An ice storm in eastern Canada has left at least two people dead and more than a million others without electricity, affecting the country’s two most-populated provinces, Quebec and Ontario, ahead of a holiday weekend.

Canadian "freedom" protesters on Saturday staged a motorcyclists' rally in the capital, Ottawa, despite severe police measures in the city.

Canada's police have arrested several people in the capital, Ottawa, following a march by hundreds of bikers, pedestrians and cars against government overreach.

Canadian police claim to have retaken the capital Ottawa which has been hit along with other cities by weeks-long demonstrations and seen the Emergency Act imposed for the second time in the country's history. 

Police in Canada have detained a number of demonstrators in the capital Ottawa as truckers and their supporters continue to block roads to protest against COVID-19 restrictions.

Canadian police have threatened to start arresting truckers and other demonstrators who are protesting against the government's COVID-19 measures for two weeks.

Police in Canada's national capital have seized thousands of liters of fuel as part of a crackdown to end days long protest against the government's COVID-19 measures.