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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador just gave a nearly 30-minute long answer to a question at the trilateral news conference, while Biden and Trudeau basically stared at their shoes

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@btaplatt

3 years

Convoyers have put up a tent at the war memorial now. Police on site trying to negotiate its removal. A resident walks by with his dog, angrily asks one officer why they haven’t taken it down yet: “This isn’t a campground”

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3 years

I still can’t quite believe that police board meeting today. Asked multiple times what the plan is for the extremely well-organized group operating with impunity in Canada’s capital, the police chief’s answer was: “Well, society has to solve it.” I’m only barely paraphrasing.

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@btaplatt

3 years

Farewell to the Confederation Park Shack. It’s been loaded onto a truck.

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@btaplatt

3 years

Ottawa Citizen reporter gets parking ticket while covering the semi-truck blockade of downtown Ottawa

Blair Crawford

@GetBAC

3 years

Good to know ⁦ @ottawacity ⁩ is still handing out parking tickets. I did deserve it, staying 3 hours in a 2-hour zone while covering the 5th day of the protest convoy.

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@btaplatt

3 years

The consistent pattern over the past 3 weeks has been that every time police give the convoyers an inch, they take a mile. And park semis on it.

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@btaplatt

3 years

I’ve been told by finance officials the Emergencies Act banking measures do not apply retroactively. Only activities after the regs were published on Tuesday, Feb 15 are subject to the bank measures. So either there’s been a mistake, or there’s more to this case.

Mark Strahl, MP

@markstrahl

3 years

Briane is a single mom from Chilliwack working a minimum wage job. She gave $50 to the convoy when it was 100% legal. She hasn’t participated in any other way. Her bank account has now been frozen. This is who Justin Trudeau is actually targeting with his Emergencies Act orders.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

I've walked around a lot today, and so far the injunction against air horns has been stunningly successful. Just one guy outside Parliament occasionally blasting his; otherwise, it's dead silent. I find it baffling the city hasn't been in court from the start seeking injunctions.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

1 year

Haven’t seen this many American flags in downtown Ottawa since the convoy was here

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@btaplatt

4 months

Bill Morneau, Trudeau’s finance minister from 2015-2020, slammed the capital gains tax raise today. “This was very clearly something that while I was there, we resisted. We resisted it for a very specific reason: concerned about the growth of the country.”

Trudeau’s Ex-Finance Minister Criticizes Capital Gains Tax Hike

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s former finance minister said he rejected the idea of hiking the capital gains tax while in office due to concerns it would stunt Canada’s economic growth, and called...

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

Just took a walk through the parliamentary precinct, and safe to say tonight's protest has fizzled. On Rideau a few people are still yelling mean things at police for their livestreams, but the crowd is already sparse and thinning out.

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@btaplatt

3 years

It’s a nightmare for any retail or restaurant worker in downtown Ottawa right now. It’s either close your doors, or allow the store to be overrun by aggressive, maskless convoyers with no guarantee of police intervention if fights break out.

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@btaplatt

3 years

Still can’t get over this. Reporter shows protesters stockpiling fuel in park near parliament. Federal agency overseeing park says: “We can confirm that the cannisters have been removed from the site.” Reporter shows canisters now covered loosely by tarp.

Mackenzie Gray

@Gray_Mackenzie

3 years

This is not true. I am at Confederation Park right now and all the propane and fuel we got video of earlier is still here. There is just a tarp on top of it some of it now #cdnpoli #ottnews #TruckerConvoy2020

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@btaplatt

2 years

My Bloomberg colleagues clocked AMLO’s answer at 27 minutes, 38 seconds

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@btaplatt

2 years

AMLO’s 28-Minute Monologue Had Biden and Trudeau Staring at Feet, @MddeH reports

Mexican President’s 28-Minute Monologue Had Biden, Trudeau Staring at Feet

The question was about migration. But Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had a lot to say on just about everything else.

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

Quebec really punches above its weight in the federation for producing ethical conundrums

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@btaplatt

2 years

Chrystia Freeland, testifying to MPs about the convoy blockade of the Ambassador Bridge: "It was clear to me that with each passing hour, our economic reputation with the United States as a reliable trading partner and as a reliable investment destination was being damaged."

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

The point has to be made over and over so it’s not brushed over: this was not just a protest outside parliament. People were blockaded in their own neighbourhoods for three weeks.

Sarah Sears

@iamSas

3 years

This morning I met Jean, who I think speaks for many downtown Ottawa residents

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@btaplatt

1 year

Trudeau was asked today about CBC being labeled "government-funded media" on Twitter, and in his answer you can see the clear attempt to set up a larger context where Poilievre and the Conservatives are on the side of American tech giants

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

Staff who have departed Twitter today: - chief information security officer - chief privacy officer - chief compliance officer - global head of safety - global head of ad sales

Musk Warns Twitter Bankruptcy Possible as Senior Executives Exit

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

Chrystia Freeland's full answer today when asked why Canada hasn't sanctioned Roman Abramovich: "We are looking carefully at the holdings of all Russian oligarchs and Russian companies inside Canada. We're reviewing them, and everything is on the table."

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

I talked to one driver with a sign, our conversation went like this: "So you're not worried about the Emergencies Act?" "There is no Emergencies Act." "There is, the orders were enacted yesterday." "No they weren't." "They were." "No. Look it up." "I did look it up." "No."

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@btaplatt

2 years

Chrystia Freeland says the report about her urging John Tory not to resign is “entirely untrue and entirely inaccurate”

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@btaplatt

3 years

A new flag on a semi blockading the street outside Parliament

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@btaplatt

3 years

These “No Trespassing” signs are on a bunch of semis, at least a dozen. They warn that any officer who tries to enter the truck without a warrant may be charged, arrested and prosecuted, and that “the occupiers may use force against you.” (The grammar doesn’t always make sense)

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

Truly impressed by this guy today

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

It will be interesting to see how fast this gets action. $100K fines and jail time is no joke, but *depends on actual enforcement.* By this point I think I've pretty much memorized the trucks block-by-block downtown, so it'll quickly be clear if things start moving.

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@btaplatt

3 years

This is kind of amazing: @OccTranspo is keeping an updated map of territory held by government and rebel forces in central Ottawa, on some blocks complete with descriptions of each parked truck

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

There seems to be quite a few examples this morning of Ottawa residents blocking convoy vehicles by just standing in front of them.

Trish

@trishchang

3 years

At the bottom of Elgin, some counter-protestors blocking a #FluTrucksKlan truck. Police are there. More bodies would probably be helpful. @HorizonOttawa @ArielTroster @SamHersh01

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

Canada will send anti-tank weapon systems and upgraded ammunition to Ukraine, PM Trudeau announces.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

A huge amount of commentary on the Ottawa protest just skips over the fact that tens of thousands of people LIVE downtown, along with hundreds of businesses big and small

David Reevely

@davidreevely

3 years

Democracy means letting Ottawa’s core be clogged until the cloggers decide to leave. Considering how well-staffed the New York Times is in Canada, I’m constantly amazed at how we’re not actual people to the world’s newspaper of record.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

Here's the readout of a Feb. 3 call between Trudeau and Candice Bergen, who'd just taken over as interim CPC leader. Given the theatrics of question period, it's a reminder that politicians take a much different tone with each other in private.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

I should add that banks are making their own decisions, so mistakes are definitely possible. But here’s what I was told verbatim: “If you gave money before [Tuesday] in support of the protests, or what you thought was a legitimate demonstration, you're not captured by the order”

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

@rupasubramanya Whatever you think of your own street, this is an utterly preposterous description of Centretown, where I and thousands of other people live

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

A few people have pointed out this isn't the first time tents have been on site recently:

Dylan Robertson

@withfilesfrom

3 years

A reminder that conspiracy theorists camped out on this site relatively undisturbed July-Oct 2020

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@btaplatt

3 years

Took a walk around. Definitely a different vibe today. Very visible police presence, officers patrolling in small groups. Crowd of protesters has thinned a lot, but the ones still here are digging in. Line of trucks extends far down Wellington.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

A constant theme of the convoy crowd has been their, uh, novel views on how the legal system works. Here’s their statement tonight as they’re apparently being evicted from their “embassy” in downtown Ottawa for not paying rent. The last graf is particularly fun.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

7 months

Since I see people asking, here's the context: Trudeau was listing new CPC candidates. One in Manitoba was an ideologue. Another in Ontario was a party insider. Then he said: "Now Pierre's Poilevre's new candidate in Durham is a twofer. He's both an ideologue and an insider."

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

Police are gone, tent has stayed. A guy on site tells me it’s to keep the monument’s security detail warm and fed. (Remember that after the fence got taken down, convoyers took over watch of the monument.)

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@btaplatt

3 years

I’ve been asked a few times if I think this thread is exaggerating the situation. It’s not. Myself and others here have been increasingly sounding the alarm this week that what’s happening is fundamentally different from other protests. It’s very hard to see a way out.

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@btaplatt

3 years

Quote in here from the convoy's Ontario organizer: "We have a group of constitutional lawyers that have been working with our team...We're getting the rest of our signatures and we're having them compel the government to dissolve government."

Alex Boutilier

@alexboutilier

3 years

Convoy's message muddies closer it gets to capital via @CityNewsKIT

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

I’m beginning to think those “No Trespassing” legal notices taped to the semi windows — where police officers were warned they’d be prosecuted under the Bill of Rights if they entered the truck — may have been ineffective

Thomas Daigle

@thomasdaigle

3 years

Remaining “Freedom Convoy” big rigs are being towed from downtown Ottawa. This one is from Hartland, NB, which is a 900-km drive.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

Snowden spent the first part of the week calling Canada’s government “tyrannical and obscene” for using the Emergencies Act, then went silent over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Edward Snowden

@Snowden

2 years

I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong.

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1 year

Former PM Jean Chrétien has strolled up to the foyer mic to talk to the press ahead of Biden’s address. Asked how he sees the US-Canada relationship these days, he answers in one word: “Good”

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

@Justin_Ling As far as I can tell the only place trucks have actually left is along Albert St, which is all office buildings. This is what Kent St, where all the apartment buildings are, still looked like at 4:30 today.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

Story from @TondaMacC says federal officials urged Ottawa police to not allow trucks to set up in front of Parliament and the Prime Minister’s Office in the first place, but were waved off

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

10 months

Programming note: No more bylines from me for a while, thanks to this little girl who arrived yesterday. See you all in 2024. (Though maybe not on Twitter)

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

I know a bunch of people now shelling out hundreds of dollars to buy rapid test kits for themselves. Our governments had a full year to build up a supply of tests to make them easily and cheaply available to the public; instead it's this awful last minute scramble.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

A very significant conclusion of the Emergencies Act inquiry: Justice Rouleau finds it was reasonable for the government to believe freezing bank accounts "was necessary to prevent the protests from being financially sustained over the long term"

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

Read this full thread if you want to understand why this is not like a tents-in-a-park encampment. If anything this thread understates the amount of heavy equipment and vehicles that are becoming entrenched all over central Ottawa, including on residential streets.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

A Habs executive says Carey Price was not just unaware of the CCFR's promo code controversy... he was also unaware there even was a Polytechnique shooting😬

Carey Price ignorait l’existence de la tuerie de Polytechnique Montréal

Le Canadien de Montréal n'a pas l'intention de réagir à la déclaration de son joueur vedette.

ici.radio-canada.ca

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@btaplatt

2 years

It's not an official scandal in Canada until a former Supreme Court justice is hired to manage the fallout

Hockey Canada

@HockeyCanada

2 years

The Honourable Thomas Cromwell, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, will lead an independent review of Hockey Canada’s governance structure and systems. READ MORE ➡️

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

People living in downtown Ottawa are on edge tonight, expecting imminent police action against the convoyers. I know quite a few being told not to come into work tomorrow. Not sure what to expect, but police would have a very hard time with the crowds if they wait until Friday.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

So now you have the police handing out flyers literally saying "You are committing a crime and will be arrested if you stay," and people here don't believe it. This is what 3 weeks of police inaction has created.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

Some protesters have moved on from holocaust comparisons

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@btaplatt

3 years

BREAKING: O'Toole loses caucus vote, is out as CPC leader, source says. 73 votes against I'm told.

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1 year

BREAKING: To secure the massive new VW battery plant, Canada signed an unprecedented contract with the company to offer up to $13 billion in production subsidies over 10 years, effectively matching the U.S. incentives on offer

Canada Matched Biden Subsidies to Win Volkswagen Battery Plant

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government agreed to subsidies that may top C$13 billion ($9.7 billion) over a decade to land a Volkswagen AG electric-vehicle battery plant, the company’s first...

www.bloomberg.com

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@btaplatt

4 months

At a news conference in BC, Poilievre was asked a simple question: Would your government cancel the Trudeau government's capital gains tax raise? He said there isn't any legislation yet on it, and then went into a lengthy speech that did not answer the question.

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@btaplatt

2 years

There will be a lot more people coming tomorrow, of course. But lo and behold, the police have a plan and so far appear to be successfully executing it.

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@btaplatt

2 years

Freeland on further sanctions: "If we are truly determined to stand with Ukraine, if the stakes in this fight are as high as I believe them to be, we have to be honest with ourselves -- I have to be honest with Canadians -- that there could be some collateral damage in Canada."

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

What court injunction? We are back to a constant din of air horns on Wellington. Multiple trucks doing it.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

1 year

This will probably be a key election debate. Poilievre will argue Trudeau is trying to censor and control the internet, and your right to free speech. Trudeau will argue Poilievre is taking the side of American tech giants against Canadian culture/institutions. Wheeeee...

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

The Emergencies Act requires a public inquiry to kick off within 60 days of the emergency ending and a report to parliament within a year, so at least we won't have years of squabbling over that part of it. (This may be famous last words.)

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@btaplatt

2 years

Freeland says she was "deeply, deeply concerned that these illegal blockades and this illegal occupation would provoke a whole new wave of protectionism and deeply erode our trading relationship with the United States. That was a real economic threat."

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2 years

When asked about Evraz steel (Abramovich holds large stake), Freeland said its TMX pipeline delivery was completed in 2021. Then added: "I have said, and I really want to emphasize, everything is on the table and we are looking carefully at the holdings of oligarchs in Canada."

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@btaplatt

3 years

A small group of residents is still guarding the top of Metcalfe against convoy vehicles entering downtown. (That building you see straight ahead is Ottawa Police HQ)

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@btaplatt

2 years

A convoy protester is convicted in Ontario court for resisting arrest during the police clearance operation in Ottawa. He tried using "sovereign citizen" arguments at trial that the judge had no jurisdiction over him, it didn't work out.

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@btaplatt

3 years

RCMP charge four men with plotting to murder officers in connection with Coutts border protest

The arrests began after RCMP tactical officers raided two camper trailers and a mobile home on 1st Avenue North in Coutts shortly after midnight on Monday

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

We might as well appoint the public inquiry judge now so they can get started on the work

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@btaplatt

3 years

Just a reminder to please disregard anyone — whether for or against the convoy — who is certain about what it’s like in downtown Ottawa right now based entirely on what they’ve seen on Twitter.

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1 year

(Bloomberg) -- Canada’s population grew 2.7% in 2022, the fastest expansion among advanced economies and on par with many African nations. The country added a record 1,050,110 people over a one-year period to Jan. 1, bringing the total population to 39,566,248.

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@btaplatt

3 years

Compliance with the injunction is gone on Wellington. Air horns a-blasting. I can still hear them blocks away now.

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@btaplatt

3 years

Latest Ottawa Police release: “Overnight, demonstrators exhibited aggressive behaviour towards law enforcement including refusing to follow directions, overwhelming officers, and otherwise subverting enforcement efforts.” Total arrests so far have gone from 25 to…26 today.

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@btaplatt

1 year

Canada's housing minister Sean Fraser says the massive increase in international students over the past decade has had a "pronounced" impact on housing markets. Asked if Canada should cap int'l student visas, he says: "I think that's one of the options that we ought to consider."

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@btaplatt

1 year

News alert: I can confirm reports that Trudeau and Biden had "friend-chip" ice cream last night from @MooShuIceCream . Maple-flavoured, with chocolate chips and marshmallows.

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@btaplatt

2 years

She added: "Of course, that is much, much, much more true for our European partners than it is for us."

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@btaplatt

3 years

Some truckers are trying to keep up a ruckus going by revving their engines. I've seen one person with a bullhorn. But it's nothing compared to the absolute barrage of noise the air horns made.

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@btaplatt

2 years

Hard to overstate how different the police response is this time

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@btaplatt

3 years

There seem to be some vehicles moving into a blocking position on Wellington, such as this trailer. Pat King is here.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

Meanwhile, Elgin Street's busier with the bar crowd than Wellington is with convoyors. Someone with a tuba was playing the Darth Vader theme. Another woman chanted "hold the line," which is much less effective when there's no trucks around.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

In my view, the main reason we haven’t had any violence in Ottawa so far is that residents have largely avoided the convoyers, hoping police would clear out the blockades. It will ratchet up the pressure here hugely if there are confrontations.

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@btaplatt

3 years

"LaFace made the comments during an interview on Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke in which he admits he is not a trucker himself. 'No, I am a regular Canadian with some very exceptional organizational skills,' LaFace said."

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@btaplatt

3 years

The number of trucks that have left this week is negligible. On some blocks they've been repositioned to making towing harder. From what I can tell, people still here are a mix of those spoiling for a fight, and those totally disbelieving of the legal & financial peril they're in

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@btaplatt

2 years

Probably not what you would call effective issues management here

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@btaplatt

3 years

A huge line of police trucks is back downtown as reports say there’s an emergency at the Rideau Centre mall

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@btaplatt

3 years

Also apparently on Bronson:

Joel Harden

@JoelHardenONDP

3 years

Enough. The beginning of the end of the #OttawaSiege starts now. Come join us at Bank/Riverside and Bronson/Fifth. We are peaceful but also fed up.

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3 years

Downtown Ottawa felt like a tinderbox when I was walking home. Police everywhere, but protesters acting like they own the streets (because they do.) I hope things stay calm, but this feels like it will be a very tough weekend.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

Two of the most prominent convoy organizers — Chris Barber and Tamara Lich — have now both been arrested tonight.

Joe Warmington

@joe_warmington

3 years

BREAKING— #FreedomConvoy organizer Tamara Lich has been arrested by ⁦ @OttawaPolice ⁩

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3 years

Okay, so police have made substantial progress at Bank and Laurier. One side had been fully blocked in by semis and other trucks, but it’s clear around here right now. Police tweeted earlier they got 10 trucks to leave this area (unclear where they went.)

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@btaplatt

3 years

A shocking thread on what appears to be a failed attempt to torch an apartment building in downtown Ottawa

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3 years

This is the other thing about the occupation right now: There are jerry cans of fuel *everywhere*, being carted through residential neighbourhoods, down main streets, right up in front of parliament and the PMO. All to keep the boxed-in big rigs running.

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@btaplatt

2 years

Freeland on the emergency measures: "The point here was to freeze, to suspend, it was in no way to confiscate." She says she wants to emphasize that the freezing was done by banks and police. "These were not political decisions, and in no way were small donors focused on."

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@btaplatt

1 year

Utterly bananas story about a sitting Canadian Supreme Court judge allegedly getting into a drunken altercation at an Arizona resort, and getting socked in the face by a U.S. Marine Corps veteran

High court justice Russell Brown under investigation after altercation at Arizona resort

vancouversun.com

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@btaplatt

3 years

This location happens to be…directly outside Ottawa Police headquarters

Mackenzie Gray

@Gray_Mackenzie

3 years

At the corner of Elgin and Argyle, counter protestors tried to stop some pickup trucks from getting through. One car got through the crowd and pushed a counter protester forward before stopping. Limited urgency from the cops to handle the situation #cdnpoli #ottnews

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3 years

Another Conservative MP, Michael Chong, calls for the convoyers to end their blockade and go home. (In a caucus of 119, that’s maybe 5 or 6 who have done so publicly that I’m aware of.)

Glen McGregor

@glen_mcgregor

3 years

But, "It is time for the protesters to go home... Their concerns have been heard loud and clear.... In a democratic society the rule of law must be upheld."

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

PM Justin Trudeau announces he's travelling to the UK, Latvia, Germany and Poland next week to meet with allies on Ukraine/Russia measures.

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

Not ideal to have to release a statement clarifying you were unaware of the swastika flying behind you while on TV

Michael Cooper, MP

@MichaelCooperMP

3 years

Statement from MP Michael Cooper:

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

2 years

In Saint John, Chrystia Freeland was asked about new LNG infrastructure. She made the strongest comments yet from a Canadian official on getting an east coast terminal built, saying "it is a political responsibility for us as a country to support our allies with energy security"

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Brian Platt

@btaplatt

3 years

Another one in a different location: