Ottawa Blockade Largely Dispersed As Financial Crackdown Widens
- Number of protesters ‘dramatically declined’: police chief
- Police freeze bank accounts and halt transfers to protesters
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Police said they have largely cleared downtown Ottawa of the anti-vaccine protests that have roiled Canada and its capital for the last three weeks, as a financial crackdown widened to help prevent similar disturbances.
“The number of unlawful protesters has dramatically declined in the last 24 hours,” Ottawa’s interim police chief, Steve Bell, said in a press conference Sunday.