‘This is a peaceful protest, not Al Qaeda’: Tucker Carlson slams response to Canada’s freedom convoy

Tucker Carlson has slammed the response to truckers protesting against vaccine mandates by Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and other officials, with the Fox News host claiming the demonstrators are being treated like terrorists.

Trudeau has accused the truckers of ‘blockading’ Canada’s democracy after they paralyzed Ottawa’s business district for over a week by blocking the roads.

And members of the Freedom Convoy protest have been arrested and charged with hate crimes, while Go Fund Me cut off funding for the protest organizers after determining that their efforts violated their terms of service.

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The Guardian Breathlessly Reports – 5G and QAnon: how conspiracy theorists steered Canada’s anti-vaccine trucker protest

Thousands of demonstrators have successfully occupied Canada’s frigid capital for days, and say they plan on staying as long as it takes to thwart the country’s vaccine requirements.

The brazen occupation of Ottawa came as a result of unprecedented coordination between various anti-vaccine and anti-government organizations and activists, and has been seized on by similar groups around the world.

It may herald the revenge of the anti-vaxxers.

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Hundreds of protesters still in Ottawa after injunction granted to silence honking

A core group of protesters in the nation’s capital continue to defy calls for the trucker convoy to go home as Ottawa remains under a state of emergency.

At an “emergency press conference” held by some of the protest organizers, a spokesperson proposed the truckers would be willing to “sit down with” and form a coalition of opposition parties with the Governor General of Canada, in an apparent variation of the Canada Unity MOU that was circulated prior to the convoy’s arrival in Ottawa.

The group said they have booked a room at a local hotel in Ottawa to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday, who has thus far declined to meet with or acknowledge the convoy’s leaders, nor has he displayed an inclination to negotiate.

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Rex Murphy: Freedom Convoy protests have exposed the deep divisions in our nation

It is getting very rich, this protest. Rich and raw. Very much so; as each day passes and the protest deepens and extends to areas beyond its initial phase, the country is witness to a depth of division not seen in decades. The prime minister is nowhere to be seen, nowhere to be heard.

It must be very disconcerting for the public servants of Ottawa to come face to face with the people they rob blind.

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Trudeau stokes divisions by branding 7,000-strong Freedom Convoy in Ottawa as a ‘few people shouting and waving swastikas’

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being accused of ‘blockading’ Canada’s democracy and stoking division across the country for branding anti-mandate protesters of the Freedom Convoy as ‘swastika wavers’ after they paralyzed the capital city of Ottawa for over a week by blocking the roads.

Demonstrations continued Monday evening into Tuesday as trucks blocked traffic on the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest border crossing to the United States, forcing police to close the bridge that links Detroit, Michigan and the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario.

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Two-thirds oppose Ottawa protest, but many sympathize with frustration: Survey

OTTAWA — Almost two-thirds of Canadians oppose the Ottawa protest against COVID-19 measures, with more than four in 10 saying they strongly consider the demonstration a selfish display, a new poll suggests.

But almost 30 per cent of Canadians surveyed by Leger disagreed with that characterization of the demonstration against COVID-19 measures that has seen hundreds of large trucks create gridlock and incessant noise in the national capital.

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Ontario reports 2092 new Covid cases, maybe … and enjoy your trip

Ontario reports 2092 new Covid cases, maybe … and enjoy your trip

Ont. reports 42 more virus-related deaths; Number of COVID patients in hospital now 2,254

Ontario is reporting another 42 virus-related deaths as the province continues to see a steady decrease in the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals week-over-week.

Provincial health officials say there are now 2,254 patients in hospital with COVID-19, down from 3,091 just one week ago. The number of patients with the virus receiving treatment in intensive care units has also dropped to 474, nearly 100 fewer than the number reported last Tuesday.


Finally ready to travel abroad? Returning home can get complicated

Many Canadians were forced to shelve their upcoming vacations when the pandemic first hit.

Two years later, as March break approaches, and with COVID-19 restrictions lifting, a number of people are anxious to resurrect those long-awaited travel plans.

Canadian-based travel agency Flight Centre said bookings for trips departing from Canadian airports in March have spiked by more than 700 per cent compared to bookings the same time last year.

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‘Incredibly scary’: How Canada’s trucker convoy protest is galvanizing the U.S. far right

The trucker convoy protest against COVID-19 measures that has brought Canada’s national capital to a standstill for the past 11 days is garnering growing interest across the border in the United States.

… Bruce Heyman, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada under Barack Obama, said it was “wholly inappropriate” for U.S. senators, governors and states’ attorneys general to suggest support of the trucker movement and interfere with Canada’s domestic affairs.

“It’s so incredibly scary and disappointing,” he told Global News in an interview from Chicago.


New Zealand protesters block streets outside parliament

WELLINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Hundreds of people protesting vaccine mandates and pandemic restrictions blocked streets outside New Zealand’s parliament on Tuesday with trucks and campervans, inspired by similar demonstrations in Canada.

The “convoy for freedom” protesters arrived from all corners of New Zealand and gathered outside the parliament building in the capital Wellington, called the Beehive, ahead of the first speech for the year by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

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Trucker convoy protest ‘has to stop,’ Justin Trudeau says

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the ongoing anti-vaccine mandate protest in Ottawa is “trying to blockade our economy, our democracy and our fellow citizens’ daily lives.”

He says, “It has to stop.”

Trudeau appeared in the House of Commons Monday evening to take part in an emergency debate on the protest in Ottawa, which is now in its second week.

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Supporters of trucker convoy delay traffic at Canada’s busiest border crossing

Supporters of the trucker convoy have delayed traffic at the Ambassador Bridge, Canada’s busiest border crossing.

Police in Windsor, Ont. say the exit from the Ambassador Bridge onto Huron Church Road is “temporarily interrupted” in both directions due to the presence of protesters. Police are advising drivers to avoid the area or find alternate route, if possible.

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Their narrative collapsed so hard that even Bill Maher’s finally had enough

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Were masks a waste of time?

Experts advocated an intervention they once thought useless

Last summer, as the Delta wave was upending hopes that widespread vaccination would end the pandemic, several Democratic-run cities and states in America reintroduced the mask mandates they had ditched earlier in the year. A few other blue states and cities, notably New York, as well as many Republican-led states and municipalities, opted not to require masking again at that point.

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Ottawa protesters defy growing calls to end occupation of capital

Protesters against Covid vaccine mandates have defied government calls for them to end a 10-day occupation of Canada’s capital, a day after the city’s mayor declared a state of emergency and promised to “get the city back”.

Ottawa police have described the protest as a “siege” on the city, where hundreds of trucks and cars have blockaded the downtown areas. On Sunday, Mayor Jim Watson warned that officials were “losing this battle”, and a civil class-action lawsuit was filed against protesters over the incessant horn blasting and disruption to daily life.

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The end of the road for the malicious lockdowns

Our elites are finally waking up to the consequences — or maybe they’re just scared of growing public anger

Is a modicum of sanity about to reassert itself regarding the Wuhan Flu? Are the people finally exhausted by their panic over the Fauci-altered coronavirus? Remember those little bulletins that Mike Pence carried around, enjoining us all to to take “fifteen days to stop the spread”? I think we’re at about day 750 now.

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