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  LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. -- Thomas Porter recently returned home from a work trip to the United States. As an essential worker, hes left the country twice in the last year. On his most recent return to Canada, something was noticeably different. Porter was shocked by the number of people walking across the Sweet Grass/Coutts border crossing. "There were three times that many that went through prior (to the photo being taken) and more being dropped off in the line behind," said Porter. He was s...

Share this article Share this article OTTAWA, ON, April 15, 2021 /CNW/ - The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced today that it is launching an investigation to determine whether certain small power transformers from Austria, the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu (Chinese Taipei), and South Korea are being sold at unfair prices in Canada. The investigation is the result of a complaint by Transformateurs Delta Star Inc. (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC), Nort...

Share this article Share this article OTTAWA, ON, April 15, 2021 /CNW/ - With COVID-19 continuing to spread throughout the country, the National President of the Customs and Immigration Union (CIU) is calling upon the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to honour his previous commitment, and ensure that frontline Border Services Officers and personnel working for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) are vaccinated alongside members of other federal law enforcement agencies...

Unions representing workers at Canada Border Services Agency calls on provincial government to include CBSA in priority vaccination plan News provided by Share this article Share this article VANCOUVER, BC, April 13, 2021 /CNW/ - The Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Customs and Immigration Union are calling on provincial health authorities to ensure that frontline Border Services Officers at YVR and other ports of entry are prioritized alongside other frontline workers as part of BCs v...

The Globe and Mail Adam Bisby Published April 13, 2021 Handout Having received his COVID-19 vaccine, Clayton Outwater did what he’d been wanting to do since the start of the pandemic: He booked a Caribbean cruise. The week-long Norwegian Cruise Line voyage isn’t slated to depart New Orleans until Jan. 23, 2022, but Outwater, 81, hopes the Canadian government will ease international travel restrictions long before then. “I’ve got until Sept. 25 to cancel and get my money back or reboo...

Skeptical judge acquits trucker caught with heroin at Canadian border Ruling cites possibility that drugs were planted while off-duty dump truck driver assisted a broken-down trucker in the US 1 1,043 4 minutes read Trucker Gurpreet Mand was arrested at the Watson border crossing in Surrey, British Columbia, in 2017. (Photo:Ken Lund/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0) An off-duty truck driver caught at the U.S.-Canada border with 13 bricks of heroin in a car was found not guilty on two drug charges ...

Border-crossing issues take center stage during northern Minnesota roundtable Some 20 panelists participated, both in-person and virtually, Tuesday morning in a roundtable discussion in the historic Backus Community Center. U.S. Reps. Michelle Fischbach and Pete Stauber, both R-Minn., hosted the roundtable to learn about the impact the border closure has had on the communities they represent. Written By: Brad Dokken | × U.S. Reps Pete Stauber and Michelle Fischbac...

After a short break, he was joined by six other detainees, say advocates, in the third hunger strike to occur at the centre since the start of the pandemic. Advocates say detainees have complained of staff members not being careful enough to limit the spread of COVID-19, which has infected at least three people in the holding centre. In late February, Marlon wrote an open letter saying that he believed “that our lives are at risk because we do not have any way of protecting ourselves.” ...

A detainee at the Laval immigrant holding centre is approaching his extended deportation date, despite still showing symptoms of COVID-19, according to advocates familiar with the man’s situation.

Its a ghost town: Point Roberts residents plead for better US/Canada border access Residents and business owners of Point Roberts, Wash. want Canada to loosen restrictions, given their towns unique geography. Author: Chris Daniels Updated: 8:42 AM PST March 7, 2021 POINT ROBERTS, Wash. — Its hard to believe anyone saw this coming, back when the Treaty of Washington was signed in 1846. That deal, which led to the creation of the border between the U.S. and Canad...