Ford announces province-wide lockdown in Ontario, says it’s a ‘one-time’ COVID-19 measure

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced a province-wide lockdown that will start on Dec. 26.

Ford also discusses the COVID-19 situation in the province and says the Ontario lockdown is a "temporary but one-time measure."

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96 comments

    1. Just to let you know over here in BC we aren’t lockdown because we listen to our doctors and don’t spread the disease like a bunch of fools

    1. @Rodeo Frog You should ask Barbara she never did explain who they are. So both sides wants to know who they are!

    2. @warren gress Don’t worry be HAPPY! LOL is that not one of their favorite lines that lead the blind when curiosity sets in?

    3. @James lol maybe much less than yourself… What is your knowledge on this scenario we actually face without the arrogance of your short uneducated wording..

    4. @Lucas Egeland Who am I repeating? I watched her say it. I hope you are a bot, so that what’s coming will be painless for you.

    1. @Jake it’s not about the virus anymore, it’s about seeing how much power they can take and how far they can go using covid as an excuse.

    2. @ChrisTheAppleOne The lockdowns never ended – why small businesses are going out of business…. and we still wear masks…..

    1. @Fish Bone Willie It’s a nice thought, but government officials get most of their money indirectly through their donors.

    1. Until the premiers get that malti-billion boost to health care, the Covid lockup will keeping going strong 🙂 and don’t even get me started on were that malti-billion increase will go 🙂 This is all a money game no matter were you look 🙁

  1. If you want to see your mother or father or a few family members your not allowed to your spreading covid. But go ahead and work with 25 + co workers a day and see 100 + customers thats ok.

    1. tell me i cant go on a lake and fish by myself no body around but its ok for me to go in and out of 50 restaurants and 50 homes buts that’s essential lmfao

    2. @ReadySetReel tell me where are you that it’s illegal for you to go fish on a lake? It doesn’t exist you can go fish on a lake if you want to.

    3. @Seeking Justice last lockdown i got kicked off the lake while i was fishing and they blocked the boat launches. said it would be a 750$ fine if i didn’t leave

    1. The cheque is in the mail. I had no sexual relations with Monica. My son Hunter did nothing wrong. all true statements as well.

    2. @Jon Faulknor You asked how a mask can stop the virus so I’ll explain it to you so that even you/a child could understand.

      Using an hockey analogy(without the goal post, where the webbing is the mask, and the puck is the gas particle(a fart for example) the smell goes through but not that strong, correct? Now using that same scale, the virus(which is bacteria) is the size of 5 dodge caravans stack 5Lx5Wx5H. So how can the virus penetrate the mask? It cant, unless its ripped, contaminated already because of transmission through other means or someone not being as clean as they should be.

      Campground owner and ski guy takes 0 understanding of Biology and your ignorance runs deep. You and all the other fruitloops in this thread.

      Aren’t we lucky we dont have idiots like you running the government

    3. @ARK CON we’re using the wrong masks that’s why. From now on everyone has to wear either Halloween masks or those brass scuba diving masks from the 19th century.

    1. Talk about taking something completely out of context. Obviously you have never heard of something called “a speech”.

    1. @Seeking Justice I’m guessing that you live in the GTA and have never ventured outside the land of strip malls and endless subdivisions. I could name dozens of towns in Ontario that aren’t overrun with Wal-Marts and Loblaws but then where’s the fun in that?

  2. This is literally an example of the emperor’s new clothes. How are they all maskless? Spitting up the same mic?

    1. I hate it even more when they put on a mask when not speaking only to take it off when speaking. If anything, the other way around would at least make a bit (though not a lot) more sense. It’s either a “safe environment” in which case no masks are needed or an “unsafe” one in which case they should be kept on. All they are doing is virtue signaling.

    2. @MarkJPR There’s even a video of a guy offstage putting on a mask, walking out to the podium a few feet away on an empty stage, and then dramatically taking off his mask to speak into the microphone.

    1. Canada can lay off thousands of at home public servants . We have got by a full year without them. Yet had to pay them full working wage !

    2. @Designgirl2009 my sister’s cousin’s brother’s gardener’s former kindergarten teacher met a guy at a coffee shop who’s former owner’s ex girlfriend heard about a healthy 20 year who died from it suddenly so obviously you are wrong.

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