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This injunction includes a noise restriction ban, barring any unnecessary use of horns or other noise making devices A Calgary court granted an emergency court injunction in response to weekly protests against COVID mandates. Calgary police are asking all protesters to "reconsider" heading down to Saturday's protest, where last week there was a heated standoff between two opposing groups. Mayor Jyoti Gondek and city council retained an emergency court injunction allowing bylaws to be enforced more efficiently by law enforcement. This action was taken three days after city council voted 13-2 on sending a letter to the police commission asking...

Washington-Former U.S. President Donald Trump is assailing Canada as a country of "left-wing fascists" for the way it cleared protesters out of Ottawa last weekend. Trump's remarks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida marked the first time in nearly a month he's publicly acknowledged the protests. He said protesters in Canada were "slandered" as Nazis, racists and terrorists, charged with what he called "phoney crimes" and accused of being loyal to foreign powers. The comments prompted a passionate standing ovation from the crowd... "The tyranny we have witnessed in Canada in recent weeks should shock and dismay...

"Jesus loves you this we know for the Bible tells us so" The Singing Of A Canadian Couple To Police In Ottawa Saturday 2/19/2022 As Seen In The "Viva Frei" Livestream "If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges" Interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell Saturday 2/19/2022 As day gave way to night in Ottawa the police continued to push people away from Parliament Hill and eventually were setting up cage like fencing in the street to separate themselves from protesters for the night. As...

This morning police from all over Ontario and Quebec along with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police began their crackdown in the center of Ottawa. Police, some of them dressed in tactical uniforms, began to warn people and make arrests. Operations were underway to the east of Parliament Hill.. The story in Ottawa tonight one of a crowd of protesters just east of Parliament where Wellington Street heads towards McKenzie Street and Sussex Drive and then Wellngton becomes Rideau St. The police pushed protesters westwards from the area of Sussex Drive and now have them pushed back to Wellington and McKenzie...

Chris Barber, a key organizer of the so-called Freedom Convoy that has occupied Ottawa streets for three weeks, has been arrested in Ottawa, CBC News has learned. Barber, who is currently in police custody and is expected to face criminal charges, has been described as one of the key leaders of the protest in Ottawa, which has now hit the three-week mark. Barber is also one of three protest organizers named in the class action lawsuit filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by lawyer Paul Champ on behalf of his client, 21-year-old public servant Zexi Li. The suit...

Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich being arrested by Ottawa Police tonight

Art Pawlowski charged with interrupting the operation of essential infrastructure A Lethbridge judge has refused to release controversial Calgary preacher Artur Pawlowski, who is accused of inciting violence during the blockade at the Coutts, Alta, border crossing. Pawlowski is charged with mischief over $5,000 and interrupting the operation of essential infrastructure under Alberta's Critical Infrastructure Defense Act...

"There's a lot of work that needs to be done,' says Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino Public Safety Marco Mendicino sought to assure Ottawa residents Tuesday that the chaos in the city will soon end as local law enforcement, bolstered by the RCMP, works around the clock to restore order. Empowered by the federal government's move to invoke the Emergencies Act, police will soon establish "no-go" zones in the city's downtown core to control unruly crowds associated with the anti-vaccine mandate convoy protest, the minister said. People who defy orders to leave, he added, will face fines of jail time,...

Emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair also said lack of police enforcement 'inexplicable' The federal government has discussed invoking special emergency powers to deal with ongoing protests in Ottawa, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair says, calling a lack of enforcement in the nation's capital "inexplicable". The government's Incident Response Group and cabinet has had "daily" discussions about potential use of the Emergencies Act, Blair said in an interview on Sunday on "Rosemary Barton Live". A cabinet meeting was added to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's itinerary late Sunday, and CBC News has learned that a meeting with the prime minister and premiers...

Officers lined the road near the border and told protesters to move as vehicles towed. Officers from multiple police forces advanced Sunday morning to clear out the remaining protesters and break-up a days long occupation near the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ontario. "Time to leave", police said, as they formed a line and prepared to march forward along Huron Church Road, which leads to the international border crossing connecting Windsor with Detroit. "If you don't leave, you will be arrested" Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens told CBC's "Rosemary Barton Live" on Sunday that he heard "several" people were arrested...

Lots of attention on Ottawa and the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor today but this was a day of nationwide protests coast to coast across Canada. In Edmonton media reports said that 700 protested at the seat of Alberta's provincial government. In Atlantic, Canada Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island the site of a Trucker Freedom Convoy protest that drew some 700 people. This Freedom Rally was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 11 PM Video Report As Windsor Protest Continues Near The Ambassador Bridge... A large crowd on hand in the provincial capital of New Brunswick Fredericton for the Freedom Convoy protest there...

Updated: Surrey's 176th Street has been closed south of 8th Avenue due to a large anti-vaccine mandate protest at the US border The main route to the Pacific Highway border crossing in Surrey was closed Saturday afternoon after protesters opposed to vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 measures broke through RCMP barricades and began driving the wrong way down 176th Street....

And tonight with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying "everything is on the table" and a State of Emergency set to begin in Ontario where the Sarnia, Windsor and Ottawa Freedom Convoy protests are taking place at Midnight local time less than an hour from now we await what comes next but here is a roundup of Freedom Convoy News from Canada and other nations tonight. News Alert: French Police Ban Freedom Convoy In Paris, Promise Fines And Jail Late Friday night the scene in Troyes, France just over 100 miles from Paris as a Freedom Convoy prepared to leave......

White House says Homeland Security chief urged Ottawa to use its powers to quash this blockade U.S officials have offered help the Trudeau government end an anti-vaccine mandate protest that is sending ripple effects through the American economy and causing increasing concern in Washington. The White House says U.S officials had multiple conversations on Thursday with their Canadian counterparts about the blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, a major trade artery which connects Windsor, Ont. with Detroit. The White House said Thursday the U.S. federal cabinet and senior administration staff are now seized with the issue. "(They) have been engaged around...

Well right now its Friday morning in New Zealand police intending to drive out 'evict' protesters at Parliament who have been "trespassed" by police... There were protests Thursday evening across New Zealand supporting the Freedom Convoy in Wellington. They were held on the sides of busy highways and outside police stations... News Alert: New Blockade At Canada-US Border In Southwestern Ontario News Update: The Ambassador Bridge Protest Windsor, Ontario... Breaking News: Ottawa Protest Funds Frozen By Ontario Court... News Alert: There Is Another US-Canada Border Blockade In Manitoba At The Emerson Crossing.. The Latest Live Video From Ottawa...

Highway 75 is blocked in both directions by farm equipment, semi-trailer trucks and more Protesters in semi-trailer trucks, farm equipment and other vehicles who have blocked all highway lanes at Manitoba's main Canada-US border crossing since Thursday morning have begun letting livestock and medical vehicles through. All 50 vehicles, which also include snowplows and construction machinery, have blocked off both northbound and southbound lanes on Highway 75, RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Paul Manaigre told CBC News...

"Kenney just said we'll probably need to 'take an annual COVID shot He's saying all this. An annual shot Holy *hit" Ezra Levant Rebel News Twitter Post 754 pm Eastern US Time 2/8/2022 There was hope that Alberta Premier Jason Kenney would send a message of an end to COVID vaccine passports and other restrictions in the province often considered Canada's most Conservative today. But he sent shockwaves through the grassroots of Canadian Conservatism in his province by pushing more COVID shots in the future and laying out future scenarios for bringing the vax passports back when he spoke late...