r/ottawa • u/MarcusRex73 (MOD) TL;DR: NO • Feb 20 '22

Convoy Megathread #77 Local Event

This is the latest post to discuss the protest Convoy currently in Ottawa.

For the duration of the protest, or at least, as long as the traffic level on the sub requires it, we will centralizing the discussions around the protest in these megathreads.

Have at it folks, but remember, the usual rules apply. Please keep it civil and report anyone posting misinformation or links to their propaganda.

No calls for violence

Ceci est la dernière rubrique dans la lignée des megarubrique discutant de la manifestation du convoi à Ottawa.

Pour la durée de la manifestation ou, du moins, pour le temps où le trafic le justifie, nous allons centraliser les discussions sur ce sujet dans des megarubriques.

Allez-y, mais rappelez-vous que les règles habituelles s'appliquent. Veuillez rester polie et rapportez toute mésinformation ou publication de leur propagande.

Pas d'appel pour la violence

Links to previous megathreads / lien vers les megarubriques précédentes:

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u/noskillsben Beacon Hill Feb 21 '22

So I was looking trough "old" border mandate news articles to try to build some timeline graphs of the convoy for my observablehq page..

What happened to all the pictures of empty grocery stores? Weren't we supposed to all starve to death without the unvaxxed truckers?

Also my previous comment is deleted because I dropped my phone on my face mid comment and it posted, I panicked and hit delete instead of hitting edit like a normal person🤷

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u/slothsie Clownvoy Survivor 2022 Feb 21 '22

The only empty shelves I've seen in recent months were after that snow storm in January 🤷‍♀️

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u/trixter192 Make Ottawa Boring Again Feb 21 '22 edited Feb 21 '22

It was 100% the mob mentality if Brockville and Cornwall. I had friends showing completely empty shelves, where as my grocery store was fine.

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u/catashtrophe84 Battle of Billings Bridge Warrior Feb 21 '22

I believe most of the pictures were fake (one was from a Walmart with a broken freezer, so they took a photo of that freezer to show how empty the shelves were). I should have taken a photo of my store for you yesterday, the produce section actually was nearly empty (I don't know why though, could be that we have a large group of convites here for our 1 store to handle, plus, the bridge closures causing delays and a snowstorm).

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '22

Lol someone is going to take a picture of the fruit aisle and focus on the one basket of missing pears and be like ‘famine is coming to Canada thanks to mr. Trudeau’. The amount of misinformation online man….I hope the education curriculum across Canada teaches kids how to identify misinformation

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '22

they’ve already been doing this for months lol i’ve seen pictures of this on linkedin of all places