Evan Blackman participated in the Ottawa Freedom Convoy in February of 2022. As a result, he was arrested and charged with mischief and obstructing police.
Blackman plead not guilty to all charges and was scheduled for trial October 23, 2023. Due to the lack of evidence supporting the charges, and poor recollections of the officer, all charges were dismissed.
Two Calgary residents, travelling to the 1 Million March for Children protest in September 2023, struck up a conversation with a like-minded individual on the Calgary C-train.
When they went to exit at their stop however, both men were held by transit police, one was handcuffed, and both were served with a notice to appear in court in November by transit authorities.
All charges have subsequently been dropped.
Gerald Charlebois, a 79-year-old man, was arrested and charged for refusing to present ID when stopped for honking his horn in downtown Ottawa, in February of 2022.
In September he finally saw an end to this egregious situation when his charges were officially dropped, although no clear explanation was provided.
Updates provided by The Democracy Fund (TDF), representing Tamara Lich in her case with Chris Barber, show that Tamara’s “breach” of bail conditions charge has now been dropped by the Crown, apparently ‘in favour of pursuing the current charges’, which have already extended well beyond the original scheduling allowance.
Alberta has shown Canadians that justice isn’t lost, that there are still those that are capable of setting aside their bias and political affiliations to interpret the laws in the ways they were intended.
Pastor James Coates of the Grace Life Church, has seen all his charges dropped following a court decision.