Protesters opposed to Canada’s vaccine mandates continued to blockade the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, on Wednesday, restricting a key shipping route that accounts for some 25% of U.S.-Canada trade.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced Wednesday that his officer has opened an investigation into GoFundMe following the crowdfunding platform’s decision to shut down a fundraising effort aimed at assisting the “Freedom Convey” in Canada.
The Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Ontario, closed overnight on Monday and reopened to slow-moving traffic on Tuesday, was once again blocked by protesting Canadian truck drivers on Wednesday.
Canada’s Freedom Convoy trucker protest against vaccine mandates continued on Tuesday as mandates, vaccine passport systems, and other coronavirus restrictions began falling in provinces across the country – including Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island.
Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Wednesday that the province has “no plans” to end the vaccine passport system or mask mandates, as other conservative Canadian provinces scrap Wuhan coronavirus restrictions.
Leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced jeers and insults in Parliament on Tuesday as he once again faced questions regarding his derision towards citizens who oppose civil rights violations tied to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Canadian leftists and corporate media this week have begun denouncing the “Freedom Convoy” – a trucker-led protest against civil rights abuses in the name of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – by associating it with former President Donald Trump, the “alt-right,” and the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
A series of arrests were made late Tuesday against members of the trucker-led Freedom Convoy in Canada as the capital Ottawa remained in a state of emergency.
The Canadian province of Alberta will be ending its mandated vaccine passport system at midnight, along with other coronavirus restrictions.
Truckers traveled from Anchorage to Eagle River, Alaska, over the weekend in support of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, Canada.
Tow Truck drivers from every company the City of Ottawa has a contract with are refusing all of the requests to take heavy vehicles associated with the “Freedom Convoy” from the downtown area, according to city manager Steve Kanellakos who told reporters on Monday.
Conservative Party leader Candice Bergen confronted leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday about his repeated use of insults and epithets against individuals who choose not to receive a coronavirus vaccination product, asking if he regretted the role he played in dividing the country.
Supporters of Canada’s anti-mandate, trucker-led Freedom Convoy movement shut down traffic on the Ambassador Bridge on Monday. Located between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan, the bridge is part of the busiest border crossing between Canada and the United States.
The Canadian province of Saskatchewan will soon end its coronavirus vaccine passport and mask requirements as anti-mandate protests continue to grow across the country.
Ottawa police detained and brutalized a 78-year-old man identified as Gerry Charlebois on Monday for violating the ban imposed that day on honking car horns. Police appear in multiple videos twisting the elderly man’s arm around his back and shoving him into the side of a car.
Winnipeg police identified a far-left activist as the driver accused of running down four anti-coronavirus restriction protestors on Friday.
Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing mounting frustration in his side of the political aisle for failing to act in the face of growing “Freedom Convoy” protests against coronavirus-related mandates – frustration he tried to stem by making a last-minute appearance in Parliament on Monday night.
Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson reacted to the trucker protest north of the border, primarily in Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
Hordes of vehicles blocked streets around New Zealand’s Parliament on Tuesday, in a protest mirroring others building around the world demanding an end to coronavirus restrictions and vaccine mandates.
“None of this is about racism,” Randy, a demonstrator in Ottawa, ON, told Breitbart News while demonstrating in support of the Freedom Convoy.
A visibly agitated Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday night belittled members of the Freedom Convoy who have descended on the capital Ottawa, claiming “A few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who Canadians are.”
Nicholas, a demonstrator supporting the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, ON, told Breitbart News on Saturday that “corporate media” present an “alternative reality” of protesters in the nation’s capital opposing ongoing government decrees marketed as health as safety measures related to COVID-19.
Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante on Sunday asked the Quebec government to provide a detailed plan for “reopening” the province as it emerges from strict coronavirus emergency measures.
Canadians have suffered with a political “uni-party” with no true opposition for too long, Freedom Convoy leader and spokesman B.J. Dichter told Breitbart News.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch an investigation into GoFundMe after the crowdfunding platform said it would reallocate all nearly $10 million in donations for Canada’s “freedom convoy” to charity — a move it reversed following backlash from conservatives.
“We dare you, Trudeau, to come and speak to us to our faces,” Wendy, an activist, told Breitbart News on Saturday in Ottawa, Ontario.
Ezra Levant described the ongoing Freedom Convoy as the most significant political event he had observed in his lifetime across Canada.
Much of the American and Canadian media establishment is laboring to portray the Freedom Convoy protest against vaccine mandates in Canada as a small but loud group of fringe extremists. Photos from cities across Canada this weekend demonstrated the true size and diversity of the movement, which is clearly more than just a handful of truckers honking their horns in Ottawa.
“I HAVEN’T HUGGED MY MOM IN 2 YEARS!! STOP THE MANDATES,” read a sign held by a woman attending a Saturday demonstration in Vancouver, BC, in opposition to government edicts ostensibly issued for health and safety purposes related to coronavirus transmission.
Canada’s capital city of Ottawa has declared a “state of emergency” as police have begun to crack down on the “Freedom Convoy” by cutting off fuel and supply lines.
A Canadian judge has revoked an unvaccinated father’s custody of his children, ruling that he poses a health threat to his daughter.
“If we don’t fight for our freedoms now, our kids will have no freedoms to fight for later,” Mark, an Ottawa Freedom Convoy supporter, said.
A former ambassador to Canada appointed under President Barack Obama cautioned U.S. groups late Saturday night they must not pursue cross-border “disruptive activities” by funding Canadian Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa and beyond.
Truckers in the Canadian Freedom Convoy are lauding the efforts of their fellow citizens and protestors on the ground in Ottawa.
Christian-owned funding platform GiveSendGo is hosting a new fundraiser for the Canada Freedom Convoy after its initial fundraiser was shut down by far-left funding platform GoFundMe.
Justin Trudeau’s government violates freedoms of speech, expression, assembly, and religion, a supporter of the Freedom Convoy said in Ottawa.
Canada’s Freedom Convoy movement has officially gone global after vehicles streamed into the centre of Finland’s capital on Friday.
In an unprecedented step, far-left funding platform GoFundMe has announced it will “redirect” donations intended for the Canadian Freedom Convoy to “credible and established charities” that are chosen by Freedom Convoy organizers and “verified by GoFundMe.”
“It’s nothing but smiles, good vibes, support, love, appreciation, resistance, and freedom thoughts,” Dave from Montreal told me on Wednesday with a slight Quebecois accent, describing the ongoing protests against Chinese coronavirus mandates in the nation’s capital.
Freedom Convoy Canada leader and spokesman B.J. Dichter told Breitbart News that establishment media outlets and politicians maligning the trucker movement as “racist,” “white supremacist,” and desecrating war memorials are spewing “fake news hoax hate” that does not affect the movement “at all.”
