Insights and Stories on Pandemic

More government action likely as border blockades hit trade

Feb. 10, 2022 at 11:50 am CST

Reuters — The shutdown of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route is knocking out automakers’ operations as the business impact from the two-week-old protests against Canada’s pandemic measures ramp up pressure on authorities to quell the demonstrations. The protests started as a “Freedom Convoy” occupying downtown Ottawa, opposing a vaccinate-or-quarantine mandate […]

Canada, U.S. fear economic damage from border crossing protest

Feb. 9, 2022 at 4:37 pm CST

By Blair Gable Carlos Osorio Jarrett Renshaw

Pandemic border protests strand cattle and car parts

Feb. 8, 2022 at 5:20 pm CST

By Julie Gordon Rod Nickel

Pandemic protestors block Windsor border crossing

Feb. 8, 2022 at 4:35 pm CST

By David Ljunggren Ismail Shakil

Pork industry looks ahead from turbulent 2021

Feb. 4, 2022 at 8:00 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

Canada rules out use of troops against truck blockade

Feb. 3, 2022 at 6:25 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — The Canadian government will not use troops against protestors whose nearly week-long demonstration against coronavirus vaccine mandates has brought traffic in central Ottawa to a halt, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. More than 200 trucks and other vehicles have been blockading downtown roads in the […]

By David Ljunggren

Single lanes opened at Alberta border crossing, Mounties say

Feb. 2, 2022 at 8:37 pm CST

Single lanes have reopened in each direction at Alberta’s busiest Canada-U.S. trade window, allowing cross-border supply chains to resume, RCMP report. In response to “concerned citizens in the area of Coutts,” participants in a blockade of vehicles in place at the local border crossing “made the decision to open a […]

By Dave Bedard

Alberta RCMP to start unclogging major border crossing

Feb. 1, 2022 at 5:29 pm CST

A major supply chain corridor connecting Alberta and the U.S. is expected to be cleared of protestors and reopened to traffic on Tuesday, Alberta RCMP have warned. Protestors in vehicles formed a blockade Saturday on Highway 4 leading to the province’s only 24-hour Canada-U.S. border crossing, at Coutts, Alta., about […]

By Dave Bedard

Vaccine protest jams southern Alberta border crossing

Jan. 31, 2022 at 2:41 am CST

UPDATED, Jan. 31 — A major supply chain corridor between Alberta and the U.S. remained blockaded through into Sunday evening by vehicles in protest of mandates requiring foreign truckers entering Canada and the U.S. to be vaccinated. The protest on Highway 4 at the Coutts, Alta. border crossing, about 100 […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs hit new contract high on slim supply

Jan. 25, 2022 at 7:06 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures climbed to a new contract high on Tuesday on concerns about tightening U.S. supplies, analysts said. Nearby live cattle and feeder cattle futures also strengthened. U.S. cold storage data, issued after the markets closed on Monday, was supportive for hog […]

By Tom Polansek

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