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Premier Doug Ford on Thursday extended the stay-at-home order until June 2.
It’s the second time that the government has extended the emergency measure, which was scheduled to expire May 20. It means that the order, which began April 8, will continue for a total of almost eight weeks.
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It signals that Ford, 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, after three waves of infections, more than half a million cases, over 8,400 deaths and the near collapse of health care, has finally learned some hard lessons.
Published Monday, May 10, 2021 1:20PM EDT The Toronto Board of Health is calling on the provincial government to reverse its decision to close outdoor amenities under the Reopening Ontario Act amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. At a meeting on Monday, members of board voted unanimously in favour of a motion to request that the Ford government lift the ban on outdoor recreation facilities, which have been closed for nearly a month. Speaking to CP24 on Monday, Ward 12 Coun. Josh Matlow called the restrictions on outdoor amenities “absurd” and “counter to the interests of the public.” “They don t make sense. They don t make sense from a public policy perspective, certainly they are not backed by any science-based advice that I m a aware of.”
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Randy Henry
recently put in his last day as Torontoâs police chief after serving in the cityâs police department for 41 years, 10 of them as chief. (Photo by Warren Scott)
As he reflected on 41 years in the Toronto police department, including 10 as its chief, Randy Henry noted law enforcement wasn’t a field he had originally set out to pursue.
But, he added, it’s a job with its ups and downs that he’s glad to have held.
Henry said he had been a year out of high school and working at Colliers Steel in a tool and dye apprenticeship in 1979 when his father, Rod, asked him to run the Dairy Isle ice cream shop he had recently bought.
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