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• Screening officer at Toronto's Pearson airport tests positive for COVID-19

  28-03-2020 23:18 via cbc.ca
  
  GardaWorld, the private security firm that employs the officer, was made aware of the positive test on Friday. The employee last worked eight days ago and has been in self-isolation since then. 
  
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• Coronavirus: Toronto to open 4 child-care centres for essential service workers - Global News

  28-03-2020 23:17
  
  Coronavirus: Toronto to open 4 child-care centres for essential service workers  Global News
  
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• Screening officer at Toronto Pearson tests positive for COVID-19 - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News

  28-03-2020 22:17
  
  Screening officer at Toronto Pearson tests positive for COVID-19  CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
  
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• Toronto opening four emergency childcare centres for kids of essential workers

  28-03-2020 22:14
  
  The City of Toronto is opening four childcare centres to ensure that frontline workers can continue to work during the COVID-19 crisis.
  
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• Roncesvalles restaurant permanently closes due to coronavirus crisis - Toronto.com

  28-03-2020 22:11
  
  Roncesvalles restaurant permanently closes due to coronavirus crisis  Toronto.com
  
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• Toronto Pearson airport screening officer tests positive for COVID-19

  28-03-2020 22:03
  
  A screening officer at Toronto Pearson International Airport has tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• Toronto opening four emergency childcare centres for essential workers - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News

  28-03-2020 20:53
  
  Toronto opening four emergency childcare centres for essential workers  CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
  
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• Video captures empty Toronto streets as residents self-isolate due to COVID-19 - CTV News

  28-03-2020 20:30
  
  Video captures empty Toronto streets as residents self-isolate due to COVID-19  CTV News
  
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• Ontario corporations, individuals could face 'staggering' fines for price gouging

  28-03-2020 18:36
  
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford has said that any individuals or companies found guilty of price gouging amid the COVID-19 pandemic will face “staggering fines.”
  
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• Coronavirus: Home workouts from 10 Toronto studios - NOW Magazine

  28-03-2020 18:30
  
  Coronavirus: Home workouts from 10 Toronto studios  NOW Magazine
  
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• Number of COVID-19 cases in Ontario surpasses 1,000

  28-03-2020 17:58
  
  There are now more than 1,000 COVID-19 cases in Ontario, health officials confirm.
  
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• Man grabs cop's baton, assaults him in Hillcrest Mall parking lot: York police allege

  28-03-2020 17:56 via cbc.ca
  
  York Police arrested a man in Richmond Hill Friday after he allegedly assaulted a police officer with his own baton in a mall parking lot.
  
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• Something strange is happening in Toronto. We are saying hello to strangers - Toronto Star

  28-03-2020 17:31
  
  Something strange is happening in Toronto. We are saying hello to strangers  Toronto Star
  
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• Toronto restaurants are getting creative with wine and food delivery - blogTO

  28-03-2020 16:49
  
  Toronto restaurants are getting creative with wine and food delivery  blogTO
  
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• Is it safe to eat takeout, delivery food during COVID-19 outbreak? Experts say take precautions

  28-03-2020 16:46 via cbc.ca
  
  How significant is the risk of COVID-19 when handling pickup and delivery items? While the chances of transmission via food courier are quite low, experts say taking a number of precautionary steps can help minimize risk and put the mind at ease.
  
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• Local bakeries are stepping up production to help feed Toronto - blogTO

  28-03-2020 16:33
  
  Local bakeries are stepping up production to help feed Toronto  blogTO
  
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• Canadians with COVID-19 symptoms to be denied boarding on domestic flights, trains: PM

  28-03-2020 16:25
  
  As of Monday at noon, Canadians who show any symptoms of COVID-19 will be denied boarding on all domestic flights and trains.
  
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• Some Toronto restaurateurs get rent relief amid COVID-19, while others stress over April bills - CBC.ca

  28-03-2020 16:24
  
  Some Toronto restaurateurs get rent relief amid COVID-19, while others stress over April bills  CBC.ca
  
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• Some Toronto restaurateurs get rent relief amid COVID-19, while others stress over April bills

  28-03-2020 16:24 via cbc.ca
  
  Some small and large landlords are extending help for their restaurateur tenants, many of which have been forced to shut down as COVID-19 cases spread across Canada. But not all eatery owners have been so lucky.
  
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• No more domestic travel by plane or train for those showing coronavirus symptoms, Trudeau says

  28-03-2020 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Domestic travel by plane or train will soon be off the table for anyone exhibiting symptoms of coronavirus, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday, as part of additional measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 across the country.
  
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• Employee at midtown Loblaws tests positive for COVID-19

  28-03-2020 15:53
  
  Loblaws has said that an employee at one of their midtown locations has tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• Man who allegedly beat York cop with his own baton now charged with attempted murder

  28-03-2020 14:29
  
  York Regional Police have named a 22-year-old man accused of severely beating one of its officers, allegedly with his own expandable baton, in the parking lot of a mall in Richmond Hill on Friday afternoon.
  
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• Markham man trapped in India's COVID-19 lockdown worried he'll run out of needed meds

  28-03-2020 14:15 via cbc.ca
  
  More than 15-thousand Canadians have told Global Affairs Canada they are in India, which is in COVID-19 lockdown until mid-April. Many are hoping the Canadian government will find a way to bring them home. One Markham man hopes that help will come in time.
  
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• Doug Ford urges city-dwellers to avoid cottage country amid COVID-19 outbreak

  28-03-2020 13:40 via cbc.ca
  
  Ontario reported two COVID-19 deaths at the Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon on Friday. The hotbed of cases in the Kawartha Lakes area comes as Premier Doug Ford is asking big-city residents and snowbirds not to self-isolate at their cottages.
  
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• 151 new COVID-19 cases in Ontario as province cracks down on price gouging, large gatherings

  28-03-2020 13:40 via cbc.ca
  
  On Saturday, provincial officials announced 151 new lab-confirmed cases of the respiratory illness for a total of 1,144 cases reported to date.
  
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• 151 new COVID-19 cases in Ontario as province cracking down on price gouging, large gatherings

  28-03-2020 13:40 via cbc.ca
  
  On Saturday, provincial officials announced 151 new lab-confirmed cases of the respiratory illness for a total of 1,144 cases reported to date.
  
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• 151 new COVID-19 cases in Ontario as Doug Ford urging city-dwellers to avoid cottage country

  28-03-2020 13:40 via cbc.ca
  
  On Saturday, provincial officials announced 151 new lab-confirmed cases of the respiratory illness for a total of 1,144 cases reported to date.
  
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• Why sending Toronto seagulls to Saskatchewan sounded like a solid plan - CBC.ca

  28-03-2020 13:30
  
  Why sending Toronto seagulls to Saskatchewan sounded like a solid plan  CBC.ca
  
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• Why sending Toronto seagulls to Saskatchewan sounded like a solid plan

  28-03-2020 13:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Throngs of screeching seagulls were a headache in Toronto. But they could be just the thing Saskatchewan's organic farmers needed to keep grasshoppers at bay.
  
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• Woman’s leg pinned after van backs into her in Downsview

  28-03-2020 13:27
  
  A woman was seriously hurt, with her leg pinned beneath a tire, after a van reversed into her in the parking lot of an apartment building in Toronto’s Downsview area overnight.
  
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• Worker rights live chat: Toronto employment lawyer Hermie Abraham answers your questions Monday at noon ET - Toronto Star

  28-03-2020 13:09
  
  Worker rights live chat: Toronto employment lawyer Hermie Abraham answers your questions Monday at noon ET  Toronto Star
  
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• Donation bins in Toronto are no longer accepting clothes due to COVID-19 - blogTO

  28-03-2020 12:02
  
  Donation bins in Toronto are no longer accepting clothes due to COVID-19  blogTO
  
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• COVID-19 outbreak at Kawartha Lakes long-term care home leads to deaths, staffing issues

  28-03-2020 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  More than 20 per cent of staff at a Kawartha Lakes long-term care home, where two residents died of COVID-19, have tested positive for the virus. Now, the facility has put out a call asking for more staff,
  
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• This is what it's like being an Uber driver in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic - blogTO

  28-03-2020 10:23
  
  This is what it's like being an Uber driver in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic  blogTO
  
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• Number of COVID-19 patients in Ontario ICUs more than doubles in just 2 days

  28-03-2020 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The number of confirmed COVID-19 patients in intensive care units around Ontario has doubled in less than two days, prompting concern that the virus has actually been spreading more rapidly than previously thought.
  
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• Ontario reviewing ethical guidelines for who gets care if COVID-19 cases overwhelm system

  28-03-2020 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Ethical guidelines for prioritizing who gets care, and who doesn’t, if the Ontario healthcare system becomes overwhelmed during the coronavirus pandemic, are now under review by the Ministry of Health.
  
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• How deadly is COVID-19? Why it's different in every country

  28-03-2020 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The rate at which COVID-19 kills the people who get infected with it is one of the biggest unanswered questions of the global pandemic.
  
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• The Toronto Eaton Centre is now boarded up and surrounded by barricades - blogTO

  28-03-2020 08:00
  
  The Toronto Eaton Centre is now boarded up and surrounded by barricades  blogTO
  
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• Some Toronto supermarkets require shoppers to wear face masks if they want to enter - blogTO

  28-03-2020 08:00
  
  Some Toronto supermarkets require shoppers to wear face masks if they want to enter  blogTO
  
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• Toronto man charged in connection with 2019 shooting in Mississauga - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News

  28-03-2020 03:25
  
  Toronto man charged in connection with 2019 shooting in Mississauga  CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
  
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• Raptors’ Serge Ibaka thanks Toronto Public Health for coronavirus response efforts - Global News

  28-03-2020 03:23
  
  Raptors’ Serge Ibaka thanks Toronto Public Health for coronavirus response efforts  Global News
  
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• Toronto man charged in connection with 2019 shooting in Mississauga

  28-03-2020 03:21
  
  A Toronto man is facing a number of charges in connection with a 2019 shooting in Mississauga that sent one person to hospital.
  
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• Charities resort to distributing tents to Toronto's homeless - The Globe and Mail

  28-03-2020 02:34
  
  Charities resort to distributing tents to Toronto's homeless  The Globe and Mail
  
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• York cop badly hurt during vicious sneak attack in Richmond Hill - Toronto Sun

  28-03-2020 02:24
  
  York cop badly hurt during vicious sneak attack in Richmond Hill  Toronto Sun
  
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• Toronto Police officer tests positive for COVID-19 - Toronto Star

  28-03-2020 02:11
  
  Toronto Police officer tests positive for COVID-19  Toronto Star
  
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• LILLEY: Economic models look dire - Toronto Sun

  28-03-2020 01:57
  
  LILLEY: Economic models look dire  Toronto Sun
  
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• Toronto sees biggest jump yet in new COVID-19 cases - Toronto Sun

  28-03-2020 01:27
  
  Toronto sees biggest jump yet in new COVID-19 cases  Toronto SunToronto records 118 more COVID-19 cases, bringing city total to 457  CTV NewsToronto confirms 118 new cases of COVID-19 in the city  blogTOPrepare for "extended closures" as Toronto's coronavirus cases spike to 457 | News  Daily Hive118 new cases of coronavirus reported in Toronto, brings total to 457  680 NewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Toronto LCBO worker tests positive for coronavirus, 1st employee at agency to be diagnosed - Global News

  28-03-2020 01:23
  
  Toronto LCBO worker tests positive for coronavirus, 1st employee at agency to be diagnosed  Global News
  
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• Toronto Public Library loans 3D printers to hospital to make face shields for healthcare workers - blogTO

  28-03-2020 01:22
  
  Toronto Public Library loans 3D printers to hospital to make face shields for healthcare workers  blogTO
  
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• 1606 - 88 Cumberland Street,Toronto, Toronto, ON - Home for sale - The New York Times

  28-03-2020 01:16
  
  1606 - 88 Cumberland Street,Toronto, Toronto, ON - Home for sale  The New York Times
  
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