Judge tosses motion to dismiss proposed class-action lawsuit against convoy participants

Published by: Ottawa Citizen
Published on: February 6, 2024
By Aedan Helmer

Downtown Ottawa residents and business owners who launched a proposed class-action lawsuit against organizers of the 2022 convoy protest moved one step closer to having their day in court as a judge tossed a defence motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

“There is sufficient basis to conclude that the plaintiffs have a meritorious case,” Superior Court Justice Calum MacLeod said in his ruling, released Monday.

“There is evidence that certain plaintiffs were subjected to what they contend to have been extreme amounts of noise, horn honking, incessant diesel fumes and other pollution, blockage of the streets and intimidation.

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Lawsuit against convoy organizers moves forward

Published February 6, 2024

Published by: CBC News
Published on: February 6, 2024
By David Fraser

There is evidence that certain plaintiffs were subjected to what they contend to have been extreme amounts of noise, horn honking, incessant diesel fumes and other pollution, blockage of the streets and intimidation. There is evidence that plaintiffs had difficulty accessing their properties and that business was disrupted, reservations cancelled, and revenue negatively impacted.

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Far-Right Convoy Groups Plan to Occupy Canadian Police Stations Until Government Officials are Arrested

Published January 23, 2024

Published by: PressProgress
Published on: January 23, 2024
By Luke LeBrun

Members of far-right convoy groups are holding private meetings where they are developing an ambitious and unorthodox plan to occupy police stations in cities across Canada in order to pressure police into arresting government officials.

The “Team Lead” for the plan is Dana Metcalfe, an organizer of the original Freedom Convoy who is currently facing criminal harassment charges after staging a “surprise convoy” to the home of the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.

On a Zoom call Monday night, Metcalfe was joined by over 100 others, including several leaders of the “Save the Children Convoy,” a group influenced by sovereign citizen and QAnon rhetoric that also planned arrests of politicians and police officers and has since established a rural basecamp near Ottawa.

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Conspiracy theories are popular in Canada, especially among conservatives: poll

Published December 3, 2023

Published by: CTV News / The Canadian Press
Published on: December 3, 2023
By Sarah Ritchie

The Earth is flat. We have been secretly contacted by intelligent beings from other planets. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did not land on the moon in 1969. They may sound like bizarre statements, but a new poll suggests a sizable number of Canadians believe in these and other conspiracy theories.

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Fact Check: Iceland has not banned COVID vaccines

Published December 1, 2023

Published by: Reuters
Published on: December 1, 2023
By Reuters Fact Check

A headline shared online falsely claims that Iceland has banned COVID-19 vaccines and cites sudden deaths for which there is no evidence, according to the Icelandic national health authority.

Iceland has not banned COVID vaccines and “there are no soaring sudden deaths,” Guðrún Aspelund, chief epidemiologist at the Icelandic Directorate of Health, told Reuters in a Nov. 29 email.

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B.C. woman sentenced to 18 months probation for coughing at grocery employee during pandemic

Published July 26, 2023

Published by: CTV News
Published on: July 26, 2023
By Todd Coyne

A British Columbia judge has sentenced a Vancouver Island woman to 18 months of probation for deliberately coughing in the face of a grocery store employee and shoving her shopping cart into another worker during the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19 et climat : Contrer les mécanismes du déni par un vaccin démocratique

Published August 22, 2020

Published by: L’actualité
Published on: August 22, 2020
By Karel Mayrand

Whether it’s about COVID or the climate, conspiracy theories are the sign of a deep evil: the weakening of democracy.

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