Explainer-Ottawa protests: What you need to know about the anti-vaccine convoys

Vehicles clog downtown streets as truckers and supporters continue to protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 10, 2022. REUTERS/Blair Gable

(Reuters) - Horn-blaring demonstrations demanding an end to Canadian COVID-19 vaccine mandates have caused gridlock in the capital Ottawa since late January. The protests by truckers and others are now spilling to key Canada-United States border crossings and disrupting trade.

The mayor of Windsor, Ontario, where protesters have closed the Ambassador Bridge border crossing to the United States, choking trade, said police were preparing to physically remove https://www.reuters.com/article/healthcoronavirus-canada-trucking-windso/windsor-mayor-says-authorities-prepared-to-physically-remove-trucker-protesters-if-needed-idUSW1N2U703K protesters if necessary.