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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s day of whistle stops in the Ottawa area ended early Friday as anti-Liberal protesters gathered outside a brewery before he arrived. Following uneventful stops in Gatineau Park in Quebec and two Ottawa suburbs earlier in the day, Trudeau was on his way to the Brasserie Etienne Brule Brewery in Embrun, Ont., about 30 minutes east of Ottawa. The event was called off before he arrived. About a dozen protesters gathered across the street from the brewery, including one who was carrying a flag emblazoned with a profanity directed at Trudeau, and another who was...

A curfew imposed in Colombo, Sri Lanka ahead of a protest in the coming hours demanding the resignations of the country's president and prime minister... "This is an absolute disgrace" A judge in Canada revoking the bail of Trucker Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich... "Freedom Over Fear" "Restore Our Constitution" That's what the signs read. On the Mall in Washington DC Day 3 of the 1776 Restoration Movement Protest For Constitutional Liberty... Dutch Farmers Protest Cow Gas Rules Today Joined By Fishing Industry... More bad news for Dutch farmers in addition to the nitrogen rules for cow gas... The Biden...

"This is the first day of protest here are many more to come...actual peaceful protest, nothing burning here" Video Streamer 'Oreo Express" On 1776 Restoration Movement Freedom Four convoys set out from Bunker Hill, West Virginia to send a non-violent message of freedom to the nation's ruling elites today. They used highways like Route 7 in Northern Virginia and I-270 in Maryland making 30 minute stops blocking multiple lanes of traffic and allowing one of traffic through for emergency purposes if needed. Vehicles are continuing to move slowly around the DC area this morning planning to move onto the 1776...

LifeSiteNews reported on June 29 that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have made the rare decision to waive cabinet confidentiality and “release the evidence it used to justify invoking the Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa earlier this year.”I believe this recent revelation will ultimately lead to Trudeau’s resignation. (snip)Like I said, he will never willingly enter into a battle he does not believe he can win – he is a coward. Therefore, he has two likely ways out.He will call another election and step down as party leader in the process, or he will simply step down...

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Canada’s federal government paid thousands to influence American social media “thought leaders.” The Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC is forking out money to influence American “thought leaders” on social media, says Blacklock’s Reporter, adding the plan coincides with US media criticism of the recently invoked Emergencies Act against the truckers’ convoy. "The digital strategy would tell a cohesive story and lead to greater brand awareness across the United States as well as increased interest in Canadian activities,” diplomats wrote in a Statement Of Work. "A critical piece of this project would be to re-imagine digital diplomacy outreach beyond the Canadian...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, fresh off his botched handling of freedom convoy protests of his government's policies surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, may have thought a trip abroad to address the European Parliament would be a nice reprieve from criticism at home. But that's not what he got. At all. Instead, two members of the European Parliament laid into Trudeau, comparing him to a dictator and attacking his gall to speak about threats to Democracy after his own actions in Canada. "It would have been more appropriate for Mr. Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, to address this house according to...

B.C. joins the growing number of Canadian provinces that have strongly changed their tune on COVID policies since the Freedom Convoy reached Ottawa with overwhelming grass-roots support. VICTORIA, British Columbia – The province of British Columbia announced that its mask mandate is ending immediately and that vaccine passports will be gone in less than a month. The move comes despite recent statements that the Province of British Columbia would be living under draconian COVID measures until at least the summer. The immediate termination of mandatory masking was announced yesterday and pushes B.C. ahead of Ontario, which still has making in...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) visited the “People’s Convoy” at the Hagerstown Speedway on Thursday and rode shotgun in the lead truck, with plans for the vehicle to head into Washington for a news conference, while the rest of the convoy circles the Capital Beltway to protest pandemic health restrictions aimed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. [cut] “Your voice is being heard,” Cruz told the crowd as truckers, drivers and supporters held up their phones and cameras to capture his speech. “What the men and women want here is for the government to leave you the hell alone. ......

She was directed to leave Ottawa within a day and be out of Ontario within 72 hours, not to return unless for court reasons. OTTAWA – An Ontario judge ordered this afternoon that trucker Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich be immediately released on bail but with strict conditions. The decision came after Lich was earlier denied bail by a judge with ties to the Liberal Party of Canada. “I find that this accused ought to be released,” ruled Justice John M. Johnston today. According to Ottawa-based lawyer David Anber, who has been live-tweeting Lich’s case, in addition to her bail...

Onlookers are watching from overpasses as the People's Convoy that gathered at the Hagerstown Speedway takes its slow trip from Maryland to D.C's Beltway to drive in protest of COVID-19 restrictions Sunday morning. While vehicles began moving sometime around 9:30 a.m., the convoy should take a while to crawl out of the speedway and onto the Beltway. A spokesperson tells WTOP that they plan to circle the Beltway on Sunday in protest of COVID-19 restrictions. Afterward, they're expected to head back to Hagerstown...

"The Government continues to refuse to speak to protesters on the basis they are engaged in illegal activities, yet history shows Government engaged proactively with the Mongrel Mob and the Taliban. Today police moved to clear the streets around the main parliament lawn centre of the protest-indiscriminately using pepper spray in ways that are illegal, many dressed in riot gear." Convoy 2022 NZ Protest Groups News Release Wednesday 3/2/2022 The New Zealand Police began their "operation" to end the Freedom Camp protest near Parliament at 6 am Wednesday morning March 2nd, 12 Noon on March 1st in the Eastern US....

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The trucker convoy has come and gone. The bouncy castles have been put away, the hot tubs dismantled, the 18-wheelers towed, the party atmosphere vanished into air, into thin air. They are such stuff as dreams are made of. The convoy’s main accomplishment was to force the government to show its autocratic hand to the observant and the doubtful. The invoking of the Emergencies (or War Measures) Act was a groundless abuse of power and its hasty withdrawal a sign of an authoritarian government caught with its pants down. But in the aftermath of the Freedom Convoy’s magnificent display of...

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) confirmed that it shut down nearly 40 businesses during its crackdown on Freedom Convoy protesters opposing COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. In an email to Global News on Feb. 23, Dakota Brasier, a spokesperson for Minister of Transportation Caroline Mulroney, said the ministry had issued 12 seizure orders to Ontario-based large truck operators which suspended them from being allowed to operate within Canada. The ministry also issued an order to seize all plates registered to them, Brasier said. Outside of Ontario, the ministry also issued 27 seizure orders to out-of-province large truck operators, which stopped...

Americans have often looked down their noses at the authoritarian ways of other nations and thought, “that will never happen in the United States.” But after enduring our own governmnet’s overreach throughout the pandemic, I wonder how many folks are still sure about that. I can only speak for myself, but every affront to liberty around the globe now seems a potential scourge for the U.S. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provides the latest example. His illiberal response to the Canadian trucker protests breaks new ground for Democratic countries looking to infringe on their citizens' basic freedoms. Last week, despite...

Something caught my ear in the car, listening to a radio simulcast of the Feb. 21 "PBS NewsHour." Anchor Judy Woodruff dryly reported that "Canadian police have arrested more than 190 protesters and issued 389 charges in connection with the so-called Freedom Convoy." The "so-called Freedom Convoy." It's a journalistic term, the use of which can be interpreted as distancing themselves from something that's not true. After 9/11, we heard about the "so-called War on Terror." Democrats hated that term. Dan Rather used to get out the 10-foot pole and report on "the Republican political lobbying group that calls itself,...

"As riot police moved from Lambton Quay to a Bunny St. blockade, several officers barged into camping areas and pulled some children out, along with the adults caring for them" The New Zealand Herald Reports On A Police Operation To Stengthen Concrete Barricades At The Freedom Camp Protest In Wellington 2/24/2022... The Freedom And Rights Coalition plans 92 family-friendly protets across New Zealand with the police fearful of one on the Sky Harbor Bridge in Auckland the country's largest city proclaiming in advance the illegality of such a protest. The TFRC is associated with Brian Tamaki who is the founder...

The fate of the American trucker convoy has already been decided by resident Joe Biden and his allies who, despite promises from the Freedom Convoy protesters that they will remain peaceful, are already painting them as domestic threats. The bulk of American truckers and allies will not officially launch their journey to Washington, D.C., until March 1, but officials in the nation’s capital have already gone to extreme lengths to ensure that the Americans uniting for freedom from the tyranny that has wreaked havoc on the nation for the last two years feel anything but welcomed. The American Freedom Convoy...

At around 940 pm Wednesday evening (340 am US Eastern time) Freedom Camp protesters in Wellington, New Zealand successfully removed concrete barriers at Bowen Street and Lambton Quay allowing more vehicles in. Police soon arrived to re-establish the blockade they set up there... The New Zealand Police, a national police force involved here, say their goal is to reduce the size of the protest in the coming days... Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was heckled again Thursday as she visited a school in Christchurch. Much media drama saying Ardern was rushed out of the school. A TV One reporter at the...