an example, and demonstration of how the Canadian press runs cover for left wing political violence and uses intimidation and pressure to bias the police and legal system. During covid rallies numbering far larger than this took place across the province and country, but the News refused to report on them or did pre-emptive spin pieces dismissing them on some spurious basis.
This information is how the low-information older generation in Canada gets their news, and thus has a very strong effect in controlling the narrative. It manufactures the consensus that British Columbia, and greater Canada for that matter, actually supports immigrant populations rigging elections and then resorting to political violence when they can't get their way.
Widdowson in virtually every interaction on a campus gets arrested, some of her supporters get attacked and then arrested when they defend themselves, and then the legal and police system bends their own definitions of law to claim a double standard which allows political violence against the right but suppresses the ability of the right to decry that. Canada is arguably the first front of an international hybrid war between far left extremism and the rest of society