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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.

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.”

Freedom Convoy Canada leader and spokesman B.J. Dichter told Breitbart News that he believes Ottawa police on the ground “have no intention of interfering” with the peaceful protests, despite the Ottawa city leadership declaring a “surge and contain strategy” on protesters.

Candice Bergen, elected on Wednesday to replace the ousted Erin O’Toole as interim leader of the Canadian Conservative caucus, came out swinging in her debut House of Commons appearance by blasting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for refusing to extend an “olive branch” to Freedom Convoy demonstrators. Bergen began the week by sneering at Trudeau for wearing blackface “more times than he can remember” and demanding he apologize for slandering the demonstrators as racists.

“I’m tired of being sorry,” Dave, a demonstrator feeding truckers and others at the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, ON, said on Wednesday.

Ottawa police have announced they will be implementing a “surge and contain strategy” ahead of a predicted surge of protestors this weekend. 

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Thursday that he did not believe deploying the Canadian military against a mostly peaceful anti-coronavirus mandate protest in Ottawa was “in the cards.”

OTTAWA, Ontario – “I am very, very much pro-freedom, and I have no love for tyranny,” Shanna, a demonstrator supporting the Freedom Convoy protest told Breitbart News on Wednesday when asked for her motivations in attending the events on Parliament Hill.

Police have said their intelligence suggests the number of protestors joining the mandate protests will increase this weekend. 

Alberta’s ruling Conservatives denied members had negotiated with anti-mandate truckers, but noted that vax passports could end within days. 

Georgia trucking business executive and congressional candidate Mike Collins is leading big in a crowded field of contenders hoping to replace Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), according to a new Trafalgar Group poll.

Facebook has censored a group of American truckers who are following the lead of their Canadian counterparts by organizing a protest against vaccine mandates.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Ed Durr shared some of his insights into the current situation up north.

Canadian Conservative members voted to sack moderate Erin O’Toole and have selected firebrand pro-trucker Candice Bergen as interim leader.

Ottawa’s police chief said the capital may request aid from the armed forces to stop the ongoing anti-mandate Freedom Convoy trucker protest. 

Premier Scott Moe of the Canadian province Saskatchewan conceded Wednesday the time may have come to “look at ending all” coronavirus measures.

The Premier of Canada’s Quebec province signaled that he is willing to meet with the Freedom Convoy, in stark comparison to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who ruled out a meeting with the protesters. 

A GoFundMe fundraiser entitled “Freedom Convoy 2022” with over $10 million was frozen by the online crowdfunding platform.

Canadian police on Tuesday ordered protesters to dismantle their blockade of a vital U.S. border crossing, while Ontario Premier Doug Ford ordered the demonstrators camped in Ottawa to disperse and return home after five days of occupying the national capital.

Regional governments throughout Canada have begun announcing plans to drop onerous civil rights restrictions on their citizens meant to contain the Chinese coronavirus this week following mounting pressure from national protests, most prominently the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa.

The Canadian “Freedom Convoy” has spread to the U.S. border with Alberta where the local towing companies have refused to aid authorities.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) expressed support for the Canadian freedom truckers on Tuesday, posting an image to his Facebook page with the words, “Truck Yeah.”

Australian truckers used social media over the weekend to plan their own “Freedom Convoy” similar to the one in Canada, telling supporters they should “swarm to Canberra to protest mandates and restrictions” on Monday.

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have dismissed the “Freedom Convoy” as a fringe minority, but the images out of Ottawa of crowds braving icy temperatures tell a completely different story.

Canadian PM Trudeau has labelled the anti-mandate trucker convoy heading to Ottawa a “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views.”

Police in Ontario confirmed they are investigating the conduct of a female officer who publicly expressed support for a trucker convoy.