A vehicle convoy has blocked a major Canada-U.S. border crossing in Manitoba as demonstrators protest in solidarity with the Freedom Convoy truckers in Ottawa. “A demonstration involving a large number of vehicles and farm equipment is blocking the Emerson Port of Entry,” Manitoba RCMP said in a post on Twitter on Feb. 10. Both northbound and southbound traffic has come to a standstill, the police said. This is the third blockade of a border crossing between Canada and the United States in recent weeks. In addition to Emerson, protesters have also blocked the highway to the Coutts border in southern Alberta, and Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ont. and Detroit, Michigan. The protests are in solidarity with the ongoing truckers’ convoy movement in Ottawa that opposes federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions. The Alberta protesters have closed and opened the lanes of Highway 4 on and off since Jan. 29. The …