{"id":4898,"date":"2024-03-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:17:42","slug":"supreme-court-will-not-hear-appeal-from-churches-who-fought-manitoba-covid-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/supreme-court-will-not-hear-appeal-from-churches-who-fought-manitoba-covid-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court will not hear appeal from churches who fought Manitoba COVID rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear an appeal by several churches that fought Manitoba\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>They lost that argument in two lower courts.<\/p>\n<p>The Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled last year the restrictions were necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and allowable under the Charter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear an appeal by several churches that fought Manitoba\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>They lost that argument in two lower courts.<\/p>\n<p>The Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled last year the restrictions were necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and allowable under the Charter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/supreme-court-will-not-hear-appeal-from-churches-who-fought-manitoba-covid-rules\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court will not hear appeal from churches who fought Manitoba COVID rules<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,82,18,180,282,14,949],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-court-case","tag-covid-19","tag-health-protections","tag-manitoba","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-supreme-court-of-canada","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}