The Ontario Provincial Police in an internal memo described the Freedom Convoy as "calm, festive and family oriented" on the same day the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act.

Ottawa invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, 2022, in response to the Freedom Convoy protest, which saw protestors and their vehicles encamped in Ottawa to demonstrate against COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino was "very persistent" in speaking with the RCMP about their handling of the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa after the Emergencies Act was invoked, according to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.

Convoy protest in Ottawa earlier this year.

Ottawa resident Paul Jorgenson felt "threatened" during Freedom Convoy demonstrations in winter 2022, he said during his testimony at the criminal trial of two protest organizers on Tuesday.

He has also supported some key Liberal votes, including the invocation of the Emergencies Act during the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest.

The Freedom Convoy was at the time blocking Ottawa streets and other protests were taking place at Canada-U.S. border points. The military laid four charges against Mr.

Barber played in the Freedom Convoy.

A lawyer representing organizers of the "Freedom Convoy" has been ejected from the public inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act, after an exchange with the commissioner overseeing the hearings.

Carbert, Christopher Lysak, Jerry Morin, and Anthony Olienick are accused of conspiring to kill police officers and were charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the Coutts border blockade formed in solidarity with the Freedom Convoy

He was charged again for a speech he gave to Freedom Convoy truckers gathered at the Coutts border crossing and spent 78 days in jail following his arrest.

Former Public Safety minister Marco Mendicino faced questions at a Toronto synagogue about his government’s lack of action against anti-Israel protesters calling for violence compared to the way it cracked down on the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.

A local Alberta politician facing charges for participating in “Freedom Convoy” protests at the Coutts, Alta., border blockade is set to testify today at the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act.

The federal government considered requiring alleged Freedom Convoy supporters who had their bank accounts frozen to report to police before being allowed to regain account access, said the minutes of a confidential cabinet meeting that were marked "secret

He desperately wants his own “just watch me” moment and he tried to use the Freedom Convoy protest to create it. The October Crisis involved a terrorist group that kidnapped and killed people.

I sit down with Andrew Peloso and Jeremy Regoto, directors of the new docuseries "Trucking for Freedom." They take us inside what they witnessed and captured at the frontlines of the Freedom Convoy trucker protests in Canada.

Thousands of pages of documents have been submitted into evidence at the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is scrutinizing the decision to invoke emergency powers in response to the "Freedom Convoy" protests that blockaded Ottawa streets and several

The Freedom Convoy protest initially started to oppose the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine mandates imposed on all truck drivers crossing the Canada-U.S. border.

Lawyers for the Attorney General have argued that the government acted lawfully when invoking the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy protests.

The former chief of the Ottawa police says his officers couldn't have done anything materially differently during the response to the "Freedom Convoy."

Trucks participating in the "Freedom Convoy" depart an area south of Montreal on Jan. 28, 2022.

Pawlowski's 17-minute speech delivered on Feb. 3, 2022, in Coutts, Alta., during the Freedom Convoy protests. This speech occurred on the fifth day of the protests when a border blockade had already been established.

The logical conclusion based on the Canadian government’s actions is that Trudeau views the “Freedom Convoy” as a form of terrorism.

The public inquiry, which began earlier this month, is tasked with investigating the Trudeau government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in February as the “Freedom Convoy” paralyzed the national capital's downtown core.

Hillier turned himself in to Ottawa police after being made aware of the charges and was granted bail with the condition that he remain out of downtown Ottawa and not contact any Freedom Convoy organizers.

The commission is examining the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to end the so-called Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa and Windsor, Ont., last winter.

The document says CSIS provided advice to cabinet in relation to the Freedom Convoy protest in three separate meetings before the declaration of a public order emergency.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he supports the measures taken by the federal government to end the so-called "Freedom Convoy" protests last winter.

Freedom Convoy The Liberal government declared a public order emergency on Feb. 14 to deal with cross-country protests and border blockades demanding the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.

The truckers' Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa in early 2022 was left to continue unfettered initially, but when it turned into an encampment of a significant zone of the city and offshoots from the protest began blocking border crossings, the government