Downtown Edmonton residents are bracing for yet another weekend of snarled traffic, blaring horns and what they say are at times frightening confrontations with anti-restriction protesters.
“We don’t feel safe. We feel like hostages in our own buildings,” said Tammy Kobliuk, who lives on 110th Street near the convoy’s main route.
While protesters in Ottawa have been settled in full-time for weeks, Edmonton’s demonstrations have been less permanent, with convoys travelling through the city each weekend.
Kobliuk and other central Edmonton residents and business owners say they have seen protesters in large trucks and passenger vehicles, and on foot, descend on the core
