Reporting for @CBCNews. thomas.daigle@cbc.ca
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This guy is standing outside TD Garden in Boston ahead of the Canada/USA hockey game…
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Even though police have been moving in on protesters in Windsor, pushing them back, the crowd size actually seems to be growing. More protesters are arriving and few are leaving.
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As Ottawa police get closer to Wellington Street, protesters are building a snow wall (?) to slow the officers’ advance
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Remaining “Freedom Convoy” big rigs are being towed from downtown Ottawa. This one is from Hartland, NB, which is a 900-km drive.
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It’s not clear whether Windsor police have a strategy to make the crowd disperse but more and more protesters are arriving. Earlier, officers outnumbered protesters but that does not appear to be the case anymore.
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Police have cleared the entire Windsor protest zone and are pushing back anyone remaining who may be blocking the road leading to the Ambassador Bridge
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Unscientific poll here but the carriage with Kate, Camilla, George, Charlotte and Louis definitely got the loudest cheers. #PlatinumJubilee
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Our London intern was doing "streeters," i.e. getting ppl's opinions about Canada legalizing cannabis
One respondent immediately called it inhumane, adding "we're already killing fish and all sorts of animals"
They had misunderstood, thinking Canada was legalizing *cannibalism*
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There it is. Protesters are flying their Trump baby balloon above London’s Parliament Square #TrumpUKVisit
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A colleague passed this on from a convoy Zello group: a suggestion to negotiate directly with the Queen
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I'm going to go on a rant because I keep seeing the same misconceptions reported about Canada's COVID Alert app.
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3,598 Canadians died here at Vimy Ridge 100 years ago. Boots represent the fallen soldiers, on the very ground where they fought. #Vimy100
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RCMP reinforcements have arrived at the Windsor protest site including officers in military-style gear in the back of the line
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Trucks pulling out if remaining Windsor encampment down the road from the Ambassador Brudhe. After several warnings, police told protesters they’ll be arrested immediately if they don’t leave.
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New: Police are in position to clear the Windsor Ambassador Bridge protest imminently.
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New: Windsor Police say they've arrested a 31-year-old local woman in connection with a bomb threat posted on social media and directed at the home of Mayor Drew Dilkens. "Investigators believe the threats are directly related to ongoing pandemic measures."
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This is the first time in recent memory that the Royal Family issues a press release to announce they’ve posted a picture of a child’s feet. From Harry and Meghan’s Instagram page, here’s baby Archie.
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Many officers, highly visible, directing protesters to clear the Ambassador Bridge immediately
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Really happy to ~announce~ I’ll soon be moving to Toronto to report on tech for @CBCNews — an interest of mine since I got into Fisher-Price gear.
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Loud cheers from Team Canada as Quinn, the first openly transgender, non-binary Olympic medalist, is awarded their gold medal.
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Amazing to see Notre-Dame Cathedral and its two towers still standing despite the fierceness of the fire
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For a couple of days now, BT Tower, which is visible throughout much of central London, has displayed an error message. Infer what you will about the state of affairs here.
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Whenever the Queen has become ill, Buckingham Palace officials have usually underlined that she’s still able to do her job or have downplayed the severity of her condition. Today’s statement is worded much differently. “The Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health.”
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Police are distributing these flyers to protesters in Windsor, warning them about the provincial state of emergency, the risk of fines of up to $100,000 or a year in jail
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For the 1st time, the maple leaf 🇨🇦 is flying over Highclere Castle (the real Downton Abbey) to commemorate the talks held here leading to the British North America Act of 1867, which founded Canada #cbc
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It’s remarkable that so many of Canada’s surviving WWII veterans who served in Normandy have returned 75 years later. They’re all well into their 90s. The French are still showing their gratitude. #DDay75
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This was the moment police in Ottawa arrested a person who’d ignited a device that created a burst of fire and smoke as officers pushed back protesters
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It's true COVID Alert only works on smartphones made in the past 5 years or so. That's all the Apple-Google framework will allow. Indeed, it's unfortunate more people won't be able to download it because of that. It's also unfortunate more people who can... don't.
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Just because someone has tweeted that they received an exposure notification and that they then tested negative for COVID-19... this is not evidence that the app doesn't work. Not every exposure leads to infection. Better to know, than to not know, no?
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At Windsor Castle, Prince Harry & Meghan show off their as-yet-unnamed baby for the first time.
Meghan says "I have the two best guys in the world, so I’m really happy."
Harry jokes the baby's "already got a little bit of facial hair."
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Prince George & Princess Charlotte were both named when they were 2 days old, so their little brother's name could likely come today.
The bookmakers' top picks:
-Arthur
-James
-Albert
-Philip
-Alexander
Less likely picks: Thierry, Paddy, Piers, Wayne, all given 500:1 odds.
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Let's stop saying "the app is not effective because only X percent of people have it." Oxford researchers found "digital exposure notification can effectively reduce infections, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 at AT ALL LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION." medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Constantly framing the story around privacy concerns only begets privacy concerns. The app *does not* share with the government, or anyone, a user's name, location or health information. COVID Alert asks users what province they're in but you can even select "PREFER NOT TO SAY."
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For the 1st time in its 94-year history, the Royal Canadian Air Force has taken part in the Changing of the Guard in London and is now serving as the Queen’s Guard.
@RCAF_ARC members from across Canada are here, led by Maj Véronique Gagné from 400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron.
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Stand-off between police and protesters in Windsor. Officers aren’t moving to arrest demonstrators yet but are giving them less and less room.
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Thousands of people streaming down Las Ramblas in Barcelona, site of yesterday's van attack, in an act of defiance against terrorism #cbc
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There has been very little, if any, movement from the police line for hours. Windsor protesters again have loud music blasting. There’s no traffic flowing on the Ambassador Bridge. No arrests.
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Pickup trucks are slowly moving out. The Ambassador Bridge is still far from being reopened but police are pushing protesters further and further away.
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It’s official, it’s past midnight in Barbados. The country has become the world’s newest republic. Sandra Mason is sworn in as the first Barbadian president and the country’s first Black head of state.
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The road to the Ambassador Bridge remains closed but it looks like it would be ready to re-open to traffic to and from the U.S. today
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School children from St. John’s greet Prince Charles and Camilla at the Confederation Building. #royaltourcanada
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For the 1st time, a woman leads the Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace. Capt. Megan Couto from CFB Shilo, Man. 🇨🇦 cbc.ca/1.4175779
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Powerful to hear O Canada performed at Vimy Ridge, 100 years after the battle that many say defined Canada #Vimy100
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No one knows how many people have received an exposure notification in Canada because privacy features make it unknowable. Devices exchange codes directly from one to another. They do not send a signal to a central server. No one is hiding the data.
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While the Windsor protest has been outwardly focused on vaccine mandates and other public health measures, note many of the messages here are rooted in conspiracy theories: “plandemic,” Bill Gates, globalists, the media are all “in on it,” etc. Heard/seen it all here.
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A few dozen protesters in Windsor are refusing to leave. Police have repeatedly told them if they don’t clear out, they will be arrested.
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Hard to miss the maple leaf flags on display in Passchendaele, on the street named in honour of Canada 🇨🇦 #Passchendaele100
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Truly surreal scene in Windsor as police close in on protesters while loud Sam Smith music plays over the speakers
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Congratulations to @EMauroCBC for the Canadian Screen Award nomination for BEST NATIONAL REPORTER. Fantastic work on @CBCTheNational over so many months. I even spotted Ellen in Windsor over the weekend...
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Thousands of demonstrators gathering at Queen’s Park in Toronto. Some have been chanting “Greta! Greta!” She’s not here but her influence is felt. #climatestrikecanada
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After #Tokyo2020, three members of the Refugee Olympic Team will settle in Toronto and attend college. They’ll be offered permanent residency under a new program allowing refugees to be chosen for their athletic skill. No other country does this. cbc.ca/news/canada/tokyo-ref…
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Rihanna has been named a “national hero” of Barbados by PM Mia Mottley as the country celebrates its new republic status
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One Windsor police strategy appears to be to wait for more protesters to leave again. Officers can stay warm in their vehicles. Protesters no longer have their big rigs, very few pickup trucks, no BBQ or shelter after their encampment was cleared today. Overnight low temp -12C.
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Greenpeace demonstrators have built a long "pipeline" around Canada House marked "Crudeau Oil" as a way to protest against the Trans Mountain project. Greenpeace says Trudeau presents himself as a climate leader so shouldn't be approving pipelines.
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Of course this moment would get picked up overseas
Canada PM Justin Trudeau says "sorry" over sneaky snack
[Tap to expand] bbc.in/2FrZg2P
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As long as the the #BabySussex wait continues, the Windsor & Eton Brewery (the Queen’s official brewer) has a special “Windsor Baby” beer on tap #royalbaby
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Governor General Designate Julie Payette's 1st audience with the Queen at Balmoral Castle. "Very nice to see you," they both said. #cbc
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The crier shares the news outside the hospital: Buckingham Palace proudly announces the birth of a newly-born prince on St. George’s Day 2018
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Police are moving in on Windsor protesters, backed by a military-style armoured OPP vehicle
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🇨🇦 Normandy veterans returning from seeing Juno Beach up close, 75 years after D-Day. I heard one say “it’s not every day you get to do that.”
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Hey look it's @CBCKatie on BBC's World News network explaining the Trudeau/SNC-Lavalin story to the whole planet!
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The world’s first peek at the little prince with his parents Prince William and Kate outside St. Mary’s Hospital
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Alphonso Davies on the field for Canada’s final training session before its first appearance at a men’s World Cup in 36 years
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The Queen has received PM Justin Trudeau at Buckingham Palace. She told him "nice to see you again" and acknowledged he likely "can't stay very long, can you, you've got other things."
At the last Commonwealth summit, she thanked him for making her "feel so old." #cbc
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Listed among the dignitaries attending tonight’s ceremony marking Barbados’s transition to a republic: Amb. Fenty. That would be Rihanna. Global pop superstar and entrepreneur but also Barbadian ambassador for education, tourism, and investment.
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The lineup as Taylor Swift Eras Tour *merchandise* goes on sale at Toronto’s Rogers Centre #ErasTourToronto
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Queen + Adam Lambert kick off the Platinum Party at the Palace, with Brian May rocking out in front of the Queen Victoria statue #PlatinumJubilee
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Rogers vice-president Kye Prigg just now on @PnPCBC regarding #rogersoutage
- no timeline for return of service, cannot say whether connections will be re-established today. "As of now, we don't have an ETA."
- no word on cause of the outage yet
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Prince Charles and Camilla arrive in the old Quidi Vidi fishing village in St. John’s for a walkabout on a sunny afternoon. Anti-Trudeau protesters are chanting “freedom” in the distance.
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Vehicles blocking the Ambassador Bridge pulling out one by one. Still being cheered on by protesters as dozens of police officers have surrounded them.
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9 days from the Tokyo Olympics:
-COVID outbreak among staff at hotel where 31 members of Brazilian delegation are staying
-Russian women's rugby sevens team in isolation
-South African athletes in isolation after confirmed case on flight
reuters.com/lifestyle/sports…
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Here's the full list of U.S. products the EU has threatened to impose tolls on, in retaliation for steel/aluminum tariffs.
trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/do…
including:
-orange juice
-cranberries
-rice
-motorcycles
-bourbon
-jeans
-cigarettes
-yachts
-makeup
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Juno Beach, on the eve of D-Day. The weather was so bad on June 5, 1944, the Allies delayed the Normandy landings until the following day.
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Cartoonist who was let go by Irving's Brunswick News in NB (following the publication of a cartoon of Trump) has been hired by... the Washington Post.
Michael de Adder joins Washington Post Opinions as a political cartoonist washingtonpost.com/pr/2021/0…
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At Kensington Palace, Prince Harry & Meghan Markle’s first appearance as an engaged couple. Harry says he knew she was the one “the very first time we met” #cbc
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New: police arriving at Windsor protest in greater numbers. They now far outnumber the few remaining protesters at the main blockade site.
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The FBI has put up ads in Washington, D.C. bus shelters as they search for the rioters who invaded the Capitol. They’re still looking for the masked individual suspected of placing pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committees.
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Why do police still allow protesters to block the bridge? Windsor Police Deputy Chief told @KatGeorgieva “The priority is still on protecting human life and that includes the demonstrator, despite anyone's feeling that it might be gratifying to escalate the actions unessecarily.”
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Soldiers from 2nd Batallion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infanty guarding Buckingham Palace. Invited by the Queen to mark #Canada150.
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New via CBC's @markgollom, Windsor Police say they've made 12 arrests and towed 7-10 vehicles while clearing the Ambassador Bridge blockade. "Most" of those arrested will be charged with mischief. @CBCAlerts
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PPC leader Maxime Bernier arrives to vote in his hometown of St-Georges with his wife Catherine Letarte. Says he hopes for a high voter turnout across the country and says he’s optimistic. “We’ll see what happens.”
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“No Nazis, no KKK, no fascist USA!” counter-protesters chant as they march through Washington, DC.
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