S. border in minus-20 degree weather just to be able play hockey without a COVID jab mandate.

A former National Hockey League (NHL) star who refused to get the COVID jabs recounted his harrowing ordeal to escape Canada on foot into the United States so he could continue to play the game he loved.

Recently resurfaced footage from a 2022 Slangin’ The Bizkit podcast shows former NHL player Ian White tell his tale to the interviewer of how he had no choice but to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in minus-20 degree weather just to be able to go to the U.S. to play hockey in a “normal” land.

“I was just happy to get out of get out of Winnipeg, get out of Canada. I know life was fairly normal down in the southern states,” he said.

The former NHL star played on multiple teams, including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, and San Jose Sharks. He said he got the idea to leave Canada to play in the U.S. after getting a call from an acquaintance from years ago that there was a job waiting for him in the U.S.

Because he had not gotten the COVID shot, he was not able to play in any league in Canada. His acquaintance told him he had heard there was a chance he could play hockey in the Federal Prospects Hockey League (FPHL) in Georgia. However, due to a mandate in place at the time from the Canadian federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, those without COVID shots were barred from traveling by air or rail. This meant the only way White could get into the U.S. was to try do so via a land border crossing.

“I’m like, man, I have this opportunity to go play hockey again and just break out of this,” said White, adding that he hoped to escape the “misery that has been kind of foisted upon humanity with the lockdowns and everything else.”

Undeterred, White spent about three weeks figuring out a way he could drive down to the border. He eventually got the help of a friend, who ran a pizza shop that was forced shut due to the COVID mandates.

When the pair got to the Canada-U.S. border at the Pembina crossing, he was told by Canadian border agents that, should he be refused entry into the U.S., he would be forced to quarantine for two weeks. He decided to call the U.S. side to see if they would let him in. According to White, the U.S. customs agent told him to walk down to the U.S. side in the car lane, and he would be “good” to go.

White noted he was apprehensive about doing this, noting that “nobody crosses the northern border by foot.” He said after about “five minutes” of sitting in the car thinking, he decided to take a chance and cross the border.

Besides White, other prominent Canadian professional athletes have recalled their oppression due to choosing not to get the COVID shots.

In October 2021, Trudeau announced unprecedented COVID-19 jab mandates for all federal workers and those in the transportation sector. He also announced that the unjabbed would no longer be able to travel by air, boat, or train, both domestically and internationally.

This policy resulted in thousands losing their jobs or being placed on leave for non-compliance. It also trapped “unvaccinated” Canadians in the country.

The mandates remained in place until June 2022.

COVID jab mandates, which also came from provincial governments with the support of the federal government, split Canadian society. The shots have been linked to a multitude of negative and often severe side effects, such as death, including in children.

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Mark Carney refuses to clarify 2022 remarks accusing the Freedom Convoy of ‘sedition’

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By Anthony Murdoch

Mark Carney described the Freedom Convoy as an act of ‘sedition’ and advocated for the government to use its power to crush the non-violent protest movement.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney refused to elaborate on comments he made in 2022 referring to the anti-mandate Freedom Convoy protest as an act of “sedition” and advocating for the government to put an end to the movement.

“Well, look, I haven’t been a politician,” Carney said when a reporter in Windsor, Ontario, where a Freedom Convoy-linked border blockade took place in 2022, asked, “What do you say to Canadians who lost trust in the Liberal government back then and do not have trust in you now?”

“I became a politician a little more than two months ago, two and a half months ago,” he said. “I came in because I thought this country needed big change. We needed big change in the economy.”

Carney’s lack of an answer seems to be in stark contrast to the strong opinion he voiced in a February 7, 2022, column published in the Globe & Mail at the time of the convoy titled, “It’s Time To End The Sedition In Ottawa.”

In that piece, Carney wrote that the Freedom Convoy was a movement of “sedition,” adding, “That’s a word I never thought I’d use in Canada. It means incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.”

Carney went on to claim in the piece that if “left unchecked” by government authorities, the Freedom Convoy would “achieve” its “goal of undermining our democracy.”

Carney even targeted “[a]nyone sending money to the Convoy,” accusing them of “funding sedition.”

Internal emails from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) eventually showed that his definition of sedition were not in conformity with the definition under Canada’s Criminal Code, which explicitly lists the “use of force” as a necessary aspect of sedition.

“The key bit is ‘use of force,’” one RCMP officer noted in the emails. “I’m all about a resolution to this and a forceful one with us victorious but, from the facts on the ground, I don’t know we’re there except in a small number of cases.”

The reality is that the Freedom Convoy was a peaceful event of public protest against COVID mandates, and not one protestor was charged with sedition. However, the Liberal government, then under Justin Trudeau, did take an approach similar to the one advocated for by Carney, invoking the Emergencies Act to clear-out protesters. Since then, a federal judge has ruled that such action was “not justified.”

Despite this, the two most prominent leaders of the Freedom Convoy, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, still face a possible 10-year prison sentence for their role in the non-violent assembly. LifeSiteNews has reported extensively on their trial.

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17-year-old died after taking COVID shot, but Ontario judge denies his family’s liability claim

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By Clare Marie Merkowsky

An Ontario judge dismissed a liability claim from a family of a high schooler who died weeks after taking the COVID shot.

According to a published report on March 26 by Blacklock’s Reporter, Ontario Superior Court Justice Sandra Antoniani ruled that the Department of Health had no “duty of care” to a Canadian teenager who died after receiving a COVID vaccine.

“The plaintiff’s tragedy is real, but there is no private law duty of care made out,” Antoniani said.

“There is no private law duty of care to individual members of the public injured by government core policy decisions in the handling of health emergencies which impact the general population,” she continued.

In September 2021, 17-year-old Sean Hartman of Beeton, Ontario, passed away just three weeks after receiving a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID shot.

After his death, his family questioned if health officials had warned Canadians “that a possible side effect of receiving a Covid-19 vaccine was death.” The family took this petition to court but has been denied a hearing.

Antoniani alleged that “the defendants’ actions were aimed at mitigating the health impact of a global pandemic on the Canadian public. The defendants deemed that urgent action was necessary.”

“Imposition of a private duty of care would have a negative impact on the ability of the defendants to prioritize the interests of the entire public, with the distraction of fear over the possibility of harm to individual members of the public, and the risk of litigation and unlimited liability,” she ruled.

As LifeSiteNews previously reported, Dan Hartman, Sean’s father, filed a $35.6 million lawsuit against Pfizer after his son’s death.

However, only 103 claims of 1,859 have been approved to date, “where it has been determined by the Medical Review Board that there is a probable link between the injury and the vaccine, and that the injury is serious and permanent.”

Thus far, VISP has paid over $6 million to those injured by COVID injections, with some 2,000 claims remaining to be settled.

According to studies, post-vaccination heart conditions such as myocarditis are well documented in those, especially young males who have received the Pfizer jab.

Additionally, a recent study done by researchers with Canada-based Correlation Research in the Public Interest showed that 17 countries have found a “definite causal link” between peaks in all-cause mortality and the fast rollouts of the COVID shots as well as boosters.

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