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Proposed changes to the province’s
Police Act are making their way through the New Brunswick legislature.
Bill 53, which is more than 50 pages in length, was brought before MLAs earlier this month and passed first and second reading.
Among the changes is a 180-day cap on paid suspensions for officers facing a complaint under the act.
Currently, officers can only be suspended without pay if convicted of a provincial or federal offence.
But few complaints should make it to the 180-day point, according to the association representing front-line police officers.
That is because changes are also proposed to the overall time limits for processing and arbitrating complaints.
OSWEGO â Kevin Hill, president of the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum Board of Directors, announced Thursday that the newly renovated museum will open to visitors Memorial Day, May 31.
The museum will be open for the 2021 season from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., seven days a week, until Labor Day.
Located at 2 E. Seventh St., Oswego, the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum is dedicated to the stories of the 982 World War II European refugees who were allowed into the United States as âguestsâ of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The refugees lived at Fort Ontario from August 1944 to February 1946.
The museum was created in the refugee shelterâs old administration building at Fort Ontario in 2002.
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There is something about the prescriptive nature of the quarantine that seems to turn the historical openness of the hotel as an institution on its head. This is especially true for people who equate hotel stays with an unusual degree of freedom, whether pilfering the cleaning cart for extra bottles of shampoo or making gratuitous use of towels. The idea of being confined to even a resort hotel challenges many travellers’ belief in their right to come and leave on their own terms.
Quarantine hotels have been around for decades
While hotels have often been associated with the problem of contagion, occasionally they have been treated, proactively, as institutions standing at the first line of defence.
When governments in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and elsewhere instituted mandatory hotel quarantines for travellers arriving in their countries as a way of monitoring the spread of COVID-19, they received both praise and criticism.
Some citizens questioned why their rights of mobility were being curtailed in their own countries. Would-be travellers factored additional costs into their budgets or deferred travel. And others sought to evade the measures.
Exploring the history of quarantine hotels reveals ambivalences and inequities that continue to fuel debates over their effectiveness in the era of COVID-19.
Hotels make sense
There is a logic behind choosing hotels for mandatory quarantine and for other COVID-19-era public-health measures such as re-housing people experiencing homelessness. The latter was done at the former Roehampton Hotel in Toronto, where it was met with controversy from affluent community members.