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The COVID-19 protests in Canada are protests that began in April 2020, with protests in Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, and Ottawa against the Government of Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent measures. [1] [2] In Alberta, a group called "Walk for Freedom" ran anti-mask protests from at least April 2020 to February 2021.
The protests made international news [6] [7] and were widely condemned as unsafe and ill-advised, [8] although some political figures expressed support for the protests. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] They ranged in size from a few hundred people to a few thousand, and spread on social media with encouragement from former U.S. President Donald Trump .
Canada's public safety minister said Monday that U.S. officials should stay out of his country's domestic affairs, joining other Canadian leaders in pushing back against prominent Republicans who ...
Horn-blaring protests have being causing gridlock in the capital Ottawa since late January and from Monday night, truckers shut inbound Canada traffic at the Ambassador Bridge, a supply route for ...
A Canadian judge has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of protests by truckers and others angry over COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was unreasonable and ...
The protest called for the end of vaccine mandates in Canada during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 1 ] Freedom Convoy's spokesperson Ben Dichter stated on Fox News that, "we want to get rid of the vaccine mandates and the [vaccine] passports.
In Canada, protests began on 19 April 2020 in Vancouver. [181] [182] Protests also occurred in Toronto, Edmonton and Ottawa. [183] [184] On 21 April 2020 it was reported that prisoners at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary had been protesting against restrictions placed upon them in response to COVID-19, like being kept in their cells for 20 hours a ...
Hundreds of trucks have blocked streets in Ottawa during more than a week of protests against the country’s Covid-19 vaccine mandates. The mayor of Canada’s capital declared a state of ...