Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation is taking 12 truck operators out of service — suspending their operating authorities and ordering the seizure of their license plates — in connection with their role in the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, Canada.
A spokesperson for the ministry declined to identify the operators or say if they included any carriers. The spokesperson also would not say how long the suspensions would last.
Sources close to the ministry told FreightWaves that at least one...
As trucker protests at the U.S.-Canadian border finally disperse, fears the movement could spark similar protests at the U.S.-Mexico border have proved largely unfounded.
The Biden administration closed U.S. borders to unvaccinated and partially vaccinated Canadian and Mexican truck drivers Jan. 22. Canada announced similar COVID-19 vaccine mandates on cross-border truckers beginning Jan. 15. Mexico has no vaccine requirements.
Josefina Blanco, legal and compliance lead at Nuvocargo, said...
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Police began making their final push against truck drivers and other protesters who remained in Ottawa, Ontario, on Saturday, three weeks after the Freedom Convoy arrived in the Canadian capital.
Officers in riot gear clashed with some protesters as they pushed toward the core of the downtown encampment. Police smashed the windows of a truck as a crowd of protesters yelled “Shame!,” according to videos shared on social media.
Police break windows of truck in front of PMO. pic.twitter.com/TvSUo...
After arresting at least two organizers of Freedom Convoy protests on Thursday, police in Ottawa, Ontario, stepped up their arrests on Friday in hopes of breaking up the three-weeklong disruption in the Canadian capital.
Early reports indicated that some protesters surrendered peacefully and were taken into custody, while others were taken away in handcuffs.
Police also sealed off parts of the downtown area that had been snarled by demonstrations and blockades to protest COVID vaccine mandates....
The U.S.-Canada border crossing at Coutts, Alberta, reopened on Tuesday after protesters ended a two-week blockade that had disrupted millions of dollars in trade.
The Canada Border Services Agency reported that normal operations resumed. Videos shared on social media showed a convoy of semi-trucks and other vehicles driving away with their horns blasting.
“It’s definitely bittersweet leaving here,” Jory Evans, a spokesperson for the protesters, said during a live video streamed via Facebook.
Wit...
The Canadian government plans to crack down on the truckers and carriers involved in the protests and blockades that have swept the country.
“Today we are serving notice that we will freeze corporate bank accounts and cancel the insurance of trucks being used in protests that have blocked the countries,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Monday. “Send your semi-trailers home.”
Freeland made the threat after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he was invoking the country’s...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested 11 people and seized over a dozen long guns, multiple handguns, ammunition, high-capacity magazines, a machete and body armor in an operation targeting a “small organized group” within the protest blockade near the U.S.-Canada border in Coutts, Alberta, authorities said.
Police made the arrests and seizures while executing a warrant after receiving information that the group had a cache of weapons and a large amount of ammunition, the RCMP said in a...
The busiest commercial crossing between the U.S. and Canada, the Ambassador Bridge, reopened late Sunday after police in Windsor, Ontario, cleared out a protest over COVID-19 restrictions that squeezed the cross-border supply chain for a week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection processed the first truck to reach the U.S side of the border in Detroit at 12:30 a.m. Monday, the agency said in a tweet. As of 8:30 a.m, CBP and the Canada Border Service Agency reported normal operations on both sides...
Government officials and local police forces are hoping Sunday’s efforts to remove demonstrators who are blocking the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit will restore the flow of vehicles after the almost weeklong blockade.
“Today, our national economic crisis at the Ambassador Bridge came to an end. Border crossings will reopen when it is safe to do so and I defer to police and border agencies to make that determination,” Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens said Sunday in a...
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PORT HURON, Mich. — After crossing the U.S.-Canada border at the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan, two veteran drivers for Ontario-based Challenger Motor Freight fueled up and sipped on their freshly brewed coffee at a local Pilot Travel Center and tried to look on the bright side of being rerouted from crossing the Ambassador Bridge.
“We didn’t want to take the [Ontario Highway] 402 because the police are removing protesters along the way and it would slow us down even more, so we...