As COVID cases rise, politicians and public health grasp at straws

It has become obvious that politicians and public health officials are grasping at straws, as existing measures have proved unable to stop the spike in COVID cases. And as current strategies fail, new lockdown measures are being imposed that limit our rights and bear little connection to transmission. As the…

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Are some government responses to COVID breaching Charter rights?

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There has been a lot of buzz about the constitutionality of government responses to COVID, but where do things really stand? Are lockdowns, mandatory masks, travel restrictions and the accompanying penalties really a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The Charter provides an explicit guarantee of political…

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Manitoba lockdown jumps the shark

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Things in Manitoba are getting weird. Yes, the province’s rising COVID-19 cases are troubling. But perhaps just as troubling is the Pallister government’s recent response, which has lurched from oppressive to bizarre and irrational. New measures like snitch lines, private police, and removing Christmas toys from shop shelves have been…

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