The province is opening specific outdoor activities as of Saturday.
Officials have launched their three step framework to gradually re-open Ontario, with each step lasting a minimum of 21 days.
The amenities that will be open this weekend include driving ranges, soccer and other sports fields, tennis and basketball courts, and skate parks.
Premier Doug Ford said Thursday based on the trends the first step will likely begin on the week of June 14.
Step One
- 60 per cent of adults with one dose of the vaccine
- Outdoor gatherings up to 10 people
- Outdoor dining up to 4 people per table
- Outdoor fitness classes, personal training and sports training up to 10 people
- Essential retail at 25 per cent capacity and can sell all goods (including discount and big box)
- Non-essential retail at 15 per cent capacity
- Retail stores in malls closed unless the stores have a street facing entrance
- Outdoor religious services, rites and ceremonies with capacity limited to permit 2 metres’ physical distancing
- Horse racing and motor speedways without spectators
- Outdoor horse riding
- Outdoor pools, splash pads and wading pools with capacity limited to permit 2 metres’ physical distancing
- Outdoor zoos, landmarks, historic sites, and botanical gardens with capacity limits
- Campsites, campgrounds and short-term rentals; and
- Ontario Parks
Step Two
- 70 per cent of adults with one dose, 20 per cent with two doses
- Outdoor gatherings up to 25 people
- Indoor gatherings up to 5 people and other restrictions
- Outdoor dining up to 6 people per table
- Outdoor sports and leagues
- Overnight camps
- Outdoor meeting and event spaces with capacity limits
- Non-essential retail at 25 per cent capacity, essential retail at 50 per cent capacity
- Personal care services where face coverings can be worn at all times with capacity limits
- Outdoor cinemas and performing arts with capacity limits
- Horse racing and motor speedways for spectators with capacity limits
- Outdoor tour and guide services with capacity limits
- Indoor religious services, rites or ceremony gatherings at 15 per cent capacity
- Public libraries with capacity limits
- Outdoor waterparks and amusement parks with capacity limits
- Fairs and rural exhibitions with capacity limits
Step Three
- 70 to 80 per cent of adults with one dose, 25 per cent with two doses
- Outdoor gatherings with larger capacity limits
- Indoor gatherings with larger capacity limits and other restrictions
- Indoor dining with capacity limits
- Indoor sports and recreational fitness facilities with capacity limits
- Indoor meeting and event spaces with capacity limits
- Essential and non-essential retail capacity expanded
- Personal care services with capacity expanded and other restrictions
- Indoor cinemas and performing arts facilities with capacity limits
- Indoor and outdoor religious services, rites or ceremony gatherings with capacity limited to permit 2 metres’ physical distancing
- Indoor museums and art galleries with capacity limits
- Indoor zoos, aquariums, waterparks and amusement parks with capacity limits
- Casinos and bingo halls with capacity limits
- Other outdoor activities from Step Two permitted to operate indoors
Officials added that in-person learning will be closed for now, which caught the attention of NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.
“Children and families are exhausted and frustrated from trying to learn online,” Horwath said. “Their mental health and well-being are being eroded by the day. Yet Doug Ford is leaving children, families and schools hanging. He’s putting them at the back of the line, and the bottom of the priority list.”
Liberal Leader Stephen Del Duca accused the Premier of leaving parents and education workers in the dark.
“They deserve answers now on the future of in-person learning,” Del Duca mentioned, in a statement. “There was also no mention of a strategy to help women and small businesses lead the economic recovery to end the she-cession and relieve our devastated entrepreneurs. Any economic recovery that doesn’t address those hardest hit by the pandemic is unacceptable.”
When it comes to the stay-at-home order, it will expire on June 2 but all non-essential businesses will remain closed until the beginning of step one.
