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The change of direction came after Calgary street pastor Artur Pawlowski meet with a group of truckers and convinced them to stay Less than two hours after reaching a deal to end the Coutts border blockade and take it to Edmonton, truckers changed their minds and now say they will stay. The change of direction came after Calgary street pastor Artur Pawlowski meet with a group of truckers and convinced them to stay...

"This is still and unlawful protest. The fact they're allowing traffic to flow through is a positive step in the right direction but it still is not lawful" RCMP cpl. Curtis Peters said. Truckers protesting COVID-19 health measures hace set up a new blockade 15 kilometers north of Coutts, near the town of Milk River. Mounties confirmed to Postmedia Thursday morning protesters have set up the new blockade at Highway 4 and Highway 501. The blockade began the prvious night, and is at a section of the highway that was previously an RCMP checkpoint...

On Wednesday, there were 20 police cruisers, and uniformed officers, lined up fender to fender across both lanes, facing a growing number of protesters Coutts, Alta.-Protesters using their trucks and cars to clog up the main United States border crossing in southern Alberta agreed Wednesday to make some room to allow traffic through. Mounties were taking a cautious wait-and-see-approach to the olive branch extended on the fifth day of the blockade near Coutts. Chad Williamson, a lawyer representing the protesters, said they were opening one lane of Highway 4 in esch direction. Demonstrators followed through in the early afternoon, vehicle...