Tag Archives: lockdown

Since being told one year ago that the curve-flattening would be a two-week process, many Canadian small- and medium-sized businesses have instead been forced to close for much of the year (while big-box superstores have remained open). Dan Kelly, the president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, recently …

Among the country’s departments – or regions – targeted by health chiefs in the latest restrictions is Alpes-Maritimes on the French Riviera, which contains the city of Nice and was already put under weekend lockdown last month.   Non-essential retailers in the 16 areas will be forced to close and …

Hundreds of anti-government protesters gathered in The Hague on Sunday on the eve of the country’s general election, which is set to span over three days in order to avoid large crowds gathering at the voting stations as a precaution against the coronavirus. The protesters carried various placards decrying the …

Several hundred members of the ‘Men in Black’ anti-lockdown group took to the streets in Copenhagen on Saturday night, lighting red flares and shouting slogans as they moved through the streets. Some demonstrators played bagpipes and pounded on drums, while others carried a large banner reading “black-clad resistance.” Footage published …

The unusually harsh ruling was announced by the Copenhagen court on Friday. The defendant, a 30-year-old woman, was found guilty of making offensive statements that contributed to a “gross disturbance of public order as well as the use of violence against police” during an anti-lockdown protest in early January. “Are …

“We’re all Palestinians now,” some say, as people around the world are under Covid-19 lockdown and rendered jobless. While the reference is apt, Palestinians in Gaza have been under the most severe lockdown in the world for 14 long years.   As 2021 has gone on, it has become increasingly clear …

Three individuals were detained for public violence offences, seven for defying police orders, and the rest for flouting the government’s Covid-19 restrictions, local news site NL Times reported, citing a police spokesperson. Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema reportedly helped officers break up the protests in the central Museum Square, before riot …

I don’t mean to be rude, but if lockdown really is your idea of ‘fun’, maybe, just maybe, when it’s finally all over, you need to get a life? Some people like to be indoors. Some people are at their absolute happiest alone on their own sofa with the TV …

Austria’s Krone newspaper reported that around 15,000 people attended the Saturday rally. Demonstrators held placards reading “Kurz must go” as they chanted slogans calling for the resignation of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.  Footage from RT’s video agency Ruptly shows protesters pouring into the streets of central Vienna as they waved Austrian …

Consider the following: When the ‘Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme’ (to give it its official title) was first announced by the UK government on 20 March 2020, it was supposed to last until 31 May. Why did it need to be so long, some people asked, if we were only going …