Toronto Public Health is investigating a local hockey school after 15 young players allegedly gained access to a municipal ice rink on several occasions by obtaining medical exemptions for recent times vaccines from a British Columbia doctor who was allegedly investigated over the sale of these exemptions on a website.

Westwood Arena general manager John Cook said he contacted the Toronto Police Service in early November after arena employees raised concerns that players affiliated with All-Star Hockey, a school run by former PRO Jason Ricci and former NHL player Mike Weaver, arrived at the rink and used identical vaccine exemptions for drills and skill development sessions.

“We found it strange that the same children all have the same medical exemption documents from the same doctor,” Cook said in an interview with TSN. “I can’t stop them from entering the building because they have these exceptions. There is nothing we can do because we would receive a discrimination complaint against them. It’s been very difficult for our employees to get the harassment they’re getting from people.”

Cook said Ricci and Weaver both called him at home, upset police had been contacted. Ricci and Weaver both declined to respond to Cook’s accusations, and there are no assertion they were involved in the players receiving the exemptions.

“I have contacted my lawyer and if you decide to pursue your story, you will be personally sued for defamation,” Ricci wrote in an email to TSN. “This E-mail is being used for judicial purposes. Their accusations are not only defamatory, but also malicious and discriminatory.”

“This story is defamatory, malicious and totally false,” Weaver wrote in a text message.

A spokesman for Toronto Public Health (TPH) confirmed that law enforcement was investigating the hockey school. TPH has the authority to charge individuals who are doubtful of committing a delinquent offense under the Reopening Ontario Act, a spokesperson wrote in an email. Those who do not comply with the law and are directors and officers of a company are punishable by a fine and detention for up to one year. According to the law, companies can be fined up to million.

“The City of Toronto has received complaints regarding the All-Star Hockey School and Westwood Arena,” a TPH spokesperson wrote in a statement. “The issue is being reviewed to ensure that individuals and organizations comply with provincial regulations. As the problem is being investigated, no additional information can be provided at this time.”

Cook said the All-Star hockey players have been practicing three times a week at Westwood Arena since Nov. 1.the exemptions for the 15- and 16-year-old players were signed by Dr. Stephen Malthouse, who CBC said is being investigated by the British College of Physicians and Surgeons for allegedly writing dummy exemptions for masks and vaccines available for sale through a Kelowna-based website.

The emergency certificates signed by Dr. Malthouse contain a bipartisan preamble citing the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Constitution, the UN Universal Declaration on Bioethics and human rights, as well as the Nuremberg Code, the CBC reported in October.

The Ontario Ministry of Health has stated that the only people eligible for a medical exemption are those who have had a harmful reaction to a recent times vaccine and those whose certain health-issue may affect their response to vaccination.

“It’s become a real concern of ours and the police are speechless,” Cook said. “How can a doctor in British Columbia grant a medical exemption to an Ontario player if that doctor in Ontario can’t write a prescription? I am worried about the health of our Employees.”

Hockey arenas have been documented as hosts of Super Spreader events. In Jun, a recent times positive hockey player participating in an mature Rec hockey game in Florida infected up to 14 other players, CNN reported. Five months after, in Novembe, an asymptomatic person with recent times who visited a hockey rink in Ottawa resulted in 89 new matter, 445 people who had to isolate themselves and four outbreaks at school, including 10 teams.

Cook said Westwood only allows 10 players per locker room, allows only one parent to accompany their child inside, and requires masks to be worn everywhere except on the ice.

“We are doing everything to protect everyone,” he said.

Cook said that as of Jan. 10, under new provincial rules, people are no longer allowed to use medical exemptions to enter hockey fields.
Toronto Police Services (TPS) confirmed that it has referred the matter to Toronto Public Health.

“TPS has received concerns about a group of unvaccinated people using an arena at Humberline Drive and Albion Road,” a TPS spokesman wrote in an email. “Toronto Public Health has been alerted to this. Any questions regarding a doctor’s examination would be for the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons.”

A spokesman for BC College wrote in an email to TSN that he could not comment on Dr. Malthouse because he was suing the college in the B.C. Supreme Court for alleged violation of his right to free speech.