‘One side or the other’: Coutts, Alta. still a village divided after convoy blockade
The sound of blaring horns that echoed through this village 10 months ago has been replaced by the steady hum of semi-trailer trucks filing through the border crossing between Alberta and the United States.
“There is a real hard line. I think the people who were in the middle of the road and had no decision, they’ve come down on the other side. It’s one side or the other.”“It’s not like that in the city,” Ostby said. “There’s that undercurrent of ‘you’re on that side and I’m on this side’ still. And the people who had their opinions about vaccinations and whether it’s right or wrong … they’re still there and they still have the same views,” he said.
He said Coutts is a nice, small community with friendships and family relations that go back forever. A trial before a judge and jury has been scheduled for next year for four men charged with conspiracy to commit murder at the blockade. The director of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy at the University of Lethbridge said memories are long in rural communities and it doesn’t take much to expose the fragility of some relationships.
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