Ambassador Bridge

Trade between Michigan and Canada is flowing again after people protesting Canadian COVID-19 mandates blocked international truck traffic for nearly a week.

Whitmer said the Ambassador Bridge blockade reinforces the importance of completing a second Detroit-to-Canada border crossing. The Gordie Howe International Bridge is supposed to be finished and operating by the end of 2024.

Hundreds of police officers cleared the remaining small crowd and three vehicles from the road.

After days of protests against COVID-19 restrictions, Canadian truckers blockading a key border trade crossing have begun to leave. But protesters on foot kept the Ambassador Bridge closed.

The injunction, set to take effect Friday evening, is meant to reopen the busiest trade route between the U.S. and Canada after a five-day blockade by truckers and others protesting Canadian COVID-19 regulations.

The trucker protests in Canada have led to shut downs of the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor. We'll talk about the impact on the auto industry. Plus, why some county health officers are doing away with school mask mandates as omicron cases wane.

Truckers have been protesting Canada's COVID-19 restrictions for two weeks, and have been blocking the Ambassador Bridge for several days.

"You are not welcome here," the Mayor of Windsor, Ontario, told Canadian truckers and others protesting ongoing COVID-19 regulations. Traffic has been disrupted for several days on the bridge over which about a quarter of U.S.-Canadian trade crosses.

Protests over Canada’s vaccine mandates have led to closures and delays on the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, since Monday night.

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