Calgary mayor calling for police enforcement against continued COVID restriction protests
Global News
Despite the province, Calgary and Edmonton dropping COVID requirements, such as wearing a mask, weekend protests against pandemic restrictions have continued.
Calgary’s mayor is calling for enforcement against anti-mandate marches through a downtown neighbourhood. Police say approximately 2,000 people took part in opposing protests Saturday.
Jyoti Gondek posted in a series of tweets that the disruption occurring every weekend in the Beltline neighbourhood is a “parade” and not a “protest,” yet it has no permits or licences.
Gondek says the demonstrations aren’t about mandates because those are gone, and she says the “standard response that this will ‘fizzle out’ is ”shameful.”
Opposing protesters got into a confrontation on Saturday, creating a blockage on 17 Ave. S.E., for more than an hour, police say.
Officers collected evidence at the scene and will work with investigators “to review the actions of all parties to determine any potential enforcement (actions).”
Alberta’s pandemic vaccine passport was dropped in February and the province lifted the mask requirement for indoor public spaces at the beginning of March. Calgary immediately followed the province in lifting its masking requirement on March 1. It was dropped subsequently in Edmonton.
Despite that, weekend protests against pandemic restrictions have continued in Calgary and Edmonton. A march through downtown Edmonton on Saturday drew approximately 150 people.
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