CALGARY The province says 9,000 health care workers will be able to book vaccination appointments in the coming days, after being postponed because of supply problems. The appointments were put off in mid-January after shipments of vaccines to Canada were greatly reduced. Health care workers are part of the province’s Phase 1A vaccine rollout. No details have yet been released on subsequent vaccination phases. Ward 6 Councillor Jeff Davison put forward a motion that will go to council in March, calling for the province to include critical workers including firefighters, transit drivers, police, water services and 911 workers. “This is simply to advocate on our behalf of our employees, whether it s our bus drivers or firefighters,” says Davison. “Those people who are in critical infrastructure roles, that they get vaccinated first because they’re the ones who are really client-focussed from the city’s point of view.”
By Samuel Blatchford
Capital News Service
Bus riders in Michigan are accustomed to what a new federal mandate requires: that all passengers on public transit wear a mask.
Clark Harder, the executive director of the Michigan Public Transit Authority, said transit agencies have been following the state’s mask mandate since ordered by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in July.
A new federal executive order from President Joe Biden, that was effective Feb. 1, doesn’t change anything for them, he said.
Rural and nonmetropolitan transit agencies have followed the protocols to keep bus drivers and passengers safe in Michigan, Harder said.
COVID-19 safety protocols are different for each system, aside from the mask mandate. For example, some use sneeze guards and shower curtains to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
SAMUEL BLATCHFORD
LANSING Bus riders in Michigan are accustomed to what a new federal mandate requires: that all passengers on public transit wear a mask.
Clark Harder, the executive director of the Michigan Public Transit Authority, said transit agencies have been following the state’s mask mandate since ordered by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in July.
A new federal executive order from President Joe Biden, which became effective Feb. 1, doesn’t change anything for them, he said.
Rural and nonmetropolitan transit agencies have followed the protocols to keep bus drivers and passengers safe in Michigan, Harder said.
COVID-19 safety protocols are different for each system, aside from the mask mandate. For example, some use sneeze guards and shower curtains to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Paula Reed Ward
Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review
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The Port Authority of Allegheny County on Friday filed a motion seeking to stay a federal court injunction while it appeals the decision that found prohibiting employees from wearing Black Lives Matter masks was unconstitutional.
In the filing, the agency wrote that the court “disregarded Port Authority’s interest in protecting its captive customers from political or social protest messages.”
The appeal will go to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The authority implemented a uniform policy prohibiting employees from wearing masks “of a political or social protest nature” following widespread protests over the death of George Floyd in May. Weeks later, after increased scrutiny by employees and community protests, the authority implemented an even more restrictive policy, allowing employees to we