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Sister Andre, a French nun, is shown at the Sainte-Catherine Laboure care facility where she resides in Toulon in southern France. Andre, who is 116 years old, has recovered after testing positive for the coronavirus in mid-January. (Submitted by David Tavella/The Associated Press)
Manitoba ER nurses say they feel abandoned by province, their own union
Posted: Feb 09, 2021 12:48 PM PT | Last Updated: February 9
B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry is seeking an injunction to stop the leaders of three Fraser Valley churches from continuing to defy her orders suspending in-person religious services due to COVID-19. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
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.
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The day after the deadly siege in Washington D.C., a Canadian user on an alternative social media platform where hard right users flocked after Facebook and Twitter started moderating misinformation tried to muster an attack in Ottawa to overthrow the Canadian government, and posted a stream of assassination threats against politicians and public health figures.
Among those targeted were Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Alberta Premier Jason Kenney; federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh; and Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw.
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