IF POLICING CAN'T END OTTAWA'S PROTEST THEN WHAT CAN?

Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: On the sixth straight day of the protest that has immobilized the core of the nation's capital and harassed local residents, Ottawa officials still gave nothing approaching a timeline of when this all might come to an end.

"I can't give you a definitive, 'It's one day, it's two days. It's one week, it's two weeks,'" police Chief Peter Sloly told council members during a public briefing Wednesday afternoon.
No sense of an end date isn't what anyone wanted to hear. Even more disturbing, the chief floated the unsettling idea that policing alone won't end this mess.
The situation is fluid and potentially dangerous. Earlier this week, police apprehended and charged a man with a knife and baton.

While the number of protesters has shrunk to hundreds from thousands last weekend, those who remain set up on downtown streets with their vehicles seem determined to stay until they get what they want.