A pair of Ottawa restaurants have been charged with violating public health laws after allegedly hosting after-hours gatherings with dozens of people in what the head of the city's bylaw department is calling "flagrant disregard for public safety." They're among eight businesses that were charged with 15 offences in the weekend blitz, mostly under the provincial Reopening Ontario Act and the city's temporary mandatory mask bylaw. But what undercover bylaw officers saw at some places fell far short of that standard, said Roger Chapman, the city's director of bylaw and regulatory services. Tosca Restaurant on O'Connor Street has been charged with serving alcohol after 9 p.m., operating after 10 p.m., and not contact tracing during the blitz. (Brian Morris/CBC)"Some of these violations [showed] flagrant disregard for public safety, and that was a real concern for us," Chapman told CBC.

Source: CBC News March 13, 2021 09:00 UTC