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Ashley Burke
@AshleyBurkeCBC
Senior Reporter, CBC’s Parliamentary Bureau. Confidential news tips: [email protected]
Ottawa, Ontario
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    Ashley Burke
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    Feb 23, 2022
    CBC’s van slide off the road & got stuck in a ditch beside the protestors’ camp in Arnprior. A demonstrator named Tyson Garneau wearing a “defund the CBC” hat pulled us out knowing we were CBC journalists. He said he’d never leave anyone stuck like that.
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    Ashley Burke
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    Oct 5, 2022
    Hundred demonstrated on parliament hill to mark day 1,000 since the IRGC shot down Flight 752 killing 176 people. Spokesperson for families Hamed Esmaeilion says they’re demanding the gov’t list the IRGC as a terrorist org. Here’s what he said the gov’t told him is the barrier:
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    Ashley Burke
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    Feb 23, 2022
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    Garneau says he’s been sleeping in the back of his truck during the ‘freedom convoy’ & arrived at the Arnprior camp today after visiting the camp in Vankleek Hill. He lost his job as a trucker & doesn’t know what comes next but said he wants freedom for his grandkids.
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    Ashley Burke
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    Feb 9, 2022
    Ottawa police issue a statement saying they're giving demonstrators notice that they could be arrested for blocking streets & can seize vehicles. If convicted, vehicles could possibly be forfeited & the accused could be denied crossing the U.S. border, police said.
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    Ashley Burke
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    Sep 13, 2021
    Trudeau was heckled by a protestor today heading to an interview at Global News in Vancouver and he responded by saying “Isn’t there a hospital you should be going to bother right now” #cdnpoli
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    Ashley Burke
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    Mar 10, 2022
    Jody Thomas, National Security & Intelligence Advisor to the PM, says “there is no doubt” that the people who organized the ‘freedom convoy’ came to overthrow the government. Whether it was realistic or not is irrelevant, she said.
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    Ashley Burke
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    Sep 8, 2021
    WestJet announces that all its employees must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 30 or else they can't work for the airline. #cdnpoli
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    Ashley Burke
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    Mar 23, 2025
    More than 50 Newfoundland and Labrador's fish harvesters are outside Mark Carney’s rally in St. John’s. Police said they told them to move outside. The front doors are now locked. Carney started his speech saying he wants to acknowledge them and is here to listen.
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    Ashley Burke
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    Apr 28, 2025
    Emotional moment in Vancouver. The crowd starts singing Amazing Grace after Liberal leader Mark Carney and Premier Eby laid flowers near the site of yesterday’s attack. People are wiping away tears.
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    Ashley Burke
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    Mar 22, 2022
    Former Canadian Armed Forces sniper "Wali" says he was the last to learn of his own death in Ukraine. Spoke to him this am. He returned from battling Russian forces on the frontlines in the Kyiv region & learned about a Russian disinformation campaign declaring he was killed.
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    Ashley Burke
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    Feb 23, 2022
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    A female trucker at the gate of the Arnprior camp was friendly, but said they’ve decided no media are allowed inside. She said they are trying to take care of protestors on the site.
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    Ashley Burke
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    Apr 30, 2022
    Conservative MP Martin Shields is at the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally. We asked for an interview and he said there was no chance in hell. #cdnpoli
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    Ashley Burke
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    Feb 15, 2022
    Breaking: Gov't will announce today that starting March 1 fully-vaccinated Canadians will have to show proof of a negative rapid antigen test to return to Canada, CBC News has learned. The PCR testing requirement will be dropped. This is in line with the U.S.
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    Ashley Burke
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    Aug 27, 2021
    Look at how this crowd of demonstrators reacts when it's announced Liberal leader Justin Trudeau's event in Bolton, ON is called off due to safety reasons. Footage shot by the media's pool camera on the campaign. #cdnpoli
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