The Coutts blockade and the Coutts 4 trial, mandate-era prosecutions and their aftermath.
After executing a slow roll to the U.S.-Canada border town of Coutts, Alberta, to mark the third-year anniversary of the blockade, supporters gathered in Lethbridge to raise funds for the people jailed as a result of their participation in the anti-COVID-19 mandate blockade known as the Coutts border blockade.
"Everybody wants to move on from COVID, but with no accountability," says Alex Van Herk whose sentencing got delayed while his co-accused were given prison sentences for their role in the Coutts blockade during the "freedom convoy" in 2022.
Today, I’m at the Lethbridge courthouse in Alberta, covering the sentencing hearing for the Coutts Trio—Alex Van Herk, Marco Van Huigenbos, and George Janzen. These three men, who are farmers, fathers, and passionate Canadians, could face up to 10 years in prison.
On the 923rd day of their remand custody, Justice David Labrenz is set to sentence the two Coutts protesters to over six years in jail (before reductions).
Trial by jury is set to begin tomorrow for the two men who have been held in remand for over 840 days on charges of conspiracy to murder RCMP officers during the anti-COVID mandates protest in Coutts, Alberta.
“The Charter is not protecting you, the courts are not protecting you, so wake up!” urges longtime former Conservative MP Art Hanger outside the Lethbridge courthouse, where the trial of the Coutts 4 is being held.
Today is the last week of pre-trial hearings before the two men accused of conspiring to kill RCMP officers during a two-week-long anti-Covid-19 protest at the Canada-U.S. border town of Coutts, Alberta, finally proceed to trial next week.
Marco Van Huigenbos, now facing up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of mischief over $5,000 along with…
2 of the 4 accused have pled guilty to less serious charges and walked free from Lethbridge Remand Centre after spending more than 720 days.
A large convoy in support of the 4 accused assembled in southern Alberta on Saturday.
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