This phenomenon received media attention after the first 30 or so churches were torched in the summer of 2021. Since then that number has continued to grow to over 100.
This is the second time this year that Rebel News journalist David Menzies has been arrested while performing what appear to be lawful acts of journalism.
The ruling directs MPs Ya’ara Saks, Marci Ien, and Karina Gould to unblock the independent media outlet from their official X accounts and pay a $1,750 fine.
Both Conservative leader Pierre Poilivere and People's Party leader Maxime Bernier took to social media to condemn the dubiously legal arrest of Rebel News reporter David Menzies, who was ultimately released by police without charge.
A federal judge ruled that the signs promoting 'The Libranos' written by Rebel News editor and founder Ezra Levant were considered 'election advertising.'
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police also monitored the accounts of Fox News’s Greg Re, Rebel News’s Ian Miles Cheong and Ezra Levant, True North News’s Andrew Lawton and Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, and the Counter Signal’s Keean Bexte, among others.