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2022-02-21 Great White North
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Ottawa cops clear out last ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters after 24 days
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[NYPost] Ottawa police attempted to clear out the remaining "Freedom Convoy" demonstrators on Sunday — ending a 24-day occupation of the city’s center to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
At least two people were arrested as police moved into the "logistics camp" and removed the last vehicles occupying the area, according to the Ottawa Citizen.
The convoy of trucks had caused traffic backups in the city for weeks.
A total of 191 protesters were arrested and 57 vehicles were towed since police began forcefully removing them on Friday.
The camp, located in a city parking lot on Coventry Road, amassed roughly 100 vehicles. Across the street, several tents had been erected for meetings and meals, as well as a trailer with heated toilets and two saunas, the paper reported.
Officials are now concerned that protesters, many of them truckers, will regroup outside of the capital and come back, shutting the city down again.
"We are trying to keep tabs on those that are leaving and potentially massing to come back," Ottawa police chief Steve Bell said at a presser on Sunday.
On Sunday, Ottawa police said businesses should feel comfortable reopening following the weeks-long demonstration.
Bell said Ottawans can expect a heavy police presence in the area in the coming days. He told news hounds at a press briefing on Sunday that his department has a long road ahead in restoring the public’s trust of his department.
Most of those arrested were slapped with mischief charges, and dozens of vehicles had been towed, including all those blocking one of Ottawa’s major streets, authorities said.
Alberta to challenge use of Emergencies Act after asking for federal help to deal with Coutts protest
[Globe&Mail] Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said this weekend that he will launch a legal challenge against the federal government’s "unnecessary and disproportionate" use of the Emergencies Act to dismantle protests against COVID-19 measures — just two weeks after the Alberta government quietly asked Ottawa for help dealing with demonstrators at the Coutts border crossing to the United States.
In a Twitter video posted Saturday, Mr. Kenney said that "invocation of the Emergencies Act is an unnecessary and disproportionate measure that can violate civil liberties, invades provincial jurisdiction and creates a very dangerous precedent for the future." He specifically cited the removal of protesters from Coutts by Alberta RCMP officers last week as evidence that "provincial law-enforcement authorities are able to deal with illegal road blockades."
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