Government forces Canadian restaurant to stop free meal program for those in need because vouchers were only written in English



A Canadian restaurant has been forced to halt its free meal program for those in need because the government clamped down on the establishment since the vouchers were only written in English.

Abdul Rashia Khan is the owner of Mama Khan restaurant in Montreal, Canada.

Khan developed a "pay it forward program," where customers could donate at least $5 and he would offer free meal vouchers to those in need of food. The vouchers would be hung on the wall for anyone to use as a credit for a free meal. The charity program started last year.

Khan said of the program, "It was very successful. We have given out over 712 free meals."

Khan – who wanted to be a social worker when he was young – noted that charity is a critical part of the Pakistani restaurant that he runs with his mother.

His family-run restaurant also handed out free meals during the 2023 ice storm and offered free meals to people during power outages.

While working 90 hours a week, Khan spent $400 to have a professional graphic designer create the vouchers and have them printed out.

However, the government warned Khan that he would be penalized for his free meal charity because the vouchers were only written in English.

Khan reportedly received a warning letter from the Office québécois de la langue française – the language law enforcement authorities of the area.

The government allegedly informed Khan that commercial publications in Quebec must prioritize French. Promotions that are only in English are subject to fines.

Khan told the Global News, "My reaction was kind of surprised that we were reported to the government saying that we are not bilingual."

He added, "I wasn't aware too much of the law. It’s my first time running a business. It’s been a year and a half I'm the owner."

Apparently, the Office québécois de la langue française did not target Mama Khan, but reportedly received a tip on Facebook that their vouchers were only in English.

"The Office did not ask the restaurant Mama Khan to destroy its meal coupons. The program was never discussed with the business," OQLF spokesperson François Laberge told the news outlet.

Khan reacted by saying, "The only thing I can do from here and moving on forward is just to learn from my mistakes and make sure it’s in bilingual or in French."

The Mama Khan restaurant released a statement on Instagram regarding the ongoing situation:

Due to amount of people who are asking and asked what happened, I’ve just spoken to the person who received the complaints and she was amazing, she told me exactly what happened and what triggered us being warned. Thank you to those who support us and I apologize for halting future services due to not trying to get penalized for what we do. We have given out 712 free meals and helped 11 kids with our tutoring program.

Khan said the vouchers are no longer available, but people in need can come into his restaurant and still get a free meal anyway.

Khan declared, "The only thing I can do from here and moving on forward is just to learn from my mistakes and make sure it’s in bilingual or in French."

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Horowitz: Canadian court rules hospitals can deny transplants to those who didn’t get the shots

It’s a good thing we are neighbors with Canada, because it typically gives us a few months’ warning for the next illogical and immoral human rights violation we can expect to face in this country.

We never thought we’d be confronted with a mandate to get a prima facie dangerous product that has incontrovertibly shown itself to be infective and to cause many known injuries — over 14,000 categories referred to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. How a shot like this could still be on the market is shocking, but how something like this could be used as pretext to deny an organ transplant is unconscionable. It is already happening here in the U.S., but now in Canada, it has been codified as legally permissible, which should spur red-alert levels of policy activism here in the U.S.

Last Tuesday, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Paul Belzil ruled that an Edmonton-based transplant program was able to deny a woman a transplant for not getting the COVID shots. "I do not accept however, that her beliefs and desire to protect her bodily integrity entitle her to impact the rights of other patients or the integrity of the [transplant program] generally," the judge said. "No one has a right to receive [organ] transplants and no one is forced to undergo transplantation surgery."

I can’t speak to constitutional rights in Canada, but in America, we have rights to conscience, and anti-discrimination laws have applied those rights certainly in the context of vital public accommodations. Those rights are definitely implicated enough that they should trigger a discovery process about the shots that would reveal they currently have no benefit against this virus, convey no more immunity to the patient, and come with a number of serious risks, particularly to those who are immunocompromised. In fact, if science were to govern the matter, it would prohibit transplants using organs from those who have received the shots.

A U.K. study found 13 solid organ donors who likely died from vaccine-induced thrombosis and thrombocytopenia stemming from the Astra Zeneca shots just during two of the early months of vaccination in 2021. So what happened when 10 of their organs were given to recipients? "There were seven major thrombotic or hemorrhagic postoperative complications in six recipients resulting in the loss of three transplants.” One of the patients died within a day of cardiac arrest.

Here is a thread that gathers all of the evidence showing how donors who had the shots risk transferring over the thrombotic factors of the spike protein to the recipients.

For a medical professional to require this shot violates the Nuremberg Code even if it does work for COVID, which of course it doesn’t.

We could use examples from every corner of the world of “the more you inject, the more you infect,” but take a look at the latest numbers from Israel:

These are not just case rates, but rates of severe COVID ranked by vaccination status. Then there is the Canadian data itself. Alex Berenson has just gathered data from Manitoba that shows that vaccinated (but unboosted) people were about 50% more likely to be hospitalized or die of COVID than unvaccinated people, even fully adjusting for age and vaccination rates.

Nobody can look you in the eye right now and tell you that getting the current shots on the market with the current variants circulating will help rather than harm you, yet religious contentious objections are being denied.

Aside from the fact that even the private discrimination is being done under heavy governmental influence, Title II of the Civil Rights Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 2000a, clearly prohibits this. It provides that “all persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of ... accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.” So religious beliefs do play a role in discrimination law in hospitals, which are places of public accommodation.

Either way, we cannot assume that the courts will rule properly here in the U.S. The Canadian ruling should serve as a wake-up call and spur the states to act immediately to emphatically and categorically ban all forms of discrimination for not getting Pfizer’s government-promoted private products. Several states have done so obliquely, but it needs to be done in every red state with clearly defined penalties, enforcement mechanisms, and private causes of action.



Recently, attorneys at We the Patriots USA got a Michigan hospital to back down after it demanded that a 17-year-old adopted Ukrainian girl get the COVID and flu shots before being eligible for a kidney transplant. Several months after filing a federal lawsuit, the hospital appeared to back down and place Alisa Campau into the evaluation process for getting a kidney.

However, this travesty is continuing to go on in almost every state. Brandi Harris of Peoria, Illinois, is being denied a kidney transplant at OSF St. Francis Medical Center. When she tried to assert a religious objection, she was told by the nephrologist that the Pope got the shots (Harris is Baptist, not Catholic).

Medical freedom is the new pro-life issue. Ironically, HHS is requiring states to have hospitals perform “emergency” abortions to kill babies but won’t require them to perform lifesaving organ transplants to those suffering discrimination. The time has come for conservatives to shed their phobia of discussing something that is ascribed the nomenclature “vaccine.” There are some real bioethical problems that will determine life and death if they go unaddressed.

Nanny state: Canadian government to prohibit single-use plastic items such as cutlery, straws, and grocery bags



The Canadian government is cracking down on the manufacture, importation, and sale of various single-use plastic items such as checkout bags, cutlery, and more.

The ban will be implemented in phases, with the prohibition against manufacturing and importing many of the plastic products slated to take effect later this year.

"The ban on the manufacture and import of these harmful single-use plastics, barring a few targeted exceptions to recognize specific cases, will come into effect in December 2022," according to a government press release. "To provide businesses in Canada with enough time to transition and to deplete their existing stocks, the sale of these items will be prohibited as of December 2023. The Government will also prohibit the export of plastics in the six categories by the end of 2025, making Canada the first among peer jurisdictions to do so internationally."

Plastic straws are on the chopping block, with some exceptions. Retail stores will be permitted to sell flexible plastic straws bundled in a pack of 20 or more upon request, but they must keep the product out of sight. Medical institutions will not be blocked from giving patients flexible plastic straws.

"Manufacture and import of [single-use plastic] flexible straws are not prohibited under the Regulations, but sale of SUP flexible straws is only permitted in specific circumstances," according to guidelines about the regulations. "These flexible straws are considered more accessible than straight straws as they can bend and maintain their position."

"By the end of the year, you won’t be able to manufacture or import these harmful plastics. After that, businesses will begin offering the sustainable solutions Canadians want, whether that’s paper straws or reusable bags. With these new regulations, we're taking a historic step forward in reducing plastic pollution, and keeping our communities and the places we love clean," Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault said, according to the press release.

In response to a tweet from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the regulations, Keean Bexte declared, "All you've done is convinced me to import a lifetime supply of straws (enough of every kind). You can peel them out of my cold dead hands."

"How are you going to jet across the world polluting the air more than any other person in Canada and then ban us peasants from using grocery bags," someone else tweeted.

"@JustinTrudeau how about you ban them for your family and leave the rest of canada out if it. Have you ever drank a slurpee with a paper straw?? It's the worst!! #JustinTrudeau ruiner of slurpees in canada!!" someone else tweeted.

\u201c@JustinTrudeau how about you ban them for your family and leave the rest of canada out if it.\nHave you ever drank a slurpee with a paper straw?? It's the worst!! \n#JustinTrudeau ruiner of slurpees in canada!!\u201d
— Kelly (@Kelly) 1655852942

Bitcoin wallet exposes ineptitude of Canadian gov't with blistering response after court tries to freeze crypto assets



The Canadian government's attempt to freeze cryptocurrency funds being used to help Freedom Convoy protesters was met with a defiant response by one cryptocurrency wallet.

What is the background?

After invoking the Emergencies Act and Terrorist Financing Act last week, Canadian authorities began clamping down on finances related to the Freedom Convoy protests.

As part of the Canadian government's efforts, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police sent a letter to banks and cryptocurrency exchanges demanding they "cease facilitating any transactions" with a list of 34 cryptocurrency addresses. Meanwhile, a judge on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice signed a Mareva injunction to freeze cryptocurrency assets in more than 120 crypto addresses.

What was the response?

Nunchuk is a self-custodial crypto-wallet that safety stores Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The company was ordered in the Mareva injunction to freeze all assets the Canadian government believes are connected to the Freedom Convoy protests and disclose user information.

But the company refused.

And not only did Nunchuk hit the Canadian government with a blistering response, but the company highlighted that, in fact, the order demonstrates that the Canadian government does not understand how cryptocurrency works.

"Nunchuk is a self-custodial, collaborative-multisig Bitcoin wallet. We are a software provider, not a custodial financial intermediary," the response began. "Our software is free to use. It allows people to eliminate single points of failures (sic) and store bitcoin in the safest way possible, while preserving privacy."

Because the company does not "collect any use identification information beyond email addresses" or "hold any keys" related to the actual crypto assets of Nunchuk users, Nunchuk explained that it cannot, therefore, freeze assets or prevent the assets from being moved by Nunchuk users, nor does Nunchuk even know the "existence, nature, value, and location" of Nunchuk users' assets.

"This is by design," Nunchuk explained. "Please look up how self custody and private keys work. When the Canadian dollar becomes worthless, we will be here to serve you, too."

Yesterday, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice sent us a Mareva Injunction, ordering us to freeze and disclose information about the assets involved in the #FreedomConvoy2022 movement.\n\nHere is our official response.pic.twitter.com/iuxliXhN5y
— nunchuk_io (@nunchuk_io) 1645243546

Because of the technology used by many cryptocurrencies, crypto-wallets, and other crypto-exchanges is decentralized, government orders freezing or seizing many crypto assets are, as Nunchuk explained, pointless.

"It is impossible to freeze a bitcoin or ethereum address and render it useless to the owner," Bitcoin.com explained. "The only way to do that is by using force or threats of imprisonment or death and ultimately obtaining a crypto owner’s private keys. This is why fundraisers, like the BTC fund that raised 21 bitcoin, utilize multi-signature controls."

However, not every crypto-exchange is decentralized.

Kraken, for example, is a cryptocurrency exchange and bank that would be subject to orders like those handed out by Canadian authorities. That is why Kraken CEO Jesse Powell explained that people should not use centralized exchanges if they want to ensure their crypto assets are untouchable.

GiveSendGo fires back defiant message after Canadian government moves to freeze donations to Freedom Convoy



GiveSendGo, the Christian-based crowdfunding platform, responded defiantly to a Canadian court order demanding that the platform freeze the transfer of donations to Freedom Convoy protesters.

The organization said that funds would continue to be disbursed to the protesters in defiance of the order.

"Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo," the platform said in a statement late Thursday. "All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign."

Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo. All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.
— GiveSendGo (@GiveSendGo) 1644541284

What is the background?

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey requested Thursday that the Canadian legal system take action to stop GiveSendGo from transferring crowdsourced donations to protesters demonstrating against draconian COVID restrictions in Canada.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice then granted the request.

"Today, the Attorney General brought an application in the Superior Court of Justice for an order pursuant to section 490.8 of the Criminal Code prohibiting any person from disposing of, or otherwise dealing with, in any manner whatsoever, any and all monetary donations made through the Freedom Convoy 2022 and Adopt-a-Trucker campaign pages on the GiveSendGo online fundraising platform," Ford's office explained in a statement.

"This afternoon, the order was issued. It binds any and all parties with possession or control over these donations," the statement added.

Supporters of the Freedom Convoy began a crowdfunding campaign on GiveSendGo last week after GoFundMe shut down the original donation campaign, citing talking points of the Canadian government that the protest had become an illegal "occupation."

As of Friday morning, donors have raised nearly $8.7 million on GiveSendGo. The donations are being used to pay food, lodging, gas, and other basic necessities of truckers and other demonstrators.

While Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has refused to meet with protesters and has continually demonized them on social media and in the press, other leaders across Canada have listened to the protesters and rescinded COVID restrictions.

President Joe Biden has urged Trudeau to use the powers of the Canadian federal government to end the peaceful protests. Meanwhile, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has reportedly offered to use state resources to help end the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge, a key border crossing between Canada and the U.S.