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Legal Challenges to Pandemic Measures on the Rise as Civil Liberties Groups Cry Foul The constitutional rights and freedoms of Canadians are front and centre in a flurry of legal challenges to pandemic measures, as civil liberties groups take on multiple cases they say represent unconstitutional measures implemented by authorities. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has court actions underway or pending, as of Feb. 25, against five provinces around lockdown measures it says violate Charter rights. And it’s suing the federal government for imposing mandatory hotel quaran...

Article content Whether people are forced to pre-pay, or are dragged in upon arrival, it’s just wrong. Canadians should not stand for it. It’s especially appalling since the COVID-positive numbers have been dropping. Ontario’s own numbers show out of 14 million people there are 689 hospitalized, 269 in the ICU and 190 on ventilators in the province’s 384 hospitals. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Every case is upsetting but to lock down an entire province, and contain people in a locked setting with guards on every floor, is not only di...

Manitoba's lawyer argues the constitutional challenge by several churches of the pandemic powers given to the province's top doctor is unnecessarily complicating a complex case. The lawyer is now asking the court to make the churches pay cost consequences because of it.

Posted: Feb 09, 2021 4:24 PM CT | Last Updated: February 10 Seven Manitoba churches, a minister, a deacon, and a man who was fined for attending an anti-lockdown rally in Steinbach in November have taken the province and its top doctor to court in a constitutional challenge of public health orders. (Austin Grabish/CBC) As Manitoba's chief public health officer was announcing the relaxation of some public health restrictions Tuesday, his powers were being challenged in a court proceeding questioning the constitutionality of the months-long partial lockdown and ban on in-person gatherings. The ...

Winnipeg Free Press Last Modified: 3:02 PM CST Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 | Updates MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS A Calgary-based advocacy group representing seven Manitoba churches is arguing against public health orders by Manitoba's chief provincial public health officer, Brent Roussin, that restrict church gatherings. Lockdown orders and other pandemic restrictions have been issued by the province’s chief public health officer with no scientific support, and they violate the charter rights of Manitobans, a judge was told Tuesday. Lockdown o...