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UPDATE: Farmers blockade Coutts border crossing, plan to stay until vax mandates lifted
The Western Standard (westernstandardonline.com) ^ | January 29, 2022 | Melanie Risdon

Posted on 01/29/2022 8:39:34 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian

Travel has been completely blocked on both sides of the border. Semi-trucks have been parked in both lanes approaching the border on either side.

More than a thousand Albertans in hundreds of trucks and vehicles have descended on Alberta’s Coutts border and have stopped all cross-border travel.

Travel has been completely blocked on both sides of the border. Semi-trucks have been parked in both lanes approaching the border on either side.


Semi-trucks parked in both lanes leading to the Coutts border on the Canadian side.


American semi-trucks blocking both lanes on the US side of the Coutts border


Photo of truck at Coutts border blockade – courtesy Western Standard


Photo near Coutts border provided by James Finkbeiner – Western Standard

(Excerpt) Read more at westernstandardonline.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alberta; border; canada; convoy; force; mandate; mandates; protest; supplychain
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Trucks are parked in both lanes on southbound Hwy 4 for 18km (11 miles) to the Coutts-Sweetgrass border crossing. Both shoulders are also blocked by trucks. Trucks also block the American side of the border.

These truckers claim they are prepared to wait 2 weeks or more, until Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, ends the vaxx mandates in Alberta. They cannot join the protest in d'Ottawa, so they're doing their bit, in Alberta.

Local Hutterite 'colonies' (somewhat similar to Amish, or Doukhabors) in Southern Alberta are providing food for the protesters.

Though I have a weekend off, my car is on the fritz, so I cannot join them, as much as I would love to!

WAY TO GO, GUYS! Prayers up for all these fighters for freedom!

1 posted on 01/29/2022 8:39:34 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Lockdowns are all fun-and-games until the elites start to feel the pain.


2 posted on 01/29/2022 8:42:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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Lockdowns are all fun-and-games until the elites start to feel the pain.

Will the truckers block the only road going into Nova Scotia?

Nova Scotia Moves Quickly Using Emergency Declaration to Ban Truck Convoys and Highway Cheering, $10,000 Fine for Cheering on Roadway.

3 posted on 01/29/2022 8:47:54 PM PST by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

They best way to support them is to provide food & drink to them.


4 posted on 01/29/2022 8:49:20 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Any activity at the Estevan border (NW North Dakota)? That’s the one we used to cross.


5 posted on 01/29/2022 8:49:40 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ( “to defend themselves, they are using the same weapons with which they were struck.”Pope St. Pius X)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
Do you hear the people sing?
6 posted on 01/29/2022 8:49:52 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

civilization is fully dependent on a transported supply chain


7 posted on 01/29/2022 8:52:35 PM PST by KTM rider (The COVID 19 scam is simply TERRORISM )
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

This video was shot all around downtown Ottawa tonight trucks and cars and people everywhere just sitting there between 950 and 1134 PM.

At 5:30 in you see the first of the trucks...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yFcbsmHd5oM


8 posted on 01/29/2022 8:54:59 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Anyone else getting an East Berlin 1989 vibe? God bless these good men.


9 posted on 01/29/2022 9:01:39 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Wide open in these 2 spots after a quick check on live webcams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMgP2C3_co

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBDD3j5so0g


10 posted on 01/29/2022 9:14:36 PM PST by roving (vaxxers are ok with using aborted fetus. )
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To: Antoninus; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

I absolutely love this; the people are speaking, loud and clear. Be prepared as the Deep State, now in a panic, will attempt to issue draconian laws and regulations to stifle this grass roots movement, but the truckers, being as tough as they are, will power through this, and the people cheering on the roadways will not be silenced. Alternative methods to protest will rise from the ground up to circumvent any attempts to silence VOX POPULI, and we will win, one way or the other. My gut tells me so.


11 posted on 01/29/2022 9:18:19 PM PST by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior Advisor))
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To: Dr. Sivana

I haven’t heard anything about any protests at that crossing. Coutts-Sweetgrass is the busiest crossing in Alberta. Alberta, sometimes referred to as the ‘Texas’ of the North, IS a hotbed for independent thought AND action (though both Calgary and Edmonton have too large a share of leftist ‘sheeple’).

This AM, I heard about a convoy heading to the Legislature in Edmonton, but I haven’t heard any more about it. I also read of a BC convoy heading to the Chilliwack border crossing, but I haven’t heard anything else.


12 posted on 01/29/2022 9:19:42 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Lockdowns are all fun-and-games until the elites start to feel the pain.”

The elite are going to get even more pain.

I hope the frequency and intensity of these types of protests continues. It needs to be continuous until freedom is upheld and the control freak mentality is crushed.
IMO these ‘rodeos’ are just getting started.

“They ain’t seen nothing yet.”


13 posted on 01/29/2022 9:20:37 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel )
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14 posted on 01/29/2022 9:20:46 PM PST by LukeL
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To: flaglady47

These truckers have the ability to cause HUGE PAIN to these politicians they have the power to shut the supply chain down, stop it dead in its tracks!! It will be rough on the public for a while HOWEVER it will be worth it!! GOD BLESS THEM ALL!! I think the truckers got a HUGE BOOST seeing the massive support they have!!


15 posted on 01/29/2022 9:22:30 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Without Truckers we get NOTHING!...and we don’t eat!


16 posted on 01/29/2022 9:31:39 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

17 posted on 01/29/2022 9:34:31 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: GraceG

Another live stream (current, 11:41 CST):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoi6cwnaDTI


18 posted on 01/29/2022 9:41:37 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Paul R.

Live chat rolling on that one too.


19 posted on 01/29/2022 9:42:50 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Turns out that the trucks, that move everything, and the drivers are more powerful than the threat of using guns. All the truckers need to do is just park their rigs.

As the Good Witch said “You’ve had this power all along”.


20 posted on 01/29/2022 9:46:06 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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