The Latest Breaking News from Ottawa

More demonstrators poured onto the streets of Ottawa and other Canadian cities on Saturday demanding an end to Covid vaccine mandates, as protests against pandemic restrictions entered their second week. In the capital, demonstrators huddled around campfires in bone-chilling temperatures and erected portable saunas and bouncy castles for kids outside…

Protesters rally in cities across Canada as Ottawa police call for more resources to end truckers’ blockade in capital.

Protesters opposed to vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions held rallies in cities across Canada in a show of solidarity with a week-long demonstration in the national capital

The fundraising platform says the previously peaceful demonstration ‘has become an occupation’, with police reports of violence and unlawful activity

Some U.S. Republicans on Saturday vowed to investigate GoFundMe's decision to take down a page accepting donations in support of protesting truckdrivers in Canada, although GoFundMe early Saturday already said it would simply refund all donations.

Thousands of people demonstrated in Canadian cities, including the financial hub Toronto, on Saturday as mostly peaceful but noisy protests against vaccine mandates spread from Ottawa, the capital.

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Ontario’s Conservative premier is calling for demonstrators to end of the “occupation” of Ottawa  and police are sending  150 officers to the areas most affected by the protest against COVID-19 mandates that has been going on for day

Ottawa police announce 150 more officers will be deployed as 400 more trucks and 2,000 protesters expected to arrive

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Ongoing protest led by some far-right activists brings intimidation, violence and fear to Canada’s capital, locals say.