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Tobias Tissen speaks at a protest supporting the seven churches fighting pandemic restrictions in court in front of the Law Courts in Winnipeg on Monday, May 3, 2021. For JS story.Winnipeg Free Press 2020.
Court documents confirm the identities of four people arrested over the weekend for repeated violations of pandemic public health orders.
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Court documents confirm the identities of four people arrested over the weekend for repeated violations of pandemic public health orders.
Retired Winnipeg chiropractor and lockdown opponent Gerry Bohemier, 71, Hugs over Masks organizer Sharon Vickner, 53, and anti-lockdown rally organizers Todd McDougall, 36, and Patrick Allard, 39, were all taken into custody and quickly released on bail.
Rally decries pandemic restrictions from steps of city hall By: Jordan Ross
People fed up with Manitoba’s coronavirus restrictions gathered outside Steinbach City Hall Saturday for a two-hour rally that began with upbeat music and ended with fines.
People fed up with Manitoba’s coronavirus restrictions gathered outside Steinbach City Hall Saturday for a two-hour rally that began with upbeat music and ended with fines.
The event, organized online, was the second Hugs Over Masks protest held in Steinbach in the past two months.
GREG VANDERMEULEN
An organizer who only identified herself as Sharon said the event was planned to to protest government restrictions and the loss of civil liberties during the pandemic.