The protest in Canada that organizers call the Freedom Convoy has inspired similar protests around the world, from France to New Zealand to Australia. But it's especially drawing the praise of Conservative commentators in the United States, such as Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson of Fox News. The movement against vaccine mandates and other public health measures has also become the obsession of more extreme corners of the internet.

Today on Front Burner, a conversation with CBC's Washington correspondent, Alex Panetta, on how the protest is playing out in the U.S. media, and Jared Holt, a domestic extremism researcher at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, on how it's manifesting in right-wing online spaces.