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The Ottawa People's Commission (OPC) called on the government to provide a "transformative" response to the "Freedom Convoy" COVID-19 mandate protests that happened in 2022 and said it can't "move on" ...

The trial for organizers of Canada’s infamous Freedom Convoy began Tuesday, with prosecutors insisting the trial is not about political beliefs, but for the method of protest that occurred which they ...

Two leaders behind the "Freedom Convoy" protest that caused Canada's capital to descend into gridlock for weeks in 2022 have been found guilty of mischief but cleared of most other charges against ...

A new report released by Canadian officials finds that the use of the Emergencies Act to intervene in the Freedom trucker convoy in Ottawa in 2022 was justified. The Emergencies Act allows the federal ...

A Canadian federal court ruled Tuesday that the country’s government was not justified in invoking the Emergencies Act during the early-2022 “Freedom Convoy” protests involving truck drivers and ...

Toronto - The trial is set to open Tuesday for two of the main organizers of the so-called "Freedom Convoy" demonstrations that paralyzed Canada's capital, snarled trade at critical U.S.-Canada border ...

Roughly a year and a half since a group of Canadian truckers ground the country’s capital to a halt in protest, two of its leaders are set to go on trial. Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two of the ...

A trial is currently underway in Canada, and the rights of every Canadian citizen are at stake. Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert are facing farcical charges stemming from their participation in a ...

According to Canada’s top prosecutors, the only thing worse than tyranny is “mischief.” And the worst possible “mischief” is objecting to tyranny. In a sentencing hearing earlier this week, the ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to use emergency legislation to quell the “freedom convoy” protests that gripped downtown Ottawa and border crossings in 2022 was unjustified, the ...