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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.

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.

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.

An Ontario judge rebuked a man’s derision of his ex-wife as a “conspiracy theorist” in a custody dispute based on vaccinations for their children.

Breitbart News spoke with Dimitrios, George, and John — three Canadian demonstrators from Toronto — during the Freedom Convoy gathering in Ottawa, ON, on Thursday.

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the official watchdog group for the province, said this weekend it is investigating an incident in which a mounted police officer trampled a woman during police action to break up the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa on Friday.

Marion Isabeau-Ringuette, until last weekend director of communications for the office of Solicitor-General Sylvia Jones in Canada’s Ontario province, is one of several government staffers to lose their jobs after hackers exposed the list of Freedom Convoy donors from U.S. crowdfunding website GiveSendGo.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Tuesday that his government will accelerate its timetable for lifting coronavirus restrictions, reopening businesses, and terminating its vaccine passport system.

Ottawa police officers began distributing flyers on Wednesday threatening to arrest those they believe to be Freedom Convoy demonstrators.

“I came here to pray for our prime minister … to make the right decision,” Mariusz, a retired military police officer, said in Ottawa.

Several Canadian provincial executives resisted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of emergency powers on Monday to shut down the Freedom Convoy protests against vaccine mandates. 

Wayne, a Freedom Convoy supporter in Ottawa, told Breitbart News nobody should “suffer from isolation” or “be stigmatized” for personal medical decisions.

Wayne, a demonstrator supporting the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, ON, told Breitbart News on Saturday that families are being “destroyed” by divisions related to the politics of COVID-19.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Friday that plans are under way to remove “almost all restrictions for businesses,” including the controversial “vaccine passport system” that inspired the Freedom Convoy protests.

Ontario will end its vaccine passport requirements on March 1, 2022, the province announced Monday in a press release.

The Ambassador Bridge connecting Canada and the U.S. remains blocked by Canadian demonstrators on Saturday night, over 24 hours after a deadline issued by a Ontario Superior Court Justice Geoffrey Morawetz via injunction to restrain individuals from blocking the bridge between Windsor, ON, and Detroit, MI.

Justin Trudeau held an “Incident Response Group” meeting on Saturday regarding what he called “illegal blockades and occupations.”

“We’re not free anymore,” Ryan, a truck driver from Manitoba with the Freedom Convoy, told Breitbart News on Thursday in Ottawa, ON.

Mayor Mike Bradley has accused Freedom Convoy protestors of engaging in “economic terrorism” after they set up a blockade on a highway.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Friday that he would impose a “state of emergency” in response to the two-week-old “Freedom Convoy” protests that would, he hoped, end blockades in major cities and on international border crossings.

Health officials in the Canadian province of Ontario are expected to announce an easing of pandemic restrictions on Thursday that have prohibited schoolchildren from participating in extracurricular activities — including sports such as hockey and basketball — since September 2021, the Toronto Star reported citing anonymous sources.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said on Wednesday he has no idea when the Freedom Convoy trucker protests that have clogged the streets of the Canadian capital for the past two weeks will end.

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.

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.

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

Schools in Ontario are facing backlash after burning or destroying books deemed offensive to First Nations, including classic comics such as Tintin and Asterix.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was targeted by protesters throwing what appears to be gravel during the latest demonstration the Liberal Party leader has faced on the campaign trail.

A far-leftist has claimed his participation in tearing down a statue of Canada’s first Prime Minister and dared police to arrest him.

A Canadian radio personality called for the burning of churches, as news outlets have reported more Catholic and Anglican churches being burned in parts of the country, primarily on First Nations reserves.

Two Catholic churches on First Nations reservations in British Columbia are the latest churches burned down this month under what police have claimed are suspicious circumstances.

TORONTO, Canada – People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier has slammed allegations from left-wing politicians accusing anti-lockdown protests of being linked to far-right extremism.

Ontario, Canada’s government on Thursday extended a Chinese coronavirus stay-at-home order through June 2 that includes a ban on outdoor recreational activity.

A judge in Woolwich Township in Ontario, Canada, has ordered Trinity Bible Chapel be locked to prevent Sunday worship services.

The Ontario Ministry of Health announced on Friday that “pregnant individuals” are now eligible to schedule coronavirus vaccine appointments.

An anti-lockdown MP proposed reducing salaries in solidarity with ordinary Canadians, only to see the house vote to reduce his pay instead.

Ontario issued dozens of fines to large retailers and their customers — $1,000 and $750 (CAD), respectively — over recent weeks as part of its “big-box store blitz” to enforce compliance with mask-wearing and social distancing decrees, ostensibly issued as public health protection measures.