{"id":89907,"date":"2022-01-10T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=89907"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:24:34","slug":"3-ontario-nurses-disciplined-for-social-media-posts-related-to-pandemic-launch-1m-libel-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/3-ontario-nurses-disciplined-for-social-media-posts-related-to-pandemic-launch-1m-libel-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ontario nurses disciplined for social media posts related to pandemic launch $1M libel suit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ontario registered nurses Kristal Pitter, Kristen Nagle and Sara Choujounian, left to right, have been investigated by the nursing regulator for social media posts during the COVID-19 pandemic. A libel suit has been filed against their professional association and a B.C. media company. (CBC News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three Ontario nurses who\u00a0have faced discipline for their stances on the pandemic are suing the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and a media outlet in British Columbia, with the\u00a0libel suit seeking $1 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kristen Nagle\u00a0of London, Kristal Pitter of Tillsonburg and Sara Choujounian of Toronto have been investigated by the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) for sharing their controversial views about the pandemic on social media.<\/p>\n

All three\u00a0nurses are entitled to practise in Ontario without restrictions.<\/p>\n

Pitter, a nurse practitioner and\u00a0former nursing home inspector\u00a0for the Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care, has\u00a0been cautioned by the CNO, along with Nagle,\u00a0about spreading misinformation on social media about the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Nagle, a former neonatal intensive-care nurse at London Health Sciences Centre,\u00a0was fired\u00a0last January\u00a0after she was charged by law enforcement for failing to comply with Ontario’s emergency pandemic health restrictions in November 2020. She was charged again in April 2021.<\/p>\n

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Choujounian, a former practical nurse with a Toronto home-care agency, will\u00a0face\u00a0a CNO disciplinary hearing this June<\/a> for professional misconduct in connection with a dozen social media posts related to\u00a0the pandemic, including\u00a0claims surgical masks increase the risk of cancer, the COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax and COVID-19 vaccines\u00a0are\u00a0“unsafe.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nagle and Choujounian, first and second on the left, are shown with other members of Global Frontline Nurses in this Instagram photo from January 2021. (Sarah Choujounian\/Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nagle and Choujounian <\/span>were also investigated by the Ontario nursing regulator<\/span>\u00a0for\u00a0making a trip to Washington\u00a0with a group of peers, during last January’s non-essential travel ban, for allegedly promoting theories that the\u00a0pandemic is a hoax and hospitals had a role to play in misrepresenting it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All three nurses are part of Canadian Frontline Nurses (CFN), an offshoot of Global Frontline Nurses, that was created to “empower health-care workers who disagree with lockdowns,” according to the CFN’s\u00a0Facebook page.<\/p>\n

The statement of claim was filed in a Toronto court on Dec. 13, 2021, by the CFN on behalf of\u00a0Pitter,\u00a0Nagle and Choujounian, and\u00a0names four defendants:<\/p>\n