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Topic: ManitobaView all posts for the topic: Manitoba

Supreme Court will not hear appeal from churches who fought Manitoba COVID rules

Published March 14, 2024

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Published by: The Globe and Mail / The Canadian Press
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The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear an appeal by several churches that fought Manitoba’s COVID-19 restrictions.

Lawyers for the churches argued public health orders in 2020 and 2021 that temporarily closed in-person religious services, then permitted them with caps on attendance, violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

They lost that argument in two lower courts.

The Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled last year the restrictions were necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and allowable under the Charter.

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Topic: British ColumbiaView all posts for the topic: British Columbia

B.C. politicians vote against lifting vaccine mandate for health-care workers

Published September 22, 2023

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Published by: Global News
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By Amy Judd, Richard Zussman

A vote was held at the Union of B.C. Municipalities this week about the mandate requiring health-care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

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Topic: OntarioView all posts for the topic: Ontario

Masks now mandatory in ‘key patient care areas’ at Kingston hospitals

Published September 7, 2023

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Published by: CTV News
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By Josh Pringle

Masks are now required in key patient areas at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, including the Emergency Department, Urgent Care Centre and the Children’s Outpatient Clinic.

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Topic: pandemic responseView all posts for the topic: pandemic response

Where Have All The Masks Gone? And Why Is The CDC Missing In Action?

Published September 7, 2023

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Published by: Forbes
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By Judy Stone

The Biden administration has made a political choice—not a scientific or public health one—to downgrade the national response to COVID-19. Included in this is the reticence or outright avoidance of mentioning masking even as cases rise in the US. The CDC director, in talking about this late increase in COVID cases, bends over backward to mention hand-washing, but not N95s. Without question, N95s offer individuals protection against infection and leaving out that fact is a disservice and an abdication of duty.

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Topic: British ColumbiaView all posts for the topic: British Columbia

British Columbians protest calling to restore mask protections in healthcare

Published August 23, 2023

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Published by: DoNoHarm BC
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On Monday, August 28th at 12:00 pm, British Columbians will gather outside the MLA office of Health Minister Adrian Dix to demand the restoration of universal masking in healthcare settings, alongside other key safety measures like clean air. Echoing guidance from the WHO and calls from BC’s Human Rights Commissioner (and doctors and researchers worldwide), healthcare workers, patients and caregivers will tell their stories, and demand measures to protect the most vulnerable.

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Topic: pandemic responseView all posts for the topic: pandemic response

Public health reset urgently required

Published August 18, 2023

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Published by: Kingston Whig Standard
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By Geoffrey P. Johnston

“A hard public health reset is urgently required in Canada to protect the vulnerable and prevent the healthcare system from being overwhelmed by long COVID patients. Policymakers should immediately implement a pandemic action plan to save lives in the coming weeks and months.”

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Topic: human rightsView all posts for the topic: human rights

End of health-care mask mandates puts vulnerable at risk: B.C. human rights commissioner

Published April 12, 2023

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Published by: Vancouver Sun
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By Joseph Ruttle

B.C.’s human rights commissioner is criticizing provincial health officials for ending mask mandates in health-care settings, saying it puts the most vulnerable and marginalized people at risk.

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Topic: childrenView all posts for the topic: children

Opinion: Treating kids as invulnerable is treating them as disposable

Published February 14, 2023

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Published by: Calgary Herald
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By Blake Murdoch

Are we OK with children being hospitalized for infectious diseases at far higher rates, as they have recently been? Are we fine with COVID being the No. 1 cause of infectious disease-driven death in children? Also, what if there is a number of reinfections at which average outcomes really start to worsen?

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Topic: universal maskingView all posts for the topic: universal masking

Upgrading PPE for staff working on COVID-19 wards cut hospital-acquired infections dramatically

Published June 29, 2021

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Published by: University of Cambridge
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“Once FFP3 respirators were introduced, the number of cases attributed to exposure on COVID-19 wards dropped dramatically – in fact, our model suggests that FFP3 respirators may have cut ward-based infection to zero.”

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