Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the details of Stage 1 of Ontario’s recovery plan.
With three stages in total, each stage will be careful evaluated and monitored by health officials for between two and four weeks before advancing to the next stage.

Here’s what Stage 1 looks like:

Industry Services and Retail

• Lifting essential workplace limits on construction and resuming all construction projects

• Opening retail stores that have a separate street-front entrance, located outside of shopping malls, with restrictions to enable physical distancing

• Open motor vehicle dealerships, including new and used cars and trucks, as well as motorcycle, boats and other motor and recreational vehicles, such as ATVs

• Allowing media operations to resume like music recordings, including production, distribution, publishing and studios, interactive digital media, film and television post-production. It also includes animation studios and publishing, including newspapers, video games and books

• Opening non-essential professional services related to conducting research and experimental development in physical, engineering and life sciences, such as biotechnology, agriculture and industrial research and development labs

• Allowing emissions inspection facilities to conduct heavy vehicle emissions testing

Outdoor, reactional and seasonal activities

• Seasonal businesses such as golf driving ranges, recreational services at marinas, rod and gun clubs and cycling tracks

• Allowing sport activity for individual/single competitors, including training and competitions conducted by a recognized Provincial Sport Organization, National Sport Organization, or recognized national provincial training centres. This includes indoor and outdoor non-team sport competitions that can be played while maintaining physical distancing and without spectators

Care, community and household services

• Gradually restarting health-care services, including hospitals, independent health facilities, clinics and private practices providing scheduled surgeries and procedures

• Supporting services for surgeries and procedures

• In-person counselling, including psychology and addiction counselling

• Resuming in-person services, in addition to virtual services, delivered by health professionals such as Children's Treatment Centres

• Allowing services for animals and pets to resume, including pet care like grooming, pet sitting, pet training and regular veterinary appointments

• Opening libraries for pickup or deliveries

• Allowing indoor and outdoor household services that can follow public health guidelines to resume, including: domestic services, such as housekeepers and cooks

• Lifting essential workplace limits on maintenance, repair and property management services, such as cleaning, painting, and pool maintenance