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Alberta ending its vaccine-passport system as of midnight
2022-02-09
[Toronto Star] EDMONTON—Alberta’s vaccine passport program ends at midnight on Tuesday, Premier Jason Kenney has announced.

The passport system — formally the Restrictions Exemption Program, requiring people prove they’ve been vaccinated before they can go to restaurants or attend events — is the first of the province’s current public health restrictions to go, in a phased approach Kenney laid out in a news conference on Tuesday.

"Now is the time to begin learning to live with COVID," said Kenney. "These restrictions have led to terrible division.

"We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal."

Kenney announced a three-stage approach for further loosening of public health restrictions.

First, the province will remove nearly all restrictions for children, including the mask mandate in schools (kindergarten to Grade 12) over the coming weekend. Kids aged 12 and under also won’t have to abide by the general mask mandate in Alberta, though the general mandate will still apply for everyone else.

"It is time to let kids be kids," said Kenney.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  ...probably not enough of them. IIRC they have three active ready brigades and the rest is composed of reserves (you know, composed of every day people).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-02-09 13:03  

#8  Reports from Ottawa are that city-contracted towing companies are refusing to tow any of the protestors’ rigs. City not sure what to do next.
Q:will the military get called, despite pledges not to, to use the armed forces’ tow rigs?
Posted by: USN, Ret,   2022-02-09 09:07  

#7  /\ Interesting observation. Needs no real follow-up.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-02-09 08:13  

#6  Remember it takes a Big CDL Tow Truck to haul off a Big Rig truck.

What Big CDL Tow Truck operation wants such a deed hung over their business name?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-02-09 08:12  

#5  When truckers everywhere stand down, how will the COVIDian fascists receive their shipments of food fuel and bottled H2O -- via gummint drones?
The Berlinrandon Airlift?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-09 07:49  

#4  Update from Conservative Treehouse:

However, while Premier Kenny said the vaccine passports called ‘Restriction Exemption Program’ (REP) would be eliminated at midnight tonight, the QR codes check-in gates would continue; vaccine requirements will remain; vaccine discrimination can continue by private businesses with government support; govt healthcare workers must still be vaccinated or get fired; entertainment venues would be allowed to sell food & drinks again (but customers must be seated); and rules on closing times, alcohol service times, table capacity in restaurants, and social distancing would remain in place.

Most importantly, the trucker vaccine mandate is a federal mandate, and that will still apply to cross-border truckers. Put simply, a majority of the mandates would still continue through to March 1st, then even after March 1st, a lot of the mandates will remain.

After quietly and patiently listening to the entire statement from Jason Kenney until he was finished, the Alberta truck drivers responded immediately:

The Alberta farmers moved their tractors back into front line status to position against any effort by RCMP to engage. The truckers moved the convoy back into full blockade position, and the Coutts border crossing was completely shut down.

The blockade will continue until the mandates are removed.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-02-09 07:43  

#3  Still the gradually at first stage. Soon the all at once stage.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-09 07:17  

#2  Even Connecticut and New Jersey's left-lib governors are climbing down from the COVIDian insanity now.

Ottawa = the death rattle for COVIDianism
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-09 06:52  

#1  

NOT JUST CANADA
It seems the Leftists Control Freaks have figured out they'll need back off due to a growing citizenry increasingly fed up with overreaching dictatorial efforts.

Posted by: NN2N1   2022-02-09 05:22  

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