We couldnot be wrong, Dr. Brent Roussin testified in Court of Queen s Bench. We had to limit places we knew transmission was going to occur because our hospitals were full.
Roussin, chief public health officer, told court there were numerous clusters of infections linked to faith-based gatherings before churches were closed down last November.
At the time, non-essential stores were also shuttered and group gatherings banned as cases surged and a deadly wave of infections swept through long-term care homes. Our hospitals were full of COVID-19 patients. Our ICUs were full of COVID-19 patients, Roussin testified. We had to act on the trends we were seeing. We were in crisis.
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Chief nurse testifies in court challenge
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A court fight over the province’s right to impose pandemic restrictions focused its attention Wednesday on health care and the resources marshalled to care for COVID-19 patients.
A court fight over the province’s right to impose pandemic restrictions focused its attention Wednesday on health care and the resources marshalled to care for COVID-19 patients.
Manitoba hospitals have been shuffling resources, buying equipment and reassigning staff since February 2020 to increase intensive care unit capacity and meet the demand of expected COVID-19 patients, chief nursing officer Lanette Siragusa testified Wednesday.
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Tobias Tissen speaks at a protest supporting the seven churches fighting pandemic restrictions in court in front of the Law Courts in Winnipeg on Monday. (Winnipeg Free Press)
The Bible Baptist Church at 1203 Fourth St. in Brandon has been named as one of the churches in the provincial court case challenging provincial pandemic restrictions limiting their right to assembly.
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The Bible Baptist Church at 1203 Fourth St. in Brandon has been named as one of the churches in the provincial court case challenging provincial pandemic restrictions limiting their right to assembly.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney speaks at a Canadian Club of Ottawa lunch in Ottawa on Dec. 9, 2019. File photo by Andrew Meade
Throughout his political career, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has repeatedly paid homage to the leadership skills of former British prime minister Winston Churchill. In a 2015 tweet, he described Churchill as “the greatest statesman of the modern era,” while last year, in defending his decision to keep Alberta’s legislature open during a pandemic, he invoked one of Churchill’s signature moments. “The work of democracy does not end in a crisis,” Kenney said. “The British House of Commons met every day during the blitz of the Luftwaffe on London.” But after more than a year of trying to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become clear that Kenney has far more in common with a lesser British statesman: Neville Chamberlain.
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A judge in Ontario, Canada, has allowed authorities to temporarily lock the doors of a church that has refused to follow provincial restrictions on gatherings aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19.
The attorney general’s office for Ontario had police lock the doors of Trinity Bible Chapel of Waterloo through next Saturday to prevent in-person worship services.
The move came as part of a temporary injunction against the chapel in which Justice John Krawchenko concluded that closing the church was a matter of public safety.
“The risk of irreparable harm would be too great to ignore,” said Krawchenko, as reported by the CTV News. “The only way to ensure compliance is to lock the doors to the building, but not to their ministry.”