The U.S. mandate, announced in October, requires all essential foreign travelers, including truck drivers, who cross U.S. land borders to be fully vaccinated. Essential nonresident travelers had been able to enter the U.S. during the pandemic regardless of their vaccination status, in part so as not to disrupt trade and to give them more time to get vaccinated.
The latest on the escalating trucker protest along the U.S.-Canada border is a convoy planned for January 28. That’s when “Convoi pour la liberté 2022” leaves French speaking Quebec from a point along the border, bound for Canada’s Capital of Ottawa. They’re joining fellow drivers who have been protesting since Monday, slowing border crossing stations to a standstill.
Mainstream network news outlets in the United States are doing their best to cover up the coverage of an ongoing trucker protest. It has already snarled the border into chaos as the “strike” threatens to spread south into America.
U.S. drivers are expected to join in starting January 20th. That matches up with Biden’s versions of the mandate restrictions but details are scarce.
Thank you fascist psychopath.
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— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) January 21, 2022
Extremist environmental programs and billions given to pro-abortion groups also have contributed to a sour economy.
Truckers opposed to federal Covid-19 vaccine mandates are preparing to converge on Ottawa in a protest expected to draw a convoy of at least 1600 rigs, according to organizers.
Ajay Toor, who speaks for the West Coast Trucking Association, said black ice and large potholes are creating hazardous driving conditions which have resulted in several crashes over the past few weeks.
Unvaccinated foreign national truck drivers are not allowed to cross the border into Canada as of midnight Saturday, while unvaccinated Canadian truck drivers still have a right of return, but must test and isolate for 14 days. The U.S. will also tighten its border restrictions a week later on Jan. 22.
Solar-powered homes, electric tractors and hydrogen-cell trucking fleets: Canada has big net-zero ambitions, but getting there will require trillions of dollars in investment and will likely fuel hotter inflation for years to come, economists said.
One way or another, he’s going to wreck the economy.
Given the disruption it will cause to food and other supply chains in Canada and the United States, what evidence is there unvaccinated truckers crossing the border are major sources of infection for COVID-19?
That question seems to have been overlooked in the decision of the Trudeau government that Canadian and U.S. truckers crossing the border must be vaccinated or subject to quarantine.
Too many people in this country are afraid to compete, and would rather the government keep everyone at a lower level. This is a key cause of our distorted and increasingly moribund economy.
Canada plans to start turning away unvaccinated U.S. truckers at the border this weekend, a move that threatens to upend the flow of everything from food to auto parts to building supplies between two of the world’s largest trading partners.
Canada’s trucking industry is stuck in neutral Thursday awaiting confirmation about a possible change to vaccination requirements at the U.S. border after a late-night statement from the government appeared to reverse course on the upcoming deadline.
Government’s CPI says the cost of shelter rose 4% in the past year but home prices and rents are up nearly 20%
Shelter accounts for about a third of American household expenditure, and the cost of buying or renting shelter is up nearly 20% over the past year. Yet the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for shelter reported Jan. 12 by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed an increase of just 4.2 over the past year.
Private surveys conducted by the big rental sites, Zillow and Apartmentlist.com, show increases of 13% to 18% during 2021, and the Case-Shiller Index of US home prices jumped 18% in the year through October.
Grocery stores aren’t the most lucrative industry. They have a profit margin of only one percent. So when they get charged higher prices by suppliers, they have no choice but to pass those costs on to consumers.
But for political gain, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is trying to blame grocery stores for high prices. On January 7, Warren tweeted a video clip from her appearance on MSNBC last week.
“What happens,” she asked, when “grocery store chains like Kroger dominate an industry? They can force high food prices onto Americans while raking in record profits.” She called for the use of the government’s antitrust power to “break up” grocery chains like Kroger.
Unions believe the decision to wind back close contact isolation requirements in order to keep critical workers at work is “reckless” and will threaten the health and safety of staff, while exacerbating supply chain disruptions.
NSW Health on Sunday announced changes to workplace restrictions in a bid to ease the impact of rising case numbers on the delivery of critical services.
