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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Canada’s Covid protests highlight rise of rightwing populist movements

Trucks block downtown streets in Ottawa on 1 February.
Trucks block downtown streets in Ottawa on 1 February. Photograph: Blair Gable/Reuters

Days of protests against pandemic policies and a deep rift within Canada’s conservative movement have highlighted the growing power of rightwing populist movements in the country.

On Tuesday, retail stores and vaccine clinics in Ottawa remained closed as protesters, who had travelled to the nation’s capital under the guise of protesting vaccine mandates for truckers, refused to leave.

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