Gridlock at Ottawa, Alberta Border

A lot of Americans buy medications from Canada since it can be cheaper out-of-pocket than buying it with health insurance in the US. You might re-order early if you're one of them. I don't know whether the protest will affect delivery, but it can only make it worse. And the protestors are not going away.

The US-Canada border crossing at Coutts, Alberta / Sweet Grass, Montana is gridlocked with hundred of trucks in an anti-mandate protest, bottlenecking the road to one lane. Back east, hundreds of trucks are still parked and honking in Ottawa as shown above.

Truckers in the Canada convoys say they're staying put until all the country's COVID mandates are lifted. They have over $8 million in funds, their own lawyers, and in many cases, beds and mini-fridges in their trucks. Locals are bringing them food and tow truck drivers are refusing police requests to tow the trucks. Convoy leaders say they have the resources to settle in for four years.

Meanwhile, Canada's prime minister is tweeting pieties about multiculturalism.

Protest leaders banned the Toronto Star and other mainstream media outlets from their press conference a few days ago. Some of the outlets have trotted out the usual accusations of racism and hate (which I couldn't find a shred of evidence of on Twitter) and the Star published a cartoon calling the truckers fascists. A few months ago, they published a cover wishing death on the unvaccinated. Freedom is slavery and hate is love, eh?

Rebel News has reporters at the protests--even the one in Canberra, Australia. They're clearly pro-convoy, but if you want to keep up with news of the protests, they'll probably be the first to report it.

Photo by Max Girouard. Any inquiries can be made through boreaphotos@gmail.com.

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