>dough
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-mayor-calls-out-protesters-who-placed-upside-down-canadian-flag-on-terry-fox-statue-1.5760028
https://twitter.com/JimWatsonOttawa/status/1487500370947547140
https://twitter.com/TerryFoxCanada/status/1487507676821139465
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mosque-shooting-vigil-cancelled-convoy-protest-1.6332479
Vigil in Ottawa to mark mosque attack cancelled due to safety concerns around convoy protest
Vigil to remember victims on 5th anniversary of attack will now be held virtually
An in-person vigil to remember the victims of a fatal attack on a Quebec City mosque exactly five years ago has been cancelled, with organizers citing safety concerns arising out of the presence of a convoy protesting vaccine mandates in Ottawa on Saturday.
The event, organized by the group Canadians United Against Hate, said it had been expecting more than 100 people at the only in-person event in the region organized to remember the Jan. 29, 2017, attack, which left six people dead and 19 wounded.
Originally meant to take place at the Human Rights Monument in downtown Ottawa, the event will now be held virtually on Saturday instead.
"With extremist voices attached to the protest and online chatter about possible violence, we started talking with police and city officials, and then early [Friday] morning we got a notice saying the venue we were going to use would be pretty much unavailable because of safety concerns," Fareed Khan, founder of Canadians United Against Hate, said in an interview with CBC News on Saturday.
He said City of Ottawa officials had notified him on Friday of the safety concerns, and his group began to consider cancelling the event. Khan said his concerns for the safety of participants was driven by the size of the crowd and the presence of protesters carrying "racist signs, the Confederate flag and other such paraphernalia which is connected to extremism and racism."
>racist signs, the Confederate flag and other such paraphernalia which is connected to extremism and racism.
"Certainly the solemnness of the event would have been totally ruined by hundreds or thousands of people making noise, truck horns honking," he said.
Khan went on to say he felt his own freedom to assemble and mark a sombre event had been impinged on by the growing protest. When news of the convoy's journey to Ottawa began to spread, he said he heard from members of the Muslim community in Ottawa wondering if he would cancel the event.
"Of course I didn't want to, because it's capitulating to extremist elements. But I wasn't going to put people at risk of possible physical harm and possible health consequences," Khan said.
Demonstrators in the truck convoy protest have gathered in downtown Ottawa, crowding streets with vehicles, to protest vaccine mandates, COVID-19 public health measures and the federal government.
Organizers of the core protest movement, dubbed the Freedom Convoy, have promised that the demonstrations will be peaceful. On Saturday, the organizers posted on the group's Facebook page urging protesters not to enter government buildings, harass police officers, to remain calm and not make any threats.
Ottawa police say they are preparing to deal with possible instances of violence and have warned of the risk that "social media actors" and "lone wolf individuals" may cause disruptions. Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly said on Friday that there have been various online threats locally, nationally and internationally inciting violence, hate and criminal acts.
"We cannot ignore the direct hate language and threats, and we cannot ignore the direct attempts to incite violence and criminality in and around the demonstration,'" Sloly said.
Members of the Muslim community and others, both in Quebec and elsewhere, are marking the five-year anniversary of the mosque attack.
A gunman entered the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City and opened fire on worshippers inside. Mamadou Tanou Barry, Ibrahima Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Abdelkrim Hassane, Azzeddine Soufiane and Aboubaker Thabti were killed, and 19 others were wounded in the attack.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/truck-convoy-protest-some-key-players-1.6332312
Thousands opposed to COVID-19 rules converge on Parliament Hill
Trudeau and his family have been moved from residence over security concerns
A convoy of thousands of truckers and other protesters converged on Parliament Hill Saturday to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions — a raucous demonstration that has police on high alert for possible violence even as organizers urge the crowd to be peaceful.
Hundreds of protesters on foot flooded into the parliamentary precinct on Saturday in the midst of an extreme cold warning, joining a lineup of truckers that started to arrive on the scene late Friday night.
They were later joined by other drivers and demonstrators from all regions of the country that, in some cases, travelled thousands of kilometres to take their message to the streets outside of the Prime Minister's Office in the downtown core.
Police said as many as 10,000 people were expected to be on hand by day's end, but by Saturday evening the force did not have an official estimate of the crowd's size. Also that evening, the group organizing the convoy sent out a schedule for Sunday events, including a prayer and press conference.
The convoy has snarled traffic throughout the region, clogging arteries that lead in and out of the city centre. Law enforcement urged everyone to avoid travel to the downtown as it deals with the surge of people. The Rideau Centre, a major shopping centre only steps from the main protest site, was closed early after it was overrun with maskless patrons defying provincial rules for indoor spaces.
>paraphernalia which is connected to extremism and racism
>Khan went on to say he felt his own freedom to assemble and mark a sombre event had been impinged on by the growing protest.
>"We cannot ignore the direct hate language and threats, and we cannot ignore the direct attempts to incite violence and criminality in and around the demonstration,'" Sloly said.
Ottawa police say they are preparing to deal with possible instances of violence and have warned of the risk that "social media actors" and "lone wolf individuals" may cause disruptions.
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1245139169934016517
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jericho
F🍁CK TRUDEAU
>STOP THE HECKIN HONK
>If humanity succeeds in building a manned spacecraft capable of searching for the Voyagers, then it is pretty certain that we will bring them back and place them in a museum. After all, if we ourselves are out there, then the golden records no longer serve a purpose.
>JUST ICE WILL BE SERVED
>Dancin' in the streets
>Something's up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tis_flag
>Andrew had invited Spacey for the tour of the Palace. [Ghislaine Maxwell] came with him - not as a guest of Andrew's