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Coronavirus: Store owner in Belleville, Ont., fined for opening doors during lockdown
coronavirus lockdown.Kyle Thomson, who owns Park Provisioners Barbershop and Haberdashery, a men’s shop in Belleville, Ont., has been posting to his business’ Facebook page over the last week about his plans to break Ontario’s lockdown laws and reopen his store.Those plans were executed Wednesday morning.According to Thomson, Belleville police and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health officials came to his store within minutes of him opening his doors, ordering him to close and issuing a fine.He told Global News he’s been closed since the Boxing Day lockdown began, but decided to reopen the Front Street store Wednesday morning.