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Eight Ottawa residents are scheduled to testify in the trial of Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, according to a decision made on Wednesday by the presiding judge. 

The trial of Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber commenced on Tuesday morning in an Ottawa courthouse. Lich and Barber have been charged with mischief, obstructing police, counselling others to commit mischief and intimidation. 

Ottawa Police Service leadership singled out a detective because she opposed Covid mandates and was critical of the vaccine, and even forbid her from discussing Covid at work, according to evidence and testimony provided during Detective Helen Grus’ discreditable conduct tribunal, which recessed Friday.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre reacted to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle Wednesday by accusing former Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino of lying on behalf of Trudeau and calling for the prime minister to step down. 

In an attempt to revive decreasing popularity and embed the Liberal government with fresh faces ahead of a return to Parliament this fall, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his new picks for a cabinet on Wednesday. 

Freedom Convoy trucker Harold Jonker has been released on bail without conditions and will return to court in Ottawa on June 7.

The Liberals have offered up amendments to their sweeping firearms legislation, Bill C-21. Rod Giltaca of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights joins The Andrew Lawton Show to weigh in.

A Freedom Convoy trucker has been told to turn himself in to the Ottawa Police Service as he awaits four criminal charges.

CBC President Catherine Tait criticized Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre's pledge to defund the CBC due to allegations of biased journalism.

The Trudeau government’s online censorship bill passed the final stage of voting in the Senate and received royal assent and became law.