The convoy planned to circle the interstate twice and then return to Hagerstown, Maryland, to regroup.

The pro-freedom "People's Convoy" has made its way across the United States after a weeks-long journey and circled the outskirts of Washington, DC, Sunday.

Over the past couple of days, the massive US convoy has been spotted at the Hagerstown Speedway, in neighboring Maryland, as trucks, RVs, and cars arrived from nearby Pennsylvania. On Sunday, the vehicles have been seen driving slow loops on the Beltway, a highway that surrounds the nation's capital.

Vancouver police are investigating after a cultural institution of the Vancouver Russian community was targeted by vandalism.

The Russian Community Centre near 4th Avenue and Arbutus Street was splashed with blue and yellow paint — the colours of the Ukrainian flag — sometime early Saturday.

When Global News attended the scene Saturday morning, the paint was still wet.

Oil prices have soared more than 10% and are closing in on their all-time high levels after the risk of a US and European ban on Russian crude threatened a stagflationary shock for world markets.

The global benchmark of Brent crude hit US$139.13 a barrel at the start of trading on Monday, a leap of more than $20 on Friday's close of $118.03.

The all-time of $147.50 was reached in July 2008 but some analysts think that mark could be surpassed because of the geopolitical impact of the Ukraine crisis.

World-famous author J.K.Rowling was accused of "transphobia", with a movement to "cancel" her launched in 2018 after the Harry Potter writer liked a tweet that referred to trans women as "men in dresses" and subsequently mocked an article online that used the words "people who menstruate" instead of "women".

J.K. Rowling has lambasted Scotland's recently published Gender Recognition Reform Bill, claiming it will "harm the most vulnerable women" if passed.

Scotland's Gender Recognition Reform Bill is set to amend the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, introducing new criteria for applicants wishing to obtain legal recognition via a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

The proposed legislation would simplify how people legally change the sex on their birth certificate. For example, there would be no need for those wishing to change gender to provide medical and psychiatric reports. It would also lower the age at which people can apply to change their gender from 18 to 16, with the individual required to have lived permanently in their chosen gender for three months, instead of the current mandatory two years.

Rowling, 56, tweeted that the law that the devolved government of First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) Nicola Sturgeon was trying to pass would "harm the most vulnerable women in society: those seeking help after male violence/rape and incarcerated women."

As the mainstream media power down the pandemic narrative and engage war mode, there's still time for one last autopsy - the media's post mortem of the pandemic itself.

And, in a beautifully fitting piece of poetic irony, Covid's autopsy will be inaccurate and fitted to a foregone conclusion.

This week has seen the UK's SAGE group discontinuing their regular monthly meetings, whilst admitting their predictions were "at variance with reality".

The media are discussing the "bad data" which was used to build the Imperial College models that called for a lockdown.

A Telegraph article quotes Prof Mark Woolhouse, who claims in his recent book that "lockdowns had surprisingly little effect", and that "Anyone who supported lockdown on the basis of the half-million figure was misled" but still lays the blame at the feet of incompetence, never malice.

This is all still part of the story. The post-event navel-gazing. We've seen it before.

On October 29, the Australian web site zik.com.ua reported that:

"Western Ukraine was hit by a severe epidemic of unidentified influenza, tentatively diagnosed by doctors as viral pneumonia. The number of dead has climbed dramatically. Doctors advise Western Ukrainians to stay home and use preventive medicine."

On October 30, Jane Burgermeister's theflu.com reported that:

"More than 30 people have died in the Ukraine as a result of a mysterious new virus that has an affinity for the lungs," according to Swiss reports. Ukraine's Health Ministry said the virus' origin is unknown and showed "no signs of mutating to become more virulent." So far, 40,000 people were reported sick and 951 hospitalized.

On October 30, healthfreedomalliance.org reported that Ukraine's Health Minister, Vasyl Knyazevych, said two laboratories diagnosed 11 of 33 samples tested as "highly influenza A/H1N1." As a result, he considered declaring a nationwide quarantine, even though western areas alone were affected.

Since October 19, 30 deaths, including one child, from "acute respiratory infections," were reported, at first called SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome, a serious form of pneumonia caused by a virus). Influenza A virus affects birds and some mammals like pigs.

Grain export bans, planting season delays, energy cut offs and shipping ports closed indefinitely across the Black Sea region mean one thing 4X food prices and rationing across the globe for wheat and petrol beginning this month. Which countries will ban exports next ad which will be most impacted from import cut offs.

Ukrainian militants are creating obstacles for the evacuation of civilians from Volnovakha, hindering their access to humanitarian corridors, the territorial defence department of the Donetsk People's Republic reported on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, the Russian military declared a ceasefire so that civilians could evacuate from the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha. The ceasefire window opened at 07:00 GMT. The department, on its Telegram channel, said:

"Militants of VFU [armed formations of Ukraine] are preventing the evacuation of civilians from Volnovakha ... They are intentionally not providing the necessary assistance to those in need so that they could not leave the Volnovakha settlements."

A total of 24 civilians, including four natives of Volnovakha, have been evacuated from the Mykolaivka village to Novyi Svit, it added. Some civilians remain in basements of destroyed residential buildings in Volnovakha, unable to get out on their own, it said.

"The nationalists refused to provide a humanitarian corridor to the residents of Mariupol," the department said. The Ukrainian troops are demanding on social media that civilians refuse to leave the city as the decision on the evacuation has allegedly not yet been made.

None of the country's corporate majors have cut ties with Russia over Ukraine conflict

One of attendees at a meeting in the Elysee Palace on Saturday, as quoted by Le Figaro, said:

"We were reminded that each company has the right to independently determine its strategy in the Russian market. The Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire said that now it is better to pause business rather than to leave the country in a hurry unilaterally and without warning anyone."

The reported quote from the French finance minister is in sharp contrast to his earlier statements regarding the issue. Le Maire, at a European Union finance ministers' meeting on February 25. said:

"We are going to strike the Russian banks. We want to isolate Russia financially. We want to cut off all the links between Russia and the global financial system."

Representatives of French corporate majors, including Societe Generale, Engie, Airbus, Safran, Arianespace, Thales, Eramet, Air Liquide, Danone and Auchan, were reportedly invited to attend the meeting on Friday evening. According to the publication, none of the 15 French business majors operating in Russia have left the country so far.

The vast majority of donors to the freedom convoy in Ottawa were from Canadians, the president of the crowdfunding site told Parliament. During a House of Commons public safety and national security committee meeting, President Juan Benitez admitted that nearly 90 percent of donations to the movement were from Canada.

He said that roughly $1.2 million came from outside the US. 88 percent of the funds were donated by Canadians, with 86 percent of the donors being Canadian. Benitez told CTV News:

"We do extensive analysis on the activities that are happening on our platform. In fact, it's our goal to be the most trusted platform in social fundraising. If we were aware that something like that was occurring, those folks are not welcome to participate on our platform, those activities would have been prohibited and we would have filtered that out."

This directly contradicts claims made by both NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as many cabinet ministers.