{"id":254808,"date":"2020-05-14T05:04:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=254808"},"modified":"2020-05-14T05:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:04:58","slug":"grocery-store-person-fined-for-violating-ontarios-covid-19-emergency-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/14\/grocery-store-person-fined-for-violating-ontarios-covid-19-emergency-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery store, person fined for violating Ontario\u2019s COVID-19 emergency orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_254820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254820\" style=\"width: 5760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imattsmart-8vTKvTdenyc-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-254820\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imattsmart-8vTKvTdenyc-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imattsmart-8vTKvTdenyc-unsplash.jpg 5760w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imattsmart-8vTKvTdenyc-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imattsmart-8vTKvTdenyc-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imattsmart-8vTKvTdenyc-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5760px) 100vw, 5760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-254820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray did not specify what the grocery store was fined for but it was charged with $750. While for the other case, he said that it was an outdoor setting. The cost for the individual is also $750. (FIle Photo: iMattSmart\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People are expected to comply with the government\u2019s orders in curbing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but Ontario just recorded two more charges of violations.<\/p>\n<p>Region of Waterloo Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Mike Murray, in a media briefing on Wednesday, said that one case is a grocery store in Kitchener while the other is a person in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>Murray did not specify what the grocery store was fined for but it was charged with $750. While for the other case, he said that it was an outdoor setting. The cost for the individual is also $750.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, a person not complying with provincial orders,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Murray did not give further details. He explained that, \u201cWe\u2019ve consistently through this whole period not identified specific organizations or people that are charged, but we\u2019ve given the general classification and so I think we\u2019re just continuing with that approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ontario\u2019s emergency orders limits gatherings of more than five people who are not in the same household. It also temporarily closed non-essential businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In the past week, there were a total of 1, 812 contacts in the region; which includes site visits, phone calls, and charges. 289 were sit visits where education was given or warnings were issued. 1,426 were site visits but no action was required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are expected to comply with the government\u2019s orders in curbing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but Ontario just recorded &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":254820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254821,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254808\/revisions\/254821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}