Ottawa in photos: Huddling around fires, dancing at truckers’ protest
Posted February 18, 2022 3:24 pm.
Hugs under the falling snow, dancing in the street, people warming themselves around fires. That’s what the last few hours of a truckers’ protest outside Parliament looked like in Ottawa, Ont.
For more than three weeks, semi-trucks, cars and pickups sat idle along streets in downtown Ottawa, as hundreds of truckers and other protesters parked side by side and bumper to bumper to oppose vaccine mandates and other COVID restrictions.
The protesters set up camp in what authorities called an illegal occupation, and refused police orders to leave. The long honks of semi-truck horns blared through the streets, despite a court injunction against it.
Some protesters settled into the locked cabs of their trucks or set up tents, while others warmed themselves around small fires as snow fell. A few danced, to songs like the Beastie Boys anthem “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!).”
Photo Gallery (Courtesy the Associated Press)
