Summer has brought a reprieve for Saskatchewan parents caught in numerous battles with school and health authorities regarding COVID-19 restrictions on students..Tonie Wells, with Sask Parents For Truth, said the frustrations continued right until her son’s graduation held at Mosaic Stadium. Lumsden High School students were told they could only choose one parent to attend, despite the stadium’s capacity of 33,000..“They told me to put a mask on for my son’s grad. I said, ‘Congratulations, you’re in Saskatchewan and we have no mandate for outdoor mask wear. Please challenge me while I walk down the stairs. They didn’t,'” Wells said..Wells made her comments at a rally at the University of Saskatchewan in support of Dr. Francis Christian, a University of Saskatchewan professor of surgery who was fired because of his outspoken opposition to the lack of true informed consent for minors vaccinated for COVID-19.“I have a daughter that has some blood pressure issues. I do have a nursing background, I have a policing background. So when my daughter started having issues, we refused the mask. They forced her into a mask the day after I served them with a notice of liability. My daughter passed out at school. We had a medical exemption, [Lumsden High] school didn’t care,” Wells told the audience..Wells said parents served Regina schools liability notices regarding the vaccination of students. In response to these notices, penned by Toronto constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati, Wells said the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) called school principals in to meet with them and lawyers..“There is only one reason that you’re lawyering up. It’s because these vaccines, these so-called jabs, do not belong in our schools. Your mature informed consent is a crock. There is no informed consent because we do not have enough information to make informed consent,” Wells said..“These guys are running scared, and I can’t stress that enough. And it’s going to be up to parents like us that are going to come forward and put the hammer down and say, ‘No, these are our kids. They’re not yours. You don’t get to dictate what happens to my child. You don’t get to teach and indoctrinate my child in this. It stops and it stops now.’”.Wells shared an additional story in an interview with Western Standard..“I sat down at a pub yesterday. At the Tap, I watched 35 teachers from Winston Knoll, a school that we have served, intermingling with no masks, no nothing, having beers on the patio. They’d just came from school where they had forced kids to masks during outside breaks. You know, I’m done. I’m beyond. I will not stop. I will continue going.”.Eylon Mogilner founded Concerned Parents Saskatchewan on May 14 after the SHA announced it would bring vaccination to schools. .“They’re going to deprive our to deprive our not only right but obligation to protect our children. They call it a fancy name, mature minor right to consent,” Mogilner told rally attendees..“We’ve got the science. We’ve got the data … and we’re just asking [SHA] to listen. Don’t touch our children. Do not touch our children. The children are safe from COVID. The older adults with comorbidities, they’ve got Ivermectin which Canada suppressed – another crime.”.Regina Chamber of Commerce CEO John Hopkins condemned protesters in an e-mail sent to chamber members June 10 when he wrote, “Some are of the view that there are tracking devices in the mask. [T]he anti-maskers have crossed the line. They have been harassing business owners, people on the street and now their latest target, kids at schools. In my opinion targeting kids is too far, way too far.”.Regina protest organizer Tamara Lavoie told the Western Standard Hopkins was misinformed..“Notice of liabilities are being served to principals in the schools that are facilitating the jab clinics. There have been students yelling at these adults to put on masks. There’s no engagement of kids happening. Yet another lie from this disgraceful man. And tracking devices in the masks!?” Lavoie said..Online broadcaster Laura Lynn Thompson told rally goers some parents in B.C. were also hassled..“A woman who stood up for her kid in schools in Kelowna. BC, I had her on my show this afternoon. As soon as she began to speak out, she was basically stopped and terrorized by a reporter from Press Progress, who turned her fight for her kid to not have to wear a mask into an attack on her personally. These are the heroes of the nation … and this is just the beginning.”.Harding is a Western Standard correspondent based in Saskatchewan.
