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After a week-long drive across Canada, a convoy of big rigs has arrived in the national capital to protest vaccine mandates and Covid-19 measures. Organisers insist it will be peaceful, but police say they’re prepared for trouble.

It’s been dubbed the Freedom Convoy, and it’s got the country talking.

The movement was sparked by a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border, implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government earlier this month.

Upset with the new measure that would require unvaccinated Canadian truckers crossing the two nations’ boundary to quarantine once they’ve returned home, a loose coalition of truckers and conservative groups began to organise the cross-country drive that began in western Canada.

Very positive vibe around Parliament Hill – celebrating #TruckersForFreedom2022 pic.twitter.com/ThTkYbW3SR

— Rahul Vaidyanath (@RV_ETBiz) January 29, 2022

A pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded in Afghanistan has turned to the Taliban for help after being unable to return to her homeland because of Jacinda Ardern’s draconian Covid curbs.

Charlotte Bellis, a broadcast journalist, said she has repeatedly tried to return to New Zealand since she learned she was pregnant in September.

She has submitted 59 documents to New Zealand officials in Afghanistan in an attempt to secure an emergency return home, but her bid was turned down and led her to turn to the Taliban, one of the world’s most oppressive regimes, for sympathy.

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It seems the mainstream media stands accused of winding up the rhetoric in the massive cross-country truckers’ rally to Ottawa, as well as vilifying the protesters.

On Friday, Michael Adder, the political cartoonist for the Washington Post, mocked the Freedom Convoy of truckers crossing the breadth of Canada and heading for the nation’s capital, Ottawa, to protest against Canada’s vaccine mandate. Adder created a cartoon of numerous trucks, all labeled in capital letters “FASCISM,” adding the hashtags, “fascism” and “supplychain.”

As hundreds of protest truckers converge on Ottawa with a demand to immediately lift all COVID restrictions, it’s caught the attention of foreign anti-mandate sympathizers who are framing Freedom Convoy 2022 as a popular uprising against the pandemic strictures of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The protest convoy that has been gaining steam and headlines over the last week reached Canada’s capital Friday, with a multi-day demonstration expected to grind official Ottawa’s business to a halt.

Big rigs lined Wellington Street Friday evening – a portend of protesters to come, united by a vague message of ending COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health measures after almost two full years of pandemic precautions.

Truckers’ ‘freedom convoy’ set to rally at Parliament Hill

The remaining truckers and other activists opposed to cross-border vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions are set to roll into Ottawa on Saturday in time for a rally on Parliament Hill.

For the past week, several teams of truckers and supporters across the country have been making their way to the nation’s capital as part of the “freedom convoy,” raising more than $7.8 million from more than 99,000 donations on GoFundMe along the way, as of Saturday morning. Some convoy participants have already been in the city since Friday, lining the streets and waving flags in front of the Hill.

The protest convoy carries a combustible load. Politicians can exploit it — or confront it

With a convoy of protesters gathering in the nation’s capital, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole addressed reporters Thursday evening and called on everyone — protesters and others — to “take the temperature down.”

That’s not a bad notion. A calm discussion about the vaccine mandate for cross-border truck drivers — its purpose, its consequences and the merits of the alternatives — might be useful right now, especially after a long and painful two pandemic years.

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These past few months, we have witnessed a confluence of events in which the grandest hopes and desires of the radical left and Oval Office’s installed occupant have been stymied or faced outright defeat. Their desperation should be clear for all to see, summed up in their desire is to govern against the will of the People, campaign against the People’s majority concerns, and inflict psychological (and, in some cases, physical) abuse against all who dissent from their governance and incompetence. To win anyway, leftists are creating a false sense of panic across America.