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COVID-19: Here's how a local food diet can make you and your community healthier

COVID-19: Here's how a local food diet can make you and your community healthier

Food can provide a means to encourage healthy diets, improve community relationships and address social inequalities as a way to enhance community resilience
ONTARIO: Government to commit to average four-hour care standard in long-term care

ONTARIO: Government to commit to average four-hour care standard in long-term care

Health-care advocates and unions have long-pressed for a minimum four-hour standard of care to improve conditions in Ontario's long-term care homes
ONTARIO: Restaurants ask province to explain restrictions, show COVID-19 data

ONTARIO: Restaurants ask province to explain restrictions, show COVID-19 data

No data so far to suggest restaurants a major transmission point, group says
ONTARIO: Front-line workers who left LTC homes in May won't come back, commission hears

ONTARIO: Front-line workers who left LTC homes in May won't come back, commission hears

System now employs 30 per cent fewer PSWs than before the pandemic, union says
COVID-19: Anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago

COVID-19: Anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago

Over the past year, seemingly endless conspiracy theories and misinformation campaigns have gained traction online amidst rising COVID-19 infection rates worldwide
COVID-19: How vulnerable people are further endangered by coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19: How vulnerable people are further endangered by coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19 restrictions like physical distancing and cashless payment are making life more difficult for those already vulnerable, especially those without ID
COVID-19: Why high standards matter in developing coronavirus vaccine

COVID-19: Why high standards matter in developing coronavirus vaccine

We must ensure that our immune systems are trained in a way that will allow us to respond most effectively against future highly pathogenic coronaviruses, some of which may prove to be more dangerous than the current one, prof says
COVID-19: How pandemic concerns have hardened Canadian views on immigration

COVID-19: How pandemic concerns have hardened Canadian views on immigration

New evidence about Canadian attitudes suggests that even when borders finally reopen and the economic rebuilding begins, immigrants may no longer be as welcome as they have been in the past
BEYOND LOCAL: Tips to prepare your child for COVID-19 testing

BEYOND LOCAL: Tips to prepare your child for COVID-19 testing

When children or their parents are nervous about upcoming medical procedures, parents sometimes think that the less information they share with their child the better. The opposite is actually true, according to psychologist in pediatric pain
ONTARIO: Lawyers for accused in human-trafficking case ask to be paid through seized funds

ONTARIO: Lawyers for accused in human-trafficking case ask to be paid through seized funds

'There’s a procedure available in the Criminal Code to permit counsel to make application to be paid from the seized money,' says defence lawyer