The Globe and Mail Dr. Bonnie Henry and Lynn Henry Special to The Globe and Mail Published March 8, 2021 Bookmark
Dr. Bonnie Henry is the Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia who has been been leading the province’s response on the COVID-19 pandemic and drug overdose emergency. Lynn Henry is her sister who came to B.C. in March, 2020, for a long-planned visit and ended up staying and observed her during the four weeks that changed many Canadians’ lives.
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I was chairing our SAC [national Special Advisory Committee] calls that week. On March 12 we focused solely on two questions: What were we going to do about travel? And about mass gathering limitations? Although the details varied among provinces and regions, it was clear that we all believed we were at the point when we needed to take decisive action. Quebec, in particular, had been seeing rapidly rising numbers of cases – many related to travel, especially to France. That province’s March br
The courts rejected BC s bid to force places of worship to follow health
orders. Double standard?
Amanda Follett Hosgood lives and writes amidst the stunning mountains and rivers of Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett. SHARES The same judge who refused to grant an injunction against churches defying COVID-19 health orders granted one against Vancouver’s Crab Park homeless camp in June 2020.
Photo by Jonathan Hayward, the Canadian Press.
Why did the BC Supreme Court refuse to issue an injunction ordering churches to stop flouting COVID-19 orders while regularly agreeing to industry requests for injunctions to use against protesters?