OTTAWA, Ontario — Cross-border trucker Erik Mueller gazed out from the cab of his Western Star on Saturday as a sea of protesters and pedestrian vehicles descended on Canada’s parliament to protest an array of grievances — including COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the border.
Mueller, an owner-operator based in Alberta, decided to get here ahead of the larger convoys inching their way into the small downtown. As of early Saturday afternoon, it appeared that several hundred trucks had made their way...