Category: covid vaccine mandate

Protest at Pfizer HQ Against Vaccine Mandates; NYC Restaurant-Owner Defies Mandate: ‘All Welcome’

The father of two young children placed on leave-without-pay for refusing vaccination; a restaurant owner who refuses to ask patrons to show “vax passes”; and a woman whose grandmother died days after receiving the Pfizer vaccine were among the speakers at a recent NYC vaccine-mandate protest outside Pfizer headquarters. “They said she was well enough…


Vaccine Mandates: Those Whose Jobs are Threatened Must Hold the Line

Commentary Proponents of vaccine mandates and pursuers of the “COVID zero” impossible dream have effectively depicted those opposed as wingnut conspiracy theorists. Yet at our boutique Ottawa law firm, where we focus on human rights and charter litigation, we are inundated with calls for legal help on vaccine mandates. They come from Canadians in all…


Florida to Dump OSHA for New State Regulating Authority

Florida’s House Speaker Chris Sprowls said if Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is going to be “weaponized” against Floridians then the state will form its own regulatory agency. Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference early Nov. 8 announcing the upcoming emergency legislative session, beginning Nov. 15, would be introducing legislation to “protect Florida…


Vaccine Mandates: How ‘Moral Panic’ Has Diminished Our Civil Liberties

Commentary Call me a bit slow off the mark, but it wasn’t until toward the end of September when I sensed the shift of COVID-19 from a medical pandemic to a moral panic. The obvious catalyst was the advent of vaccine mandates, which turned the “miraculous” prospect of protection from the virus into a means…


Dr. Gandhi: Fighting COVID-19 Without Ruining Lives; the At-Risk People Progressives Left Behind

Monica Gandhi is an infectious diseases and HIV doctor at the University of California–San Francisco. Her stance against COVID-19 restrictions that harm more than help vulnerable people—such as the poor, the homeless, and those being treated for HIV—has brought her into the social media spotlight. As medical director of San Francisco General Hospital’s HIV clinic,…


Vancouver Rallies Highlight Opposition to Vaccine Mandates, Unfair Media Coverage

Several hundred people gathered on a rainy afternoon in Vancouver on Oct. 22 as two different rallies were held to protest growing government COVID-19 vaccination mandates and decry the media coverage surrounding them. One of the rallies, which was quickly organized by a handful of longshoremen, took place in front of Transport Canada’s Vancouver offices…


NYC Police Unions Say They Will Take Legal Action to Oppose Vaccine Mandate for City Workers

After Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement of a vaccine mandate for city workers, police union heads say they will take legal actions to oppose the mandate and protect the rights of their employees. On Wednesday, de Blasio said any city worker who is not vaccinated with at least the first dose of the vaccine by…


Mandatory Vaccine Deadlines for Health Workers Loom in Other Provinces After Quebec Extended Deadline Amid Staffing Shortage

When Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube announced a one-month extension to the Oct. 15 deadline imposed on the province’s health-care workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, he cited the risk of an urgent staffing shortage if the ministry maintained its original mandate. With several other provinces having set deadlines of their own, Canadians are…


‘Most Disturbing’: Doctors in Quebec Forced to Vaccinate to Keep Practising

Quebec doctors who are not vaccinated for COVID-19 will be prohibited from practising, the province’s college of physicians has announced, leading some doctors to decry the move as going too far. On Sept. 29, the day prior to the announcement, Collège des médecins du Québec (CMQ) published an “important” notice on its website to remind…


FAA Dismisses Claims Weekend Flight Cancellations Were Related to Vaccine Mandates

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced the numerous flight cancellations at Southwest Airlines and other airlines over the weekend were not related to vaccine mandates. “To be clear: None of the information from Southwest, its pilots union, or the FAA indicates that this weekend’s cancellations were related to vaccine mandates,” the FAA said early Tuesday…