>"Go, and don't come back without a warrant!": Calgary Police told to leave after interrupting Polish church service
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1378289101070295045
Don't worry, Poland is not confused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJazwy-DQRA
Gestapo came again to intimidate the Church parishioners during the Passover!!! Unbelievable!
Premieres in 60 minutes
https://globalnews.ca/news/7670277/calgary-city-council-denounce-torch-march/
Calgary city council denounces acts and symbols of hatred at weekend protest
Just days after tiki torches were lit during a protest in Calgary’s municipal plaza, Calgary city council is denouncing the protest and the symbols of hate used.
Ward 13 Coun. Diane Colley-Urquhart brought a motion to council Monday morning denouncing the Walk For Freedom rally on the steps of city hall.
“We want to address these acts and symbols of hatred in our community on behalf of Calgarians and to formally denounce these statements, these acts, these symbols of racism, hatred, intolerance and violence that was collectively and individually displayed on Saturday, Feb. 27,” Colley-Urquhart said.
The motion passed unanimously.
On Feb. 27 and 28, so-called anti-lockdown activists had a rally at Calgary’s municipal complex plaza and a march through parts of downtown, carrying lit tiki torches.
According to the Calgary Police Service, roughly 200 protestors and counter-protesters were at Saturday’s rally and about 70 from both groups at Sunday’s event.
On Feb. 20, at a similar protest and march in downtown Edmonton, tiki torches — a symbol associated with racist and white nationalist movements including at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. — were also brandished. Some of the same individuals appear to have been at the recent Calgary protest.
At a recent Calgary Police Commission meeting, CPS Chief Mark Neufeld linked the Edmonton protest with a mid-February protest in Chinook Centre, saying police knew the organizers of both events had links to far-right groups and have “expressed or been linked to racism, prejudice and other forms of intolerance.”
Neufeld also said the use of tiki torches at the Edmonton march was an escalation of rhetoric used by those groups.
In a statement to Global News, Walk for Freedom organizer Brad Carrigan said the use of tiki torches has “little if anything to do with white supremacy or racism.”
Ward 12 Coun. Shane Keating refuted the protesters’ claims that the torches were meant to symbolize light in the Christian faith tradition.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, Canada’s first muslim mayor, said the imagery of groups marching through the city’s downtown with torches in broad daylight has a clear intended meaning from a group he and other councillors called “white nationalists.”
>Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-covid-nenshi-alberta-1.5974916
Calgary's COVID-19 case count makes up nearly half of all cases in Alberta
Calgary's COVID-19 case count has grown exponentially the last few weeks and now accounts for almost half of cases province-wide.
The province is only reporting preliminary data over the Easter long weekend, but as of Thursday Calgary had 4,058 active cases while Alberta as a whole was at 8,653.
These case counts are more than double February's numbers, when the highest province-wide daily count of new cases was 456 on Feb. 2.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said at a press conference for a mass vaccination centre Saturday morning that things are looking grim right now.
"Things are moving in the wrong direction and they are moving incredibly rapidly in the wrong direction," he said.
"We doubled our number of new cases a day more or less in about a week. That's scary."
The mayor said he expects the province will hit a 2,000 daily case count soon if people are not "incredibly disciplined."
"We'll be in a position this spring and the summer where we can start easing off on restrictions and letting people have a bit of that normalcy back," he said.
On Thursday, Premier Jason Kenney said the province is seeing a new wave of COVID-19 infections and it's up to Albertans to comply with health restrictions to bring cases down.
"I'm here instead with a plea: Please, please, follow Alberta's health restrictions and guidelines this weekend and in the weeks to come," he said.
"How many hundreds or thousands of people it sends to hospitals, how many surgeries it forces us to cancel and how many lives it takes is all up to the decisions that we make now."
However the province did not announce more restrictions like others did ahead of the Easter long weekend.
Ontario entered a month-long "emergency brake" shutdown on Saturday, which means personal care services, gyms and indoor dining must shut down, but schools and most retailers can stay open with specific capacity limits in place.
But Nenshi said what the rules are doesn't matter as much as people's ability to follow them.
"It's not the restrictions that make the difference, it's people's ability to follow them. And so ultimately, we can't blame the province as much as I would like to for making the right or the wrong decision."
In a press release on Thursday, the City of Calgary said that since the Temporary COVID-19 Face Coverings Bylaw came into effect Aug. 1, 2020, police have issued 333 violation tickets.
Of those, 15 tickets were issued on the same day, which was last week on March 25.
The city have also issue 206 violation tickets under the Public Health Act, which came into effect on Nov. 24.
The release says two of those violation tickets were also issued the same day on March 25.
The city says collaborative COVID-19 enforcement measures between peace officers, police and Alberta Health Services are helping ensure bylaws and public health orders are followed.
If Calgarians or businesses see a violation, the city says they can submit questions, concerns or report complaints to Alberta Health Services online or by calling 1-833-415-9179, or to The City by contacting 311 or the CPS non-emergency line at 403-266-1234.
>kinky
>What is she even yammering about?