The protest, led by a would-be conservative politician named Tamara Lich who plays guitar in a bar band in Medicine Hat, Alberta, was sparked by a Canadian government rule requiring unvaccinated Ca…
Redwood City crowdfunding company GoFundMe on Friday shut down a campaign that raised more than $10 million for Canada’s “Trucker Convoy” protest against vaccine mandates that has gridlocked the nation’s capital and filled it with ceaselessly honking trucks and unruly and impolite protesters, in scenes reminiscent of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last year.plays guitar in a bar band
Police in the capital city of Ottawa warned this week that guns appeared to have been brought into the protest area. Officials said in athey had evidence of “violence, hate crimes and unlawful behaviour,” and that many crimes had not been reported including “assaults, hate crimes, sexual assault, spitting and other threatening and criminal behaviour.”
The number of trucks in the protest, also called the “Freedom Convoy,” has been hotly debated. Lich had claimed in a Facebook post that 50,000 heavy trucks were headed to Ottawa, but other reports suggest the number is far lower, with many cars and pickup trucks involved, and the total may be slightly over 1,000. Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC, reported Jan. 29 that thousands of protesters had converged on the federal government center of Ottawa.
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