The squealing minority who could do their public sector work from home, banged pots and pans and Instagrammed their third jabs must be stunned by what is happening:
As an ongoing protest impeding travel to the United States border enters Day 8, police have been monitoring several other demonstrations taking place around Alberta Saturday in solidarity with anti-vaccine-mandate protesters in Ottawa.
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A video of farmers breaking through a blockade.
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**Downtown Toronto is now being locked down by farmers. The workers of the world are uniting - just not in the way the globalists hoped. pic.twitter.com/WFyvyLOmb7
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) February 4, 2022
Thousands gathered on the grounds of the Ontario legislature in Toronto on Feb. 5 to oppose COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates, as police barricaded vehicle access to the area.
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Demonstrators are set to converge on the legislature on Saturday in support of the Ottawa protesters. Premier Doug Ford appears to be crossing his fingers that they don't bring anywhere near the level of disruption as experienced in the downtown of the nation's capital.
"I just hope it's always a peaceful protest," Ford told Hamilton radio station 900 CHML on Thursday morning, when asked about what Toronto police are calling a planned demonstration. "If people want to come down and protest, God bless 'em. I understand their frustration. I really do."
It's significantly different from the way Ford reacted to a 200-person anti-lockdown protest in the early months of the pandemic.
"We have a bunch of yahoos out in the front of Queen's Park, sitting there, protesting," Ford told a news conference in April 2020. "These people, they're absolutely irresponsible, it's reckless to do what they're doing. Personally, I think it's selfish."
Election in June, Doug.
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This is happening in Ottawa right now.
— Cory Morgan (@CoryBMorgan) February 2, 2022
These are among the people Trudeau has smeared as being extreme white nationalists and Nazis pic.twitter.com/m3hxoAYUAs
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Really? Because when Caledonia was under siege and railway lines were blocked and pipeline building disrupted, no one arrested you lot:
linda manyguns, associate vice-president of Indigenization and decolonization at Mount Royal University, says she is offended by what has taken place over the past week at Coutts, Alta., as an impasse has complicated travel to the southern border for days.
"It's obvious that there is some sort of preferential treatment to some portions of society that can demonstrate and shut down borders," said manyguns, who uses only lower-case letters for her name to acknowledge the Indigenous struggle for recognition.
(Sidebar: you're not ee cummings. That should be E. E. Cummings.)
Demonstrators began parking their trucks and other vehicles near the Coutts crossing Saturday in solidarity with similar events in Ottawa to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and broader public health measures.
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An Algonquin elder from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg says truck convoy protesters in downtown Ottawa and their supporters, some of whom have been conducting First Nations ceremonies, are overstepping their boundaries.
"We don't know who these people are," said Claudette Commanda.
"We never provided any permission for anyone to use any portion of our unsurrendered, unceded homeland for any of this kind of rally, gathering, protest or even ceremonies."
It's called freedom.
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More than 100 vehicles taking part in a protest convoy arrived in Quebec City Thursday night ahead of a rally planned this weekend in front of the National Assembly.
The first of several convoys expected to roll into the province's capital was comprised mostly of pick-up trucks, SUVs and cars — many of which were decked out with Canadian and Quebec flags. Earlier in the day, a handful of people were already at the protest site, sporting yellow vests and setting up signs. Local police say they got there by foot.
Organizers of a protest scheduled for Saturday say they are demonstrating in show of support for protesters who have been occupying Ottawa for nearly a week. They are demanding an end to public health measures, including provincial vaccine mandates, masks and restrictions.
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“We are your white fringe minority!” say two Indian freedom protestors in a message to Justin Trudeau! pic.twitter.com/BLv58gkxAw
— Angelo Isidorou (@angeloisidorou) February 5, 2022
You do know what you can do with your tickets, right?:
Ottawa police said more than 450 tickets have been issued in connection with the anti-mandate protests in the city since Saturday morning.
Let's make something clear: YOU are cancelling important medical procedures and only you:
Two hospitals near Ontario’s legislature have cancelled a small number of appointments and Toronto police are shutting down nearby roads in anticipation of Saturday’s planned protest against COVID-19 measures.
Women’s College Hospital said its urgent care clinic would not offer in-person appointments Saturday — though it opened an additional clinic on Friday — and Mount Sinai said it recommended its ambulatory clinics review appointments and reschedule non-urgent care.
Pączki!:
Looks like the truckers are going to be here for a long time! It’s amazing. Men and women trucking food across the country to feed Canada‘s heroes. pic.twitter.com/6O3j6lJTcc
— Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson (@LauraLynnTT) February 2, 2022
Maybe it's because Justin is hiding all the time:
A new survey shows that only a quarter of respondents approve of how the Liberal government has handled the trucker convoy protest against government-imposed COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.
Oh, that must burn:
Despite the Ottawa Police briefly raising the possibility of a military intervention to clear a stubborn holdout of Freedom Convoy truckers blockading their downtown, the Canadian Armed Forces have been quick to say they will be doing no such thing . A spokesperson for the Minister of Defence told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, “The Canadian Armed Forces are not involved in law enforcement in this situation, and there are no plans for such CAF involvement.”
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Local towing companies are rejecting Ottawa police requests for help towing ‘Freedom Convoy’ trucks out of the downtown core, according to a senior police source.
The source told CTV News Ottawa that even if police decided to tow the trucks from the downtown streets they have been clogging up for the past week, they wouldn’t have enough tow trucks to do it.
Police outreach to tow truck companies across the city has been rebuffed, the source said.
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