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TGIF: Protests, Resignations and Time-Outs
Protesters arrive at Parliament Hill. (Lars Hagberg/AFP via Getty Images)
The great Canadian trucker revolt, Jeff Zucker, Whoopi Goldberg, and more.
By Nellie Bowles
02.04.22 — TGIF
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Hello and welcome back to TGIF! Let’s get right to it. Common Sense stories from this week are woven into the news roundup.

→ Truckers revolt: A working class revolt is tearing across Canada as truckers stand in opposition to vaccine mandates, lockdowns, and an out-of-touch government that they feel is restricting freedom.

The protestors, who have driven…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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