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It’s been three years since Ottawa last hosted Canada Day celebrations. But this year, Ottawa residents, city officials and police and security forces are bracing themselves for yet another possible occupation. In February, the so-called “freedom convoy” occupied Parliament Hill in protest of government vaccine mandates, shutting down Ottawa’s downtown core for three weeks. And in May, the Rolling Thunder rally disturbed the peace and disrupted everyday activities over a weekend. The fallout of the earlier protests is still being calculated — the police responses cost millions of dollars, and on the local scale, communities and small businesses were affected.
Today, in The Conversation Canada, Jack Rozdilsky at York University writes about how these protests are turning into a recurrent social disaster. He notes “the ingredients are in place for a summer of discontent, and the recurring disaster of protest-related disruptions could potentially impact Ottawa over and over again.”
Also today:
All the best.
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Nehal El-Hadi
Science + Technology Editor
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Preparations are being made in Ottawa in anticipation of protests on Canada Day.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Jack L. Rozdilsky, York University, Canada
The protests in Ottawa are becoming a regular occurrence, so preparations are under way to prevent disruption in the city during Canada Day celebrations.
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Tyson ‘Freedom George’ Billings, a prominent figure in the ‘freedom convoy,’ leaves the Ottawa courthouse after being released on June 15, 2022.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Fiona MacDonald, University of Northern British Columbia
The ‘freedom convoy’ provides a way to express the emotional self-interest of Canadians — mostly white men — who feel they are losing their rightful place in Canadian society.
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Airlines experienced their worst year on record in 2020, with passenger numbers down by 60 per cent compared to 2019.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Geraint Harvey, Western University; Huw Thomas, University of Bristol; Peter Turnbull, University of Bristol
The COVID-19 pandemic has been unlike any crisis, both in terms of depth and duration, and has damaged the aviation industry more than most sectors.
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Child-care policy needs to be designed to ensure children have stable access to high-quality care.
(Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages)
Samantha Burns, University of Toronto; Calpanaa Jegatheeswaran, University of Toronto; Michal Perlman, University of Toronto; Petr Varmuza, University of Toronto; Sumayya Saleem, University of Toronto
Stable child care can protect kids in the face of major life stressors — so should subsidy policies.
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Muslim participants of different backgrounds who participated in an audience study said they identify with Kamala Khan, also known as Ms. Marvel, because she’s connected both to her ancestral culture and her American one.
(Daniel McFadden/Marvel Studios 2022)
Safiyya Hosein, Toronto Metropolitan University
Ms. Marvel represents a break from the ‘Muslim equals Middle Eastern’ portrayals popular in western media.
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La Conversation Canada
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Le harcèlement de rue est trop souvent banalisé, alors qu'il s'agit d'un phénomène ayant des impacts négatifs réels.
(Mélissa Blais)
Mélissa Blais, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO); Mélusine Dumerchat, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Il importe de déconstruire les arguments récurrents qui banalisent le phénomène du harcèlement de rue à l’aide des données et analyses.
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