Traffic is flowing across the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor and Detroit again, after police cleared out a nearly week-long blockade near the vital trade route yesterday.
Anti-Covid mandate and restrictions convoy demonstrators first arrived at the bridge on Feb. 7, halting hundreds of millions of dollars in daily commerce between Canada and the United States.
Yesterday morning, Windsor Police and officers from other services including the OPP and London advanced on remaining demonstrators at the main blockade site in front of the Ambassador Bridge.
At least 25 people were arrested as police enforced an Ontario Superior Court ordered injunction. Several vehicles were ticketed and towed as well.
While the blockade in Windsor has now been cleared, Canada Border Services Agency advises crossings in Coutts, Alta., and at Emerson in Manitoba are still closed from demonstrations.
In Ottawa, the city’s Mayor Jim Watson says a deal’s been struck with organizers of convoy protests to limit their activity to an area immediately around Parliament Hill.
Parts of the city’s downtown core have been occupied by anti-mandate deomnstrators for 17 days now.