An Ottawa city councillor is calling on bylaw officers to start issuing fines instead of warnings to people who continue to flout rules meant to slow the spread of COVID-19. Fines coming, bylaw director warnsRoger Chapman, the city's director of bylaw and regulatory services, said bylaw officers witnessed "numerous cases" of people skating and playing hockey on stormwater ponds. In fact, officers witnessed areas of these ponds with open water and thin ice," Chapman wrote in a statement to CBC. We have to do something to make people start taking this seriously, and if it means hitting them in the pocketbook, then so be it. We have to do something to make people start taking this seriously, and if it means hitting them in the pocketbook, then so be it."

Source: CBC News January 11, 2021 19:35 UTC