{"id":93898,"date":"2020-06-12T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93898"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:07:15","slug":"cbc-toronto-to-make-face-coverings-mandatory-on-public-transit-will-hand-out-1m-masks-to-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93898","title":{"rendered":"(CBC) Toronto to make face coverings mandatory on public transit, will hand out 1M masks to riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor John Tory announced the updated regulations for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will help to stop the spread of COVID-19 in our city,&#8221; Tory said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the restart and reopening begins, we know that more people will be back on the TTC\u2026 at the same time, physical distancing will become a greater and greater challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The TTC board will need to approve the recommendation at its meeting next week, though TTC CEO Rick Leary has already said he supports the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to make sure people know our system is safe for both customers and employees,&#8221; Leary said.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto also announced on Thursday a plan to give out one million non-medical masks to transit users, with a focus on low-income and marginalized communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/covid-19-in-toronto-june-11-1.5607504\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor John Tory announced the updated regulations for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) on Thursday. &#8220;This will help to stop the spread of COVID-19 in our city,&#8221; Tory said. &#8220;As the restart and reopening begins, we know that more people<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93898\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,615,104,151,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-city-government","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93900,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93898\/revisions\/93900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}