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A police raid on the bridge blockade at Windsor, Ontario, failed to shut it down. With protesters in Ottawa also digging in, what will it take to get them to budge?

They arrived by the bus load – police in balaclavas and carrying long guns, ready to oust dozens of protesters blocking roads leading to the Ambassador Bridge.

There were pickups and SUVs festooned with Canadian flags, anti-vaccination slogans and anti-Trudeau epithets, as well as some heavy commercial trucks.

About 100 vehicles have been parked along the roughly 2km (1.25 miles) of road leading up to the bridge for almost a week.

On day 6 of the Ambassador Bridge blockade, protester holds up “I’m not leaving” sign #Windsor #AmbassadorBridge pic.twitter.com/RfXcxIDLFP

— Lisa Bennatan (@LisaBennatan) February 13, 2022

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with the rest of the liberal media, have denigrated the truckers of the Freedom Convoy. It’s not a band of white supremacists. There is no violence. These are all lies. There’s no looting. There’s no arson. There’s no security issue present that would warrant the government rolling in the tanks. Luckily, the Canadian military has rejected any overtures that they be used to clear these people out. Ontario’s government tried to block the donation stream. It failed. GoFundMe pinched off donations to the truckers; GoSendMe picked up where they left off.

“This is definitely not a one-time thing,” activist Sam Hersh predicts.

When the trucks finally leave downtown Ottawa, when quiet returns and traffic resumes, hard questions will have to begin to be answered.

Chief among those is: Will it happen again?

Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly has already raised the possibility that truckers could return to the city this spring — or sooner — and has cited that concern to explain, in part, why his officers have yet to force the trucks from downtown streets.

“Real Time” host Bill Maher explained during the latest broadcast of his show that the Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates are justifiably upset at the elites because they had to continue to work throughout the pandemic while many others had the flexibility to sit at home at the expense of the government.

In starting the panel discussion of his Friday night show, Maher said that the Freedom Convoy is people “understanding this is about something more than just the vaccine mandate.”

World-famous liberal commentator Bill Maher calls out Trudeau’s bigoted remarks about unvaccinated people.
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— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) February 12, 2022

Only 16% of respondents to the Maru Public Opinion poll said they would vote for Trudeau based on his actions over the past two weeks, when a protest by truck drivers against a Covid-19 vaccine mandate bubbled up into massive blockades, inspiring similar movements in several other countries. Just 29% said Trudeau had acted “like a prime minister should,” and 48% concluded that he was “not up to the job of being prime minister.”

Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of MyPillow, is donating thousands of pillows to Canadian truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Ottawa—as he praised the movement dubbed “Freedom Convoy” for all the work they have done.

“In Canada, they have backed off on some of the mandates,” Lindell said. “The truckers are gaining. It is working … they’re doing it now on the U.S. side. MyPillow’s getting involved. We’re shipping up pillows to all of the truckers.”

This will make lefty heads Pop.

I’ve been looking up the various insurrections, coups, revolts and revolutions that have jolted the world, unravelled monarchies and ripped countries apart over the course of history. How else to get a better understanding of the terror and mayhem unfolding in Ottawa?

In the conference rooms of downtown Ottawa hotels, an ever-changing cast of characters has stepped up to speak for the convoy of protesters camped out on Parliament’s doorstep.

But a recent statement from convoy organizers confirms that the truckers and others demanding an end to COVID-19 public-health restrictions have three main leaders: Chris Barber, Tamara Lich and Benjamin Dichter.

Go incognito

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.

Trucks Are Gone From #AmbassadorBridge but More Protesters Arrive on Foot
A growing group of demonstrators continues to protest near Ambassador Bridge despite a large police presence pushing them back#FreedomConvoy2022 #TruckersConvoy2022 #TruckersForFreedom2022 #greenpass pic.twitter.com/ojUHWR3b7m

— ★ GNI ★ GAIA NEWS INTERNATIONAL (@GaiaNewsIntl) February 12, 2022

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.