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Feb 18 4 tweets 1 min read
I'm on Parliament Hill and I have some breaking news...

BREAKING: ‘I’ve got to go’ NBers leaving Ottawa convoy tj.news/telegraph-jour… #NB
Peter Doull, a retired trucker from Grand Manan who spent 37 years on the highway and the last 21 days parked in front of Parliament Hill, and his son, James Doull, a diesel mechanic and fisherman, say they're leaving today.

They say it's due to a “family emergency."
“It’s critical, I’ve got to go,” Doull said, declining to elaborate. “It is what it is.
“I think we accomplished what we wanted to. But I think there still will be people who will try to stay here weeks on end.”
But the tone is also more grim than ever.
Doull added: “If you’re sitting here, I don’t know if it’s going to change anything or not.”

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Feb 18
OK! Let’s update things. I just went for a walk around. The red arrows are police advancements. The have taken the intersection of Rideau and Sussex, but little else. The black scribbles are fronts put up by protesters. Thread… Image
Quebec riot police are the front line. The trucks behind them have been taken by police. Image
But you can also see there’s a big line of protesters, with trucks, and some more barriers they have in place. Image
Read 9 tweets
Feb 18
For those watching at home, I’ve made a map. The red arrows are current police advancements. The black line is where some protesters have now fallen back to to build a barricade. That black rectangle is where the two #NB’ers from Grand Manan were parked, but have now gone home. Image
This is the wall that’s being built. Image
Meanwhile, the epicentre stage is still going.
Read 5 tweets
Feb 18
I have been on the Hill for the last hour and a half walking around, so here's a thread on what's going on, so far...
First, I don’t live in the core, so it took a long time to get to ground zero. Road blocks everywhere. One police check even turning back a guy with Parliamentary Press Gallery credentials. So you just go to the next perimeter point and hope for a friendlier cop.
Several large paddy wagons are positioned on secondary streets. Police on every corner.
Read 13 tweets
Feb 17
OK! Story filed. Let’s go do another protest walk through.

Missed it? Here’s my story on Trudeau kicking off the Emergencies Act debate: tj.news/telegraph-jour… #NB
Oh boy, immediately greeted by this guy on Bank Street. “They call my Mr. Freedom,” he says. He says he’s from Niagara.
Definitely a larger police presence today. But they’re largely just doing that, being a presence, walking here and there, stopping, milling about. This Bank and Wellington Streets.
Read 12 tweets
Feb 17
New Brunswick reporter on the ground here in Ottawa with an update thread. Police are again handing out letters to those part of the convoy.
In front of the Senate building there are more police and a new fence.
One of the trucks from #NB has now moved to horizontally block Elgin and Wellington Streets.
Read 11 tweets

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