Commentary In a move consistent with Ontario’s trajectory, the University of Toronto and Ryerson University have decided to effectively end their COVID policies of mandatory masking and vaccination as a requirement for attendance come May 1. The University of Ottawa and Carleton University are following suit. In the University of Toronto’s case, the decision comes a month after it was hit with a human rights complaint targeting its vaccine mandate filed on behalf of students and faculty impacted by it. The basis of the complaint was that the policies were no longer in line with the evolving science, and the university should follow the decision of the province and the chief medical officer of health to end vaccine mandates. “The University of Toronto is going against public health recommendations even though they relied on them to enforce overly restrictive mandates on students, staff and faculty,” says a press release regarding …