There are still freedom rallies taking place in Ontario for some reason – blogTO

While anti-lockdown protests were a weekly occurrence in cities like Toronto duringthe height of pandemic restrictions, now that COVID-related orders have been completely lifted in the majority of settings, most would think that these groups don'thave muchmore reason to demonstrate.

Mask mandates and vaxpasses have been gone for weeks in all but a few select places, allsectors of businesswere long ago reopenedto the public, pandemic capacity limits are a thing of the past,and we cangather normally with family and friends again.

But some people in the province have kept on publicly rallying for "freedom" on a regular basis up to and including this past weekend.

Localshave beenreporting parades of people still taking over city streets in cars and on foot, waving Canadian (and American?) flags, honking, "trashing" nearby businessesand even accosting passersby and workersfor choosing to wear masks.

Protests took place in locales such as Niagara Fallsand Thunder Baylast weekend,leading to road closures and general confusion about why the heck such events arestill going on.

As one person said in a Reddit query, "Am I just completely out of the loop?I thought all mandates/mask requirements are pretty much non-existent in Ontario."

It appears to be residual crowds from the protests that took place far earlier in the health crisis during peak lockdown as well as the more recent and largertrucker convoys planned inFacebook community groups dedicated to the moot cause.

"They have made being against vaccines/masks/mandates their entire personality," one Redditor noted in one of the manyforums discussing the persisting events.

"It's their hobby. And probably the only people left who are speaking to them," another added.

According to the websitefor Freedom Fighters Canada, one of the organizations still involved in such events, the groups are calling for "The end of all government mandates; the end of all tyrannical bills and legislature our government has overstepped its boundaries, we are here to put them back in their place...working for the people not against them."

It seems that the main issues, now that most measures have gone by the wayside, is the fact that partially or unvaccinated residents face a different set of rules for entering the country after travel; that unvacinated individuals are still unable to enter the U.S. and other countries;andthe fact that face coverings are still required on planes and trains within Canada.

Unfortunately for the few still fighting what they perceive to be the good fight, it doesn't seem like many people really sympathize with their cause in fact, they seem to feel quite the opposite, wishing that if people were going to bother protesting, they would be bringing up "actual issues like inflation and housing costs."

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There are still freedom rallies taking place in Ontario for some reason - blogTO