The streets of downtown Ottawa are no longer blocked with trucks and peppered with hate symbols, but residents are not ready to rest while the extreme rhetoric of the so-called “freedom convoy” permeates Canadian politics and society.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Kevin Phillips said he made his decision because she has followed her bail conditions, her surety has supervised her well and she’s already had a “taste of jail,” which he said lowered her risk to reoffend.
Lawyers for a proposed class-action lawsuit against the convoy protest in Ottawa argued in court on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, that GiveSendGo may be in breach of a freezing order on funds raised for the convoy on the website.
For the first time, the majority understood COVID not only through statistics and news stories, but the symptoms and challenges experienced first- or second-hand.
The Ontario government says it has successfully petitioned a court to freeze access to millions of dollars donated through online fundraising platform GiveSendGo to the convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions in Ottawa and at several border crossings.
