Some of Southern Ontario’s biggest summer events have either already been cancelled due to social distancing orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic, or are awaiting answers from the three levels of governments before going forward. “Well, it’s really hard to make decisions,” Supercrawl founder Tim Potocic told Global News.
The organizer of the iconic James Street festival, which draws up to 200,000 over three days in September, is feeling the pressure and figures he’s got a month before he needs to either go forward or cancel the event. “We’re talking to the provincial government and federal government ministers weekly, really, and our industry as well,” Potocic said. “We’re waiting to the 1st of June.