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Quebec City Journalist Files Formal Complaint Against Anti-Mask Demonstrators By RAQUEL FLETCHER , GLOBALNEWS.CA. 30 Jul 2020 10:17 PM

TVA reporter Karianne Bourassa was in the middle of a live report when two anti-mask demonstrators wrapped her in a bear hug Sunday outside the National Assembly.
Since then, the Quebec City reporter has received a lot of public support, according to her lawyer, René Verret. On Wednesday, she filed a formal complaint for assault. She’s happy to see that so many people supported her,” Verret said.

Anti-mandate protest outside B.C. high school leads to confrontation, protester hurling insults at student

An anti-mandate protest outside a South Okanagan high school, which students say school officials and police failed to prevent, resulted in a verbal confrontation between adults and students and, in one case, a protester yelling a racially charged insult and profanity at a student.

The incident unfolded on Friday, Feb. 11 at Southern Okanagan Secondary School in Oliver, B.C., when a convoy of vehicles arrived, ostensibly to support student walkouts over mask mandates promoted by protest groups across the country.

Mounties seize guns and arrest 13 protesters at border blockade in Alberta

'Infiltrated by an extreme element,' organizers say they plan to leave Tuesday morning

CBC News · Posted: Feb 14, 2022 11:21 AM MT | Last Updated: February 14

Alberta RCMP submitted this photo of what they say is a cache of firearms and ammunition found in three trailers near an ongoing blockade of the Canada-U.S. border. (Submitted by Alberta RCMP)

Alberta RCMP have arrested at least 13 people in relation to a protest against pandemic restrictions near the main U.S. border crossing in southern Alberta.

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Daunte Wright’s Girlfriend Sobbed Recalling Moments Before Cops Shot Him

“I replay that image in my head daily,” 20-year-old Alayna Albrecht-Payton told jurors from the witness stand Thursday.

Daunte Wright’s girlfriend, who was sitting next to him in the car when former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter shot him, said she still hasn’t overcome the immense trauma of watching her boyfriend die last April.

Leaked Emails Show LA Mayor’s Former Chief of Staff Calling Black Lives Matter ‘Annoying’

Private emails from 2016 and 2017 obtained by VICE News show members of Eric Garcetti’s office disparaging the Black Lives Matter movement. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s former chief of staff told colleagues she found a local Black Lives Matter chapter "annoying," disputed the meaning of "structural racism,” and disparaged a newly appointed civilian police commissioner who worked with the activists, according to private emails from 2016 and 2017 obtained by VICE News. 

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