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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Taking back Ottawa's streets: Inside the counter-protests against the truckers
Description: Ariel Troster doesn't know who she is more mad at: the local police in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or the truck protesters clogging her city's streets, disrupting locals' lives while wrapping themselves in Canadian flags.
Troster was one of the Ottawans who took to the streets over the weekend to counter-protest the "freedom convoy" that's rolled across the country. in -22-degree weather (with the wind chill), she and her fellow protesters set up counter-blockades to prevent truckers from getting downtown, where 50,000 residents have become fed up with the constant noise, late-night honking, social disruption and...