Update: Air Canada is thanking the Canadian government for the removal of these restrictions and acknowledging that air travel is safe and that the measures were “not justified by science.”
Update: Canada’s Public Health Agency has confirmed that as of October 1st, anyone can enter Canada without using the ArriveCAN app, no testing or vaccination is required, and no quarantine will be required. Additionally masks are no longer required on flights and trains.
Originally posted on 9/20:
Canadian press is reporting that Canada plans on dropping COVID entry restrictions that have kept many people out of the country for over 2 and a half years.
Currently, entry to Canada is restricted to fully vaccinated adults. Additionally, you need to upload your proof of vaccination, passport, and other information before entering Canada via the ArriveCAN app.
I drove with my grandfather and daughter to Toronto last month to catch a Jays-Tribe ballgame and see Niagara Falls. I was able to visit with my 2 vaccines from spring 2021 and was able to bring my daughter with despite her not being vaccinated as she is under 12 years old. Several restaurants there were deserted and said that they haven’t had robust summer business since the summer of 2019 due to Canadian regulations, while others I visited in the past had closed down completely.
If nothing else, the COVID vaccine granted me access to several countries that I traveled to over the past year and a half.
But Canada is now planning on removing the vaccine requirement, the ArriveCAN app requirement, and the random testing for travelers. Airlines and local businesses have been lobbying for that to happen for quite some time.
Canada is also one of the last places that still require masks on flights to or from the country. It’s unclear if that rule will remain in place.
For now, the US still requires that foreign national adults be vaccinated to visit the country, despite President Biden declaring the pandemic to be over. When do you think that requirement will be dropped?
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I guess they know he’s not really the president
At least the US isn’t requiring their unvaccinated citizens to quarantine!
Tourism in Canada has been a fraction of the past apparently that has helped wake up Mr. Trudeau!
“Tribe” RIP
Putin ended Covid. Thanks, Vlad.
Whether the pandemic is ongoing or not the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission or most likely anything at this point. Vaccine is nothing more than politics as you can be vaccinated over a year ago which is useless according to manufacturers but you can use it to enter the country!
yes! It was the political science that changed, not the medical science. If the original clinical trial for Pfizer BioNTech BNT162b2 was run during omicron or the BA’s it would have failed to reach statistical significance. Of course, we now live in a post-data world where carefully run randomized controlled clinical trials are a thing of the past. 8 mice – dayenu!
Woohoo!
@dan where did you eat in toronto and what’s your take?
Lunch at the ballgame, the sausage and fries make it the best kosher stand I’ve been to by a long shot.
Windsor Arms kosher dining appears to have been a COVID casualty, so we did Marron. Overall the food was excellent, though they were way understaffed.
We loved Pantry in 2019, but they no longer have dining in.
Aroma didn’t have half their menu, though the ice coffee is like being transported back to Israel.
Omni Java for breakfast was passable. Seems to have gone downhill though and the place was a ghost town.
Took out food for the road from BaLi Laffa. Shwarma laffa was good, chinese food was not.
And having the Tesla do the drive for me was a total game changer.
Ever try slice and bites? Great pizza!
Food by the game is amazing also really liked marron. Never been to Windsor arms
Nope. Pizza is the one kosher food that is absurdly plentiful in CLE, plus we make our own in our Ooni.
Windsor arms was a fun experience and in the city. Pity it’s gone. But Toronto in lucky to have Marron and that it survived COVID. Vancouver lost their only high end kosher restaurant due to COVID.
Maple Grill??
RIP 🙁
when i was in cle a few weeks ago, i called milky way to order pizza at 6pm and they had run out of cheese
the other store the pizza guy left already at 4
There are 4 kosher pizza places in CLE.
Grove is the best, followed by Kinneret, Milky Way, and ISIS.
just saying didnt spend THAT much time in cle. it was a necessity to get to cedar point. grove was the one the guy left early that day and milky way ran out of cheese.
jade was acceptable chinese and kantina was above expectation (thx for those recommendations)
soooo, is the pizza place rly called ISIS? Like is tht down the block from Hezbolah Grocery?
It’s actually Issi’s 🙂 (pronounced I-zees)
Should have gone to Prime on Avenue
Did in 2019, was decent but nothing to write home about.
And on that note
Lol. Does any non-Canadian get this joke? (although I don’t know anyone who really speaks like that).
We encountered a couple people who spoke like that. It’s amazing.
Listen to hockey broadcasters and you’ll hear some describing a player digging the puck oat from the corner
more of the hicky torontonians speak like that
Try Prime on Avenue https://primeonavenue.com/
Great steak house.
If I’m flying to Israel for sukkot on air Canada (stopping in Toronto) do I have to do anything to prove vaccination. Also I’m traveling with my granddaughter who just turned 2, will she have to wear a mask, if so do they enforce it for kids so young?
If it’s only a stopover, you doing have to prove anything.
Looks like vaccination rule will be dropped Sept 30, so if that happens, and you’re flying after, it will not be an issue.
From the AC website: For all flights (except for travel to and from the U.S.) and all passengers over the age of 6, the use of approved face coverings is a mandatory requirement issued by Transport Canada. Children older than 2 but less than 6 years of age who cannot tolerate wearing a face covering are exempt, provided the adult responsible ensures a face covering is readily available to the child prior to boarding the flight.
For travel to and from the U.S., any passenger 2 years of age and older must wear a face covering, unless exempted for medical reasons.
If it’s enforced will depend on the person you get. Try dressing her to look babyish, in pjs, with paci, that kind of thing.
I know it depends on the crew, but I flew in several AC flights this summer, and even the FA’s who enforced masking didn’t say a word to any of my kids (age 1-7)
I think its utterly ridiculous that I can walkydrive across either border unvaxxed (I’m not) but if you have a visa and a plane ticket to the USA you hvae to be vaxxed
– but 5 million undocumented migrants didnt need to be vaxxed since Jan 2021 – Kabuki theater –
Family s planning a trip to Niagara (Canada) over post Thanksgiving holidays – we only got the one and done J&J it hasn’t been an issue but we haven’t tried to visit a tripled vaxxed req country either
You can’t walk or drive across the US/Canada border either way if you’re unvaxxed and not a citizen of that country. It’s the same rules for land or air crossings. Aside from migrants of course.
What about the 14 day quarantine for unvaxxed entering? (Yes we still have that – 14!!! days! – and they still come and check on you). I guess if no arrivecan they can’t come find you…
And the masks on flights and in airports – no comment on that. Can’t wait till that’s dropped. Most AC flights they are so crazy about it. Especially departing Canada.
I am a US Citizen. I haven’t crossed the border in 10 years. Last trip, when going to Canada, we arrived at one of the Niagara Falls crossings at 11:00pm. The Canadian Border agent barely even made us stop, he just waved us in. When coming back to the US, the US border agents grilled us for 15 mins before letting us back in to our own country. We were in a Minivan, with children and the typical vacation items in the car. What’s it like today?
Hmm Just waved you in like rolling through a stop sign? How many border agents grilled you in the US? Maybe you look very disoriented at the border!
YoniPDX – but you’re not in a plane full of ppl driving across — stick to talmud & maybe brush up on your midos.
Oh, is THAT why Biden walks up the OUTSIDE stairs to Air Force 1 wearing a mask and then REMOVES it before entering the plane?
I always wondered…
Guess your wonderful, middos filled, President is up to par..
“but 5 million undocumented migrants didnt need to be vaxxed since Jan 2021 – Kabuki theater –” And they don’t need a passport either. Go figure.
Sometime between now election day
Spain requires masks on all flights
Dan, do you hate the name Guardians as much as I do?
I hear the Braves are next.
Bummer, few things compare withl being at a Brave’s game and hearing 50K+ people do the war chant (Tomahwk chop) and its echos.
Remember visiting Chief KnockaHoma’ Tepee as a little kid – and joined Indian guides at the local YMCA (Was ‘little running bear’) Yes i have some Native heritage from the People of the Dawn tribe but its too many generations back and I not on a tribal roll. If anything these experiences gave me more respect for the Native customs. I don’t think the War cry chant or the mascots are disrespectful – but I guess we are living in the time of walking on eggshells.
Who needs the US to drop travel restrictions, when the southern border is wide open to all?
Kudos to air Canada for having the guts to write, that it was never about the science!
a US airline would never have the ביצים to write that, as they’ve been so intimidated into submission amd compliance over the past 2 years by the government and their media henchmen…
You can’t compare the us government to the Canadian government.
So now Dan et al is an MD or has an MPH/etc…
…stick to deals!
How so?
All I did was quote Air Canada.
Hypocrisy she’b’hypocrisy! They enforced the masks like it was literally all that was standing between them and death. Now to say “oh science…” Just jumping on the bandwagon. So dumb.