{"id":15957,"date":"2021-04-27T19:59:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15957"},"modified":"2021-04-30T03:49:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T03:49:24","slug":"the-devils-handiworkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15957","title":{"rendered":"The devil&#8217;s handiworkers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-sloan-randy-hillier2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15961\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-sloan-randy-hillier2-copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-sloan-randy-hillier2-copy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-sloan-randy-hillier2-copy-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two politicians are among several people&nbsp;charged for attending a large service in Aylmer, Ont., at the Church of God Restoration in defiance of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.&nbsp;<strong>MP Derek Sloan and MPP Randy Hillier<\/strong>, who both represent Kingston-area ridings as Independents, are scheduled to appear in Elgin County provincial offences court in June, CBC News has learned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two, who have been vocal about their opposition to&nbsp;COVID-19 public health measures, attended the large Sunday service in the&nbsp;southwestern Ontario town.&nbsp;Sloan, Hillier and eight others were charged after the&nbsp;service. The church, as a corporation,&nbsp;has also been charged with failing to comply with the Reopening Ontario Act.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If found guilty, Sloan and Hillier could be ordered to pay up to $100,000 or spend up to a year in jail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corporations could face fines up to $10 million.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source:CBC News&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;Posted: Apr 27\/21<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-sloan-randy-hillier-6-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15962\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-sloan-randy-hillier-6-copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-sloan-randy-hillier-6-copy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-sloan-randy-hillier-6-copy-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-The-devils-handiworkers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15964\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-The-devils-handiworkers.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-The-devils-handiworkers-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-The-devils-handiworkers-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two politicians are among several people&nbsp;charged for attending a large service in Aylmer, Ont., at the Church of God Restoration in defiance of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.&nbsp;MP Derek Sloan and MPP Randy Hillier, who both represent Kingston-area ridings as Independents, are scheduled to appear in Elgin County provincial offences court in June, CBC News has learned.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The devil&#8217;s handiworkers&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15957"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15998,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions\/15998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}