Most Services And Stores Up And Running Again On Easter Monday
Posted March 24, 2008 12:00 pm.
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It was a long weekend filled with closed stores, no services and not a lot going on.
The Easter weekend, which featured two days where business was virtually shut down, is over and while most things are back to normal, there are still a lucky few who get to extend their days off for another 24 hours.
Malls, supermarkets, liquor and beer stores, the stock market and even banks reopened on Monday, but there are a few places that didn’t. Among the services you won’t have access to until Tuesday:
- Public and Catholic schools,
- Government offices,
- Mail delivery.
This weekend could have looked very different had City Council made another decision earlier this month. Councillors rejected a proposal to allow all stores to open on every stat holiday – except Christmas – that would have evened the playing field for retailers across Toronto.
As it stands now, only malls in designated tourist areas are allowed to open on those days. In the GTA, that mostly means the Eaton Centre and the Vaughan Mills Mall.
But because of the importance of the holiday just past, both of them were closed on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, one of the few occasions during the year neither takes advantage of their special status.
