Benjamin Dichter, Freedom Convoy 2022 coordinator, explains what it’s all about.  And on the American side of the border, truckers are organizing to support the Canadian movement. Denby Melisha Morgan is behind the Convoy to Save America. 

The organizers of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa counter that their protest is peaceful.

There’s also the very real and growing sense of alienation among people who saw harsh crackdowns on COVID dissenters and protesters and the Freedom Convoy only to witness complicit indulgence of menacing pro-Hamas demonstrations.

(The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld) Prior to Trudeau’s announcement, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), which represents the organizers of the Freedom Convoy, said the protests in Ottawa have been peaceful and that it will immediately

Some Ottawa city councillors fear the biker convoy has a secret agenda and will turn into another Freedom Convoy protest. “I will not have our community re-terrorized.

An organizer of the "Freedom Convoy" heading to Ottawa to protest the government's COVID-19 vaccine mandate and other pandemic-related restrictions believes the effort is inspiring Canadians.

Demonstrators take part in the Freedom Convoy protests against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Ottawa on Jan. 31, 2022.

The one-year anniversary of the Trudeau government's invocation of the Emergencies Act to clear the Freedom Convoy protest saw a return of protesters to the nation's capital, but in much smaller numbers than the thousands in Ottawa in 2022.

Somehow, this “Freedom Convoy” produced national emotions that Canadians had been suppressing for decades. Hundreds of vehicles formed convoys, rolled though the provinces, and converged for a rally in Ottawa on Jan. 29.

Despite his brutal extirpation of the Freedom Convoy through the excessive Emergencies Act, Trudeau found some peace with reality and later began lessening the authoritarian designs of the COVID-19 mandates.

The language used by the media as they cover protests like the Freedom Convoy is important because it has incredible power to shape opinions.

Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of MyPillow, is donating thousands of pillows to Canadian truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Ottawa—as he praised the movement dubbed "Freedom Convoy" for all the work they have done.

Under martial law, Freedom Convoy leaders were arrested, their assets and those of their supporters frozen. The Emergencies Act has since been rescinded, but Trudeau’s animus to the unvaccinated has not.

The Newfoundland Freedom Convoy 2022 joins Nova Scotia Freedom Convoy 2022 on Jan. 27, heading west to join in Ottawa to initiate not only Operation Bear-Hug on a national level, but more so to stand in solidarity with our neighboring freedom lovers from

After the cross-country “Freedom Convoy” made its way to Ottawa on Jan. 29 for its ongoing protest, other convoys are converging on other cities this weekend, notably Quebec City and Toronto, to call for the end of pandemic restrictions.

American flags blow in the wind as cars line up to participate in a Freedom Convoy protesting COVID restrictions and demanding election audits on Feb. 20, 2022, in Lansing, Michigan.

Tom Marazzo, a spokesperson for the Freedom Convoy, told The Epoch Times he wasn’t aware efforts were being made at the federal level to meet with protesters.

The prime minister invoked the Emergencies Act over the Freedom Convoy despite CSIS’s public pronouncement that there was no threat to national security (which by the way is the ONLY condition under which the act can be used), did not bother to read intelligence

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says he asked his staff to find out if the city could use some of the funds collected in the crowdsourcing campaign to support the “Freedom Convoy” to cover the cost of policing for the protest.

The MEP was a vocal supporter of the Freedom Convoy last year, and criticized Trudeau for the police crackdown on the protesters when he visited the European Parliament in March 2022 ​​“A Prime Minister, who openly admires the Chinese ‘basic dictatorship

Testifying before the Public Order Emergencies Commission, Lametti confirmed that he raised the idea of using the Emergencies Act only one day after the official start of the "Freedom Convoy" demonstration in on Jan. 29.

The Freedom Convoy movement has spread around the world, and there are signs that similar protests are being organized in the United States. The U.S.

The "Freedom Convoy 2022" fundraiser was launched on Jan. 14 by Tamara Lich, a resident of Medicine Hat, Alberta. It had accrued over $4.7 million as of 5 p.m. EST on Jan. 25.

OTTAWA—Police began issuing arrest notices on Feb. 16 to protesters in the downtown area of the Canadian capital that has been occupied by the Freedom Convoy for more than two weeks.

OTTAWA—The final sprint is on at the Public Order Emergency Commission, which has already heard from more than 60 witnesses over five weeks on the government’s response to last winter’s "Freedom Convoy" protests.

The appearance is part of an extended freezing order on all donated funds to the so-called freedom convoy, as the proposed class-action civil suit against the convoy continues.

Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich will remain in jail again to await an Ontario court's decision on whether she breached her bail conditions when she attended a June 16 award ceremony event in Toronto, at which fellow convoy organizer Tom Marrazo was

This was a few days after the federal government and the U.S. imposed a vaccine mandate on truckers at the border and before the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa to protest the measure. “Enough. Enough COVID mandates.

The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) has confirmed that the woman was not associated with the Freedom Convoy truckers.

Trucks and vehicles carried American and Canadian flags in support of the Canadian Freedom Convoy that was suppressed by the Canadian government.