Freedom Convoy

Writing at Canada’s National Post on Tuesday, columnist Rex Murphy noted that disruptive and violent pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protesters are treated with far more indulgence by Canadian officials than the Freedom Convoy protesters who peacefully stood against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pandemic policies in 2022.

More than 800 Canadian citizens have had their bank accounts shut down since 2018, including hundreds who participated in the pivotal trucker protests against coronavirus policies in 2022, known as the Freedom Convoy.

A court in Alberta, Canada, sentenced Pastor Artur Pawlowski on Monday to 60 days in prison for a speech to Freedom Convoy truckers in February 2022 in which he supported their protests against repressive lockdown, vaccine, and other mandates related to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

A Canadian judge on Tuesday found Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski guilty of “mischief” for urging truckers to continue a 2022 protest that blocked the main border crossing in Alberta for two weeks.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has expressed “regret” for calling the Freedom Convoy protestors a “fringe minority” with”unacceptable views”.

Rebel News’s Ezra Levant told host Joel Pollak on Breitbart News Sunday that Canada’s ongoing erosion of freedom and constitutional rights is a warning to Americans, saying “It can happen to you.”

A Canadian commission of inquiry has cleared Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of emergency powers to stop protests against his coronavirus vaccine mandates a year ago, over the objections of civil liberties groups.

As the world entered its second year of pandemic lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, and a new era of high fuel prices and inflation, the world’s most essential cargo transport professionals – truckers – took the lead in organizing anti-government protests in nearly every region of the planet.

President Joe Biden and others in his administration allegedly pressured Justin Trudeau to shut down the ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests.

Canadian govt ministers claim texts discussing deploying army tanks during the Freedom Convoy protests were just a joke.

Some 2,000 protesters assembled outside the New Zealand Parliament building in Wellington on Tuesday to protest their government’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, particularly its vaccine mandates.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ignored cries of anger and desperation from farmers and provincial officials last weekend by pressing ahead with a climate change agenda that will dramatically reduce Canada’s use of fertilizer – the same ruinous strategy that drove Dutch farmers into revolt and destroyed the agriculture of Sri Lanka.

An organiser of the Canadian Freedom Convoy was granted bail this week after being held in jail for several months over causing “mischief.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his use of the Emergencies Act, saying unvaccinated Canadians had accepted the consequences.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has warned Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs) of rising levels of “anti-government” and “anti-authority” sentiment since the onset of the Wuhan virus pandemic.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday he will establish a “Public Order Emergency Commission” to investigate his own assertion of authoritarian emergency powers to suppress the Freedom Convoy protests in February.

Ontario provincial parliament member Randy Hillier surrendered to Ottawa police Monday and is facing nine criminal charges.

Several of the organisers of the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa, Canada have been handed additional charges during separate court appearances this week.

A number of European Parliament members have taken aim at Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his harsh crackdown on the country’s Freedom Convoy truckers.

An arson incident in Ottawa last month had no connection to Freedom Convoy protestors despite allegations from top politicians in Canada.

NZ’s government announced that it is set to shelve most of its remaining coronavirus restrictions on the 4th of April.

An advisor to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has alleged that the government was justified in invoking emergency powers last month, claiming Freedom Convoy protestors wanted to overthrow the government.

Justin Trudeau has faced criticism after he was photographed on Monday wearing a mask for Labour’s leader Keir Starmer but opted not to wear one while meeting 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II.

Washington, District of Columbia — “The People’s Convoy” rolls on the Beltway — Interstate 495 — for the second day in a row to advance their call to end President Joe Biden’s emergency declaration concerning the coronavirus.

Leftist Canadian politicians expressed anger and outrage after provincial penalties for Freedom Convoy truckers, which included suspending the licenses of truck operators in Ontario, expired this week.

New Zealand police cleared an anti-vaccine mandate protest outside New Zealand’s parliament building in Wellington on Wednesday after its participants resisted federal calls to disperse for nearly four weeks, Wellington’s Dominion Post reported.

The government of Ontario, Canada has removed Wuhan coronavirus vaccine passport requirements entirely on Tuesday, but noted businesses can choose to enforce the measures on their own.

Former President Donald Trump once again praised the Freedom Convoy trucker movement and said, “a line has been crossed. You’re either with the peaceful truckers or you are with the left wing fascists,” on Saturday during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). 

As Ontario, Canada looks to end its Wuhan virus restrictions, a provincial government minister has announced a review of vaccine mandates for healthcare workers in long-term care facilities.

In a speech at CPAC, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) praised Nunchuk.io, a Canadian-based provider of custodial Bitcoin (BTC) wallets, for mocking the Canadian government’s lack of understanding of cryptocurrency after it received a demand to freeze wallets connected to the Freedom Convoy truckers — a demand it is technologically incapable of meeting.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele criticized Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ongoing crackdown on participants of Canada’s peaceful “Freedom Convoy” in response to Trudeau supporting the freedoms of Ukrainian citizens while simultaneously stripping Canadians of their constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Canada’s CTV News on Tuesday reported that Freedom Convoy protesters driven from downtown Ottawa by this weekend’s police action are “regrouping” on private property around the city, as they evidently planned in advance.

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) announced on Wednesday that it has started an internal investigation over allegations that some OPP officers may have donated to the fundraiser for the anti-Wuhan coronavirus restriction Freedom Convoy protests.

Canadians should withdraw their bank funds immediately, according to a military source cited by outspoken psychology professor Dr. Jordan Peterson.

The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa on Tuesday lectured Canada on its hypocrisy for denouncing China’s ruthless suppression of the Hong Kong democracy movement in 2019, but using similar iron-fisted tactics to smash the Freedom Convoy protest movement in 2022.

Measures taken against Freedom Convoy demonstrators and their supporters are “exactly [like] the Chinese social credit system,” according to Canadian political commentator Ezra Levant, who warned that such a system “could come to America just as easy as the rest of the martial law.”