Official: Trudeau to use emergency powers to quell protests

By ROB GILLIES and TED SHAFFREY (Associated Press)

OTTAWA, Ontario Feb. 14, 2022 7:10 p.m. Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 7:48 p.m.

A government official in Canada says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will invoke emergency powers to quell the protests by demonstrators who have paralyzed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions