Windsor, Ont., is calling for residents to treat one another as human beings after police charged a woman for allegedly threatening to bomb his home over COVID-19 mandates.Windsor police said they arrested the 31-year-old woman Thursday for a social media post on a thread about COVID-19 and pandemic mandates.
They allege she made the comments Monday, a day after a protest was cleared at the Ambassador Bridge.“Regardless of your opinion on vaccinations or Justin Trudeau or myself or Doug Ford, we all just have to step back and take a breath and realize that we’re dealing with human beings and that we all have more in common than differences,” Mayor Drew Dilkens said in a phone interview.
Trucks suspected of trying to re-occupy Ambassador Bridge ‘thwarted’ by police: Mayor The mayor has been outspoken about the recent protest against pandemic measures on the Windsor side of the Ambassador Bridge that shut down Canada-bound traffic from Detroit.Police cleared the area of the protest on Sunday and the bridge reopened just before midnight.The Windsor protest was similar to a larger one that’s been running for three weeks in Ottawa, where the downtown core has been occupied by some truckers and others with the so-called Freedom Convoy seeking an end to pandemic measures.
Ottawa’s police chief resigned amid the chaos.Windsor police said Wednesday that earlier this week, officers intercepted a small truck convoy purportedly set on once again blocking the Ambassador Bridge, the largest commercial trade route between Canada and the U.S.Dilkens said a threat to his home, where he lives with his wife and children, was over the line.“I get that I’m the mayor of a city and I signed up for that job, but first and foremost, I’m a.