After a trucker convoy protesting against vaccine mandates in both Ottawa and Canada resulted in the closure of Ambassador Bridge for nearly a week, the Canada-U.S. border crossing is now open. “Traffic was flowing normally across the bridge between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit for the first time in nearly a week, the Canada Border Services Agency confirmed just before midnight Sunday,” according to CP24. The closure impacted OEMs and their plants on both sides of the border. (Source: CP24) Read the original story.
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