An Ontario mayor is asking for highway checkpoints to help curb non-essential travel

 

An Ontario politician is among those calling for further restrictions on the movement of residents who he believes are helping to spread COVID-19 to more northerly parts of the province.

Sudbury Mayor Brian Bigger feels that amid the ongoing stay-at-home order — which is set to expire on Feb. 9 if not extended once more — things like highway checkpoints could help to keep virus numbers down.

He suggests a "bubble" segregating the northern, less populous portion of the province from more southerly hotspots like Toronto, especially with new variants that have reached as far north as Barrie, three hours southeast of Sudbury.

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