Injunction slapped on planned Central Alberta rodeos protesting COVID-19 measures
The Saturday and Sunday events that would be a repeat of early May events near Bowden were slapped with an injunction Friday.
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The Saturday and Sunday events that would be a repeat of early May events near Bowden were slapped with an injunction Friday.
Alberta Health Services is no longer pursuing legal action against the pastor of a Calgary church who has repeatedly violated COVID-19 rules
WINNIPEG -- A Manitoba judge is hearing closing arguments in the constitutional court case brought forward by a group of seven churches and three individuals challenging the province’s public health orders. The applicants argue measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 implemented between November 2020 and the present day infringe on Charter rights to hold religious and public gatherings. “There is a darkness choking our society,” Allison Pejovic, a lawyer for the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, argued on behalf of the applicants. Pejovic told the court the applican...
TORONTO: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms today announces that the Federal Court has released the Decision on the interim injunction regarding the federal hotel quarantine and quarantine facility policies. The interim injunction would have applied to nine Justice Centre clients who travelled under different sets of circumstances and found themselves facing detention in federal facilities upon arrival in Canada. While the Court did not issue the interim injunction, it found that both Charter Section 7- the right to life liberty and security of person, and Section 9 - the right no...
Article content The Federal Court refused to order an immediate end to the federal government’s quarantine hotel rules, but agreed it is an issue needing close judicial scrutiny because of restrictions it places on travellers. “A public health emergency, like the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, is in one sense simply another emergency. However, it must also be recognized that it is a type of situation that can inspire irrational fears and passions, which may in turn provoke a government to adopt excessive measures that trench unduly on the rights and freedoms of individuals,” the co...