The rage and hate shown by the Trudeau government and the establishment towards the Freedom Convoy is the outward expression of their loss of control over the narrative.
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Kenney calls for calm at border blockade, citing attempted ramming of RCMP members
Premier Jason Kenney is calling for calm following an incident he said involved “people allied with the protesters” at the Coutts, Alta., border crossing, describing it as an attempt to “ram members of the RCMP.”
“This kind of conduct is totally unacceptable,” Kenney said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. “Assaulting law enforcement officers who are simply doing their job to maintain public safety and the rule of law is completely unacceptable.”
The incident reportedly led to a collision with a civilian vehicle, Kenney said. He also called for people to stay away from the area while the RCMP carry out their action against the blockade.
Trucker protest: 2 arrested, charged as Ottawa police says crowd continues to thin
… The crowd has also reportedly continued to thin out from the thousands of protesters seen over the weekend to about 250 people, including 50 on Parliament Hill.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he “won’t give in” to the protesters’ demands, which range from ending all COVID-19 restrictions to Trudeau’s resignation.
Can a Skeptic Change His Mind About Canada?
After reading several articles on PJM in which I expressed my disenchantment with Canada as a dismally governed and increasingly repressive country, and my intention to emigrate once—or if—permitted to travel again should Covid vaccine restrictions be lifted, a friend asked me what it would take to change my mind. There are, admittedly, hopeful signs: the Great Trucker Convoy that has galvanized international attention; a cowardly prime minister who has gone into hiding, thus showing his true colors; and a new majority approving of dissent against a coercive administration. As the Toronto Sun reports, “The latest poll, taken Jan. 27-28, found 54% want restrictions to be lifted compared to just 39% who wanted restrictions lifted when the same question was asked two weeks earlier.”
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The snow clearing by Truck protesters could have been much more violent warned Ottawa's Mayor – "It was very aggressive shoveling that has unnerved Ottawa bureaucrats not used to seeing actual work" A formal police complaint is being considered. https://t.co/efm5v6pqm0
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) February 2, 2022
Guardianista warns Canada’s Covid protests highlight rise of rightwing populist movements!
Days of protests against pandemic policies and a deep rift within Canada’s conservative movement have highlighted the growing power of rightwing populist movements in the country.
On Tuesday, retail stores and vaccine clinics in Ottawa remained closed as protesters, who had travelled to the nation’s capital under the guise of protesting vaccine mandates for truckers, refused to leave.
“There’s a million people that live in Ottawa. I hear you. I hear the protesters, the province hears the protesters, the country hears the protesters,” said the Ontario premier, Doug Ford. “Now it’s time to let the people in Ottawa get back to their lives.”
The left are deeply afraid of normal people.
City of Ottawa considering legal action to recoup protest costs, Mayor Karen suggests GoFundMe shuts down Freedom Convoy account
Ottawa’s mayor says the city is contemplating legal action against the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, arguing that Ottawa taxpayers shouldn’t be left to pay costs associated with the convoy protest now snarling traffic in Canada’s capital.
Mayor Jim Watson said he also would like to see GoFundMe disassociate itself from the convoy’s fundraising campaign and the “rogue activity” of protesters pushing for an end to pandemic measures.
“I think it’s disgraceful that that any company would want to be associated with what kind of action we’ve seen here in Ottawa,” Watson told CBC News.
Lockdowns had little or no impact on COVID-19 deaths, new study shows
Lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
The lockdowns during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by about 0.2%, said the broad review of multiple scientific studies.
“We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality,” the researchers wrote.
‘Fringe Minority‘? Crowd-Funding for ‘Freedom Convoy‘ Truckers Outraises Canada‘s Top Political Parties
The massed ‘Freedom Convoy 2022’ of Canadian truckers currently stationed around the capital Ottawa is close to raising $10m to support its cause of defeating Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “political overreach,” according to the protest GoFundMe page.
RCMP begins removing protesters, vehicles at Coutts border blockade
… “What may have begun as a peaceful assembly quickly turned into an unlawful blockade. While the Alberta RCMP has been in a position to conduct enforcement, we have been engaged with protesters at the Coutts border crossing in an effort to find a peaceful and safe resolution for all involved. We thought we had a path to resolution, the protesters eventually chose not to comply,” RCMP said in a release.
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As anti-vaccine mandate protest enters 5th day in Ottawa, some worry about how it might end
Experts suggest containment, fines and giving protesters a deadline to leave
As anti-vaccine mandate protesters continue to gum up downtown Ottawa, many are wondering how long police will let the protesters stay — and how they might eventually move them out.
While many residents have been calling for an end to the noise and disruption caused by raucous demonstrations, observers are calling on authorities to avoid public displays of force.
“It’s in everyone’s best interest that they bring this to some type of peaceful closure,” said Jack Rozdilsky, an associate professor of disaster and emergency management at York University.
Freedom Convoy Protest Reflects Canadians’ Democratic Spirit
No one should downplay, much less deny, the acts of idiocy that went on during the self-styled Freedom Convoy of big rigs in Ottawa.
Making buffoons of themselves by trying to coerce a homeless shelter to provide food or urinating on and otherwise mocking monuments in the Parliament Hill precincts, some (operative word some) did diminish the nobility of the protest. To paraphrase a long-ago colleague of mine in the newspaper business talking about the woo-woo cohort of our subscribers, “some of our fellow citizens are idiots, but those idiots are our fellow citizens.”
Doug Ford tells truckers convoy to go home: ‘I support vaccinations’
Premier Doug Ford’s patience for the truckers convoy is wearing thin.
One day after saying he was “extremely disturbed” with the actions of some of those gathered in Ottawa, Ford urged remaining members of the truckers convoy to go home and “let the people of Ottawa get back to their lives.”
“On the truckers side, I’ve always supported truckers from day one,” Ford said. “But I support vaccinations. It’s very simple. That’s how we have been able to slowly get out of this, and that’s how we’ll continue to slowly get out of it.”
FUREY: It’s time to do the right thing, Canada — it’s time to end all COVID restrictions
Perspectives are converging — the truckers convoy, national public opinion, public health messaging. They’re all saying the same thing in their own way: It’s time to live with the virus. It’s time to get on with our lives.
First, there’s the convoy: What began as a response to the trucker vaccine mandate has morphed into something much larger, and become a symbol for the frustrations that people of all walks of life now have with the blunt mandates coming from all levels of government.
Protesters dig in as trucker protest hits fourth day
The crowds around Parliament Hill have thinned, but protesters have vowed to stay the course as the trucker protest enters its fourth day in Ottawa.
Parliament resumed Monday with the backdrop of incessant truck honking, protester speeches, barbecues, drones flying and streets still in gridlock from transport trucks and personal vehicles parked throughout the downtown core. Some protesters were filmed bringing in fuel and supplies to those who are hunkered down in their vehicles.
Don’t be fooled! The Liberals and their friends in the media are misleading the public about what’s really happening on Parliament Hill. #FreedomConvoy2022 #FreedomOverFear #TruckersNotTrudeau pic.twitter.com/vkumQj04GZ
— Candice Bergen (@CandiceBergenMP) January 31, 2022