This Week In Alberta
- We hope you're enjoying your long weekend! The Legislature finally resumes tomorrow, after a three-week break due to COVID-19. The Legislature is scheduled to sit Tuesday morning, afternoon and evening, Wednesday morning, afternoon and evening, and Thursday morning and afternoon. First up on Tuesday will be Bill 64, the Public Lands Amendment Act, 2021. Committees will not meet this week.
- In-person schooling for grades K-12 will also resume for almost all areas of Alberta this week, the exception being in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo where continuing outbreaks mean at-home schooling will continue for at least one more week. The most shocking part about all this is that the "two-week" shutdown actually ended up being just two weeks, for once!
- In yet another ridiculous example of the inconsistency of COVID rules, the Public Health Agency of Canada has now backtracked and says that travellers who travel across the border solely to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine are not exempt from the quarantine requirement. Just to be clear, that means the rules are now: If you're vaccinated, you have to do a hotel quarantine, unless you've tested positive, then you don't, unless you test negative after testing positive, then you do, unless you're returning from getting a medical procedure, then you don't, unless that medical procedure was getting a vaccine, then you do. (And yes, we have all those the right way around, we triple-checked.)
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