Posted on 05/15/2020 11:01:33 AM PDT by conniew
Nineteen years ago, a small group of Canadian FReepers set out on a journey to provide Canada with the same sort of political outlet that our American friends have with Free Republic.
We started a Canada Chapter on this site, which we quickly outgrew. Then, we moved to our own site, and called it Free Dominion.
Out of gratitude to Jim Robinson, and our friends on FR, we provided a backup forum for FReepers for when FR experienced technical problems. And, many Free Republic members registered, and regularly logged in to say hi! Several FR stalwarts, like coteblanche, backhoe and B4Ranch, spent hours on Free Dominion, helping us keep our content fresh until we were on our feet. Backhoe was a regular on Free Dominion until he passed away.
We eventually had over 10,000 members, which is very significant in a small market like Canada!
Unfortunately, Free Dominion ran into some difficulties that I can't really talk about without putting myself at risk (you can find other threads here that detail our adventures, though). Ultimately, with great sadness, we had to close our doors in 2016.
Now, however, Canada is in a dangerous place. We are in a lockdown that our Prime Minister is promising will last until there is a vaccine, and he has already taken the opportunity to use his emergency powers to ban some 1,500 weapons! Some of us believe he is moving toward a universal basic income, and that he might attempt to win a majority this Fall.
Canadian conservatives cannot depend on Twitter and Facebook for our communications, so we have relaunched Free Dominion.
I asked Jim Robinson if it was okay to let you all know we are open again, and he was gracious enough to say yes. So, here is our link: https://freedominion.ca.
Although we have lost some of our faithful FReeper friends over the past few years, I hope some of you will drop by and register, maybe have some good conversations as we try to get the ball rolling again, from scratch!
And, as before, if you ever have a need for a place to hang out if FR is down, you will be welcomed with open arms at your sister site in Canada!
I tried, but couldn’t get the email to register...
Isn’t that crazy? How can it have been that long? It seems like yesterday!
It is so great to connect with our old friends! We appreciate you coming back!
I remember visiting your site. Glad you are back online!
Thanks for the heads up
I don’t know what happened, but I activated your account for you! Thanks for dropping by! :-)
I relied on you many a time when FR was down.
Fortunately, those “downs” do NOT occur much anymore, thanks to the Robinsons.
SO GOOD to see you again!!!!!!
Just joined!
Thanks Connie, it’s good to hear from you again. Do you guys remember “Talk Like a Pirate Day” at the Free Republic Network event in Las Vegas?
Technology, in general, is much more dependable these days! But, the dedication of the Robinsons to this site is so inspiring.
In these days when Twitter and Facebook openly filter out conservative opinion, it is critical to have privately-run sites that will allow freedom of speech.
We thought that we could get by without that in Canada, but it didn’t take long to realize we had lost our voice!
God bless and help our liberty-loving Canadian brothers and sisters!
P4L
It’s good I speak Canadian, eh?!
Oh my gosh! Las Vegas was so fun! I don’t remember Talk Like a Pirate Day, though. I feel like it was a lifetime ago!
Give his ! back.
LOL! I did!
LOL...I just joined. Same name. Waiting on confirmation.
Just registered to show my support!!!!
Hoss
if you haven’t got a guy that says something about “bush league republicans” three times in reply to every thread about criminal acts by democrats, I ain’t interested.
it just wouldn’t be the same.
Cool. Thanks!!
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