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Legal Advocacy Group to Challenge Ontario Government in Court Over Its Now-Scrapped Vaccine Mandate

A legal advocacy organization is taking the Ontario government to court for its past COVID vaccine passport program, which required residents to show proof of vaccination to participate in or enter a wide array of services, events, and public places between Sept. 22, 2021 and March 1, 2022. The mandate required Ontarians aged 12 and older…


Legal Group Sues Ontario Government Over Vaccine Passport Mandate

A non-profit legal organization is filing a constitutional challenge in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice against the province’s COVID-19 vaccine passport mandate. In a statement, Jorge Pineda, staff lawyer at Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, said Ontario’s vaccine mandates are “ethically wrong” and “illegal,” and the group plans to argue in court that the measures “take…


Ontario’s Vaccination Rollout Plan Facing Delays Amid Shortage of Pfizer Vaccines

Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout plan will slow down due to the announcement by Pfizer-BioNTech last week that it is temporarily delaying international shipments of the vaccines due to upgrading of its production facilities in Europe, Premier Doug Ford said on Jan. 19. “The news from the federal government today that Canada won’t get any new Pfizer…