NORTH BATTLEFORD - The streets of North Battleford were filled with the sounds of honking horns early Saturday afternoon, as a rally in support of the truckers protest made its way through the city streets.
The convoy assembled in front of City Hall in North Battleford before making its way up 100th Street and then down Territorial Dr. across the city.
Participants waved Canadian flags, while a few cars also carried signs supporting the protests and denouncing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
This has been one of a number of similar protests that have been assembled in the Battlefords over the past number of weeks, in opposition to the government's imposition of vaccine mandates on truckers. The latest local rally comes at the same time that police in Ottawa are cracking down on the truckers protests in that city, with several arrests made and vehicles being towed away in the past 24 hours.
The North Battleford demonstration also took place just before a Tuesday special meeting of city council, where they were set to decide whether to extend mask mandates at city facilities beyond the expiry of the provincial mask mandate at the end of the month.
