Tag: Canada trucker convoy

DHS Official Defends Monitoring Trucker Protests, Linking Terrorism to Misinfo

Recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) decisions to monitor trucker protests and link domestic terrorism to misinformation have prompted backlash from some conservatives and civil libertarians, but DHS Counterterrorism Coordinator John Cohen defended his department’s actions at a Feb. 15 online event. The DHS’s Feb. 7 bulletin warned of a heightened terrorism threat because of…


MyPillow CEO Donates Thousands of Pillows to Trucker Convoy in Canada

Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of MyPillow, is donating thousands of pillows to Canadian truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Ottawa—as he praised the movement dubbed “Freedom Convoy” for all the work they have done. “In Canada, they have backed off on some of the mandates,” Lindell said. “The truckers are gaining. It is…


Freedom Convoy Trucker Organizers Say They Are Receiving Overwhelming Support

The coordinator of the Canadian Freedom Convoy 2022, Benjamin Dichter, and one of the organizers behind the U.S. trucker Convoy to Save America, Denby Melisha Morgan, said they have been overwhelmed by people’s support for their efforts to end mandates and restore personal liberties. “The response has been amazing and overwhelming, and something I never…


Freedom Convoy: The Canadian Blue-Collar Revival

Commentary A blue-collar revival  is afoot, the likes of which this country has never seen. The Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa personifies the frustrations of Canada’s  blue-collar workforce. When the pandemic was raging these folks manned our hospitals, grocery stores, and critical infrastructure. They were the heroes of the pandemic. Two years later, those who…


Legacy Media’s Slanted Coverage of Trucker Protest Is Reprehensible

Commentary As far as large protests go, the Truckers for Freedom protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa has gone remarkably well. Thousands of upset people have converged in one spot and demonstrated with no reports of violence or vandalism. No clashes with police, no windows smashed. If you watched nothing but legacy media coverage of…


The Winter of Our Discontent: Truckers’ Convoy Seeking Return of Liberty Elicits Hope, Amasses Support

Commentary Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York The opening lines of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” express the villainous intent of the twisted and opportunistic Duke of Gloucester, of the House of York, to seize the crown from his brother’s son and legitimate heir through deceit and treachery….


Trucker Convoy Is Making History

Commentary It was a long time in coming, but we are now seeing a large and widespread protest effort in opposition to government pandemic mandates. As restrictions and mandates drag on, it was inevitable that large numbers of people would eventually start to organize and push back. Who would have thought that the protest would…