The Ontario government is expected to provide more details today regarding its newly issued stay-at-home order, which takes effect tomorrow. The province says it will publish the “legal parameters” for the order online today and offer more clarification on the measure.

As of tomorrow, residents will have to stay home except for essential purposes such as grocery shopping, accessing health care and exercising.

The province says police and bylaw officers will have the power to enforce the stay-at-home order and issue tickets to rule-breakers, but hasn’t given details on how that will play out.

According to CTV News, trips to a cottage or secondary residence should be avoided, unless it is for an essential purpose like emergency maintenance and pre-arranged bookings for short-term rentals at hotels, motels, lodges, cabins, cottages, resorts are prohibited, with exceptions for housing requirements.

The order was announced yesterday as the province declared a state of emergency – its second of the COVID-19 pandemic – and unveiled a series of new restrictions meant to slow the spread of the virus.

They include prolonging the pause on in-person learning in schools in five southern Ontario hot spots -Toronto, Hamilton, Peel, York and Windsor-Essex to to Feb. 10.

The Canadian Travel and Tourism Roundtable has a chart showing where Canadians can travel – but this was last updated on December 18, so is not valid for the latest restrictions.

The Government of Canada website (updated Jan 07, 2021) shows a Level 3 Avoid all non-essential travel.

Prior to publication we could find no information and had no response to questions on the impact the new regulations might – or might not – have on overseas travel.