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Border Mayors Call on Federal Government to Drop ArriveCan App

June 15, 2022
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A group of mayors from Canada’s border communities is calling on the federal government to drop the ArriveCan app and vaccination requirements at the Canada-U.S. land border. In a press conference on June 15, the mayors and business representatives from the communities said the Liberal government’s pandemic travel rules have been “inconsistent” and said it…

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Government Abandons ‘Amber Watchlist’ Plans for Travellers

August 3, 2021
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Ministers have abandoned plans for an “amber watchlist” as Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to keep travel rules as simple as possible. The government had been considering the new category for nations at risk of being moved into the red group under the traffic light system. But following a backlash by Tory MPs, ministerial concerns,…

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Britons Told to Avoid Amber List Countries as EU Loosens Travel Rule

May 19, 2021
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stressed that people shouldn’t go to “amber list” countries except in extreme circumstances as the European Union is set to allow fully vaccinated tourists into the bloc. Portugal, one of the only two places in the EU that are currently on the UK’s “green list” along with the Faroe Islands, had…

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Migrant Workers Facing Obstacles as Canada’s New COVID-19 Travel Rules Roll Out

January 18, 2021
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From their homes in far-flung locations like Guatemala, Mexico, and Honduras, migrant workers are telling Dennis Juarez how new travel restrictions are making it hard for them to get to Canada. Juarez, who manages Mosaic’s migrant workers program in B.C., says foreign workers are getting little information about a recent policy change requiring any international…

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