‘These Mandates Are Wrong’: Post-Secondary Students’ Lawsuits Challenging COVID-19 Mandates Make Way to Court

‘These Mandates Are Wrong’: Post-Secondary Students’ Lawsuits Challenging COVID-19 Mandates Make Way to Court
A building at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., in a file photo. Alwin Lee/Shutterstock
Jeff Sandes
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Cases are beginning to make their way into the courts from legal action initiated by college and university students across Canada after their schools started imposing COVID-19 policies, particularly those including mandatory vaccination.

But the court challenges just saw a setback in late April, when an Ontario court dismissed a case filed by four students at McMaster University in Hamilton after the school denied their requests for religious exemption from its vaccine mandate.