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@AshleyBurkeCBC Sounds like a decent person, despite how the CBC portrays them all and their supporters. Nice to see you share this though.

My phone autocorrected the spelling of Tyson's name when I took down his name & typed it into my phone. His last name is spelled "Gareau". He's from Atikokan, Ontario.

CBC’s van slide off the road & got stuck in a ditch beside the protestors’ camp in Arnprior. A demonstrator named Tyson Garneau wearing a “defund the CBC” hat pulled us out knowing we were CBC journalists. He said he’d never leave anyone stuck like that.

@_Wackadoo_ @jiggs_mcgraw @AshleyBurkeCBC Torture and held hostage? What complete nonsense and exaggeration.

@jiggs_mcgraw @AshleyBurkeCBC So that justifies the actions downtown? Torture and being held hostage is never an answer. Don't talk about extreme measures because those means do not justify the end.

@JimConboy2 @anthony_beaulne @mferreriptbokaw There are no homes on Conventry Rd. The homes further away have their own streets to get out on. What rubbish.

@anthony_beaulne @mferreriptbokaw I live 2 minutes from the Coventry compound. I can assure you people are being held hostage in their own homes.

The volume of messages is unbelievable. People have never been more politically engaged.

@davidpugliese Because there was no law to enforce. There is a reason they are calling it unlawful vs illegal, as there was nothing illegal. Feb 16th a judge even told them they had the right to continue their protest. Which law was the OPS then supposed to enforce?

A number of former police chiefs have been on CBC TV today providing commentary about how professional police are in moving slowly and methodically against Ottawa protesters. There has been little mention of lack of law enforcement action in the three weeks leading up to this.

@kenruthrfrd @bdmbdmbdm @RebusReginald @jonkay I had read (can't confirm it) that those regs had been temporarily suspended for a while to allow them to do more hours due to the supply chain issues. Still don't agree with the tweet your replied to, but just letting you know

@bdmbdmbdm @RebusReginald @jonkay Sorry bud they are regulated by hours of service so they do what they can then it's another driver.

someone I know here in Toronto, a very smart and accomplished person who's done more with their life than I ever will, just confidently asserted that trudeau was correct not to meet with the truckers because "they would have killed him." Putting aside how crazy this is....

@Yanky_Pollak @rupasubramanya @CandySero_ There are videos out there as well

@rupasubramanya @CandySero_ Ottawa police said it's photoshopped...

Iconic photo from this past weekend when cops cleared out the protestors with cops mounted on horses trampling through the crowd. Glad to know @CandySero_ (pictured in the red jacket) is recovering well and is tweeting.

@masterofpupetz @TrueNorthCentre Trump was onto something when he went on about Fake News. The past two years have proven that.

"Non-affiliated" Senator Marilou McPhedran says that elements inside the freedom convoy were "publicly proclaiming that they want a racial war" and that "if there isn't a racial war then we will all soon be forced to speak hebrew."

@Paul_Warburton9 @velopajaro @HullandTammie Actually, it isn't unlawful, it is outright illegal. In contrast, the protest wasn't illegal, it was unlawful. Semantics....

@velopajaro Anybody know where this John Swyndon is from (if it is even a real name?). He should be included in police reports filed for this cybercrime. @OttawaPolice

@velopajaro I was thinking the same thing when a friend sent it to me - the amount of support, even in downtown Ottawa. And most of those I know that supported the protestors didn't even donate, so there are many more supporters.

@advertme7 @TheMarieOakes There are also laws against inciting hate, however the @OttawaPolice has no interest in pursuing these crimes.

@TheMarieOakes They do not care about breaking privacy law or doing anything that used to be unlawful in our old Canada... Our eyes wide open now! We can see what you do...

An individual or a group of individuals are putting up posters around the Ottawa area with the names and email addresses of residents that donated to the Freedom Convoy cause. The posters also include the donation amount.

@Shaninagin @Shane_at_CP @TristinHopper And that couldn't happen again?

@Shane_at_CP @TristinHopper The fact that they happened means someone fudged the majority voters numbers to give the go ahead. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to know that. Idiot.

One of the things Canadian history often leaves out is that in the periods we've been committing our worst historical crimes (internment, residential schools, eugenics, Head Tax, etc.) these were wildly popular policies supported by a substantial majority of voters.

@JohnPaolozzi @TrueNorthCentre "Honk" isn't even remotely German.... So one person on reddit said it a few years ago so must be true? Tried to find anything of substance in that link but didn't?

Liberal MP Ya'ara Saks says, "'honk honk' is an acronym for 'Heil Hitler.'" Seriously.

@TorontoStar An Ontario court on Feb 16 reconfirmed the protestors rights to continue peaceful protest, so definitely not illegal. It is not the PM that decides on his own what is illegal and what isn't. "Unlawful" is something completely different, and that is why the Ottawa Police use that

Donations to the convoy made in Ontario officers' names were small, ranging from $20 to $200, and all were made on or after Feb. 5 — by which time the prime minister and Ottawa’s police chief had declared the protests “illegal” or “unlawful.” thestar.com/news/investiga…

#BREAKING: Ontario police officers are named in leaked list of donors to the ‘Freedom Convoy’ Both Toronto police and the OPP say they are investigating officers named in the leaked list of GiveSendGo donors. thestar.com/news/investiga…

@Ingemar4910 @anthonyfurey Politics are making these decisions, not public health. Our medical officers of health are in appointed positions, after all, and subject to politics. That is why long-term public health consequences are being ignored in favour of short term virtue signaling.

@anthonyfurey We will let public health make these decisions. Not newspaper colomnists.

Time to make masks optional for Ontario students.

@paulmullin13 @anthonyfurey And he should be allowed to. My child with confirmed language delay issues due to masks shouldn't be forced to anymore.

@anthonyfurey My 17y/o double vaxxed son has already said he would still choose to wear a mask in class if they were made optional in Ontario.

@John84448901 @GG37374104 Occupy Ottawa had a tent city in 2011 for around six weeks as well. Ottawa also had up to 30,000 Tamil protestors waving Tamil Tiger (terrorist) flags for two weeks in 2008. The difference is the truckers were having too much fun in the City that Fun Forgot.

@GG37374104 Was it used for this???

If the next protest just happened to be in Quebec, would Trudeau use the EA?

@ProudCdn123 @GG37374104 Not sure... Ils se souviennent, after all, of what happened in 1970 all too well

@AlexpiersonAMP @MichaelChongMP Only problem is we need to then outlaw fireworks downtown on Canada Day and other holidays since they are such a threat ;) Pre-WFH times Wellington St was nothing but diesel fumes from lines of buses. I'll be honest that when I was downtown I did not notice the diesel.

This is SOOOO worth the listen. I hope every Sitting MP actually heard what was said by @MichaelChongMP and votes according to what is right, and NOT what is politically convenient.

@SianMorris20 @AlexpiersonAMP @LeahGazan She is focusing on the "white supremist" red herring. There were no guns or violence downtown. An Ontario Supreme Court judge deemed the Ottawa protest legal on Feb 16th. But someone in Oshawa of course knows better what happened here, right? Obviously you were never there.

@AlexpiersonAMP And THIS is so worth a listen. Leah GAZAN @LeahGazan NDP Winnipeg. And PS you LOST