Wed Sep 8, 2021 – 5:09 am EDTWed Sep 8, 2021 – 5:15 am EDT
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (LifeSiteNews) – Thousands of people took to the streets in many cities across British Columbia (BC) last week to protest COVID vaccine passports and the mandatory vaccination of healthcare workers.
The “Worldwide Walkout Health Freedom” rally was organized by Canadian Frontline Nurses, a group recently formed to protest against COVID lockdowns and jab mandates.
The September 1 protests were largest in the city of Vancouver. Rebel News reported that over 10,000 people attended them, blocking off sections along Cambie Street and 12th Avenue.
One attendee of the Vancouver rally told Rebel News that he “personally moved from Syria, a dictatorship country with very little freedom to come here, only to have my freedoms taken away from me. I became a Canadian citizen only last year, and I don’t understand any of this.”
A woman who had worked as a healthcare worker said she was “traumatized by her experience” of an understaffed healthcare system and quit her job as a result.
“I thought I was alone, and today I know I am not alone,” she said.
Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart called the protestors “kooks” and
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