HISTORICAL FACTS: 12 | History Defined

Canada's Conservatives set to embrace populist to take on Trudeau

Canada's Conservatives next month look set to embrace a career politician who has promised to fire the central bank governor and promoted bitcoin as an inflation hedge to become its fourth leader since 2020.

Reuters · Sep 1, 2022

In protests and politics, Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' reverberates

In late January five friends, just a few years out of high school, piled into a rented camper van and drove 37 hours in the Canadian winter from southern Alberta to Ottawa to join anti-government protests led by a convoy of truckers.

Reuters · Aug 4, 2022

Canadian conservative slams party for exclusion from leadership race

One of the top contenders in Canada's Conservative Party leadership contest, Patrick Brown, on Wednesday slammed a decision to disqualify him from the race as "undemocratic" and said he was consulting his legal team about what to do next.

Reuters · Jul 6, 2022