{"id":5209,"date":"2020-12-18T03:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2020-12-18T04:01:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T09:01:48","slug":"covid-madness-in-calgary-moslem-mayor-imposes-another-year-of-forced-masking-increases-fines-for-dissenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5209","title":{"rendered":"COVID Madness in Calgary &#8212; Moslem Mayor Imposes Another Year of Forced Masking &#038; Increases Fines for Dissenters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">COVID Madness in Calgary &#8212; Moslem Mayor Imposes Another Year of Forced Masking &amp; Increases Fines for Dissenters  <\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>[If you thought the arrival of the COVID vaccines might mean an end to lockdowns and masks, you were deluded, mislead and wrong. Masks were never about protecting people. They are virtually useless. They were all about CONTROL and scaring or threatening people into conformity. Calgary&#8217;s is in for another year of forced masks and fierce fines for dissenters. Once the heart of the rugged Western individualist, poor old Calgary is now just another communist style Medico-Stalinist tyranny! The Mayor and six councillors who voted for repression MUST be defeated on principle in the next municipal election.] <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new bylaw, masks will be mandatory in most non-residential places until December 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on December 14, 2020\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandardonline.com\/author\/westernstandardonline\/\">Western Standard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandardonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nenshi1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><ins>\n\n\n\n<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CALGARY: Mayor Naheed Nenshi led Calgary\u2019s City Council in voting to \nextend the mandatory mask bylaw for a year and double fines for \nnon-compliance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new bylaw, masks will be mandatory in most non-residential places until December 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fines were also doubled by the council, up to $100 for a first time offence, $200 for a second offence, and $300 for a third. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council approved the new bylaw by a 9-3 vote, with conservative \ncouncillors Jeromy Farkas, Sean Chu, and Joe Magliocca opposed, and \nNenshi and the remaining councillors present in favour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year-long extension and increase in fines comes on the heals of \npersistent \u2018Freedom Marches\u2019 on Saturdays in opposition to lockdowns and\n mask-mandates. <ins>\n\n\n\n<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nenshi strongly condemned the marches, but supported Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests during the summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calgary\u2019s move to extend the bylaw came after Alberta\u2019s UCP government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandardonline.com\/2020\/12\/https-www-westernstandardonline-com-2020-12-breaking-alberta-to-shut-down-pubs-and-restaurants-to-try-and-stop-covid-spread\/\">imposed a province-wide mandatory mask law and full lockdown<\/a> that will last at least into the new year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These measures are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandardonline.com\/2020\/12\/justice-centre-sues-province-of-alberta-over-covid-restrictions\/\">facing a constitutional challenge<\/a> from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandardonline.com\/2020\/11\/edmonton-extends-mask-bylaw-by-full-year\/\">City of Edmonton<\/a> extended its mandatory mask bylaw for an entire year in late November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID Madness in Calgary &#8212; Moslem Mayor Imposes Another Year of Forced Masking &amp; Increases Fines for Dissenters [If you thought the arrival of the COVID vaccines might mean an end to lockdowns and masks, you were deluded, mislead and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2136,2768,2769,2581,2767],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}