{"id":5825,"date":"2021-02-14T00:55:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T05:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2021-02-14T00:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T05:56:39","slug":"medico-stalinism-at-work-in-alberta-restaurant-in-big-valley-pop-357-ticketed-for-breaking-alberta-covid-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5825","title":{"rendered":"Medico-Stalinism at Work in Alberta: Restaurant in Big Valley (pop. 357) ticketed for breaking Alberta COVID rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/therebel\/sites\/1092\/meta_images\/original\/_rn-logo-2.png?1582397021\" alt=\"Rebel News\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"mobile-secondary-nav\"><li><\/li><li><\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><\/li><li><\/li><li><\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Restaurant in Big Valley (pop. 357) ticketed for breaking Alberta COVID rules https:\/\/youtu.be\/UBPDXNrB95E<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/journalist_sheila_gunn_reid\">Sheila Gunn Reid<\/a><\/li><li>|<\/li><li>February 10, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our latest <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fightthefines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.FightTheFines.com<\/a>&nbsp;case takes me to Big Valley, Alberta,&nbsp;a small town of 357 souls about two hours southeast of Edmonton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Valley Inn is like many small town hotels dotting the prairies. It houses the local tavern, a small restaurant and a liquor store. Big Valley itself is such a perfect Alberta small town: oil patch, farming, rodeo and freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it was really no surprise when the Big Valley Inn decided to defy the lockdown restrictions on restaurant dining service in the days before Jason Kenney&#8217;s UCP government lifted the ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Locals packed the place on steak night and hungry diners came from miles around to support Big Valley Inn owner Fred Millar and his staff in their act of civil disobedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Alberta Health Services and the local RCMP were not as enthusiastic as the locals were, issuing Millar a notice to appear in court to answer for defying the orders of the chief medical officer of health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rebel News<\/em> is helping Millar and the Big Valley Inn fight that summons in court, at no cost to him. If not for the actions of Millar and others like him, including <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/victory_for_now_whistle_stop_cafe_legally_allowed_to_open\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Scott of the Whistle Stop Cafe in Mirror<\/a>,&nbsp;restaurants in Alberta would still be closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Restaurant in Big Valley (pop. 357) ticketed for breaking Alberta COVID rules\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UBPDXNrB95E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant in Big Valley (pop. 357) ticketed for breaking Alberta COVID rules https:\/\/youtu.be\/UBPDXNrB95E By Sheila Gunn Reid | February 10, 2021 Our latest www.FightTheFines.com&nbsp;case takes me to Big Valley, Alberta,&nbsp;a small town of 357 souls about two hours southeast of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5825\">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":[3183,3184,3185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825"}],"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=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5827,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}