The Stories that Saved Us
from a Winter of Severe Illness and Death
Continued from Part I:
A Winter of Severe Illness and Death: And The Stories that Saved Us
When we heard whispers of a convoy, it was exactly like a spark of light at the end of a tunnel. However faint, we followed the only real thing we had encountered in months.
Handfuls of people in the alternative media space began to investigate. Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein covered it on their Darkhorse podcast here:
And here:
Tucker Carlson covered it here:
Here:
And here:
Throughout the nearly month long protest, Heather went on to publish a series of articles on the convoy as she pursued some of the most moving, hopeful, and heartbreaking stories of our lives. She did it with the greatest of depth and breadth, painting a beautiful picture of the human spirit. She covered much of it as told in our own words, giving Canadians a voice above the walls erected all around us.
These stories can be found on her Natural Selections Substack, beginning with this one published as the Truckers were crossing Canada on their way to our nation’s capital from British Columbia - and in the midst of intense media slander.
I wrote to Heather just after returning from the highway, completely star struck by the convoy, brimming with hope and taken by the seriousness of the moment.
I was moved to tears on the single most exciting day in our families’ lives and I felt compelled to share my gratitude with Heather & Bret for covering the convoy with an honesty and fairness I could not see anywhere else.
It was real and true and so much more powerful than anything we could have imagined.
She published the letter here:
She published Mila’s story, as told by her mother Tara, of how Mila a young Canadian girl at the peak of her radiant potential was caught inside the merciless upheaval of the ‘lock-downs’. It struck me to my very core and moved me in ways I had not experienced. It swept my mind into a well of sorrow I could only feel and couldn’t explain. My heart sank beneath my gut. As visceral as that moment was I knew it could only be a shadow of what Tara lived. Mila’s life, ended early, was a tragedy, but our silence was a crime. I knew I could not spend another day avoiding personal responsibility for our collective wrongs.
As the worlds camera’s collected in our capital, trying to get a glimpse of the antidote to Covid, Heather had an inside line. Everyday Canadians, citizen journalists, and photographers poured their hearts out to her and Bret for covering the convoy before it exploded across the world.
This collection of stories dispels the myths and hexes cast from the main stream press. They beautifully frame the revelry and joy in the streets, and reveal the truth of the convoy that landed like a kill shot to lockdowns.
Over the last couple of years it has become abundantly clear to me that above everything else The Trucker Freedom Convoy is the story of redemption, that amorphous, undeserved thing we yearn for in the deepest recesses of our hearts. The convoy reminded us that redemption for everyone is possible, but it’s only born through sacrifice.
The Truckers, in their raw and magnanimous way, showed us that it can only be when we lay our lives down in service to each other, can we ever hope to be truly free.
These stories are where our freedom begins.
