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Businesses thought man’s vaccine exemption was fake, court told Cornelia Naylor
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A Burnaby man whose COVID-19 vaccine exemption papers proved mostly useless for getting into events and businesses during B.C.’s vaccine mandates has failed to convince a B.C. Supreme Court judge the province’s public health orders were unconstitutional. William Robertson Prendiville, a Burnaby hiking guide who also works in building operations, and two other petitioners applied to the court to have a series of public health orders dating from Sept. 13, 2021 declared unconstitutional and contrary to Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, according to a ruling last week. B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson, who issued the Sept. 12 ruling, noted the trio hadn’t challenged the Continued on page 3
SCHOOL SPIRIT : Simon Fraser Student Society vice-president Eshana Baran greets students at the SFSS booth at SFU StreetFest on Sept. 16. Last week, the society celebrated the approval of the Burnaby Mountain gondola project. See story, page 19. PHOTO LAUREN VANDERDEEN