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Senior Reporter, @CBCPolitics Parliamentary Bureau (via Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal). raffy.boudjikanian@cbc.ca. DMs open. Author tweets: @Raffyauthor

Feb 19, 2022, 7 tweets

Couldn't quite catch that part on camera, but as these three rigs went down O'Connor Street leaving the Parliamentary Precinct, there were both scattered cheers and a gent using, well, a single finger to say goodbye. #cdnpoli #protestconvoy

I'm just trying to go grocery shopping! But another pickup leaving if you can see the flag there on the pickup. 'Freedom!' the driver chanted to a pedestrian nearby. He replied with another expression that started with the f word. #protestconvoy

Crush of pedestrians moving south on Metcalfe as wind picks up. But also some headed north toward it.

Happened too fast to ask qs, but the protester other journalists and I identified as being in Hamilton , Ont one day and Surrey BC the next during #elxn43 last summer, following @JustinTrudeau , just saw me, recognized me and said hi while he walked toward the Hill on Metcalfe.

He just said "I'm the Hamilton Surrey guy!" as a reminder and said it was good to see me.

Just missed it as hands busy with groceries but in beige coat, the photog asked his friend: 'give 'em the bird' as he snapped 📸 of departing #protestconvoy vehicle. A kinda local spin on an Olympics closing ceremony for Ottawans.

Meanwhile on Metcalfe north of Nepean there's a stretch of vehicles that appears intent on sticking around. #protestconvoy #cdnpoli

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