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BATON ROUGE - The Original Ms. Vs snowball stand is back open for business, just in time to beat the summer heat. 

Manitoba justice officials are preparing for a potential reunion of the Freedom Convoy in February planned for Winnipeg.

The founder of Canada Unity, a group that called for an end to all vaccine mandates, is facing four charges related to the winter protest

The founder of Canada Unity, a group that called for an end to all vaccine mandates, is facing four charges related to the winter protest

A judicial pretrial was scheduled for April 20 for both.

The once-narrow protest, dubbed the “Freedom Convoy,” has spiraled into a broader movement of the far-right.

Truck drivers are protesting vaccine mandates by parking their rigs in intersections and blocking traffic. Learn more at Boston.com.

Once narrowly focused on a vaccine mandate for drivers entering Canada from the U.S., the protests have ballooned into a sprawling campaign against various grievances.

As the trucker convoy demonstrations continue, organizers of the protest have suggested that they would be willing to form a coalition with opposition parties, given Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has indicated no intent to meet or negotiate with them. This suggestion has been called a non-starter by one expert, and has been rebuked by the public safety minister as an attempt to overthrow the government.

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