Posted: Jan 30, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 30
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has said he believes the province should name organizations that are ticketed for allegedly breaching public health orders. But according to the Ministry of Health, privacy laws prevent the province from naming individual people. (Germain Wilson/CBC)
Stats bar to fight $14,000 COVID-19 ticket, owner says they were targeted By Josh Sigurdson
Jan 30, 2021 3:36 PM
A co-owner of Mr. D’s Stats Cocktails and Dreams says she feels targeted after receiving a $14,000 ticket for not following public health orders.
Mia Danakas-Weinkauf is speaking out after the encounters she had with Saskatchewan Health Authority officials, who she says gave mixed messages.
“I don’t understand what we did wrong, everyone was wearing masks, we had only 75 people in here,” said Danakas-Weinkauf. “There was only three or four people at a table, and some only had two, we turned away 100 people, we even locked our doors.”
Feel like I ve been targeted : Regina bar owner says she ll fight $14K COVID ticket
Mia Danakas-Weinkauf, the co-owner of Mr. D s Stats Cocktails and Dreams in Regina, says she was not formally warned about customers being too close together before she was ticketed $14,000 this week.
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The owner of Stats Cocktails & Dreams Bar and Grill is shocked by the $14,000 fine the Regina establishment got for failing to abide by COVID-19 public health orders and she plans to fight the ticket.
Mia Danakas Weinkauf said two inspectors came into the sports bar on Victoria Avenue East without introducing themselves and slapped the ticket down on the table.
“No warning, no nothing. (They) didn’t even tell the management or the servers that they had done anything wrong,” said Weinkauf.
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Weinkauf claims one of the inspectors told her she couldn’t seat people in back-to-back booths, even though the booths are separated by wooden partitions. She believed that was allowed, pointing to other restaurants that do the same, only with Plexiglas.