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The final cost of the “Freedom Convoy” occupation could hit $30 million and Ottawa’s municipal government will be looking to the upper levels to pay the bills,…

City councillors in Ottawa have voted to reschedule Valentine's Day to March 14 after the Freedom Convoy took over parts of the city.

Relief measures approved Wednesday include $450,000 in grants to BIAs in areas affected by the three-week protests against vaccine mandates. 

With the city's downtown clear of protesters and big rig trucks, Ottawa city council has turned to more reflective questions about how to prevent the occupation from happening again, and how to fix gaps in how the national capital region functions.

Ottawa city council unanimously approved a motion to redo Valentine’s Day on March 14 this year, in the wake of the three-week Freedom Convoy protest that took over the city’s downtown.

Ottawa city council passed a wide array of motions Wednesday aimed at helping businesses in downtown neighbourhoods recover from the three-week occupation.

Downtown Ottawa was eerily quiet Monday morning after weeks of overwhelming noise from honking horns, idling engines and large crowds protesting the Liberal government, vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions.

The federal government remains alert to the possibility that trucks and protesters could return to Canadas capital after police spent the weekend arresting demonstrators and dispersing blockades on Ottawas streets, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday.

The “Freedom Convoy” that converged in Ottawa on Jan. 28 began in response to the federal government’s move to require Canadian truck drivers crossing the U.S.…

"Even though the blockades are lifted across border openings right now, even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa, this state of emergency is not over," Trudeau said at late morning news conference.