(Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images) On Feb. 15, responding to a question on trucker protests in the United States, especially in the Washington area, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Department of Homeland Security had been assessing security

The truckers’ protest was started by Canadian truckers but rural Canadians have also come out in great numbers to support freedom from mandates.

The government invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14 to deal with the Freedom Convoy trucker protest and related blockades demanding the lifting of COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. The emergency order was lifted on Feb. 23.

Saskatchewan has taken the lead, with a statement from Premier Scott Moe on Jan. 29 addressing the truckers protesting the federal government’s cross-border vaccine mandate banning unvaccinated truckers.

-Canadian trade during the Canadian trucker protests.

Former Canadian National Hockey League star Theo Fleury said enthusiasm for ending the vaccine mandates and lockdowns feels like an “Olympic year,” with scores of people joining the truckers’ protests.

Wagg said he will join other truckers in the "Freedom Convoy 2022" to protest against the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Ottawa.

Wells said they haven't seen any coverage from legacy media about the denial-of-service (DDoS) hack that targeted their company last month during a fundraiser for the Canadian trucker protests.

Which froze bank accounts, interfered with the legitimate raising of funds for the truckers’ protest, and took away people's civil liberties in all parts of the country.

Trudeau accused the truckers of being a radical right-wing racist group, and he ordered the police to crack down on the trucker protest.

She was arrested and charged with counselling to commit mischief on Feb. 17 for her role in organizing the three-week Freedom Convoy truckers' protest in Ottawa calling for an end to COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

I disagree, for example, with the main methods and some of the politics of the truckers’ protest convoy in Ottawa in February.

Global News published a report on Jan. 25 with the headline, "Far-right groups hope trucker protest will be Canada's 'January 6th.'”

On Feb. 17, Freeland announced that banks have already started freezing the accounts of some entities involved with the truckers' protests and blockades.

The draft document dated Feb. 12 was titled “Proposal: Trucker Protest Engagement” and had as its objective to “de-escalate and encourage people to leave unlawful protests.”

–Canada border crossing reopened on Feb. 14 after being blocked for about a week by truckers and others protesting against COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

A supermarket with empty shelves is a result of delays in truck deliveries brought about by farmer and trucker protests in The Netherlands on July 5, 2022.

The truckers' highly successful account was meant to help them survive despite lost wages during their protest.

As truckers formed large convoys to come to Ottawa in late January to protest, many supporters joined in and the protest increased in scope to oppose all COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

Pedersen is a “Freedom Leader” and is supporting truckers in their Freedom Convoy protest in central Ottawa.

Authorities in Canada have reacted against the protesters, including seizing fuel from protesters in Ottawa and threatening to revoke the licenses of truckers.

The protest is one of several inspired by the truckers' protests that started against the federal government's requirement that all truck drivers crossing the Canada-U.S. border need to have COVID-19 vaccination.

The national emergency was declared purely on the basis of the peacefully protesting truckers in Ottawa.” Carpay says Canada’s international reputation has suffered.

As the truckers drove across the country to Ottawa, arriving on Jan. 29, the protest soon expanded to a national movement with many joining to oppose all COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

(Lisa Lin/The Epoch Times) The protests were inspired by the trucker protest movement that began as a demonstration against a requirement for truck drivers to have COVID-19 vaccination for cross-border travel.

A movement by MPs and senators was underway to have the public order emergency to end the trucker protest repealed before the Liberal government revoked it on Feb. 23, says Sen. Marilou McPhedran.

Ottawa's mayor is calling on the federal government to appoint a mediator to help end the truckers' convoy protest taking place in the city against federal COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

Did she, then, surreptitiously and maliciously breathe in the Prime Minister’s direction as payback for his handling of the truckers’ protest earlier this year? Au contraire.

But Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens said on Feb. 10 that the protesters might be removed by force. If the trucker-led "protesters don't leave, there will have to be a path forward.

Their protest was inspired by a Canadian trucker movement known as the Freedom Convoy, which protested for weeks in Ottawa against COVID-19 mandates.