Pick up bundles of druthers papers downtown at Dundas Square between noon and 4pm today ☺️ Hope to see you there. It should be a big protest today!

Crazy day in downtown Toronto today... https://www.facebook.com/shawnjason/videos/10221103865759407/

We're printing 65,000 Druthers papers for February for sure!! Way to go everyone!! 100,000 is the goal. Think we can reach that goal still this month? Keep spreading this link around with some words of engagement, if you will, pretty please 😋

www.donorbox.org/druthers

Message me if you have any questions, thoughts, ideas, etc., at admin@druthers.net

Thank youuuuuu ✌️

Shawn

Drone footage from this past Saturday in Toronto after the police took over Dundas Square... https://youtu.be/s1CGGOudxnQ

Insanity 😕 https://youtu.be/qRClpX5xKZ8

Wow! 😕 Spread this short video around everywhere, as this should be a real eye opener for many people. https://youtu.be/yu4bHBYzMEQ

Ohhh, whisper that in my ear again 😍 When enough of us stand up and say no, all this insanity ends.

Woodstock city hall, tomorrow (Jan. 21st) at 5pm. The city is threatening action against Phoenix of Project Phoenix. Be there if you can to show your support! https://www.facebook.com/phoenix.scott.1042

Wow, protestors were peaceful like every weekend before. But this weekend, the police were not!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2GFcPgyvxFk

We're at 80,000 papers of the 100,000 goal for February! 🎉 If you are able, please help this fundraiser along, even if in the form of sharing this link. We're sending to print in less than a week! www.donorbox.org/druthers

When the police steal your protest sign and do the work for you 🤣🎉😎

100,000 copies of Druthers will be ready on Friday and it's full of info that will help people see bigger.

I'd love to give all of you bundles of these papers to distribute freely everywhere you go.

We made 25,000 of the first issue in December. 50,000 of the January issue and the February issue will see 100,000 copies!!

I could really use your help giving these papers to the sleepy heads ☺️ Message me if you'd like to help. admin@druthers.net

You can read both of the first two issues online at:

https://www.druthers.net/ontario-2020-december

https://www.druthers.net/ontario-2021-january

February Druthers is ready!!
Please share.
https://druthers.net/canada-2021-february/

Looking for contacts in the following cities to assist with picking up bundles of papers from the trucking terminal and getting them into the hands of volunteer distributors in these areas.

- Surrey, BC
- Red Deer, Alberta
- Winnipeg, Manitoba

Please connect me with anyone you know in those cities who might like to be a part of this.

admin@druthers.net

I'm at the printers now waiting for the trucks to arrive and pick up these pallets of papers. They will be arriving out west on Monday & Tuesday ☺️

Read the February issue of Druthers online here: www.druthers.net/canada-2021-february

Let's double the goal again with 200,000 copies of Druthers for March 🤗 www.donorbox.org/druthers

Monthly subscriptions are now available! Ensure you receive copies of Druthers every month, or even use this page to have copies mailed to anyone you feel really needs to see this information! https://druthers.net/shop/subscribe/

The Toronto Star published a piece about Druthers and me. I think it's great, overall! I'm actually impressed with the unbiased efforts of this author. What do you think?

How this man’s ‘newspaper’ is pushing anti-COVID-restrictions rhetoric across Canada.

ALEX MCKEEN FEBRUARY 07, 2021

In the video, Shawn Jason Laponte walks up to people on the streets of Toronto and asks about a half-dozen of them to share the message he’s printed on little black business cards.

“I love you,” the cards read. “Pass it on.”

It’s a cheesy but essentially heartwarming display in the 2018 video, the kind of thing you might expect from a group of high school volunteers looking to perform random acts of kindness.

Fast forward to 2021 and Laponte, a middle-aged Torontonian with long hair and wire-rimmed glasses, is still in the business of spreading messages, still apparently preferring the old-fashioned print medium to get the job done.

But the message has changed. This time he’s criticizing coronavirus restrictions and vaccination efforts. And the volunteers recruited for the task are greater than half a dozen people in Toronto.

They’re in Toronto. And Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria, Red Deer and Edmonton. All across the country, getting ready to distribute thousands of anti-coronavirus-restriction newspapers by hand, in an effort to take their discredited ideas offline and away from the prying eyes of social media factcheckers.

Instead of “I love you, pass it on,” Laponte is telling anyone who will listen: “You are being lied to.”

And, still: “Pass it on.”

Shawn Jason Laponte, who founded an anti-coronavirus-restriction newspaper Druthers, distributed the first issue of the paper at Adamson Barbeque, the Toronto restaurant that refused to close during coronavirus restrictions.
The product of Laponte’s dramatic shift in messaging, called Druthers, first came out in late November as a 12-page newspaper filled with warnings about the alleged tyranny of coronavirus restrictions and vaccine hesitancy-promoting content.

Then, among a certain crowd in Toronto and around the country, the idea caught fire. Laponte increased his print order by four times, from 25,000 copies printed in November to 100,000 in late January.

The latest issue has been sent to volunteers across the country for distribution. Money poured in from supporters on an online fundraising platform, while dozens raised their hands to get involved in distributing the papers, and writing.

On Monday, according to a message shared to the Druthers Telegram channel, the newspaper was set to arrive out west, making it a national effort.

The newest edition contains a full-page “fact check” on coronavirus measures, making numerous discredited or overstated claims about the coronavirus tests, vaccines and the efficacy of lockdowns at limiting virus spread. It includes the claim that “the coronavirus is statistically shown to be far less deadly than portrayed by mainstream media and health officials,” and a headline that reads “Here’s why I wouldn’t take the vaccine, Dr. Tam.”

In fact, the coronavirus has killed 2.27 million people worldwide, and the multiple vaccines to protect against the virus have been through rigorous testing. Vaccines do not cause autism or any brain disorders as claimed by some anti-vaccination activists. Tests to detect the coronavirus, the effectiveness of which are questioned in Druthers, are more likely to produce false negatives than false positives.

The expansion of Druthers tells us about two things that are happening with the spread of disinformation in Canada right now. The first is that, although the vast majority of Canadians do not hold antivaccination beliefs, or other discredited theories related to the coronavirus, the pandemic is providing fertile ground for those who do believe these things to find a common cause, and new ways of connecting.