Barber, two of the most well-known organizers of the FreedomConvoy, the large-scale trucker protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates that took place from late January to mid-February 2022.
Strategic communications firm Enterprise Canada is denying that one of its employees had carried a Nazi flag during the FreedomConvoy protest in Ottawa, after the allegation was made by a lawyer representing some of the convoy organizers at the Emergencies
In this episode, I touch base with Rupa Subramanya, a journalist for The Free Press, who has been covering events surrounding Canada's 2022 FreedomConvoy Protest.
Ottawa has filed to appeal a Federal Court decision that found its invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 FreedomConvoy protests was unjustified.
The event listed Veterans for Freedom and Freedom Fighters Canada as its partners for the first event in 2022, both of which were linked to the FreedomConvoy.
During the 2022 FreedomConvoy protests against COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates, the two men, along with Jerry Morin and Christopher Lysak, were accused of conspiring to kill police officers at the blockade near Coutts.
James Bauder, who runs the website Canada Unity and helped organize the FreedomConvoy last winter, issued a statement on Dec. 30 saying he was pulling out of the event.
The federal government invoked the Emergencies Act in February 2022, giving itself and the police additional powers to clear the FreedomConvoy protests happening in Ottawa's downtown core.
OTTAWA—The defence for FreedomConvoy organizer Chris Barber continued with its closing arguments on Aug. 19, arguing that his directive to protesters to honk following a court injunction was not counselling to commit mischief.
GiveSendGo, another crowdfunding platform used after GoFundMe shut down its FreedomConvoy page, said 59 percent of funds donated to the Convoy through the platform originated in the U.S., while 35 percent were from Canada.
Sheard, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran who was involved in protests against COVID-19 public health restrictions, stressed that the biker rally is not a convoy, nor is it an attempt at a second FreedomConvoy.
Richard Wagner, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada—which is where the matter of the Emergencies Act will almost certainly be finally decided—has already expressed some very strong views on the FreedomConvoy.
The federal government invoked the Emergencies Act in February 2022 in response to the FreedomConvoy protest, which saw people and trucks converge in downtown Ottawa for weeks to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions.
Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has rejected an offer by the federal government to take over a section of Wellington Street that runs past Parliament Hill with the aim of “maintaining the current road closure” in the aftermath of the FreedomConvoy protest
On March 28, 2022, Hillier told reporters that the police had called him a day earlier to turn himself in for his participation in the FreedomConvoy protests.
A majority of Canadians now oppose the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act in February to counteract the FreedomConvoy protests, according to a recent poll.
Similar to the FreedomConvoy of last winter, that protest involved a truck convoy that had left western Canada and made its way to Ottawa in February. But protesters didn’t stay.
OTTAWA—Protesters at the FreedomConvoy demonstrations in Ottawa pushed back against police officers attempting to remove them and refused to leave, according to the testimony of a Quebec police officer at the trial of protest organizers Tamara Lich
FreedomConvoy initiator Chris Barber testified he had never read Bauder’s MOU.
“It wasn’t something on our agenda. It wasn’t something we were pushing for.
