The Ottawa convoy is not peaceful: megalist

I recommend reading this (if you are not in Ottawa) with this drone footage on full volume, to get the full, horrible, experience.

This list contains exclusively incidents in Ottawa, and does not account for actions in other Canadian cities or at the border. Compiled through the efforts of one very tired downtown Ottawa resident.

• Visual mapping of the noise, pollution, and traffic impacts
• Footage from the lone counter protester (uploaded February 4th)
• Organiser history of white supremacy
• Organiser spewing racist rhetoric
• Pat King: “Trudeau is going to catch a bullet”
• Extremist organisers list
• Instagram of convoy damages
• Convoytraitors.ca includes Nazi salutes, drinking and driving, and photos of businesses who have supported the convoy

• Texts to a reporter (January 27th)

• Another text

• Reporter was spat on

• Vandalizing Terry Fox Statue (January 29th)
• Peeing outside (January 29th)
• Beer can thrown at reporter (January 29th)
• Parked on the Cenotaph (January 29th)
• Harassing a hotel worker (January 29th)
• Public intoxication (January 29th)
• Arthur Currie Statue (January 29th)
• More public drinking (January 29th)
• Fireworks set off from the National War Memorial (January 29th)
• Dancing on the Cenotaph (January 29th)
• Frostbite on their child

• Peeing on the National War Memorial (January 30th)
• Pooping on a porch with a pride flag (January 30th)
• Harassed a homeless shelter into giving them food, assaulted a user and employee (January 30th)
• “Unvaxxed sperm is the next bitcoin”
• Mocking Indigenous people (January 30th)
• Honking, fireworks, trying to flip a car
• Closed down Rideau Centre, Vaccination Clinics, Public Libraries, Museums, Roads, Bridges

• Rideau Centre lost about 20 million due to closure
• More on the lost revenue

• Blocking an ambulance (January 30th)
• Transphobic signs (January 30th)
• Picking a fight with a reporter
• “Pureblood” (January 30th)
• Threatening to stab a teenager (January 30th)
• Criminal investigations underway (January 30th)

• Noise (January 31st)
• Threatened to run over police (January 31st)
• Three Percenters flag (January 31st)
• Dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
• Swastika, Confederate flags on display

• More hate symbols
• Another Confederate flag
• Another Confederate flag
• Trump flag, more Nazi imagery
• More
• Canada Nazi Flag
• Proudly proclaiming being white supremacists
• More Nazi flag photos
• National Socialist Black Metal (Nazi group)

• More NSBM

• Farfadaa made an appearance

• Disturbing a mother and her children

• Noose flag
• La Muete (Quebec Facist Org)
• Q Anon Flag
• Tyler Russel, Canada First leader and known white nationalist, at the convoy

• Him making Nazi references in a groupchat

• “Nurenberg” Now - Nuremberg references the hanging of Nazis
• More Trump flags

• You can buy “Indigeneity” by joining this group (January 31st)
• Assaulting a person (January 31st)
• Truck hit barricade (January 31st)
• Police Chief says weapons have been brought into the city (January 31st)
• Horn in a residential neighbourhood (January 31st)
• Told to take off mask to enter LRT (January 31st)
• Hotel Association describes experience as “brutal” (January 31st)
• Another person assaulted (January 31st)
• Counter-protestors assaulted (January 31st)
• Business owners “defeated” by convoy (January 31st)

• Reaction to Counter-Protester (February 1st)

• Additional video

• Rocks and racial slurs hurled at an ambulance
• Harassment of hospital workers
• Noise (February 1st)
• Noise and chaos (February 1st)
• Star of David buttons being sold (February 1st)
• Stealing Fuel

• Diesel Fumes creating health risks (February 2nd)
• Thread on how disabled people are affected (February 2nd)

• ParaTranspo has limited access downtown

• Disabled child unable to sleep (February 2nd)
• Gun seized (February 2nd)
• Vandalism at an elementary school (February 2nd)
• Noise (February 2nd)
• Blocking an ambulance (February 2nd)
• Three arrested so far (February 2nd)

• Constructing buildings, hoarding gas and propane (February 3rd)

• Additional pictures

• Press Conference statements (February 3rd)
• QAnon “Queen of Canada” burning the flag (February 3rd)

• Video

• Happy Goat Elgin window smashed (next to their pride flag) (February 3rd)
• Fireworks being set off (February 3rd)
• Harassment (February 3rd)
• Chaos, cranes, honking, open fires in the downtown core (February 3rd)

• Church forced to cancel services (February 4th)
• Moving into suburbs (February 4th)
• Trying to intimidate retail workers with “legal” papers (February 4th)
• Residents fearing they will not be able to receive homecare (February 4th)
• Encouraging spam-calling 911 (February 4th)

• Additional

• Mooshu employee assaulted (February 4th)
• Poorly stored fuel canisters (February 4th)
• Chasing away cops (February 4th)
• Noise levels
• Fireworks (February 4th)
• Honking (February 4th)

• Have brought in a cruise ship horn (February 5th)
• Trump flag on horseback (February 5th)
• Woman threatened with sexual assault for wearing a mask
• Ambulance blocked (February 5th)
• Peeing on a high school, in front of children (February 5th)
• Reports of animal cruelty from the humane society (February 5th)
• Appropriating Indigenous practices (February 5th)
• Fireworks filmed from an apartment (February 5th)
• Burnouts (February 5th)
• Chemotherapy medication unable to be delivered (February 5th)
• Attempted break-in at counter-protester’s residence (February 5th)
• Fireworks in residential area (February 5th)
• “You’re gonna fucking die you little bitch” (February 5th)
• Train horn (February 5th)

• More train horn
• Boat horn

• More Facebook posts from boat horn
• More

• Train horns, burnouts, reckless behaviour
• Threats to public officials (February 5th)
• Iron Cross / Fascist imagery (February 5th) and honking next to a childcare centre (January 30th)
• Protester with a child on his shoulders swearing at a reporter (February 5th)
• Unhoused people having mental breakdowns (February 5th)
• Person on LRT allegedly harassed and beaten for wearing a mask (February 5th)
• Drinking and driving (February 5th)
• Fireworks in front of residential building (February 5th)
• Noise downtown registers at 105 decibels (85 decibels for more than 10 minutes can cause hearing damage) (February 5th)

• Police are finally issuing tickets for disruptive and unlawful behaviour, over 200 calls to hate-crime hotline, 97 criminal investigations opened (February 6th)
• Attempt to light fire (February 6th)

• More on the attempted arson

• Someone in Downtown committed suicide (February 6th)
• Man hits a cop car, arrested
• More honking (February 6th)

• Encouraging harassment of class-action lawyer (February 7th)

• Harassment of company that moved convoy’s shack (the company agrees with the convoy, and is still receiving death threats) (February 8th)
• About 100 trucks have children living inside, amidst noise, exhaust, cold, and lack of proper food or sanitation (February 8th)
• Police have charged protestors with drug possession, stunt driving, menacing, and other violations (1300+ tickets) (February 8th)
• American man attempted to make bomb threat to police… but called the wrong Ottawa (February 8th)

• Harassing a counter-protester with a “no hate in my home” sign, with a young child in between them (February 9th)

• Slow-rolling the airport (February 10th)
• Spam- calling 911( February 10th)
• Flipping off and verbally taunting elementary school students (February 10th)
• Pooping on the street at Metcalfe and Wellington, 12:45 (February 10th)
• Threats to a small LGBTQ Tattoo Studio (February 10th)
• Man arrested for aiding and abetting (February 10th)
• Demonstrators refused to stop for traffic stop, hit police cruiser. 126 Active criminal investigations, 25 arrests. (February 10th)
• Threatening tow truck companies (February 10th)

• “As expected, alarmed parents are reporting that the occupiers are harassing kids & parents around schools. @OPSChiefSloly I just sent another urgent msg to you. Are police defending our schools today? We are begging you (cc @JimWatsonOttawa ) to tell us the plan to keep kids safe” (February 11th)
• $1500 in by-law noise fines issued to one man (February 11th)
• Honking (February 11th)
• Honking (February 11th)
• More Honking at almost midnight (February 11th)
• Worsened mental health and substance use by distressed residents (February 11th)

• Still honking despite injunction (February 12th)
• Removing the fencing around the War Memorial (which they previously used as a washroom and dance floor) (February 12th)

• Veterans Affairs Minister on the disrespect of the War Memorial (February 12th)
• More protesting on the War Memorial (February 12th)
• More

• Rideau Centre losses estimated at 40 million so far (February 12th)
• Entering residential building in the middle of the night to blow an airhorn (February 12th)
• Mass of maskless people entering Toys-R-Us (February 12th)
• So much honking (1 hour mark) (February 12th)
• Multi-km long backup (February 12th)
• Testing handcuffs on the doors of 360 McLeod residence (February 12th, 3:00pm)

• Confirmation

• Still pissing on the street (and private property) (February 12th)
• Independent grocer overrun by convoyers (February 12th)
• Threatening locals (February 12th)
• Fireworks, firecrackers, speakers, horns (February 12th)
• Farm Boy closing because staff members feel threatened. More people losing their income (February 12th)
• Another Trump flag (February 12th)
• Once again blocking an ambulance (February 12th)
• Yelling at CBC reporter (February 12th)
• Speakers (February 12th)
• Blocking an ambulance (February 12th)
• Fireworks (February 12th)
• Red Ensign on the War Memorial, used as a white supremacist symbol (February 12th)

• Injunction granted for wide-spread breaking of bylaws (February 14th)
• ⅓ of distress centre calls related to convoy effects (February 14th)

• Thousands unemployed as surrounding businesses forced to close for weeks (February 15th)

• Still breaking noise bylaws (February 16th)
• Honking (February 16th)
• Noise, despite injunction (February 16th)
• Journalist pushed around (February 16th) (en français)
• Alleged death threats from protester (February 16th)
• 110 decibels of noise in downtown (February 16th)

• Honking (February 17th)
• Trucker threatened Zexi Li by backing vehicle onto sidewalk (February 17th)
• Wearing yellow stars (February 17th)
• The sound of honking from indoors and a couple floors above ground (February 17th)
• 7am honking (February 17th)

• More businesses join class-action, citing lost revenue from forced closures and staff harassment as concerns (February 18th)
• 911 lines being flooded to attempted to draw police resources away from downtown (February 18th)
• Honking in an abandoned downtown, businesses closed as police move in (February 18th)
• Stalked and berated reporters (February 18th)
• Sending people after towing companies (February 18th)
• Resisting arrest (February 18th)
• Children on site (February 18th)

• Police confirmation
• Additional
• Photo of child
• Child in a stroller
• Stroller
• 2-month old baby
• Child in RV

• Harassing reporter (who handles it brilliantly) (February 18th)
• 4:00pm one minor injury to police officer (February 18th)
• Protesters assaulted officers, attempted to take weapon (February 18th)
• Person arrested for assaulting a police horse (February 18th)
• Man in brown, right side, punches police horses at 11 second mark (February 18th)
• Convoy broke into building and cut power (February 18th)
• Using another person as a shield (February 18th)
• Telling a reporter to hang herself (February 18th)
• Pushing a reporter from behind (February 18th)
• Swarming a reporter (February 18th)
• Tens of millions lost in business (February 18th)
• Mocking police with racist and sexist remarks (February 18th)
• Article on the cost of the occupation on mental health (February 18th)
• Fireworks set off (February 19th)

• Children seen in protest (February 19th)

• Child in the crown (February 19th)
• More children
• More children
• Bringing children into downtown

• Ottawa Civic and General Hospitals on lockdown from bomb threats (February 19th)
• Gas used on police (February 19th)

• Further confirmation

• Protesters being resistant, police have used chemical irritant in response (February 19th)
• Protesters wearing body armour, had smoke grenades and fireworks in them (February 19th)
• Fireworks set off (February 19th)
• Telling journalists they should be hung (February 19th)
• Harassing reporters (February 19th)
• Harassing reporters, calling them Nazis, spitting on them (February 19th)
• More extremist flags (February 19th)
• Police use mid range impact weapons after officers assaulted (February 19th)
• Randy Hillier encouraging spam-calling 911 (February 19th)

• Backup link
• Randy Hillier publishes police officer’s full names and phone numbers (February 19th)

• Backup link (ID info cropped)

• Harassing independent reporter (February 19th)

• Part 2

• Dog at protest (February 19th)
• More harassing reporters (February 19th)
• Loaded shotguns allegedly found in vehicles (February 19th)
• Fireworks shot by cops (February 19th)
• Harassing an unrelated towing business (February 19th)
• Fireworks literally bouncing off of buildings (February 19th)
• Protester lighting smoke bomb (February 19th)
• Sexist and violent remarks about police officer

• Calling for Trudeau’s death (February 21st)
• Ottawa’s Children’s Hospital receives islamophobic and anti-semetic bomb threat (February 21st)

• Additional news article

• As of February 21st, 196 arrests, 110 charges (February 21st)

• Racist phone call to lawyer live-tweeting Pat King bail hearings (February 22nd)
• National Defence phone lines flooded with calls from protesters asking to be protected from police action (February 22nd)
• Article about the mental effect of the convoy on residents (February 22nd)

• Charges laid against person who broke into buildings downtown and shut off power (February 24th)

• Many residents experiencing minor trauma (February 26th)
• Racist voicemail sent to lawyer and independent commentator (February 26th)

• 40 trucks worth of garbage left behind (March 1st)

• Attempting to disrupt a rally for Ukraine (March 6th) (I would not usually include sources like this, however since I was at the rally and also witnessed this happening I can attest to its truth.)

• Nazi flag unfurled (March 12th)

• Staging area in residential neighbourhood (April 5th article)

• “Rolling Thunder” organizer calls for “Nuremberg trials 2.0” (April 21st)

• Rolling Thunder participant arrested for breaching bail conditions (April 29th)
• Second individual arrested (April 29th)
• Two arrested (April 29th)
• “Pureblood sperm is the next bitcoin” (April 29th)
• Neil Sheard posting signs to doctor’s house

• Pat King states it will only be solved with violence
• Convoy co-organizer with Confederate flags

• Statement from Youth Services
• Algonquin Statement
• 613-819 Black Hub Noir Statement
• Cupe Statement
• Statement from Alliance to End Homelessness 
• Condemnation of the convoy by Centretown Community Health
• United Way statement
• List of organisations calling for an end to blockades (February 12th)
• Royal Canadian Legion statement on disappointment of Canadian flag being used
• Canada Labour Congress Joint Statement from Unions
• Cornerstone Housing for Women Statement

• The Convoy’s Memorandum clearly states that they want to be placed in a position in government higher than that of the PM. Senate, Governor General, or House of Commons.

• Governor General’s office inundated by calls for Prime Minister to be fired