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  1. 12 minutes ago

    Today’s 💿 is by design tenant at and co-founder of Toronto-based productivity brand, The . It's a difficult time, but "COVID-19, indirectly, has presented a gift of time," she says.

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    39 minutes ago

    For days, reporters have been asking Ontario's chief medical officer why the province hasn't been using its full lab capacity to test more widely for . Today, Premier Doug Ford basically blew his stack on the problem.

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  3. 42 minutes ago

    I have just completed a 2,300-kilometre car trip from Florida to Toronto, during COVID-19 times. Not only was it a gruelling drive but it brought home in stark terms the grim reality of the economic impact. Here's what Gordon Pape saw on this journey:

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    1 hour ago

    Health disparities by race is a Canadian thing too. Provinces and public health should be tracking this.

    Black people are overwhelmingly dying from coronavirus in cities across the U.S.
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    1 hour ago

    "Please, this long weekend, do not go to your cottages," says Premier Doug Ford, who adds he "loves" his cottage but won't be going there. Unfair to put the burden on cottage country, he says.

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    1 hour ago

    Premier stresses he is "not frustrated with the people" in the health-care system, but he has lost his patience with Ontario's testing regimen. "I don't believe in excuses. Let's come up with solutions."

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  7. 1 hour ago

    NEW: The federal government is changing its wage subsidy program to encourage business to retain workers and enriching a program to help students find work as Trudeau warned that Canada could be living with the threat of COVID-19 for the coming year.

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  8. 1 hour ago

    Worried that your kids aren’t learning properly at home during COVID-19? Tomorrow, we'll have early childhood expert Dr. Sejal Patel in to answer you questions about parenting during COVID-19. Get your questions in social(@)torstar(.)ca

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    1 hour ago

    A field hospital is being erected in the parking lot of in preparation for an expected surge of .

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    1 hour ago

    “I am going to be on this like a dog on bone,” warns . Says amount of testing being done is “unacceptable.”

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    1 hour ago

    Premier Doug Ford says "we need our 40%" of the 500,000 masks coming into Canada. Ford says he is "a lot more confident" in the supply than he was earlier in the week.

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    1 hour ago

    Premier Doug Ford says the number of tests the province has been doing is "unacceptable" and that his "his patience has run thin."

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    1 hour ago

    BREAKING: Premier Ford says he's lost patience with "absolutely unacceptable" lack of testing in Ontario, using only one-third of its daily capacity of 13,000. "No more excuses."

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    1 hour ago

    BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford: "I rely on our health experts. What is concerning me is ... and what is unacceptable is the number of tests" done in Ontario. Ford's first salvo at health experts. Needs to see 13,000 tests a day.

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    1 hour ago

    Premier Doug Ford says stores should close Friday and Sunday to give supermarket employees and others a day off.

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    3 hours ago

    Dr. Tam: 18,474 cases, 401 deaths, completed more than 359,000 tests, still a 5% confirmed positives.

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  17. 2 hours ago

    WATCH LIVE: Ontario premier Doug Ford to update on COVID-19.

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    3 hours ago

    Hockey equipment manufacturer CCM and its players donate half a million masks

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  19. 2 hours ago

    : The shortages of PPE in Canada are a daily, devastating reality to the health care workers at the tip of the COVID-19 spear. The risk to our front-line workers and their loved ones cannot be overstated.

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    3 hours ago

    My story for on businesses worried about break-ins while they're closed because of COVID-19.

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