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Image: A protester walks in front of parked trucks as demonstrators protest vaccine mandates implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 8, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada.
The following article is a broad timeline of the course of events surrounding the Canada convoy protest, a series of protests and blockades in Canada in early 2022. The protest, which was called the Freedom Convoy (French: Convoi de la liberté) by organizers, was "first aimed at a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers" when the convoy of hundreds of vehicles, including semi ...
The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) initially claimed that every day protests were ongoing was costing CA$800,000. [ 429 ] [ 430 ] Consistent with earlier estimates, Ottawa Police Services Board announced on February 15 that the cost was around $785,000 per day, resulting in an estimated $14.1 million over the course of 18 days. [ 431 ]
A day after the city declared a state of emergency, the mayor pleaded for almost 2,000 extra police officers to help quell the raucous nightly demonstrations staged by the so-called Freedom Truck ...
Bauder and less than 100 other protestors drove to Ottawa in October 2021 in a protest they called Convoy for Freedom before he was one of several people who jointly and loosely organised the January 2022 Canada convoy protest. [6] Bauder was arrested in February 2022 as police were ending the Canada convoy protest. [6]
Police began arresting protesters Friday in a bid to break the three-week, traffic-snarling siege of Canada’s capital by hundreds of truckers angry over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions.
Occupy Canada was a collective of peaceful protests and demonstrations that were part of the larger Occupy Together movement which first manifested in the financial district of New York City with Occupy Wall Street, and subsequently spread to over 900 cities around the world.
Police arrested scores of demonstrators and towed away vehicles Friday in Canada's besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure, raising authorities' hopes for an ...