Around 5 pm local time, protesters in Ottawa started getting arrested. Earlier it was announced that children and dogs would be taken from those arrested.
Ottawa has now had 2 interim police chiefs resign after the regular one did on Tuesday. One, hired from another city, quit without arriving in the city to assume the job, and blamed apparent lack of support from the city's council.
A reporter, claiming to be from the Salt Lake Tribune, has been using the hacked and doxxed information about donations to contact people with Utah addresses to ask about their motivations. Can't confirm this is from a real reporter.
There is more context to the Canadian Minister of Justice's veiled threat against financial donors. The more complete quote is " ... If you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who's donating hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars to this kind of thing, they oughta [sic] be worried." That's awfully specific. We're only talking about $15-20M in total (that's an estimate), and you just can't have that many donors in the 6 to 7 digit range specified. I'd say they have evidence that a whale is financing most of this.
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There's a small amount of evidence (but more than last night) that a bank run in Canada may have been averted.
First there's this showing a huge increase in the number of reports of online banks being down:
Canada really only has 4-5 banks, so this is pretty much the whole banking sector, all offline, about 10 pm EDT. There were also reports of ATM's not functioning at this time.
And there's also the huge increase in internet searches for the phrase "bank run" last night:
You might have to scroll to the right side to see that.
Having noted this, some people noted online that this would also be consistent with the installation of software dictated by the government for a certain time. No evidence of that, but it's plausible.
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