Ottawa's police chief has been forced to resign under intense pressure from authorities for not being tough enough in handling days of mass protests that have paralyzed the Canadian capital and prompted the government to invoke a state of emergency for the first time in half a century.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invokes rarely-used emergency ordinance in a bid to quell anti-vaccine trucker protests that have brought the capital city Ottawa to a grinding halt.

Republican US Senator Rand Paul says he hopes anti-vaccine protesters in trucks "clog up [American] cities" amid a warning by authorities that a convoy of anti-vaccine truckers may soon begin in the country.

Canadian truckers and demonstrators protesting Covid-19 restrictions remain firmly entrenched in the capital for a third straight weekend.

Canadian protesters against the government’s coronavirus restrictions and vaccine mandates have defied an injunction order to end a protracted blockade that has disrupted North America’s busiest land border crossing.

Canadian police have threatened to start arresting truckers and other demonstrators who are protesting against the government's COVID-19 measures for two weeks.

Video filmed by people around government buildings in Canada's Ottawa on Friday showed trucks arriving to protest against the vaccine mandate. 

Canadians show their support to hundreds of truckers on their way to Ottawa during a demonstration against the vaccine mandate for cross-border drivers

Brazilian truckers have held demonstrations across Brazil and blocked multiple federal roadways in several states, prompting President Jair Bolsonaro to ask the protesters to stand down.