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Sandy and Richard Garber stepped off a plane from Mexico on May 1 to face $10,170 in fines.
Sandy told me Wednesday that they wouldn’t go to a COVID hotel because she has to undergo special therapy at home and all the equipment was there.
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She said they were surrounded by border security and police officers, who detained the couple for more than an hour.
At the end of their encounter, she said, they got $3,700 fines each and when they refused the COVID test because they’d had one 60 hours before, each was hit with another $1,600 fine.
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“They need to live again,” Caleta said.
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Ontario Tech university associate professor Vivian Stamatopoulos said on April 1, an updated directive came from the LTC ministry granting outdoor access to residents.
She said Ontario’s associate chief medical officer of health Barbara Yaffe indicated more would be forthcoming but nothing happened.
Stamatopoulos added that Ontario LTC minister Merrilee Fullerton is “nowhere to be found.
“None of this makes any sense,” she said. “The figures are pretty stable in LTC homes because of the vaccination rates and families are upset.”
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