WATCH: Bearded RCMP officers face discrimination over mask policy and Farmers in India protest agriculture bills
Darpan News Desk Darpan, 25 Sep, 2020 07:09 PM
WATCH: Some bearded RCMP officers assigned desk duty during the COVID19 pandemic feeling being discriminated against. UBC professor Dr. Josef Penninger uses knowledge of SARS to develop COVID19 drug. Farmers in India protest blocking railways and streets in relation to agriculture bills.
Henry says the key will be finding the right balance as cases surge while allowing people to carry out activities like going to work and school or holding elections.
Chief electoral officer Anton Boegman says it involves measures to ensure safe voting procedures for people who want to cast ballots at polling stations and enhanced opportunities to vote by mail.
The federal Liberals are expected to lay out plans for child care, affordable housing and navigating the economic fallout of the pandemic as part of throne speech cast in the shadow of rising COVID-19 cases.
In 2019, appeals courts in Saskatchewan and Ontario determined the policy was constitutional, while in February of this year the Alberta Court of Appeal said it was not.
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