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Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
@OttawaPolice news conference about to get underway, follow #LIVE here:
cpac.ca/episode?id=e90…
Starting in 5 minutes, we're told, and there will be no French. #cdnpoli #ProtestConvoy
Deputy Chief Bell informing Ottawa residents extra officers in place only for as long as the #protestconvoy is still present. "If you want to leave on your own terms, now is the time to do it," he says to protesters. #cdnpoli #ProtestConvoy
I won't be able to live tweet this as otherwise occupied, but again link is here:
cpac.ca/episode?id=e90…

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Feb 19
@OttawaPolice news update right now. Watch #LIVE on @CPAC_TV :
cpac.ca/episode?id=689…
Interim chief Steve Bell says they've made important progress today.
Bell says they've advised protesters repeatedly about leaving, and backed up warnings with safe tactics. Says "at every step, they've faced a barrage of resistance, shoving and vitriol," of his officers. Says batons and helmets added this morning as a safety measure.
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Feb 19
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 Image
Crush of pedestrians moving south on Metcalfe as wind picks up. But also some headed north toward it.
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Feb 19
One of the #protestconvoy's main organizers, Tamara Lich, arguably its most famous face, will be in court tomorrow morning Saturday at 9:30 a.m. She was arrested yesterday night and faces a charge of counselling to commit mischief. #cdnpoli
Meanwhile, as reported by colleague @NicoleatCBC earlier, one of the other organizers, Chris Barber, was released under bail. His conditions: he has 24 hours to leave Ottawa....(cont'd)
And must leave the province of Ontario by midnight, Wednesday. He cannot support the convoy in any way other than paying for gas for other members of #ProtestConvoy vacating the city. Barber is back in court March 1st (cont'd)
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Feb 17
Relatively quiet morning on Wellington. ImageImage
That warmup tent by the National War Memorial is still there in the background (the red spot). Image
A truck driver holds court with sympathetic protesters next to the Senate of Canada. A couple of chants calling him a hero from the crowd. #cdnpoli #protestconvoy
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Feb 14
#LIVE: Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau on now, expected to announce Emergency Act in light of #ProtestConvoy. #cdnpoli Watch here:
cpac.ca/episode?id=5e1…
@JustinTrudeau thanks officers on the ground who helped reopen Ambassador Bridge. But says it's clear there are impediments, difficulties for them to act alone. "The federal government is ready to use more tools at its disposal to get the situation fully under control."
@JustinTrudeau says he's consulted w/ cabinet, caucus, spoken to opposition leaders. "The federal government has invoked the federal Emergencies Act." Says scope of measures will be time-limited, geographically targeted, reasonable, proportionate to threats they're to address.
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Feb 13
2nd night since @fordnation declared provincial state of emergency, 16th night of #ConvoyProtest in Ottawa. Smaller crowd than yesterday, but that may have had more to do w/ -24 C w/ windchill temp than augmented police presence. (Pictured: all police I saw on my walk) #cdnpoli
(these pix are not live-ish, I took them between 10:11 pm and when I got home--sorry folx, too cold to take pics and tweet 'em without freezing fingers).
To give you some sense of the crowd in front of the Peace Tower.
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