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Posted: May 26, 2021 2:09 PM MT | Last Updated: May 26
Artur and Dawid Pawlowski, pictured during their arrest in Calgary on May 8, have been flouting public health restrictions for months, holding large church gatherings indoors, without masks, despite the pandemic.(Artur Pawlowski TV/YouTube)
A judge says he won t make a decision about Calgary COVID restriction rule-breakers which include a local pastor, a cafe owner and a mayoral candidate until after he has heard all five contempt cases, the first of which got underway Wednesday.
Court of Queen s Bench Justice Adam Germain presided over the first of the hearings involving men accused of organizing gatherings in blatant breach of restrictions.
CALGARY: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has successfully applied to vary the May 6, 2021 Order of Associate Chief Justice John Rooke of the Alberta Court of Queenâs Bench which would have allowed police to arrest any individual “organizing an in-person gathering, including requesting, inciting or inviting others to attend an “Illegal Public Gathering”; “promoting an Illegal Public Gathering via social media or otherwise;” and “attending an Illegal Public Gathering of any nature in a ‘public place’ or a ‘private place’.”
The Justice Centre appeared in Court on the morning of Thursday May 13, at a public hearing observed by media remotely, and applied to amend the May 6 Order by removing the words âor independently to like effect.â
Posted: May 07, 2021 6:00 AM MT | Last Updated: May 7
Shawn Beaver s one-year jail sentence for contempt of court has been reduced to 90 days to be served on weekends and 200 hours of community service.(J. Penner Photo Co.)
Disbarred Edmonton lawyer Shawn Beaver will serve a lesser sentence following a decision by the Court of Appeal of Alberta.
Like other people serving intermittent sentences weekends only Beaver will be on house arrest rather than spend time in jail.
Earlier this year, Beaver was ordered to turn himself in at the Edmonton Remand Centre to begin serving a one-year sentence for a contempt of court for breaching an injunction that required him to stop providing legal services.