Bruce Arthur: Many experts advised Ontario for months to boost COVID testing capacity. Sources say they just didn’t want to spend the money

Ontario's pandemic response feels frantic. The province's COVID-19 testing backlog reached 90,513 on Friday morning, or more than double the province's daily testing capacity. The daily case count hit 732, the second daily record in a week, though that was boosted by belated cases from the spring. The City of Toronto asked the province to place the city back in a modified Stage 2 for 28 days; Ottawa Public Health's Dr. Vera Etches said, Our health system is in crisis ... (the system) is on the edge of collapse."