Event regulations, limits, and restrictions

We are here to work with you, as we keep informed on event regulations, limits, and restrictions. We are ready and prepared for Physical Distancing Dining.

Please keep in mind the gathering limits.

The provincewide emergency brake was implemented on April 3, 2021 in response to the third wave of the COVID-19covid 19 pandemic.

All public health and workplace safety measures under the emergency brake will remain in place until Ontario enters Step One of the Roadmap to Reopen, at which point restrictions will ease with an initial focus on outdoor settings.

Public health and workplace safety measures under the emergency brake are set out in a regulation under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19covid 19) Act, 2020.

Read the rules under the Shutdown Zone under O. Reg. 82/20 for details.

We must all follow temporary restrictions and public health and workplace safety measures.

You are not allowed to gather indoors with anyone you do not live with, except one other person from outside of the household who lives alone and caregivers.

Outdoor gatherings are permitted up to five people. Physical distancing of 2 metres must be maintained with people outside your household, with limited exceptions for caregivers.

Limit close contact to only members of your household (the people you live with). If you live alone, you can have close contact with only one other household.

You must stay at least two metres apart from everyone else and wear a mask or face covering during permitted events such as a wedding, funeral or religious service, rite or ceremony.

If you do not follow these rules for gatherings:

• organizers may be fined a minimum of $10,000
• each attendee may receive a $750 ticket
• enforcement personnel may break up the gathering or temporarily close the premises

Organized public events and social gatherings:

• Indoors: not allowed, except with:
  • members of your household
  • one other person from outside of the household who lives alone
  • a caregiver of any of those people
• Outdoors: permitted up to five people
  • Physical distancing of 2 metres must be maintained with people outside your household, with limited exceptions for caregivers and one other person from outside your household who lives alone.

Religious, wedding and funeral services:

• Indoors or outdoors: 10 people
• Indoor receptions are not permitted, except with members of the same household (the people you live with) or with one other person from outside of the household who lives alone or caregivers for any of those persons.
• Outdoor receptions are permitted up to five people
• Drive-in services permitted with conditions

You can leave home to travel. However, you are not permitted to host members of another household indoors except for:

• a person from another household who lives alone
• a caregiver

If you are ill, you should not travel even if your symptoms are mild.

Where possible, people who travel should bring enough supplies for the duration of their stay.

As of April 19, 2021, travel from Manitoba or Quebec into Ontario is restricted. Exemptions are only allowed for specified reasons, including:

• going to work
• receiving medical care or social services
• business transport of goods
• exercising Indigenous or treaty rights
• your primary residence is in Ontario
• you are moving to a new primary residence in Ontario
• humanitarian or compassionate reasons, such as providing care or services to a person who requires assistance due to their state of health
• attending, transporting or picking up a student from a school or post-secondary institution in Ontario
• transporting a child who is registered to receive child care in Ontario

Read the full list of reasons you may travel into Ontario from Manitoba or Quebec.

You should always:

• stay home if you have symptoms, even if they are mild
• stay two metres apart from people you don’t live with
• wear a mask or face covering in indoor public spaces or any time physical distancing is not possible
• wash your hands often with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer
• sneeze and cough into your sleeve
• avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth
• get tested if you think you have symptoms or have been exposed to COVID-19covid 19

You can also download the COVID Alert mobile app to protect yourself and your community.

You may be asked to identify yourself to a provincial offences officer if they believe you have not complied with certain orders under the:

• Health Protection and Promotion Act
• Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act
• Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19covid 19) Act

If the officer finds you are not following the orders, you may be fined. The set fines are:

• $750 for individuals who are not following an order
• $1,000 for corporations that are not following an order
• $1,000 for anyone who prevents an enforcement officer from exercising their powers or performing their duties to enforce the orders

Maximum fines are:

• $100,000 for an individual
• $500,000 for a director or officer of a corporation
• $10 million for a corporation

Failure to follow the rules could also result in prosecution and even a year in jail.

Restaurants, bars and other food and drink establishments

Services available:

• Take-out
• Drive-through
• Delivery

Closed:

• All indoor and outdoor dining

Night clubs and strip clubs only permitted to open if they operate as a food or drink establishment, for takeout, drive-through and delivery only.

Open, subject to conditions:

• parks and recreational areas
• playgrounds
• splash pads and spray pads
• portions of parks or recreational areas containing outdoor fitness equipment
• baseball diamonds, batting cages, soccer, football and sports fields
• tennis, platform tennis, table tennis and pickleball courts
• basketball courts
• BMX parks and skate parks
• golf courses and driving ranges
• frisbee golf locations
• cycling tracks and bike trails
• horse riding facilities
• shooting ranges, including those operated by rod and gun clubs
• archery ranges
• boat and watercraft launches
• lawn game courts, including lawn bowling, bocce and croquet courts

These outdoor recreational amenities are only permitted to open if:

• people using the amenities maintain a physical distance of at least two metres from anyone outside their household, except for one other person from outside that household who lives alone or caregivers for those people
• people using the amenities wear a face covering
• team sports or any other sports or games that are likely to result in individual coming within two metres of each other are not practised or played
• the following remain closed, unless they provide access to equipment storage, a washroom or a portion of the amenity that is used to provide first aid:
  • all locker rooms, change rooms and showers
  • clubhouses
  • restaurants
  • pools
  • meeting rooms
  • fitness centres
  • other recreational facilities on the premises

Giganti Events Planning and Catering is Open. We are happy to help with Virtual Events, Doorstep Home or Office Delivery, or Outdoor Recreation drop off. Giganti Events is here for you even if it's a temporary placeholder for the "real" Event, we are a great alternative to postponing or canceling. With your event planner and doorstep delivery service we can continue to celebrate and be social.

Stay Health, Stay Safe, Stay Well Nourished