The first trucks in a massive national convoy protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates, along with supporters from other parts of the country, will start rolling into the Ottawa area today.

The convoy has been gaining participants and supporters as it rolls across the country from all directions for a weekend rally in the capital.

In Toronto, Thursday, crowds of people lined part of the route, waving Canadian flags and holding up signs denouncing the vaccine mandate as they cheered the truckers on.

uld not tolerate any criminal behaviour as they made plans to deal with as many as 2,000 demonstrators on Saturday.