Bruce Arthur: With Ontario schools closed, a real lockdown is needed to save the health-care system

There go the schools, and maybe it's ironic. This is, after all, the province that refuses to learn anything as the pandemic spreads, and the way it's failing the test has been predictable as a result. On Thursday neither the premier nor the education minister bothered to be the ones to say that Ontario schools will stay virtual through Jan. 25, save for the seven northern health units that have yet to be overrun. For parents, it's a last-minute blow. A lot of people are scrambling again.