Tag: Protests
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Dyer: Varying degrees of bloodbath likely end to persistent protests in Iran
The most popular chant of the people (mostly younger than 25) who now are going to the streets all over Iran is “Zan! Zendegi! Azadi!” (“Women! Life! Freedom!”).
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Letters to the Editor: March 19, 2022
Thanks for update on former anchor
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Tamara Lich, the ‘spark that lit’ the convoy protest in Ottawa, gets bail
Tamara Lich, one of the principal organizers of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protest that gridlocked downtown Ottawa for three weeks, was granted bail Monday.
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Baranyai: Better Ukrainian comparison to trucker convoy is Euromaidan protest
There too, the trucker convoy falls short
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‘Freedom convoys’ taking to Hwy. 401, 402 for large-scale protest Saturday
Convoys protesting COVID-19 measures plan to take to 400-series highways in Southwestern Ontario Saturday as part of a Canada-wide protest. Multiple social media pages are promoting the weekend protests on highways 401 and 402 as part of a cross-Canada “freedom chain.” London participants are meeting at the Flying J truck stop on Highbury Avenue at […]
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Pearson: Polarized Canada needs to find common ground
Perhaps we just can’t do it anymore. Canadians have spent the last 155 years disagreeing about everything. What else can we expect from a country of 10 provinces, three territories, more than 200 languages, 15 religions (more if you count indigenous spirituality, which we should), and an endless array of political opinions? Author Northrop Frye […]
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Long-term care boss is out, as man with same name on convoy donor list
The head of a London hospital’s long-term care centre is no longer on the job, after a man by the same name donated to the so-called freedom convoy.
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Baranyai: Armchair warriors’ attack on Ottawa 911 new low
I used to think online petitions were the lowest form of protest: a wan show of support, entailing neither effort, nor any commitment to action. I was wrong, of course.
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SIMS: Political consequences start to mount for convoy-backing area mayor
If you’ve got time to break away from the Winter Olympics or the police crackdown in Ottawa, watch the YouTube stream of Thursday night’s Warwick Township council special meeting on fire services. There were a lot of flames shooting out during the tiny Lambton County municipality’s political debate, but not about what was happening down […]
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Tobah: Protests make me fear for my freedom from violence
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t extremely concerned about Canada’s direction right now. I’ve been watching the convoy that settled in Ottawa and its sympathetic arms closely over the last few weeks. I’ve done so from the perspective of someone from a community that has faced repeated continuous white supremacist violence, especially in […]