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Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said of the Freedom Convoy, "I will never support negotiating with those who hold our democracy hostage.” pic.twitter.com/QAo2b6FwMr

— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) November 24, 2022

Everyone knows that the entire Anal Empire is run out of the United States.

The Jews in Washington just call up the leaders of other “Western” nations and tell them what to do.

New York Post:

Top Biden administration officials pressed their Canadian counterparts to clear truckers blockading parts of the United States’s northern border during protests in January.

A public inquiry into the Canadian government’s decision to use emergency powers to clear the “Freedom Convoy” protesters revealed on Thursday that frantic phone calls were placed by Washington to Ottawa in an effort to open up choked-off supply lines.

“They are very, very, very worried,” Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland wrote in an email to her staff after a Feb. 10 phone call from White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, according to Politico.

“If this is not sorted out in the next 12 hours, all of their northeastern car plants will shut down,” Freeland continued in her email.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg phoned his Canadian counterpart, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, the same day Deese called Freeland, according to the report, and Buttigieg pressed Alghabra about Canada’s “plan to resolve” the protests.

Alghabra told the commission that Buttigieg initiated the call and that the interaction was “unusual.”

Brian Clow, deputy chief of staff to Canada’s prime minister, also heard from White House aides, including National Security Council director Juan Gonzalez, who wanted to connect Canadian national security officials with the US Department of Homeland Security.

A phone call between President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took place the following day, on Feb. 11, where Trudeau conveyed to the commander-in-chief that Ottawa had a plan to end the blockades.

In his call with Trudeau, Biden reportedly alluded to trucker convoys rumored to be threatening to disrupt the Super Bowl in Los Angeles and streets in Washington.

The Super Bowl!

Canada ended up using totally illegal means to shut down the protests, as this inquiry is showing. The fact that they did that in order to please the US is damning.

Basically, Canada and every other Western nation would be in a whole lot better state if it wasn’t for the US determining their national policy.

]]> Canada: State Bank Kept List of Customers Who Supported Anti-Vax Truckers https://www.anglinarchive.com/2022/08/01/canada-state-bank-kept-list-of-customers-who-supported-anti-vax-truckers/ Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone keeps talking about how “no one expects the face of fascism to be friendly liberals.”

Firstly, I’m not going to go into the whole thing about right-wingers labeling things “fascism,” except to say it’s really exhausting. Left-wingers don’t go around accusing right-wingers of being “Leninists,” and everyone would think it was ridiculous if they did. Even if you’re against fascism, okay – it’s still a right-wing ideology. So what you’re saying is “actually, the far-left is even more right-wing that we are!” This is confusing and stupid. If leftists started calling me a Leninist, I would consider it a big win.

Secondly, everyone did expect neoliberal leftists to be hardcore authoritarians.

Thirdly, every authoritarian regime in history, whether left or right, has always put forward an image that the leaders were nice people who smiled a lot. I guess maybe Mussolini himself would put out pictures of himself looking stern, but that was probably just to make up for the fact that he was overly affable and hedonistic in real life.

But yeah, that third thing is really the top point here – “who would have thought the people from the government were just pretending to be friendly???” is like the dumbest ever observation.

Life Site News:

Canada’s largest government-run agricultural lender Farm Credit Canada ordered a blacklist of customers who supported the Freedom Convoy

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, internal documents show that Farm Credit Canada, a crown corporation based in Regina, told its employees to secretly make records of customers who supported the Freedom Convoy.

Emails reveal that staff kept a list of names even after the Emergencies Act (EA) was revoked  on February 23, after protesters had been cleared out of Ottawa.

Sophie Perreault, chief operating officer, said in the revealed emails to staff, “If you become aware of a customer’s involvement report it immediately.”

According to Perreault, customers had no indication from the bank they were being surveilled.

The email went on to state that if the staff should “become aware of potential customer involvement in blockades, occupations and other support of activity related to the ‘Freedom Convoy,’” they must “submit a tip to the customer diligence centre.”

The email said that the customer’s “name stated involvement, date and any other pertinent details” should also be included in the report.

“Please do not complete any investigative work yourself or communicate any information about FCC’s approach to customers who voluntarily disclose their involvement,” the email said.

Staff questioned the surveillance requestAccording to the emails, some staff, including managers, questioned why they were asked to keep records of anyone involved with the Freedom Convoy.

“Why are we investigating this,” one manager wrote.

“I expected we would get a list from the RCMP.”

Earlier this month, Members of Parliament (MP) from the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) demanded a federal privacy overseer look into banks’ requests to freeze Freedom Convoy supporters’ accounts.

This came after testimony from Canadian bankers showed the financial targeting of some Freedom Convoy supporters might have breached privacy laws.

Canada’s draconian COVID measures were the catalyst for the Freedom Convoy, which took to the streets of Ottawa to demand an end to all COVID mandates for three weeks in February. As a result, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on February 14 enacted the EA to shut down the Freedom Convoy.

More than 230 people were arrested during the Freedom Convoy crackdown. Also, the Trudeau government took the unprecedented step of freezing the bank accounts of hundreds who donated to and sympathized with the truckers to the tune of almost $8 million.

Let me talk more about the thing I am sick of talking about: why calling this “fascism” is dumb. In actuality, this is just total lawlessness, and totally unreasonable. I don’t think there has ever been any political system in history which has gone around saying “we’ll put anyone who disagrees with the government through strange forms of personal hardship.”

Maybe if you were going to say “we’re just going to kill them,” that would be okay. But saying you’re going to cause them personal torment – no one wants to do that. I guess it’s women.

But yeah – I’d have a lot more respect for Trudeau if he was just issuing “shoot to kill” orders on anyone who disagreed with his policies.

]]> Canada: Members of Parliament Get Panic Buttons After Seeing Mean Tweets https://www.anglinarchive.com/2022/06/25/canada-members-of-parliament-get-panic-buttons-after-seeing-mean-tweets/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We’re getting whole new levels of “mean words on the internet are dangerous” propaganda now that Elon Musk is buying Twitter.

They are trying to push for some kind of global internet censorship group run by the UN. Or whatever. Some situation where the First Amendment doesn’t apply to the internet.

Something will probably happen – it doesn’t make sense how Elon can just let us say whatever we want and for this current system to continue to exist. It is all completely based on ridiculous and often nonsensical lies, so if the truth is out there, it’s over.

BBC:

Canada’s members of parliament will be given panic buttons to call police in an emergency, amid growing harassment, intimidation and threats of violence.

The move was announced by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino who has himself received death threats.

The “very negative and toxic rhetoric that we see online” was very concerning, he said.

Canada’s MPs have also been threatened on the streets and last year PM Justin Trudeau was pelted with rocks.

Mr Mendicino, who said he was threatened last month after introducing a gun control bill in parliament, said the mobile alarms would add another layer of security for politicians.

So you need more protection because people disagree with you taking away their own means of protection?

Funny how that happens.

MPs are also being offered cameras, alarms and other security measures to be installed in their homes, and training on how to de-escalate potentially violent situations.

“We need to have a space where we can have vigorous debates without seeing the level of vitriol and near physical confrontation and out and out incitement to violence and death threats,” Mr Mendicino said.

Several politicians have previously criticised the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), which is in charge of their safety, for not taking their concerns seriously.

One politician in particular has been targeted by abuse.

Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the small leftist New Democratic Party (NDP) and a practising Sikh, was harassed by angry protesters last month during a campaign visit in Peterborough, Ontario.

Video shows the mob shouting expletives at Mr Singh, calling him a “traitor” and wishing him dead.

Mr Singh later said the encounter was one of the “most intense, threatening and insulting” incidents of aggression in his career, and that his staff feared for their safety.

Fellow NDP MP Heather McPherson told CBC news that she was worried about her family’s safety, and has previously received threats to kill her pet dog.

Oh no – not the dog!

I frankly don’t believe any of this.

Several MPs have said that the vitriol has intensified since an anti-vaccine mandate protest occupied Ottawa in February and March.

The so-called Freedom Convoy saw the city brought to a standstill as hundreds of lorries blocked roads. Canadian media reported that for a few days during the protest, Mr Trudeau and his family were evacuated to a secret location for their own safety.

Liberal MP Judy Sgro said many politicians were “feeling very unsafe” in the wake of the protests.

Judy Sgro

She added that she did not take a panic button initially – until someone followed her home one day.

“I think women are more vulnerable and feel much more vulnerable as well,” Ms Sgro said. “So improving security for all parliamentarians, it’s unfortunate, but we seem to be in a difficult time in society right now. [There’s] a lot of nasty, angry, frustrated people.”

Why is it not sexist to say that women are more vulnerable? Aren’t they just as strong as men and able to do anything a man can do, except better?

But they’re also whiny little babies who have mental breakdowns if someone is mean to them on the internet?

]]> Canada: Proposed Ontario Law Would Allow Arrests and Property Confiscations Without Warrant https://www.anglinarchive.com/2022/04/07/canada-proposed-ontario-law-would-allow-arrests-and-confiscations-without-warrant/ Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The line between “Russian oligarch” and “Canadian trucker” is getting blurrier by the day.

Life Site News:

Member of Provincial Parliament Rick Nicholls believes that a bill being considered in the Ontario Parliament could lead to undemocratic activity and the seizure of personal property without a warrant.

During the question period on April 4, Nicholls challenged Bill 100: Keeping Ontario Open for Business Act, which has so far gone through its second reading, opining that the intended scope of the bill could be used in ways that severely hamper the civil liberties of Ontarians.

The intention of the bill, according to the letter of the law, is to avoid any blockades of borders or critical infrastructure in the future by way of things like the Freedom Convoy protests that took place in February.

Bill 100 would allow for a number of things to be done to those found transgressing the bounds of the legislation, including arrest without warrant, surrender and suspension of driver’s licence and more.

The activities prohibited in the bill are not clearly defined; for example, “disrupting ordinary economic activity” is prohibited.

Nicholls said that although it may be “noble to prevent trucks from impeding critical infrastructure and trade routes,” he believes that the bill “goes much further.”

“The powers confirmed allow the seizure of all property including homes for far less than another convoy or blockade,” he said.

Bill 100 does not stipulate that property other than vehicles or things contained therein can be confiscated. However, the bill does state that it “makes complementary amendments to the Civil Remedies Act, 2001.”

The Civil Remedies Act does give the government the power to seize property and possessions as a means of making restitution to those who have had their own property lost or damages by criminal activity.

Bill 100 would make amendments to the Civil Remedies Act to include “injury to the public” as a reason for using the sweeping powers of the Act to confiscate the property of those found guilty.

The amendment proposition defines “injury to the public” thus:

  1. Any unreasonable interference with the public’s interest in the enjoyment of property.
  2. Any unreasonable interference with the public’s interest in questions of health, safety, comfort or convenience.
  3. Any expenses or increased expenses incurred by the public, including any expenses or increased expenses incurred by the Crown in right of Ontario, a municipal corporation or a public institution that belongs to a class prescribed by the regulations made under this Act.

So, I guess this is… communism?

I literally saw people saying “who cares if Russian billionaires have their yachts stolen?” and I said, “well, dear friend, private property rights used to be inviolable. If private property rights are abolished, that is going to affect you, and all of us, eventually.”

It’s moving pretty quick!

But hey, I guess freedom of speech used to be inviolable as well.

We’re seeing the “own nothing” part of the plan.

Now we just have to see how we are going to “be happy.”

I guess maybe the happiness will come from some new Netflix series. Or maybe they will put benzos in the drinking water.

]]> 1000+ Trucks and RVs Gather on Outskirts of Washington to Protest Virus Regime https://www.anglinarchive.com/2022/03/06/1000-trucks-and-rvs-gather-on-outskirts-of-washington-to-protest-virus-regime/ Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Previously: 

The wait, the what?

The virus what?

Are they protesting the Russian virus?

I don’t understand.

Reuters:

More than a thousand large trucks, recreational vehicles and cars are gathering on the outskirts of Washington as part of a protest against COVID-19 restrictions that threatens to roll on the U.S. capital in the coming days.

The so-called “People’s Convoy,” which originated in California and has drawn participants from around the country, is calling for an end to all pandemic-related restrictions. It was inspired by demonstrations last month that paralyzed Ottawa, Canada’s capital city.

The convoy’s message has been undercut in recent weeks as major U.S. cities have rolled back mask mandates and other measures against COVID-19, which has led to more than 950,000 deaths in the United States but has been mitigated with vaccines and therapeutics. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, signaled in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday that the country was entering a new, more controlled phase of the pandemic without business lockdowns or school closures.

Still, more than 100 18-wheeler trucks amassed with other vehicles on Friday evening at the Hagerstown Speedway, a racetrack about 80 miles (129 km) from downtown Washington, according to Reuters witnesses. Drivers continued to stream into the parking lot on Saturday morning, one witness said.

A website for the protest said they did not plan to enter “D.C. proper” and social media posts suggested they could remain at the racetrack on Saturday. But one participant who described himself as the lead trucker told a cheering crowd at the racetrack on Friday night that he would drive his truck into the heart of the American capital.

“D.C., the government, whomever, can claim that they have all this opposition for us waiting in D.C.,” the man said. “But that flag on the back of my truck will go down to Constitution Avenue between the White House and the Washington Monument.”

Canada is a lot better at this than America.

I guess we shall see how they do.

The problem is, no one is thinking about a virus. The deadlydoomvirus.exe was overridden with sadukriane.exe.

The virus program will be reinstalled at some point in the future, but right now, it’s not running.

]]> Canadian-Israeli MP: “Honk Honk is an Acronym for Heil Hitler” https://www.anglinarchive.com/2022/02/23/canadian-israeli-mp-honk-honk-is-an-acronym-for-heil-hitler/ Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

‘Honk honk is an acronym for Heil Hitler’

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— Sophia ‘Controlled Chaos’ Narwitz (@SophNar0747) February 22, 2022

Here is a woman in the Canadian Parliament saying “‘Honk Honk’ is an acronym for ‘Heil Hitler.'”

I saw this clip and I was like, “you know, I’ll betcha that Ya’ara Saks is Jewish.

Imagine if there was a Japanese dual-citizen MP saying that “‘Honk Honk’ is an acronym for ‘Hate Hentai.'”

But that wouldn’t happen.

Because there are no Japanese dual-citizens serving in Western parliaments. In fact, I would wager that despite the fact that the Japanese population is over ten times the size of the global Jewish population, there is no single Japanese dual-citizen serving in any Western government at any level, at all.

At this point, I don’t even know if I can say that I hate the Jews. I just feel exhausted by them.

I feel like I’m sitting in a car that won’t start as a large group of monkeys systematically rip off all of the parts of my vehicle and smash them. They’ve ripped off the mirrors. They’ve opened the hood and are just pulling parts out of the engine and banging them against the ground. They’re gnawing the tires. They’re jumping up on top of the vehicle, just to make it shake.

Every time I hear some heinous statement, or see some nauseating headline, and just know it’s a Jew, I no longer get angry. I just rub the bridge of my nose and sigh.

My country is my country.
Your country? Also my country.
]]> Watch: Trudeau Sanctions Russia, Says Decepticons Stand Against Authoritarianism https://www.anglinarchive.com/2022/02/23/watch-trudeau-sanctions-russia-says-decepticons-stand-against-authoritarianism/ Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

NEW – PM Trudeau says #Canada will stand against authoritarianism, announces sanctions against Russia. pic.twitter.com/EpLbvXAsR7

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 22, 2022

Previously: Justin Announces That Martial Law Will Remain in Place Indefinitely, Despite the Fact Blockades are Broken

In addressing Russia, Justin Trudeau just said he stands against authoritarianism.

How is that even real?

How can he say that without cracking up laughing?

As we’ve said, the situation in Canada is worse than the alleged “Tiananmen Square Massacre.” It’s more extreme, it’s more authoritarian, and is is weirder.

China spent months trying to negotiate, then they shot some people.

Justin said he wouldn’t negotiate ever, at all, because the protesters were metaphysically evil, then he began erasing them from existence. He’s holding prostesters indefinitely without trial, threatening them with ten years in prison. He’s threatening to kill everyone’s dogs.

He’s taking people’s children away from them, presumably giving them over to homosexuals.

If any of the protesters the Chinese shot had kids, they would have went to family members. The state didn’t seize people’s children.

But Justin isn’t talking about China 30 years ago. He’s talking about Russia, now. As authoritarian. For annexing territories that the residents voted to have annexed, which have been a part of Russia for over a thousand years.

]]> Canada: Convoy Leader Denied Bail Because She Might Cause Mischief https://www.anglinarchive.com/2022/02/23/canada-convoy-leader-denied-bail-because-she-might-cause-mischief/ Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Wait, she might “cause mischief”?

What, is she a juggalo?

No, actually, she’s not.

She’s some kind of liberal woman who was against the vaccines on hippie groups.

She’d been in all kinds of protest movements, and was used to getting arrested or at least hassled by cops, and probably didn’t expect that she’d end up held without bail indefinitely facing a ten-year sentence for a peaceful protest.

As far as I’m able to tell – and it’s not obvious – the ability to detain her indefinitely without trial, as well as the charges themselves, are only possible because of the martial law order Justin Trudeau enacted (and the government approved).

He stated this week that the “emergency measures” will last indefinitely, effectively announcing that the country is now a dictatorship. Aside from the obvious fact that all of these leftist globalist lunatics who run our countries want dictatorial powers, he needs these powers to punish the people who protested.

Obviously, peaceful protestors can’t be held indefinitely without bail in the pre-corona system of democracy values.

CBC:

Tamara Lich, a major organizer of the so-called Freedom Convoy, was denied bail Tuesday morning in Ottawa.

Lich, the Alberta woman behind a now-halted GoFundMe campaign that raised over $10 million to support the protest in Ottawa, was arrested and charged Thursday with counselling to commit mischief.

Before her arrest, she told journalists she wasn’t concerned about being arrested, didn’t think the protest was illegal and also said her bank account was frozen.

On Tuesday, the judge said she was not convinced Lich would go home, stay there and stop her alleged counselling.

“This community has already been impacted enough by some of the criminal activity and blockades you took part in and even led,” said Justice Julie Bourgeois.

This hasn’t aged well

“You have had plenty of opportunity to remove yourself and even others from this criminal activity but obstinately chose not to and persistently counselled others not to either.

“In Canada, every citizen can certainly disagree with and protest against government decisions but it needs to be done in a democratic fashion in abidance with the laws that have been established democratically.”

It’s always a female judge, isn’t it?

A male judge would be like “bro, she’s not a juggalo. She’s saying she’s through with mischief.”

Bourgeois said she found Lich to be guarded and “almost obstructive” at times during the initial court appearance on Saturday and the judge stated it was disturbing Lich didn’t have a plan to get home after other organizers started getting arrested.

Her husband Dwayne Lich, who would be responsible as a proposed surety to report any breach of bail conditions, gave “unreliable and not credible” evidence, Bourgeois found.

Tamara Lich, who Bourgeois says could face a “lengthy” stay in prison if convicted, is scheduled to return to court on March 2.

Yeah, they’re literally talking about ten years.

For a peaceful protest.

The term “peaceful protests” has virtually no meaning anymore, after every government official and media personality in America called BLM-Antifa burning down cities “peaceful protesting.”

But this was literally a protest without violence.

Until the cops showed up and started beating people with clubs, spraying them, and running them down with horses.

They also released LRAD sonic weapons against them.

This is what we keep saying about democracy.

It’s not sustainable, because it is just too brutal and too abusive.

It is the one system of government where the people have no say at all, and no ability to redress grievances.

That isn’t some ironic talking point – the United States was not founded as a democracy, and the Founding Fathers were extremely against it, saying that it could only lead to tyranny.

This isn’t some secret.

Or I guess it is a secret? It’s not taught in schools.

But democracy was only brought into America during the turn of the 20th century – a period when Canada was still ruled directly by the crown.

You can read about this in H.L. Mencken’s works.

I recommend you do. They’re a lot of fun. And informative.

Not to mention prescient.

]]> Justin Announces That Martial Law Will Remain in Place Indefinitely, Despite the Fact Blockades are Broken https://www.anglinarchive.com/2022/02/22/justin-announces-that-martial-law-will-remain-in-place-indefinitely-despite-the-fact-blockades-are-broken/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

NOW – Canada's PM Trudeau: "Even though the blockades are lifted… this state of emergency is not over." pic.twitter.com/DY75gIqrsg

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 21, 2022

Prime Faggot Justin Trudeau announced Monday that although the blockades have been broken and most of the protesters dispersed, he’s going to go ahead and leave martial law in place indefinitely.

If I were to guess, I would guess that the plan is to never repeal the act, and then just come out and say “these armies of militarized police are being removed from the streets,” without mentioning that the martial law measures remain in force.

He is going to have to use the martial law measures to hunt down the protesters, he has to use those measures to freeze bank accounts and track and trace everyone who opposed him. So it’s needed long after the last truck is towed and the last protester is run over with a horse.

And at that point, why not just leave it in place indefinitely?

Politicians always view restrictions on their power as the ultimate nuisance, so any excuse to remove those restrictions will always be used.

It isn’t enough for Megatron to simply kill Optimus Prime and destroy the Autobots.

The Decepticons are intent on total conquest of the entire earth.

]]> Megatron Uses Stun Grenades and Pepper Spray Against Freedom Convoy, Tows Trucks https://www.anglinarchive.com/2022/02/20/megatron-uses-stun-grenades-and-pepper-spray-against-freedom-convoy-tows-trucks/ Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Canadian police used pepper spray and stun grenades in a final push to clear the capital of trucks and demonstrators who have occupied the downtown core of Ottawa for more than three weeks to protest against pandemic restrictions https://t.co/nQKv7FFKZY pic.twitter.com/Bwd3t9NhLC

— Reuters (@Reuters) February 19, 2022

Well, the show in Canada seems to be wrapping up.

I do believe that if they had competent leadership – instead of shill leadership that sold them out – they could have held their ground without using violence. But they didn’t have any such leadership.

So the military – oh, sorry, I mean “militarized police” – are being used to clear them out, as would be the case in some fantastical evil dictatorship that the US complains about which doesn’t actually even exist.

Russia didn’t do this to protesters. Belarus didn’t do this to protesters. They did something comparable, I guess, but not anywhere near as extreme – and they didn’t freeze everyone’s bank accounts and threaten to put every participant in prison.

The only thing you can really compare this to in recent memory is when our great ally General Sisi of Egypt gunned down an entire square of protesters. But actually, even he didn’t hunt people down after the massacre and freeze their bank accounts.

RT:

Canadian police on Saturday used pepper spray and stun grenades, and made dozens of arrests as they cleared demonstrators from the street in front of parliament, where they have been camping for more than three weeks to protest against pandemic restrictions.

A total of 170 arrests have been made in two days, Ottawa’s interim police chief, Steve Bell, told reporters. Police by afternoon had dispersed the main portion of the blockade in front of parliament and the prime minister’s office.

After nightfall, police sent a message on Twitter to demonstrators saying: “Get out of the cold and cease further unlawful activity” or risk arrest.

City crews were now engaged in cleaning up and towing away remaining vehicles, Bell told a news conference. But other pockets around the city had yet to be cleared, and there was a risk that demonstrators might change location, he said.

“We are aware of protesters leaving the parliamentary precinct moving to surrounding neighborhoods. We are not going anywhere until you have your streets back,” Bell said, addressing Ottawa citizens.

 Using bullhorns, police warned the crowd to disperse or face arrest. For a second day, police also urged protesters to remove young children from the area.

“This is dangerous and is putting young children at risk,” Bell said.

Protest organizers for the so-called Freedom Convoy said they had asked trucks to withdraw because of what they called heavy-handed police tactics, and many trucks did exit the downtown core on Saturday. Fifty-three vehicles have been towed, police said.

Officers smashed vehicle windows to arrest people locked inside. Some of those arrested on Saturday wore body armor and had smoke grenades and other fireworks in their bags and vehicles, police said.

Police confirmed the use of stun grenades and pepper spray. Protesters threw smoke canisters, but no tear gas has been used, police said.

As part of the ongoing protests, several border blockades had been put in place in recent weeks, but all had reopened until Saturday, when demonstrators again closed the Pacific Coast Highway border crossing south of Vancouver.

Many of the main organizers in Ottawa have been taken into custody, and some have reportedly left. On Saturday, organizers said on Twitter they were “shocked at the abuses of power by the law enforcement in Ottawa” and so had “asked our truckers to move from Parliament Hill to avoid further brutality.”

The protest organizers said protesters had been “horse-trampled” on Friday, which police deny.

“We hear your concern for people on the ground after the horses dispersed a crowd. Anyone who fell got up and walked away. We’re unaware of any injuries,” police said on Twitter.

Yep.

No injuries.

This is a totally peaceful and kind brutal military police crackdown on a peaceful protest.

The difference in democracy is that when someone runs over an old woman on a mobility scooter with a horse, she does not suffer any injuries.

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