Regina police issue dozen more tickets to those at ‘freedom rally’

As the Regina Police Service prepares for another weekend rally of people protesting Saskatchewan’s public health orders, officers continue to ticket people who participated in an event in Victoria Park on April 24.

A dozen more tickets have been issued to people who were at that rally, during which an out-of-province speaker addressed the group of around 150 people that gathered. The current public health order puts a limit of 10 people on outdoor get-togethers.

Eleven public health tickets and one traffic ticket were recently issued to people at the April 24 rally, the Regina Police Service said in a news release, with some of those tickets having to be served by other police agencies. These new tickets are in addition to the four handed out not long after the event.

On the same day as the rally in the park, a group of approximately 40 people headed into the Cornwall Centre without masks and not distancing. Police were called about the situation. When officers arrived, one person in the vicinity of the situation said those in the unmasked group were chanting.

Evidence is being gathered by Regina police to identify those in the group that went into the mall. When police have enough evidence, they expect to hand out more tickets to those not following the public health orders, which requires people to wear a mask while indoors and to keep their groups to no more than 10 people outside.

Regina police are also asking that other people not provoke those at the upcoming event. They say they will have uniformed and plainclothes officers at the rally to maintain the peace and gather evidence.