The Little Trucker Blockade That Could
What A Day
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🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Canadian police began arresting those who were part of the ongoing so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests, yesterday. It’s been almost a week since demonstrators blocked the Ambassador Bridge between the U.S. and Canada as an objection to vaccine mandates for truckers doing business across the border. We recap what led us to this moment.
The U.S. has reduced its Ukrainian embassy to a skeleton crew and continues to draw down national guard troops stationed in Ukraine, in the likely scenario that Russia invades. Several world leaders have taken a turn trying to talk Vladimir Putin down, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, but none have dissuaded Russia’s leader in his quest to flex his old man muscles.
And in headlines: Fully vaccinated Walmart employees will no longer have to wear masks while at work, Rudy Giuliani is expected to cooperate with the January 6th House committee, and Erin Jackson made Olympic history when she won the gold medal in the women’s 500-meter speed skate.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 14th. I'm Trevelle Anderson. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Erin Ryan and this is What A Day, where we're challenging you to find us on the |
| 0:13.4 | huge map of LA that everyone was dancing on during the Super Bowl halftime show. |
| 0:17.8 | Yeah, I won't say where we are on the map, but I will say that at one point in the show |
| 0:22.4 | we got stepped on by Kendrick Lamar. |
| 0:24.2 | Honestly, it was an honor. |
| 0:25.6 | It was the best part of my life. On today's show, Tensions continued amount over Ukraine, |
| 0:34.6 | plus a historic Olympic gold for American Speed skater, Erin Jackson. |
| 0:38.8 | Watching her win gold was incredible, made me so happy. It was one of the best moments |
| 0:43.5 | of the whole weekend. But first, yesterday, Canadian police began arresting demonstrators |
| 0:49.4 | who were part of the ongoing so-called Freedom Convoy, freedom being used in a way that I |
| 0:55.6 | don't normally use it. |
| 0:57.4 | Protest that have been blocking the Ambassador Bridge, which is a vital border crossing |
| 1:01.2 | to the United States between Ontario and Detroit. Trevelle, can you recap what led us to |
| 1:06.4 | this moment? |
| 1:07.4 | Of course. So it's been almost a week since the bridge has been blocked by folks in opposition |
| 1:12.2 | to vaccine mandates for truckers doing business across the border. In that time, it's affected |
| 1:17.7 | and estimated $393 million a day in cross-border transactions, creating what Windsor Ontario |
| 1:24.5 | Mayor Drew Dilkins called, quote, a national economic crisis. Yesterday's arrests came |
| 1:30.4 | only after the Ontario Superior Court ordered the protesters to leave last Friday. After |
| 1:35.9 | the city and lawyers for auto parts makers successfully argued that the protest was not |
| 1:40.4 | only disrupting the flow of the busiest border crossing to the US, but also forcing the |
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