Edmonton city councillor Jon Dziadyk wants to keep the body rub parlours that are closed now because of COVID-19, closed for good.
He has started putting the wheels in motion to have the issue raised at the next city council meeting on May 11, when he’ll introduce a motion to ask for a report on what steps can be taken to achieve that. “Administration was looking at the eventual wind down in five to 10 years,” he said in a phone interview Tuesday with Global News. “What I’m asking is: can this be accelerated?” Dziadyk said the work of an Edmonton city task force in 2018 created rules out of “a place of harm reduction,” however he now sees an opportunity that has never existed before. “That was all business as usual pre-COVID-19 and nothing