Toronto cancels all 2020 holiday camps and winter instructional programming

By News staff

The City of Toronto has announced all their planned holiday camps and winter instructional programs have been cancelled due to COVID-19.

The camps were expected to begin on Dec. 21 to align with the winter break for schools. Just over 700 people had signed up for the camps at this point.

The city’s Learn-to-Skate, which had close to 450 registrations, and Instructional Ski programs have also been cancelled.

Registration had not yet begun on the ski programs.

Residents who registered for camps or programs will be issued an automatic refund.

City staff were able to run summer camps through their CampTO programming with COVID-19 measures in place, but the city says Toronto’s overall case numbers and daily case counts are much higher now.

Toronto is also reviewing operations at the Centennial Park and Earle Bales Park ski and snowboard centres and working to determine whether the ski hills will be opened.

More information on whether the city will be offering winter recreation programming is expected to be shared in January.

According to the province, Toronto recorded 737 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, and the region remains in the Grey-Lockdown category of Ontario’s COVID-19 response framework.

Mayor John Tory, along with other GTA mayors, have been calling for additional restrictions over the winter holidays.

 

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