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More COVID-19 restrictions in store for Toronto within days, mayor says

Sep 28, 2021 , , , , by shlf

New for Toronto are expected within days, Mayor John Tory said Monday as Canada’s biggest city suffered a record-high 538 new infections.

Tory told reporters at an afternoon briefing that weekend discussions between city and provincial politicians and health officials focused on possible new rules to discourage people from gathering in “crowd scenes” where the virus can spread.

Enforcement teams, meanwhile, continue to break up already-illegal crowd scenes including, on the weekend, a birthday party with more than 100 people crowded into a commercial storage unit in Etobicoke.

Tory said early Monday the new measures could include limits on the number of people inside stores or malls. At the later briefing he called his suggestion “hypothetical” because discussions on restrictions were still ongoing.

Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s public health chief, refused to suggest which new rules could be placed on top of extending the closure of indoor dining and allowing gyms to reopen with no group classes.

“Enclosed indoor spaces and for prolonged periods — those are the kinds of circumstances we need to consider,” de Villa said, seeming to agree with a reporter that weddings pose a greater virus risk than shoppers coming and going.

One thing the pair agreed on is that COVID-19 is spreading too fast in Toronto, risking a sharp rise in hospitalizations and deaths unless the virus is contained.

De Villa announced an “alarming” day of 500-plus new cases in Toronto on Monday. Toronto Public Health said the seven-day daily average for new infections was to 453, up from 370 a week ago and 326 two weeks ago.

Toronto hospitalizations hit 176, with 42 of the ill people in intensive care.

Tory told CP24: “I am trying my best with the medical officer, as are all the other people, including the premier, to keep people healthy and to stop this very alarming situation from turning into a much-worse disaster that would take more lives.”

The virus is “getting into long-term-care (homes) again and that would make many more people sick. And we want to keep the schools open too, that’s what we’re really trying hard to do,” with the escalating restrictions, he said.

They both continued to beg Torontonians to stay home as much as possible and to not socialize — even outdoors with masks — with people from other households.

The spread of the virus accelerated during the fall amid the indoor dining ban and other restrictions. But data shows Toronto’s perilous situation would be even worse if no action had been taken, de Villa said, laying groundwork for new measures.

Tory said he expects the new restrictions to be announced any day. He said he prefers the order come from the Ontario government, but if not Toronto will act.

He was joined by other mayors and regional chairs from the Toronto and Hamilton areas on Monday to ensure that workers have access to paid sick days to ensure they aren’t going to work infected and sicken others.

Fire Chief Matthew Pegg, heading the city’s COVID-19 emergency response, told reporters the organizer of the storage container party near Kipling Avenue and Bloor Street West faces charges under the provincial Reopening Ontario Act.

Enforcement teams also visited 80 bars and restaurants in the downtown Entertainment District, charging operators of five of them with infractions related to the ban on indoor dining and issuing warning letters at four other businesses.

Toronto got one rare bit of good COVID-19 news. De Villa told the board of health committee that she’s hopeful a vaccine for the virus will start to be available in Toronto within the first three months of 2021.

De Villa previously suggested in a mass immunization expected to take months.

with files from Ed Tubb

Correction – Nov. 16, 2020: This article was edited to correct the attribution of a quote.

David Rider is the Star’s City Hall bureau chief and a reporter covering city hall and municipal politics. Follow him on Twitter:

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More staff, consistent customer service needed when Wasaga builds new library, arena

Jul 21, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Wasaga Beach’s budget for library and arena staff could jump by 45 per cent when the new facility opens in the next two years.

Those are the recommendations of Ashley Clerici and Jen Hayes of MNP Consulting, who also offered a series of recommendations on how the municipality could provide a consistent level of customer service across the organization — especially once the new public library and twin-pad arena opens.

The two women presented their recommendations to council’s Oct. 8 meeting of the co-ordinated committee. Their work was funded by a $60,000 grant from the province.

Hayes said both the recreation department and the library have staffing gaps in both capacity and capability that will need to be filled in advance of the opening of the new facility.

Construction is expected to begin in 2021.

“It’s not unusual to have these gaps in capacity and capabilities. With the growing facility, and the growing department, there’s opportunity to require some new positions,” Hayes said.

Both the arena and library will require programming staff, she said, while the arena would require an operations manager and increased maintenance staff.

On the recreation side, program registration should also move to an online system “to make it easier for residents,” and reduce the administrative burden of what is currently handled manually.

Based on the recommendations of the consultants, staffing at the arena would increase by one full-time position, six part-time positions, and an additional contract position, and staffing costs would jump from $422,000 to more than $721,000 in the first year.

For the library, the four existing casual call-in positions would be rolled into full- and part-time positions, with three more full-time, and five more part-time jobs; the numbers do not reflect the library’s chief executive officer position, Hayes said.

The current staffing budget at the library is $694,000, and it would increase to just over $905,000 in the first year of operating the new facility, based on the recommendation of the consultants.

“There’s added services, there’s added space, so the staffing is reflective of longer hours (of operation),” Hayes said.

Clerici said the municipality’s staff is very customer-service oriented, though they “all go about (it) in a different way.” That leads to inconsistency in how service is delivered across the organization, she said.

Mayor Nina Bifolchi said the recommendations were not a surprise, and cautioned residents not to jump to the conclusion the town would be adding a lot of staff, and start calculating how much that would cost.

“Until this goes back to staff and there’s a thorough review and our needs are looked at … the public shouldn’t just assume that all these new people are being hired,” she said. “Some of these things need to be reviewed by our leadership team … we need to make sure every department has input into the plan.”

“It’s important that the public understand that staffing and dollar amounts put to this report regarding the two new facilities, but I don’t want the public to misunderstand the information and start calculating how much this is going to cost each resident.”

The committee recommended staff review the study, and bring back a report to councillors at a later date.