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Rachel Leingang in International Falls, Minnesota

Tensions simmer on US-Canada border for two towns relying on each other

Flags of Canada and United States fly
The Gordie Howe international bridge that connects Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan. Photograph: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images

Like many Canadians, Tom Reid isn’t crossing the US-Canada border as often these days. But he needed a haircut.

The woman who cuts his hair lives in International Falls, Minnesota – her “sister is married to my wife’s cousin”, he explained – and so Reid, whose duty free shop in Fort Frances, Ontario, has to travel to her.

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