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  • With fresh reinforcements, finally some pushback from police

    02/07/2022 6:19:57 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 33 replies
    Ottawa Citizen ^ | Feb 07, 2022 | Kelly Egan
    So, this was the weekend of “surge and contain.” Like many things we’ve heard from Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly, it wasn’t entirely clear Friday what he was talking about. It’s certainly true there were more police officers in the “red zone” around Parliament Hill than last weekend. There were seven or eight Sudbury police officers, for instance, walking around in a pack on the sidewalk — “patrolling” it is probably called, or “surging,” as it were, “containing” who knows what. But there were barbecues on the go on Wellington Street and wood-burning fires in metal containers and Christian tents...
  • Egan: The convoy has lost the room. Now how do we lose the trucks?

    01/30/2022 6:43:53 PM PST · by Kriggerel · 46 replies
    Ottawa Citizen ^ | January 30, 2022 | Kelly Egan
    By day’s end Saturday, and it was bound to happen, the trucker convoy had lost the room. In the course of a couple of hours, the “movement” was being blamed for disrespecting the two things in Canada that cannot ever be disrespected — the memory of Terry Fox and the graves of our war dead. If that wasn’t bad enough, there came news a pair of protesters were harassing the homeless, being aggressive, even racist, toward a shelter security guard and taking food set aside for street people...