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Tears without action doesn’t cut it for Mike Da Prat.
The president of United Steelworkers Local 2251 wants to ensure workers are safe on the job.
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Da Prat joined nearly a dozen labour and political leaders to mark National Day of Mourning at an online service Thursday.
An average of 200 Ontario residents have died on the job each year over the last decade, said Sault Ste. Marie and District Labour Council president Michel McCleave-Kennedy.
“We have to prevent this event from becoming similar to that in the United States over gun control – lots of sorrow, lots of commitment, however no action,” said Da Prat.
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Angry criticism of new Ontario police powers as COVID-19 hospitalizations set record
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TORONTO – New anti-pandemic powers that allow police in Ontario to stop any motorist or pedestrian and ask where they live and why they’re not home drew furious criticism on Saturday as the number of infected people in hospital reached record levels.
The added police powers aimed at enforcing stay-at-home orders, they said, were overkill.
“I am very concerned about arbitrary stops of people by police at any time,” Toronto Mayor John Tory said in a Saturday tweet.
In a note to constituents, Jill Andrew, a provincial New Democrat politician in Toronto, said the measures show just how out of touch the Ford government is.
“Let’s be very real here: We are not going to police our way out of the pandemic,” Andrews said. “The reality here is that this will likely impact Black, Indigenous, and people of colour.”
While violating restrictions can carry a $750 fine, failure to provide police with requested information can result in criminal charges, according to the province’s association of police chiefs.
TORONTO Furious criticism of new anti-pandemic powers that allow police in Ontario to stop any motorist or pedestrian and ask where they live and why they're not home prompted the provincial government on Saturday to reconsider the measures.