Ottawa’s medical officer of health will be issuing a class order under the Health Protection and Promotion Act aimed at outdoor recreational spaces that will outline requirements around signage, physical distancing, and maximum capacity limits in common gathering areas, after large crowds were observed at skating rinks, tobogganing hills and skiing trailheads, “raising concern for me that we need to decrease that crowding,” said Dr. Vera Etches.
The province of Quebec is expected to announce on Wednesday that they will be implementing an 8-9pm curfew with strict new lockdown rules! Amazingly this announcement comes on the heels of a viral video which showed the Gatineau police aggressively arresting and fining a family of 6 for gathering at home for New Years Eve.
Restricting times and locations people can shop concentrates them, resulting in more virus transmission.
I have spent the bulk of my working life in and around policing. Ordinarily, I would publicly defend the police — especially in cases of citizen journalism. I put context to what we are seeing and silence the baying hounds.
However, after viewing the video of Gatineau Police responding to a neighbour’s complaint of members of a family holding a New Year’s Eve gathering, I cannot defend it for a number of reasons.
China still owes Canada $371 million in decades-old debt
China still owes Canada $371 million in loans it incurred decades ago, and is not expected to repay them in full until 2045.
The little-known debt comes from loans to Beijing through the Canada Account, a federal fund providing credit for export-related transactions, usually to foreign governments and corporations to secure the purchase of Canadian goods, such as commercial planes.
The account is used to support transactions deemed too risky for Export Development Canada’s corporate account, but which are still in the national interest, as determined by the federal minister of International Trade.
This is so Canadian. Crony capitalists reap the profit of sales to the Communist Chinese slave state but it’s lowly tax payers who assume all the financial risk.
Tany Yao, the United Conservative Party representative from Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, Alberta, is the latest Canadian politician to feel that he is above the COVID-19 travel restrictions put in place by his own party.
The new variant is believed to spread more easily and faster than the original version of the virus, based on modelling and some epidemiological data, but it is not believed to be more deadly.
Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced Thursday that air travellers overseas will have to present proof of a negative molecular test — known as a PCR test, conducted with a nasal swab — that was taken within 72 hours of departure, unless the testing is unavailable in that country.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath made the request formally in a news release sent on Monday, asking members of provincial parliament to return to Queen’s Park despite the two-month winter break that started in early December.
Quebec City police were the busiest when it came to the enforcement of health regulations during the holidays. On New Year’s Eve alone the force handed 52 tickets — 46 of them during protests staged around the National Assembly. Between Dec. 21 and Dec. 27, the force handed out 41 tickets, most of them for illegal gatherings.
The new report, from Black Lives Matter Toronto, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, YWCA, Family Services Toronto, Neighbourhood Legal Services and 17 other groups says taking an approach where separate services for drug use, mental health crises and homelessness are set up to replace the role of police could lead to better outcomes.
Alberta announced a mandatory closure of all dine-in service at restaurants, pubs, bars, lounges and cafes on Dec. 13. Restaurants can only provide take-away and delivery service.
