TORONTO – York Catholic District School Board: total chaos, one week before schools are scheduled to open. One needed to be there to appreciate the confusion at the first Board meeting of the 2022-2023.
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – Exactly two years ago, on January 25, 2020, the first case of Covid-19 in Canada was identified at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. Since then, the virus has “pulled straight” despite protective gear, restrictions and even vaccines. Today, the second sad “anniversary” of Covid-19 in Canada, another 64 deaths were recorded in Ontario, bringing the total, from that fateful day that marked the beginning of the pandemic in Canada, to 11,068. (more…)
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – “The worst is behind us”. Word of Doug Ford. With this ‘motto’, Ontario’s premier today announced the reopening plan: first step on January 31, when restaurants, gyms, cinemas and other indoor environments will be able to reopen with 50% capacity, as part of a broader plan to gradually lift most of the Covid-19 restrictions by mid-March. (more…)
TORONTO – For Ontario students, the Christmas holidays have officially begun. What is not clear at the moment is whether the doors of the schools will reopen on January 4, but the current situation suggests that it will not happen. (more…)
TORONTO – The chorus of doctors and scientists, who, given the increasing infections day by day, raise the alarm, was joined today by the medical officer of health for the regional municipality of Peel Lawrence Loh. (more…)
We missed being able to dine outside, we missed coffee with friends, we missed the mall. But we also missed – and our uncultivated hairstyles bear witness to this – the hairdresser. From tomorrow, with Ontario entering Step 2, it will be possible to do all this and more. The long-awaited relaxation of some of the restrictions with reopening non-essential shops, albeit at 25% of capacity, bodes well after so many difficult months. (more…)
Ontario will move on to the next phase of its reopening plan on June 30, allowing most personal care services to restart and also allowing larger outdoor meetings of up to 25 people and smaller meetings indoors of up to five people. (more…)
TORONTO – Turning point on the reopening front. The Ontario government announced today that starting Friday the province will enter Step 1 of the roadmap for the reopening of the economy. Doug Ford and Christine Elliott had previously planned to loosen the restrictions from Monday, June 14, but in recent days the premier and health minister had hinted that flattening the epidemiological curve could accelerate the start of Step 1. (more…)
Schools can reopen safely on a regional basis, there is no risk of nullifying the progress made by the province in reducing the spread of the virus during the third wave. This is what the COVID-19 Science Advisory Table of Ontario says. (more…)
Teachers’ Unions yet again fall short of the mark. They refuse to co-operate with the Province on establishing a back-to-school, in-person, learning environment. 
TORONTO – With the immunization campaign continuing to travel at full capacity, the provincial government is ready to loosen anti-Covid restrictions. According to the commission’s roadmap, the measures currently in force will remain so until 2 June. (more…)
Ontario teachers’ unions are criticizing Premier Doug Ford’s comments that schools remain closed because of them. “The school situation remains a major concern for many parents – said Ford – on the one hand, we have some doctors who say they want to open schools. On the other hand, we have teachers’ unions saying we can’t do that right now. (more…)
About a month and a half after the end of the school year, the government pressed by parents, who want to know if their children will return to the classrooms, continues to make a silent scene. (more…)
The Toronto Board of Health also takes to the field in calling on the Ontario government to reopen outdoor sports and recreation facilities. On Monday, board members voted unanimously in favour of a motion urging the Ford government to lift the ban on the use of these outdoor recreation facilities that have been closed for almost a month. (more…)
TORONTO – Start with a gradual process of reopening the economy or move forward with the harsh anti-Covid restrictions? This is the crux of the matter that the provincial government will have to untie in the coming days, in view of the expiry of the current obligation to stay at home – which ends in Ontario on May 20 – and the parallel long list of restrictive measures put in place in April to cope with the surge in cases. (more…)
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