As of July 31, the Canada Border Services Agency will require additional entry conditions and only allow such travellers to enter at five crossings.

Some employees are growing worried the school prepares to welcome foreign students into on-campus residences, even those whose courses are entirely online.

A survey conducted by The Vanier Institute of the Family found 59 per cent of adults living with children had to change travel plans due to COVID-19 and 72 per cent reported it was "unlikely" they would take a vacation in 2020.

"We're just at the whim of all of these policymakers who are not in the same situation as us and who are making decisions based on a lot of unknowns and there's not a lot we can do about it."

"What I want [is] economic change so the city doesn't die from this pandemic."

One of Alberta's southernmost communities has been hit hard by the impacts of the COVID-19 border restrictions over the past month.

Fines of $1,000 dollars can be handed out to individuals who aren't following physical distancing and self-isolation by police officers.

With Calais, Maine just across the St. Croix River, residents have become comfortable with crossing into the United States.

Ron Foxcroft of the Fluke Transportation Group says moving transport trucks into the U.S. is no problem -- getting back is a little different, though.

"These are the people standing between all of us and empty shelves every day."