Shutting Down Strong And Free Canada

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Over the holidays, I made the difficult decision to shut down the Iron Wire and Strong and Free Canada. All recurring billing, both donations at Strong and Free Canada and subscriptions at the Iron Wire, have already been turned off. If you have a subscription or recurring donation, you will not see any further charges.

Before I explain my reasons for shutting down, I know that many of you will have two questions you would like immediate answers to. First, what will happen to all of our content? Over the next couple of weeks, my assistant, Sarah, will be removing the paywall at the Iron Wire so that all of our content that we’ve created over the years will be publicly available. This is only an intermediate step, however.

For some time now, I’ve been working with a programmer to create a social media posting system that will post our content easily to a number of different platforms, and I expect that system to be in operation very soon. Once it is, my assistant will begin posting that content to Rumble, Liberty, YouTube, Instagram, X, and Facebook. There is an AI filter built into the system, so it will not post some of my interviews to censoring sites such as YouTube and Facebook, content that would get our accounts there shut down.

The second question is whether prorated refunds will be available to annual subscribers at the Iron Wire. The answer is yes, but with some qualifications. I’ll explain those in a few minutes.

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I’m shutting down for three reasons. First, despite my best efforts to the contrary, for the past couple of years, memberships and views have been steadily dropping off. I tried to turn it around by providing daily news, but that had no effect.

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I also tried adding other content providers, primarily TruthRx and Homes Squared, but that too did not result in more memberships. I know that other independent media outlets are also struggling, and I believe the reason is something that would not apply to those of you who are watching this right now. Sadly, most people simply don’t care about issues that don’t directly affect them.

During the COVID lockdowns, our memberships at the Iron Wire, then the Iron Will Report, and donations at SAFC surged, and we had little trouble covering our expenses. However, once the lockdowns ended, our following dwindled rapidly and dramatically, and has continued to do so since. Second, as a result of dwindling interest, our income has fallen steadily as well.

We never did bring in much more than enough to cover our expenses, but for the past six months, that is all we’ve been able to do. I’ve said more than once that you don’t get into freedom fighting or independent journalism for the money. Since we took up this fight in the summer of 2020, the bulk of the burden to support our own household has fallen largely on my wife, who has taken on that responsibility without a single complaint.

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Valerie has been my constant support throughout all of this, and I could not have done it without her. However, she retired from her teaching career two years ago. Her pension and the extra she’s been bringing in from substitute teaching are simply not enough, and for the past six months, I haven’t even been able to draw the meagre $1,500 per month that has been my usual pay for the past five years.

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And finally, I’m tired. I turned 60 a few months ago. Aside from the past few months since I stopped doing Daily News, I have worked 80-hour weeks on average since August of 2020.

I simply don’t have the energy to do that anymore. In addition, my mental health has suffered. The Daily News got shut down this past summer for two reasons.

One, that it wasn’t working, but two, because the day came when I just did not have the energy to do it anymore. The news alone typically required six hours per day to produce, and that was on top of two interviews per weekend, running three websites. It is, quite simply, time for me to move on.

Now, for those of you who may need a prolated refund for your annual subscription to the Iron Wire. If you require a refund for your annual subscription, send an email to refunds at ironwiredaily.com. You’ll find a link below this video. You may need to be patient.

As I said, for the past several months, we’ve brought in just enough to cover expenses. There is very little money in the account, so depending upon how many refund requests I get, some of those will need to come out of my income from my new career as a novelist. As my first book will not be published until the end of this month, it may take a few months before I have the money to pay you.

However, I do understand that some of you are in no better financial shape than I am, so if you need a refund, simply send an email to refunds at ironwiredaily.com, and a prorated refund will be issued as soon as I am able. Also note that your refund will be calculated from the time I receive your request, not from the time it is issued. Please note that we are not offering refunds for monthly subscriptions.

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I’d now like to take this opportunity to thank all of you. Without your support, we could never have achieved all that we’ve done in the past five years. Despite the fact that the time has come to move on, I’m very proud of what we’ve achieved.

During the COVID narrative, we not only brought people hope, we saved lives. We know this because we heard from those people. People who had until they found us and knew that they were not alone.

With over 500 interviews behind me, we have also created a library of truth, direct from the experts who are the source, and that library will endure. We also created freedomcoms.org, where we are still building in-person freedom communities across Canada. I will be looking in the coming months for someone to take that over and very much hope that freedom comms will endure.

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As I said before, I could not have done all of this without the constant support and encouragement of my wife, Valerie, without the participation of the many brave people who came on my show over the years to expose the truth, and without all of you who have supported our efforts. You have my deepest gratitude.