SOLIDARITY'S spectacular climb to power in Poland is due to the exceptional courage of tens of thousands of unsung working men and women. They risked their lives, jobs and homes by working in the once-illegal trade-union underground. Solidarity gave rise to a broad, non-violent, anti-communist social movement that, at its height, claimed some 9.4 million members. It is considered to have contributed greatly to the fall of communism.

Pastor Artur Pawlowski, who in early April, famously ejected police and by-law officers from his church when they appeared during an Easter weekend service, has had a warrant issued. granting authorities to use reasonable force as they consider appropriate to gain access. It was The Alberta Health Services (AHS), who filed for the warrant. In part, the warrant reads; "..if law enforcement has any "reasonable grounds" to believe Pawlowski or someone else has violated the court order, they are authorized to immediately "arrest that person, restrain him or her, and bring him or her before a Justice of the Court of the Queen's Bench to show cause why he or she should not be held in contempt of Court." Unfortunately for Alberta Health Services, word spread about the warrant prior to Pastor Pawlowsk's next church service. So many people showed up in support of the pastor, that they spilled out across the front lawn and into the street. Although there were many officers present, they chose to do nothing. Of the police vehicles that were positioned in various locations a block or two away, one decided to hand out speeding tickets in a playground zone approaching the church. I witnessed only one ticket issued. The cowbells you hear in the background are from the 4-plex next door to the church which the LGBTQ have occupied and draped with pride flags in an attempt to harass churchgoers. Thankfully, within a short time, their arms gave out and so did the bell ringing.