The press here in Canada took a lot of money from the government in recent years to stay afloat, there's a lot of protectionism and outright propaganda in all the mainstream news. They often put scare quotes on "Freedom" when they do the convoy coverage.

There was a lot of effort expended in the press to make this seem like a low-class hoodlums' rebellion, or a Nazi rebellion (some spook or idiot threw a Nazi flag over a statue or something). They had footage of what looked to be a gov't photog waiting at some staged altercation on a blocked road. Fucked up stuff.