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    A Toronto nurse can see the excitement of Ontario reopening. But inside one of Canada’s largest hospitals, it still feels like there's “no end in sight." She wrote a poem for about "insurmountable, gut wrenching fear" and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    I spoke with janitors about their experience in the pandemic. They are working for low wages, sometimes in unsafe places, to keep our public spaces clean. A $2 hourly wage increase would make a big difference in their lives.

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    ‘The simple fact is that the GTA is not there yet’: Region’s mayors cautious as Ontario moves to reopen | The Star

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    NEW: Premier is strongly hinting that Ontario’s ban on gatherings of more than five people during the COVID-19 pandemic could soon be lifted.

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    Thanks for writing/sharing this with us all. It really puts things in perspective. Insurmountable, gut wrenching fear, Fills myself and every one of my peers. For each interaction comes a risk of infection, How do I ensure my family protection?

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    There are reasons to be optimistic as things reopen heading into the long weekend, but here's some perspective from nurse , who wrote a touching poem for . Inside hospitals, it still feels like "there's no end in sight."

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    Janitors work for low wages, to little fanfare, doing arguably one of the most important jobs today: keeping our cities and institutions clean at a time of mass infection, writes.

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    NEW: Premier Doug Ford is strongly hinting that limits on social gatherings could soon be eased, lifting the cap from five people to 10.

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    14 hours ago

    my column today: People who care for the elderly are essential workers. It's long past time to start treating them right via

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    A silver lining to new FIBA Olympic qualification dates for Canada

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    What we know so far about the death of 52-year-old Peter Elie, whose body was discovered in an apartment building near Yonge and Davisville Thursday morning, from

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    People who clean teeth, cut hair, work with children and serve food will be at high risk for coming into contact with when the economy opens, according to a new report from the . New from :

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    Please enjoy today's cartoon in

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  14. 2 hours ago

    Families are stretched to pay for elder care, but what feels so expensive to them actually depends on underpaid labour hired from the ranks of marginalized workers — mainly women, often racialized minorities. We need to do better, writes.

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  15. 3 hours ago

    The regions of the province with the highest prevalence of COVID-19 cases are not testing as widely as ones with less spread of the disease, according to a study released this week by ICES.

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  16. 4 hours ago

    Alicia Doucette decided to use her time staying at home during the pandemic to make an old Palmer piano — which has been in her family for over 100 years — look as good as it now sounds. :

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  17. 4 hours ago

    : Who will fix long-term care? Justin Trudeau? Probably not. Doug Ford? Perhaps. If public outrage continues, he may have no choice politically. Thomas Walkom:

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  18. 5 hours ago

    Ernie Tsu, who owns a brew pub in Calgary, said he and other restaurant owners were “extremely frustrated” with an eleventh-hour decision to keep eateries in the city closed, even as the rest of Alberta got the green light to reopen. :

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  19. 5 hours ago

    Charlie Paparo, the Hamilton boy who loved dinosaurs and Spider-Man and lollipops and the colour yellow, died on May 4, three months and 12 days after his fourth birthday. :

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  20. 10 hours ago

    People who clean teeth, cut hair, work with children and serve food will be at high risk for coming into contact with when the economy opens, according to a new report from the . New from :

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