‘Everybody was just doing stuff for everybody’ by Donna Laframboise During the weeks Guy and Mike sat in their trucks in Ottawa as part of the Freedom Convoy protest, some members of the public informally adopted them. Amongst these was
Read MoreTravis McDougall of Truckers for Safer Highways stopped in Thunder Bay recently to check out the progress on the new scale and inspection station on the east side of Thunder Bay. It is being built at a cost of over
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Richard Dunwoody of the Human Trafficking Survivors' Fund speaks at the 2023 Bridging the Barriers conference. Photo: RWN
Richard Dunwoody, founder of the Seeds of Hope Survivor’s Fund for persons escaping human trafficking, spoke at the 2023 Bridging the Barriers conference. Bridging the Barriers has been presented by the Women’s Trucking Federation Canada since 2018. Dunwoody, a retired
Read MoreThe following letter has been sent to MPPs Lise Vaugeois; Kevin Holland; John Vanthof; Guy Bourgouin; and Greg Rickford Updated Sept. 25th: “not significant” corrected to “significant” in the text. ***** Good afternoon, Winter has not even begun yet and
Read More“This the first tune Paul Turin and I played together,” notes Trucker/Musician/Photographer/Writer Mike Murchison. “He climbed out of the truck with his banjo and we went to town on ‘Dueling Banjos.’ I love these spontaneous moments in life,” Murchison wrote
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'The reaction from strangers has been — I'm disappointed because you were this, that and the other in our community and I don't put that together with you representing Tamara Lich,' says Lawrence Greenspon. (Alistair Steele/CBC) This photo of Edward Greenspon accompanied an April 2022 CBC news story.
There is a story behind that Greenspon Photo by Donna Laframboise In April 2022 – less than two months after the Freedom Convoy has been violently suppressed – we learned that Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich had retained the services
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RWN is grateful to contributors like Patriot Smoothie and The Democracy Fund, which have given permission for us to share their court coverage in the absence of any livestream for the Barber/Lich Trial.
Testimony on Day #12 and #13 from Ottawa Emergency Manager Kim Ayotte appears to indicate that Freedom Convoy Truckers and Ottawa Police had fair working arrangements, including maps and a City-sponsored “pizza meeting” before someone higher up squashed the co-operative
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