The Latest Breaking News from Ottawa

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 · Feb 18, 2022

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 · Feb 18, 2022

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 · Feb 18, 2022

GOP's anti-vaxx goal: Jan. 6, round 2

Right-wing media and Trump are using anti-vaccine hysteria to stoke another January 6

Salon · Feb 17, 2022

Ottawa protest leaders arrested as police ready to ‘take action’

Police descend on capital’s city centre after parliament debates use of emergency powers.

Al Jazeera · Feb 17, 2022

Black and Indigenous protesters are treated differently than the 'convoy’ because of Canada's ongoing racism

Since the beginning of the supposed “freedom convoy” in Ottawa on Jan. 28, there have been complaints about the failure of the police and government to protect its citizens from verbal harassment, noise pollution and, in some cases, hate speech. Experts have connected the convoy to white supremacist ideologies.

The Conversation · Feb 17, 2022

Canada was warned before protests that violent extremists infiltrated convoy

Exclusive: intelligence assessments warned in late January that it was ‘likely’ extremists were involved in protests

The Guardian - US · Feb 17, 2022

Freedom Convoy: Why Canadian truckers are driving cross-country to protest vaccine mandates

Lorry drivers dimissed as ‘small fringe minority’ by Justin Trudeau undertake epic journey to demonstrate against loss of federal exemption from inoculation rules

The Independent UK · Feb 17, 2022

Truckers brace for a police crackdown in besieged Ottawa

Hundreds of truckers clogging the streets of Canada's capital city in a protest against COVID-19 restrictions are bracing for a possible police crackdown

The Independent UK · Feb 17, 2022

Police warn Canada protesters of 'imminent' action to clear them

Police warned protesters occupying central Ottawa of "imminent" action to clear them from the capital and began making some arrests on Thursday to end a crisis that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned was threatening public safety.

Reuters · Feb 17, 2022