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Ottawa locals hit the streets in a ‘community safety walk’ amid convoy demonstration
A few dozen people gathered Friday for a community safety walk, a daily event co-ordinated by concerned city councillors. The walks have been organized in response to the week-long presence of convoy demonstrators, harassment, and horns honking on a near-constant basis.
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Time Published: 5:00 p.m. ET Friday, Feb. 4
Ottawa police deploy 'surge' in bid to control, end 'increasingly volatile' protest
Ottawa police are deploying a "surge" of about 150 extra police officers to central areas of the city paralyzed by the protest against COVID-19 mandates that has been going on for days. Police Chief Peter Sloly says the patrolling officers will focus on mischief, hate, harassment, threats and other intimidating behaviour to send a clear message: "The lawlessness must end."
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Companion: Trucker-Protest
Category: News
Time Published: 4:00 p.m. ET Friday, Feb. 4
Coutts mayor meets with blockade truckers
The mayor of Coutts, Alberta says he has finally met with truckers who have shut down his community since last Saturday. Jim Willett says he was surprised that those involved were not angry people and could have been his neighbours.
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Category: News
Time Published: 4:00 p.m. ET Friday, Feb. 4
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VICTORIA _ Premiers hold virtual news conference hosted by British Columbia Premier John Horgan. (via livestream, expected late afternoon)
TORONTO_ Toronto police and Mayor John Tory speak on planned truckers' protest. (no longer available)
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Provinces must find balance in lifting mandates: Tam
Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says provinces are going to have to find a balance between containing COVID-19 with public health measures and returning to a sense of normalcy as the Omicron wave continues to crest. Several provinces have signalled their intention do away with some, if not all, remaining COVID-19 health restrictions.
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Category: News
Time Published: 1:20 p.m. ET Friday, Feb. 4
Canadian hockey phenom Sarah Fillier poised for Olympic breakout
Sarah Fillier is the youngest player on the Canadian women's Olympic hockey team at age 21, and already a consistent goalscorer. Her hockey hero growing up was current teammate and Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin.
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Category: Sports
Time Published: 12:00 p.m. ET Friday, Feb. 4
Truckers and supporters protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates outside the Manitoba legislature
One of the many protests against COVID-19 restrictions has started outside the main entrance of the Manitoba legislature grounds. Large vehicles adorned with flags and signs set up Friday morning, blocking the entrace and a nearby street.
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Category: News
Time Published: 11:15 p.m. ET Friday, Feb. 4
Bergen accuses Freeland of 'gaslighting' with protest comments
Conservative MP Candice Bergen made her debut as interim party leader in question period, where she asked Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland why her government hadn't extended an olive branch to anti-vaccine mandate protesters who have clogged downtown Ottawa. When Freeland referenced remarks made by a colleague about how it felt as a Black Canadian to see swastikas and confederate flags in the nation's capital, Bergen accused her of "classic gaslighting."
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Category: News
Time Published: 7:30 p.m. ET Thursday, Feb. 3
Trucks rolling to U.S. border after new blockade set up Thursday
Trucks are heading through the US border in Coutts, Alberta for the first time since last Saturday. The highway ran into another temporary problem as a result of a short-lived blockade.
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Category: News
Time Published: 6:13 p.m. ET Thursday, Feb. 3
Convoy protesters demand an end to all mandates
The Freedom Convoy 2022 movement that has taken over Ottawa's downtown says their departure will be "based on the prime minister doing what is right." In their first open press conference, the group said they would leave when mandates and restrictions end and not before.
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Category: News
Time Published: 6:00 p.m. ET Thursday, Feb. 3
Military response to Ottawa protest ‘not in the cards,’ Trudeau says, urging caution
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a military response to the ongoing Ottawa protest against COVID-19 measures is “not in the cards right now.” Trudeau says that one must be “very, very cautious” about deploying troops on Canadian soil, adding there has been no such request to the federal government.
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Time Published: 1:25 p.m. ET Thursday, Feb. 3
Feds introduce rejigged bill to regulate online broadcasters
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez introduced new online content legislation Wednesday after the first attempt last year died without passing before the election. The bill will make streaming giants like Netflix invest in Canadian content, but will exempt individuals who post cat videos and other personal creations online.
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Category: News
Time Published: 7:50 p.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 2
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Conservatives vote Erin O'Toole out as leader
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole stepped down today after almost two-thirds of his caucus voted against him in a leadership review. Most MPs say they will now work to be a united caucus once more.
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Category: News
NEW Time Published: 7:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 2
Breakthrough in Alberta border blockade, lanes open in both directions
There has been a breakthrough aimed at resolving the impasse in a protest blockade that has snarled cross-border traffic at the main United States border crossing in southern Alberta. Chad Williamson, a lawyer representing truckers blocking access to the crossing at Coutts, Alta., says they have spoken with RCMP and agreed to open a lane of the highway in each direction.
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Category: News
Time Published: 6:41 p.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 2
Manitoba loosens some COVID-19 restrictions
The Manitoba government is loosening some of its COVID-19 public health orders. Chief public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin says indicators such as hospital admissions suggest the current pandemic wave is at its peak.
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Time Published: 4:25 p.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 2
Olympic champions named Canada’s joint flag-bearers
Canadian women’s hockey team captain Marie-Philip Poulin and short-track speedskating champion Charles Hamelin will carry Canada’s flag into the opening ceremonies of Beijing’s Winter Olympics. Hamelin owns three Olympic gold medals and Poulin two. Poulin is the third women’s hockey player to carry the Maple Leaf after Danielle Goyette (2006) and Hayley Wickenheiser (2014).
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Category: Sports
Time Published: 10:10 a.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 2
The Tokyo effect: Canada’s winter athletes motivated by summer counterparts
Tokyo’s Summer Olympics and Canada’s performance there less than six months ago inspired the country’s winter athletes heading to Beijing. They pick their favourite Tokyo moments.
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Category: Sports
Time Published: 9:00 a.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 2
Alberta premier, RCMP ask for calm after violence at U.S. border standoff
A blockade at the border crossing at Coutts, Alta., turned violent Tuesday after some protesters breached police barriers to join the demonstration. There was also a head-on crash and an assault. Premier Jason Kenney and the RCMP are asking for calm.
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Category: News
Time Published: 11:42 p.m. ET Tuesday, Feb. 1
B.C. records highest ever COVID-19 hospitalizations
B.C's COVID-19 hospitalizations are at their highest level yet recorded, but health officials say patients who contracted the Omicron variant are going home in about half the time compared to patients with the Delta variant.
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Category: News
Time Published: 7:52 p.m. ET Tuesday, Feb. 1
Ottawa residents, business owners feeling the strain of continued convoy presence
Ottawa remains at a standstill, as trucks and big rigs remain along major roads in the downtown core and many businesses have remained closed since Friday over safety concerns. Residents and business owners are frustrated by the anti-COVID-19 restriction demonstrators who have been protesting, and honking loudly, for days.
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Category: News
Time Published: 6:32 p.m. ET Tuesday, Feb. 1
Freeland, Rempel Garner spar over cost of living
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner accused Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland of being out of touch with the average Canadian as the cost of living skyrockets. Freeland responded that the Conservatives should apologize for refusing to support a bill to provide pandemic relief to businesses.
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Time Published: 4:00 p.m. ET Tuesday, Feb. 1
Bobsled pilot Justin Kripps goes for Olympic gold again
Bobsled pilot Justin Kripps of Summerland, B.C., wanted to keep going to Beijing in 2022 after winning two-man gold in 2018. He says a cool head is an important quality in a bobsled pilot.
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Category: Sports
Time Published: 11:00 a.m. ET Tuesday, Feb. 1
Inside the ICU: Battling the Omicron wave of COVID-19
The Omicron variant has spiked COVID-19 cases in Humber River Hospital’s intensive care unit. Nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists all help out when a patient needs to be proned -- flipping them from lying on their backs to their fronts, which helps more oxygen get into the blood. It is a difficult process that respiratory therapist Mehul Delvadia explains the process after he and eight colleagues helped flip a patient.
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Category: News
Time Published: 10:00 a.m. ET Tuesday, Feb. 1
Robot bartender serves up drinks at Games
The Winter Olympics feature several functional and entertaining robots. In the Beijing press centre, there's a robot bartender. Servers handle the transaction and a robotic arm does the rest - complete with emphatic shaking of each cocktail. The press centre also includes a calligraphy robot creating posters.
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Category: Sports
Time Published: 09:15 a.m. ET Tuesday, Feb. 1
Alberta border blockade ‘no longer lawful’: RCMP
About a hundred commercial trucks, vehicles and camper vans continued to block a busy U.S. border crossing Monday in protest of COVID-19 health measures. RCMP said the blockade, which started Saturday, was no longer lawful and resources are in place to make arrests and tow away vehicles if they are unable to resolve the conflict in Coutts, Alta.
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Category: News
Time Published: 10:10 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 31
MPs arrive on Parliament Hill amid noisy protests
Politicians from all parties arrived on Parliament Hill Monday for the return of the House of Commons, amid the noisy trucker protest entering its second day. The MPs expressed some partisan differences but were united in their desire to get back to work.
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Time Published: 6:03 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 31
O'Toole calls on Trudeau to meet with truckers
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with truckers who oppose a cross-border vaccine mandate. Trudeau has refused to meet with protesters who have surrounded Parliament Hill — some of whom have been seen flying Nazi flags and desecrating memorials — and says Canadians are united in stepping up to get vaccinated.
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Category: News
Time Published: 4:45 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 31
Ontarians head back to gyms, restaurants as COVID-19 restrictions ease
Ontario restaurants, gyms, and theatres welcomed patrons back as restrictions from the latest pandemic-related shutdown eased on Monday, with customers happy to return and businesses hopeful they'd put widespread COVID-19 closures behind them.
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Category: News
Time Published: 4:20 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 31
Trudeau says he won’t be intimidated by protesters
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government won’t be intimidated by protesters who refuse to leave the parliamentary precinct until vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions are abolished. The prime minister spoke to Canadians while in isolation, both because he tested positive for the virus and for safety reasons while the protesters surround the capital. He says Canadians are shocked and disgusted by some protesters flying Nazi flags and desecrating memorials, and those individuals don’t represent truckers or the vast majority of Canadians.
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Time Published: 2:30 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 31
Olympic speedskater Laurent Dubreuil's family ties important to him
Long-track speedskater Laurent Dubreuil of Lévis, Que., is the reigning men's 500-metre champion heading into Beijing's Winter Games. He hopes to become Canada's first Olympic champion in it. His parents Robert and Ariane were also Olympic speedskaters.
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Time Published: 9:00 a.m. ET Monday, Jan. 31
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