{"id":3176,"date":"2022-02-01T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2023-11-20T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T04:57:08","slug":"anti-vaccine-protest-in-canada-spurs-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/anti-vaccine-protest-in-canada-spurs-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-vaccine protest in Canada spurs outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a scene at odds with Canadians\u2019 reputation for niceness and rule-following, thousands of protesters railing against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions descended on the capital over the weekend, deliberately blocking traffic around Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A number carried signs and flags with swastikas.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of Canada\u2019s biggest pandemic protest to date, the demonstrators have found little sympathy in a country where more than 80% are vaccinated. Many people were outraged by some of the crude behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a scene at odds with Canadians\u2019 reputation for niceness and rule-following, thousands of protesters railing against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions descended on the capital over the weekend, deliberately blocking traffic around Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A number carried signs and flags with swastikas.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of Canada\u2019s biggest pandemic protest to date, the demonstrators have found little sympathy in a country where more than 80% are vaccinated. Many people were outraged by some of the crude behavior.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/anti-vaccine-protest-in-canada-spurs-outrage\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-vaccine protest in Canada spurs outrage<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,396,96,404,525,18,35,138,590,399,119,137,249,70,398,14,400],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-antisemitism","tag-canada","tag-convoy-occupation","tag-covid-denial","tag-covid-19","tag-disinformation","tag-gatineau","tag-hate-crimes","tag-homophobia","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-quebec","tag-racism","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-transphobia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}