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Truckers sit out Canada's "Freedom Convoy" anti-vax protest

Pundits and organizers predicted tens to hundreds of thousands would participate. Around a thousand truckers showed up.

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Carl Beijer
Jan 30, 2022
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Mainstream media outlets have spent this weekend reporting on a so-called “Freedom Convoy” of trucks that rolled into Ottawa in protest of government measures to fight Covid. Read the coverage in The New York Times, Reuters, Fox News, and The Toronto Star and you’ll read all about protesters lining the streets, snarled traffic, and general chaos in Cana…

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