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Canada truck protests: Justin Trudeau invokes emergency powers

The prime minister wants order to be restored in the capital and further afield

Wales Online · Feb 14, 2022

Like father, like son; 50 years later, Canada's Trudeau invokes emergency powers

Faced with truckers' protests popping up across the nation, and hampering cross border trade, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday became the only Canadian leader since his father 50 years ago to declare a state of emergency in peacetime.

Reuters · Feb 14, 2022

Trudeau invokes emergency powers, seeks to halt protest funding

OTTAWA, Ontario — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked sweeping emergency police powers Monday to quell protests against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions in the capital and at border crossings.

Tribune News Service · Feb 14, 2022

Factbox-Canada's Emergencies Act: how will it squeeze funding of the trucker protests?

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday invoked rarely-used special measures to end protests that have shut some border crossings and paralyzed downtown Ottawa.

Reuters · Feb 14, 2022

Trudeau invokes rare emergency powers in attempt to quell protests

Emergencies Act gives government broad powers for 30 days, but prime minister is not expected to call in the military

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2022

Canada PM to invoke Emergencies Act to deal with protests - CBC

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will invoke the little-used Emergencies Act to give his government extra powers to deal with protesting truckers, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said on Monday.

Reuters · Feb 14, 2022

Canada's Trudeau invokes emergency powers in bid to end protests

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to end protests that have shut some U.S. border crossings and paralyzed parts of the capital.

Reuters · Feb 14, 2022

Doyle McManus: Angry truckers paralyzed Canada’s capital. It could happen here too

WASHINGTON — The pictures from Ottawa over the last two weeks have defied every American stereotype of Canadians. We think of our northern neighbors as incorrigibly polite, their politics as moderate and their capital city — when we consider it at all — as boring, the Sacramento of the north.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 14, 2022

Coronavirus live: UK records 41,648 new cases and 35 Covid-linked deaths; French protest convoy reaches Brussels – as it happened

UK cases down 30% on the previous week, with weekly deaths down 27.2%; 500 French vehicles arrive in Brussels to protest against Covid measures

The Guardian - AU · Feb 14, 2022

Key US-Canada bridge reopens as Ottawa protest persists

The busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing is open after protesters demonstrating against COVID-19 measures blocked it for nearly a week, but a larger protest in the capital, Ottawa, persists as city residents seethed over authorities’ inability to reclaim the streets

The Independent UK · Feb 14, 2022