The southbound lanes on the road to North America's post-pandemic recovery will finally reopen Monday as the United States ends nearly 20 months of controversial COVID-19 exile and allows fully vaccinated travellers to cross the Canada-U.S. land border.
As of midnight, non-essential traffic will resume moving in both directions for the first time since March 2020, when both countries imposed sweeping but selective restrictions in hopes of slowing the spread of the virus -- the first widespread border closure since the 9/11 terrorist attacks 20 years ago.
All told, Patchett figures they've spent $6,000 on trips that would normally only have set them back $320. That cottage, which is suspended in a state of partial renovation, has been sitting largely untended and exposed to the elements -- and Deslippe is terrified of what she might find when she finally heads back on Day 1.
At its peak, it included fevered letter-writing campaigns, a deluge of social-media testimonials and even crowdfunded, U.S.-style "attack ads" that likened the restrictions to the Iran hostage crisis.
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