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 Crown seeking ‘grotesque’ sentence lengths for convoy leaders

Crown seeking ‘grotesque’ sentence lengths for convoy leaders

July 22, 2025

On July 23, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber will learn their fate at a sentencing hearing. Ottawa Crown prosecutors are seeking a seven-year prison sentence for Lich and an eight-year sentence for her co-accused  Barber over Read More

 Freedom Convoy frontrunners could be facing severe jail time: Brian Lilley

Freedom Convoy frontrunners could be facing severe jail time: Brian

July 22, 2025

This week begins sentencing hearing for Freedom Convoy frontrunners Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, but is the prosecution politically motivated? Also, Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting with premiers from across the country to update Read More

 Toronto lawyer comments on Pat King trial

Toronto lawyer comments on Pat King trial

November 22, 2024

A prominent figure of the 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa has been found guilty on five counts. A judge says Pat King is guilty of mischief, counselling others to commit mischief, counselling others to obstruct police Read More

 Lawyer weighs in on Freedom Convoy trial

Lawyer weighs in on Freedom Convoy trial

September 13, 2024

The trial involving a couple of leaders with the Freedom Convoy has officially come to an end. The legal proceedings have wrapped up more than a year after they first began. Tamara Lich and Chris Read More

 Lich and Barber trial update from Lavigne

Lich and Barber trial update from Lavigne

August 23, 2024

The trial involving a couple of the Freedom Convoy organizers continues in Ottawa. Tamara Lich and Chris Barber face a wide range of charges in connection with the vaccine and lockdown protests which took place Read More

 Trial begins for Coutts 2, Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick

Trial begins for Coutts 2, Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick

June 6, 2024

The trial for Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick begins in Lethbridge. The two men are accused of conspiring to murder RCMP officers at the Coutts Border Chokehold during the 2022 Freedom Convoy Protests.Read More

 Discussing Freedom Convoy organizer King’s case

Discussing Freedom Convoy organizer King’s case

May 13, 2024

The Crown played an 11-minute video of scenes from the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa on Monday morning as one of the organizers, Pat King’s trial, go underway. King has pleaded not guilty to Read More

 Guilty Verdict for 3 men in Coutts trial

Guilty Verdict for 3 men in Coutts trial

April 17, 2024

Jurors deliberated for just three hours Tuesday before finding three men guilty for their roles in the 2022 highway blockade at the Coutts border crossing.  The trial for Alex Van Herk, Gerhard Janzen and Marco Van Read More

 Lawyer responds to Federal Court ruling on Emergencies Act

Lawyer responds to Federal Court ruling on Emergencies Act

January 23, 2024

Alberta lawyer Leighton Grey, who hosts Grey Matter on Miracle Channel, says the federal government never should have invoked the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy almost two years ago. He says Canadian’s rights Read More

 “Freedom activists” seeking “removal” of Trudeau, head east from Alberta

“Freedom activists” seeking “removal” of Trudeau, head east from Alberta

September 25, 2023

Several dozen people calling themselves “freedom activists” met in Medicine Hat at a trucker stop Monday. Some of the group, who are against the use of SOGI (which is the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Read More

 Pawlowski found guilty on two border blockade charges

Pawlowski found guilty on two border blockade charges

May 3, 2023

A judge has found Calgary street preacher Artur Pawlowski guilty of mischief for his role in protests against COVID-19 mandates near the Coutts border last year. Justice Gordon Krinke also found Pawlowski guilty of breaching Read More

 One year anniversary of convoy to Coutts observed, funds raised for four accused

One year anniversary of convoy to Coutts observed, funds raised

January 30, 2023

It’s been a year since the sound of honking horns made its way to the Coutts border in protest of public health mandates. And now, a convoy has done it again.  This time, it’Read More

 Alberta freedom activist released from custody following rally from supporters

Alberta freedom activist released from custody following rally from supporters

August 25, 2022

A short-lived protest outside of the RCMP detachment in Fort MacLeod ended in victory on Thursday evening.  More than 200 protesters gathered to demand the release of freedom activist Alex Van Herk.  He was released shortly Read More

 Criminal defence lawyer calls Tamara Lich detainment ‘egregious abuse of process’

Criminal defence lawyer calls Tamara Lich detainment ‘egregious abuse of

July 6, 2022

One of the Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich will be remaining in an Ottawa jail until at least Friday. The judge, Paul Harris, stated he had a lot of notes and needed time to consider Read More

 Group offers self-representation advice to those charged, ticketed due to protesting COVID mandates

Group offers self-representation advice to those charged, ticketed due to

June 13, 2022

A group focused on due process of law is working to educate and empower individuals who have been ticketed or charged due to protesting COVID mandates, to self-represent.  The organization, Stand4Thee says there is Read More

 Freedom Convoy spokesperson says bank apologized

Freedom Convoy spokesperson says bank apologized

May 31, 2022

A spokesperson for the Freedom Convoy protest, Benjamin Dichter, said he received an apology from the office of the CEO of Scotiabank Brian Porter. This was in response to freezing his bank account during the Read More

 Canadian infantryman James Topp marches across Canada towards Ottawa

Canadian infantryman James Topp marches across Canada towards Ottawa

April 6, 2022

A Canadian Infantryman is walking across Canada with the intent to reach Ottawa and speak with Canada’s federal leaders about the country’s COVID 19 mandates. James Topp passed through Lethbridge over the weekend and Read More

 Pastor Artur Pawlowski back in court next month, attorney says they will fight the new charges

Pastor Artur Pawlowski back in court next month, attorney says

March 29, 2022

Calgary street Pastor Artur Pawlowski remains behind bars and his attorney, Sarah Miller, says she and her client will be fighting the recent charges that were laid following the incident that took place near the Read More

 Evangeline Lilly asks PM Trudeau to unify Canadians

Evangeline Lilly asks PM Trudeau to unify Canadians

February 18, 2022

Actress Evangeline Lilly calls on PM Trudeau to make unifying Canadians his priority right now. She seems to be asking him to employ the most Canadian of all virtues: diplomacy, negotiation and compromise – virtues that Read More

 Coutts border blockade affects village and country

Coutts border blockade affects village and country

February 16, 2022

For more than two weeks access to the Coutts border crossing had been blocked as protesters wanted to send a simple message to politicians, drop the COVID-19 mandates. As Angela Stewart explains, the blockade not Read More

 Truckers leave Coutts border

Truckers leave Coutts border

February 15, 2022

It appears as though most of those who were protesting government mandates have left the Coutts Border crossing. It was a place that was previously blocked by protesters supporting the Freedom Convoy and those who Read More

 Milk River and Coutts rallies over the weekend

Milk River and Coutts rallies over the weekend

February 14, 2022

Alberta RCMP say they have arrested 13 people and confiscated a number of firearms near the rally at the Coutts border. Police say a small organized group within the larger Coutts protest was apparently going to Read More

 Americans show support for Canadians from other side of border

Americans show support for Canadians from other side of border

February 13, 2022

U.S. citizens gathered over the weekend in Sweetgrass, Montana, many of which drove five or six hours from different parts of the state, to show their support for the Freedom Convoy taking place in Read More

 Civil Rights Lawyer on GiveSendGo funds for convoy truckers

Civil Rights Lawyer on GiveSendGo funds for convoy truckers

February 11, 2022

After the Ontario Government filed an injunction to have the $8-million from the Freedom Convoy’s Give Send Go campaign frozen, an Alberta Civil Rights lawyer says he doesn’t believe Canada has jurisdiction over Read More

 Milk River business owner says protest has not affected them

Milk River business owner says protest has not affected them

February 9, 2022

One business owner in the town of Milk River says the trucker protest near the Coutts border hasn’t had a negative impact on their businesses. The owner of DC Metal Craft and the Gift Read More

 Traffic getting through at Coutts protest

Traffic getting through at Coutts protest

February 8, 2022

The trucker protest continues along the Coutts border crossing but lanes have reopened and the traffic is moving smoothly. BCN Video Journalist Angela Stewart has the latest.Read More

 RCMP on Coutts protest

RCMP on Coutts protest

February 8, 2022

RCMP say they will be taking further action to put an end to the protest at the Coutts border. Police say they want to resolve the situation down at the border in a safe and Read More

 Lethbridge holds weekend Freedom rally and convoy

Lethbridge holds weekend Freedom rally and convoy

February 6, 2022

As in many other Canadian cities, some citizens of Lethbridge gathered this past weekend to express their desire to have all COVID-19 related mandates and restrictions lifted immediately. A convoy of vehicles was staged in Read More

 Car hits four protesters in Winnipeg

Car hits four protesters in Winnipeg

February 5, 2022

We’ve obtained dash cam footage from the evening of February 4th in Winnipeg, of the moment when what appears to be a white Jeep S-U-V attempting to pass a truck and driving into standing Read More

 ‘Being mindful of emergency services’: Lethbridge County

‘Being mindful of emergency services’: Lethbridge County

February 3, 2022

The City of Lethbridge and Lethbridge County have seen an increasing number of blockages and slow-moving vehicles in our region. More people seem to be showing their support for the truckers involved in the Freedom Read More

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