Seems like it might be a bit more nuanced than that. From the article:
There is a federal law, C-3, which deems it an offence for anyone who “intentionally obstructs or interferes with another person’s lawful access to a place at which health services are provided by a health professional.” As far as I saw while I was passing the hospital, the entranceway was clear and no one was stopped from entering or exiting the building. Other than vague mentions, I found no specific evidence that people were prevented from entering or exiting the building.
Update, Feb. 15, 11:06 a.m.: It has come to our attention that the University Ave. entrance to Mount Sinai Hospital closes at 6 p.m. daily. The protest passed by the hospital around 8 p.m., two hours after that entrance had closed. See the bottom of the map below for the University Ave. entrance hours, accessed today from the Mount Sinai Hospital website.
So this may not have broken those laws. There was apparently an incident where the crowd blocked the car of a doctor that was trying to drive home, so perhaps some more care needed to be taken, but I think everyone’s just really on edge right now and looking for things to get angry about.
Ah, that might apply, then. Though that appears to be specifically about abortion clinics, and my googling suggests Mount Sinai might not provide abortions, so it might still be fiddly if it actually went to court.
Even if not, they should probably have still routed around it if only in recognition of the "on edge"ness.
To me that article suggests they do because their problem was with only getting rid of one of the twins which they only do for triplets + and they have a women’s clinic
I wonder more if it applies to all entrances or just to the clinic
Part of getting anti-abortion protests away from hospitals was that we have no protests at hospitals
I imagine it’s the same people in both but how long until they learn to avoid hospitals?
Seems like it might be a bit more nuanced than that. From the article:
So this may not have broken those laws. There was apparently an incident where the crowd blocked the car of a doctor that was trying to drive home, so perhaps some more care needed to be taken, but I think everyone’s just really on edge right now and looking for things to get angry about.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/abortion-clinic-buffer-zones-coming-to-ontario/article_e7fd27bf-1806-5719-863f-5c004296e28e.html
We have this for no protests within 50m of entrances
Ah, that might apply, then. Though that appears to be specifically about abortion clinics, and my googling suggests Mount Sinai might not provide abortions, so it might still be fiddly if it actually went to court.
Even if not, they should probably have still routed around it if only in recognition of the "on edge"ness.
To me that article suggests they do because their problem was with only getting rid of one of the twins which they only do for triplets + and they have a women’s clinic
I wonder more if it applies to all entrances or just to the clinic