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In an interview on CTV’s Question Period with Evan Solomon, Conservative interim leader Candice Bergen challenged the legacy media’s claims about the Freedom Convoy. 

Horizon Ottawa, a progressive organization that lobbies for left-leaning municipal policies, is calling for a strong police response to upcoming freedom events in the nation’s capital – while also supporting the Defund the Police movement.

Freedom rallies are returning to Ottawa this summer for the arrival of Canada Armed Forces veteran James Topp and for Canada Day.

Conservative leadership candidate Roman Baber and PPC leader Maxime Bernier have confirmed that they will be joining Canadian Armed Forces veteran James Topp on his nationwide march to Ottawa in protest of Covid-19 mandates. 

Independent Irish Senator Sharon Keogan pointed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act to freeze the assets of Freedom Convoy protestors and their supporters as a stark abuse of government power. 

Freedom Convoy spokesperson Benjamin Dichter has published an email he received from Scotiabank's chief executive officer apologizing for the "frustration and inconvenience" of the account freezes authorized by Justin Trudeau's Emergencies Act orders. Dichter joins The Andrew Lawton Show live to respond to the apology email.

Crown lawyers want to see Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich sent back to jail for accepting an award from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms

A Jan. 27 directive by the Department of National Defence stated that Canadian Armed Forces equipment and personnel were to avoid the protest and that Royal Canadian Air Force planes were not to fly in the airspace directly above the demonstrations. 

On the heels of a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, opponents of Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre has denounced “white replacement theory” after opponents accused him of supporting conspiracy theorist Pat King. 

Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Jean Charest is claiming the Freedom Convoy “terrorized” and “laid siege to” Ottawa, and that his rival Pierre Poilievre “appeals to the fringe minority.”