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Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Happening now: Hundreds of police from different units marching past the Westin Hotel, headed towards Rideau and Sussex intersection which still has many trucks.
Actually, a least 100 but not hundreds, from best I can tell on video feed from our cameras.
There is also an armoured vehicle. They are moving in now.
There are tactical squad police here, carrying carbines.
Just a lot of police.

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Feb 19
Tamara Lich bail hearing is back in session. Crown Moiz Karimjee is focused on Lich's use of the phrase "hold the line" and whether she will respect the conditions the court might impose.
"How much is she going to have any respect for any legal order of the court when she doesn't have respect for the Emergencies Act the repeated requests from the police to move out?" Karimjee asks the court.
"Suddenly, now, today, she has found a new respect for the rule of law?" he asks. "The court should have no confidence.... in what the accused says she'll do if released from custody."
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Feb 17
The proposed class-action lawsuit over Ottawa protests adds Union 613 and Happy Goat Coffee as plaintiffs, joining Zexi Li, as claim expands to include a class of businesses. Claim now up to $306 million. Image
Lawyer Paul Champ has also added protest donors and individual truckers as defendants, tells them they should leave town now and offers to settle with them individually if they come forward now. "We will find you," he warns.
Also adds plaintiff Geoffrey Devaney, a server who works in the ByWard Market, representing potential class of employees who lost wages.
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Feb 16
At protest organizer presser, Danny Bulford (r) says under Emergencies Act, Canadians can continue to come to Ottawa and protest peacefully. "We only support peaceful protest."
"The government is trying to order the police to use force against Canadians who are peacefully demonstrating," Bulford says. Calls on more people to come to Ottawa to "make it harder on the government to get police to follow their illegal order."
(Needless to say, this is false. The protest on the Hill is now a prohibited public assembly.)
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Feb 16
The hearing to consider a possible extension of the court order against truck horns issued in Zexi v. Barber et. al. is now before the court, virtually. I'll try to relay as much as I can in this thread.
Lawyer Paul Champ says plaintiff wants to add Pat King as respondent. Justice Hugh McLean stands the matter down until 10:15 am to give King a chance to appear. (Currently, only Barber, Lich and Dichter are represented by counsel, Keith Wilson.)
And we're back. No one has joined to represent King. Champ says they are seeking continuation of the interim order issued Feb. 7 as an interlocutory order for 60 days from today's date.
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Feb 16
Protest organizer Pat King did an hour-long FB live tonight, mostly given over to him naming members of Ottawa online counter-protest FB groups and calling on supporters to report them for harassment.
It was… mostly tedious. At one point he accuses a critic of stalking him. He defends the “young lady” who runs Stella Luna. And there are threats to deliver cease and desist letters to media for defamation.
There are suggestions the protest will move to Atlantic Canada, and he plays videos by Great Big Sea and Stompin’ Tom. Also: some flatulence humour.
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Feb 16
The court order prohibiting the use of air horns expires Thursday. Plaintiff Zexi Li and her lawyer Paul Champ want the judge to extend and broaden the order. They will be in court tomorrow at 1 pm, alleging:
I tweeted about this a few days ago, that some named defendants had not, AFAIK, used their socials to get truckers to stop honking, as J. McLean had ordered. We will see tomorrow what he says about that.
Ten days ago, I thought the class-action lawsuit was all about getting the injunction. Now I’m not so sure. With TD Bank (and possibly others) paying seized funds into court, there is real money on the table that could be awarded if the claim is successful and class certified.
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