Colleges apparently did not follow the province’s guidelines.
In a recently published letter, Dr. Claus Rinner, a tenured full-time professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, revealed the way in which the province’s colleges and universities went beyond the provincial Chief Medical Officer of Health’s directives by cancelling professors, students, and staff for refusing COVID vaccines.
On Aug. 30, 2021, Dr. Kieran Moore, the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, issued instructions “to establish mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies in … post-secondary institutions.” These instructions initially allowed for a) proof of vaccination, b) exemption for medical or religious reasons, and c) an educational course on vaccination for those declining vaccination for personal reasons. However, the instructions included a caveat that allowed secondary schools to exclude option (c) from their COVID policies…
