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The case for embedding inclusion in all infrastructure planning, from start to finish.

Lessons from communities across Canada that blocked truck convoys

When the Freedom Convoy came to Ottawa it was community members who organized to keep one another safe.

On January 28, the city of Ottawa changed forever as a hate-fuelled convoy set up camp for what would become a 26-day occupation.

When the first trucks rolled in on January 28, I knew something bad was coming our way. What I didn’t realize at the time was that nobody had a plan to stop them.

Addressing and sorting through the Freedom Convoy's wreckage is a job that belongs to all white people in Canada.