A Toronto councillor is demanding the province suspend residential construction in Ontario for the safety of workers and their communities — or provide the public health rationale for allowing it to continue. On Wednesday, the province extended the hours work is allowed at residential construction sites from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days week, after earlier keeping residential construction on the shortened list of essential workplaces. There are at least 11,000 active building permits associated with residential construction in Toronto alone, according to data the city provided to the Star. Matlow asked the premier to provide the rationale for allowing residential construction to continue. If the province’s decision was not made on the advice of Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Matlow said the residential work sites should be removed from the essential workplaces list.

Source: thestar April 09, 2020 21:55 UTC