Canadian Press NewsAlert: Couple pleads guilty of travelling to Yukon for COVID shot
Posted June 16, 2021 2:24 pm.
Last Updated June 16, 2021 2:38 pm.
WHITEHORSE — A husband and wife accused of flying to a remote Yukon community to receive doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in January have each pleaded guilty to two counts of violating of the territory’s Civil Emergency Measures Act.
Rodney Baker, the former CEO of the Great Canadian Gaming Corp., and his wife Ekaterina Baker appeared remotely in a Whitehorse courtroom to plead guilty to failing to self-isolate for 14 days and failing to act in a manner consistent with their declarations upon arriving in Yukon.
The court heard the couple from Vancouver chartered a plane to Beaver Creek, a small community near the Alaska border, where they were vaccinated at a mobile clinic before flying back to Whitehorse.
Territorial enforcement officers later intercepted the couple as they were in line to fly back to Vancouver and handed them violation tickets.
The Canadian Press
