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File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
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U.S. urges Canada to use federal powers to ease border protest disruption

Disruptions force automakers to reduce operations

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Windsor/Washington | Reuters — Canada should use federal powers to ease the growing economic disruption caused by the blockage of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route by protesters opposed to coronavirus mandates, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said on Thursday. The closure of the Ambassador Bridge, North America’s busiest international land border crossing and a vital
Protestors’ vehicles block the route leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, on Feb. 8, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
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More government action likely as border blockades hit trade

Manitoba's main crossing now also blocked

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Reuters — The shutdown of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route is knocking out automakers’ operations as the business impact from the two-week-old protests against Canada’s pandemic measures ramp up pressure on authorities to quell the demonstrations. The protests started as a “Freedom Convoy” occupying downtown Ottawa, opposing a vaccinate-or-quarantine mandate for cross-border truckers mirrored by
File photo of the Canada-U.S. border crossing connecting Sarnia, Ont. and Port Huron, Michigan. (Eyfoto/iStock/Getty Images)
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Canada, U.S. fear economic damage from border crossing protest

Headway in one area, another protest elsewhere, minister says

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Windsor/Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — Truckers blocking U.S-Canada border crossings risk hurting the auto industry and agriculture, the White House said on Wednesday as Ottawa urged an end to the 13-day demonstration against coronavirus mandates. After nearly two years of pandemic measures in many countries, opposition has sprung up in different ways with copycat protests in
File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)

Pandemic border protests strand cattle and car parts

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Ottawa | Reuters — Protests in Canada against vaccine mandates have disrupted two key U.S. border crossings, and are snarling hundreds of millions of dollars daily of trade, ranging from cattle to car parts. Demonstrations who at first demanded an end to federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers began Jan. 28 in the
Protestors’ vehicles block the route leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, on Feb. 8, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)

Pandemic protestors block Windsor border crossing

Commercial traffic being diverted to Sarnia

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Ottawa | Reuters — The busiest land crossing between the U.S. and Canada was jammed on Tuesday after Canadian protestors blocked lanes on Monday over their government’s pandemic control measures. While traffic in both directions was initially blocked, U.S.-bound lanes have since reopened, Windsor Police tweeted. Drivers demanding an end to federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates
The meat section in a grocery store in Selkirk, Man., on Jan. 30, 2022.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Grocery store shelves are all right

Supply chains are stressed and Omicron isn’t helping, but you’ll still eat

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In many parts of the country, Canadians are now reporting a growing number of empty grocery store shelves. It’s happening here, in the United States, and in many other parts of the industrialized world; it’s not just a Canadian phenomenon. Before Omicron, empty shelves were already visible, but few noticed. They were sporadic in the
Romana Didulo, the self-declared “Queen of Canada” and a leading Canadian QAnon figure, leaves after speaking on Parliament Hill as truckers and supporters continue to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates, in Ottawa on Feb. 3, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Patrick Doyle)

Canada rules out use of troops against truck blockade

More protests planned

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Ottawa | Reuters — The Canadian government will not use troops against protestors whose nearly week-long demonstration against coronavirus vaccine mandates has brought traffic in central Ottawa to a halt, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. More than 200 trucks and other vehicles have been blockading downtown roads in the nation’s capital since last Friday
Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Eastbound and down

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There’s been a lot of noise generated around a trucker convoy to Ottawa protesting vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers. As our Alexis Stockford reports in our Feb. 3 issue, some of the supporters included Manitoba farmers. And some of the province’s farm groups expressed some muted support for the goals, especially when framed as keeping
Supporters stand along the sides of the Trans-Canada Highway as the protest convoy passes Brandon, Jan. 25.
News, Other

Manitoba farmers join convoy to protest trucker vaccine mandates

Farm groups argue that supply chains have been put under additional strain

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Some Manitoba farmers have joined or otherwise supported the cross-Canada truck convoy to protest vaccine mandates. The convoy arrived in Manitoba Jan. 25 on its way to Ottawa. Why it matters: Sectors including the pork industry have felt the transportation pinch from recently introduced vaccine mandates for international truckers, and some farmers have thrown support behind the

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