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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Thousands of protesters gathered in Canada’s capital on Saturday to protest vaccine mandates, masks and lockdowns.

Some parked on the grounds of the National War Memorial and danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, others carried signs and flags with swastikas and some used the statue of Canadian hero Terry Fox to display an anti-vaccine statement, sparking widespread condemnation.

“I am sickened to see protesters dance on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and desecrate the National War Memorial. Generations of Canadians have fought and died for our rights, including free speech, but not this. Those involved should hang their heads in shame,” tweeted Gen. Wayne Eyre, Canada’s Defense Staff chief.

Protestors compared vaccine mandates to fascism, one truck carried a Confederate flag and many carried expletive-laden signs targeting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? Bad.

Expletive ridden anti-Justin signage? Good and F-Off if you disagree;)

Use of Nazi symbols to illustrate a point? Bad. But in Canada our media makes an exception and says it’s OK if you are hating on Israel.

Messing with statues? Bad. But it’s OK if the media says so, same with burning churches.

Threatening Police or Others? Bad. Unless according to media you are a member of BLM or similar.

Several criminal investigations underway connected with Ottawa convoy protest

The Ottawa Police Service says criminal investigations are underway in connection with incidents during Saturday’s “Freedom Convoy” protest on Parliament Hill and throughout the city’s downtown core.

“Several criminal investigations are underway in relation to the desecration of the National War Memorial/Terry Fox statue, threatening/illegal/intimidating behaviour to police/city workers and other individuals and damage to a city vehicle,” police said in a tweet Sunday.

Thousands held a loud but peaceful protest in Canada’s capital Ottawa against prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Covid-19 vaccine mandates, on the streets and snow-covered lawn in front of parliament.

The so-called “Freedom Convoy” started out as a rally of truckers against a vaccine requirement for cross-border drivers, but turned into a demonstration against government overreach during the pandemic with a strong anti-vaccination streak.

“I’m not able to work no more because I can’t cross the border,” said Csava Vizi, a trucker from Windsor who noted he was the family’s sole breadwinner.

A slightly less hysterical Guardian piece than yesterdays.

As the first vehicles from the trucker convoy started appearing on Ottawa streets, some Twitter users shared a particular photo: a pickup truck with a confederate flag flying from the bed.

Now, as the convoy descends on Ottawa with the stated aim of opposing all COVID-19 mandates, anti-hate experts allege those with white nationalist and Islamophobic views don’t just represent the fringes of the movement but are among the organizers of the convoy.

Global has dug up a sketchy individual or two for their latest hit piece but are they organizers? 

Even Global admits they aren’t sure – “It can be difficult to determine who is a key organizer of the convoy, but there are some names that emerge time and time again.”

Being a squeaky wheel does not make someone an “organizer.” As for the others mentioned if talking like a normal person is scary to you Media types I suggest you get out more or find another line of work.

Any movement is going to attract it’s share of lunatics. Look at the NDP and LPC – they elected racists as leaders.

A convoy of thousands of truckers and other protesters converged on Parliament Hill Saturday to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions — a raucous demonstration that has police on high alert for possible violence even as organizers urge the crowd to be peaceful.

Hundreds of protesters on foot flooded into the parliamentary precinct on Saturday in the midst of an extreme cold warning, joining a lineup of truckers that started to arrive on the scene late Friday night.

They were later joined by other drivers and demonstrators from all regions of the country that, in some cases, travelled thousands of kilometres to take their message to the streets outside of the Prime Minister’s Office in the downtown core.

I love that Daily Mail headline. CBC seems very anxious that this blows over quickly, they’re already making an effort to marginalize the trucker protest due no doubt to a lack of their hoped for Nazis.

Something big is happening in Canada, and it’s happening in a typically Canadian way. After two years of draconian lockdowns and mandates, truckers are pushing back with a 45-mile-long convoy that pulled into Ottawa yesterday. It’s exciting and inspiring. It’s also drawing the elites out from cover, as they abandon any pretense of supporting the people they applauded so vigorously almost two years ago when they hid in their offices while “the little people” kept the world working.

WE ARE ONE!!! AND WE ARE FREE!!! pic.twitter.com/5I4zVuQ8JZ

— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) January 29, 2022

After a week-long drive across Canada, a convoy of big rigs has arrived in the national capital to protest vaccine mandates and Covid-19 measures. Organisers insist it will be peaceful, but police say they’re prepared for trouble.

It’s been dubbed the Freedom Convoy, and it’s got the country talking.

The movement was sparked by a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border, implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government earlier this month.

Upset with the new measure that would require unvaccinated Canadian truckers crossing the two nations’ boundary to quarantine once they’ve returned home, a loose coalition of truckers and conservative groups began to organise the cross-country drive that began in western Canada.

Very positive vibe around Parliament Hill – celebrating #TruckersForFreedom2022 pic.twitter.com/ThTkYbW3SR

— Rahul Vaidyanath (@RV_ETBiz) January 29, 2022

A pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded in Afghanistan has turned to the Taliban for help after being unable to return to her homeland because of Jacinda Ardern’s draconian Covid curbs.

Charlotte Bellis, a broadcast journalist, said she has repeatedly tried to return to New Zealand since she learned she was pregnant in September.

She has submitted 59 documents to New Zealand officials in Afghanistan in an attempt to secure an emergency return home, but her bid was turned down and led her to turn to the Taliban, one of the world’s most oppressive regimes, for sympathy.

h/t RM

It seems the mainstream media stands accused of winding up the rhetoric in the massive cross-country truckers’ rally to Ottawa, as well as vilifying the protesters.

On Friday, Michael Adder, the political cartoonist for the Washington Post, mocked the Freedom Convoy of truckers crossing the breadth of Canada and heading for the nation’s capital, Ottawa, to protest against Canada’s vaccine mandate. Adder created a cartoon of numerous trucks, all labeled in capital letters “FASCISM,” adding the hashtags, “fascism” and “supplychain.”