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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10519215/Canadian-police-charge-four-plotting-murder-cops-trove-guns.html

An Ontario provincial staffer is out of a job after hackers revealed that she donated $100 to the Freedom Convoy protests earlier this month.

Marion Isabeau-Ringuette, who was Ontario Solicitor General Sylvia Jones's director of communications, lost her job 10 days after making the donation, according to the Toronto Star.

'Ms. Isabeau-Ringuette no longer works for the Ontario government,' Ivana Yelich, Ford's executive director of media relations, told the outlet.

'We're not commenting any further as this is a staffing matter.'

Meanwhile, four suspects face serious charges of plotting to murder police officers in connection with a trove of firearms that were seized at the Freedom Convoy border blockade in Coutts, Alberta – though the city's mayor claims they are all 'outsiders' who were not part of the broader protest against vaccine mandates.

The charges come as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau considers using his emergency powers to establish 'no-go' zones in Ottawa to dispel the remaining protests, after the Coutts blockade ended peacefully on Tuesday and another in Manitoba was expected to disperse on Wednesday.

Chris Carbert, 44; Christopher Lysak, 48; Anthony Olienick, 39; and Jerry Morin, 40, were arrested on Monday and charged with possession of weapons for a dangerous purpose, mischief, and conspiracy to commit murder.

The charges are in connection with the trove of weapons seized in a police raid on raid on two camper trailers and a mobile home on 1st Avenue North in Coutts – a property near the border crossing but not part of the actual blockade.

One of the four charged with plotting to kill Mounties in Alberta, Lysak, has ties to a right-wing Canadian movement dubbed 'Diagolon' and faces an additional charge of uttering threats.

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network dubs Diagolon 'a network of far-right accelerationist survivalists' and says that Lysak was once called the 'head of security for Diagolon'.

Diagolon founder Jeremy MacKenzie, who podcasts under the moniker 'Raging Dissident', issued a video statement in response to images showing the symbol of his movement on body armor seized in the Coutts raid, in which 13 long guns and multiple handguns were recovered by Mounties.

'I have no idea where those came from, who those belong to, who put them there, who brought them there – did the police put them there?' said MacKenzie of the Diagolon symbol, a diagonal white band on a black field.

MacKenzie claims his movement was conceived as a joke while 'pretty stoned on edible marijuana' and that the name and symbol represent a diagonal swathe from Alaska to Florida, across Canada and the US, of states and provinces that oppose mandates and other pandemic restrictions.

Facing lesser charges in connection with the Coutts raid are: Luke Berk, 62; Joanne Person, 62; Johnson Law, 39; Jaclyne Martin, 39; Evan Colenutt, 23; Ursula Allred, 22; Justin Martin, 22; Eastin Stewart Oler, 22; and Janx Zaremba, 18.

They are charged with mischief and unlawful weapons offences in relation to the blockade, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

'Monday's weapons seizure and subsequent arrests speak to the serious criminal activities taking place during this protest and illegal blockade,' said RCMP Deputy Commissioner Curtis Zablock in a statement.

'The dangerous, criminal activity occurring away from the TV cameras and social media posts was real and organized, and it could have been deadly for citizens, protesters and officers,' he added.

The mayor of Coutts told DailyMail.com that those arrested were not members of the Freedom Convoy, despite them being initially tied to the ongoing anti-vaccine protests.

'The people who were actually involved in the arrests were not part of the blockade group,' Mayor Jim Willett said. 'They were outsiders.'

The mayor described the individuals as outside agitators who came to town after the protest began.

'As time went on, the protest began to attract people from the outside,' he said. 'They were starting to attract the undesirable element. The people who were actually involved in the arrests were not part of the blockade group. They were outsiders.'

Joanne Person, also arrested on the lesser charges, posted about her ordeal on a Facebook chat group for the Coutts protesters.

'Go help us,' she wrote, omitting the last letter of 'God.'

'The full tactical is at my home and they are teloing (sic) us to leave the home and that they are entering. My god. Please help us.

'They are threating (sic) me. I fear for our lives,' she added.