June 22, 2025
Expect a cruel, cruel summer in Ontario
The premier and his team say we must see a “consistent two-to-four week decrease in the number of new daily COVID-19 cases.” We also need to stop seeing cases pop up in the community that can’t be traced and a decrease in the number of hospitalizations.
The premier and his team say we must see a “consistent two-to-four week decrease in the number of new daily COVID-19 cases.” We also need to stop seeing cases pop up in the community that can’t be traced and a decrease in the number of hospitalizations.

The opposition parties are right when they criticized Premier Doug Ford’s just-announced Framework for Reopening Our Province as being too vague and short on detail. Yet, that lack of detail in the plan is by design, not a mistake.

The plan won’t give you a date on when the province will start to reopen, or exactly which businesses can start operating when.

“This is a roadmap. It’s not a calendar,” Ford said on Monday.

Yet, one thing the plan makes clear is summer 2020 will be like none other.

There won’t be concerts in the park, you won’t be watching the kids play little league and that festival you’ve gone to for years, it won’t be happening.

This will be one cruel summer.

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