Hinshaw, Kenney defend mats-on-the-floor COVID-19 plan for homeless

Provincial officials defended their plan to have homeless people sleep on mats one metre apart from each other, at Alberta’s daily COVID-19 briefing Wednesday. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, was asked why one metre distancing was now being allowed, when generally, the province recommends Albertans stay two metres apart in public to reduce the likelihood of coronavirus spread. “It's trying to weigh out the risks to those individuals who need to use