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Worker Income Protection Benefit is a bare minimum response to the longstanding call for paid sick days from labour advocates, unions, public health officials, and medical experts. The temporary benefit, administered through the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), will provide a maximum of three days paid sick leave and is only available until September 25, 2021.
“The hard work of labour advocates, unions, public health officials, and medical experts has forced this government’s hand to step up and provide a provincial paid sick days program, but this is simply not good enough,” said Patty Coates, Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) President. “We have been part of the call for permanent, adequate, employer-provided, and universal paid sick days, since long before this pandemic. Our calls have gained traction and broad public support across the political spectrum. The
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TORONTO Furious criticism of new anti-pandemic powers that allow police in Ontario to stop any motorist or pedestrian and ask where they live and why they’re not home prompted the provincial government on Saturday to reconsider the measures.
As the number of infected people in hospital reached record levels, Premier Doug Ford tweeted that the measures, which also included shutting down all outdoor recreational facilities and playgrounds, would be clarified.
“Ontario’s enhanced restrictions were always intended to stop large gatherings where spread can happen,” Ford said. “Our regulations will be amended to allow playgrounds, but gatherings outside will still be enforced.”
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Ontario reversed course on sweeping new police powers Saturday, just one day after Premier Doug Ford announced the measures that triggered a swift and furious backlash.
Officers will no longer have the right to stop any pedestrian or driver to ask why they’re out or request their home address, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones said in a written statement on Saturday evening.
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Instead, she said, police will only be able to stop people who they have reason to believe are participating in an “organized public event or social gathering.”
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