Michigan Republicans are refusing to stay silent about backing Canadian truckers protesting strict vaccine mandates on the Ambassador Bridge between Canada and Detroit.
Former Obama administration official Juliette Kayyem backpedaled a call Thursday for actions against Canadian truckers protesting the government’s strict coronavirus policies, Fox News reported.
Mayor Mike Bradley has accused Freedom Convoy protestors of engaging in “economic terrorism” after they set up a blockade on a highway.
Canadian Conservative Party MP and leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre expressed support for the Freedom Convoy protesters.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher discussed the trucker protests currently taking place in Canada and stated that he thinks the main issue driving the protests is that there were some people who, during the pandemic, could afford to “wait out and get a free vacation and money from the government and other people can’t. And they’re pissed off, the people who can’t.”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sounded “like Hitler” when he made comments about leaders facing a choice on whether or not to “tolerate” people who aren’t vaccinated and also negatively cited Trudeau saying that the trucker protesters in the country had “unacceptable” points of view.
Organizer B.J. Dichter reminded Canadian government officials that truckers are used to sitting and waiting as part of their jobs and would not blink.
Police in Fredericton, the capital of Canada’s New Brunswick province, told reporters on Thursday they “are not going to tolerate” any blocking of roads in the “downtown core” during an anti-coronavirus-restriction protest planned for Friday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.
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.
Conservative Party interim leader Candice Bergen demanded an end to trucker-led “Freedom Convoy” protests blockading international borders on Thursday, urging anti-mandate demonstrations to end.
The head of Canada’s far-left New Democratic Party, lawmaker Jagmeet Singh, published a video on Thursday railing against leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his “completely inexcusable” inaction in the face of the growing “Freedom Convoy” anti-mandate protests nationwide.
The Biden administration reportedly urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to use federal powers to quell the truck blockade.
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.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Stephanie Ruhle Reports,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese reacted to protesters in Canada by stating that “legitimate peaceful protest is, of course, something that is always encouraged. But taking steps like this
Police confirmed that a border crossing in the province of Manitoba has been blockaded by anti-mandate truckers.
Brussels — the heartland of the administrative elements of the European Union — has banned a Canada-style Freedom Convoy from entering the city this weekend.
Leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau endured a second day of intense heckling, insults, and accusations of prioritizing his political power over the health of citizens on Wednesday in a heated session of Parliament.
Head of a govt-funded ‘anti-hate’ network spread a picture of an antisemitic flier online, claiming it was handed out at a trucker protest.
Canadian inspired freedom convoys have spread into France, where a convoy against coronavirus restrictions is planned in Paris on Saturday.
Truckers have resumed a border blockade in southern Alberta, demanding the return of more freedoms after the vax pass was scrapped.
Matthew Luloff, an Ottawa City Councilman, told American taxpayer-funded NPR that the “Freedom Convoy” protests against coronavirus-related mandates in the city were fueled by “miscreants” embracing “hate symbols,” which defies on-the-ground reports showing peaceful demonstrations attracting people of all ages.
David Freiheit, known as Viva Frei, said the “legacy media” and “politicians” are “outright lying” about the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
Ottawa City Manager Steve Kanellakos said on Tuesday that every tow truck company that has a municipal contract has refused to haul away the Freedom Convoy trucks that have blocked city streets in the Canadian capital for the past two weeks.
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.
