Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski has been found guilty of mischief for encouraging truckers to continue their blockade of the Coutts Canada–United States border crossing during the Freedom Convoy protest, a Lethbridge judge has ruled. “Mr. Pawlowski intended to incite the audience to continue the blockade,” said Justice Gordon Krinke in delivering his decision on May 2. Pawlowski…

A Calgary pastor is expected to learn today whether he will be found guilty for his participation in a convoy protest last year that blocked Alberta’s main border crossing into the United States. Crown prosecutors say Artur Pawlowski’s impassioned speech to the truckers in Coutts, Alta., in February 2022 fanned the flames of unrest and…

Tamara Lich, the grandmother from Medicine Hat, Alberta, who became the face of the Freedom Convoy protest, has written an autobiographical book about her journey. “Hold the Line: My story from the heart of the Freedom Convoy,” was published on April 18. Before being released to the public, however, it was extensively reviewed by Lich’s…

The Ontario government is appealing the acquittal of a grandfather charged with mischief and police obstruction, after police accused him of providing gas in jerry cans to Freedom Convoy protestors in Ottawa in February 2022. Allen Remley, a 70-year-old grandfather of 16 and father of four who lives near Guelph, was found not guilty of…

The court has acquitted an Ontario grandfather charged with mischief and police obstruction, after police accused him of providing gas in jerrycans to protesters who attended the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa in early 2022. His lawyer, Jim Karahalios, said he believes it is the first acquittal on criminal charges of any individual associated with…

Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has rejected an offer by the federal government to take over a section of Wellington Street that runs past Parliament Hill with the aim of “maintaining the current road closure” in the aftermath of the Freedom Convoy protest. In a written response on April 6, Sutcliffe reminded Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek…

A lawyer for the Attorney General argued in court on April 5 that civil liberties’ lawyers were engaging in “revisionist history” by asserting that the Freedom Convoy was under control when cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act to quell the protest last winter. “You’ve heard from my friends that the situation was getting under control by…

A lawyer for the Canadian Constitution Foundation argued Tuesday in Federal Court that the Liberal government needed more supporting information to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy protests last winter. “Cabinet’s determination that the protests and blockades were threats to the security of Canada was unreasonable, because it had insufficient evidence…

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and other civil liberties groups argued in a federal court Monday that the government did not have sound statutory grounds to invoke the Emergencies Act to deal with the Freedom Convoy protests. “It was important to know if the legal threshold required to invoke the Emergencies Act was met,…

Months after Freedom Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller accused an Enterprise Canada employee of carrying a Nazi flag at the Ottawa trucker protest, the company announced it has resolved its defamation suit against Miller over the comments. During the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC)—which was tasked with determining the validity of the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies…