SUDBURY -- Amid COVID-19 concerns, events across the country are being cancelled.
CTV News is compiling a list of cancellations from northern Ontario:
- All court matters scheduled between March 16 and April through Ontario Provincial Offences Courts are adjourned. Defendants will be notified by mail of new court dates in the coming weeks.
- All Goodlife Fitness clubs across the country closed, member payments suspended as of March 17
- All publicly-funded schools closed March 14 to April 5
- All minor hockey cancelled for the season
- All OHL games
- All NOJHL practices and games suspended
- All Cineplex theatres are reducing capacity to allow for social-distancing and enhancing cleaning protocols
- All weekday and weekend masses in all Catholic Churches within the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie are cancelled until further notice
- Curling Canada postpones upcoming championships and suspends all domestic sanctioned activities
- Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) AGM May 13-15
- United Way Centraide North East Ontario's Community Volunteer Income Tax Preparation Program
GREATER SUDBURY and area
- All Sudbury Lions Cub events, including charter nights and regional rallies
- Cambrian College in-person classes suspended March 16 - 20, remote or alternate delivery begins March 23
- Cambrian Student Innovation Challenge
- Canada Revenue Agency at Lasalle and Notre Dame is asking non-essential service employees to say home
- Curl Sudbury closes, events cancelled, and year-end bonspiel postponed until Oct. 2-4. The facility will open Tuesday – Friday from 10am-2pm & 5pm-7pm for members to retrieve their equipment and clean out their lockers and pay their bar tabs.
- Dynamic Earth effective March 13 at 6 p.m.
- Grace United Church spaghetti dinner March 28
- Greater Sudbury Police Service temporarily suspending non-essential services: non court-ordere record checks, fingerprints, and property returns
- Inspired Hands spring craft show
- Kiwanis Club of Sudbury's 75th annual music festival
- Knox Presbyterian Church service suspended until April 11 and will resume for Easter Sunday April 12
- Laurentian University classes and events up to March 15, Saturday's open house will be offered through online information sessions
- École secondaire Macdonald-Cartier’s 50th Anniversary May 15 - 17
- Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre's March Break program
- Northern Women's Show
- Parkside Centre closed until April 5
- Pysanka (Ukrainian egg decorating) workshop at Ukrainian Seniors' Centre
- Ontario Genealogical Society Sudbury branch's Mar. 16 meeting at the Older Adult Centre and library session Mar. 17
- Raise the Roof event at Coniston Curling Club
- Rayside Balfour Quilt and Stitchery Show postponed to Sept 19 and 20
- Science North effective March 13 at 6 p.m.
- Sudbury CARP general meeting March 26
- Sudbury Five games suspended
- Sudbury Home and Lifestyle Show
- Sudbury German Language School classes at Sudbury Secondary School, expected to resume April 18
- Sudbury Homebuilders Assoc. Home & Lifestyle Show April 4 & 5
- Sudbury Kinsmen Showcase Sweepstakes this year
- Sudbury police's International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Dinner March 21
- Sudbury Secondary School Adult Education Centre classeswill resume April 18
- Sudbury Wolves games suspended
- Sudbury YMCA childcare, March Break camps, land-based programming, swimming classes, health, fitness and aquatic centre, and employment and immigration services
- Theatre du Nouvel-Ontario production of Le Club des ephemeres has been suspended - ticket holders will be contacted
- Valley East Renegades' house league tournament March 27-29
- Walden Art Club Spring Show April 18 & 19
- Yogathon postponed
NORTH BAY and area
- Canadore College's social events and large gatherings only until April 30
- City of North Bay's neighbourhood meeting on Bourke Park March 18 will move online
- Davedi Club Ladies Auxiliary March 29 Spaghetti Supper
- FIRST Robotics event at Nipissing University
- Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship in Canada April 3 dinner
- Laurentian Skill Hill closed for the season
- Many events at 250 Clark in Powassan
- Nipissing District Soccer Club's activities
- Nipissing University cancels all classes on March 16 & 17, classes will move online March 18, all school-related travel outside of Canada cancelled or postponed
- North Bay Battalion games suspended
- North Bay Canadian Club March 18 meeting
- North Bay Golden Age Club's activities March 16 – April 6
- North Bay Horticultural Society cancels meeting scheduled for Monday, March 16th
- North Bay & District Multicultural Centre’s Taste of the East March 25 event is postponed
- North Bay Museum to delay its retro game week opening until March 17
- North Bay YMCA childcare, March Break camps, land-based programming,swimming classes, health, fitness and aquatic centre, and employment and immigration services
- Relay for Life at R.J. Surtees Athletics Centre
- Restoule Legion Seniors' Lunch March 25
- Restoule Lions' annual winter carnival
- Sturgeon River House Museum closed until April 6
- Trinity's North Bay Worship service on Sunday, March 15, the board will be meeting via tele-conference on Monday, March 16 to discuss further actions
- West Nipissing community and recreation centre, municipal arenas, pool and the fitness centres closed until April 6
SAULT STE. MARIE and area
- All weekday and weekend masses in all Catholic Churches within the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie are cancelled until further notice
- 2020 WE ARE THE SOO North of 50 Expo
- Algoma University in-person classes, labs and tutorials as of March 16 for the remainder of the term
- City of Sault Ste. Marie suspending large events and public gatherings with potential to draw over 250 people
- Easter Seals Telethon's live show to be replaced with pre-recorded special
- Hiawatha Highlands building will be closed, but trails will continue to be groomed
- Irish Stew Supper at Jocelyn Twp Hall, St. Joseph Island
- Lake Superior State University (MI) moving to online learning March 16 until at least April 17
- Twins Saults Polar Plunge has been postponed
- Sault College scheduled events cancelled, while all in-person classes are being suspended as of March 23, remote instruction to be determined
- Sault YMCA childcare and March Break camps closed March 17 - April 5
- Soo Greyhound games suspended
- The Simon and Garfunkel Story has been postponed until May 22
- Tim Horton's free swimming at John Rhodes Community Centre
- Yesterday Once More at Sault Communty Theatre Centre
TIMMINS and area
- Access Transit Spaghetti Supper
- Iroquois Falls Winter Carnival
- Little NHL tournament
- Northern Ontario Handmade Spring Market
- Science Timmins March Break camp
- Timmins and District Hospital is limiting visitors
- Timmins and District Hospital Auxiliary Spring Bazaar
- Timmins and District Hospital Foundation gala
- Timmins YMCA childcare and March Break camps closed March 17 - April 5
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According to Sudbury public health officials, 67 people have been tested for the COVID-19 virus and only one person has tested positive between March 2 - 13 at noon.
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