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Police arrest Canadian protest leaders

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Canadian police lastnight began arresting leaders of the trucker-led protest that has choked the capital's streets for three weeks and provoked the government into calling on rarely used emergency powers.

A video posted to the Twitter account for the so-called "Freedom Convoy" showed Tamara Lich, one of the organizers, being taken into police custody on Thursday night.

The earlier arrest of another leader, Chris Barber, was also captured in a video shared on the same account. The convoy had started with truckers protesting against mandatory Covid vaccines to cross the US border, but its demands have grown to include an end to all pandemic restrictions and, for many, a wider anti-establishment agenda.

At its peak, the movement also included blockades of a half-dozen US-Canada border crossings - including the key route between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan.

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