January 31 -- Ottawa paramedics conform three instances of rocks being thrown at ambulances over the previous weekend.
UPDATE: Ottawa paramedics confirm protesters threw rocks at three ambulances this weekend in different parts of the city. They also confirmed that an online report of a death caused by traffic delays is untrue. #ottnews https://t.co/nYd2MBzCls
— CTV Ottawa (@ctvottawa) January 31, 2022
January 31 -- Footage emerges of Victoria cop giving thumbs up to antivaxxers at Legislature. (He also turned around, came back and did it again.) VPD chief -- `he was neutral`.
In recognition of VicPD giving a literal thumbs up to anti-vaccination and white supremacist protests, here’s a thread of FOI’d VicPD emails showing how it developed its policy that officers do not have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and can instead take tests. #cdnfoi #yyj pic.twitter.com/EhljzRXI1m
— Stephen Harrison (@step_harrison) January 30, 2022
January 31 -- CUPE Ontario denounces `white supremacist`Ottawa convoy. Canadian Union of Postal Workers and Teamsters Canada also issue critical statements several days later.
https://cupe.on.ca/violence-and-white-supremacy-must-be-opposed-by-all-of-us-cupe-ontarios-statement-on-the-convoy/?fbclid=IwAR3DcsipeiXI-jFR3xNgjXt1olgPqlrjWRtu4V2_P-CIgJCYLYIMCVfBGo0
https://www.cupw.ca/en/statement-good-collective-action-versus-convoy
https://teamsters.ca/en/blog/2022/02/07/the-real-enemy-for-truckers-is-covid-19/
February 1 -- Calgary Herald publishes report RCMP assaulted at Coutts border blockade.
February 1 -- Jason Bradbury identified as a `key organizer`of the January 29 Langley-to-Vancouver convoy
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10223917721985528&set=pcb.10223917881429514 Bradbury is also Facebook friends with Kaz Nowlin, former head of the Canadian III% Militia (subsequently designated as a terrorist organization by the federal government) and Brian Baxter, leader of the Soldiers of Odin. https://www.facebook.com/jason.bradbury.739/friends
February 1 -- Harassment of journalists is the norm at the Ottawa convoy.
Canadian journalists can’t even do basic reporting on the sidewalk next to Parliament Hill thanks to this “Freedom Convoy.”#ottnews https://t.co/luGxXY57rN
— Luke LeBrun (@_llebrun) February 2, 2022
February 1 -- Police across the country are assisting the convoys, sometimes actively, most often passively.
The Ottawa Police Chief was asked about getting gas to truckers who needed fuel yesterday.
— Mackenzie Gray (@Gray_Mackenzie) February 2, 2022
“There will be no assistance provided for gassing vehicles” #cdnpoli #ottnews #TruckerConvoy2022 https://t.co/33kPHAwUgG
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/blockade-coutts-alberta-trucker-covid-convoy-1.6333957Should note, if you get this far on Wellington with a truck, you have to either be allowed in by police or manage to sneak by a police barricade. #cdnpoli #ottnews https://t.co/YKBfM1tiym
— Mackenzie Gray (@Gray_Mackenzie) February 1, 2022
Police have avoided ticketing.
— Nora Loreto (@NoLore) January 31, 2022
To all the folks on twitter begging for the police to help them, please take a hint. You have to help yourselves. https://t.co/mLeitK9SRt
In recognition of VicPD giving a literal thumbs up to anti-vaccination and white supremacist protests, here’s a thread of FOI’d VicPD emails showing how it developed its policy that officers do not have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and can instead take tests. #cdnfoi #yyj pic.twitter.com/EhljzRXI1m
— Stephen Harrison (@step_harrison) January 30, 2022
February 1 -- Antivaxxers disrupt Quesnel city council meeting. No arrests.
https://www.quesnelobserver.com/news/angry-spectators-heckle-quesnel-mayor-and-council-at-meeting/
February 2 -- Antihate.ca reports that neo-nazi vlogger (and Afghan vet) Jeremy MacKenzie was arrested on weapons charges in January.
https://www.antihate.ca/jeremy_raging_dissident_mackenzie_arrested_waving_handgun_local_business
He was subsequently releaserd on bail, travelled from Pictou, N.S. to join the Ottawa convoy, and met PPC leader Maxime Bernier.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZX-o8ouN5l/
Max is a big fan of Jeremy
February 2 -- GoFundMe shuts down convoy fundraiser, which had accumulated $10 million+ in donations.
Christian right fundraising platform GiveSendGo opens another, collects a further $7.5 million in six days.
February 3 -- Youtube posts thumbnail sketch of Ottawa convoy
This was just sent to me. I’d like you to watch it 😭
— Aunt E Pho 🟩 (@JaneQCitizen) February 3, 2022
This is 🇨🇦
Whether you like it or not this is us, white people. We’re showing our entire colonial, imperialist, white supremacist ass rn & if you don’t like it, change it.https://t.co/dHOQOf3P8U
February 3 -- Antivaxxers harass staff at New Westminster vaccine clinic. No arrests.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8593962/new-westminster-vaccine-clinic-protest/
February 3 -- Far-right legal thinktank Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces it is representing the Ottawa convoy. JCCF CEO John Carpay was caught hiring a private detective to snoop on the chief justice of the Manitoba Supreme Court last year. Carpay did not lose his job. JCCF did not lose its charitable tax number.
Hold on, the far-right convoy that shut down Ottawa is represented by a lawyer from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms?
— Luke LeBrun (@_llebrun) February 3, 2022
This is a registered charity that hired a private eye to place a Manitoba judge under surveillance to dig up dirt on him.https://t.co/KE2MnQvsBp https://t.co/bB74W5GvE2
February 3 -- Gas incident number 1. National Capital Commission announces all gas and propane containers had been removed from the convoy compound at Confederation Park. Bullshit.
These photos were taken *after* the @NCC_CCN told us that "all containers (diesel, propane, gasoline)" had "been removed" from the protesters' site in Confederation Park. pic.twitter.com/ErxkIlHEda
— Marc-André Cossette (@MarcCossette) February 3, 2022
February 3 -- New border blockade starts at Sarnia, Ontario
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=284423090425302&set=a.108084241392522
February 4 -- Convoy organizers hit with $9.8 million civil lawsuit.
February 4 -- Convoy organizers appear to have a thing about guns
Who woulda thunk. https://www.straight.com/news/gofundme-removes-freedom-convoy-2022-fundraiser-from-its-platform-after-police-suggest-guns
February 4 -- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and Providence Health Authority warn healthcare staff to hide identities during Saturday antivaxx convoy in Vancouver.
February 5 -- Large convoy and demonstration in Vancouver. Turnout not as large as the January 29 convoy, but antivaxxers are clearly galvanized by the Ottawa occupation.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158574688667776&set=pcb.10158574689647776
https://www.facebook.com/jack.hummell/videos/358842375764029
"Blockades are only okay when we do it in our trucks" https://t.co/mcW1qAw23k
— Tony vs. The #COVIDConvoy (@TonyYvce) February 8, 2022
"Peaceful protesters" https://t.co/5eLSNXhu8Z
— Major Gay Radical Soy (@Vancouverismism) February 8, 2022
February 5 -- New blockade at Windsor, Ont. Ambassador Bridge crossing, one of the most important border crossings in the country. Continuing and growing`.
Reporting from Windsor, Ontario. This is is the backup on the Canadian side trying to cross the Ambassador Bridge into Detroit. The truckers’ protest has everything at a standstill. @globalnewsto @GlobalNational pic.twitter.com/ZETZjtHMl1
— 𝚂𝚎á𝚗 𝙾’𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚊 Global News (@ConsumerSOS) February 8, 2022
February 5 -- Convoy organizer and white supremacist Pat King makes it clear the convoy`s goal is to oust the Trudeau government.
51. Pat King says the quiet part out loud when he says that they want Trudeau to resign and the Liberal Party "expunged from politics" which seems pretty different from the stated claim of removing Covid mandates. pic.twitter.com/q5nVBQooaV
— Kurt Phillips🧛♂️ (@ARCCollective) February 5, 2022
February 6 -- City of Ottawa declares state of emergency.
February 6 -- Ottawa Police raid convoy base, seize gasoline, propane diesel and food supplies, and announce fuel embargo.
https://www.facebook.com/pastorhildebrandt/videos/1041219683403523
February 7 -- Not really. Ottawa police allow antivaxxers to continue to bring in fuel to the red zone.
https://www.facebook.com/712697552/videos/631895464711187/ And to set up a new base camp at Carleton University, without the University`s permission.
It would appear this new protest camp that’s being built was permitted by Ottawa Police. Councillors aren’t happy. https://t.co/VDsfrWOegU
— Judy Trinh (@judyatrinh) February 9, 2022
February 7 -- B.C. antivaxxers set up border obstruction at Pacific truck crossing. Not yet a full blockade. Continuing
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5051027381617475&set=pcb.5050939588292921February 7 -- Canadian convoys are sparking copycat actions and political support internationally.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/06/ottawa-truckers-convoy-galvanizes-far-right-worldwide-00006080Contrast of the week -- Not all convoys are equal. How the police dealt with the Native Convoy of 1974.
https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2019/11/10/when-people-are-calling-you-go-an-indigenous-womans-account-of-the-native-peoples-caravan-1974/
Not all blockades are equal, either - https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/01/08/LNG-Pipeline-Unistoten-Blockade/
And where is the rest of the union movement?
Here's a 🧵 before I log off for the rest of the afternoon and eventually head down to check out the installations set up for the truck convoy that's promised to arrive today.
— Nora Loreto (@NoLore) February 3, 2022
What we are seeing in Ottawa is a fascist tactic, aided by police. And so I ask --- where is labour?
WORKING PEOPLE AND UNIONS ARE UNDER ATTACK AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IS RESPONDING
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