US-Canada bridge reopens, ending weeklong trucker protest over COVID mandates: Live updates

Celina Tebor and John Bacon

The bridge linking Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, was open for traffic Monday after a week of angry protests against COVID-19 mandates that had shut down the largest border crossing between the U.S. and Canada.

"The Ambassador Bridge is now fully open allowing the free flow of commerce between the Canada and U.S. economies once again,” Detroit International Bridge Co. said in a statement late Sunday. Traffic began rolling across the bridge shortly before midnight.

The "Freedom Convoy" was led by truckers on the Canadian side of the border, but on Friday a judge ordered the protest disbanded. Canadian authorities swept in Saturday and removed most of the trucks and protesters. About a dozen protesters who defied the order were arrested Sunday when the last vehicles blocking the bridge were towed away.

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