Following events as they are happening takes a bit of work, and this more so than most. It has the advantage of being stretched out in time, so the reader isn’t overwhelmed by a bunch of things happening all at once, but finding what, and why and when proved more difficult.
Here’s what I have found (incomplete, both due to the sheer amount of information, and my inability to read French).
Headlines
Friday Jan. 14– Freedom Convoy Facebook Page Created
Sunday Jan. 16– GoFundMe page created by Tamara Lich
Canadian Health Minister Defends the need for Trucker Vaccine Mandates (Global News)
Tuesday Jan. 18- BC truckers to join convoy across Canada in protest of mandatory vaccine (Western Standard)
Canada’s trucker vaccine rule is making freight and fruit pricier (Financial Post)
Thousands of Canadian truckers plan ‘Freedom Convoy’ to protest COVID jab mandates (Life Site News)
Thursday Jan. 20– Routes and Times for the Convoy became available.
Adopt-A-Trucker set up on GiveSendGo, by Warroom Canada (actually probably happened sometime earlier)
From coast to coast, truck drivers agains COVID-19 vaccination regulations have gathered under the pan-Canadian banner ‘Convoy for Freedom 2022’
‘Slow-roll’ protest planned by Quebec truckers against COVID-19 vaccination mandate (Global News)
Thousands of truck drivers plan to slowly converge and meet on Parliament Hill on Jan. 28
GoFundMe was nearly $580,000 (Global News) at this time.
Saturday Jan. 22– First Convoy was scheduled to leave Prince Rupert, Canada at 7 AM
Also seems to have been the start of Worldwide Freedom Rallies, so that also accounts for some protests going on within Canadian cities.
Monday Jan. 24-Convoys were scheduled to depart from Calgary, Lloydminster, and Prince Albert for Regina
Anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown protests erupted all over Toronto this weekend (blogTO)
Truckers are the proxy protesters for a lot of angry Canadians (National Post, Opinion)
“Freedom Convoy” set to pass through Regina on trek to Ottawa (620 ckrm)
Alberta senator calls anti-mandate protesters a “systemic problem” (The Counter Signal)
Trudeau slams ‘fear mongering’ over COVID vaccine mandate for truckers (National Post)
Who’s Fuelling the Truckers Protesting Vaccine Mandates? (The Tyee)
The trucker caravan from the Edmonton, Alberta, area alone yesterday was said to be more than 40 kilometers in length before arriving in Calgary to head east to Ottawa.”
50,000 trucks heading toward Ottawa to demand an end to COVID mandates (Life Site)
Wednesday Jan. 26– Convoy scheduled to depart Kenora for Thunder Bay
Freedom Convoy 2022 was well received entering TB (Lake Superior News)
Transport minister concerned trucker convoy becoming a lightning rod for far-right fringe (National Post)
“Freedom Convoy” organizer says it’s not affiliated with extremist groups (Daily Hive)
Massive Crowds Cheer as Canadian Truckers Lead ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protesting Vaccine Mandates (CBN News)
Trucker convoy reaches Ontario amid fears of violence from fringe groups in Ottawa (blogTO)
“The small fringe minority of people who are on the way to Ottawa who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing do not represent the views of Canadians who have been there for each other”
-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Friday Jan. 28– Convoys depart for Ottawa- with only two routes scheduled to reach Ottawa on Saturday
Canada must confront the toxic ‘Freedom Convoy’ head-on (Washington Post, Opinion)
Support for Freedom Convoy heats up despite Trudeau’s chill (Post Media)
There’s a lot of trucks in Freedom Convoy 2022 but not nearly the 50,000 they claim (National Post)
Freedom Convoy spokesman Benjamin Dichter joins Tucker Carlson to discuss the huge trucker protest (The Post Millennial)
Canadian Freedom Truckers Inspire The World As they Get Closer to Ottawa To Stand Up To Trudeau (SGT Report)
Ottowa police warn residents to stay away as ‘Freedom Convoy’ arrives in the city (The Peterborough Examiner)
Trudeau concerned trucker convoy converging on Parliament Hill could turn violent (Vancouver Sun)
Convoys of Canadian trucks are en route to Ottawa for a protest against vaccine mandates. (New York Times)
Here’s the Latest Update After GoFundMe Froze Millions Raised for Canada’s Anti Vaccine Mandate ‘Freedom Convoy’ (Daily Wire)
What the truckers want (and why Ottawa can’t give it to them (National Post)
GoFundMe finally releases $6.3 million for Trucker Freedom Convoy (From the Trenches)
Sunday Jan. 30– Protests Day 2
Freedom Convoy: Truckers cause chaos in Ottawa after second day of protests (BBC)
Multiple criminal investigations underway for ‘desecration’ of Canadian monuments after protests against Covid-19 mandates, police say (CNN)
Freedom Convoy 2022 live updates: House to resume sitting, truckers plan new protests (National Post)
‘Freedom!’ Dutch Truckers Join Canadians in Convoying Against Lockdown Measures (Breitbart)
Convoy protesters make for ‘a really tough day’ at Ottawa’s Shepherds of Good Hope shelter: CEO (Calgary Herald)
Swastikas, other hate symbols displayed at Canadian protest against COVID Mandates (Times of Israel)
‘Tyrant On The Run’: Internet Blasts Trudeau For Fleeing Capital As ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protest Heads His Way (Daily Wire)
Australian Freedom Convoy 2022 in pictures and videos (Faith Reporters)
Police Report No Violence as Thousands Stage Peaceful Protest in Canadian Capital Over Mandates (Epoch Times)
Justin Trudeau moved to a secret location as thousands in Canada protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates for truckers and other restrictions (Yahoo News)
Everything we know so far about the Nazi Flag guy (True North)
Convoy to DC 2022 (Marshall Report)
Saskatchewan premier issues letter in support of truckers: Police makes ‘no sense’ (The Gazette)
Tuesday Feb. 1– Protests Day 4
Truck blockade continues at U.S. border as RCMP ready to make arrests, tow vehicles (Lethbridge News)
Freedom Convoy: Blockade at Alberta border crossing ‘unlawful’ (BBC)
Canadian police move against truck blockade at US-Canada border (Freight Waves)
Alberta towing companies reject requests to supply trucks to RCMP (Western Standard)
Canada ‘Freedom Convoy’: Ottawa police set up hate crime hotline despite admitting protests remain peaceful (Tribune Media)
Canada’s Freedom Convoy has perfectly exposed legacy media’s conceited bias (EU Times)
Freedom Convoy refuses to free Ottawa (National Post)
Israelis To Join Canada, Other Countries in ‘Convoy of Freedom’ (Israel 365 News)
Canada convoy: Truckers ban media as Trudeau refuses meeting and calls protest an ‘insult to truth’ (Independent)
After Over $10 Million Raised for Canadian Truckers, GoFundMe Freezes the Page (Pacific Pundit)
Thursday Feb. 3 Protests Day 6
Freedom convoy plans move to Winnipeg (The Carillon)
Freedom Convoy: No plans to call in military, says Trudeau (BBC)
RCMP and CBP say safety is top priority in the freedom convoy protests (Montana Right Now)
Freedom convoy’s GoFundMe suspended following complaints from Ottawa government (Rebel News)
Quebec Premier open to meeting with Quebec freedom convoy (Rebel News)
Facebook and GoFundMe Attack Freedom Trucker Convoy in Attempt to Derail Workers’ Uprising (SGT Report)
Justice Centre representing 2022 Truckers’ Freedom Convoy (Justice Centre)
How Canada’s ‘freedom convoy’ was overtaken by a radical fringe (National Post)
Toronto police, mayor say they won’t allow ‘Convoy for Freedom’ to negatively affect residents, businesses (Toronto.com)
Toronto doing ‘everything we can’ to prevent repeat of Ottawa’s disruption at Saturday truck protests, Tory says (Toronto Star)
Saturday Feb. 5 Protest Day 8
‘Freedom Convoy’ supporters roll through Niagara (Niagara Falls Review)
Freedom Convoy: GoFundMe seizes funds of Canada ‘occupation’ (World Justice News)
Crowds of demonstrators join rallies across Canada as Covid-19 trucker protests spread (CNN)
As ‘Freedom Convoy’ hits Toronto,other cities, the anti-mandate movement is larger and faces more opposition than ever (Toronto Star)
‘Beginning of the end’: GoFundMe faces avalanche of backlash after yanking Freedom Convoy campaign (BizPac Review)
GoFundMe Reverses Plans on ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donations, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Promises Investigation (MSN)
Republican leaders commit to investigating GoFundMe because the company took down the Freedom Convoy’s fundraiser (Blaze Media)
Here’s How the so-called Freedom Convoy is still raising ‘thousands of dollars’ per minute even without GoFundMe (Toronto Star)
Elon Musk Responds to GoFundMe Canceling Freedom Convoy Fund For Canadian Truckers (Daily Wire)
Freedom Convoy: Media SMEAR Campaign (SGT Report)
Toronto sees massive Freedom Convoy protest packing city’s downtown (Rebel News)
Farm Tractors in Toronto to Support the “Freedom” Convoy (Nouspique)
Ottawa declares ‘state of emergency’ amid continuing blockades and raucous protests over covid measures (MSN)
Watch: Driver Deliberately Hits 4 Protesters in One Of The Many Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protests (Clash Daily)
Man plows SUV into Freedom Convoy protesters (News Wars)
Hit-and-run injures protesters at Winnipeg freedom rally (Rebel News)
Monday Feb. 7 Protest Day 10
Backers of ‘Freedom Convoy’Cite Overcoming Communism in Their Support of Canadian Truckers (Singapore Daily News)
Breaking: Ontario Superior Court grants injunction against honking in downtown Ottowa (Rebel News)
Breaking: Ontario Liberals threaten to Confiscate trucks from peaceful protesters if they don’t leave Ottawa (The Post Millennial)
UK Freedom Convoy tells GB News: ‘We’re not far-right, we want the freedom of choice’ (Global News)
Trucker convoy: Statement calls police fuel confiscation ‘inhumane’ (Vancouver Sun)
The Freedom Convoy has been peaceful and respectful, despite claims to the contrary (Life Site)
Freedom Convoy movement spreads across the globe (European Renaissance)
Ottawa is canceling police officers’ days off as the Freedom Convoy protests continue. Some have worked 2 weeks without a break. (Insider)
GiveSendGo fundraiser for Freedom Convoy hits $4.5 million after GoFundMe shuts page down (The Gazette)
Saturday January 15th- requirements for entry into Canada changed for unvaccinated (or partially vaccinated) truck drivers. While Canadian truck drivers can still enter Canada (and be subject to testing and quarantine requirements), those that are not Canadian will be turned away at the border.
COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ongoing labour shortages challenging for Manitoba trucking industry (CBC News)
Monday Jan. 17– Truckers Protest Vaccine Mandate at the Emerson Border Crossing
Wednesday Jan. 19– Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) releases statement on Protests- in short, they do not support them.
The trucking industry was caught by surprise on Jan. 12 when the Canada Border Services Agency sent a statement to media saying that unvaccinated and partially vaccinated truck drivers crossing into Canada from the United States would remain exempt from the vaccine mandate that had long been expected to come into force last weekend.
The federal government reversed that the next afternoon with a statement that said the information shared the day before had been sent in error. The exemption would still end Jan. 15, meaning truck drivers would need to be fully vaccinated if they wanted to avoid a two-week quarantine and pre-arrival molecular test for COVID-19 before crossing into Canada.
Freedom Convoy Truckers Protesting Covid Mandates Travel to Ottawa (Discover Weyburn)
Friday Jan. 21–Truck convoy to pass through Toronto in protest against vaccine mandates (blogTO)
A GoFundMe has raised more than $800,000 to support the truckers, and fundraiser organizer Tamara Lich demands the government stop all mandates.”
blogTO
Convoy of truckers against vaccine mandates ready to roll on Ottowa (Toronto Sun)
Sunday Jan. 23– Convoy was scheduled to leave Prince George at 7 AM, bound for Calgary, while another departed for Calgary from Vancouver.
Hundreds of truckers headed to Ottawain ‘Freedom Rally’ convoy against vaccine mandate (CBC News)
Rallies also occurred at overpasses.
GoFundME over $2.5 Million (CBC News)
Tuesday Jan. 25– Convoys were scheduled to depart from Regina for Kenora
‘Freedom Rally’ truckers convoy hits Ontario- picking up Conservative political support as it rolls (Toronto Star)
Funds frozen after millions raised for truckers protesting vaccine mandate (CTV News)
Trucker convoy might not get the $5 million it raised to protest vaccine mandates in Canada (blogTO)
Trudeau Is Ignoring The Freedom Convoy Because He Knows His Agenda Is Failing (National Telegraph, Opinion)
Canadian Truckers Lead ‘Freedom Convoy’ To Ottawa To Protest Vaxx Mandate (Daily Wire)
Thursday Jan. 27– Several Groups rolling on thursday; The group from Thunder Bay scheduled bound for Sault STe. Marie, with additional groups departing from St. Johns, Enfield, Riviere-du-Loup, Windsor, Sarnia, Niagra and Toronto
Canadian ‘freedom’ truckers massive vaccine mandate protest convoy may smash world record (Fox News)
Canadians Furious After Trudeau’s ‘Fringe Minority’ Comment As Thousands of Truckers Head to Capital (Daily Wire)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is isolating after learning of COVID exposure (Toronto Star)
Freedom Convoy plans to gridlock Ottawa until all vaccine mandates repealed (Edmonton Journal)
Elon Musk tweets in support of Canadian truckers ahead of ‘Freedom Rally’ protest (MSN)
Large Amount of support for Freedom Convoy (Lake Superior News)
This trucker thing probably isn’t going to end well (National Post)
Polls Show Popular Support for Trucker Convoy in Canada Despite Trudeau’s Claim it Represents ‘Fringe Minority’ (American Greatness)
Saturday Jan. 29– Last two convoys scheduled to arrive in Ottowa
Freedom Convoy: Why Canadian truckers are protesting in Ottawa (BBC News)
Trucker convoy rumbles into Canada’s capital carrying COVID and mandate beefs (Freight Waves)
Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ of up to 50,000 truckers begins to arrive in Ottawa ahead of a weekend of protests against the vaccine requirements to cross (Canada Free Press)
Washington Post political cartoon labels trucker convoy as ‘fascism,’ which ignites fierce firestorm: ‘Devoid of wit or truth. Shameful and pathetic.’ (Blaze Media)
Demonstrators descend upon Sask. Legislative Building for ‘solidarity convoy’ opposing vaccine mandate for truckers (CTV News)
Fact Check: Canada truck convoy not an official Guinness World Record (Yahoo News)
Freedom Convoy 2022, Saturday: Thousands pack Parliament Hill for protest (National Post)
Province in Canada bans gathering along highway ‘in support of the 2022 Freedom Convoy’ (BizPac Review)
Trudeau Flees as trucker convoy Enters Ottawa (The Week)
Trucks traveled great distances to be in Ottawa, so did police snipers (Toronto Sun)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau silent as thousands join truckers’ protest in Ottawa (National Post)
Justin Trudeau and his family flee Canadian capital Ottawa as up to 50,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ anti-vaccine mandate truckers arrive at his office -days after he dismissed them as a ‘small fringe minority’ (Daily Mail)
The “Freedom Convoy” is being prepared in Europe (French Daily News)
Ottowa Freedom Convoy Peaceful (Lake Superior News)
Monday Jan. 31– Protests Day 3
Is Freedom Convoy Coming to America? (Transportation Nation)
Freedom Convoy Organizer Tearfully Tells of Canadians Helping Truckers (Daily Wire)
“Freedom Convoy” draws support and criticism (Toronto Star)
More than $9 million raised for so-called Freedom Convoy (Daily Hive)
Soup kitchen harassment to confederate flags: Controversial moments at Canadian trucker convoy protest (Independent)
Freedom Convoy dismantles stereotypes about who is opposed to vaccine mandates (National Post)
Washington Post, MSNBC trash Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ truckers: ‘It’s a cult’ (Fox News)
Wednesday Feb. 2
Protests Day 5
Canadian trucker ‘Freedom Convoy’: 2 charged, 13 active investigations (Fox News)
‘Significant element’ from U.S. involved in self-described ‘Freedom Convoy’ in Canada, official says (Washington Post)
New developments in border protest, local businesses see impacts (Montana Right Now)
Freedom Convoy Working? Saskatchewan Dropping All COVID Restrictions, Vax Passports By End Of Month (Sign of the Times)
Freedom Convoy: Organizers pledge to stay ‘as long as it takes’ (BBC News)
Freedom Convoy: Police Move in as public turns on truckers blocking US-Canada border (Independent)
Ottowa police may seek military assistance as ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters dig in (Toronto Star)
Day 5: Freedom Convoy still strong in Ottawa (Rebel News)
Friday Feb. 4 Protest Day 7
My First Week in Canada– A bit lengthy, but written by someone in Ottawa
‘Freedom Convoy’ Lawyers Demand GoFundMe Release Fundraising Haul (Daily Wire)
#Breaking: GoFundMe refuses to release money donated to Freedom Convoy (True North)
Majority of Canadians disagree with ‘freedom convoy’ on vaccine mandates and lockdowns (McMaster University)
West Virginia Attorney General Slams GoFundMe, Urges Residents To Report Deceptive Practices After ‘Freedom Convoy’ Page Shut Down (Daily Wire)
Ottawa Police ADMIT to lobbying GoFundMe to withhold funds from Canadian truckers (The Post Millenial)
Ottawa police promise heavy crackdown on Freedom Convoy, despite data showing crime down in Ottawa (Rebel News)
Liberal MP compares freedom convoy funding to “terrorist financing” (True North)
Fact Check: Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest didn’t surpass size of country’s army (Yahoo News)
We need protections from the ‘freedom convoy’ in Ottawa that don’t involve the police (Queens Journal)
Counterprotesters vs Freedom Convoy (notTV)
Military tells Ottawa to find someone else to evict the truckers (National Post)
Freedom Convoy Expected to Grow! Truckers Vow to Continue “Until It’s A Free Nation Again (SGT Report)
Where did all of the THOUSANDS of trucks end up in Ottawa? Diverted by police AWAY from downtown (Rebel News)
Truck convoy: $9.8M class-action lawsuit filed against “Freedom Convoy”; GoFundMe ends fundraising campaign; Protesters spotted in the suburbs; Kitchen erected in Confederation Park (The World News)
‘Vancouver doesn’t want you here’: Mayor addresses Saturday’s planned protest convoy (Vancouver is Awesome)
Possibly a Freedom Convoy getting started in Berlin, but my German is as poor as my French, so I’m not certain.
Sunday Feb. 6 Protest Day 9
Breaking: Man charged in Winnipeg car attack on convoy protest is radical-left anarchist (Rebel News)
Freedom Convoy Raises $2M on GiveSendGo After GoFundMe Removes Campaign (Newsweek)
‘Freedom Convoy’ protest exposes hypocrisy in Ottawa (Toronto Star, Opinion)
Canadian policecall the Freedom Convoy a ‘nation-wide insurrection’ (The Blaze)
GoFundMe unable to stop donations to Freedom Convoy (Lake Superior News)
Ottowa Police Back Down to Freedom Convoy Protesters (The Liberty Beacon)
Cruz Takes Action In Pushing Federal Agency To Investigate GoFundMe For Canceling Freedom Convoy (Daily Wire)
Ottawa Police Seize Fuel From Freedom Convoy Protest Site, Make More Arrests (The Epoch Times)
The Freedom Convoy dance part in downtown Ottawa continues (Canada Free Press)
Several people arrested for bringing gas to ‘Freedom Convoy’ demonstrators in Ottawa, police say (CTV News)
Breaking: Police begin ARRESTING convoy protesters outside parliament (Rebel News)
‘Possibly Illegal behavior’: Ashley Moody blasts GoFundMe after Freedom Convoy Flip (Florida Politics)
Note: If you want something up to date, go elsewhere. We come out on Tuesdays.
Not much on the blockades at the border? No, that’s a separate post.
If you’re interested in following this in real time, your best bet would seem to be using social media and watching live-streams.
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