An OPP spokesperson said Thursday night the amount of the fine will be determined in court. Fines, if convicted, can reach up to $10 million for corporations.
Ontario
Ontario to move patients from hospitals to long-term care without their consent due to COVID-19 third wave
With an amendment to the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act, the province will be able to move hospital patients to long-term care homes or retirements homes, provided their doctor agrees their medical needs can be met in that setting, without the patient’s consent or the consent of their substitute decision maker.
GOLDSTEIN: Ontarians poorer than U.S. neighbours by $16,600 — report
Ontarians are becoming poorer and their economy is growing weaker compared to their American neighbours living in the eight Great Lakes states on their southern border, according to a study by the Fraser Institute.
“When we compare the average income of Ontarians relative to Americans in neighbouring states, the situation is getting worse,” said study co-author Ben Eisen in Measuring Ontario’s Regional Prosperity Gap.
Charges to be laid after ‘one of the largest services’ held at Aylmer, Ont. church on Sunday
Aylmer police say they are investigating and will be pressing charges after “one of the largest services” was held at an Aylmer, Ont. church Sunday morning that has continually defied the province’s COVID-19 rules.
Canada Public Health Is Racially Discriminating
Oh so public health is racially discriminating now?
I thought we didn’t do that in Canada. https://t.co/50eWKzRKFp
— Ian Prittie 🌷financial bubble MC (@thereds8) April 25, 2021
Hundreds attend anti-lockdown rally in Peterborough, Bernier and Hillier ticketed
“Let me tell everybody here — every police officer — I’ll paper my walls with your tickets before I ever give up. Every wall of my house will have your worthless tickets on it before I ever give up,” Hillier said.
“We will not stand down — we will stand for freedom and no more lockdowns.”
Ford calls for ban on non-essential travel into Canada due to COVID-19 scariant first identified in India
In a statement released Saturday morning, the premier called the discovery of the B.1.617 variant “extremely troubling.”
Ontario’s top doctor issues directive to cease all non-emergency surgeries immediately
Hospitals in the province are required to halt all non-emergent surgeries and non-urgent procedures immediately as people with COVID-19 continue to fill up hospitals and put the healthcare system under strain amid the third wave.
Ontario police can now ID children to enforce new restrictions
Police in Ontario say the province has given them the power to ID anyone gathering in public – even if they are children.
“If [police] see something like that going on,” Peel Regional Police spokeswoman Const. Danny Marttini said of gatherings, “they would ask to identify all parties that are participating.”
Hundreds of COVID-19 ICU patient transfers planned as Ontario braces for ‘horrific’ 2 weeks
The race to move patients and open beds within reach of Ontario’s most taxed ICUs has become a complicated web and a snapshot of a province’s health-care system on the verge of breaking amid the third wave of the pandemic.
Policing the Police State
Every single Ontario municipal police force told the provincial government they would not be conducting random stops of citizens to enforce the province’s stay-at-home order, forcing the province to walk back its directive to police. Yet even so, the government didn’t apologize for throwing civil liberties out the window, True North’s Andrew Lawton says.
Ontarians finally discover a breaking point for the lockdown abuse they’ll tolerate
Surely there must have been people in cabinet, in caucus, who could have told Ford he was yet again courting disaster. Instead he blundered straight into it.
There is no one at the wheel in Ontario
Where the hell do I even begin?
That’s not really a rhetorical question. The past 72 hours in Ontario have been, with no exaggeration, the most bizarre three days I’ve ever covered — or even witnessed. There are four or five different columns I could write about it, and all would cover some entirely distinct, eye-popping angle. There’s the “dozens of police forces refuse premier’s offer of power to arbitrarily stop and interrogate any citizen without limit” column. There’s an entire column about what the new police powers — even the lesser, revised versions — mean. There’s a border-closure column. There’s a column about the insanity of closing playgrounds. There’s a column about the volcanic eruption of public anger after the new emergency measures were announced on Friday. You could do an entirely separate one just on the astonishing outpouring of on-background-only and off-the-record wailing and horror by Progressive Conservatives themselves, the likes of which I have never seen.
COVID patients could fill virtually all of Ontario’s existing ICU beds by May in worst case scenario: modelling
New modeling suggests that the number of COVID-19 patients in Ontario’s intensive care wards will exceed 1,000 by the end of April in every single scenario, raising the spectre that the province may have to formally invoke its triage protocol to decide who gets a bed.
Ford declines help from Trudeau, Red Cross: ‘We have a supply issue’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is prepared to deploy the Canadian Red Cross to help Ontario with their mobile vaccination teams and send aid to hospitals and long-term care homes; something the Premier says isn’t needed at the moment.