Tag Archives: Freedom

Black Lives Matter YYC hosted its second annual Emancipation Day Picnic Saturday at Calgary’s Lougheed House, but one organizer says the fight for freedom is not over yet. Adora Nwofor, president of BLM YYC, says while many Albertans may celebrate Aug. 1 as Heritage Day, Emancipation Day should be more …

Many protesters involved in the Freedom Convoy and Rolling Thunder protests in Ottawa earlier this year are back in the city, co-ordinating events on Canada Day.  James Topp, a veteran marching across Canada to protest remaining COVID-19 vaccine mandates, ended his journey with his supporters Thursday at the National War Memorial.  …

One of the judges who presided over the court hearings of Freedom Convoy organizers is speaking out after receiving threats considered serious enough to require police intervention, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada and CBC. The judge in question confirmed that supporters of the convoy from Canada and the United States sent several offensive …

Tyson George Billings, a prominent figure in this winter’s Freedom Convoy in Ottawa who is also known as Freedom George, pleaded guilty in court Wednesday to one of several charges against him and has been released from jail. Billings was sentenced to six months of probation and is expected to return to his …

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says she doesn’t believe there was a double standard in the way Mounties policed the Freedom Convoy protests and blockades earlier this year and the tactics used with Indigenous protesters. During a heated exchange in a committee meeting Tuesday night, NDP MP Matthew Green asked about …