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Canadian Police Arrest Protesters Blocking Vital Bridge
The police in Windsor, Ontario, made arrests and towed pickup trucks, clearing a road to a key border crossing to the United States. The authorities said the bridge would reopen once conditions were deemed safe.
“Because it needs 20 officers to arrest him?” “Yeah, right?” “What’s the charge, defending freedom?” “Jesus.”
The Canadian authorities appeared to be making inroads Sunday to end the large-scale protests that have roiled the nation for weeks, arresting demonstrators who had blocked a critical border bridge to Detroit, and suggesting they had negotiated a deal with the truckers who have occupied the downtown core of Ottawa, the capital, for weeks.
By Sunday night, the police in Windsor, Ontario, said they had arrested several people and towed a pair of pickup trucks that had been parked in an intersection leading to the Ambassador Bridge. The bridge reopened late Sunday, just before midnight.
“Today, our national economic crisis at the Ambassador Bridge came to an end,” the mayor of Windsor, Drew Dilkens, said on Sunday. “Border crossings will reopen when it is safe to do so and I defer to police and border agencies to make that determination.
The protest at the bridge was one of several that has unsettled a country unaccustomed to widespread demonstrations.
In the capital, a pair of letters released by Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, and Tamara Lich, a protest organizer, suggested that the truckers, whose grievances with a vaccine mandate kicked off the demonstrations, had agreed to a deal in which the truckers would move their vehicles from residential neighborhoods.
The truckers have for weeks kept their vehicles parked in Ottawa, including near Parliament, snarling traffic and disrupting businesses.
“The truckers here in Ottawa have always been about peaceful protest,” Ms. Lich, the protest organizer, wrote. “Many of the citizens and businesses in Ottawa have been cheering us on but we are also disturbing others. That was never our intent.”
The truckers’ occupation of Ottawa sparked a movement, drawing protesters of many stripes who flocked to the convoy in a party-like atmosphere. Over time, the protests spread across Ontario and the country.
Russell Goldman, Catherine Porter and Vjosa Isai contributed reporting.
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