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I'm pretty sure Steve was already on the scene when I started paying attention to Bill's shenanigans (again, after a multiple-year hiatus) back in 2023, though I didn't know it at the time. Back then, Bill was advertising (via hand-painted lettering on an old derby car) that he'd be opening "INVICTUS LODGE FOR HOMELESS VETS" which I recall ended up having "AND MEN" tacked on to it at some point. He was doing this with Garrick Halinen - a man who described himself as a retired vet, but who had found himself featured by the Facebook group "Stolen Valour Canada" for exaggerating and occasionally fabricating his own military experience (the comments on those posts are enlightning). How, I wondered, had Bill met Garrick? The Woodville Freedom Group The Woodville Freedom Group was, as far as I can tell, founded after the 2021 Ottawa "Freedom Convoy" - a huge gathering of people ranging from those merely upset that they were being asked to wear a mask to protect grandma, to those who…

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