After so-called 'Freedom Convoy' protesters occupied the streets of Ottawa for 3 weeks, police mounted a large-scale enforcement operation on Friday.
The protests sparked anger and frustration amongst Ottawa residents and companies have closed as elements of the nation’s capital had been seized by the occupation.
Elsewhere within the nation, protesters blocked border crossings in a number of provinces, however these demonstrations had been disbanded earlier than the crackdown in Ottawa.
CTVNews.ca seems to be on the key occasions and dates that led to the demonstration.
JAN. 14, 2022
A GoFundMe fundraiser is began for the “Freedom Convoy 2022” by organizers Tamara Lich and BJ Dichter
JAN. 15, 2022
The trucker vaccine mandate comes into pressure that requires all travellers to be totally vaccinated earlier than crossing the Canada-U.S. border
In a press release, convoy organizers say they got here to the choice that the federal government “crossed a line” with the COVID-19 vaccine passport and vaccine mandates, saying they plan to journey to Ottawa
JAN. 22, 2022
The U.S. begins barring unvaccinated truck drivers from Canada and Mexico because the nation’s vaccine mandate comes into impact
JAN. 23, 2022
The Canadian Trucking Alliance condemns the deliberate protests 24 hours earlier than a convoy of truckers left British Columbia en path to Ottawa
JAN. 24, 2022
One of many arms of the convoy passes by Regina
JAN. 25, 2022
One other convoy section passes by Kenora, Ont.
GoFundMe suspends the “Freedom Convoy 2022” fundraiser for the primary time to offer organizers time to supply a plan for the distribution of funds
JAN. 26, 2022
Segments of the convoy enter Ontario from the Manitoba border
JAN. 27, 2022
GoFundMe releases an preliminary $1 million to the truckers from their fundraiser
A section of the convoy passes by the Larger Toronto Space
JAN. 28, 2022
A brand new convoy passes by Quebec and plans to go to Parliament Hill for Jan. 29
Nova Scotia bans gatherings alongside the Trans-Canada Freeway between the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Border in relation to the convoy protests
Some members of the convoy start arriving in Ottawa and blocking main streets within the downtown core
JAN. 29, 2022
The primary rally for the convoy takes place
Police estimate roughly 3,000 vans and as much as 15,000 protesters took half
Hateful and anti-Semitic imagery is seen within the crowd, together with yellow stars, the Accomplice flag and swastikas
Widespread condemnation is voiced on a few of the protesters behaviours, together with harassing a homeless shelter, dancing on the Nationwide Battle Memorial, placing flags and indicators on the Terry Fox statue, and public urination on nationwide monuments
Former U.S. president Donald Trump praises the convoy in Ottawa whereas addressing supporters in Texas
JAN. 30, 2022
The Ottawa Police Service launches a prison investigation into the desecration of the Nationwide Battle Memorial and the Terry Fox statue
A blockade on the Coutts, Alta., border crossing shuts down entry to the U.S.-Canada border in solidarity with the primary convoy in Ottawa
JAN. 31, 2022
Parliament resumes after the vacations
Ottawa paramedics verify protesters threw rocks at an ambulance and used racial slurs towards a paramedic, resulting in a police escort being offered for all additional requires security
Protesters host speeches on Parliament Hill
Trudeau delivers fiery remarks in a nationwide handle saying “we aren't intimidated”
FEB. 1, 2022
Ottawa police arrange a hotline for crimes associated to the protest, together with hate crimes, and introduced two individuals had been arrested and charged in reference to incidents that came about over the Jan. 29 weekend
Ottawa residents report being challenged, harassed and threatened with violence by protesters
FEB. 2, 2022
Freedom Convoy organizers difficulty a press release saying they plan to stay in Ottawa “so long as it takes” for all COVID-19 mandates to finish
Ottawa Police Service Deputy Chief Steve Bell says at a press briefing the remaining protesters are “extremely unstable” and that actions have shifted away from a protest to an occupation
GoFundMe suspends the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser for a second time
FEB. 3, 2022
Public Security Minister Marco Mendicino introduced the RCMP has accepted all requests from the Ottawa Police Service to handle the convoy
Convoy organizers maintain a press convention the place they decried being painted as “racists, misogynists…and even terrorists”
One of many leaders of the convoy, Tamara Lich, says by a lawyer that the convoy has offered GoFundMe with plans for the funds raised
A second blockade in Alberta in Milk River seems, near the one close to Coutts
FEB. 4, 2022
Former U.S. president Donald Trump expresses assist for the trucker convoy, calls Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “far left lunatic”
GoFundMe takes down the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser web page, saying it violated its phrases of service. On the time, the fundraiser had reached greater than $10 million
A $9.8 million class-action lawsuit is filed on behalf of downtown Ottawa residents towards the protest over incessant truck honking
Ottawa police announce they're enacting a “surge and include” technique shifting ahead
FEB. 5, 2022
U.S. Republicans promise to research GoFundMe’s choice to tug the plug on the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser
Solidarity protests happen over the weekend in Quebec Metropolis, Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax and New Brunswick
FEB. 6, 2022
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declares a state of emergency
Ottawa police seize greater than 3,000 litres of gasoline from protesters, based on demonstrators
FEB. 7, 2022
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson requests an extra 1,800 officers in a letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Trudeau, calling the protest a “siege”
Ottawa metropolis council votes to ask the province to convey laws to have the ability to cost the protesters for the prices of damages attributable to the demonstrations
A decide grants a 10-day injunction within the class-action lawsuit by Ottawa residents towards the convoy to cease the incessant honking
Trudeau addresses the Home of Commons at an emergency debate requested by NDP Chief Jagmeet Singh
Protesters erect a blockade in Windsor, Ont., on the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Canada to the U.S. by Detroit
Protest organizers say at an “emergency press convention” that they wish to type a coalition of opposition events with the Governor Normal of Canada
FEB. 8, 2022
Ottawa police estimate roughly 500 vans and private automobiles stay within the purple demonstration zone of the downtown core
Liberal MP Joel Lightbound holds a press convention on Parliament Hill talking out towards Canadian COVID-19 insurance policies
A brand new Freedom Convoy fundraiser on the U.S. crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo raises greater than US$6.3 million
Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman says he'll name a particular assembly of council to debate subsequent steps to handle a protest exterior of the Manitoba legislature
Ottawa Police Deputy Chief Bell says practically 25 per cent of the vans encamped on Ottawa streets have youngsters residing in them
The Excessive Fee of India warns its residents residing in or travelling to Canada to "train a excessive diploma of warning" as a result of protests
Public Providers and Procurement Canada and the Parliamentary Protecting Service shut the Centre Block building web site on Parliament Hill, citing the "security and safety" of employees
FEB. 9, 2022
Alberta's proof of vaccination system ends
Demonstrators block the freeway resulting in Coutts, Alta., once more in a single day
The Ottawa Police Service warns protesters that anybody blocking streets within the downtown core could face arrest and have their automobiles seized
The Metropolis of Windsor and native police service request provincial and federal help with the continued blockade on the Ambassador Bridge
Stellantis, maker of Chrysler and Dodge automobiles, and Honda Canada resume operations after curbing manufacturing capability as a result of border delays
Toronto police say they'll shut Queen's Park Circle after social media posts declare there can be a possible demonstration involving "a lot of automobiles"
The New Brunswick authorities pronounces it's going to amend its Emergency Act to ban the blocking of regular site visitors flows on roads and highways, forward of a deliberate convoy in Fredericton
Texas joins calls to research GoFundMe over its elimination of the Freedom Convoy marketing campaign
Federal Liberals suggest increasing the Home public security and nationwide safety committee's examine of the Freedom Convoy's fundraising efforts to incorporate ideologically motivated extremism
FEB. 10, 2022
Manitoba RCMP warn members of the general public to keep away from the world close to the border neighborhood of Emerson after vans and farm tools blocked the worldwide port of entry with the U.S.
Federal Conservatives name for the blockades to finish, current a movement calling on the federal authorities to elevate all federal COVID-19 "mandates and restrictions" by the tip of the month
Public Security Minister Mendicino says the RCMP will ship extra "reinforcements" to finish blockades in Ottawa, Windsor, Ont., and Coutts, Alta.
The workplace of Premier Ford pronounces it efficiently utilized for a court docket order to freeze the distribution of donations raised on GiveSendGo, the corporate responds on Twitter saying, "Canada has completely ZERO jurisdiction" over how the corporate manages its funds
The Metropolis of Winnipeg explores potential court docket motion to take care of a protest on the Manitoba legislature
A college in Steinbach, Man., goes right into a hold-and-secure protocol after a protest towards COVID-19 measures takes place exterior
Ottawa police say their 911 line is flooded with calls, many from the U.S.
A Metropolis of Ottawa planning committee assembly is hacked briefly, with a message showing in the course of the livestream that claims, "OTTAWA POLICE HAS FAILED ITS CITIZENS, Jim Watson has failed us, Sloly has failed us, Trudeau has failed us"
Protesters in Ottawa swear themselves in as "peace officers," vowing to "arrest and detain" anybody they deem as disturbing the peace
Demonstrators carry out a drive-by on the Ottawa airport
Windsor Metropolis Council authorizes steps to hunt a court docket injunction to cease the blockade on the Ambassador Bridge
The Biden administration urges Canada to finish the blockades on the border
Prime Minister Trudeau holds a digital assembly with opposition leaders on the protests
FEB. 11, 2022
The Ontario authorities invokes new emergency measures with a state of emergency geared toward protesters and ending the blockades at a key border crossing within the province, together with a most penalty of $100,000 and as much as a 12 months imprisonment for non-compliance.
An Ontario Superior Courtroom justice grants an injunction that provides protesters till 7 pm to depart the Ambassador Bridge. The bridge between Ontario and Michigan is the busiest Canada-U.S. border crossing
Manitoba pronounces it's going to finish all proof of vaccination necessities and masks mandates by March 15
FEB. 12, 2022
Police start forcibly eradicating protesters from the Ambassador Bridge
Protesters break by an RCMP barricade in Surrey, B.C., resulting in the closure of a U.S. border crossing
Ottawa police type new command centre with RCMP and OPP to handle downtown Ottawa protests
FEB. 13, 2022
The Metropolis of Ottawa and protest leaders attain an settlement to take away vans from residential neighbourhoods
Counter-protesters block convoy automobiles in Ottawa
The RCMP makes arrests at a protest blockade close to the border in Surrey, B.C.
The Ambassador Bridge in Ontario is totally reopened late within the day after first being blockaded by protesters on Feb. 7. Police make 42 arrests and seize 37 automobiles in the course of the two-day operation to clear it. Border blockades proceed in locations like Coutts, Alta. and Emerson, Man.
FEB. 14, 2022
Alberta college students are not required to put on masks in school
Ontario pronounces an upcoming finish to most indoor capability limits, and a March 1 finish to proof of vaccination necessities
A purported hack reveals the identities of 92,000 alleged donors to the Freedom Convoy fundraiser on crowdfunding web site GiveSendGo, which has raised greater than $9.3 million thus far. Fifty-five per cent of donors are within the U.S.
An Ontario decide grants an injunction to implement noise and idling bylaws associated to the continuing protests in Ottawa
RCMP discover weapons, ammunition, high-capacity magazines and physique armour on the Coutts, Alta. border blockade. 13 individuals are arrested
For the primary time in Canadian historical past, the federal authorities invokes the Emergencies Act, which supplies the federal authorities sweeping new powers to revive order and convey the continuing trucker convoy protests and blockades to an finish.
FEB. 15, 2022
Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly resigns, Deputy Chief Bell is known as interim police chief
The federal authorities pronounces eased COVID-19 restrictions. Totally vaccinated travellers will solely want an antigen check end result, fairly than a PCR check end result, with the intention to enter Canada.
The blockade ends at Coutts, Alta. and the Canada Border Providers Company says operations have resumed on the crossing.
Alberta RCMP announce weapon and mischief expenses towards 13 individuals from the Coutts blockade, 4 are charged with conspiracy to commit homicide
FEB. 16, 2022
Ottawa police hand out leaflets to protesters, warning they might be arrested except they depart voluntarily.
The Youngsters's Help Society of Ottawa urges protesters who introduced youngsters to the protest make alternate care preparations within the occasion they're arrested.
Ottawa councillors oust the chair of the Ottawa Police Providers Board.
The Emerson, Man. border crossing reopens after convoy protesters depart with a police escort. The RCMP had assured the protesters that there can be no expenses or arrests towards these on the border.
FEB. 17, 2022
Ottawa police start to make arrests, together with convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, each of whom face expenses of mischief and counselling to commit mischief.
Freeland says some financial institution accounts belonging to people related to the protests have been frozen.
The Ottawa Police Providers Board had bee set to rent former Waterloo police chief Matthew Torigian as the brand new chief of police, however Watson pronounces that Torigian had withdrawn.
FEB. 18, 2022
Ottawa police warn that anybody discovered inside a ‘purple zone’ could also be topic to arrest. Police additionally arrange roughly 100 checkpoints across the secured space.
Police and protesters interact in tense standoffs at instances. Mounted police cost a bunch of protesters close to the Senate in an obvious effort to corral the gang, prompting shocked reactions and a few yelling, "You're trampling us"
Ottawa police accuse protesters of assaulting officers and trying to take away their weapons
Police allege a bicycle was thrown on the toes of one of many horses, leading to a minimum of one arrest
Police announce a complete of greater than 100 arrests, together with excessive profile protest organizers Tamara Lich, Chris Barber and Pat King, and a minimum of 21 automobiles towed
Barber is granted bail
The Home of Commons postpones debate on the Emergencies Act as a result of ongoing police operation
FEB. 19, 2022
Police seem to take a extra aggressive stance with protesters, utilizing pepper spray, deploying an Anti-Riot Weapon ENfield, carrying batons and carrying helmets
Some protesters are arrested with smoke grenades, fireworks and physique armour
Arrests rise to 147, a complete of 53 automobiles are towed
A decide decides to attend till Feb. 22 to resolve whether or not to grant Lich bail
Members of Parliament resume debate on the Emergencies Act, nevertheless, the parliamentary precinct goes right into a "maintain and safe" place
Public Security Minister Marco Mendicino says a minimum of 76 monetary accounts have been frozen because the Emergencies Act got here into impact
FEB. 20, 2022
Authorities in Ottawa clear a lot of the town's downtown of protesters and automobiles
Ottawa police report a minimum of 191 whole arrests associated to the protests and 76 automobiles towed
A complete of 389 expenses are laid thus far, starting from mischief and obstruction to assault of a police officer
Ontario's Particular Investigations Unit says it's going to examine two incidents in Ottawa, one involving a police officer on horseback and the opposite on using the Anti-Riot Weapon ENfield
Ottawa paramedics say, since Feb. 18, 21 individuals have been transported to hospital from the secured space of the downtown with non-life threatening accidents.
Deputy RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme says 206 monetary accounts, 306 entities, 253 Bitcoin orders and an account value $3.8 million that had been linked to the protests have been frozen
Tyson George Billings, who appeared alongside King and others throughout a digital convention the week earlier than, is charged
FEB. 21, 2022
The Home of Commons passes a movement approving using the Emergencies Act, with the New Democrats voting in favour alongside the minority Liberal authorities
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, whereas the federal authorities doesn't wish to hold the Emergencies Act in place "a single day longer" than required, "This state of emergency just isn't over"
Arrests associated to the Ottawa protests rise to 196, with 115 automobiles towed and practically 400 expenses laid
FEB. 22, 2022
A decide denies Lich bail, saying there's a substantial probability she's going to reoffend if launched
An individual carries a Canadian flag on a protracted pole as vans are parked south of a police roadblock on Metcalfe Avenue as a protest towards COVID-19 restrictions that has been marked by gridlock and the sound of truck horns continues into its second week, in Ottawa, on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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