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Canada's capital secured and cleaned up after weeks-long protests
Canadian police on Sunday secured the downtown core of the capital with fencing as city workers cleaned up trash and snowploughs cleared streets after two days of tense standoffs and 191 arrests ended a three-week occupation of Ottawa.
Demonstrators had used hundreds of trucks and vehicles to block the city centre since Jan 28, prompting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke rarely used emergency powers. Seventy-six vehicles had been towed, police said...
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