Darling its not like that..as after keeping the hcp on hold also they have issued noi to many people so there are high hopes that they ll reopen soon.
So stay positive and let the ray of light spread to all corners.
I hope being positive will create miracles.
OINP has only sent NOIs to the french speaking stream since july 25, which takes very few people, to be honest. One with NCLC 7 and CLB 5 gets an automatic 30 point boost since june 6, so a competent french speaking person will be much more likely to get a straight ITA than having to resort to OINP. That´s basically the main reason I´m studying french - too bad Brazil has only three TEF dates, unlike TCF or DELF/DALF. For that reason, I have to be very cautious about choosing my test date for french.
They´re clearly focusing on receiving job offer candidates and clearing their HCP backlog, so we´ll only know for sure if they´re reopening after they clear such backlog and there are nominations left. They were at 1/3 of their quota as of august 9, so I have serious doubts they might reopen the HCP stream, and if they do, looking by the little nominations they´ll have by then (my bet is that their quota will be under 1500 next month), the probability of opening and closing the intake in 24-48 hours like it happens in other PNPs is VERY high.
For now, the best you can do is keep pinging their update page and stay sharp.