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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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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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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: 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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14 posted on 01/29/2022 9:20:46 PM PST by LukeL
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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: 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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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

That would NOT be hard to do on the bridges in the WNY area.

The Peace Bridge and the bridges to Canada in Niagara Falls are in very old, residential, and congested parts of Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Blockading them would take very little effort.

One major problem is that the Peace Bridge needs to be replaced, badly. It’s nowhere near big enough for the massive amount of traffic that uses it. Not to mention, it’s old and I don’t know what its structural integrity is like these days. AND, the Peace Bridge is at the mouth of the Niagara River where Lake Erie funnels into it. That bridge takes a beating constantly.

Discussions have been going on for decades between the countries about constructing the new one but everyone wants a slice of the pie, have gone nowhere. A new bridge could have been built by now.

At some point, the current Peace Bridge is going to need to be shut down for safety reasons, and that is going to REALLY screw up the supply chain for a large part of the east coast.

The bridges and border crossings east of Lake Ontario are also old and not wide enough and cannot handle the kind of increased truck traffic needed to compensate for the Peace Bridge being shut down.

Which, thinking about it, those border crossings would be easy to blockade as well.


24 posted on 01/29/2022 11:11:21 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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