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JCCF fighting pandemic worship restrictions across Canada June 3, 2021
Provincial governments across Canada are presenting faith adherents with rays of hope by unveiling roadmaps and timelines on the lifting of public worship restrictions heading into the summer months.
Ultimately, these scenarios will come to fruition if the vaccination rates and the trajectory of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations hit goals set by provincial health departments.
These guidelines are not enough for some who want to return to their places of worship, sooner and more fully. And they have an ally in the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), a legal advocacy group headquartered in Calgary, that has not deviated from one fixed target: an end to all lockdown restrictions.
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Controversial government rules requiring air travellers arriving in Canada to book a non-refundable stay at a government-authorized quarantine hotel are under legal fire and judicial scrutiny at a trial challenging the constitutionality of the COVID-19 control measures.
Four separate challenges are being heard together by Paul Crampton, Chief Justice of the Federal Court, who started the trial’s opening day, featuring 10,000 pages of documents, on the 50
th anniversary of the court’s founding.
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People attend an outdoor worship service in May 2021 held at the Church of God of Aylmer in Ontario, Canada. | Herbert Hildebrandt
A Canadian congregation has been charged with violating lockdown rules when it held multiple outdoor worship services with more than 10 people in attendance after its church building was shut down by the government.Â
The Church of God in Aylmer, Ontario, held two services, one on May 16 and the other on May 23 attended by hundreds of people, that violated the Reopening Ontario Act because it exceeded the capacity limit.Â
Also known as the Roadmap to Reopen, Step 1 of the program involves allowing outdoor gatherings of no more than 10 people and non-essential retail being allowed at 15% capacity.