A series of planned protests at hospitals in all 10 province against pandemic-related restrictions is being roundly denounced by federal party leaders.
NDP Leader @theJagmeetSingh is vowing criminal sanctions to dissuade similar gatherings if his party is elected to govern. He said he would make changes to the Criminal Code to dissuade anyone from protesting near hospitals or health-care workers.
Speaking in the rural Ottawa suburb of Carp, Conservative Leader @erinotoole said the planned protests are “completely unacceptable,” calling for unity even as he denounced Trudeau with sharpened personal attacks.
“There is the ability to peacefully protest and things like this, but to harass and to try and block people from accessing health care in a pandemic is completely unacceptable,” O’Toole said.
On the campaign trail, Liberal Leader @JustinTrudeau outlined a pledge of criminal sanctions for anyone blocking access to hospitals, vaccine clinics, testing centres, and those intimidating or harassing health-care workers.
Trudeau said the Criminal Code already has provisions about intimidating people who work in the justice system, but there is now a need to protect doctors and nurses in a similar way.
“It’s not OK any day to know that a nurse going into a late shift crossing a parking lot might be afraid that there could be someone there to spit on her or shout obscenities at her,” Trudeau said in his opening remarks in Vancouver.
It has been nothing short of horrific. This demon virus chokes me in my sleep and there are days I can’t get out of bed. It has taken more from me than one virus should be able to. My life will never be the same.
- Natalie, 41, Fort Nelson, B.C.
I am a mother of a 20-month-old girl and I have issues holding her in my arms while standing. I don’t always have the energy to play with her.
- Sandy Choiniere, 34, Blainville, Que.
🏆 Every acceptance speech for Everything Everywhere All at Once. The biggest emotional moment of the evening arrived early, when Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Actor for his role in the multiverse comedy.
A former senior executive at St. Michael’s Hospital and the former president of an Ontario construction company have been charged as part of a long-standing criminal probe into corruption at one Canada’s premier healthcare facilities: theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
Vas Georgiou, the former chief administrative officer at St. Michael’s, and John Aquino, the former president of Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd., voluntarily surrendered to police on Tuesday. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
The cases against both men, which involve allegations of collusion and kickbacks, date back to 2015, when Bondfield was selected as the winning bidder to redevelop the aging hospital. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
The rate of sexual-assault complaints that police reject as “unfounded” has dropped by more than half since a Globe and Mail investigation put a spotlight on the issue five years ago.
Today, 8 per cent of sexual assaults reported to police are being closed as unfounded, a law-enforcement term that means the allegation is false or baseless.
This is down from the 19-per-cent rate that The Globe reported in its 2017 Unfounded series.
Back in 2017, the Halton Regional Police Service had one of the worst unfounded rates in Canada. Now, the Halton police have among the lowest in Canada.