Alberta premier ‘pleased’ Coutts border protesters plan to leave area
More than two weeks after the land border in Coutts was blocked by protesters speaking out against COVID-19 mandates, the premier says demonstrators are set to leave the area. In a tweet Monday, Jason...
View ArticleProtest convoys clogging border entries ‘sabotaging’ struggling businesses:...
In an open letter to governments, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce asks them to give police the support and appropriate tools needed to restore public order as protests against COVID-19 measures...
View ArticlePolice warn about significant delays at Ambassador Bridge as protest continues
A protest against COVID-19 measures is preventing Canada-bound traffic from crossing the Ambassador Bridge for yet another day. Police say those using the border bridge to cross into the U.S. can...
View ArticleCanada’s COVID-19 international travel restrictions not discussed in...
Don’t hold your breath if you’ve been waiting for Canadian COVID-19 border restrictions to change at the premiers’ request. Despite Spring Break nearing and several provinces signalling their...
View ArticleBodies of family from India trying to cross into U.S. by foot identified
Mounties are pleading for information surrounding the deaths of four Indian nationals whose bodies were found frozen in Manitoba near the Canada-U. S. border last week. The High Commission of India in...
View ArticleCBSA intercepts hundreds of suspected fake COVID-19 documents at border
It seems many people have tried to enter Canada with potentially fake COVID-19 documents in recent months. According to the Canada Border Services Agency, agents have come across “374 instances of...
View ArticleExemptions exist for British Columbians needing to drive to U.S. for fuel, food
Given the exceptional circumstances in B.C. after catastrophic flooding, the federal government is assuring people who may need to cross into the U.S. that some COVID-19 exemptions exist when they come...
View ArticleU.S. eases COVID-19 restrictions at land border for fully vaccinated Canadians
For the first time in nearly 20 months, non-essential traffic is once again moving in both directions across the Canada-U.S. land border. Shortly after midnight, Customs and Border Protection agents...
View ArticlePCR test requirements at the border need to be re-examined: Tam
Just days ahead of the U.S. border reopening, Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says border measures that require travellers to present a negative COVID-19 test to enter Canada...
View ArticleCanada eases quarantine restrictions for fully vaccinated travellers
It’s now a little easier for fully-vaccinated Canadians to travel internationally. Rules requiring a two-week quarantine, and a stay in a government-approved hotel were dropped on Monday at midnight....
View ArticleCanada-U.S. border update expected in coming weeks: Trudeau
OTTAWA – Despite complaints from businesses groups and other stakeholders, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is holding firm in his decision not to reopen the Canada-U.S. border to non-essential travel...
View ArticleCanada, U.S. tourism groups push to fully reopen border to vaccinated travellers
OTTAWA – Canadian and American tourism groups and some politicians want to see travel restrictions quickly lifted at the land border. This comes as the Trudeau government readies to provide an update,...
View ArticleCould Canada-U.S. border restrictions ease this month?
NIAGARA FALLS (NEWS 1130) – There is growing chatter about Canada’s land border with the U.S. reopening in the coming weeks. Citing the public safety minister, the mayor of Niagara Falls, Ont., says in...
View Article‘They see you as unvaccinated’: B.C. man with mixed doses calling for third shot
NORTH VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) –Frustrated and losing income, a North Vancouver man is calling on the province to find solutions to those facing international travel woes. Remko de Haas received two doses...
View ArticleWhite House says border closure extended until October
WASHINGTON — The White House says that by early November, adult foreign nationals will have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to travel to the United States. White House spokesman Kevin...
View ArticleMendicino-Mayorkas meeting readout makes no mention of Canada-U.S. travel...
WASHINGTON — Canada’s immigration minister talked Canada-U.S. border issues Monday with the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But the federal government’s official account of the...
View ArticleTentative deal reached with striking border guards days before restrictions ease
Canada’s border agents reached a new tentative agreement with the federal government late Friday after a daylong work-to-rule campaign left long lines of semi-trailers and passenger vehicles idling for...
View ArticleSome Canadians frustrated they still can’t cross U.S. land border
Canadians are expressing frustration at still being unable to drive across the border to the U.S. for a casual visit, even though their fully vaccinated American counterparts will soon be able to do...
View ArticleMost Canadians say proof of vaccination should be required at border: poll
A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians say proof of vaccination should be required of all essential and non-essential travellers. Fifty-eight per cent of respondents to an online survey by Leger...
View ArticleOPP charge 22 people in major drug-smuggling bust
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say 22 people are facing 139 charges, and two gangs have been broken up, in a 15-month investigation into international cocaine and marijuana smuggling in southern...
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