Protesters in Canada block Ambassador Bridge

[Zacha341]

News re. the Canadian protest within the last hour...

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...ed/6777599001/

[jcole]

Only problem with ignore is he still appears on the page in his own little box so you still know there is some inane post under that link.

Just a couple suggestions to those that are irritated by Richard's posts...
1. hit the "ignore" button and you won't see them at all
2. do NOT reply when any other poster quotes Richard's posts

I just spent time catching up on 3 or 4 pages of posts on an interesting topic, only to see fully half the space was taken up by several of you going back and forth with Richard. Don't take the bait. It would really help with the flow and keep it on topic. Again, Don't take the bait... "ignore" is your friend

[Richard]

News re. the Canadian protest within the last hour...

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...ed/6777599001/

clearly it is winding down now because other posters have become more obsessed with me then the subject at hand.

There was some drone shots uploaded earlier that showed 401 I believe were there was a good 50 LEO with 10 protesters standing on the sidewalk,it appears as if it is winding down,it also looks cold and was snowing.

[Canadian Visitor]

The Ambassador Bridge has now reopened, just a bit after midnight, earlier today.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/winds...nday-1.6350729

[Richard]

They keep saying if you protest it is 1 year in prison and a $100,000 fine but they do not specify if you block a road while protesting or simply by protesting it applies.

They is the media.

Stark difference when last night after the Super Bowl where there was looting and damaging vehicles,including trapping a city bus driver in a bus and dousing it with gasoline,before they were stopped and that was not even a protest.

[ABetterDetroit]

I have to say I'm extremely embarrassed by how all 3 levels of gov't and the police has handled things since Friday. Apparently there were only about 30 protestors on Huron Church Road in the early morning. Why not tell them move or arrest them along with anyone else who stands in the road before it builds up again? Surely several hundred police can do that much now that the vehicles are gone. Put a police car at each intersection entering Huron Church from the 401 to the bridge and get the road open before more demonstrators arrive during the day. The latest is they're "hoping" to have it open by the end of today. What a joke.

I see your point about frustration that such a large amount of commerce could be halted with no cares given to who got hurt by that economically by the protesters but I am impressed with the Canadien strategy. They seemed to have thought their options and learned what not to do by what has gone wrong the last few years here in the states. You deescalated and avoided the battle in the streets which is what radicals want and are attracted to. As long the Port Huron bridge was moving the goods sufficiently the Canadian authorities had time on their side. They displayed well that this kind of protest is expensive for the taxpayer to deal with while at the same time not drawing in every crazy looking for a fight. Time will tell if it worked but trying something different was a intelligent thought process in my opinion.

[Jimaz]

So other border crossings are still blocked?

Canada’s Trudeau invokes emergency powers to quell protests

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers Monday to quell the protests by truck drivers and others who have paralyzed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions.

In invoking Canada’s Emergencies Act, which gives the federal government broad powers to restore order, Trudeau ruled out using the military.

His government instead threatened to tow away vehicles to keep essential services running; freeze truckers’ personal and corporate bank accounts; and take further action to strike at their livelihoods and the sources of their financial support.

“Consider yourselves warned,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said. “If your truck is used in these blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen. The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended. Send your rigs home.”

Freeland, who is also the finance minister, said the government will also target crowd-funding sites that are being used to support the blockades....

I might have been sympathetic to their cause but for their indifference to the damage they're causing others.

This is straight up extortion. That's a really bad strategy and they don't seem to even understand that.

[Meddle]

Updates? News isn't covering much.

[Richard]

They did not seem to be that concerned about a locked down border and trade for the last 2 years.

[Richard]

So other border crossings are still blocked?

Canada’s Trudeau invokes emergency powers to quell protests

I might have been sympathetic to their cause but for their indifference to the damage they're causing others.

This is straight up extortion. That's a really bad strategy and they don't seem to even understand that.

“This is the biggest, greatest, most severe test Trudeau has faced,” said Wesley Wark, a University of Ottawa professor and national security expert.

So what was that whole corona virus thing,a little summer bug,nobody seemed to be bothered about the damage they were doing to others at that time.

One would have thought that would have have been the biggest test for any politician.

Its like everybody is trying out to be the head of the drama class.

The easiest thing for the truckers to do would be a coordinated call in sick week or three .

[401don]

The easiest thing for the truckers to do would be a coordinated call in sick week or three .

Most independent truckers are busy doing their jobs. Who do the other couple of hundred [or thousand if you want to believe that] call? Everyone else works for a company and is also busy doing their job.

[401don]

They did not seem to be that concerned about a locked down border and trade for the last 2 years.

There was no lockdown or vaccine mandate for the truckers until a couple of months ago.

[canuck]

They did not seem to be that concerned about a locked down border and trade for the last 2 years.

Fail post if ever there was one.

[Canadian Visitor]

Updates? News isn't covering much.

Update here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/winds...b-14-1.6351299

Select Excerpts from the above:

Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens has declared a state of emergency in the city to support ongoing security efforts in the aftermath of a multi-day protest that blocked access to the Ambassador Bridge.

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"Huron Church Road is open for bridge-bound traffic only," Bellaire said. "East and west traffic is not open."


"The natural flow of traffic on our roadways has to be temporarily reconsidered, so that we can protect the access to our public infrastructure, the bridge, given the circumstances that we found ourselves in."


Bellaire said an "appropriate and safe" full reopening of Huron Church Road is being set up.

[Canadian Visitor]

So other border crossings are still blocked?

I'm not sure the extent of total blockades, but there are other protests which are obstructive and problematic.

This is a story on one impacting Alberta:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...nday-1.6351112

This is one affecting BC:

https://globalnews.ca/news/8616694/b...protest-day-2/

Closer to home, there have been blockades of highway 402 leading to Sarnia and Bluewater bridge:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/londo...says-1.6350350

[Richard]

Most independent truckers are busy doing their jobs. Who do the other couple of hundred [or thousand if you want to believe that] call? Everyone else works for a company and is also busy doing their job.

So what you are saying 3% of the independent truckers who were able to create a situation that cost 1 billion a day,thousands to lose their jobs,a country and state to go bankrupt and disrupt an already disrupted supply chain would have zero impact if they just shut down for a week or three.

Are all the manufacturers up to full capacity again now? Everybody back to work ? Last I heard GM and Ford shut down a bunch of plants permanently in Canada before even the corona virus while laying 1000s off,it did not bother them at that time.

Bridge open or not,nothing is going to change.

[Richard]

There was no lockdown or vaccine mandate for the truckers until a couple of months ago.

It was set to become effective Jan 15,just as it was for US truckers before a judge shot the mandates down.

But the US still mandates that any foreigners entering the United States be vaccinated,you know,in the interest of stopping the spread that they cannot stop,so even if Canada dropped their mandate,the truckers still would not have been able to come across without a shot.

Some are afraid of Canadian germs while personally I think the germs do not care who you are or where you live,and I think it is racist against Canadians to stop them at the border.

[Gistok]

According to a website called GRID...

"A Bangladeshi marketing firm appears to have played a key role in promoting the Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest online, and Grid has found increasing evidence of fringe conspiracies and violent extremism throughout the movement."

https://www.grid.news/story/misinfor...1MMIGA6OJ3AZXk

Never heard of the source page, but they are relatively new. Just an interesting twist to the suspicion that there's more than just anti-vaxx truck drivers involved in this. Hmmmm...

[ABetterDetroit]

According to a website called GRID...

"A Bangladeshi marketing firm appears to have played a key role in promoting the Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest online, and Grid has found increasing evidence of fringe conspiracies and violent extremism throughout the movement."

https://www.grid.news/story/misinfor...1MMIGA6OJ3AZXk

Never heard of the source page, but they are relatively new. Just an interesting twist to the suspicion that there's more than just anti-vaxx truck drivers involved in this. Hmmmm...

NBC news also has it. The onion is getting peeled on how content farms make money by using people who want to believe very badly in the absurd.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...fray-rcna15932

[Margaret's boy]

Why are you listening to the CBC? They're the official propaganda wing of Canada's Liberal party. Good journalists who had the temerity to question CBC management's embrace of Liberal party talking points have either had to quit if they want to speak up or stay silent to keep their jobs. Bill Maher hit the nail on the head when he compared Trudeau's rhetoric towards the unvaccinated to Hitler's rhetoric on race. Is Bill Maher now part of the "right wing conspiracy" that the Liberals and NDP keep talking about?

[Richard]

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared a national emergency over ongoing trucker protests, allowing the nation's government to temporarily override civil rights.

https://www.businessinsider.com/just...-canada-2022-2

I watched a program the other day,anybody that posts anything that mentions the trucker protests on Facebook or social media gets a visit from the police and handed a paper that describes what is or is not excepted during a protest.

In other words,you have been warned,the next visit you will be jailed.

Canada flipped into total dictatorship overnight while Trudeau has become a Saudi puppet backed by a trillion dollar liberal war chest.

For those in the United States

• Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.For the purpose of Section 242, acts under "color of law" include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official's lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.
  The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

[Lowell]

I've heard lots of shouts of "Freedom!" in these protests. Okay, you're free to protest but if you create damages those with losses you created are free to sue you. Right?

[Honky Tonk]

I've heard lots of shouts of "Freedom!" in these protests. Okay, you're free to protest but if you create damages those with losses you created are free to sue you. Right?

I had the same question during the country's blm riots. Probably the same people that paid for that damage.

[leapfrog]

I had the same question during the country's blm riots. Probably the same people that paid for that damage.

Insurance for those that carry it.
The big goose egg for those that do not...

[401don]

I've heard lots of shouts of "Freedom!" in these protests. Okay, you're free to protest but if you create damages those with losses you created are free to sue you. Right?

They should sue the 3 levels of gov't for making no effort to clear the road and maintain law and order to tax paying citizens. Not large corporations of course. They don't pay taxes any more do they?