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Canada border blockades, protests ‘nothing to do with trucking’

Canadian truckers tell Al Jazeera protests against COVID-19 restrictions are taking attention away from real challenges.

Al Jazeera · Feb 18, 2022

Canada’s legal disinformation pandemic is exposed by the 'freedom convoy'

The small minority of Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates have made international news, prompted the invocation of Canada’s Emergencies Act for the first time and spurred the resignation of Ottawa’s police chief.

The Conversation · Feb 18, 2022

Ottawa police arrest protesters to end Canadian trucker blockade

At least 70 people arrested, interim police chief says, as officers clear weeks-long occupation of Canada’s capital.

Al Jazeera · Feb 18, 2022

Police Arrest Canadian Protest Leaders

Canadian police on Thursday began arresting leaders of the trucker-led protest that has choked the capital's streets for three weeks and provoked the government into calling on rarely used emergency powers. A video posted to the Twitter account for the so-called "Freedom Convoy" showed Tamara Lich, one of the organizers,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 18, 2022

Canada police set to end siege of capital by trucker convoy

Police, some on horseback, pushed into crowds of demonstrators to clear them from the streets of downtown Ottawa on Friday, arresting more than 100 and hauling away vehicles that had been blocking the capital's core for over three weeks in a protest against pandemic restrictions.

Reuters · Feb 18, 2022

Ottawa's sleepy core transformed into protest street party

A sedate strip of Ottawa's downtown has been transformed into a weeks-long street party as anti-vaccine mandate protesters have settled in, complete with barbecues, bouncy castles and a hot tub, drawing the ire of the city's exhausted residents.

Reuters · Feb 18, 2022

Protesters defy police presence in Ottawa after officers warn of crackdown

Justin Trudeau says ‘high time these illegal and dangerous activities stop’ after nearly three weeks in Canadian capital

The Guardian - US · Feb 18, 2022

Ottawa street jacuzzi becomes latest site for vaccine mandate protest

In freezing temperatures and surrounded by trucks and demonstration banners, two Canadians staged a jacuzzi protest on an Ottawa street on Thursday to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates.

Reuters · Feb 18, 2022

Ottawa police start limiting access to 'downtown core' to curb protests

Police in Canada’s capital city have begun blocking off the downtown core with barriers and fences in a move against protesters who have occupied the streets for nearly three weeks.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2022

GOP's anti-vaxx goal: Jan. 6, round 2

Right-wing media and Trump are using anti-vaccine hysteria to stoke another January 6

Salon · Feb 17, 2022