Illegal Blockade

• Ontario to introduce legislation to stop future ‘illegal’ blockades at borders, airports

  Some of the proposed police powers would include drivers' licence suspensions, seizing licence plates when a vehicle is used in an illegal blockade or removing other objects used.

  Canada

  Mar 21, 2022
  
• Alberta at heart of unrest, protests: criminal anthropologist

  An RCMP raid in Coutts seized long guns, handguns, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition and body armour.

  Canada

  Feb 23, 2022
  
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• Letter shows Alberta asked for feds’ help with Coutts blockade as Kenney claims province had resources

  Ric McIver penned a letter on Feb. 5 to the federal Minister of Public Safety and the Minister of Emergency Preparedness.

  Politics

  Feb 20, 2022
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• ‘Friendships have been torn up’: Coutts trucker protest may have left a community divided

  The small Village of Coutts was thrust into the national spotlight when a convoy of truckers and their supporters set up on the main highway into the village on Jan. 29

  Canada

  Feb 19, 2022
• Coutts port of entry temporarily suspended: CBSA

  The CBSA has temporarily suspended entry at the Coutts border crossing on Feb. 12, 2022.

  Traffic

  Feb 12, 2022
• Manufacturing association says blockades taking big pinch out of Alberta’s economy

  Alberta's oil and gas manufacturing sector is facing critical supply issues as the border blockade continues.

  Economy

  Feb 11, 2022
• Trucks lining up again at Coutts border crossing, protesters plan to stay for the long haul

  Demonstrators started a blockade at Coutts late last month in solidarity with similar events in Ottawa and countrywide to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

  Canada

  Feb 9, 2022
• Tow companies reluctant to haul away vehicles hampering Alberta border blockade: RCMP

  Trucks and other vehicles began parking on the highway near Coutts on Jan. 29 in solidarity with similar protests over COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2022
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• ‘It was terrifying’: Woman says family vehicle was hit during rush of Coutts protesters

  On Wednesday morning, RCMP confirmed to Global News there was a collision between two vehicles after protesters had driven past the police barricades.

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2022
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• Movement at Coutts border on 5th day of blockade, one lane open in each direction

  There has been a breakthrough to resolve the impasse at a protest blockade at the United States border in southern Alberta.

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2022