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Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce wrote to parents on Sunday suggesting that in-person learning would resume in the province after the April school break.
Less than 24 hours later, Lecce was sitting next to Doug Ford as the province’s premier said the spread of COVID meant kids would stay home indefinitely.
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The premier blamed the speed at which new variants are spreading and the impact they are having on intensive care unit capacity, which is already close to 100 per cent in many regions.