COVID-related mandates.Truckers and supportive protesters are heading to Ottawa from east and west parts of the country, as well as from southern Ontario where routes were scheduled to depart from several locations including Windsor, Sarnia, Niagara and Toronto on Thursday, according to the organizers’ website.The website indicates that the convoys would be passing through the Toronto area in the late morning hours, into the afternoon. ‘Freedom convoy’ expected to move through Greater Toronto Area Thursday Demonstrators gathered throughout parts of the GTA Thursday, with some groups on top of overpasses in anticipation of convoys moving through.Protesters also gathered at Vaughan Mills, where a convoy was set to depart around the noon hour.The groups are scheduled to arrive in Kingston Thursday evening and begin heading to Ottawa on Friday, the website says.
Ottawa braces for ‘significant’ trucker convoy disruptions as police warn of risks “What I’m calling for is basically lockdowns and restrictions to be lifted like the rest of the world is starting to do,” protester Mark Smith told Global News in Drumbo, Ont.“There’s a freedom movement actually across the world right now and we’re all getting together just trying to get our lives back.