A police vehicle blocks a downtown street to prevent trucks from joining a blockade of truckersprotesting vaccine mandates near the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Feb. 15, 2022.
Support for the trucker convoy, which was designed to protest vaccine mandates imposed on truckers by the U.S. and Canadian governments, is growing among Republicans.
The commission investigating the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell the truckerprotests last winter in Ottawa has asked for more time to complete its report.
Police narrowed some highways and imposed go-slow traffic to keep control of what it feared could otherwise turn into a choking demonstration like those by horn-honking truckers in Canada.
They take us inside what they witnessed and captured at the frontlines of the Freedom Convoy truckerprotests in Canada.
Chapter One of the series is now streaming on EpochTV.
Ombudsman Jack Nagler said questions in the interview that alluded to Russian involvement in the truckerprotests were out of context, and the ideas and language surrounding the questions were "too bold."
Commentary
As far as large protests go, the Truckers for Freedom protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa has gone remarkably well. Thousands of upset people have converged in one spot and demonstrated with no reports of violence or vandalism.
In Ottawa, a large convoy of truckers gathered with pedestrian protesters to signal their disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other associated COVID-19 measures.
(Geoff Robins/AFP via Getty Images)
The protests in Canada began as a demonstration by truckers in response to a federal vaccine mandate that went into effect on Jan. 15 for truck drivers, despite staunch opposition.
Bulford said he has extensive experience with large events in downtown Ottawa, such as Canada Day, and said people should be reassured that the extensive police deployment in place during the truckerprotest is normal.
WPS said in a post on Twitter that police remain on scene of the protest.
Zegarac was not part of the trucker convoy protest against the federal government's COVID-19 mandates and restrictions, according to WPS public information officer Rob Carver.
Two Edmonton Police Service (EPS) officers who made public statements supporting the truckerprotest opposing COVID-19 mandates and restrictions have been suspended without pay.
In the context of the trucker convoy and COVID-19 restrictions, we explore how tech is propelling the decimation of people’s privacy and basic freedoms; and conversely, we probe technology’s potential role in preserving these basic tenets of democracy
GoFundMe is withholding millions of dollars raised by a trucker convoy protesting the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, due to a lack of transparency as to how the funds will be used, a spokesperson confirmed.
All of Canada and most of the world—such was the publicity given to the Freedom Convoy of truckers which constituted the protest—know that this polite, civil, and innocuous exercise was shut down, without benefit of ANY negotiation or meeting with federal
However, the protests escalated, and soon thousands took to the streets around Melbourne over several days, protesting in front of the state Parliament, along the West Gate Bridge, and the Shrine of Remembrance.
Armand Theriault has come from Quebec to support the truckers and patrols the protest area at night. (Richard Moore/The Epoch Times)
Protesters have blocked Wellington St, Ottawa, and set up a small village to make life more comfortable.
Commentary
With the ongoing truckerprotests that have rocked Ottawa and several other Canadian cities and jurisdictions, it is reasonable to say that we’ve reached the peak of the politicization of this pandemic.
TORONTO—Ontario Premier Doug Ford has declared a state of emergency in his province over the ongoing truckerprotests in Ottawa and the border blockage in Windsor, Ont.
