A trucker talks to supporters. After Ottawa Police handed out papers telling the truckers to leave or face arrest there was no movement on Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Steve Russell/Getty Images) Now that Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” has come to an end, we’re wondering: was this protest really a working-class movement? … Read more
OTTAWA, Ontario — Hundreds of truckers clogging Canada’s capital stood their ground and defiantly blasted their horns Thursday, even as police arrested two protest leaders and threatened to break up the nearly three-week protest against the country’s Covid-19 restrictions. Busloads of police arrived near Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, and workers put up extra fences around government … Read more
Canadian police moved in to remove protesters blocking the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge between the United States and Canada early Saturday. Less than 24 hours after a judge ordered them to leave the police in Windsor Ontario tweeted that it had “commenced enforcement at and near the Ambassador Bridge,” which connects the Canadian city … Read more
Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency on Friday and said he’ll use all government resources to end a two-week protest by Canadian truckers over Covid-19 rules. Ford said the trucker protested amounts to a “siege” of downtown Ottawa and the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit. “It’s an illegal occupation,” Ford … Read more
Thousands of Canadian truckers are continuing to occupy the nation’s capital, defying orders from the Government to disperse. The ‘freedom convoy’ which left for Ottawa on January 23 is led by a self-confessed conspiracy theorist and Canada Unity leader, James Bauder. Bauder has endorsed the QAnon movement, a group described as a far right cult … Read more
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Fox News Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner on Thursday teed up a segment on the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” by seemingly criticszing the notion that such anti-vaccine activists are “fringe,” instead claiming their beliefs have gone “mainstream.” Moments later, the program rolled footage of such demonstrators waving flags and signs boosting the crazed far-right QAnon conspiracy … Read more