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If you think the provincial government s recent flip-flop on outdoor dining has been hard on Toronto residents, for whom that one sunny ray of hope was snatched away after just two weeks of patio season, imagine how it feels to be a business owner.
Customers may feel a bit screwed over by the abrupt change in rules, but the people behind Toronto s favourite bars and restaurants? They got royally effed.
And they want nay, many would argue, they
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If the prevailing emotion of the first lockdown was fear, and frustration for the second, this third and hopefully last lockdown will be characterized by one pervasive sentiment: anger.
Anger first and foremost among the small business owners, whose livelihoods have been subject to the yo-yo shutdowns from provincial governments, which have abandoned any pretense of basing decisions on evidence and fact. On the same day in February that Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced his government would be releasing reopening plans for 27 regions, his own science advisory table presented modelling predicting a third-wave disaster. Yet this provincial government, having not learned the importance of staying two weeks ahead of the virus over the pa
Both announcements contributed to a chaotic moment in Canada’s pandemic, now in its third and worst wave. Variants of the virus that spread more efficiently than the sort that drove infections over the last year are powering the current spike in numbers, with most of the country still unvaccinated.
New concern also rose this week about whether the Atlantic provinces will be able to go ahead with their plan to recreate the “Atlantic bubble” starting April 19. Under that plan, designed to support tourism and the hospitality industry, regional travel would be freely allowed, even though travellers from outside are required to immediately isolate for two weeks. Medical officers of health are due to advise Atlantic premiers next week.
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