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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 -- A constitutional challenge is calling on the court to strike down parts of the province’s public health act which lawyers argue give Manitoba's chief provincial public health officer immense and limitless power with little oversight. On Tuesday as Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba's chief public health officer, announced the new round of public health orders set to take effect on Friday, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms launched a challenge in Manitoba's Court of Queen’s Bench questioning the power given to the top doctor to implement those orders. In its argume...
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...
First Connecticut City Gets All-Electric School Bus Connecticut's only all-electric school bus will enable the district to not only reduce carbon emissions, increase energy efficiency and lower fuel costs, but ensure children a more healthful ride to and from school. by Cassandra Day, The Middletown Press / February 9, 2021 Electric vehicles plugged into charging stations. (Shutterstock) Shutterstock (TNS) — Connecticut's only all-electric school bus will enable the district to not only reduce carbon emi...