Hours after the US government shutdown on Wednesday due to an impasse between Democrats and Republicans on federal spending, there was buzz about a closure along the US-Canada border.

Search volumes about the purported border closure spiked shortly after the shutdown, indicating concern about a potential fallout due to such a closure.

However, it seems like the concerns are unfounded as there have been no official communication about the border between the two North American nations being closed. Also Read | US shutdown begins: What it means, who will it affect, how long it could last?

Is the US-Canada border closed?

The concerns, and the search query, seems to stem from a different issue: not a closure, but a system outage that affected the movement of commercial trucks along t

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