Toronto’s mask bylaw will be dropped when most of the provincial masking regulations are lifted later this month, the city says. Toronto City Council voted to lift its masking mandate on March 21 following a vote on March 9. The city’s mask bylaw was previously scheduled to expire on April 8, but Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s medical officer of health, recommended in a report submitted to city council that the bylaw be dropped alongside the province. “The city’s mask bylaw was always intended to be time-limited and was enacted at a time when a city-wide bylaw was required to manage the significant health risks posed by COVID-19 when there was either no vaccine or, later, when the population was only partially vaccinated,” de Villa wrote in the report (pdf) submitted March 9. “Fortunately, given the high rate of vaccine coverage and current epidemiological trends, Toronto can consider removing these regulations …