{"id":5509,"date":"2024-04-24T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2024-04-25T02:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T06:41:33","slug":"edmonton-judges-dismiss-appeal-by-parents-alberta-school-boards-may-not-enforce-their-own-masking-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/edmonton-judges-dismiss-appeal-by-parents-alberta-school-boards-may-not-enforce-their-own-masking-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton judges dismiss appeal by parents; Alberta school boards may not enforce their own masking mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of Alberta appeals court judges has dismissed an appeal by parents of five immunocompromised Alberta kids.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the families, known only by initials, had argued the children\u2019s Charter rights were violated in 2022 when the province stopped masking requirements and barred school boards from enforcing their own masking mandates.<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) joined the quest for an appellate review of the 2022 decision by Court of Queen\u2019s Bench Justice Grant Dunlop to let stand an order by Alberta\u2019s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw ending the COVID- 19 requirement for students to mask in schools, and the related \u201cLaGrange statement\u201d made by Alberta\u2019s then-education minister purporting to restrict the ability of school boards to impose masking requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of Alberta appeals court judges has dismissed an appeal by parents of five immunocompromised Alberta kids.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the families, known only by initials, had argued the children\u2019s Charter rights were violated in 2022 when the province stopped masking requirements and barred school boards from enforcing their own masking mandates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/edmonton-judges-dismiss-appeal-by-parents-alberta-school-boards-may-not-enforce-their-own-masking-mandates\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edmonton judges dismiss appeal by parents; Alberta school boards may not enforce their own masking mandates<\/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":[315,1088,375,81,96,26,82,18,259,19,309,14,62,202,143],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-federation-of-labour","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-canada","tag-children","tag-court-case","tag-covid-19","tag-human-rights","tag-masks","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-schools","tag-students","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","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=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}