{"id":4371,"date":"2024-01-23T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2024-01-23T22:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:02:49","slug":"far-right-convoy-groups-plan-to-occupy-canadian-police-stations-until-government-officials-are-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/far-right-convoy-groups-plan-to-occupy-canadian-police-stations-until-government-officials-are-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-Right Convoy Groups Plan to Occupy Canadian Police Stations Until Government Officials are\u00a0Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTeam Lead\u201d for the plan is Dana Metcalfe, an organizer of the original Freedom Convoy who is currently facing criminal harassment charges after staging a \u201csurprise convoy\u201d to the home of the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>On a Zoom call Monday night, Metcalfe was joined by over 100 others, including several leaders of the \u201cSave the Children Convoy,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Others were linked to a conspiratorial pseudolegal group called Stand4Thee, a group that is campaigning to have Justin Trudeau arrested for \u201ctreason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Zoom call, Metcalfe unveiled a new \u201cproject\u201d called \u201cOne Million Charges for the People\u201d that involves a plan to occupy police stations and refuse to leave until police do what they say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTeam Lead\u201d for the plan is Dana Metcalfe, an organizer of the original Freedom Convoy who is currently facing criminal harassment charges after staging a \u201csurprise convoy\u201d to the home of the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>On a Zoom call Monday night, Metcalfe was joined by over 100 others, including several leaders of the \u201cSave the Children Convoy,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/far-right-convoy-groups-plan-to-occupy-canadian-police-stations-until-government-officials-are-arrested\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Far-Right Convoy Groups Plan to Occupy Canadian Police Stations Until Government Officials are\u00a0Arrested<\/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":[375,81,96,127,404,18,14,866,400],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-canada","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-convoy-occupation","tag-covid-19","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-save-the-children-convoy","tag-transphobia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","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=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}