Ottawa residents have been the victims of two high\u002Dprofile occupations in the past year: the so\u002Dcalled “Freedom Convoy” blockade of the city’s downtown core…
motorcycle invasion of Ottawa in late April, but that anti-vaccine-mandate rally — like another protest that followed on July 1 to coincide with Canada Day — didn’t amount to occupations.
The planned talk was sponsored by a website, vaccineinjuryawareness.org. An event scheduled for a few days later was “Open Mike with Brian Derksen: The Trucker That Never Left.” Derksen, a Freedom Convoy stalwart and strident anti-vaxxer, wouldin late August for a disruptive Ottawa court appearance on an obstruction charge in which he claimed he was the Crown, God was his lawyer and Canada’s justice system held no authority over him.
It’s meat-and-potatoes journalism. But being a journalist these days can put you in the line of fire from a lot of self-styled freedom fighters who think “The Media Is the Virus,” as several signs brandished by convoy enthusiasts in January had put it. Flash forward 132 Augusts and the same stone walls would echo with medical quackery and tributes to the truck tyrants who’d blazed a trail to Ottawa earlier in the year.
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