A late night meeting of Calgary city council yielded no new action on the city’s COVID-19 response.
But council did leave options open for further action from city hall.
“We remain in a state of local emergency, and we thought that it was important, because we are in a state of local emergency, for me to have the power to call back council or a council committee if needed,” Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Wednesday evening.
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That power was made clearer through a council vote to suspend part of the procedure bylaw to allow for a response to the public health emergency.
Earlier in the evening, Premier Jason Kenney, Health Minister Tyler Shandro, chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw, and Alberta Health Services president and CEO Dr. Verna Yiu declared a state of public health emergency and introduced a new collection of measures designed to…
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