Judge rules Hinshaw responses about cabinet direction and health orders should be public record

An Alberta judge has decided responses from the chief medical officer of health to questions about direction from cabinet should be made public as part of an ongoing court challenge on the constitutionality of Alberta's public health restrictions. Lawyers for plaintiffs in the trial have argued their Charter rights were infringed by public health restrictions put in place to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Court documents list the plaintiffs as Baptist Churches based in Calgary and Medicine Hat, a