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Police in apparent standoff at Windsor, Ont. bridge as nationwide demonstrations continue

OTTAWA – Police in Windsor, Ont., were locked in an apparent standoff with protesters clogging a key trade artery between the United States and Canada on Saturday, even as demonstrations against COVID-19 public health measures continued in Ottawa and other cities across the country.

Officers with the Windsor Police Service, the RCMP, Ontario Provincial Police and others began moving in on protesters near the Ambassador Bridge around mid-morning after a court-ordered deadline for clearing the site passed – and was largely ignored – on Friday evening.

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Media rebrands Ottawa truckers as the “Canadian far right.”

One of the interesting aspects of the ongoing Freedom Convoy protests in Canada, aside from the underlying complaints of the protesters, is the curious way that the media in both that nation and the United States have chosen to construct a narrative around the protesters. This is something that others like Tucker Carlson have been noticing and pushing back against. One of the most recent examples can be found in this “explainer” from NBC News published on Thursday evening. They have clearly chosen to lump all of the protesters together as some sort of Trumpesque, Canadian “far right-wing” splinter group of extremists. 

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Biden’s Afghan bugout keeps looking worse and worse

While the Biden administration’s chaotic and inept withdrawal from Afghanistan was unfolding in August 2021, a suicide bomber murdered 13 American service members, and at least 170 Afghans, at the Abbey Gate outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. It was one of the deadliest attacks on our troops in our 20 years in that nation.

“Know this,” President Joe Biden said after the bombing. “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.” This turned out to be face-saving political theater. Three days later, an airstrike killed 10 Afghans, seven of them children. Not one of the dead, as far as we know, was an “ISIS facilitator,” as the administration alleged.

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Trucker Protests the Tipping Point of Frustration With Two Years of Botched Pandemic Responses

With the ongoing trucker protests 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.

Something like this was bound to happen.

The support the protest has garnered is clearly a product of frustrations that have reached a tipping point after two years of botched pandemic responses. The two main ingredients of it are manifestly the collapse in trust in institutions and the astonishing lack of self-awareness of our politicians that continues to fuel it.

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Disastrous Ratings For CBC’s Genocide Olympics Coverage

Canadian ambivalence over Beijing 2022 seems to be playing out in TV viewership for the Games, with CBC posting initial ratings that are down sharply from previous Winter Olympics and even last summer’s Tokyo Games.

Primetime viewership on CBC for the first six days of events in Beijing is down 22 per cent from Tokyo, and off a whopping 48 per cent from the Pyeongchang Winter Games, according to figures provided Friday to The Globe and Mail by CBC.

… One advertising buyer told The Globe the ratings were about 25-per-cent lower than projections the CBC’s sales department had provided to the industry in advance of the Games, raising the possibility the public broadcaster may have to compensate marketers for failing to reach its expected audience.

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Ardern and Trudeau, the woke darlings of the Western world, are finally getting their comeuppance

… As time goes on it becomes clear that Trudeau really is the worst leader in the democratic world. His principal qualifications for the role were that he had been a primary school teacher and that his father had been prime minister before him.

Other than that, he simply promised to do things differently, to be more empathetic, to emote more, to be more feminine and more understanding. Before lockdown, this manifested itself in international trips during which Justin did more costume changes than the cast of any West End show. But as the Covid era came, Trudeau, like Ardern, seemed to come into his own. He talked about the importance of caring, looking out for each other and other fundamental Canadian values.

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Covid protests: Hundreds fined as convoy enters Paris

Police have intercepted hundreds of vehicles trying to enter Paris as part of a protest against France’s coronavirus regulations.

Authorities have deployed more than 7,000 officers over the next three days in a bid to stop the demonstrators.

Some vehicles managed to arrive at the Arc de Triomphe in the city, and tear gas was fired at demonstrators on the nearby Champs-Élysées.

Similar demonstrations have started to spread around the world.

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Conrad Black: Trudeau’s wretched smear-job of truckers highlights sorry state of Canadian leadership

The official response to the truckers protesting COVID restrictions is one of the most disgraceful political episodes in the history of Canada as an autonomous country. The prime minister’s statement that the truckers were probably homophobic, trans-phobic, misogynists and racists was an outrage that was unsupported by evidence. 

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Toronto cops block off entire downtown core ahead of potential protest

Things got wild last go round. People walking on the street waving signs.

For a second straight weekend, the city’s downtown core is a locked-down maze of blocked streets.

In an effort to avoid what has taken root in the nation’s capital, Toronto Police are not taking any chances.

They will have extra powers this weekend due to the state of emergency declared by Premier Doug Ford.

Meanwhile in Windsor

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‘This could cost him his job’: A blockaded Canada turning on Trudeau, poll finds

The last time I’ve seen numbers close to this were in the final days of Brian Mulroney,’ says Maru pollster

As Freedom Convoy marks its second week entrenched in the Canadian capital, a new poll is providing some of the clearest evidence yet that this affair could end up dealing a catastrophic blow to the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Is Trudeau losing his fight against truckers?

As anti-vaccine mandate protests drag on in Ottawa and spread to border crossings across the country, threatening trade, the Canadian prime minister is facing growing pressure to step in.

Before they had reached the national capital, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau referred to the convoy of truckers and their like-minded supporters as a “small fringe minority”.

Two weeks later, he’s facing a spiralling crisis.

Alberta not following Ontario’s lead with state of emergency over protest, blockade: Kenney

The Alberta government won’t be following Ontario’s lead in declaring a state of emergency to address the ongoing trucker convoy protest and bridge blockade, says premier Jason Kenney.

In an interview on CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday, Kenney said the province already has the necessary laws in place to take action if necessary.

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Ontario reports 2,944 new Covid cases … and the Booster may need a booster

Ontario reports 2,944 new Covid cases … and the Booster may need a booster

Ontario reports 35 more COVID-19 deaths; hospitalizations continue to decline

Ontario reported 35 more COVID-19 deaths on Saturday as hospitalizations continue to steadily decline.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health says the deaths occurred over the past 24 days, with three deaths yesterday, eight on Feb. 10 and four on Feb. 9.

The virus-related death toll stands at 12,075.

Effectiveness of COVID-19 boosters wanes over time but remains strong, U.S. study suggests

An early look at the performance of COVID-19 booster shots during the recent Omicron wave in the U.S. showed a decline in effectiveness against severe cases, though the shots still offered strong protection.

The report, published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, is considered an early and limited look at the durability of booster protection during the Omicron surge that exploded in December and January but has been fading in recent weeks.

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Windsor police begin clearing out Ambassador Bridge convoy protestors

The Windsor Police have commenced enforcement near the Ambassador Bridge, Windsor, Ont.

In a tweet Saturday morning, the department confirmed the same and said, “We urge all demonstrators to act lawfully and peacefully. Commuters are still being asked to avoid the areas affected by the demonstrations at this time.”

Windsor police removing protesters from Ambassador Bridge Saturday morning

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Twitter – #AmbassadorBridge

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