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Article content The amendment is an about face from last year when Traeger said Finance Minister Scott Fielding wanted to avoid a grandfathering system. The new amendment would eliminate an employee’s right to refuse to work on Sunday if they agreed in writing to work Sundays when they were hired, if the employee is covered by a collective agreement that the does not allow them to refuse to work on Sundays or the retail business has fewer than four people, including the owner, employed for the sale of goods and services at any one time. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. ....
As provincial governments all over Canada are enforcing various coronavirus-related restrictions, large numbers of people are rallying against them, facing heavy fines. ....
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A man wearing a mask to help slow the spread of COVID-19 passes a stop sign written in English, French and Inuktitut as the territory of Nunavut enters a two week mandatory restriction period in Iqaluit, Nov. 18, 2020. Photo by Natalie Maerzluft /REUTERS / FILES Article content Canada’s northern territories have achieved much higher COVID-19 vaccination rates than its more populous provinces despite geographic challenges in a sign that prioritizing vaccine rollout in indigenous and rural communities is paying off. Two government policies helped drive this early success. A robust outreach to indigenous communities sought to overcome mistrust arising from decades of ill treatment by the Canadian government. In addition, officials have shipped more doses per capita to the Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, home to many of Canada’s indigenous people, than to other provinces. ....