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OTTAWA — A group involved in the anti-government protest against COVID-19 measures in Ottawa is asking a court to put the brakes on federal use of the Emergencies Act to clamp down on demonstrators.

Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian police moved Friday to clear a trucker-led demonstration against Covid health rules, arresting 70 people and towing away dozens of vehicles in Ottawa, with tensions flaring as darkness fell.

The occupation of Canada’s capital by the so-called “freedom convoy” is over after more than three weeks. A massive police presence on Saturday cleared the streets in front of the Parliament buildings that had been blocked by dozens of trucks. More than 170 people who have protested against anti-vaccine mandates…

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Hugs under the falling snow, dancing in the street, people warming themselves around fires. That's what the last few hours of a truckers' protest outside Parliament looked like in the Canadian capital.

Protests against COVID-19 restrictions have taken place around the world since the beginning of the pandemic. Here is a look at some of the demonstrations over governments' handling of the pandemic as police began making arrests Friday in Ottawa of antigovernment protesters who have been blocking streets around Parliament Hill.…

Police arrested and charged two of the most prominent organizers of the trucker protest that has gridlocked Canada’s capital city for three weeks.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's child-care providers are being offered additional funding from the province to help offset a 25 per cent reduction in fees resulting from a new funding deal with Ottawa. 

WASHINGTON — Journalists in Canada and the United States, veterans of a daily grind that entails tracking down and chatting up newsmakers, politicians and ordinary citizens by whatever means necessary, are encountering a very different — and hostile — world as they work to learn more about supporters of the…

Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian police on Friday began a massive operation in Ottawa to clear trucker-led protests against Covid rules, with demonstrators arrested and vehicles towed away after a three- week blockade.