Ontario town closes beach over COVID-19 fears, mayor blames tourist from Toronto

South Bruce Peninsula is temporarily closing all of its beaches after the town's mayor said that "day-trippers flagrantly defied our restrictions."

Janice Jackson also called on the province to send more OPP officers to the region before she would consider reopening the popular Sauble Beach.

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22 comments

  1. The south end of Sauble was closed in 2019 long before the plandemic for the same reason. Yes it is the “Canadians” from Toronto.

    1. Well if you have a compromised immune system, just stay home, And let those poor business owners feed their families. It’s just that simple.

    2. Lucas Bowman I am notgoing to lose my freedoms because of an over reaction to a flu like virus , because of propaganda with false narratives

    1. If by smart you mean ridiculously paranoid over a virus that poses almost zero threat to the majority of the population, and which the official data shows is rapidly disappearing from the province, then yes!

    2. Call Me Ishmael i don’t mean smart as anxious and over cautious. I mean smart as in knowing with this virus can do and not going right back to normal, because that can cause a second wave of coronavirus. Going back to normal step by step. That’s why there are stages in re launch plans.

    3. move to china then. i cant graduate in october and start making a living wage because the lockdown means i have to wait until STAGE 5 for post secondary to reopen

  2. There is ZERO evidence indicating that this virus can be easily transmitted by casual contact in an open-air environment under bright sunshine. ZERO.

    Yet we still have restrictions. This is lunacy.

    1. We are all entitled to our own opinions I guess and I’m sure you’d see mine like I see yours….insane. I just don’t like dictatorship I guess.

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