Alberta Premier Urges Federal Agencies to Be More Transparent Over Mandatory Quarantine Locations February 4, 2021 Updated: February 4, 2021
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney urged federal agencies to be more transparent about where Canadians are being directed to stay to “self-isolate” after returning from abroad.
“There are reports of Canadians returning from abroad being directed to self isolate in airport hotels, with federal agencies failing to disclose where they will be staying,” Kenney said in a statement on Monday. We understand the need for quarantine requirements, but ask that federal agencies be more transparent.”
“People entering Canada have an obligation to inform themselves about and comply with testing and quarantine requirements. But federal agencies like CBSA and PHAC could avoid a lot of anger and confusion if they were more transparent about where people will be staying,” the premier wrote on Twitter.
López-Gatell criticizes testing travelers for Covid: ‘Sick people don’t travel’ Measure would have minimal impact on coronavirus situation, says deputy health minister
Published on Wednesday, February 3, 2021
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Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell has dismissed the need for Mexico to require people entering the country to present a negative Covid-19 test result, asserting that such a measure would have a minimal impact on the coronavirus situation here and that sick people generally don’t travel.
The coronavirus point man noted that some airports in Mexico are asking people to present a negative test result in light of the decision by the United States, Canada and other countries to require international air travelers to prove they they are not infected with the virus.
(CARLI BERRY / iNFOnews.ca) January 29, 2021 - 7:00 AM The legality of stopping churches from holding in-person services, including at least one in Kelowna, will hit a Vancouver courtroom on March 1. Kelowna’s Harvest Ministries International has been handed two $2,300 fines for holding in-person services and has joined the lawsuit, represented by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms out of Calgary. The court challenge will be heard in Vancouver from March 1 to 3. “The court has shown commendable efforts to expedite the hearing of this matter, which is of significant public effect and importance,” Justice Centre lawyer Marty Moore told iNFOnews.ca. “When the constitutionality of an order is challenged, particularly an order of this nature that, for example, entirely prohibits gatherings for religious purposes across the province, in the context where there are gatherings that are permitted if you weren’t a religious group, there is g
Trinity Bible Chapel in Woolwich township near Waterloo, Ont. has been found in contempt of court after opening for in-person services and exceeding limit requirements under the Reopening Ontario Act. Seven people have been charged for hosting it.
The Riverside Calvary Chapel. (Kyler Emerson)
COVID-19 has impacted our daily lives for several months now, and cases are rising everywhere, including B.C. Everyone should be following protocols placed by the B.C. government to slow down infection rates and “flatten the curve.”
As more vaccines are on the way this spring, following social distancing rules remains paramount. However, some churches in the province seem to have different thoughts about the virus and the necessity of enacting restrictions to slow its spread.
A group of 16 individuals and churches are taking the provincial government to court to fight the ban on in-person religious services.