Without Papers Pizza owner is suing the City of Calgary, the province of Alberta and former Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw for shutting down his business in 2021.
New Brunswick Auditor General Paul Martin has stated that the province’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health was unable to provide evidence-based data to justify 33 different COVID-related decisions it made.
On Monday, the Court of Appeal of Alberta acquitted pastor Tracy Fortin and her Church in the Vine in Edmonton of COVID-related convictions from April of 2022.
On Wednesday, the Alberta Crown Prosecutions Service in a statement said that 'there is no longer a reasonable likelihood of conviction in relation to Public Health Act charges involving the contravention of the disputed orders from the Chief Medical Officer of Health.'
In a case involving three individual citizens and two Baptist church communities that assembled during the COVID-19 pandemic, Judge Barbara Romaine declared that their rights were infringed upon by the government.
Judges ruled in two important court cases in Alberta and British Columbia that health officers in those provinces are not above the law and must account for their roles in enacting draconian virus rules.
Premier Jason Kenney said a significant number of COVID-labeled hospitalizations were hospitalized for another reason, but tested positive by routine testing and were not sick with COVID.