https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1506708417028624384
Was informed by Art's lawyer, Sarah Miller that there will be a publication ban on today's hearing. I don't know what details are yet. Sure the judge will tell me, but that seems odd. I have covered trials with child victims of sex offences where there was no complete* pub ban.
https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1506708882105659393
Not sure how a publication ban would work in a case where there is so much -two years of legal history -in the public discourse, including many documents and judgements widely published on Rebel News and on social media.
I'm sure I will find out in short order
https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1506709655778578437
There are no minor victims. This is not a gangland-style mafia case. This is not a case of sex offences. This is a case where a pastor has been in jail for 44 days for giving a sermon to truckers at a border blockade (where he called for peace several times). Why the pub ban?
https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1506712139569909763
ok, I have DO a publication ban per: Sarah Miller, lawyer for Art Pawlowski. Judge is reiterating this now.
my colleague @ATSoos will be interviewing Sarah later. If bail is granted today, I will report that here.
Unreal. How is a pub ban justified here?
https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1506720332589113344
Back to this publication ban.
This is bizarre but let us not forget the prosecutor in the James Coates case (another arrested and jailed pastor who would not bend the knee at the altar of gov't) insisted she remain anonymous
she couldn't put her name to her gross actions
UPDATE: https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1506757601492578307
Court is done. Sarah Miller and Chad Haggerty argued valiantly for Pastor Art. The judge is reserving her decision until Friday at 2 so Art will stay in jail until then, maybe longer. Wish I could tell you more but there is a publication ban in place.
There's so many of these cases in Canada.
They keep arresting this pastor's brother Dawid as well on tickytack BS.
There's Pat King and Tyson "Freedom" George Billings who were denied bail on fucking mischief charges from the convoy over a month ago.
There's Tamara Lich who was eventually released on bail after 3 weeks and sent home with insane bail conditions.
There's a black Francophone guy named Francois Amalega in Quebec who no one talks about who has already been sitting in jail pretrial for two months for protesting COVID measures and trying to get close enough to Premier Francois Legault to yell at him.
There's also an unspecified number of men in custody from the very fishy RCMP raid on a house near the Coutts border blockade Feb 13th on "conspiracy to commit murder charges" for 13 "seized " guns and paraphernalia that were most likely planted by the cops themselves to break up the standoff.