Hamilton 
Here is a list of what is open and closed in Hamilton when Ontario’s COVID-19 restrictions are in effect.
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What is Open/Closed in Hamilton:
Gathering Limits
Starting Jan 31, 2022:
- indoor social gatherings – 10 people
- outdoor social gatherings – 25 people or fewer
- Organized public events – Indoor events limited to 25 people
- Indoor religious services, rites or ceremonies, including wedding services and funeral services permitted with indoor services are limited to 50 per cent of the capacity of the room and outdoor with physical distancing.
What is Open for in-person shopping/activities:
Retail:
- All kinds of non-essential stores and essential retail stores including those in shopping malls are open with 50 per cent capacity.
Restaurants:
- Open (indoors with 50 per cent capacity), maximum 10 patrons per table
Personal Services:
- Open with 50% capacity; maximum capacity must be posted.
Gyms/personal physical fitness and sports trainers:
- Indoor open, limited to the number that can maintain a physical distance of at least two metres from every other person in an indoor space, and may not exceed 50 per cent of the capacity of the indoor space where the services are provided.
Attractions & Recreational Facilities:
- All indoor attractions like museums, art galleries, bingo halls, recreational facilities open with 50 per cent capacity.
- Indoor amusement parks and waterparks with 50 per cent capacity. Outdoor open.
- Indoor concert venues, theatres and cinemas, spectator areas of facilities such as sporting events, concert venues and theatres to operate at 50 per cent seated capacity or 500 people, whichever is less.
- All indoor events and concert venues, theatres, cinemans, fairs, rural exhibitions, festivals and similar outdoor events including outdoor concert venues, theatres and cinemas
- Drive-Through Events
- Tour and guide services
- Boat tours (Boat tours and cruises in Ontario)
- Drive-In Theatres
- Overnight camping at campgrounds and campsites, including Ontario Parks (Reserve Your Visit in Advance to Popular Ontario Parks)
- Hotels, motels, lodges, resorts are open.
- Community centres and multi-purpose facilities at 50 per cent
- Public libraries with 50 per cent capacity
Others:
- Financial services like banks
- Healthcare services
- Veterinary services and other businesses that provide pet services and for the health and welfare of animals, including:farms, boarding kennels, stables, animal shelters research facilities, pet groomers, pet sitters, pet walkers, pet trainers (including for service animals)
- Laundromats and drycleaners
What is closed:
- Nightclubs and other food or drink establishments with dance facilities and strip clubs can only operate as restaurants.
- Bathhouses and sex clubs: Closed
- Oxygen bars: closed.
City of Hamilton Services
Residents are encouraged to access municipal services online where available.
Arenas
- Arenas will reopen to permit holders beginning January 31, 2022.
- Public programming will resume in a phased approach beginning on January 31, 2022.
- Additional public health measures and capacity limits will be in place.
Recreation
- Recreation centres will reopen for drop-in aquatic and gym programming beginning February 7, 2022.
- Advanced aquatic leadership programming and certifications for staff and the public will start February 4, 2022, with registration opening on January 28, 2022.
- Drop in programming will resume February 7, 2022 and schedules will be available by February 4, 2022. Reservations will be available 25 hours prior to the start of the program. This includes:
- Pool programming, including open swim and length swims
- Gym programming at select locations, including open gym and court sport programming (including pickleball)
- Water Fit programming will resume on February 21, 2022.
- Golf operations have resumed, with both disc golf and winter golf proceeding, weather permitting.
Seniors Centres & Programming
- Seniors Centres and clubs will be available to reopen beginning February 7, 2022. Details regarding location-specific openings will be available on the City’s website in the coming days.
- Senior Centre Without Walls phone programming will resume on February 7, 2022.
Museums
- Dundurn National Historic Site, the Hamilton Military Museum and the Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology will reopen on February 1, 2022.
- All other museums will remain closed at this time to ensure we are able to adhere to current public health measures (i.e. physical distancing, capacity limits, etc.), to accommodate ongoing construction projects, and given some museum staff continue to be redeployed to support vaccination clinics.
Municipal Service Centres
- Municipal Service Centres will reopen on February 16, 2022.
- Appointments are not required however health screening and other public health measures will be in place.
- Marriage licenses will be available on a walk-in basis beginning February 16, 2022.
Provincial Offences Administration (POA)
- Reopen to walk-in traffic beginning February 16, 2022.
Gage Park Greenhouses
- Gage Park Greenhouses will reopen on February 4, 2022.
- Health screening and other public health measures will be in place, including capacity limits and proof of vaccination.
Email:
- For general inquiries to the City of Hamilton: askCITY@hamilton.ca
- For individual City departments, use the alphabetical department contact list
- For Public Health inquiries: publichealth@hamilton.ca
- For HSR customer service inquiries: hsrserve@hamilton.ca
Phone
- 905-546-2489
- For residents in Campbellville, dial 905-634-2971
- The Bell Canada Relay Service is available to assist in placing a call from persons who use a TTY/teletypewriter.
- For TTY, type 711 for the operator. The operator will also assist in placing VCO (Voice Carry Over) and HCO (Hearing Carry Over) calls. There is no charge for local calls.
- Translation is available in 149 languages. When calling, callers can identify their language preference to be connected to the appropriate interpreter.
Your all a bunch of butt hurt liberal flakes ,enjoy your discussion it’s amusing to hear you whine. Oh and here’s my real name come get some you pansy’s
Mask exemptions.. for people that have a hard time breathing with a covering over their face.. in other words you can’t handle having someone sit on your face.
Mic drop
Show me your doctor’s exemption for the mask. Didn’t think so.
Nice alt concerned Karen. Wouldn’t think anyone would be this foolish. Reason being even if you “can’t” wear a mask you can still use face shield. And besides, if they listed mask exemptions they’d be in trouble because people would use this website as an excuse even if they were misinterpreting everything. This would get whoever wrote the article in trouble
Mask Bandit – Actually Concerned is quite a wise man who understands the laws of protecting self and others unlike this goof Maskass Bandit who was last seen parading the streets without mask on a couple days ago
From the above list it is unclear whether parks and playgrounds are open or closed. Please advise.
Because legal mask exemptions are a joke and you are a joke if you think it is a serious thing to be arguing about.
Why are legal mask exemptions not even mentioned ONCE on this page? This discriminatory behaviour is harming people, causing unnecessary friction between people and down right making a hard situation even harder! #discrimination #unfair