{"id":4667,"date":"2024-02-21T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2024-02-22T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T03:17:08","slug":"ottawa-bylaw-says-police-warned-officers-not-to-ticket-freedom-convoy-demonstrators-due-to-risk-of-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ottawa-bylaw-says-police-warned-officers-not-to-ticket-freedom-convoy-demonstrators-due-to-risk-of-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Bylaw says police warned officers not to ticket \u2018Freedom Convoy\u2019 demonstrators due to \u2018risk of escalation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Ottawa\u2019s general manager of emergency and protective services says there is no double standard when it comes to how Ottawa Bylaw issues tickets to protesters who violate things like noise bylaws.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come after the city announced this week that bylaw tickets were not issued to protesters in Ottawa for the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d anniversary rally on Saturday, despite the fact that a group of protesters set off fireworks in a parking lot on Queen Street, in violation of the city\u2019s fireworks bylaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Ottawa\u2019s general manager of emergency and protective services says there is no double standard when it comes to how Ottawa Bylaw issues tickets to protesters who violate things like noise bylaws.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come after the city announced this week that bylaw tickets were not issued to protesters in Ottawa for the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d anniversary rally on Saturday, despite the fact that a group of protesters set off fireworks in a parking lot on Queen Street, in violation of the city\u2019s fireworks bylaw.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ottawa-bylaw-says-police-warned-officers-not-to-ticket-freedom-convoy-demonstrators-due-to-risk-of-escalation\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ottawa Bylaw says police warned officers not to ticket \u2018Freedom Convoy\u2019 demonstrators due to \u2018risk of escalation\u2019<\/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":[375,81,96,404,18,138,119,137,249,70,14],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-canada","tag-convoy-occupation","tag-covid-19","tag-gatineau","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-quebec","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","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=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}