Feds to require negative COVID-19 test at land borders
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says starting next week, anyone arriving in Canada by land will also need to show a recent negative COVID-19 test. Trudeau says the new measure will kick in Feb. 15, the...
View ArticleNew rules in effect for travellers entering Canada at land border crossings
OTTAWA — New rules went into effect this morning for travellers crossing from the U.S. into Canada at land border points. With exceptions for essential travellers, people driving into the country must...
View ArticleOntario asks for mandatory three-day hotel quarantines at land crossings
Ontario is asking the federal government to impose mandatory three-day quarantines in hotels for travellers entering Canada at land crossings. Health Minister Christine Elliott and Solicitor General...
View ArticleCanada-U.S. land border closure extended into June
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – As expected, the Canada-U.S. land border will continue to remain closed for at least another month, until June 21. Border crossings have been shut to most non-essential traffic for...
View ArticleCanada not ready to re-open land border with U.S.: Garneau
MONTREAL (NEWS 1130) – The federal government continues to feel pressure to re-open the border with the U.S., but Canada’s foreign affairs minister says our country isn’t ready. Marc Garneau says he’s...
View ArticleCanada’s tourism operators call for clarity on Canada-U.S. border reopening
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Tourism operators across the country are calling on the federal government to provide more clarity on when the Canada-U.S. land border will reopen, warning many businesses are...
View ArticlePM hints at easing border restrictions for fully vaccinated travellers,...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will eventually take steps to ease border restrictions for fully vaccinated people — but he’s not saying when. Nor is Trudeau providing details about what sort...
View ArticleBorder restrictions to begin easing, slowly, for fully vaccinated Canadian...
After nearly 16 months of rigid travel restrictions, Canada is finally starting to loosen the rules — but only for a specific few. Effective Monday, fully vaccinated Canadians and permanent residents —...
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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Most 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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