In the early hours of Feb. 18, Alex Petro was in the office of Ale House, the bar he owns in London, Ont., when his bar manager told him, “We got trouble.”
There were stories making the rounds on the internet claiming that the establishment had told one, or in some versions of the story, two Chinese students that Chinese people are not allowed in the bar. The stories claimed the students were told to leave after asking that a sign outside the bar be changed. The sign, which Petro says had been in place for around 10 days before Feb. 18, read, “Mr. Ford History will show lockdowns caused more damage 2 the public then [sic] the China virus.”
