Ottawa can breathe a little easier now that it's over. The details of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber's house arrest are almost beside the point.

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More than three-and-a-half years after leading the truckers’ occupation of Ottawa’s downtown streets, convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber received their sentences Tuesday at the Elgin Street courthouse.

Each was handed an 18-month conditional sentence — a year of house arrest followed by six months of curfew. It’s a compromise that won’t likely satisfy anyone. The punishments fell well short of the seven- and eight-year prison terms sought by the Crown, yet were more substantial than the absolute discharges their lawyers had

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