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WATCH: Police in Ontario go house-to-house ticketing residents for attending church Under current Ontario coronavirus rules, residents are required to remain at home for all activities considered non-essential.

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WATCH: Police in Ontario go house-to-house ticketing residents for attending church

Under current Ontario coronavirus rules, residents are required to remain at home for all activities considered non-essential.

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Police in Aylmer, Ontario were seen on video Tuesday night handing out fines to people who allegedly attended church services over the weekend.

The fines were handed out to residents who attended the local Church of God on Sunday.

In a video posted to Twitter, one resident expressed disapproval with the fine he received, asking police if they realized that he "wasn't even on the [inaudible]?" While it was unclear what he was referring to, the resident appeared to have resisted the idea that he evaded coronavirus restrictions.

Police informed the resident that while he can fight the charge, he would not engage in a debate with the man and that he was receiving the fine for being present at an indoor gathering.

The officers then drove away in an unmarked vehicle.

"Community safety and well being and enforcement of laws is our top priority during this global pandemic," said Aylmer Police Chief Zvonko Horvat regarding the church gathering. "Aylmer Police are asking the citizens to exercise patience as we sift through the evidence and lay appropriate charges during the latest blatant violation of the emergency orders by this particular group. Irresponsible actions of those involved will not be tolerated."

Zvonko also said that Southwestern Public Health should work "to develop further mitigating strategies specific to this group to reduce the risk of exposure and harm within out community."

Another branch of the Church of God in Steinbach, Manitoba also sparked controversy last year after hosting church services in violation of coronavirus lockdown orders. Despite police shutting down the service, the Manitoba government responded by allowing drive-in church services afterwards.

Under current Ontario coronavirus rules, residents are required to remain at home for all activities considered non-essential. Religious gatherings have been categorized as essential, but only up to ten people at a time may be present at a given service whether it is hosted indoors or outdoors.

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Why is there no flu amid so many COVID cases? Your COVID-19 questions answered Social Sharing Facebook Twitter Email Reddit LinkedIn Plus, why aren't vaccine providers wearing gloves? CBC News · Posted: Feb 01, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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Why is there no flu amid so many COVID cases? Your COVID-19 questions answered

Plus, why aren't vaccine providers wearing gloves?

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A child maintains distancing measures while washing hands ahead of a lesson last June in London, England. Public health measures taken to slow COVID-19 are credited with helping to prevent the spread of influenza. (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca, and we'll answer as many as we can. We publish a selection of answers online and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network. So far, we've received more than 65,000 emails from all corners of the country.

Why is there no flu but so many COVID cases? 

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada's most recent weekly Flu Watch report "all indicators of influenza activity remain exceptionally low for this time of year." In fact, there were no laboratory detections of influenza in the first three weeks of 2021. 

So why are flu numbers so low but COVID-19 cases surging in many parts of the country? 

There are a number of reasons.

"Influenza is way behind the eight ball here," said Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of infectious disease in the department of medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., in a recent article. 

For one, SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — is more prevalent because it got a head start, settling into communities before flu season got going.

Experts also credit the public health measures taken to slow COVID-19 — the hand washing, physical  distancing and mask-wearing — as well as the dramatic drop in international travel. 

Dr. James Dickinson, a professor of family medicine at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine, who also runs the Alberta community influenza surveillance program, said that other countries are seeing the same trend.

"We're not getting any [flu] coming in because we're just not getting enough people arriving, bringing the flu with them," he told the Calgary Eyeopener, adding that the places they're coming from don't have any flu either.  

In addition, many Canadians heeded the health warnings to get their flu shot. Although Canadian provinces ordered almost 25 per cent more flu shots than last year, many struggled to keep up with demand.

When it comes to testing, the PCR tests for COVID-19 detect the virus's genetic material, so they won't be tricked by a case of the flu, and vice-versa. Health Canada says a suspected case of the flu becomes a "lab-confirmed case" only after certified lab personnel tests a sample and confirms that the flu virus is present. You can find answers to more common testing questions here.

Have a question or something to say? CBC News is live in the comments now.

 

Why aren't vaccine providers wearing gloves?

While you may see vaccine providers wear personal protective equipment — medical masks, gowns, face shields or goggles — you won't always see them wear gloves.

That's because gloves are not a part of routine infection control practices when delivering most forms of immunizations.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), gloves are "not recommended" unless the vaccine provider's skin is broken, like with cuts or blisters, for example, or when administering certain kinds of vaccines, such as smallpox.

Gloves are not a part of routine infection control practices when delivering most forms of immunizations, health officials say. (Michael Bell/Canadian Press)

The advice is the same in the U.S. with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control advising that gloves aren't necessary unless vaccine providers are "likely to come into contact with a patient's body fluids."

Instead, vaccine providers are required to perform hand hygiene measures before vaccinating each person, such as washing with soap and water or using alcohol-based hand sanitizers, and whenever the hands are dirty. 

If gloves are worn, PHAC says they should be changed between each vaccine recipient.

The important point to note is that the virus that causes COVID-19 can't be transmitted via skin-to-skin contact, said Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti, an infectious diseases physician at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, Ont.

"Obviously health-care workers should wash their hands before doing a procedure of any kind," Chakrabarti said in an email, but for COVID precautions "the highest-yield interventions are to physically distance, wear masks when indoors, and ensure good ventilation."

Have questions about COVID-19 or the pandemic? We're answering as many as we can in the comments.

 

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Charges expected after defiant Aylmer, Ont., church holds indoor service Social Sharing Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn Email Aylmer police were on scene Sunday but did not enter the church or stop the service Sofia Rodriguez · CBC News · Posted: Jan 31, 2021

 

Charges expected after defiant Aylmer, Ont., church holds indoor service

Aylmer police were on scene Sunday but did not enter the church or stop the service

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Church of God Pastor Henry Hildebrandt held up Section 176 of the Criminal Code during Sunday's indoor service. That section of the criminal code prohibits obstructing religious gatherings. (Pastor Henry Hildebrandt/YouTube)

Charges are expected to be laid after congregants of a church in Aylmer, Ont., defied provincial emergency orders, yet again, and held an indoor service that exceeded gathering limits on Sunday, the town's chief of police said.

While police are still investigating the number of people who attended the service at Aylmer's Church of God, Chief Zvonko Horvat said there's evidence that a large group of people went inside while only some remained in their vehicles during a drive-in service. 

In a live stream posted on the church's social media page, at least two dozen children and youth are seen inside the church singing for about 20 minutes. The youth in the video are standing in close proximity to one another, without wearing any masks or face coverings.

"We are reviewing all of the evidence available to us and are anticipating to proceed with charges with respect to organization of the event," Horvat told CBC News. 

This comes just a week after Pastor Henry Hildebrandt, who leads the Church of God, invited about 75 parishioners into the church during a drive-in service, prompting police to charge dozens of people.

Extra police staff were on duty Sunday and remained outside of the church in order monitor the event and gather evidence, Horvat said. 

While police observed the "large" number of people walk into the church, Horvat said officers did not disrupt the service. 

"You have to take a look at other laws that are in place with respect to religious services, specifically [the] criminal code where there's a section that prohibits anyone from interfering with with a religious service," he said.

"Certainly, I'm not in a position to put the officers in any type of a risk where officer safety could be jeopardized ... I'm not going to expose my officers to that."

Group has 'no interest' in following emergency orders, chief of police says

Earlier this month, Ontario issued a stay-at-home order, requiring people to only leave their house for essential purposes and limit close contact to only people in the same household in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.

The province also declared a state of emergency, which says religious services are allowed to have a maximum of up to 10 people indoors. Up to five people can gather outdoors as long as they keep two metres apart from one another and wear face masks. Organizers can be fined a minimum of $10,000 for breaching the order, and each attendee could receive a $750 ticket. 

The Church of God has defied the measures in several instances during the course of the pandemic, and Horvat said the Aylmer Police Service has tried to educate them throughout on restrictions.

"We are continuing with our attempts to reason with them and, so far, that reasoning hasn't been fruitful at all."

"This particular group absolutely has no interest in abiding by the current laws and basically they're giving us no other option but to proceed with the charges and we're prepared to do that," Horvat said, adding that the police service is committed to do whatever they need to protect the broader community.  

Charges in relation to the gathering are likely to be laid on Monday, Horvat said.

The town of Aylmer has logged 357 cases of COVID-19 over the course of the pandemic. Eight of those cases are currently active. 

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Canada's $2,000 mandatory COVID hotels: Why now? By Rebel News | January 31, 2021

 

Canada's $2,000 mandatory COVID hotels: Why now?

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  • January 31, 2021

On the latest episode of The Ezra Levant Show, 

Here's a bit of what Ezra had to say:

“I don't understand. If people take the quick virus test... and it turns out they're healthy, why would they still have to quarantine for two weeks? Can you help me with that one?

“So you're adding a new layer of a mandatory test for everyone landing. So that's a new burden, a new invasion, and a new cost. But there's no upside for passing that test. Why would you do that if there's no upside for finding out that someone's not sick? Why are you insisting that people still quarantine if they are healthy, and you know they're healthy?

“But the other part is weird too. If people arrive and they have the virus — or so says the test — to make them go to a federal facility? Is that like a jail? Do they have to stay there? How will they eat? What happens if they have to take care of kids? And even more bizarre... [what] the three day stay for will cost for the result.

“I don't know if we even have all the details. Two thousand dollars for the three-day stay at a federal facility. And who will guard it? And how does this apply and are these Liberal hoteliers? There's so many questions.

“What if you're disabled? What if you need special care? There's so many unknown things.

“And all I'm thinking of is — why now? Why weren't any strictures put in place from flights from China almost a year ago?”

This is just an excerpt from the full Ezra Levant Show.

To watch the whole thing, become a premium subscriber to RebelNews+.

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Hospice evicted after refusing to kill their palliative care patients in British Columbia By Drea Humphrey | January 31, 2021

 

Hospice evicted after refusing to kill their palliative care patients in British Columbia

Under the John Horgan government, British Columbia’s Delta Hospice Society has lost its battle against the Fraser Health Authority to be allowed to continue to operate its 10 bed palliative care hospice without providing medical assistance in dying (MAID).

In my first report on this hostile hospice takeover, the Society’s president, Angelina Ireland, described the legal battle and government demands regarding the hospice as stone cold communism. Now it’s clear, with these recent totalitarian actions at the hands of our government, she made a good case.

As if snatching away $1.5 million of the Society’s funding in an effort to coerce its board members to conform to the government's belief that their small hospice must take a more active role in ending the lives of their residents wasn’t bad enough. Now, Fraser Health Authority has evicted the Society altogether, which has resulted in clinical staff members having to be laid off during a time of global economic crisis.

The society’s belief is that since MAID is available elsewhere in the community (including at a hospital across the street from them), they should be allowed to care for residents who wish to live their last days in a MAID free environment. This is totally in alignment with the concept of palliative care.

Both the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, and the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians, have pointed out that the mainstream media continues to “conflate and thus misrepresent” the fundamental differences between MAID and hospice palliative care. The truth is that “MAID is not part of hospice palliative care; it is not an ‘extension’ of palliative care nor is it one of the tools ‘in the palliative care basket,'” according to the Patients Rights Action Fund.

So why does Fraser Health Authority have to take over this hospice in such a manner?

Become a member of the Delta Hospice Society for only $10, if you’d like to contribute to their new fight to provide a safe hospice sanctuary for those who wish to live their last days in a palliative care only facility.

Also, if you appreciated this report, please head to RebelNewsPlus.com, where you can sign up to receive all of our content while also supporting the work that we do.

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