One of Alberta’s southernmost communities is facing uncertainty amid new border restrictions between Canada and the United States due to COVID-19.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the border would be closed to all non-essential travel, including tourism and recreational trips.
Commercial traffic has not been affected by the new restrictions. Coutts, which is home to Alberta’s largest border crossing, is used to seeing thousands of travellers pass through each week, but there is now concern it and its neighbours in Sweet Grass, Mont., could take a hit. “They will probably see a decrease in business as well because a lot of people who live here have mailboxes on the other side, you do some cross-border shopping,” said