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COVID-19 Update: 399 new cases, two deaths | Alberta led Canada in excess deaths in fall Replay Video Skip Ad With news on COVID-19 happening rapidly, we’ve created this page to bring you our latest stories and information on the outbreak in and around Calgary. What’s happening now Booking for the AstraZeneca vaccine is now available through 811 an online for those who are eligible. Thursday has been designated a day of observance by the federal government in memory of those lost to COVID...

COVID-19 Update: 399 new cases, two deaths | Alberta led Canada in excess deaths in fall Replay Video Skip Ad With news on COVID-19 happening rapidly, we’ve created this page to bring you our latest stories and information on the outbreak in and around Calgary. What’s happening now Booking for the AstraZeneca vaccine is now available through 811 an online for those who are eligible. Thursday has been designated a day of observance by the federal government in memory of those lost to COVID...

Article content My COVID Story: How have you been impacted by coronavirus? Postmedia is looking to speak with people who may have been impacted by COVID-19 here in Alberta.  Have you undergone a travel-related quarantine? Have you received your vaccine, and if so did you feel any side effects? Have you changed your life for the better because of the pandemic? Send us an email at reply@calgaryherald.com to tell us your experience, or send us a message via this form. Calgary pharmacies offerin...

Alberta Crown Prosecutors Continue to Drop COVID-19 Tickets, More Withdrawals Expected Prosecutors in Alberta are continuing to withdraw tickets issued to residents who had defied COVID-19 public health orders. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, a charity law firm that defends Canadians’ Charter Rights, announced on Tuesday that Alberta provincial Crown prosecutor has dropped three tickets, and a municipal crown prosecutor has revoked one. “Public health officials are not the s...

Legal Challenges to Pandemic Measures on the Rise as Civil Liberties Groups Cry Foul The constitutional rights and freedoms of Canadians are front and centre in a flurry of legal challenges to pandemic measures, as civil liberties groups take on multiple cases they say represent unconstitutional measures implemented by authorities. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has court actions underway or pending, as of Feb. 25, against five provinces around lockdown measures it says ...

Article content Whether people are forced to pre-pay, or are dragged in upon arrival, it’s just wrong. Canadians should not stand for it. It’s especially appalling since the COVID-positive numbers have been dropping. Ontario’s own numbers show out of 14 million people there are 689 hospitalized, 269 in the ICU and 190 on ventilators in the province’s 384 hospitals. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Every case is upsetting but to lock down a...

Manitobas lawyer argues the constitutional challenge by several churches of the pandemic powers given to the provinces top doctor is unnecessarily complicating a complex case. The lawyer is now asking the court to make the churches pay cost consequences because of it.

Posted: Feb 09, 2021 4:24 PM CT | Last Updated: February 10 Seven Manitoba churches, a minister, a deacon, and a man who was fined for attending an anti-lockdown rally in Steinbach in November have taken the province and its top doctor to court in a constitutional challenge of public health orders. (Austin Grabish/CBC) As Manitobas chief public health officer was announcing the relaxation of some public health restrictions Tuesday, his powers were being challenged in a court proceeding question...

Winnipeg Free Press Last Modified: 3:02 PM CST Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 | Updates MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS A Calgary-based advocacy group representing seven Manitoba churches is arguing against public health orders by Manitobas chief provincial public health officer, Brent Roussin, that restrict church gatherings. Lockdown orders and other pandemic restrictions have been issued by the province’s chief public health officer with no scientif...