Local towing companies are rejecting Ottawa police requests for help towing ‘Freedom Convoy’ trucks out of the downtown core, according to a senior police source.
The source told CTV News Ottawa that even if police decided to tow the trucks from the downtown streets they have been clogging up for the past week, they wouldn’t have enough tow trucks to do it.
Police outreach to tow truck companies across the city has been rebuffed, the source said.
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Ontario’s hands-on premier has taken a hands-off approach to the weeklong protest that has snarled downtown Ottawa, the second-largest city in his province.
How will that change if something similar happens in Toronto?
Demonstrators are set to converge on the legislature on Saturday in support of the Ottawa protesters. Premier Doug Ford appears to be crossing his fingers that they don’t bring anywhere near the level of disruption as experienced in the downtown of the nation’s capital.
Without providing specifics as to when or by whom, mRNA vaccine technology inventor Dr. Robert W. Malone, MD, in an open letter to the editor of The Daily Mail on Wednesday evening, referred to “litigation” intended to lay bare the economic and human-suffering tolls resulting from the U.S. government’s advocacy of COVID-19 vaccine products while suppressing what Malone and other physicians say is the efficacy of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
Toronto police are closing off a stretch of University Avenue in order to protect Hospital Row ahead of expected demonstrations this weekend.
Police said in a tweet that University Avenue will be closed between College and Queen Streets to regular traffic and any convoys starting at 11:30 a.m. Friday. College Street will also be closed from University Avenue to Yonge Street.
In the moments before the Ottawa police’s Friday morning briefing on the ongoing anti-vaccine mandate protest on Parliament Hill, officers — both in uniform and plain clothes — and media alike awaited the arrival of the chief and deputy chiefs.
Meanwhile, a few folks were passing around a news release on tougher police measures coming in the days ahead, including one man who was not with the police services, but with the chief’s office, CBC was told.
That man was Matthew Barnes, a senior consultant for Navigator — an elite and expensive crisis management firm.
They must be expecting some real crap to go down.
The video below, posted by the Ottawa Police Service, is of the much ballyhooed desecration of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during the Truck Convoy protest in Ottawa. I’m disappointed, I heard she was dancing naked.
No one should be standing on the memorial yelling slogans that’s a given. But have you or anyone you know even heard about the desecration of the Cranbrook Cenotaph? Where was Justin’s outrage?
The woman organizers describe as “the spark that lit the fire” of the truck convoy protest that has occupied downtown Ottawa is a former energy industry worker and a leader within the “Wexit” movement pushing for the independence of western provinces.
Canadians ought to be worried about whether crowdfunding websites could be used to finance hate groups and other extremist organizations, financial crime and security experts warn.
As the so-called “freedom convoy” enters its second week of protests in Ottawa, hard questions are being asked about a GoFundMe campaign set up by convoy organizers and whether any of the $10 million raised so far might have come from malevolent sources keen on wreaking havoc in Canada.
What nonsense. I wonder how much money Communist China donates to Trudeau and the LPC?
Ottawa police say they’ll increase their presence and further restrict access to the city’s downtown to control what’s expected to be another weekend of noisy protests, but they warn the situation remains volatile and dangerous.
In a Friday morning news release, police said the new “surge and contain strategy” means there will immediately be about 150 more officers dedicated to patrolling central Ottawa neighbourhoods and enforcing laws, more heavy barricades to manage traffic and more intelligence work with provincial and national help to lay charges, including against those planning and funding illegal activity.
Ontario reports 60 net new COVID-19 deaths; test positivity falls to multi-month low
Ontario reported 60 net new deaths on Friday as the number of admitted hospital patients with COVID-19 fell to its lowest point in more than three weeks and test positivity continued to decline.
Ministry of Health spokesperson Alexandra Hilkene told CP24 that eight of the deaths occurred on Thursday, 19 occurred on Wednesday and eight occurred on Tuesday, with the remaining deaths occurring over the previous 19 days.
517 people are in ICU with #COVID19. 83% of patients admitted to the ICU were admitted for COVID-19 and 17% were admitted for other reasons but have tested positive for COVID-19.
There are 4,047 new cases of COVID-19.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 4, 2022
Canada lost 200K jobs in January amid Omicron-driven shutdowns
Statistics Canada says the economy lost 200,000 jobs in January amid stricter public health rules put in place to slow the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
The decrease marks the largest drop since January 2021, when the economy shed 207,800 jobs.
A Johns Hopkins professor slammed his university and the mainstream media for downplaying a study conducted by economists at the university that found that COVID-19 lockdowns only reduced virus deaths by 0.2 percent.
Dr. Martin Makary warned that ‘people may already have their own narrative written’ about the effectiveness of lockdowns in an interview with Tucker Carlson Wednesday night.
No Molotov cocktails.
No vulgar harassment of police — no “All cops are bastards” signs.
No rocks for every Starbucks window and those of small businesses. No blizzard of break-ins, no store owners standing guard on their shops. No arson or looting.
Just as you thought the 2020s couldn’t get any more dystopian, we are now witnessing the enthusiastic embrace of corporate censorship by the Left in the name of combatting the nebulous scourge of “misinformation.” Joe Rogan, the most popular podcaster in the English language, has found himself at the center of a firestorm of progressive ire, from scientists to celebrities to rock legends to White House spokespersons acting in their official capacity, all for the crime of allegedly spreading dangerous misinformation and endangering public health.
