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The Latest Breaking News from Ottawa

Canada border blockades, protests ‘nothing to do with trucking’

Canadian truckers tell Al Jazeera protests against COVID-19 restrictions are taking attention away from real challenges.

Al Jazeera

Police start to clear trucker-led protests in Canada capital

Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian police on Thursday began a massive operation to clear the trucker-led protests against Covid health rules clogging the capital for three weeks, with several arrests made.

AFP

Canada’s legal disinformation pandemic is exposed by the 'freedom convoy'

The small minority of Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates have made international news, prompted the invocation of Canada’s Emergencies Act for the first time and spurred the resignation of Ottawa’s police chief.

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Ottawa police arrest protesters to end Canadian trucker blockade

At least 70 people arrested, interim police chief says, as officers clear weeks-long occupation of Canada’s capital.

Al Jazeera

Canada trucker protest – live: Police use pepper spray and stun grenades in bid to clear Ottawa trucks

Police action to arrest truckers begins on Day 22 of protest after leaders taken into custody on Thursday

The Independent UK

Ottawa police begin arresting Canadian truckers for blocking traffic in protest

Action comes after two of the protest’s leaders were arrested late on Thursday

The Independent UK

Canadian police arrest over 100 people in trucker protests

"Some protesters are surrendering and are being arrested," the Ottawa police said.

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Protest leaders arrested in Ottawa in Canada police crackdown

Canadian police have arrested two protest leaders in Ottawa and threatened to break up a three-week protest against the country’s Covid restrictions.

Evening Standard

The latest on protests against COVID-19 measures in Ottawa and beyond

The latest developments on ongoing protests against COVID-19 restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, in Ottawa and various locations across Canada, on Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. All times eastern:

The Canadian Press

Protest showdown in Ottawa and Ukraine crisis deepens: In The News for Feb. 18

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 18 ...

The Canadian Press

Police arrest at least 100 in sweeping operation to dismantle Ottawa protest

OTTAWA — Police officers descended on anti-government protesters in Ottawa on Friday, arresting at least 100 people and towing more than 20 vehicles in a push to end a three-week occupation that has reverberated across Canada and around the world.

The Canadian Press

Police Arrest Canadian Protest Leaders

Canadian police on Thursday began arresting leaders of the trucker-led protest that has choked the capital's streets for three weeks and provoked the government into calling on rarely used emergency powers. A video posted to the Twitter account for the so-called "Freedom Convoy" showed Tamara Lich, one of the organizers,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Canada police set to end siege of capital by trucker convoy

Police, some on horseback, pushed into crowds of demonstrators to clear them from the streets of downtown Ottawa on Friday, arresting more than 100 and hauling away vehicles that had been blocking the capital's core for over three weeks in a protest against pandemic restrictions.

Reuters

Ottawa's sleepy core transformed into protest street party

A sedate strip of Ottawa's downtown has been transformed into a weeks-long street party as anti-vaccine mandate protesters have settled in, complete with barbecues, bouncy castles and a hot tub, drawing the ire of the city's exhausted residents.

Reuters

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AFP

Police arrest Canadian protest leaders

Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian police on Thursday began arresting leaders of the trucker-led protest that has choked the capital's streets for three weeks and provoked the government into calling on rarely used emergency powers.

The Canadian Press

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The Guardian - US

Protesters defy police presence in Ottawa after officers warn of crackdown

Justin Trudeau says ‘high time these illegal and dangerous activities stop’ after nearly three weeks in Canadian capital

Reuters

Ottawa street jacuzzi becomes latest site for vaccine mandate protest

In freezing temperatures and surrounded by trucks and demonstration banners, two Canadians staged a jacuzzi protest on an Ottawa street on Thursday to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates.

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Canada police set for 'imminent' action to clear trucker protests

Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian police were poised Thursday to move against a trucker-led protest that has choked the national capital's streets for three weeks and finally provoked the government into calling on rarely used emergency powers.

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Ottawa police start limiting access to 'downtown core' to curb protests

Police in Canada’s capital city have begun blocking off the downtown core with barriers and fences in a move against protesters who have occupied the streets for nearly three weeks.

The Canadian Press

Corrective to Feb. 16 story on Ottawa protest and Emergencies Act

In a Feb. 16 story about convoy protests in Ottawa, The Canadian Press incorrectly reported that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino tabled two motions Wednesday evening in the House of Commons: one on invoking the Emergencies Act and another on specific powers in the act. In fact, he tabled one…

The Canadian Press