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Thousands held a loud but peaceful protest in Canada’s capital Ottawa against prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Covid-19 vaccine mandates, on the streets and snow-covered lawn in front of parliament.

The so-called “Freedom Convoy” started out as a rally of truckers against a vaccine requirement for cross-border drivers, but turned into a demonstration against government overreach during the pandemic with a strong anti-vaccination streak.

“I’m not able to work no more because I can’t cross the border,” said Csava Vizi, a trucker from Windsor who noted he was the family’s sole breadwinner.

A slightly less hysterical Guardian piece than yesterdays.

As the first vehicles from the trucker convoy started appearing on Ottawa streets, some Twitter users shared a particular photo: a pickup truck with a confederate flag flying from the bed.

Now, as the convoy descends on Ottawa with the stated aim of opposing all COVID-19 mandates, anti-hate experts allege those with white nationalist and Islamophobic views don’t just represent the fringes of the movement but are among the organizers of the convoy.

Global has dug up a sketchy individual or two for their latest hit piece but are they organizers? 

Even Global admits they aren’t sure – “It can be difficult to determine who is a key organizer of the convoy, but there are some names that emerge time and time again.”

Being a squeaky wheel does not make someone an “organizer.” As for the others mentioned if talking like a normal person is scary to you Media types I suggest you get out more or find another line of work.

Any movement is going to attract it’s share of lunatics. Look at the NDP and LPC – they elected racists as leaders.

A convoy of thousands of truckers and other protesters converged on Parliament Hill Saturday to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions — a raucous demonstration that has police on high alert for possible violence even as organizers urge the crowd to be peaceful.

Hundreds of protesters on foot flooded into the parliamentary precinct on Saturday in the midst of an extreme cold warning, joining a lineup of truckers that started to arrive on the scene late Friday night.

They were later joined by other drivers and demonstrators from all regions of the country that, in some cases, travelled thousands of kilometres to take their message to the streets outside of the Prime Minister’s Office in the downtown core.

I love that Daily Mail headline. CBC seems very anxious that this blows over quickly, they’re already making an effort to marginalize the trucker protest due no doubt to a lack of their hoped for Nazis.