Kamloops RCMP arrest 5 and issue dozens of tickets after 'Maskless Monday' protests
CBC
Kamloops RCMP said they arrested five people and issued more than 40 tickets after a "Maskless Monday" protest in a grocery store.
Mounties say they arrived at the Real Canadian Superstore on Columbia Street around 6 p.m. on Jan. 10 after reports of intimidation from organized maskless protesters.
Attempts to educate the protesters on current public health restrictions were unsuccessful, police say, which led to enforcement actions.
This included 43 tickets under B.C.'s Emergency Program Act with individual $230 fines for a total of $9,890 in fines. Five people were arrested after failing to leave the store. Eighteen others were escorted out by police.
"In the past, some of these protesters were reportedly intimidating employees and customers, approaching people in the store and telling them to take off their mask," said RCMP Supt. Sydney Lecky.
"We'll do what we have to do, but we've always tried to show a measured approach."
Police say that the five people who were arrested were released pending charges.
P.E.I.'s Public Schools Branch is looking for 50 substitute bus drivers, and it'll be recruiting at three job fairs on Saturday, June 8. The job fairs are located at the Atlantic Superstore in Montague, Royalty Crossing in Charlottetown, and the bus parking lot of Three Oaks Senior High in Summerside. All three run from 9 a.m. until noon. Dave Gillis, the director of transportation and risk management for the Public Schools Branch, said the number of substitute drivers they're hiring isn't unusual. "We are always looking for more. Our drivers tend to have an older demographic," he said.