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Government’s response to the Truckers’ Convoy was an unintentional comedy routine

Some days, Canadians wish government would leave comedy to the professionals. Photo: SF Chronical by Donna Laframboise The Freedom Convoy became a three-week standoff in the nation’s capital because the federal government contemptuously dismissed these protesters rather than talk to

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Ottawa staff were directed to study “capturing the value” of Taxi plates for taxpayers

At an April 11, 2012 Council meeting, Councillors directed staff to study “All possible options for restructuring taxi plate fees, including capturing the value of such plates for the taxpayers of the City of Ottawa.”  

Ottawa’s Deputy City Manager Lesley Donnelly began providing testimony for the City of Ottawa in the Ottawa Taxi trial on January 26, and remained on the stand all day Friday, January 27th.

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Letters of gratitude to Freedom Convoy Truckers preserved in kids’ book by Donna Laframboise

There were lots of grandfathers and grandmothers at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa last January.

Author Donna LaFramboise wants Canadians to know their stories, and so her book/website project “Opa’s Convoy Letters” was born: “I want to make sure kids know: whatever else you might have heard, when your grandfather went to went to Ottawa, people told him he was a hero.”

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